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Opposition to solar PV field at new Hanlon-Deerfield school, Westwood, MA
Posted on 29 September 2020 by ecoquant
(Updated 2020-10-07, 17:36)
This is sometimes was called the "Shuttleworth Solar Field Project".
In addition to building a combined pair of schools on Town of Westwood property, there is a proposal for building a 2 MW solar array on adjacent land, some of which has trees. There will be 11.4 acres of trees removed, with up to 2 acres needing to be removed to accomodate the school itself.
This array, after capacity factor considerations, will generate 2.46 GWh of electricity per year, with a production rate of about 216 MWh per acre per year, and will offset emissions of 590 tonnes of CO2 per year.
Below shows the general area. The school expansion will replace the existing Hanlon school:
There is opposition. Some concerned loss of Carbon sequestration, but that's negligible in loss of 12 acres of trees:
ForestsCarbonAndSolarProjects–JGalkowski20200928
The remaining opposition is a little mixed, having to do with Town of Westwood politics and administration, but there is opposition to the solar array as an "industrial facility", including claims which are egregiously false, coming from out of date and questionable sources. More on that below. To see the particulars, here's the text of a related petition being circulated for signature, in its entirety. I have added emphasis to one paragraph.
Reconsider Location of Solar Field Project
To: Members of the Select Board, Members of the Planning Board, Christopher Coleman Town Administrator, Open Space and Recreation Plan Committee, Thomas Philbin Westwood Energy Manager
CC: Westwood School Committee Members, Emily Parks Westwood Superintendent,
Regarding: Installation plan for Solar Field at Shuttleworth location
Recent information about the plan for the installation of a solar field at the Shuttleworth land location has led to a large concern and discussion among Westwood residents. We are asking you to reconsider this project and allow the town residents to have a say in whether this project should proceed in the currently proposed location of Shuttleworth Field.
Our concerns stem from 3 main areas;
1. The clearing of an additional ~12 acres of established trees and wooded area
While we appreciate the Town of Westwood's focus on renewable energy, we feel that the carbon offset and cost savings that the installation of a solar field on the Shuttleworth property provides, does not adequately justify the destruction of established growth forests and wildlife habitats. We are not disputing the benefit of solar energy, it is the location and the destruction of forests and wildlife habitat that are of concern here. We would ask that instead, other areas (building rooftops, already cleared areas) should be considered for the installation of solar panels.
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources "strongly discourages locations that result in significant loss of land and natural resources, including farm and forest land, and encourages rooftop siting, as well as locations in industrial and commercial districts, or on vacant, disturbed land. Significant tree cutting is problematic because of the important water management, cooling, and climate benefits trees provide." ("Model Zoning for the Regulation of Solar Energy Systems", Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs December 2014).
There are also concerns about the production of toxic wastes, including coolants, antifreeze, rust inhibitors, and heavy metals, that can affect wildlife adjacent to or far from the location of the facility (Abbasi and Abbasi 2000).
The town is already committed to the highly vetted Elementary School Building project which will utilize approximately 9 acres of the Shuttleworth property. The town determined this project to be an acceptable and valuable way to use this land when community members voted to allocate significant funds for the project at the 2018 Town Meeting, knowing that Shuttleworth Field would be a potential site for the new school. Fully clearing an additional 12 acres in the same area for a Solar Field would have an unacceptable and negative impact on the environment as well as having a negative impact on the new elementary building which was not designed to be near an industrial solar field, but rather is intended to be a "school in the woods".
The community has not had the opportunity to vet the solar field project or to understand the environmental or potential health impacts of a solar field. No environmental impact studies have been presented to the community.
2. Possible Loss of Millions of dollars in state funding for New School Building Project
It was discussed in the Select Board meeting on July 13th and indicated in the "Solar Power In Westwood Municipal and School Facilities" presentation that the land would be transferred to the School Department and the solar field and the Hanlon school project would be linked. That transfer of land would require a vote at town meeting. This left most citizens believing, incorrectly, that they would have an opportunity to hear more and have a say in the matter at town meeting and also that the Solar Field had become a new component of the School Building Initiative.
In the August presentation deck "SOLAR POWER IN WESTWOOD MUNICIPAL AND SCHOOL FACILITIES Thomas Philbin Westwood Energy Manager August 2020" there is no further discussion of a land transfer. Instead the next steps indicate, "Approval by Select Board to proceed with Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and land lease that Ameresco can proceed with: a. Design Approval by Eversource b. Town of Westwood Planning Board site plan review". There is nothing indicating that the plan will be vetted with the community and in the absence of a land transfer, there is no requirement that the Select Board bring this to town meeting for a vote. Nothing in the presentation deck addresses any of these changes or the removal of the School District as a partner.
This has created confusion among residents. There is concern that residents may now believe that the Solar Field and School Project are linked and that they will mistakenly undermine the school project in their efforts to stop the solar field. The town is on track to receive millions of dollars in state funding for the new school building. For comparison sake, the Solar Field is expected to save the town $70,000 a year. Even if we received a conservative $10 million in funding for the new school from the MSBA, we would have to run the solar field for approximately 140 years to reap the same financial benefit from the solar field as the state support for our new building. The town simply can not afford to lose state funding for the School Building due to the confusion that has been created in the absence of effective communication.
3. The rights of the town members to vote on this project
We elect the members of the Select Board, the Planning Board, and the other committees in town to serve as our representatives and to look out for the best interest of Westwood. We also expect regular two way communication so that our elected officials understand the pulse of the community. Many of us have feel strongly that there has been weak public outreach and general lack of transparency for the solar field project. To the best of our knowledge there was no effort made to reach out to stakeholders, including the School Committee, townspeople who use the impacted trails and land, or taxpayers in general.
The current project that the Select Board is looking to initiate does not support the ideals of the town of Westwood residents to develop land prudently and judiciously and does not provide sufficient benefit to warrant the destruction of established woods and wildlife habitat.
We urge you to examine the impact the solar field project would have on our town and our families and reconsider it in its current proposed location. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Concerned residents of Westwood
Twitter – @SaveShuttlewor1
Facebook – SAVE WESTWOOD SHUTTLEWORTH FROM INDUSTRIAL SOLAR PANEL PROJECT
Model Zoning for the Regulation of Solar Energy Systems – Department of Energy Resources Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. December 2014. https://www.mass.gov/doc/model-solar-zoning
Abbasi SA Abbasi N. 2000. The likely adverse environmental impacts of renewable energy sources. Applied Energy 65: 121–144
That article is included below as a PDF. It makes reference to two others, one by Harte & Jassby (1978), also included below, and another key one by Siddayao (1993) which is not publicly available.
TheLikelyAdverseEnvironmentalImpactsOfRenewableEnergySources–Abbasi–Abbsai2000
EnergyTechnologiesAndNaturalEnvironments–TheSearchForCompatibility–Harte–Jassby1978
They are old, and some of the claims regarding environmental effects of solar PV arrays are simply not applicable to modern solar PV.
In any case, where this was circulated, in an e-democracy.org forum called "Westwood Neighbors", I put in two comments, both of which are reproduced below. They remain in moderation as of 18:30 23:39 on 29th September 2020, despite having been submitted 3 hours ago. (The moderators are, of course, volunteers.)
The first comment challenged the facts in the emphasized paragraph above:
I'd like to object to the text of the petition on some points of information, specifically the paragraph that reads:
Firstly, both Abbasi and Abbasi (2000), and the primary references upon which they rely (Harte, 1978 and Siddayao, 1993) are old and entirely speculative papers, not having the benefit of having actual solar energy systems to assess. Harte (1978) does no calculations, and simply declares a comparison. The Siddayao report cannot be criticized, because individuals cannot obtain access to it. (It's only available to institutions who subscribe to the World Bank eLibrary.) Indeed, we don't know what it says.
Second, no matter, actual, modern PV systems have no coolants, have no antifreeze, have no rust inhibitors, and some manufacturers use no heavy metals, e.g., SunPower,
https://newsroom.sunpower.com/2019-12-19-SunPower-Wins-Solar-Industry-Sustainability-Award.
Also, panels are pretty well sealed so it's difficult to imagine a scenario where these could leak out or rust, so whoever the manufacturer is, the claim about affecting wildlife is egregiously false.
Claire and I opted for SunPower panels on our home because of their sustainability record. Also, technically, at the end of their life, our purchase contract says SunPower gets the panels back so they can recycle them.
Third, contrary to what's implied in the statement from Massachusetts DEP that "…. loss of land and natural resources, including farm and forest land …", solar panels are entirely compatible with farms and farming, albeit a new kind called agrivoltaics. See additional references below:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-06-08/energy-and-food-together-under-solar-panels-crops-thrive
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/12/doubling-up-crops-with-solar-farms-could-increase-land-use-efficiency-by-as-much-as-60/
https://www.newsweek.com/smart-greenhouses-solar-power-crops-food-production-702589
https://www.recorder.com/UMass-farm-raises-veggies-and-power-12470559
Smart solar installations don't use pesticides. They use goats.
Fourth, it's entirely possible to have solar farms coexist with and support pollinators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjch9SrqVGw
That was one comment I made and, as shown, it objected to incorrect facts.
A second comment I made was an opinion, and it is based upon the unfairness of using wealthy (predominantly white) to consume electricity generated near neighborhoods of relatively less well off:
I just sent in a post questioning facts in the petition statement. In this post, I'd like to offer an opinion. Because it's an opinion, I did not want to associate it with the other.
Specifically, I think it's interesting that residents of wealthy suburban towns don't want their views "spoiled" by appearance of solar PV farms. Surely the towns and residents use electricity.
Where does that electricity come from? Most of it comes from natural gas combustion and some from oil fired combustion. These are fed by pipelines and trucks.
And where are these plants located? Everett, Ludlow, Charlton, Blackstone, Bellingham. Billerica, Chelsea, Braintree. As fractions of the median household income of Westwood ($129,000, per Wikipedia), these have median household incomes of 0.38, 0.47, 0.72, 0.56, 0.62, 0.68, 0.37, and 0.63. The plants produce ACTUAL airborne and water pollution, and harm the families and children growing up there. Oh, and the people there have beautiful views of belching smokestacks.
Fair is fair. It's time that people in suburbs began taking responsibility for the energy they consume, particularly now that it can be generated in a quiet and clean manner.
We'll see where this goes.
On 5th October 2020, the Select Board of the Town of Westwood stopped the Shuttleworth solar project.
The Town is looking for other places to build solar farms. I wish them luck, and will support them, but, given the opposition to such in other towns in the area, I see an uphill fight.
See this more recent blog post regarding another aspect of this.
I'm not sure many in Westwood will believe me, but there are economic reasons for putting up solar fields, too, ones which go well beyond the revenue from electricity generation. As solar energy, broadly defined, comes to dominate electricity generation, and as electricity use expands, for transportation, for heating, for manufacturing, towns and homes without ample locally sourced and clean electrical energy will depreciate in value. We are already seeing how homes with solar PV appreciate in worth when they sell, as documented by NREL and especially LBNL. Zillow says homes with solar panels sell for 4% more.
It is not difficult to imagine how, as the solar wave begins to dominate and distributed microgrids more the rule, towns and places to live which are self-reliant and "with it" are judged up-and-coming and more attractive to buy homes in and to live.
This is particularly important for Westwood, since nearly every towns around it has by-laws and programs to encourage development of solar. Soon the same will be true of battery storage. Soon the same will be true of EVs versus ICE vehicles. Noise ordinances could be tightened. After all, you can buy electric motorcycles.
Above: Solar installations in the Town of Natick, Massachusetts.
The Town of Westwood school board has decided to sever the development of the Hanlon-Deerfield school from the solar project. While this does not necessarily foreclose on the solar project there, it makes it far less likely.
What "denouement" refers to, however, is the revelation I had while attending the
I attended the "Climate Cocktails" event at the Climate Adaptation Forum, a combination of UMass Boston Sustainable Solutions Lab, and the Environmental Business Council of New England. I came away more depressed than I have been in years. In short, in addition to constraining solutions to global warming to not proceed until climate and environment justice issues are co-resolved, to providing jobs, and avoiding "industrial solutions" or supporting big corporations in their solution, now the environmental progressives of Massachusetts — and possibly New England — have decided that build-out of inherently less spatially dense zero Carbon energy ought not disturb natural ecosystems. The reason is not practical, but seems to be motivated by some kind of idealistic purity, but probably has a lot to do with the unpopularity of building solar farms and the like in wealthy suburbs, per the above.
Accordingly I despair for our being able to get these solutions deployed in time. It is especially discouraging because we have inexpensive answers in hand, and the opposition to deployment in fields and forests is not based upon biologic science but, rather, some kind of naturalistic aesthetic.
What this means, of course, is that as these are delayed we will continue to emit greenhouse gases from fossil fuels, coming primarily from natural gas, and this will demand additional gas plants and additional pipelines. Moreover, in the end, it will be additional nuclear power, and exceeding temperatures that are safe checkpoints in trying to curtail climate disruption. We cannot do it by 2050, let alone 2035, and 2070 is more likely the place we'll land.
What this means, in the end, is that solutions for global industrial scale drawdown of CO2 from atmosphere will be necessary, and there is a dangerous place where solar radiation management ("SRM") may be a tempting option. And this will mean +4C is the place we should be seriously thinking about, not +2C.
This is not understood or appreciated. Just as it is not understood and appreciated that planting a trillion trees won't do the job, and won't make a dent as long as those natural gas plants continue to spew their burnt byproducts.
In summary, this is a bad day for Massachusetts, New England, and, to the degree this is now the settled sentiment of climate activists, the world. If I were Greta Thunberg, I would be very worried. For activists, if they get their way, have just tied the hands of the people who can solve the problem.
It is also entirely possible that my perspective was disregarded in this forum because I'm an "old white guy", steeped in engineering, maths, and science. That's too bad. I have a lot to offer. And, in the sessions, I was told, essentially, that "data doesn't matter".
I wish these mirror images of the Republican Party and the Trumpists luck. They are going to need it.
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And i want these points to be divided by random line like the picture below.
Could you give me some codes or advice??
Making points is easy but dividing is difficult ..
Code is like this
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import matplotlib

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I feel like using for loop is possible but I don't know how. Could you give me some advice??

A: I think you can use the filter function to divide the points into two parts.
The code is Here.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import random

m=np.random.uniform(-10,10,30)
n=np.random.uniform(-10,10,30)
a=random.randrange(-5,5)
b=random.randrange(-10,10)
x= np.array(range(-10,20))

y=a*x+b
plt.plot(x,y)
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result = list(filter(lambda item: item[1] >= a*item[0]+b, zip(m,n)))
xa, ya = list(zip(*result))
plt.scatter(xa,ya,color = "r",marker="*")

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result = list(filter(lambda item: item[1] < a*item[0]+b, zip(m,n)))
xb, yb = list(zip(*result))
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In February Arbuthnot Latham announced the launch of its new SME lending division, formed from the acquisition of Renaissance Asset Finance (RAF), which was announced at the end of 2016 and completed in 2017.
Chairman Henry Angest said: "The Group has had a good start to the year with customer loans and deposits at the end of April increasing 18% and 37% respectively compared to the same time last year.
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The Other Felons Just Did It More Illegally
April 5, 2016 by John Richardson 1 Comment
Gabby Giffords and her Americans for Responsible Solutions are touting the success of Washington State's I-594 in stopping felons from purchasing firearms. The 50 felons were attempting to purchase a firearm through a private sale and not through a FFL.
Commonsense gun laws work: In its first 14 mos., WA's new background check law blocked 50 felons from getting a gun: https://t.co/O8Q7JGJGGk
— ARS (@resp_solutions) April 1, 2016
Given the Tweet was published on April 1, I don't know if this is an April Fools joke on their part or not.
Doing the math which I hope that even Gabby could do, 50 felons divided by 14 months equals 3.57 attempted purchases per month or less than one per week. If that is a measure of success, it is a dumbing down of the meaning of success. All this proves is that 50 felons were stupid enough to try and purchase a firearm from someone who submitted the sale to a background check. No word on how many sales were made on street corners of stolen guns being sold by criminal gangs.
According to the story that accompanies her Tweet, not one felon was prosecuted for attempting to purchase a firearm.
2015 violent crime statistics for Washington State have not been released by the FBI and should not be expected until mid-year or later.
Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Washington State's I-594 On Vagueness Grounds
December 31, 2014 by John Richardson 6 Comments
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed suit in Federal court against portions of Washington State's Initiative 594. The suit charges that the new law infringes on the Second and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution as well as on portions of the Washington State Constitution.
They also allege that the new law is so vague that, "a person of ordinary intelligence cannot understand its scope, which renders it subject to arbitrary enforcement." They go on to add, "The agencies of the State of Washington have so far either disclaimed the responsibility to interpret I-594 or provided interpretations that are so far removed from the language as to be useless."
The business plaintiffs include the Northwest School of Safety, Puget Sound Security, Inc., Pacific Northwest Association of Investors, and the Firearms Academy of Seattle. The individual plaintiffs include SAF's Alan Gottlieb, CalGun's Gene Hoffman, the Gottlieb Revocable Family Living Trust, Andrew Gottlieb, Daryl Lee, CCRKBA's legislative director Joe Waldron, and Xee Del Real. SAF is also a party to the suit.
The suit names Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the Attorney General's Office, and the head of the Washington State Patrol as the defendants. The suit seeks a preliminary and permanent injunction against the enforcement of I-594's amendments to RCW 9.41 as it relates to:
non-commercial transfers of firearms to private citizens who are otherwise qualified
to possess firearms, or otherwise enforcing any policies, rules, or procedures prohibiting or
otherwise restricting the non-commercial transfer of firearms to private citizens who are
otherwise qualified to possess firearms.
The suit entitled Northwest School of Security el al v Ferguson et al is being brought in US District Court for the Western District of Washington. A copy of the complaint can be found here.
The release from SAF is below:
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Tacoma, seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of portions of Initiative 594, the 18-page gun control measure that took effect Dec. 4, alleging that "portions of I-594…are so vague that a person of ordinary intelligence cannot understand their scope," and that other parts violate the Second Amendment outright.
Joining SAF in this action are the Northwest School of Safety, Puget Sound Security, Inc., the Pacific Northwest Association of Investors, the Firearms Academy of Seattle, six individual citizens including SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb and the Gottlieb Family Trust. They are represented by Seattle attorneys Steven Fogg and David Edwards, and Bellevue attorney Miko Tempski.
Named as defendants are Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste, in their official capacities.
"We took this action due to the confusing and arbitrary language and nature of I-594," Gottlieb explained. "Three of our plaintiffs, including my son, are residents of other states and cannot legally borrow handguns for personal protection while traveling in Washington. Under I-594, all transfers must be done through federally-licensed firearms dealers, but under federal law, dealers cannot legally transfer handguns to residents of other states. I-594 also essentially prohibits our non-resident plaintiffs from storing their own firearms here.
"This measure effectively infringes upon, if not outright prohibits, the exercise of their constitutionally-protected right to bear arms under the Second Amendment," he added.
Gottlieb pointed to a recent directive from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to its volunteer hunter education instructors regarding firearms transfers in class that amount to "straw-man transfers." The lawsuit also notes that the State Patrol said it could not prove that a change of possession not covered by an I-594 exemption was a "transfer," making enforcement of the new law "difficult if not impossible."
"We're not trying to stop background checks," Gottlieb said. "We're taking action against a poorly-written and unconstitutionally vague measure that criminalizes activities that are perfectly legal anywhere else in the country, thus striking at the very heart of a constitutionally-protected, fundamental civil right."
In Seattle, The Rich Vote For Gun Control But Buy Their Own Cops
I get a lot of emails from the various financial planning publications. Sometimes they are touting a certain mutual fund company and sometimes they are little news stories about HNW individuals. Translating from finance-speak, that means high net worth individuals aka the wealthy.
A story in Financial Advisor about the Seattle wealthy caught my eye yesterday and spurred me to do some research. The gist of the story is that Seattle suffers the top property crime rate in the country and that certain wealthy neighborhoods have taken to hiring a force of off-duty police officers and private security guards to watch over their neighborhood.
After Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat wrote about how the police largely disregarded his family's repeated calls about car thieves in his neighborhood, a resident of the city's tony Laurelhurst section dropped him a note.
"I bet if you had been in Laurelhurst, somebody would have come," the reader wrote. "Your mistake was being in a regular part of town."
Turns out that Laurelhurst, the neighborhood where Bill Gates was born and lived until about 1994, isn't completely satisfied with its police protection, either. In fact, it has hired its own security force.
Exasperated with a spate of car break-ins, the neighborhood adopted its strategy from Windermere, an even more exclusive neighborhood directly north, where homeowners pay an annual $575 fee that mostly goes toward having off-duty police and private security guards patrol year-round.
Seattle has the top property crime rate in the country, the Seattle Times reported recently. It's more than double the Boston area's rate and almost one-third higher than the rate for the Denver area.
Laurelhurst's security force consists of off-duty policemen who keep the neighborhood under surveillance six nights per week in five-hour shifts, and also conduct foot patrols when residents are on vacation. One of the city's off-duty bicycle cops also rides around the neighborhood during the day—something that helps with the now ubiquitous package theft that appears to be a result of faux dog walkers following UPS trucks to their delivery destinations.
Although the off-duty cops wear their official uniforms and carry police radios and firearms, they drive their personal—that is, unmarked—cars. They monitor incoming 911 calls and work with on-duty police officers if there's an incident.
"We don't expect them to catch people," says Brian McMullen, who sits on the neighborhood council and helps oversee the crime program. "We view it as a deterrent."
Knowing that Seattle and King County provided the base of supported for Washington State's I-594 gun control initiative, I wondered how these areas voted. Did they jump on the gun control bandwagon along with the majority of Seattle residents? Moreover, how much money did residents of the area donate to the gun control front group Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility?
Let's take the last question first. Residents in these neighborhoods live in the 98105 zip code. Donations to the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility totaled $179,305. Donors included Bill Gates, Sr. who gave $500. That $500 contribution by one individual was more than all the donations to the pro-gun group Protect Our Gun Rights combined. Those donations totaled a mere $335. Put in relative terms, pro-gun contributions totaled two-tenths of one percent of the amount donated to the anti-gun forces.
Overall, the vote for I-594 in King County was 74.99% in favor and 25.01% opposed. Statewide, the numbers were 59.27% in favor with 40.73 opposed to more gun control.
So how did the two neighborhoods, Laurelhurst and Windermere, vote? It took some doing but I was able to identify the relevant voting precincts from the election district maps and pull the data from eCanvass file.
Windermere's eight precincts had a total of 2,101 people vote in I-594 contest. Of these, 1,856 voted yes on I-594. That 88.3% is significantly higher percentage than King County as a whole.
Laurelhurst's 11 precincts went even higher in their support of I-594. 2,181 or 89.1% of the 2,448 votes cast on the initiative were in favor of it.
I guess if you are sitting in your (multi) million dollar home in Laurelhurst or Windermere with security provided by off-duty police, you don't really worry how the riff-raff provides for their security. You are protected and they can pretty much go to hell for all you care. So what if it is harder for them to get the tools to protect themselves and their families. You got yours and that is all that matters.
I-594 And The Aftermath – Why Washington State And Who Might Be Next (Pt. 1)
November 15, 2014 by John Richardson 82 Comments
We underestimate our enemies at our peril. The Washington State universal background check initiative, I-594, should have taught us that. We may think that Michael Bloomberg is a rich, power-mad little Napolean or, as Michael Bane calls him, a nastly little Fascist. However, he did not get to be rich by marrying the right woman or picking the right parents. No, he saw a need and devised a way to fulfill it. Along the way, this insight and his skills made him a very rich man. The bottom line is he is not stupid and he can think strategically.
Likewise, it is easy to dismiss Shannon Watts as an up-marrying, social climbing PR flack who attached herself to gun control as a way to rejuvenate her ailing career. However, she didn't get to be a VP at Wellpoint without some degree of talent and a mastery of public relations tactics. We have seen that with the way she created the appearance of a win for gun control – even it if wasn't – from the announcements by companies like Starbucks and Chipotles that they didn't want guns in their stores. Perception is reality and the perception is that guns were banned there even if it was merely an unenforceable polite request to leave the guns at home.
Thus, when I read this post from Hyperion 1144 on Reddit, a light went off. The goal of Bloomberg wasn't universal background checks. It was to kill the gun culture in America by strangling its ability to bring new adults into it. We always say that taking someone shooting is a great way to inoculate them from the claims of the gun prohibitionists. If that is made too hard by the restrictions on transfers in I-594, then we can't achieve this inoculation.
I-594 is a not a tactical move by gun confiscationists, it is a strategic move.
This law was created by smart, wealthy, well-funded persons who are playing the long game, and if gun owners don't start running a long-game strategy to match, we are done for within two generations.
Washington has passed Initiative 594, a law marketed as requiring background checks on all sales, but which in reality has criminalized the act of touching any gun you do not own. This means that if you don't own a gun in Washington State, it is now illegal for you to touch a gun.
I haven't yet seen an article, comment, or post anywhere that takes into account the long-term cultural implications of such a regulation. I-594 is literally a legislative vaccine against the spread of gun culture.
How is someone curious about guns in Washington state supposed to learn about them about now? They won't be able to go shooting with friends, they won't be able to go to friends house to be shown how to field strip a 9mm. Gun classes have likely been outlawed. Gun rentals are likely gone now, too.
The only way to learn, now, is to buy a gun and learn by yourself, completely on your own. No one can help you, since they can't touch your gun and you can't touch any of theirs.
This law is intended to isolate us, to prevent us from spreading ideas, knowledge, information, culture. This law, played out of over years and decades, means that gun owners are now likely limited to two pools of people in the future:
1) The children of gun owning families.
2) The rare, entirely self-motivated individual who is willing to trek into an unknown world completely alone.
Played over years and decades, this is how you slowly disarm a population without getting substantial complaints from that population.
The only way we maintain our 2nd Amendment rights is to fight for them. The only people who will fight for them are people who understand firearms, and the reasons for owning them, well enough to be willing to fight. The only way most people come to an understanding of this is if someone else taught them or helped them to understand.
Now, virtually all non-familial acts of teaching and culture-sharing are illegal. In the long-term cultural sense, I-594 is the single most dangerous piece of gun control legislation ever conceived.
It makes the NFA and the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban look childishly simplistic by comparison. This time, they didn't ban certain mechanical or cosmetic features. They didn't ban full-auto or select fire or short-barrel rifles.
This time, they banned a culture, our culture.
If this stands or spreads, we are done for.
I think the author, Hyperion 1144, makes a lot of sense and we need to get that message across to all gun owners – Fudds, Threepers, Prags, or what other subgroup of gun owners you can think of.
As to the last sentence in the Reddit post, it has spread to the state of Nevada. This was not unexpected as a universal background check bill passed the Nevada legislature last year but was vetoed by Gov. Brian Sandoval (R-NV). Everytown President John Feinblatt said as much after I-594 passed calling it just the beginning. The group fought off an attempt by the Nevada Firearms Coalition to keep it off the 2016 ballot. The only change made to the wording of the ballot initiative was make sure voters knew the penalties for violations would be a gross misdemeanor for first offenses and a felony conviction for the second offense. This is identical to Washington State's I-594.
Sebastian has some ideas on how to fight off Bloomberg on the ballot initiatives. I haven't digested all of it yet but it sure has set off a storm of comments.
David Codrea notes that the effort in Nevada was something he warned about last year. Back then, David did some investigative digging into the Nevada effort and found the fingerprints of Bloomberg all over it. Unfortunately, not enough people listened at the time.
Part 2 of this post will be an effort to identify future targets of Bloomberg's opportunism.
The Many Ways To Break The Law Thanks To I-594
November 9, 2014 by John Richardson 0 Comments
The flowchart below is based upon the text of the Washington State initiative, I-594, that was passed by Washington voters on Tuesday. I did not create this flowchart. That said, it is a good illustration of all the trapdoors built into I-594 by Bloomberg's minions.
I-594: The Claim And The Reality
Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility is the pro-gun control group funded by billionaires that is pushing I-594 in Washington State. This initiative, if passed, would mandate background checks for all sales and transfers.
One of their ads claims that you can buy guns at gun shows and off the Internet with "no questions asked". The ad shows someone typing in the URL for Gunbroker.com. I have purchased a couple of firearms off of Gunbroker.com myself over the years. They were either shipped to my local dealer where I had to fill out a Form 4473 and be checked or they were shipped to me directly because it was a firearm considered a curio or relic. I have a C&R FFL.
You can see this ad below:
Steve Urvan, CEO of Gunbroker.com, took exception to this ad impugning the reputation of his company. In the release below, he points out the reality.
Recently a Washington state gun control lobbying group called The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility published an advertisement and YouTube video that included a scene in which GunBroker.com was typed into a browser. The video includes the words "NO QUESTIONS ASKED" and states that criminals who fail background checks can go online and buy guns.
This ad is both misleading the public and impugning the reputation of GunBroker.com by depicting our company's name being typed into a search engine with the direct suggestion that we would enable an illegal transfer of a firearm. This is false and certainly libelous.
As we clearly state on our website, all transactions on GunBroker.com are made in full compliance with all federal state, and local laws, using licensed federal firearms dealers as transfer agents. Federal law requires those dealers to run a background check on the buyer. There is a strict compliance system in place and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms audits dealers for compliance.
The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility obviously did no research when creating this ad. Every listing on the GunBroker.com site states, in red letters for emphasis:
"Firearms may only be shipped to a licensed dealer (FFL Holder)".
The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility needs to act responsibly themselves. We demand that they take down their erroneous ads and videos and apologize to GunBroker.com and the voters of Washington State for this irresponsible misrepresentation in the pursuit of their political agenda.
Regarding background checks and specifically I-594, I urge all www.GunBroker.com members to take the time to get out and vote on Tuesday November 4 and defeat anti-gun bills like I-594 and anti-gun legislators. Below are some links you may find useful:
https://www.voteno594.com/
http://www.nssf.org/gunvote/
http://www.nraila.org/
Steve Urvan,
CEO, GunBroker.com
Billionaires Aren't The Only Ones Pumping Money Into Washington State
October 21, 2014 by John Richardson 4 Comments
I did a post last month detailing all the money being pumped into Washington State in support of the gun control initiative I-594. At that time, five billionaires and one very rich woman from an "old Seattle family" had cumulatively put in almost 75% of the monies in support of the initiative. Since then, Michael Bloomberg, through his Everytown Moms for Illegal Mayors, has pumped another $950,000 into the effort along with at least $350,000 from the coterie of billionaires.
It looks like Gabby Giffords and the Space Cowboy (aka Mark Kelly) have gotten involved as well. Through their Americans for Responsible Solutions (sic), they have donated $229,091 for in-kind direct mail services. It is the largest in-kind donation of the campaign. The majority of the other in-kind services is coming from the Win/Win Network (a coalition of unions and left-wing groups) and the True Patriot Network which is run by billionaire Nick Hanauer.
I have to give Washington State kudos for their Public Disclosure Commission reporting system. It is much more up-to-date on contributions that the Federal Election Commission system.
From the Federal Election Commission
Dingy Harry Is Right – Billionaires Are Trying To Buy Democracy
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave a speech yesterday on the floor of the Senate. It was his first floor speech since the end of the August recess. As The Hill reports it, he said, in part,
"We have had in this country a flood of very, very dark money coming into this nation's political system," Reid said on the Senate floor. "Radical billionaires are attempting to buy our democracy."
Reid is correct in his statement – just not in the billionaires to whom he referred. He, of course, was continuing his jihad against the libertarian Koch brothers.
However, if one were to examine the backers of the universal background check initiative in Washington State, I-594, you would come to the conclusion that a gaggle of billionaires was indeed trying to buy "our democracy."
Examining the public reports from the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, one finds that a full 72% of the funding for the anti-gun Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility has come from five billionaires (including spouses) plus one very wealthy woman from an "old Seattle family". In dollar terms, these six have donated $5,171,600 out of the $7,175,542 donated to the anti-gun organization. Small contributions to this gun control ballot initiative total only $63,009 or less than 1% of the total.
So who are these billionaires (or near billionaires), how much have they given individually, what is their estimated net worth, and where do they stand on the Forbes 400 list of richest people in America. Here is the list in order of contributions:
Nick Hanauer, $1,485,000; net worth $1 billion, venture capitalist, Second Avenue Investing
Bill and Melinda Gates, $1,050,000; net worth $72 billion, No. 1 Forbes 400, co-founder Microsoft
Michael Bloomberg*, $1,030,000; net worth $31 billion, No. 10 Forbes 400, founder Bloomberg LP
Connie and Steve Ballmer, $830,000; net worth $18 billion, No. 21 Forbes 400, former CEO Microsoft, owner LA Clippers
Paul Allen, $500,000; net worth $15.8 billion, No 26 Forbes 400, co-founder Microsoft, owner Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers
Ann Pigott Wyckoff, $276,600; net worth est. multi-millions, heiress and daughter of the late Paccar Corporation president Paul Pigott. Paccar manufactures Peterbilt, Kenworth, and Leyland trucks.
To put these contributions into perspective, let's look at the campaign committee for I-591 which is the other ballot initiative which opposes universal background checks. Protect Our Gun Rights is the campaign committee formed to support I-591. The largest individual (non-organizational) contribution was $1,500 by a Boeing engineer. The primary contributors to Protect Our Gun Rights are the Washington State-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Washington Arms Collectors. This committee has raised a total of $1,121,535 at last report.
As Dave Workman, the Seattle Gun Rights Examiner, put it, this is a billionaire bombardment and he is correct. So when Dingy Harry speaks of "radical billionaires attempting to buy our democracy", he just has the wrong set of billionaires in mind. It isn't the Koch brothers, it is the Hanauers, the Gates, the Allens, the Ballmers, and the Bloombergs who plan to dominate the TV airwaves with their appeals to low information voters in an effort to impose their will on the people of Washington State.
*Bloomberg's contribution was funneled through MAIG and Everytown for Gun Safety (sic).


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Fifth column: Alarm bells start to ring | The Indian Express
Fifth column: Alarm bells start to ring
The lesson for Modi is that he must stop pretending that achche din (good times) are already here. They are not.
Written by Tavleen Singh | Updated: March 18, 2018 7:48 am
If Modi's personal popularity remains relatively intact, it is only because ordinary Indians, even apolitical, desperately poor ones, see him as sincere (File)
So is it the beginning of the end for Narendra Modi? Do last week's results from Uttar Pradesh indicate that he will find it hard to get a full majority in 2019? It was in the end 73 seats from this state that made the difference in 2014. Was appointing Yogi Adityanath as Chief Minister after last year's massive mandate a mistake? The vote was for parivartan and vikas; not for Romeo Squads and Hindutva violence. If such questions are being asked in a column that has openly supported Modi, then it could be time for the Prime Minister to start seeking answers.
Things are looking so bad that Sonia Gandhi declared boldly at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai last week that achche din could become the 'India Shining' factor of 2019. It was this foolish slogan that brought her first government to power in 2004. No political analyst (including this one) predicted that year that Atal Bihari Vajpayee was going to lose. It was this over-confidence that made his marketing managers come up with the slogan that India was shining.
It is true that the economy was growing at a healthy clip, but it was equally true that ordinary Indians continued to live without bare necessities like clean water and electricity. So when they heard that according to the BJP their policies had made India shine, it angered them enough to throw Vajpayee out of office. The lesson for Modi is that he must stop pretending that achche din (good times) are already here. They are not.
If Modi's personal popularity remains relatively intact, it is only because ordinary Indians, even apolitical, desperately poor ones, see him as sincere. Very little has changed in their lives but so far they blame this on long years of Congress misrule. So if Modi needs to tread carefully, so does Sonia. When asked why she thought the Congress was reduced to 44 seats in the Lok Sabha in 2014, she said they had been "out-marketed". Then what new ideas was she going to bring if given another chance? None, she declared, they would continue with the same programmes they had started.
They were bad programmes. They caused her government to spend too much money on providing too little relief for people who would have done better if the money had been spent on roads, hospitals, schools and creating real jobs. Modi's tragedy is that he knew MNREGA and the Right to Education and cheap food grains were expensive and leaky programmes, but continued them. He knew that young voters were aspirational and impatient and no longer satisfied with subsidies and scraps from the government's high table, but he did nothing to change things. If he does end up being a one-term prime minister, he will have plenty of time to dwell on why. What he needs to do now is find some way of changing course. It will not be easy.
He may retain the image of a sincere man but his policies have angered every constituency that voted for him. Big businessmen are unhappy because the reforms they hoped for have not happened, so it is not easier to do business despite Modi's vaunted claims that it is. Small businessmen have been hit badly by demonetisation and a complicated and cumbersome GST. Farmers are angry because their lives remain wretched and have been made worse by cow vigilante activities that have made dairy farming impossible. And, young people continue to wait for jobs.
Modi and his ministers remain in denial about this failure to create jobs, but it is because they have not visited rural India recently and seen those groups of idle young men sitting around listlessly in village after village after village. What has changed for them is that they now have to find a way of applying online to employment exchanges, and if they do not have Aadhaar cards, they can do almost nothing. It is hard enough for urban Indians with easy Internet access to link their bank accounts and virtually everything else to Aadhaar cards but multiply this at least four times to understand how hard it is in the wilds of rural India.
So if voters in Gorakhpur and Phulpur dumped the BJP in constituencies represented by the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of UP, they had good reason. BJP spokesmen have tried to blame everything on changed caste equations because two casteist parties pooled their resources. Modi should ignore this kind of political analysis and pay close attention to the truth: that Dalits have been as affected by Hindutva vigilantes as Muslims, and that lower-caste Hindus in general are not mad about Hindutva. In UP, since the advent of Yogi Adityanath, there has been too much violence that has been Talibanesque and horrific and too little by way of change and development.
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Can Bats Help Locate Clean Water?
As the population of the world steadily grows, so too does the strain we put upon the Earth's resources – and so does the detrimental impact we have upon them. Potable water, the most precious resource in existence, is in increasingly short supply in some parts of the world due to the demand that a greater population brings and the pollutant effect it has.
Humans aren't the only species dependent on water either, of course. Even among desert-adapted animals, water still proves to a vital component of almost all animal diets, so it may be possible to pinpoint sources of clean water by following the movements of other animals who seek it out. According to scientist Theresa Laverty, bats could be a prime example of this.
Leveraging the power of the natural world to monitor levels of pollution is hardly a novel idea. For example, fish and other water-dwelling animals can be analysed to determine levels of water pollution; bees and invertebrates can give accurate data about the threat posed by systemic pesticides in crops and other plants. In perhaps the most famous example of all, miners traditionally used canaries to gauge whether air was becoming too contaminated to support life.
According to Laverty, bats could play a similar role in assessing pollution levels in water supplies. Due to their sizable, uninsulated wingspan, bats are susceptible to dehydration and must constantly consume clean water. What's more, their ability to fly means they can travel significantly further and more quickly in search of water than fish, insects or other water-dwelling animals. As such, monitoring bat activity and health in rural regions could be a viable method of detecting clean water sources.
This knowledge is generally most valuable in the developing world; an estimated 780 million people do not have access to clean drinking water globally. Over 2.5 billion – well over a third of the world's population – do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of these people reside in impoverished and undeveloped nations in Asia and Africa.
While effective water treatment plants are slowly but surely migrating to the third world, such as with the case of the Ahmadu Bello University community drinking water supply in Nigeria, the technology and the equipment is often not in place in these remote parts and costs too much to implement at the present time. As a result, monitoring the movement of bats could prove to be a highly successful and cost-effective alternative to the problem.
Laverty believes that we must work to safeguard the conservation of these animals, not only for the benefit of their species, but of our own as well. "Bats' potential as environmental indicators is just the latest reason for studying and conserving these important creatures," she explains.