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Christine O'Donnell was a participant or observer in the following events:
November 15, 2007: Republican Strategist Insists Scientists Have Grafted Functioning Human Brains onto Mice
On Fox News's O'Reilly Factor, Christian activist and Republican strategist Christine O'Donnell says that scientists have succeeded in grafting functioning human brains onto mice. O'Donnell and medical researcher Dr. William Morrone are guests of host Bill O'Reilly, who discusses conservatives' opposition to stem cell research. O'Reilly begins by noting that researchers in Oregon have succeeded in cloning monkey embryos, which he describes as the first step towards cloning human embryos for the harvesting of stem cells. Morrone favors cloning research because of "the pathology and… the pain" that people suffering from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other ailments are forced to endure. Morrone is not in favor of cloning human embryos, but he is optimistic that cloning research might lead to new ways to harvest stem cells without destroying existing embryos. O'Donnell has a different view: she says that the Oregon researchers "proudly stated" their intention to clone human beings, and says that human cloning is the real, secretive goal of all such research. O'Reilly then states that human cloning is possible now: "They can clone humans now if they wanted to.… Everybody knows that scientists have enough knowledge to clone a human being if they wanted to," a statement to which O'Donnell agrees. She then adds: "They are—they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they're already into this experiment." Morrone interjects, "That's an exaggeration," but his objections are overridden by O'Reilly asking him: "[D]o you understand her concern that there are people who are unethical who will do this kind of stuff for whatever reason? Do you understand her concern?" He gives O'Donnell the last word in his segment, and she concludes: "[I]t is inevitable. This really is about human cloning, about dignity versus commodity. And we already answered that question." [Fox News, 11/15/2007] O'Donnell's assertions will receive little attention until almost three years later, when she wins the Republican primary for the US Senate in Delaware (see September 13, 2010) and the media begins recounting some of her less mainstream political and scientific views. That recounting will speculate that O'Donnell may be misremembering a 2005 report of scientists successfully growing human brain cells within mice; reporter Eric Kleefeld will write that it "is not the same as an actual functioning human brain, but a demonstration that human brain cells can be made from stem cells." [TPMDC, 9/16/2007]
Entity Tags: Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Eric Kleefeld, William Morrone, Christine O'Donnell
April 29, 2009: Conservative Activist Asserts Obama a 'Closet Muslim'
Conservative columnist and political activist Jonathan Moseley writes an article for his blog US News and Views that asserts President Obama is, and always has been, a "closet Muslim." This assertion has been made numerous times by conservative opponents of Obama, and has been thoroughly debunked (see October 1, 2007, December 19, 2007, Before October 27, 2008, January 11, 2008, Around March 19, 2008, and April 18, 2008). Moseley accuses the national news media of "acting as the palace guard for 'Dear Leader' Barack Obama" and refusing to report what he calls "the truth" of Obama's "secret Muslim" beliefs. Apparently, Moseley's primary evidence is a February 2007 interview with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, where Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer and called it "one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset." Moseley calls the Muslim call to prayer "screeching," and says no one who listened to it would believe it to be beautiful "without enormous indoctrination into Islam." Obama says he learned the call to prayer as a child, when he attended school in Indonesia. According to Moseley, the recitation of the call to prayer "makes one a Muslim. The words express a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.… Having attended Islamic religion classes, Obama knows this." Moseley also cites as "evidence" a false claim that in April 2009, Obama demanded that "Georgetown University cover up the name of Jesus in a campus hall before" he would give a speech there. And, he says, at a recent economic summit, Obama "bowed reverently to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah," but did not bow to Queen Elizabeth of England; Mosely writes that "a Muslim would instinctively give reverence to" the king of Saudi Arabia, but would not bow to the Queen of England, who, he writes, "is technically the head of the Church of England. Obama did not bow to the royal queen who is guardian of the world's first and oldest Protestant Christian Church." Moseley incorrectly calls Queen Elizabeth a "head of state" equal to the king of Saudi Arabia; in reality, Elizabeth is queen in title only, with the real head of the British government being the prime minister. Moseley states falsely that Obama "was raised as a Muslim," citing the fact that his biological father was Muslim as well as his stepfather Lolo Soetoro (see October 28, 2008), and falsely states that Obama's stepfather enrolled him in school under the name "Barry Soetoro" (see June 27, 2008, August 21-24, 2008, and Shortly Before June 28, 2010). Moseley even claims: "Since Obama changed his name back from Barry Sotero [an alternate spelling of 'Soetoro'], he could have legally removed [his middle name] 'Hussein' in the process had he wished to. He did not." This, Moseley claims, is further proof of Obama's Muslim status. Moseley says that Obama has been masquerading as a Christian for over 20 years, ever since his "profess[ed]" conversion to Christianity at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago (see January 6-11, 2008), but dismisses Trinity United as "little more than a left-wing political club" and not a real church. And, Moseley says, Obama incorrectly claimed he had been to "57 states" on the presidential campaign trail, and cites this as evidence of Obama's "closet Muslim" status, noting that there are 57 "states" in the Organization of Islamic Conference. "So the number of Islamic OIC states appears to have sprung more readily to Obama's mind than the 50 states of the USA," he writes. [Jonathan Moseley, 4/29/2009; The British Monarchy, 2011] Obama said after that statement that he had misstated both the number of states and the number of victims of a cyclone in Myanmar in that speech, and blamed fatigue for his misstatement; there are also less than 57 members in the OIC. [Snopes (.com), 7/1/2009] Moseley will later become a senior campaign aide to Christine O'Donnell (R-DE) in her unsuccessful bid for the Senate (see September 13, 2010); O'Donnell's campaign will assert that Obama is a Muslim, and both O'Donnell and Moseley will assert that Obama, like other Democrats, is a secret Communist. [Mother Jones, 9/20/2010]
Entity Tags: Trinity United Church of Christ, Barack Obama, Christine O'Donnell, Jonathan Moseley
September 13, 2010: Delaware Republican Chairman Threatened with 'Bullet in the Head' for Not Supporting Tea Party Candidate
Delaware Republican Party chairman Tom Ross receives a death threat over his support for incumbent Mike Castle (R-DE) in the upcoming Delaware Senate primaries. Castle, a House member widely considered to be a moderate Republican (see June 30, 2009), is opposed by Christine O'Donnell, a hard-right Republican who has received the support of several area "tea party" organizations. Ross receives an email telling him that he deserves "a bullet in the head" for backing "political _ss-kissing RINO's" [Republicans in name only]. The email continues: "It is one thing to have your country screwed over by socialists, it is far worse to be backstabbed by people pretending to be your friends. We will either rid the GOP of pieces of sh_t like you, or we will start a new 'Common Sense Conservative' party and render you all useless." Ross leaves his home temporarily in fear for his life, and the US Department of Justice mounts an investigation. The email contains the name and address of the sender, though that information will not be made public. "It is just scary what is going on right now," says a Delaware Republican Party official. "Tom is a loyal and dedicated Republican officer in Delaware… the position is unpaid and his job as party chairman is to defend and promote the candidates.… It is disgusting, it is amazing, and it has no place in our democracy." In a statement, O'Donnell's campaign condemns the threat, saying, "We hope Mr. Ross and his family are safe, as no one should have to go through personal attacks like this." Reporter Sam Stein concludes: "Coming at the end of an emotional and hard-fought campaign, it's difficult to gauge both the purpose and the fallout of the death threat. If confirmed as both serious and sincere, it provides yet another piece of evidence that recently politics has veered into something more troubling than previously seen. O'Donnell supporters, undoubtedly, will be skeptical of the story's emergence at this late stage of the primary fight, noting that Castle is the primary beneficiary if her candidacy is seen as inspiring political intolerance, if not downright violence." [Huffington Post, 9/13/2010; Politico, 9/14/2010] Ross has been highly critical of O'Donnell's campaign, stating that Delaware voters "are laughing" at her (see November 15, 2007), and has said that if she wins the primary, she is almost certain to lose against her Democratic opponent, county executive Chris Coons, in the November elections. Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer, of Sacramento, California, says of Ross's criticisms: "Can you imagine the mess Tom Ross will have created when he is Delaware Republican Party chairman on Tuesday night when Christine O'Donnell becomes the Republican nominee for US Senate? It's unacceptable, and Tom Ross must quit or be fired immediately. He is a walking disaster." Current polls show Castle and O'Donnell in a statistical dead heat. O'Donnell has the support of several right-wing conservative groups, including the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group founded by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC). [Gannett News Service, 9/5/2010; Politico, 9/13/2010] Recent reports have shown that O'Donnell has raised little money within Delaware, but has benefited greatly from "tea party" and other fundraising on her behalf in other states. [Gannett News Service, 9/5/2010] O'Donnell will win the Delaware primary. Castle will call the campaign the most unpleasant of his career. [USA Today, 9/5/2010]
Entity Tags: Sam Stein, Mike Castle, Christine O'Donnell, Chris Coons, Amy Kremer, US Department of Justice, Tom Ross, Delaware Republican Party, Jim DeMint
September 15-16, 2010: Palin Advises Right-Wing Primary Winner: 'Speak through Fox News'
Christine O'Donnell. [Source: Fox News]Republican pundit Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, discusses the recent primary victory of US Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (R-DE—see September 13, 2010) with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. Palin advises O'Donnell to use Fox News, and only Fox, to get her message out. O'Reilly notes that GOP strategist Karl Rove, who has been critical of O'Donnell's candidacy, has said O'Donnell is unprepared to talk to moderate voters about her often-extremist positions, and thusly, her staff has been reluctant to appear on news programs such as his O'Reilly Factor. Palin says this is the wrong course, and compares O'Donnell's campaign to her own 2008 campaign for vice president when her advisers told her to stay away from the media. "She's going to have to learn very quickly to dismiss what her handlers want," Palin says. "Go with her gut, get out there speak to the American people, speak through Fox News." [Wilmington News Journal, 9/16/2010] Shortly thereafter, O'Donnell cancels a scheduled appearance on the September 19 edition of CBS's Face the Nation, with no explanation. "They just emailed us and said she needed to cancel," says the show's executive producer, Mary Hager. Politico's Ben Smith speculates that O'Donnell "may now be heeding the advice bestowed earlier this week by Sarah Palin: 'Speak through Fox.'" Smith also notes that O'Donnell has drawn fire for her extreme comments on a variety of subjects, from condom use to her stated belief that scientists have inserted human brains into mice (see November 15, 2007). [Politico, 9/16/2010]
Entity Tags: Christine O'Donnell, Bill O'Reilly, Ben Smith, CBS News, Fox News, Karl C. Rove, Sarah Palin, Mary Hager
September 17, 2010: Delaware GOP Candidate Equates Belief in Church-State Separation with Nazis, Misquotes Founding Father
Glen Urquhart. [Source: Glen Urquhart for Congress]The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) releases a video showing Delaware Republican primary winner Glen Urquhart (R-DE) comparing believers in the separation of church and state to Nazis. Urquhart is running for the House seat vacated by moderate Republican Mike Castle (R-DE), who lost a contentious Delaware Senate primary to right-wing candidate Christine O'Donnell (see September 13, 2010). Both O'Donnell and Urquhart are backed by state and national "tea party" organizations. The DCCC is attempting to portray O'Donnell, Urquhart, and others as right-wing extremists. The video shows Urquhart speaking directly to the cameras, saying that the idea of the separation of church and state originated not with the Founding Fathers, but with Adolf Hitler: "Do you know, where does this phrase separation of church and state come from? Does anybody know?… Actually, that's exactly, it was not in [Thomas] Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. He was reassuring that the federal government wouldn't trample on their religion. The exact phrase 'separation of church and state' came out of Adolf Hitler's mouth, that's where it comes from. Next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of church and state ask them why they're Nazis." Urquhart's spokesman David Anderson says the candidate has repeatedly apologized for the remarks, and says Urquhart "believes 100 percent in religious freedom for all Americans." He was merely speaking out against what he calls the "oppression of religious freedom in the name of separation of church and state.… The phrase he used was unfortunate, and he apologized for it." [The Hill, 9/17/2010; CBS News, 9/17/2010] CBS News notes that Jefferson indeed used the phrase "separation of church and state" in his letter to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association, writing, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church & state." [CBS News, 9/17/2010; Jefferson, 9/17/2010]
Entity Tags: Christine O'Donnell, Mike Castle, CBS News, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, David Anderson, Glen Urquhart
Around October 27, 2010: Republicans Pump Huge Amounts of Money into Elections in Days before Polls Open, Outspending Democrats 3-1
Impelled by polls showing that Democrats may not do as badly as predicted in the upcoming November midterm elections, Republican political organizations pour vast amounts of money into tight Senate and House races in the final days, according to a Reuters analysis of data provided by the Wesleyan Media Project and from Democratic organizers. The controversial Citizens United Supreme Court decision (see January 21, 2010) has "opened the floodgates" for corporate money to be used in electioneering and advertising, much of that money going anonymously to political parties and operations (see September 13-16, 2010 and October 2010). Much of the money is targeting three Senate races in Colorado, Kentucky, and California. Republicans are confident that they will gain control of the House of Representatives, but must gain 10 seats to control the Senate, a prospect that is not as likely. Last-minute spending surges are common in elections, but experts say they have never seen so much spending in the last days of a race. Pollster Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center is not sure the last-minute surge of spending, almost all of which is going to advertising, will have a major effect. Most voters' minds are made up by now, Kohut says. Data shows that organizations affiliated with Republicans have outspent their Democratic rivals by more than a 3-1 ratio. In Nevada, "independent" organizations are pouring money into attack ads against Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and in support of challenger Sharron Angle (R-NV). Late campaign spending is fairly equal, according to the data, and the polls for that race are very tight. In Colorado, "tea party" favorite Ken Buck (R-CO) is losing ground to incumbent Michael Bennet (D-CO), and in response, Republican groups have funneled money into ads supporting Buck and attacking Bennet to create a 2-1 spending ratio in favor of Buck. A similar instance exists in Kentucky, where another tea party favorite, Rand Paul (R-KY), is losing ground to Jack Conway (D-KY), and Republican spending on Paul's behalf has made for a 2-1 spending ratio in favor of Paul. In California, where popular Democrat Barbara Boxer (D-CA) once had a 2-1 spending advantage over her opponent Carly Fiorina (R-CA), pro-Fiorina groups have recently outspent pro-Boxer groups 5-1. In Pennsylvania, pro-Republican groups are heavily outspending Democrats, largely to support Republican favorite Pat Toomey (R-PA) over Joe Sestak (D-PA). In Delaware, Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (R-DE), whose campaign has raised large amounts of money from out-of-state financiers, has not received the lavish funding that her Republican colleagues have gotten to defeat her opponent Chris Coons (D-DE). O'Donnell has received some $300,000 from right-wing and tea party groups. But Coons is receiving virtually no support from independent pro-Democratic groups, possibly because polls indicate he will win the election and does not need the last-minute funding support. The elections will be held on November 2. [Reuters, 10/27/2010] The results of the massive spending are mixed. The Republican winners include Paul and Toomey. The Republican losers include Angle, Buck, Fiorina and O'Donnell. [National Public Radio, 11/3/2010]
Entity Tags: Christine O'Donnell, Chris Coons, Wesleyan Media Project, Barbara Boxer, Andrew Kohut, Sharron Angle, Reuters, US House of Representatives, Carly Fiorina, Joe Sestak, Jack Conway, Harry Reid, Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, Ken Buck, Michael Bennet


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Q: Self Debuggable systems For example, in case of GDB it is possible to debug itself by itself. I have not been able to find any JVM that can debug itself or even allows debugging on source level.
I was just wondering if someone can suggest on how the systems are made self debuggable. If you have references, please paste it here. I wanted to read on it in detail.

A: This has nothing to do with GDB being able to debug itself. GDB is a debugger for C. It can debug any C program. GDB also happens to be written written in C, therefore you can debug GDB with GDB.
The JVM Debug Interface is an interface for debugging Java. You can debug any Java program. Most JVMs aren't written in Java, and even if they are written in Java, they don't run inside of themselves.
There is however a JVM, which is written in Java and runs inside of itself: the Maxine Research JVM, and it can debug itself.

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Jan. 22 — EVEN more reasons to support Hormones Matter, even just reading it and passing along the website. I know in my work as social worker, I get clients to go over to Hormones Matter to check out their symptoms — so many chronic illness in case management circles working with recovery clients, the homeless, foster youth, adults with DD/ID/PD, and those coming out of prison.
The headlines on news sources not completely bought out by big business/bi corps daily show how messed up our human physiology and psychology are, but more importantly, how money kills us.
Another DuPont story out today:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43247-millions-of-americans-are-ingesting-a-chemical-some-experts-believe-has-no-safe-exposure-level
PFAS contamination is not only a problem at Wurtsmith — a superfund site around which more than half of the private wells tested contain PFAS to some degree, and where the extent of the pollution has yet to be fully delineated — but nationally and internationally, where the environmental toll of PFAS contamination is only starting to be realized. This, despite the fact that some of the potential harmful health problems from human exposure to these chemicals have been known for decades, said attorney Robert Bilott, whose lawsuit against DuPont in the early 2000s was integral to lifting the lid on the issue.
"The first letter I recall sending out is a letter alerting the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] and state regulatory agencies to the problem on March 6, 2001," Bilott said. "We're sitting here almost 17 years later, and it's still not properly regulated by the federal government, which is really rather remarkable."
The human health impacts associated with over-exposure to PFAS include cancer, developmental effects on fetuses during pregnancy and on breastfed infants, as well as liver, immune and thyroid problems. What's more, Bilott believes there is no safe exposure threshold.
"The concept that there is a safe level of any amount of these types of chemicals in the water is just not workable," he said. "It just doesn't fit into the current way people are trying to regulate and set limits for these chemicals."
Thanks for your work, Chandler!
Ahh, this is the time to support all thinkers who have a sense of synergy, holism, outside-the-box chutzpah and are willing to look at systems of disrepair and repair.
2018 is coming on, Year of the Dog — see the implications of year of the dog vis-a-vis the Chinese Zodiac below which is, yes, not very scientific, but certainly a philosophical exploration worth considering.
Hormones Matter has its work cut out now that we are in a world of total disequilibrium — as this Purdue President demonstrates, calling anyone questioning the genetically modified/engineered organism as IMMORAL:
Quote: Today (Dec. 28) in a Washington Post op-ed, the former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University cogently argues, "Avoiding GMOs isn't just anti-science. It's immoral." Daniels observes:
Of the several claims of 'anti-science' that clutter our national debates these days, none can be more flagrantly clear than the campaign against modern agricultural technology, most specifically the use of molecular techniques to create genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Here, there are no credibly conflicting studies, no arguments about the validity of computer models, no disruption of an ecosystem nor any adverse human health or even digestive problems, after 5 billion acres have been cultivated cumulatively and trillions of meals consumed.
And yet a concerted, deep-pockets campaign, as relentless as it is baseless, has persuaded a high percentage of Americans and Europeans to avoid GMO products, and to pay premium prices for 'non-GMO' or 'organic' foods that may in some cases be less safe and less nutritious. –end quote—
These are rough times. Just last week, my stepdaughter was informed by the university powers that be, that for her to attend her third year of college (she's transferring from a community college) at Oregon State University, she must get the meningitis vaccine. Here is a 19-year-old who has not been toxified by Gardasil or any flu vaccine by just refusing to undergo those vaccinations after intense pressure from nurses and MD's.
From a philosophical standpoint, how draconian is this to be "forced to vaccinate as an adult of any age for meningitis"? While Hormone Matters drills down on the human bio-chemistry and total body physiological workings of our magnificent yet fragile species, the issues brought up here more and more intersect with politics-profit-culture-race-environment-humaneness.
Much of the work highlighted here is not only valuable for those people recognizing their own worlds and symptoms, but for discourse in general, as a repository of vital information outside the mainstream, for-profit-at-all-costs world of fake medicine.
Thanks for the work the editor puts forth,, and may her year be one of great strength, tied to the Year of the Dog!
Dog's Personality
The Dog is the most likable sign in the Chinese zodiac. Like his animal namesake, he is loyal with a capital "L". He is the one who people are most likely to turn to when they need help, and the dog person will come through every time. That is because the dog person is sensitive to others and empathizes with them, particularly if someone has suffered an injustice, reacting quickly with the same feeling, as though he/she had been personally offended. Friends value these qualities and know that they can rely on their dog friend to keep a promise or remain cool in a crisis. Dog types are honest, intelligent and straightforward. They will take on any responsibility that is given to them and you can be sure that they will do their job conscientiously and well.
Dog people are often born old and get younger as they age. They take everything very seriously. You may hear the Dog complains a lot about street lamps, about traffic, or about the weather, but as he gets older, the less he takes his own criticisms seriously.
Such types of people have a great sense of integrity and fair play. They are idealistic, and dreamers to the core. They never really accept the fact that injustice and oppression can exist in the world.
More: http://www.gotohoroscope.com/chinese-zodiac-dog.html
Our work is cut out for us, for sure, Hormones Matter. Amazing how quickly the unnatural purveyors of draconian measures tied to industrial medicine and pharmacy are marching globally! Yet, Hormones Matters' editor works hard to push back, to give voice to writers who see a different paradigm, and help readers make sound decisions on their health, safety and well-being, as well as their loved ones and unborn ones.
This headline is not a joke, from Nature: International Journal of Science:
Deploy vaccines to fight superbugs — Immunizations combined with antibiotics could be our best shot at combating drug-resistant microbes
Economics. If current methods were used to calculate the economic value of vaccines, many of those targeting resistant bacteria would not be deemed cost-effective because the effects on AMR (antimicrobial resistance) are not factored in. To persuade governments and drug companies to invest in vaccines, health economists must model the incremental cost of AMR and count the avoidance of that cost as a benefit of vaccine development and use.
Awareness. Recent discussions with the UK Wellcome Trust, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US National Institutes of Health suggest that all these organizations recognize vaccines as important tools in the fight against AMR. Yet the reports and mission statements of manufacturers and of policymakers, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), indicate that most key players see AMR as a problem that needs to be addressed primarily through stewardship and the development of new antibiotics.
To change mindsets, epidemiologists need to mine the data and demonstrate the impact existing vaccines already have on AMR (see 'Resistance curbed'). They also need work with economists to model the health and economic benefits of greater investment in vaccines. This evidence must be communicated to policymakers and the public. (The growth of the anti-vaccine community in recent years is a signal that those of us who recognize the health benefits of vaccines need to do better at communicating them.) Meetings between scientists and stakeholders from both the vaccine and the antimicrobial communities should be promoted and funded to enable discussion of an integrated strategy to target AMR.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08323-0?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20171215&spMailingID=55569980&spUserID=MTc2MTc0ODYyMDAS1&spJobID=1302514992&spReportId=MTMwMjUxNDk5MgS2
Amazing this little web site, Hormones Matter, serves as a small bulwark to the on-going triple-headed snake of science-profit-government malfeasance swallowing sanity.
Thanks, Chandler, et al!
P.S. One of our other major issues with our transnational corporations controlling every breath, bite, swallow, nod, blink, REM is how pervasive these killers are. You know, how do we live without paying to the Devil Oil Companies? How do we get literature printed without going through one of the six major media companies controlling 100 percent of media? How do we go about our on-line lives without having Net Neutrality killing sites like Hormones Matter? Even paying for a subscription is difficult for some of us who do not want to give to the three-headed snake: PayPal, Peter Thiel, working for Donald Trump on spying:
HOW PETER THIEL'S PALANTIR HELPED THE NSA SPY ON THE WHOLE WORLD
Sam Biddle
DONALD TRUMP HAS inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is even worse considering Trump's vast preference for private sector expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel (PayPal), whose controversial (and opaque) company Palantir has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind. Thiel represents a perfect nexus of government clout with the kind of corporate swagger Trump loves. The Intercept can now reveal that Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in fact co-created with American spies.
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/
http://www.theenergycollective.com/schalk-cloete/264701/energy-subsidies-and-externalities
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Ajit Pai just granted the wishes of his friends at AT&T, Comcast and Verizon: The FCC voted along party lines 3–2 to gut the Net Neutrality protections.
The cable and phone companies can now slow down their competitors' content or block political opinions they disagree with. They can charge extra fees to the few content companies that can afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service.
We cannot and will not let Pai have the last word on this: Free Press is suing the FCC and demanding that Congress overturn the vote.
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Pai's decision will hurt everyone. But let's be clear about who will suffer the most: The loss of Net Neutrality will have a disproportionately severe impact on people of color who rely on an open internet to challenge systemic racism, seek out educational and economic opportunities, combat dehumanizing narratives and fight for justice.
We won't stand for it and we know you won't either.
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Ironically, the journal Nature (cited above concerning vaccines) also posted a piece on science losing out because of this obscene monopolistic move on the public commons, the Internet:
EDITORIAL 12 DECEMBER 2017
Loss of net neutrality could harm research — Moves to create a multi-speed Internet could push science into the slow lane
This fear of large companies and their pursuit of profit features in many of the predicted weaknesses of a less-neutral network. ISPs, for example, could be paid by tech firms to steer users towards their products.
How this shift might affect science and scientists is not clear — and this is probably one reason why the response to the debate from research organizations has been muted. A notable exception is the Public Library of Science, publisher of the PLOS journals. It has pointed out several times this year that giving ISPs the power to sort traffic on the basis of content, sender and receiver poses a threat to scholarly journals and research.
The changes could affect traffic that routes through the United States, which includes plenty from South America, Central America and the Caribbean. So, in theory, terabytes of data sent from telescope arrays in Chile to physicists in Europe could be stuck in the digital slow lane as ISPs prioritize advertising-heavy social-media messages. Or universities and students, especially those in poorer countries, could face prohibitive access and download fees.
Many critics of the FCC's move argue that it's the principle of equal access to information that really counts — and that will be lost. Certainly, that's one reason why other regions, including Europe and Canada, have fought hard to maintain and safeguard net neutrality. The European Commission, for example, enshrines in law a user's right to be "free to access and distribute information and content, run applications and use services of their choice". (This applies to Portugal — so, despite a widespread claim to the contrary, the nation does observe net neutrality.)
Science has made great strides in recent years to break open the walled gardens of many research fields and spread data and expertise around. The Internet — a scientific tool to begin with — has driven this revolution. As the implications of the US switch unfold, researchers and their representatives must prepare to protect this crucial progress.
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Kelli Russell Agodon (born in Seattle) is an American poet, writer, and editor. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press and she serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Life
She was raised in Seattle, and graduated from the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University Rainier Writing Workshop with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in Washington state.  Her works have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Image, 5 a.m, Meridian, Calyx., poets.org, and The Los Angeles Review.

She lives in the Northwest.
She was the Editor-in-Chief of the Crab Creek Review from 2009 until 2014. She is the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. She is the Co-Director of the Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women.

Recognition
Her most recent book, Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014), was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize in Poetry.

Awards
 2018 Poetry Society of America Lyric Poetry Prize
2015 Centrum Residency Recipient
2009 Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient
2005 James Hearst Poetry Prize 3rd place
2003 Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient

Works
"Hunger," Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day
"Braided Between the Broken," New England Review
"How Killer Blue Irises Spread," The Atlantic
"Letting Gatsby Out at 11 p.m.," Body Literature
"Sailing Lepidoptera," "The Half-Moon Couple," Adirondack Review
"Dord"; "Unintentionally Typing the Word Life Instead of Lips"; "?", Womb Poetry
"Sometimes I still dream about their pink bodies", Poetry Southeast

Books

Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press, 2010,

Anthologies

References

External links

Two Sylvias Press

1969 births
Living people
Poets from Washington (state)
American women poets
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Pacific Lutheran University alumni
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers

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HOLY SH*T! Maybe Nevada polls are getting better.
Don't worry Clinton will find a way to fumble this bounce somehow.
They are getting better by being more accurate.
Keep attacking the Latina Beauty Queen Donny... it's working wonders!
That's a huge number of undecideds, I imagine most will fall in line with their presidential choice.
It is most definitely NOT over.
But this poll result is nice - keep them coming, please!
What the hell is Reid doing.
This is like a boxer who tries so hard to swing a knockout punch that he hits himself on the head!
With this cycle it's been really hard for local races to break though.
Let's be honest Clinton never fumbled her bump. It was the media who were obsessed with non scandals.
So this is what you get when you actually try to talk to someone in Spanish? Cool beans!
Finally a NV poll that (sort of) makes sense.
Agree. The Machado story is hurting.
And we still have yet to see more stories, articles, videos, commentary and the like, on trump bumbling with his comments regarding his federal taxes (and the lack of paying any).
Is the Machado story covered by the media or is it just another one of those little incidents that only political junkies are aware about?
I don't know how much people are following him carrying on about it, but 80+ million Americans saw Hillary thrash him with it in the debate and it is currently the main news story about him.
I've left CNN on all afternoon while I worked the past 2 days and it's (Machado/Trump's treatment of women/etc) basically all they talk about, save for some time on the NJ crash and on misc topics. Then Trump surrogates brought up Bill's infidelities, and the topic switched back and forth between Trump's past sexual escapades and the Machado story. Last night they had another beauty queen, former Miss Australia on, who backed up Alicia on how Trump treated his models like dirt.
They are absolutely skewering him over all of this, and every time he opens his big yap, it makes it worse. I don't understand why he thinks he can win this.


April is a great month for working in and enjoying the garden. The statewide California Native Plant Week is April 15 to 21, and International Earth Day is April 21. Danger of frost is past, but the weather and soil are still relatively cool, with a continued opportunity for precipitation. We can plant just about anything this month, and there should be abundant flowers, especially if your garden has a lot of native California and western species.
Perennials—Early in the month is the best time to plant manzanita, ceanothus and other western plants that don't like a lot of summer water. While the soil is still moist and cool, you can plant everything from fruit trees to cactus. Any frost-tender plants you did not plant in autumn can be safely planted now, including citrus, native verbena and succulents.
Container Plants—If you don't have a lot of space, or if you want to have plants that require better-draining soil than your garden offers, why not plant some containers? Use pots that are at least 16 inches in diameter for almost all perennials and sub-shrubs. Use a mix of all-purpose potting soil and cactus mix. Most containers should be placed in the sun during spring and moved to afternoon-shade in summer. The containers themselves can add interest and color to the garden, so think about how things will look in September and get creative.
Bulbs—Spring bulbs to plant now are caladium, callas, cannas, dahlia, gladiolus and tuberose. Stagger the planting of gladiolus over several weeks to lengthen the bloom period. Herbs—Plant basil, beebalm, cilantro, chives, parsley, lavender, oregano, sage and thyme. You don't have to have a dedicated herb garden just mingle a few herbs among your other moderate-to-regular-water flower beds. You can still plant some cool season favorites like borage—just tuck them under larger herbs or right among the vegetables, especially tomatoes.
Houseplants—Rotate your houseplants so they receive sunlight on all sides. Pinch tips of foliage to stimulate new growth and keep plants full, rather than long and leggy. To keep them healthy, remove any spent flowers and dead or yellowing leaves. With the exception of African violets (and any other plants with "hairy leaves") wipe leaves with a damp cloth or give them a shower under the faucet to remove dust. Fertilize with a houseplant food or a time-release fertilizer.
Vegetables—You can still plant seeds of beets, lettuce, and radishes. In late April after the soil has had time to warm up, plant the heat-loving vegetables: beans, corn, cucumber, eggplant, melons, okra, peppers, tomatillo, squash and tomatoes. You can continue to plant successive crops of greens, but be ready to harvest them as micro or mini, since they will want to flower quickly. The flowers are edible too, and a nice food source for pollinators.
Fertilize roses, shrubs, container plants and trees with a balanced fertilizer. The exception is California native plants; they rarely need fertilizing and over-feeding with nitrogen can shorten their lives by years. Use acid fertilizer on azaleas, gardenias and rhododendrons after they flower.
When spring bulbs finish flowering, snip off old blooms and fertilize. Do not trim or braid foliage leaves—they are taking up nutrients for next year's flowers. Trim after they turn yellow.
If citrus leaves are puny or showing dark green veins with pale middles, spray them with a liquid chelated iron/zinc mixture. This also works on gardenias.
Prune spring-flowering shrubs when they finish blooming. Azaleas, camellias, forsythia, lilacs, ceanothus, native sage and flowering quince are some examples. You can safely prune as late as mid-summer, but after that you will be cutting off next year's flower buds. Prune citrus and avocado if necessary. You can continue to prune deciduous trees if you haven't yet. That may slow the growth a little but won't hurt them. Pinch annuals and perennials back for dense growth and more blooms.
Thin stone fruits while they are still tiny, to about six to eight inches apart.
Mow lawns only to about three inches tall. Fertilize lawns: generally it's best to do two half-strength feedings two months apart rather than one strong feeding.
Begin your fire clearance: remove dry brush and weeds out to 30 feet from structures, 100 feet if your property is sloped or if you are in fire-prone areas.
Weed control remains important all month. Remove weeds before they set seeds.
Water by need, not by schedule. There is no substitute for observing your garden soil's moisture level. Don't rely on your gardener knowing; most garden-care experts tend to over-water, which can lead to increase disease and pest pressures, as well as wasting our precious resource. Check, flush, repair, and renovate your irrigation systems before it gets hot.
Aphids love tender new leaf growth. Spray aphids off with a hose or use an insecticidal soap. least toxic first. Eliminate mosquito-breeding sites. Drain excess water from gutters, buckets and plant containers. Handpick snails and slugs. They are easier to find in the early morning or early evening. Pesticides with iron phosphate are not toxic to children, pets and wildlife.
Add a bee nesting box or post to your garden to encourage our solitary native bees. Add a birdhouse or birdbath to encourage birds in the garden. Birds devour insects that feast on your plants.
Do not spray if beneficial insects such as lady beetles are present.
Encourage beneficial insects by planting alyssum, black-eyed Susan, cosmos, dill, fennel, feverfew, fleabane and yarrow. While planting, think about creating an area, or an entire garden, for habitat benefit. Think about how some creatures will enjoy a plant that you otherwise may not find to be that special. Examples may be planting a quail bush, a native sage, a native bunch grass such as deer grass, having a variety of flower types, including plants with tiny flowers, and leaving some areas less for ground-nesting bees.
Consider trying to institute a limited or no-pesticide policy. This benefits all creatures from toads to predatory birds. Tolerate some plant damage. If you farm, consider planting a hedgerow of native buckwheat, sage and other flowering shrubs and perennials.
The UCCE Master Gardeners will be available to answer your gardening questions at Earth Day Visalia on April 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Imagine U Museum in downtown Visalia; at the Plant Clinic on April 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Luis' Nursery, 139 S. Mariposa Ave. in Visalia; and each Saturday at the Visalia Farmer's Market in the Sears parking lot from 8 to 11 a.m.


We started the morning early by filling up with freshwater and diesel, and left English Harbor prior to breakfast. We had Theo's chocolate chip pancakes underway as Near Enough was slowly making her way against large swells on her way to Green island. We had to hurry up to clean up after that as the dishes were threatening slide overboard in the swells! After a few hours of motor sailing and careful navigation around reefs and rocks, we anchored at Green island. Boomer went windsurfing right away and most of the crew also quickly jumped in the water as everyone was happy to be off the dock and in clean water. In the afternoon we conducted a navigation dive, which was the certifying dive for all those getting their Advanced Diver certification. We concluded the day with a beach BBQ and campfire on Green island.


Cost-per-acquisition for direct mail is very competitive. Direct mail stands at $19, which fares favorably with Mobile and Social Media (both at $16-18), Paid Search ($21-30), Internet Display ($41-50) and even email ($11-15).
82% of respondents expect to use the same amount of direct mail, or more, in the coming year.
Formats are playing a role. According to the study, oversized envelopes have the best response rate at 5.0%, followed by postcards at 4.25%, dimensional 4.0%, catalogs 3.9% and letter-sized envelopes 3.5%.
Marketers continue to embrace multi-channel marketing, with 44% of the respondents using three or more channels for their marketing efforts. In these instances, the most popular channels tend to be email, direct mail and social media.
Direct mail offers strong return on marketing investment. It returns the same ROI as social media (15-17%).
It's also important to remember that mail tends to have a nice long life span. In fact, the average time advertising mail is kept in the home is 17 days.* Once it catches the attention of the reader, it will likely be left out or passed around the home. That "sharing" means your message is reaching more people and your audience is growing!


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At least two dead as heavy flood wreaks havoc in France
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Rescue workers from the French "Securite Civile" on small boats attend an evacuation operation for residents of the edge of the Seine River in Juvisy-sur-Orge, near Paris, France, June 3, 2016 after days of almost non-stop rain caused flooding in the country. [Photo/Agencies]
PARIS - The flood caused by torrential and prolonged rainfall has left at least two people dead in France where thousands have been evacuated and a state of emergency was declared.
In a statement, the French Interior Ministry on Friday said a 74-year-old man on horseback lost his life after being swept away by flood in Evry-Gregy-sur-Yerre, south of Paris.
According to the daily Le Parisien, the man had been trying to cross a flooded field.
Late on Wednesday, an 86-old-year woman was found dead in her house in the southwestern suburb of Paris.
Speaking to state-run France 2 TV, French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal said she feared more victims would be found as waters started to recede in the affected regions.
"What will be even more painful for the families who lost their homes, business leaders who lost their business, employees who are going to be laid off, is that water receding will be very slow. It will take several weeks," she added.
Parisians have been on high alert as the rising Seine River is expected to reach a peak of 6.50 meters on Friday evening, Royal said, adding that this was still well below the level on which it would pose a danger to inhabitants.
The river reached a record high of 8.6 metres in 1910, when thousands of Parisians had to flee flooded areas of the city
A continued rise of river could trigger the evacuation of residents in west Paris, according to the ministry.
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Dorn-Dürkheim – miejscowość i gmina w Niemczech, w kraju związkowym Nadrenia-Palatynat, w powiecie Mainz-Bingen, wchodzi w skład gminy związkowej Rhein-Selz. Do 30 czerwca 2014 wchodziła w skład gminy związkowej Guntersblum.

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After the Civil War, the refugee camp at Camp Nelson became the community known as Ariel. The school, Ariel Academy, was founded in 1868, with initial funding support coming from the Freedmen's Bureau and teachers supplied by the American Missionary Association. The school was led by Howard Fee, son of John G. Fee and Gabriel Burdette, a former slave from Garrard County, KY. The community of Ariel was later named Hall. For more see Historic Jessamine County, The Hall Community, an official Jessamine County website; and A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky: integration and social equality at Berea, 1866-1904, by R. B. Sears.
"Ariel/Hall (Camp Nelson, KY)," Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed April 19, 2019, http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/312.


Manoj Bajpayee may well be one of the top draws of commercial cinema, but the actor feels more at home with content-driven stories which help him break the mould of stereotypes.
The actor's film "Rukh", currently in cinema halls, has been acclaimed by critics. The coming-of-age drama, directed by Atanu Mukherjee, revolves around a young man grappling with his father's sudden death.
Bajpayee, widely praised for his short but memorable turn as the father, said the "classic novel" structure of the script prompted him to take up the role.
"When I read the story, I found all the elements of a classic novel in it. I play a middle class man who is struggling to deal with one situation after another. He is breaking but still trying to hold everything together. The story is told through the eyes of his son," he said.
The actor, whose performance in Hansal Mehta's 'Aligarh' will be remembered as one of the most poignant portrayals of what it is to be gay in India, said he took up the character of Ramchandra Siras, a professor in Aligarh Muslim University, "with a great sense of responsibility".
"I was never doubtful about my character or the director. If there is a strong film like 'Aligarh', it can dent a stereotype but you have to play the role with a great sense of responsibility," he said, adding that the film was an "important aspect" of his career.
As a trained actor, Bajpayee said he looks for roles that help him interpret his character for it is not enough to just learn one's lines and deliver them well.
"Otherwise what is the use of mugging your dialogues and delivering them? If you are experimenting with your craft, then you are contributing in the real sense," he said.
The actor said he mostly took up commercial roles because of his relationship with filmmakers, but was always "surprised" that mainstream directors wanted to work with him.
"I have nothing against commercial films but it is just that I have never trained myself in that manner. I cannot boast of having been a part of the great commercial cinema. So when they offer me such roles, I always consider them, but mostly I do it (take them up) for friendships," he said.
"'Aiyaari' is the ideal Neeraj Pandey kind of commercial cinema where he does not compromise with the realism of the story. He has a unique and realistic voice which is woven in a fantastic manner in the script. I don't feel I'm out of my zone while working with him," he said.
The actor believed though the audience was more receptive now to alternative cinema, the genre had still a long way to go.
"I have been fighting for the co-existence of all genres in the industry for a long time. The viewers should have choices. Earlier, commercial films would rule the roost but we have certainly reached a place where content cinema is doing well. But the fight is not over yet," he said.
Bajpayee -- who along with Irrfan Khan inspired a new generation of performers such as Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rajkummar Rao and Pankaj Tripathi -- said new artistes needed patience to discover their potential.
"The journey of an actor is difficult as films are a mix of creativity and commerce. You go down because people are not there to back you up commercially but at the same time you must have the courage to stick to your convictions," he said.
Despite all the odds, he said, an artiste had to hold on to hope. "People will rally around you if you don't break down," he said.


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Live Nation Profiteering
by Michael Kuebler
COVID-19 for the most part crushed businesses and the economy. Alternatively, it has actually boosted some companies (so called stay-at-home winners) such as Netflix and Zoom.
While those companies cannot be blamed for the situation that has benefited them, there can be another darker side of the crisis with companies being opportunistic in poor taste. That is where Live Nation recently finds itself.
It is no surprise that the live event industry has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic's shutdowns. Live Nation like other companies in the industry was thrust into an unenviable position to claw out of. The quickly received flak for some of their responses starting with their handling of ticket refunds for postponed and cancelled events. Class action lawsuits have been filed over the matter.
Recently though Live Nation has shifted from annoying fans to receiving the ire of the artists they work with. First the company sent a memo to artists announcing 20% cuts to artist fees in 2021 due to the pandemic. Taking it a step further, they also are placing much of the penalty burden on artists for delays and cancellations.
Part of the reason Live Nation likely feels they can get away with this is due to their large position in the music and venue industry. While smaller independent venues continue to go out of business from the shutdown, Live Nation only gets stronger if it can weather the storm. It already dominates the venue market, and independent venues disappearing only improves their position.
Due to this, it is not hard to see Live Nation's memo and new policies towards artists as an attempt to profit from the situation that is growing their leverage. Artist groups are appealing to Congress to investigate Live Nation's monopolistic behaviors. They are also urging artists to seek out venues other than Live Nation ones, however that should have minimal effect since Live Nation's dominance is the problem.
While the negative press for Live Nation due to these actions is undesirable for the company, it must have anticipated it happening. The fact that Live Nation nevertheless went ahead with policies that hurt both sides of their marketplace (the fans and artists) sheds an enormous light on the dire straights that the company is likely in due to the crisis. Things cannot be good when they are grasping for cash left and right.
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Q: Renaming shapefiles and raster files with Python I'm trying to add "_Kiwi" to the name of multiple shapefiles and raster files in a folder C:\data.  For the files with multiple extensions (.shp.xml for example), I can't get the files to rename correctly.
My python script (in c:\data\renamefiles.py) is:
import glob
import os
import sys

dirToProcess = sys.argv[1]
matchPattern = sys.argv[2]
replacePattern = sys.arg[3]

print "Processing " + dirToProcess

if (os.path.isdir(dirToProcess)):
    print dirToProcess + " found"
else:
    print dirToProcess + " not found"
    exit ()
print "continuing processing..."

def rename (dir, pattern, titlePattern):
    for pathAndFilename in glob.iglob(os.path.join(dir, pattern)):
        title, ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(pathAndFilename))
        print "found: " + title + "renaming..."
        os.rename(pathAndFilename,
                           os.path.join(dir, titlePattern % title + ext))

The files with multiple extensions are not getting renamed correctly.  Here are two examples:
Example 1:   original files is: shapefile1.shp.xml
If I type....  python renamefiles.py c:\data *.shp.xml %s_KIWI, I end up with: shapefile1.shp_KIWI.xml
Example 2:  original file is: Raster1.sid.aux.xml
If I type python renamefiles.py c:\data *.sid.aux.xml %s_KIWI, I end up with: Raster1.sid.aux_KIWI.xml
How can I do this with only my current libraries/modules?

A: Use the walk function from the data access module and Rename tool from Data management. Refer to the help files for code samples

A: Try this:
import os
import sys
import fnmatch

dirToProcess = sys.argv[1]
matchPattern = sys.argv[2]
replacePattern = sys.argv[3]

print "Processing " + dirToProcess

if (os.path.isdir(dirToProcess)):
    print "dir " + dirToProcess + " found"
else:
    print dirToProcess + " not found"
    exit ()
print "continuing processing..."

for filename in os.listdir(dirToProcess):
    if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, matchPattern):
        print "found: " + filename + " renaming..."
        filename_base = filename.split('.')[0]
        extension = filename.split(filename_base)[1]
        new_name = (replacePattern + extension ) % filename_base
        os.rename(os.path.join(dirToProcess, filename),
                  os.path.join(dirToProcess, new_name))


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Home Solar THE DEAL: Castle Rock Vineyards Harvests the Sun
THE DEAL: Castle Rock Vineyards Harvests the Sun
David Wagman, Chief Editor, Renewable Energy World North America magazine
Solar photovoltaic energy systems benefit by having few if any moving parts. They are about as plug and play as you can get. But when it comes to financing, they can seem as complex as a nuclear power plant.
Take the 1.134 MW DC solar energy system at Castle Rock Vineyards, in the heart of California's Central Valley. Opened in October, the system sits on 4 acres next to a cold storage building that is part of the table grape producer's business. Castle Rock is a major supplier of table grapes to a number of European grocery retailers. These retailers, in turn, have goals when it comes to greening their own supply chains. Castle Rock had already completed lighting retrofits and saw a renewable energy system as the logical next step in enhancing its sustainable profile.
But while the goals and the technology were simple enough, the vineyard's financial expert and system integrator REC Solar had to make the numbers work.
There were rebate incentives available from local utility Southern California Edison, time-of-use rate schedules and a new renewable energy tariff to consider. Then there were land use and property tax implications that had to be weighed under the Williamson Act, part of the California Land Conservation Act of 1965. Had a property tax waiver not been obtained for the system, project economics could have been adversely affected, said Ryan Park, director of business director for REC.
When it was all said and done, Castle Rock made out pretty well. It received a 22-cent rebate incentive from SoCalEd, had a favorable rate schedule as a cold storage facility and qualified for a special energy tariff, since at least 16 percent of its energy demand was set to be met by renewable energy. Castle Rock's demand charge was lowered from $17 a kW to $6. And although the vineyard faced a higher kilowatt-hour charge, those numbers penciled out since almost 70 percent of the vineyard's energy needs would be met by the solar system. In fact, the vineyard is likely to be a net power exporter, thanks to net metering.
Stress tests and financial analysis showed the vineyard could save from $250,000 to $340,000 a year once all the incentives and rebates were figured in, said Park.
Next in line was financing, which was arranged by Rabobank, N.A. The bank is part of the Rabobank Group, a 112-year-old cooperative bank that has its roots in agriculture and in the sort of relationship banking common in farming communities. The bank also has a strong commitment to sustainability, said Gianluca Signorelli, vice president of renewable energy finance. He said solar PV can help a business or commercial user hedge against rising utility rates to reduce its risk. That's because the asset essentially converts electricity bills from being a variable cost to a fixed cost. That fixed cost then can be calculated for years into the future. Bottom line is the asset's long-term certainty reduces the vineyard's overall risk profile.
The Castle Rock financing consists of a 10-year fully amortizing term loan on the equipment, Signorelli said. And rather than a flat amortization schedule, the loan is structured to meet the seasonality of the energy resource.
Signorelli joined the bank earlier this year to expand its renewable energy finance department. A graduate of Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University, he previously worked in the Treasury Department's International Affairs division. Two previous deals were relatively small projects. While similar in structure to the Castle Rock loan, they did not include an interest rate swap feature. That feature allows the loan to operate on a fixed basis.
The Castle Rock solar electric generating system, designed and installed by REC Solar, consists of 5,400 Kyocera KD210GX-LPU 210 W modules. The installation is expected to have a yearly production output of 1.77 million kilowatt hours, offsetting Castle Rock Vineyards' energy usage by 69 percent. Castle Rock's cold storage facility has a capacity of 1 million cartons of table grapes. During daylight hours-from about 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.- from late spring to autumn, the solar system is expected to provide 100 percent of the vineyard's energy needs.
The solar array is close enough to the cold storage building to allow a direct 480 V connection without the need for a stepup or stepdown. The solar panels are angled at 20 degrees and do not include a tracking system, which would have required more ground area and more maintenance. The array is surrounded by a wind screen to reduce soil accumulation on the panels. Hub caps and rail locks for the panels are also included. And the site is contained inside a barbed-wire enclosure, which itself is inside the vineyard's main gates.
The vineyard installation is the latest among an increasing number of projects between solar module manufacturer Kyocera Solar and integrator REC Solar.
REC Solar specializes in grid-tied residential and commercial installations. Kyocera Solar supplies solar electric energy solutions and has operating headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. The company is a wholly-owned unit of Kyocera International Inc. of San Diego, the North American headquarters and holding company for Kyoto, Japan-based Kyocera Corp.
Castle Rock hopes to install a second phase, but faces a hurdle since California's Solar Initiative currently doesn't allow for rebates on more than 1 MW of installed capacity. If developed, the second system would allow the vineyard to offset 100 percent of its electricity use.
Similar solar energy systems could be installed at agricultural sites elsewhere in California. For example, project developers installed a 1 MW system at the adjacent VBZ vineyard, which produces table grapes for Wal-Mart stores, among other customers. Outside of California, proper net metering rules need to be in place for similar initiatives to make economic sense in other parts of the country.
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Shop demo 18th April 2016: H&M
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Shop demo 18th April: H&M
H&M was one the first brands to sign the Accord: a legally binding agreement between brands and trade unions to work towards a safe garment industry in Bangladesh. Yet despite this early commitment 55% of H&M's factories are still not safe for workers and 13% of theirs suppliers in Bangladesh still have locks on the doors of their fire exits. With 205 out of 229 suppliers behind schedule, the ongoing safety delays at H&M's suppliers is unacceptable.
The few H&M supplier factories can be called safe is the shocking reality of an industry that is dysfunctional and exploitative. If H&M can continue to reap profits, its workers should be working in safety. It's really that simple.
On 18th April Labour Behind the Label travelled to London's H&M store on Oxford Street along with supporters and our friends War on Want to demand that H&M fix their factories. We think H&M along with other big brands and their suppliers have a responsibility for their workers. No worker should go to work everyday with fear of their safety and for another Rana Plaza disaster.
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You can still tell H&M to fix their factories.


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Home Open Access News Blockchain News Blockchain will have the biggest impact on the public sector
Blockchain will have the biggest impact on the public sector
John Bertrand, Digital Value Engineer at SAP talks about the value of blockchain and how it can benefit government as well as local authorities
Blockchain seems to be everywhere and nowhere all at once. It is based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) – also known as a shared database or a shared ledger and allows many participants in a network to see the system of record. This has the potential to radically change multiple industries especially the public sector. But while there are many blockchain 'proof of concepts' being floated, there is a few concrete, industrial strength applications to draw on from any sector.
It's by looking outside of the public sector where we can see applications which showcase blockchain's strengths best. In the diamond industry, for instance, the location of a stone can be tracked by this technology to help battle blood diamonds, or synthetic ones, from entering the system. Once a transaction is made, it can be added to the diamond's history and cannot be edited without multiple checks. In this way, blockchain can also help reduce diamond fraud and safeguards the diamond supply chain against counterfeit goods, enabling trust, transparency and the security of the diamond business.
It is such properties and the high level of transparency that appeals to public sector institutions. Governments are already exploring ways of using the system to provide useful services. For example, the Isle of Man is using the digital proof of identity required for blockchain to make the gaming industry more resilient to fraud and money laundering. In this instance, the asset being tracked is a person, and this creates a people provenance and lineage capability for any government.
Up to date tracking
This ability to track a person's status is particularly useful for public sector departments who need to securely deal with a person's identity or status, perhaps for a process such as tax collection. Sweden is an excellent example of a country currently using this, where everyone is given a personal identity number at birth. The system works so well that departments in the Swedish government now ask for a person's number instead of their name.
In the UK the National Insurance number is currently used to identify someone's status. This is now an outdated system, and we're still a way behind getting this to an efficient state – there are approximately 20% more numbers than there are people. Blockchain could prove to be an excellent solution for managing this process, removing duplication, giving people a provenance and making the process much more efficient.
This may soon change as the UK government has thrown its support behind blockchain technology research. In 2015, the Alan Turing Institute was opened to research how data science can change the world for the better. The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor published a ministerial-approved study examining the range of benefits that DLT can have for public and private sector organisations. In the non-governmental sector, organisations like the Open Data Institute are actively supporting the development of policy frameworks to enable technology to increase competition and protect the information from distortion.
Overcoming fraud
Fraud in the public sector remains a significant challenge. With benefit and tax credit fraud costing the UK £2.4 billion a year and grant fraud estimated at £2.7 billion a year, applying DLT could have a substantial impact. The current system is vulnerable to breaches – information is often stored as a paper file and is accessible by only a few people. Blockchain would change that, automatically reconciling itself and flagging any adjustments with a full audit trail, providing forensic fingerprints should malpractice and deception have taken place.
Long term benefits of blockchain
Importantly, the technology isn't necessarily a replacement for existing infrastructure. Instead it can sit alongside and strengthen the process. For example, general ledgers are already in place and blockchain can be used without distorting the books or giving away private information. This makes blockchain easier to implement, regardless of market sector. It is like a sidecar with a motorbike.
Organisations are still working out how to benefit from blockchain technology. What is clear, however, is that with its powerful ability to address fundamental issues such as fraud and identity, there are many applications for the public sector. With the onus to protect citizen's personal data and ensuring taxpayers' money is being responsibly and effectively used, the public sector would certainly feel the greatest impact of this technology.
John Bertrand
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Richard Dawkins 3-to-1 Evolution Challenge
* From Real Science Radio -- The Richard Dawkins 3-to-1 Evolution Challenge: Research in preparation for an upcoming debate led Bob Enyart and his associate Will Duffy to Oxford University in the United Kingdom. With the success of RSR's PZ Myers Trochlea Challenge (see the popular evolutionist's reply here), the guys decided to hand deliver a copy of this Dawkins 3-to-1 Challenge to the office of professor emeritus Richard Dawkins, who lectures there for a course titled, Science Literacy: Evolution for Non-Scientists.
* Text of Dawkins 3-to-1 Evolution Challenge:
Let's ignore all the wild complexity of the genetic code and try to give a Darwinian explanation for one of the simplest aspects of our DNA. Richard Dawkins, drawing on your lifetime of studying evolution, can you describe, in as vague terms as you'd like, how the 3-to-1 pattern could arise by a non-directed material process, such that three genetic letters code for one amino acid?
Because we are creationist here in Denver at Real Science Radio, we can readily acknowledge that the laws of physics have no symbolic logic functions. Thus, a half century of trying by naturalists was doomed to fail, because just as you will have no answer to this challenge, there is no conceivable answer, because it cannot ever happen, even given infinite time.
* Dawkins Defining "Nothing": Many secularists claim that nothing created everything. Pretending that atheists have made progress in explaining how the universe could arise from "nothing", in this 2-minute clip, Dawkins tries to explain what "nothing" must be...
* ORIGIN the Film: RSR interviewed Lad Allen, producer of ORIGIN, which presents cutting-edge research examining the question that has baffled secular science: How did life on Earth begin? Most researchers insist it arose through simple chemistry that—without direction or plan—transformed inanimate matter into the first living cell. Yet, this explanation is devoid of evidence and unsatisfying, even to many of its most ardent supporters. As ORIGIN exposes the flaws of materialistic theories, you'll travel through a molecular universe to encounter extraordinary biological engineering fundamental to the survival of every organism that has ever existed, engineering that points clearly to intelligence and mind.
* Dawkins Answers Ben Stein About God: Dawkins (regarding biology) and Stephen Hawking (regarding physics) both admit that their own areas of study exhibit what appears to be design. Yet when Ben Stein asked Richard Dawkins what, after death, he would say to God if he met him, Dawkins quoted another atheist, "Sir, why did you take such pains to hide yourself?" Huh? Dawkins accuses God of hiding Himself. Yet he and virtually the entire atheistic world admits that to maintain their own disbelief that they have to explain away a world full of evidence:
- Dawkins: "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed..."
- Hawking: "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
- Paul: "Since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made..."
Dawkins wrote his acknowedgment in his signature book, The Blind Watchmaker (page 1), and Hawking in his A Brief History of Time (page 125). Anticipating their admissions, 2,000 years earlier the Apostle Paul wrote that God is "clearly seen" as the Creator, "being understood by the things that are made" so that unbelievers "are without excuse" (Rom. 1:20). Consider two lesbians who "marry" while dressed in a tuxedo and a gown, affirming even in the midst of their rebellion what Jesus taught, that God "made them male and female" (Mat. 19:4; Mark 10:6). So while atheists will claim that evidence for God's existence is lacking, they spend their careers trying to explain away the overwhleming evidence that they openly admit appears everywhere they look.
* A While Back, RSR Interviewed Jonathan Sarfati on Dawkin's Greatest Show: The world's number one creation author Dr. Jonathan Sarfati takes on the world's number one evolution author Richard Dawkins in the battle of the books. See for yourself that Dawkin's latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth is soundly refuted by Sarfati's The Greatest Hoax on Earth! In Don-air discussion with Dr. Sarfati, Bob Enyart re-airs a caller from 1997 who asked about Dawkins and Bob pointed out then that in all Dawkins' books:
...this famous atheist doesn't give evidence for evolution: he only assumes it is true. Dr. Sarfati agrees and quotes from Dawkins own book in which he admits that he had never given the evidence for evolution. Huh! [Update: When BEL obtained audio of Richard Dawkins admitting this very thing, we produced the brief YouTube video embedded below: Dawkins Proves Creationist Right.)
* Dawkins' Thoughts About Aliens Are Revealing: This is hardly novel, because forensic scientists routinely distinguish between intent and natural causes. But in the excerpt transcribed just below it's fun to see Richard Dawkins, who eschews Intelligent Design, admit that molecular biology may very well be able to identify intentional design in living organisms. Dawkins claims about aliens implies much about alien physiology which seems to undermine the claim that Darwinism is theoretically falsifiable. Consider these two points. First, on Intelligent Design, in Ben Stein's movie Expelled, Dawkins admits that molecular biology could provide the evidence that life on earth was intelligently designed. And if so...
(1) Richard Dawkins' Aliens Validate the Intelligent Design Effort when he was asked about the origin of life on earth and said:
"It could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time somewhere in the universe a civilization evolved, by probably some kind of Darwinian means, to a very, very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. Now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose that it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry and molecular biology. You might find a signature of some sort of designer… And that designer could well be a higher intelligence from elsewhere in the universe." -Dawkins
So Dawkins actually says about life on earth that it could be that it may have originated from a higher intelligence, from somewhere in outer space, with aliens who seeded life on earth. Yet that is what ruins scientists careers and even gets them fired: for saying that genetic evidence might indicate that life did not merely arise on earth but was put here by some intelligent agent. And Dawkins is the world's leading evolutionist, and we have him on film admitting the reasonableness of Intelligent Design. Huh! Dawkins' own complaint about his alien segment is stretched to the absurd by his fellow spin-control atheists who have taken his paraphrase of Stein's question to mean that Stein's actual question was edited out of the film. Oh brother. In reality, Dawkins was engaged in his discussion with Ben Stein. Attending a movie marathon, Bob Enyart watched that scene 15 times, and it is obvious that Richard Dawkins was not manipulated or misquoted. Rather, he showed surprising candor when he admitted that the complexity observed by molecular biologists could be evidence that life on earth originated from a higher intelligence. And like Francis Crick, when Dawkins says that life on earth might be too complex to arise here by chance, then he is just punting when he guesses that it could have originated somewhere else.
(2) Richard Dawkins' Alien Evolution Disproves Darwinist Falsifiability: Ostensibly, an alien life form anywhere in the universe (or in the fantasized multiverse) might have no similarity with terrestrial biology, perhaps not even being based on amino acids, sugars, nor even carbon atoms. Thus predictions (which are the stuff of hard science) as used by evolution scientists have no actual real-world specificity, so they cannot even theoretically falsify Darwin's central claim. For in practice, evolution "theory" is pliable enough to account for any observations even if imaginary, like alien physiology. Thus it is treated like a philosophy and not an actual, falsifiable scientific theory.
For example, Darwinist Barry D. Davis in Molecular genetics and the foundations of evolution fabricated a "prediction" of evolution after the fact, a "prediction" falsified and shown to be just an illusion by Dawkins' aliens:
...the finding of the same genetic code in microbes, plants and animals (except for minor variations in intracellular organelles) spectacularly confirms a strong evolutionary prediction. -B. D. Davis, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1985. (more...; See also Bob Enyart's peer-reviewed Dobzhansky: Forty Years Later Nothing Makes Sense.)
Darwinist origin-of-life researchers too falsified claims of such fulfilled "predictions" by typically denying that DNA even existed in the first reproducing organisms, as Dawkins himself admits on page 261 of Climbing Mount Improbable: "The original replicator probably was not DNA. We don't know what it was..." (Like many atheists, RSR sparring partner atheist Aron Ra avoids discussions of the origin of both the universe and of life. After all, the field of abiogenesis is basically dead, losing its initial excitement after following its early hypotheses to their logical dead ends and now languishing with few new ideas, less excitement, virtually no funding, and a total lack of consensus.)
* Aliens Didn't Make Humans, Humans Made Aliens: Atheists claim that, "God didn't make man, man made God." However, belief in aliens is undeniably a man-made thing. Further, many atheists say that aliens made man. So, atheists are doing exactly what they falsely accuse Christians of.
* Meanwhile, the World's Leading Atheist Cosmologist Goes Insane: First, end-of-the-world doomsday prophet astrophysicist Stephen Hawking wants mankind to respond to the problems of global warming by colonizing the Moon or Mars evidently forgetting that the Moon's daytime temperature is over 200 degrees (107 C) and that neither location has liquid water or oxygen. The Sun is Earth's source of global warming, and because Mars is 50 million miles further from our Sun, its temperature ranges from 1 degree F down to 178 below! So mankind should flee from a temporary one degree increase in the Earth's temperature into about 200 degrees, above and below zero, and say good-bye to liquid water and oxygen. And if global warming is so threatening, why does Hawking overlook the more logical safe havens of Antarctica, Greenland and Siberia?
* Hawking Thinks Aliens Are Monsters: Next, Stephen Hawking urges mankind: "Don't talk to the aliens!" Why not? Well, they may be mean! No? So if aliens land, say, in your front yard, or on main street, just encourage your neighbors to walk around them and by all means, avoid eye contact. 2011 Update: Aliens may destroy humanity [for global warming], say scientists [who are from Penn State and affiliated with NASA in a peer-reviewed journal]. Really.
* Please Help BEL: Bob Enyart Live continues the battle to keep broadcasting on KLTT Radio. If you listen in Denver, (or anywhere else) call the station and encourage them keep Bob on the air! Then subscribe to one of Bob's monthly resources or make a donation to do your part to preserve Godly Truth on the radio.
* The Christian Fish Flashback: Atheists and evolutionists widely desecrate the Christian fish symbol by putting legs on it to symbolize evolution. Dr. Thomas Lessl of the University of Georgia researched the motivations and was told, "I did it to annoy the Christian right wing, since they are fond of putting the fish/Christ symbols on their cars..." and "Creationists are [expletive]... Humans are no better than chickens [BE: How does he know, has he tasted them?]... earthworms... algae or infectious salmonella..." Dr. Lessl commented, "By inserting Darwin's name in the place of the fish icon usually reserved for Christ, the icthus symbol is ritually profaned."
Christians of course have responded with a larger Jesus fish eating the Darwin fish. And BEL adds to the mix an alien fish standing on end bearing Dawkins' name to illustrate the atheist's claim in the documentary Expelled that microbiology may provide evidence that life on earth is the result of intelligent design from somewhere out there in the universe! Richard Dawkins added that such an alien species would most likely have evolved by some Darwinian mechanism. He seemed unaware, as atheists tend to be, that this claim merely punts the issue of origins, since the origin of life on an another planet would face the same dilemma as life arising on earth. Yet atheists commonly put hope in aliens with no logical defense of their blind faith.
Post-show Note: ID Movement's Brief Analysis of Dawkin's Greatest Show: Check out Casey Luskin's interesting article, Dawkin's Greatest Show Shies Away from ID, Vindicates Behe.
* Enyart's Creationist Claim from 1997 Eventually Confirmed By Richard Dawkins: On national TV, Bob Enyart claimed that Richard Dawkins' books never presented any evidence for evolution but only the assumption that evolution were true. A dozen years later, Dawkins admits that in all of his previous books, he only assumed, but did not provide evidence for evolution. That vindicates Bob Enyart's direct statement to a caller who recommended that Bob read Dawkins (which Bob had done, but which the caller had not). See it unfold:
* Update -- Bob on the Pepperdine University Campus re Theistic Evolution: See rsr.org/pepperdine for the Summer 2015 event details or just see Bob's presentation right here...
* PZ Myers Evolution Trochlea Challenge: As quoted below, PZ Myers replied to RSR and to his credit, he acknowledged that he does not have an answer for our trochlea challenge.
* PZ Myers Writes about RSR: PZ wrote about RSR's debate with atheist Aron Ra and another time he blogged, Bob Enyart's wants me to respect his intelligence. In that entry, Myers quoted the nicest thing ever written about Bob by anyone he's ever debated (from British Darwinist James Hannam):
"Richard Dawkins once said that 'if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).' It rapidly became clear that Bob was none of these things. For a start, I know a fair bit about evolution and genetics. But when it came to familiarity with the arguments, he was way ahead of me. On epigenetics, RNA/DNA chemistry, and animal physiology, I was hopelessly outclassed. Bob is not ignorant. And it is pretty clear he is neither stupid nor insane. He came across, in fact, as extremely intelligent. So perhaps he is wicked? Well, despite a brush with the law a few years ago, I am sure he is nothing of the sort. Comments such as those made by Dawkins only further undermine the presumption of good faith on the part of creationists and Darwinists." -British Evolutionist Richard Hannam quoted by PZ Myers
* PZ Goes ad hominem On Us, So We Went All ad hominid On Him: So we posted to his blog: "PZ, since you won't debate him, Bob Enyart has now posted what he's calling his one and only question to you: The PZ Myers Trochlea Challenge. It's a sketch of the human eye with the question in its caption." -A Bob Enyart Live staffer
* PZ Responds to Our Trochlea Challenge: "...Enyart has challenged me to explain how this feature evolved. I have an answer. It's easy. I don't know. I don't see any obvious obstacle to an arrangement of muscles evolving, but I don't know the details of this particular set." Of course though pretty much everyone else posting on his blog has an answer. :) And as Bob posted at Myers' site and at RSR, when PZ asks whether or not the muscle could have attached without the trochlea he is obfuscating. Of course that or any muscle could be fastened somewhere without first passing through a trochlea. Intentionally or not, PZ is missing the point of the trochlea diagram.
Today's Resource: Have you browsed through the Science Department in our KGOV Store? We think you just might love the compelling materials there! And Bob strongly recommends that you subscribe to CMI's tremendous Creation magazine that features the writings of Dr. Sarfati!
* RSR's GEE on National Geographic's Website: Real Science Radio's Geo Earth Explorer (GEE) proposal was accepted as an entry in National Geographic's 2014 contest with a summary of that proposal appearing online at Expedition Granted at nationalgeographic.com.
The Creation Research Society also recently published our proposal, with much more detail, describing this proposed Google-based fossil and strata exploration tool. In CRSQ:
We have discussed using Google Maps and Google Earth to create presentations of the young-earth evidence in fossils and formations. What is the extent, in length and breadth, of some particular layers of strata that contain young-earth fossils or features (such as polystrates, a flat gap, or a highly purified deposition)? Being able to show how far and wide such strata extend can help drive home the strength of such evidence. more...
* Bob's Research Trip to England: The British people love Darwin because they hate God. See also, rsr.org/wallace-beat-darwin and check out Doug McBurney and Bob's discussion of Enyart's 2015 trip to the UK, and the UK's patron saint:
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