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day look like night. According to the U.S. Census as of 2005, Washington has an estimated population of 6,287,759, which is an increase of 80,713, or 1.3%, from the prior year and an increase of 393,619, or 6.7%, since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 180,160 people (that is 418,... |
from net migration of 215,216 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 134,242 people, and migration within the country produced a net increase of 80,974 people. As of 2004, Washington's population included 631,500 foreign-born (10.3% of the state population), and ... |
As with many other Western states, the percentage of Washington's population identifying themselves as "non-religious" is higher than the national average. The percentage of non-religious people in Washington is the highest of any state. The 2004 total gross state product for Washington was $262 billion, placing it 14t... |
design and manufacture of jet aircraft (Boeing), computer software development (Microsoft, Amazon.com, Nintendo of America), electronics, biotechnology, aluminum production, lumber and wood products, mining, and tourism. The state has significant amounts of hydroelectric power generation. Significant amounts of trade w... |
only seven states that does not levy a personal income tax. Neither does the state collect a corporate income tax. However, Washington businesses are responsible for various other state levies. Washington's state sales tax is 7.9 percent, and it applies to services as well as products. Most foods are exempt from sales ... |
combined state and local retail sales tax rates increase the taxes paid by consumers, depending on the variable local sales tax rates, generally between 8 and 9 percent. An excise tax applies to certain select products such as gasoline, cigarettes, and alcoholic beverages. Property tax was the first tax levied in the s... |
Washington's total state and local revenue. It continues to be the most important revenue source for public schools, fire protection, library, park and recreation, and other special purpose districts. All real and personal property is subject to tax unless specifically exempted by law. Personal property also is taxed, ... |
used when conducting business or to other personal property not exempt by law. All property taxes are paid to the county treasurer's office where the property is located. Washington does not impose a tax on intangible assets such as bank accounts, stocks or bonds. Neither does the state assess any tax on retirement inc... |
inheritance taxes; however, the estate tax is decoupled from the federal estate tax laws, and therefore the state imposes its own estate tax. For 2003, the total value of Washington's agricultural products was $5.79 billion, the 11th highest in the country. The total value of its crops was $3.8 billion, the 7th highest... |
potatoes, dry edible peas, apricots, grapes (all varieties taken together), asparagus (over a third of the nation's production), sweet corn for processing, and green peas for processing; third in tart cherries, prunes and plums, and dry summer onions; fourth in barley and trout; and fifth in wheat, cranberries, and str... |
the third-largest ferry system in the world. There are 140 public airfields in Washington, including 16 state airports owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation. Boeing Field in Seattle is the busiest airport by numbers of planes in the world. The unique geography of Washington presents exceptional tra... |
Tacoma and Olympia. The state highways incorporate an extensive network of bridges and the largest ferry system in the United States to serve transpiration needs in the Puget Sound area. Washington's marine highway constitutes a fleet of twenty-eight ferries that navigate Puget Sound and its inland waterways to 20 diff... |
world: the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Homer M. Hadley Bridge over Lake Washington, and the Hood Canal Bridge connecting the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas. The Cascade Mountain Range also provides unique transportation challenges. Washington operates and maintains 7 major mounta... |
control. Not all are able to stay open through the winter. The North Cascades Highway on State Route 20 closes every year. Because of the extraordinary amount of snowfall and frequency of avalanches the highway is not safe in the winter months. Law and government [вироиш] Washington has 49 Legislative Districts, and el... |
party is the Democratic Party. Washington state senators and representatives are elected for four year and two year terms, respectively. There are no term limits. The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the state of Washington. Nine justices serve on the bench, and are elected at large. Th... |
Representatives are Jay Inslee (D-1), Richard Ray (Rick) Larsen (D-2), Brian Baird (D-3), Richard Norman "Doc" Hastings (R-4), Cathy McMorris (R-5), Norm Dicks (D-6), Jim McDermott (D-7), David Reichert (R-8), and Adam Smith (D-9). State elected officials [вироиш] - Christine Gregoire, Governor (D) - Brad Owen, Lieuten... |
Murphy, Treasurer (D) - Brian Sonntag, Auditor (D) - Terry Bergeson, Superintendent of Public Instruction (non partisan office) - Doug Sutherland,Commissioner of Public Lands (R) - Mike Kreidler, Insurance Commissioner (D) - Washington Legislature - Currently the Democratic Party is in control of both the House and the... |
Washington being liberal (particularly greater Seattle) and Eastern Washington being conservative. Since the population is larger in the west, the Democrats usually fare better statewide. Washington has voted for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections recently in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. It was cons... |
its electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey. While the Democratic Party has long dominated Washington, the 2004 Washington gubernatorial election was among the closest races in United States election history. The initial count as well as the first recount, conducted by machine, both showed Dino Rossi, the Republican candida... |
resulted in a lead for Christine Gregoire, the Democratic candidate, of 129 votes, or 0.0045% of those cast. As this second recount was the last allowed for by Washington election law, Gregoire was inaugurated on 12 January 2005. The subsequent court battles raged for months after the election, but ultimately ended wit... |
133 votes. Washington has the distinction for being the first and so far only state to elect women to all three major statewide offices (state governor and two U.S. Senate seats) at the same time. On January 30, 2006 Governor Christine Gregoire signed into law legislation making Washington the 17th state in the nation ... |
lending, and employment, and the 7th state in the nation to offer these protections to transgendered people. Initiative activist Tim Eyman filed a referendum that same day, seeking to put the issue before the state's voters. Despite a push from conservative churches across the state to gather signatures on what were du... |
7,000 signatures short of the minimum. As a result, the law went into effect on June 7, 2006. See also List of Washington Governors Important cities and towns [вироиш] - Spokane Valley - Federal Way Colleges and universities [вироиш] - Central Washington University - Eastern Washington University - The Evergreen State ... |
etymologies - List of colleges and universities in Washington - List of school districts in Washington - List of ZIP Codes in Washington - List of high schools in Washington - List of U.S. Wilderness Areas in Washington - The Washington Medal of Merit - Scouting in Washington - Washington State Park System - Music of W... |
Here are two cartoons from Jay Hosler (blog), biologist and author/illustrator of The Sandwalk Adventures: An Adventure in Evolution Told in Five Chapters and author of the forthcoming Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth (cover art below): Visual representation in science is the study of how images can inform an unde... |
blog carnival, The Giant’s Shoulders and it’s theme of visuals and representations in science, I thought I’d share some information about Darwin and evolution in cartoons and caricatures. Jonathan Smith looked at visual representation within Darwin’s various books in his 2006 book Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Cu... |
One could look at Darwin portraiture and photography, maybe Janet Browne has, and how specific images have been used to push a particular way of looking at Darwin. The Darwin year saw many books looking at Darwin and his impact on art. Constance Clark’s 2001 article in The Journal of American History, “Evolution for Jo... |
other representations (like trees of life) would fit into visual representations (see here and here, and of course Gould’s Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, specifically chapter 1, “Iconography of an Expectation”). Where do political cartoons and caricatures fit into this? Surely, such images... |
pro-evolution, etc.) had an impact on the viewer, and evolution was used as a means to comment on society and culture or whatever was in the news. I know of at least two historians of science who have published on the topic: Browne, Janet. “Darwin in Caricature: A Study in the Popularisation and Dissemination of Evolut... |
496-509. (also, see my post 19th-Century Caricature Prints with Tyndall, Darwin caricatures at The Primate Diaries, and Darwin caricatures at Genomicron) Davis, Edward B. “Fundamentalist Cartoons, Modern Pamphlets, and the Religious Image of Science in the Scopes Era.” In Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern Ame... |
Davis presented at the History of Science Society meeting in 2009 on “Demonizing Evolution,” sharing some of the fundamentalist cartoons. Since Google Books won’t let me see the cartoons in the article, I’m not sure if those in his talk are the same as those in his article, but I will share a few from his talk: These c... |
Scopes trial present evolution as: dangerous to one’s faith (learning about and accepting evolution will creep into one’s religious life), “modern” education is cheating on God and the Bible; evolution is anti-religion; evolution is sacred and religious itself; the theory of evolution is collapsing, full of speculation... |
proponents who spend more time trying to discredit evolution than convincing us that their view is scientific. Such cartoons and anti-evolution pamphlets, according to Davis, “provide new insights into the intense debate about the meaning of science and the nature of religion that took place among American Protestants ... |
the modernists both attempted to influence public opnion about the religious image of science in the decade of the Scopes trial” (193). There is a wonderful resource for political cartoons that do the opposite of demonizing evolution. Historian of science Joe Cain has brought to our attention the ephemeral journal Evol... |
all, and he provides a publication history for it in a 2003 article for Archives of Natural History. Evolution was “a monthly platform for pro-evolutionist perspectives and as a device for rebutting anti-evolutionists. It also aimed to bolster the resolve of teachers caught in the centre of curriculum debates.” Its pur... |
gap by furnishing a forum in which science itself can speak in popular language without fear of the restraints with which fundamentalists are seeking to shackle them.” Among the articles within Evolution were scores of political cartoons. Cain has made all the issues available (also available through the Biodiversity H... |
Evolution was not a great success (hence, only 21 issues). By its 12th issue, the journal touted its 5,000 subscribers, and provided a list of how many by state. Interestingly, it had the most subscribers in New York City (675), California (551), New York State (494), Illinois (486), and Ohio (299). A few others in the... |
100, including all states in the South. I will also point out another website, put togteher by Mark Aldrich, called Cartooning Evolution, 1861-1925, broken up into Darwin and Evolution, Evolution as Social Comment, Victorian Science, Fundamentalist Publications, The Scopes Trial: Northern Newspapers, The Scopes Trial: ... |
itself, there are many more. Enjoy: In my previous post I shared a link to NCSE’s images of an intelligent design vs. evolution from the banana-toting, Darwin-bashing creationist Ray Comfort. Here’s one of the images, showing a card from the game that uses this quote: “Scientists conced that their most cherished theori... |
man and earlier hominids. Explains Anthropologist Charles Kimberlin (“Bob”) Brain of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, South Africa: “Meat eating and hunting were important factors. If you remained a vegetarian, the necessity for culture was not nearly as great.” Richard Leakey too believes that hunting helped to make ... |
restrain their immediate impulses and manipulate the impulses of others into cooperative efforts. They were the vanguard of the human race.” Still, doubts about the sequence of man’s emergence remain. Scientists concede that even their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments, and that h... |
“are like the blind men looking at the elephant, each sampling only a small part of the total reality.” His colleagues agree that the picture of man’s origins is far from complete. Perhaps no one is trying harder to fill in the blanks than Richard Leakey. Picking up where his father Louis left off at his death in 1972,... |
—has already moved to the forefront of modern anthropology. Now he is reaching out to coordinate research throughout East Africa and taking the lead in sorting and assembling the thousands of fragments of evidence that may someday reveal the secrets of man’s origins. Oh, the article discusses human evolution, not evolu... |
clarified that? And, it’s not like any work in paleoanthropology has occurred over the last three decades. Beware, quote-mining occurs in games, too! More important, do I have to give up my brain? National Library of Australia: Books and their owners: a tiny link with the past: Joseph Dalton Hooker (who features in Cre... |
scientist in his own right. A tiny link with him surfaced in the NLA collections recently. Hooker was Darwin’s lifelong friend and confidant, and encouraged him to publish his Origin of Species. Hooker himself had a fascinating life, travelling on scientific expeditions to the Antarctic, the Himalayas, India, the Middl... |
at Kew, writing and publishing until well into his 90s. He died in 1911 at the age 0f 94. petri dish: a child’s-eye view of charles darwin: This isn’t a perspective on the history of science with which I’m particularly comfortable, as it draws a veil over the hard work of how scientific knowledge emerges, is debated, a... |
interplay along many dimensions. And it does, again, tend to make for a “safe” presentation of Darwin and science, rehabilitating him, perhaps, from invidious perspectives that have convinced many that the word “Darwin” is synonymous with hidden agendas that aim to hijack scientific thought for the purpose of destroyin... |
I’m not eager to pass along with lessons on evolution if that’s what comes along with a child’s-eye view of Charles Darwin. Guardian Science Blog: The Beagle, the astronaut and a party in Brazil put the awe back into science: “Space stations, square riggers and marine biology: science does not get more exciting than th... |
of today excited by science,” Barratt said. “The ISS circling the world while a scientific square rigger with Beagle’s pedigree rounds Cape Horn, making new discoveries at sea and on land, streaming footage back to labs and classrooms will be a great way to welcome young minds into the excitement and adventure of scien... |
world, characters in pre-Darwin Britain: One of Thomas’s greatest strengths in the novel is her ability to make us see the world from the eyes of people who do not know the concept of evolution — Anning’s astounding fossil finds were made years before Darwin’s ideas were published. The ideas of intellectuals and peasan... |
science. It was not until 12 years after Anning’s premature death, at the age of 47, that Darwin published On The Origin of Species in 1859. So the world in which Mary found the ammonites and “bezoars,” which she sold to wealthy tourists visiting her hometown of Lyme Regis, England, was one in which there was not an ex... |
picture of a smiling young Darwin with animals flocking about him (lizards, birds, monkeys, flowers, sponges, turtles, etc.), much like the pictures of Jesus posing with lions and lambs on some cheesy religious tract.” The art itself: Jack Scanlan over at Homologous Legs therefore had an idea: Casey’s reactionary label... |
as absurd to mock it… grab any one of the many non-copyrighted images of Darwin out there and add some text that conveys a satirical representation of the idea that Darwin is a religious figure who is worshiped by biologists as Christians worship Jesus. Be as creative and hilarious as you can. He has added several cont... |
using a picture of I took in Cambridge, England of a stained-glass depiction of Darwin in the hall of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge; William Paley is to the left of Darwin: For more on Luskin’s attack on Nature, watch this: I’ve noticed in my Google Reader recently the following ads: Evolution really did ha... |
the earth really is 4.5 billion years old. But the way evolution really works has little in common with Darwin’s theory. Darwinism is in deep trouble and it’s too late save it. It’s no different than the Berlin Wall in 1986, Enron in 2000 or the US financial markets 3 years ago: It’s a bubble propped up by academic the... |
that there are people who think (mistakenly) that there’s a big crisis in evolutionary biology and it’s going to collapse, but I’ve never encountered anyone arrogant enough to set a date. So I clicked on the ad, and it was pretty sad. It’s some site run by an engineer. What is it with engineers? Why is it the most arro... |
bodily to rule the earth in the next three years, 2013 will see evolutionary biology continuing to enjoy the same cultural power they have now. Silly, ignorant creationist propaganda: Via Christian Nightmares. Michael Ruse makes the claim for The Huffington Post. Read Charles Darwin and Adolf Hitler: Rethinking the ‘Li... |
and for using in other creative, non-edible ways. 4. Where the hell are those transitional species, like flying squirrels, for example? 5. If we evolved from monkeys, why don’t we look more like the Planet of the Apes chimps? 6. Ben Stein offers a perfect example of irreducible complexity “wherein the removal of any on... |
the system to effectively cease functioning.” 7. Especially when filled with animal crackers, my Noah’s Ark cookie jar is an exact replica of the real deal as depicted in my illustrated Bible. 8. Evolution violates the second, third, fourth, and any future laws of thermodynamics that science types can dream up. 9. If t... |
from the Genesis flood, which currently covers three-fourths of the Earth’s surface, would have disappeared down the drain by now. 10. After supposedly “millions of years,” tetrapods haven’t evolved into pentapods. 11. Evolution is only a theory, like the theory of the Scottish origin of rap music. 12. There are well k... |
telepathically communicate with humans. 13. If you leave bread, peanut butter, and Fluff on a counter long enough, does it eventually evolve into a Fluffernutter sandwich? Not likely. 14. Contrary to claims by Darwinists, Ann Coulter is not a transitional fossil. 15. If creationism isn’t a valid alternative theory, the... |
Paul Sivitz, a PhD student in my history department (he, too, just passed his orals – congrats, Paul!), thinks he’s so funny with his little fake news pieces poking fun at his fellow historians or historians-in-the-making. I am the subject of his latest: Darwin Draft Manuscript Found –LONDON– While cleaning out a stora... |
of a book chapter by Charles Darwin. The project, evidently never completed, seems to have been written long before any of the scientist’s other work. Several pages of notes found with the manuscript describe Darwin’s theory of evolutionary astrology. The book chapter, titled “Origin of Pisces” is full of ideas that ha... |
Darwin expert, was in London at the time doing research for his book, The Meaningless Charles Darwin, said of the manuscript, “This is even more important to uncovering the unknown parts of Darwin’s life than the discovery of the taxidermy of Darwin’s bulldog, which he had put to sleep after it bit Alfred Russel Wallac... |
Entergy ponders nuclear future When the magnitude 9 earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated much of northern Japan on March 11, it was a human catastrophe of almost unimaginable proportion. But it was the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that potentially had the greatest implications for the Unit... |
States and power companies including Entergy that generate significant electricity with nuclear power. Although the situation in Japan has not yet been stabilized, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said there is no evidence that overheating during the last month has resulted in any melting of the reactor vessels or the... |
structures. The New York Times reported April 5 that federal officials believe the plant is unlikely to suffer a complete meltdown, in which uranium fuel gets so hot that it melts through the bottom of the reactor and containment vessels, spewing high-level radiation into the plant’s underlying foundation. If that |
assessment is correct, then significant additional releases of radioactivity into the environment will be limited. This is good news for northern Japan – and other regions around the globe where people live near nuclear plants that produce the power they consume. The probability that a particular reactor core at a |
U.S. nuclear power plant will be damaged as a result of a blackout ranges from 6.5 in 100,000 to less than one in a million, according to a 2003 analysis by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Compared to many more mundane technologies, such as cars and airplanes, nuclear power facilities are |
he asserted in a piece titled “Japan Shows Us It Can Happen Here.” Elkin said American scientists believe U.S. power plants have almost no chance of experiencing the kind of earthquake and tsunami damage that the Japanese plants sustained, but insisted, “The question we need to consider is not whether |
similar earthquakes and tsunamis can happen here; it is whether a plant could, for any combination of reasons, simultaneously suffer a failure of its outside electrical supply and its onsite backups.” For residents of Southeast Texas, the threat seems more remote. The closest nuclear plant to the area is 160 |
miles to the west at the South Texas Project, outside of Bay City in Matagorda County southwest of Houston. More relevant to our area is the River Bend Station nuclear power plant in Louisiana, 186 miles to the east, just north of Baton Rouge. It is owned by Entergy – |
and is a major source of electricity in the Golden Triangle and beyond. “Roughly 20 percent of the power Entergy supplies to Texas comes from River Bend Station in St. Francisville, La.,” said Mike Bowling, communications manager for Entergy Nuclear. Entergy is a utility giant, a Fortune 500 company with |
annual revenues of more than $10 billion in 2009 and about 15,000 employees. Entergy is also the second-largest nuclear generator of electricity in the U.S. after Exelon Corporation, operating a total of 12 nuclear units at 10 plants including River Bend, Waterford near New Orleans and Grand Gulf near Port |
Gibson, Miss. Bowling sought to allay fears aroused by nonstop coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis on cable news outlets, where the name of Entergy was repeatedly invoked as a prominent American nuclear operator. “Nuclear plants in the U.S. are designed and built to withstand threats specific to their location, |
including earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters,” said Bowling.“Federal regulators will grant a license only if the plant is built above and beyond any credible natural or man-made threat,” he added. “The NRC requires all safety-significant structures, systems and components in nuclear plants to be able to wi... |
severe natural phenomena historically reported for each plant’s surrounding area, plus a significant margin for error.” It was not damage from the quake or tsunami that threatened to destroy the Daiichi plant but a loss of power that shut down the cooling system.Entergy Nuclear believes they have made such an |
occurrence in their plants highly unlikely. “Systems are designed with multiple contingent backup systems to provide greater safety margins in our ability to keep cooling water in the reactor and spent fuel pool,” said Bowling. “Various emergency diesel generators at Entergy plants are located within hardened structure... |
designed to protect the emergency diesel generators from the sites’ design-basis environmental disasters, including hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and flooding.” These redundancies give the utility a high degree of confidence. “A nuclear plant can maintain a shutdown condition isolated from the bulk power transmiss... |
Katrina, Entergy’s Waterford 3 plant shut down safely in anticipation of the hurricane’s landfall. Although the electric grid was down for five days, plant systems ran safely on diesel generators stored in reinforced concrete bunkers until power was restored.” One irony on the American nuclear landscape is that many nu... |
plants are not operated today by the company that originally constructed them. “River Bend Station, which now supplies power to Texas, originally began operation in 1986 and was owned by Gulf States Utilities Inc. Entergy announced plans to acquire Gulf States Utilities in 1992 and completed the merger in 1993,” |
said Bowling. What the Japanese crisis means for the nuclear industry in this country is less clear. A long-planned addition of two nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project has been indefinitely put on hold, with partners CPS Energy and NRG reportedly having a difficult time finding new investors and |
selling the 2,700 megawatts the new units would produce, in part because of the reduced demand for power and the persistent low price of natural gas. Suggestions that this failure to attract new investors means Wall Street wants nothing to do with nuclear plants were rejected by Bowling. “I wouldn’t |
say that this is a fair characterization,” he said. “There is no question that the United States hasn’t built new reactors in decades, and it will take new plants being built on time and on budget to assure Wall Street that new nuclear build is a good plan financially.” Elkin |
to say what the long-term fallout is going to be in the industry.” The bottom line for the financial markets, of course, is money. “As long as there is a market for these kind of securities, I don’t think it’s a fair statement to say that Wall Street isn’t interested |
in the industry. General Electric is a major player in nuclear power, and they certainly have a following on Wall Street,” he said. The fact is this nuclear construction moratorium was already ending before the recent events in Japan. “Note that plants are being built overseas at rapid rates,” said |
Bowling. “Here in the United States, loan guarantees – not loans or grants, but the ability to receive limited loans with the backing of the federal government – are helping to jump start the build process. Companies like Southern have already broken ground for new reactor preparation, in Southern’s case, |
at the Vogtle site in Georgia.” So what is Entergy’s corporate strategy going forward in terms of the kind of plants the company will construct? “Entergy has made no commitment to build new nuclear plants, but the company does want to keep options open for meeting future energy needs,” said |
Bowling, who indicated any new nuclear plants are likely to be built on existing sites. “Entergy has construction and operating license applications for both River Bend Station in Louisiana and Grand Gulf in Mississippi on file with federal regulators, but work on both applications was temporarily suspended in 2009 aft... |
Entergy was unable to reach a business agreement for deploying a new reactor with potential vendor GE-Hitachi,” he said. But Elkin, the AP editor turned financial advisor, offered a darker assessment of the American nuclear future. “What happened in Japan proved that safety measures there were unacceptably weak. Our pl... |
run similar risks, and we ought to acknowledge that our safety measures are equally unacceptable. A 6.5 in 100,000 risk is low, but when it comes to radioactive materials, it is too high, especially given the margin of error in our own ability to estimate such risks,” he said. Bowling |
takes sharp exception to such declarations. “Entergy knows that we can operate each of our plants safely, regardless of its location,” he said. “We believe very strongly in nuclear power and in the health and safety of the public near them. Entergy would not operate units that it did not |
believe were safe. The nuclear power industry will learn from this event and will redesign our facilities as needed to make them safer in the future.” Originally Published in the April 2011 issue of The Beaumont Business Journal |
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