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But really, what does that do for you? If there is something rare and one of a kind how does sharing that information make your quest less taxing? We all rack up this old wine and that one but you might be coming to these blogs and say to yourself, "What the hell? I'll never find that wine and taste it with all the illustrious folks that I am reading about. I might as well grab a Coors and forget about the whole thing!"
Or you could turn off the laptop, the blackberry, the Iphone or the Flip, grab a corkscrew and open that bottle of wine you just brought home. Forget if it isn't organic or farmed sustainably. In fact, pour the darn bottle into a plane carafe so the label and the provenance doesn't get in the way of simply enjoying it for the pleasure of what it is, a miracle.
I recently got an email from a person that follows the wine trail in Italy; here's what they had to say: "Dear Alfonso, why don't you write more wine notes? It seems you taste a lot of wine and have access to great wines, not just from Italy, but from all over? You must have notes you take, and wouldn't it be wonderful if you would just share them once in a while? You have such a vivid imagination and tell so many stories that lead up to the bottle of wine. But then you stop right there, leaving me wondering how the wine tastes."
Dear reader, thank you. But the paths that each and every one of us takes are different. I could no more tell you how a wine will taste to you than I could describe a color or a combination of aromas one might encounter on a run in the country. That is up to you. I can point out a road or two, but the journey is yours to take.
And likewise, when reading about a great tasting, here or elsewhere, don't get too invidious. All isn't what it seems. It is fleeting and transitory. With more heading this way. And also not just for the precious few who are fortunate enough to sample some of the great wines that intersect their paths. You too, have the same opportunity to taste greatness in any wine. They don't have to be harvested during a waxing moon. All it takes is an open heart.
Now, where did I put that corkscrew?


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Israel delivers strongly worded message to U.S., following comments advising Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities • Defense Minister Ehud Barak: We are responsible for our own decisions concerning our future.
Shlomo Cesana, Lior Yacoby, Yoni Hirsch and News Agencies
Israel on Monday demanded that the U.S. challenge Iran to immediately put an end to its nuclear program while the U.S., for its part, urged Israel to allow sanctions against Iran to do the job and cease planning for a military strike. The exchange occurred in a meeting between U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, one of several that U.S. government officials have recently held with their Israeli counterparts in ongoing discussions concerning the Iranian issue. On his visit to Israel this week, Donilon also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is scheduled to travel to Washington next month where he will meet U.S. President Barack Obama on March 5, according to a White House statement.
Israeli officials clarified that as long as Iran does not halt its nuclear program entirely, action must be taken now to stop it from progressing any further. "The conversation covered a broad spectrum of topics that relate to our ties as well as a variety of issues concerning the entire region," Barak said after his meeting with Donilon. Barak pointed out that Israel's ties with the U.S. involve those of "sovereign countries that are ultimately responsible for their own decisions and futures."
Israeli government officials believe Iran is using diversionary tactics - such as agreeing to talks with Western countries - to stall for time and allow it to advance its nuclear program. The U.S. position is that there is still time for options - other than military action - to run their course.
Meanwhile, Iran continues flouting the international community's request for greater transparency about its nuclear program and continues to play war games. As U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Iran on Sunday for talks with Iranian officials about how far the country's controversial nuclear program has advanced, Iran's army began a drill to test the defenses of its nuclear facilities against an aerial assault. The four-day exercise - code-named "God's revenge" - is said to be testing advanced anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as artillery, radar, and management and control systems.
As International Atomic Energy Agency officials met with Iranian officials, Iran announced that in the coming months it intended to replace the core of a reactor in one of its nuclear facilities near Tehran with a more advanced version. In the same statement, the Iranian government spokesperson said that Iran continues to make important strides in its nuclear capability.
A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said the visiting U.N. team has no plans to inspect the country's nuclear facilities but will only hold talks with officials in Tehran. On Monday, Iranian radio said the U.N. team had asked to visit a military complex outside Tehran that has been suspected as a secret weapons-making location.
Ramin Mehmanparast said the IAEA experts are holding discussions Tuesday in Tehran to "accelerate" cooperation with the U.N. watchdog. He says this cooperation is at its "best" level. The two-day IAEA visit, which started Monday, is the second in less than a month by the U.N. team amid growing concerns over alleged Iranian weapons experiments .
Iran also said it would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic's armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying on Tuesday.
"Our strategy now is that if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran's national interests, and want to decide to do that, we will act without waiting for their actions," Mohammad Hejazi told Fars news agency.
Following Iran's announcement on Sunday that it was halting shipments of crude oil to Britain and France, Iran's Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi said on Monday that the country would halt oil shipments to other European countries if they moved forward with sanctions against Iran. The European Union imposed an embargo on oil imports from Iran, to start from July 1.
Qassemi warned the price of crude oil could reach $150 per barrel. On Monday, the price-per-barrel reached a nine-month high of more than $103.
Meanwhile, the Yomiuri newspaper in Japan, citing unidentified sources, said Japan and the U.S. reached an agreement at talks last week about the size of cuts to crude imports from Iran, with a formal deal expected by the end of this month.
Avoiding sanctions is essential to protect the Japanese financial sector's operations abroad, but cutting oil imports could pose a risk to Japan's economy. Reliance on oil imports has grown since a 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima radiation crisis, leading to most nuclear reactors at Japanese power plants being shut down.
"We are closely negotiating with the United States and are moving forward toward mutual understanding, but it is not the case that we have reached a conclusion," Trade Minister Yukio Edano told reporters.
Iran, the biggest oil producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia, denies Western suspicions that its nuclear program has military goals, saying it is for purely peaceful purposes.
At the same time that the U.S. government focuses on diplomatic efforts and sanctions, it is also trying to persuade Israel not to launch an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. The New York Times reported on Monday that Israel would not be able to successfully strike Iran on its own, saying that "its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran's air defenses, attack multiple underground sites simultaneously - and use at least 100 planes."
According to The New York Times, that assessment is supported by a large part of the U.S. military establishment, many of whom point out that a strike on nuclear facilities in Iran would require much more than the surgical strike Israel carried out against Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981 and the 2007 attack on a nuclear reactor in Syria that foreign media have attributed to Israel.
The report explained the practical difficulties involved in such a strike, and said there are "three potential routes [to reach Iran]: to the north over Turkey, to the south over Saudi Arabia or taking a central route across Jordan and Iraq." It added that military experts say the third choice - over Jordan and Iraq - would be the best path, since Iraq has had no air defense systems in place since U.S. forces left the country last year.
The next problem, says the article, is distance. Although the Israel Air Force possesses F-15i and F-16i combat aircraft, they will not be able to fly to Iran without undertaking complicated refueling operations in midair, and it is not certain that Israel has enough airborne refueling planes (tankers) to fulfill that task. Even if they do have enough tankers, the Times reported, additional combat aircraft would be required for protection during refueling.
Aside from Iranian anti-aircraft systems, The New York Times article cites other obstacles to an aerial strike on Iran, such as the fortified bunkers that house some of its nuclear facilities. Although Israel does reportedly have U.S. manufactured "bunker buster" bombs, it is unclear how far underground they can penetrate.


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I have two pieces of type, both right justified. They are side by side and need to be a specific distance apart. I'm going to be changing out the type quite a bit, so I'm looking for an expression that will maintain this distance no matter the length of line of type on the right side.
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The SBBG Herbarium represents the region's largest scientific collection of preserved central coast plants. Collectively, the specimens document the ecology and geography of the region's plant diversity. The information content of such specimens can not be duplicated in words, photographs, or other media, and forms the basis for ongoing scientific research in ecology, floristics, taxonomy, and conservation biology.
With current holdings of 150,000 specimens of California taxa, including vascular plants, mosses, and lichens, the herbarium represents an important cultural heritage and intellectual trust, and is used extensively for scientific, educational, and resource management purposes. In recent years, over 80 plant systematists from around the world have consulted the Garden's collections in support of their work.
Additionally, these collections have supported conservation efforts related to several threatened taxa. For instance, SBBG specimens of the Vandenberg monkeyflower (Mimulus fremontii var. vandenbergensis) have enabled the US Fish and Wildlife Service to determine the original distribution of the species in Santa Barbara County, which in turn expedited field surveys, and initiated a process of identifying critical habitat for this species.
Clifton Smith Herbarium
The Garden's herbarium is named in honor of Clifton F. Smith (1920-1999), long-time student of the regional flora and author of A Flora of the Santa Barbara Region, California, published by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Capra Press.
Herbarium Collections
The herbarium collections have a strong representation of areas managed by the Los Padres National Forest, Channel Islands National Park, the California National Guard (Camp Roberts and Camp San Luis Obispo), the U. S. Navy (Point Mugu, San Clemente Island, and San Nicolas Island), and the U. S. Army (Fort Hunter Liggett).
The herbarium includes the principal collections of E. R. (Jim) Blakley (Santa Barbara region), Charis Bratt (California lichens), E. R. Chandler, Hugh and Margaret Dearing (California), Clare Hardham (Santa Lucia Mountains), Ralph Hoffmann (Channel Islands and Mojave Desert), Steven Junak (California Islands), Martin Piehl (Channel Islands), Clifton Smith (Santa Barbara region), and Shirley Tucker (lichens).
In addition to general representation of the California Floristic Province, the herbarium has a strong representation of lichens and vascular plants from the California islands, and a good representation of vascular plants from the Santa Lucia and western Transverse Ranges of the central coast region. Historic and unusual horticultural trees and shrubs in the City of Santa Barbara are also well represented.
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The Herbarium's acronym, designated by the International Association of Plant Taxonomists, is SBBG.
The Garden maintains several electronic databases, which provide information on the SBBG Herbarium lichen and vascular plant collections, the flora of California, and the flora of the Central Coast Bioregion. SBBG Herbarium records are available through the Consortium of California Herbaria online database, a gateway to information from California vascular plant specimens that are housed in herbaria throughout the state. SBBG Lichen specimens are maintained on the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria website. Please contact Dieter Wilken with any questions about the SBBG Herbarium collection online.
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This site is dedicated to marine environment, and more precisely to fauna and flora from the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe.
The identification guide 'fauna and flora' presents the description of 70 species, and is regularly enriched with new species.
In this section, you can also view and recognize 926 marine species from west Europe.
For those who want to go deeper into the subject, the menu 'fauna and flora' proposes biology lessons within the reach of everyone : topics on sponges, molluscs and tunicates are now available on line.


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Pensacola Prison Books In Urgent Need Of Solidarity
From Open Books
For those who were not aware, Open Books–a non-profit bookstore which houses the Prison Book Project–was hurt very badly in the recent floods in Pensacola, Florida. As you can imagine, books and water do not mix well. Due to three feet of water entering our store, we lost approximately 3000 books and have an estimated damage amount at $10,000. We also lost a considerable amount of the stock for the Prison Book Project.
If you are not familiar with us, all of the proceeds at Open Books goes directly to fund the Prison Book Project. The Prison Book Project, which runs out of our store, has been in operation for 14 years. We have survived several hurricanes, flooding, and numerous economic calamities. However, this flood hit us very hard.
In the past, we have been incredibly fortunate to have great support throughout our various communities, both local and international. We have supported numerous prison books projects throughout the country. We've donated resources to several up-and- coming prison books projects, we have held fundraisers for others in need, we have taken thousands of letters from other projects which were in trouble, and have offered our experience to those who might need help. With the help of these communities in the spirit of mutual aid, we have been able to function for over a decade now, a great feat for any prison book project. And although we know everyone's projects are always functioning on a shoestring budget, we reluctantly feel the need to ask for your help.
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Emerson, GA — Bass Pro Shops, America's most popular outdoor store, will open a 100,000 square foot Bass Pro Shops Outpost® store in Emerson, Georgia. The new store will be a leading anchor of the recently announced 1,200-acre LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center located at the Red Mountain and Emerson exits off Interstate 75.
The LakePoint Sports Village will be one of the world's largest and most unique amateur sports complexes and will feature 16 major league sized baseball fields, 14 soccer/lacrosse fields, 16 fast pitch softball and junior baseball fields, a 20 acre wake park, 2 Miracle League fields, and a 100,000 SF indoor facility for gymnastics, wrestling, volleyball, basketball, cheerleading and other sports, as well as 5 million square feet of retail, hotels, restaurants and other amenities.
In addition to being the world's leading supplier of premium fishing tackle, Bass Pro Shops is also America's leading supplier of hunting gear and is the top retailer of Bowtech and PSE archery equipment.
Bass Pro Shops manufactures and sells the world's leading brands of fishing boats–Tracker, Nitro, SunTracker, Tahoe, Grizzly and Mako factory direct to fishermen. Bass Pro Shops is also the No. 1 dealer in the U.S. for Arctic Cat ATV's and UTV's.
More than just a fishing and hunting store, Bass Pro Shops offers equipment and clothing for hiking, backpacking, wildlife viewing, camping, outdoor cooking and more. A gift and nature center will serve up a wide variety of outdoor-related items, from lamps and dishes to bird feeders and furniture.
"We are very excited to be a part of this tremendous development that is destined to become one of Georgia's top attractions and an inspiration for young people around the country to be able to excel in the sports they love," stated Johnny Morris, Founder of Bass Pro Shops.
"We look forward to offering a vast selection of high quality gear and Bass Pro Shops famous low prices combined with friendly, expert service to the sportsmen, women and kids who come to this state-of-the-art sports destination development." "We are very grateful to Neal Freeman and the LakePoint Development partners, Atlanta Braves former manager Bobby Cox, current Atlanta Braves manager Fredi González, Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost and all the other good folks at LakePoint for the opportunity to be their feature outdoor retail store." Morris concluded.
FAMOUS FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE, Bass Pro Shops was one of only eight retailers in America named a J.D. Power Customer Service Champion, based on customer service excellence. Bass Pro Shops has also been recognized numerous times for their conservation and outdoor education efforts as well as for what they do to support our military men and women.
Bass Pro Shops was recently named by Advertising Age magazine as one of the Top 10 Hottest Brands in America along with name brands such as Old Spice, M&M's, iPad® and Droid.
The store will initially generate approximately 200 jobs which will be offered to the many outdoor enthusiasts in the Emerson area.
Approximately 300 acres adjacent to the store will be developed as a nature park and it, as well as the store, will pay tribute to Georgia's great outdoor heritage. The nature park will also be used for product testing and to host shooting, archery and outdoor activities for kids.
Bass Pro Shops will host over 120 million people visiting its 77 stores and Tracker Marine Centers across America and Canada this year.
Bass Pro Shops' award-winning, outdoor stores are known for combining retail with entertainment, conservation and outdoor education while delivering unmatched value and service to customers. The average customer stays 2½ hours and drives an average distance of over 50 miles.
Unique exterior and interior motifs have branded Bass Pro Shops as visually appealing, high-quality outdoor stores. The outdoors feel is brought indoors through massive log and rock work, large indoor aquariums and water features stocked with native fish species as well as an extensive collection of museum quality fish and wildlife mounts. Historic photos and exhibits will pay tribute to Georgia's great outdoor heritage.


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CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Southern obsessions: A day at the museum (part 2)
At the close of last week's column, I had finally entered William Christenberry's exhibit, "Site/Possession," at the University of Virginia Art Museum, after being interrogated and eyed with suspicion by the museum's unsmiling guards.
Fortunately, art— even when tinged with dark obsessions, as Christenberry's is— works like a balm on jangled nerves, and I quickly became absorbed in the artist's drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces. Curated by the Museum's talented Andrea Douglas, the show is not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an examination of how Christenberry's Alabama roots have fueled his work for nearly 50 years.
The southern things that mesmerize Christenberry are not of the cotillion variety; instead, like James Agee and Walker Evans, whom he cites as influences, he digs into the hardscrabble, red-dirt South. He draws and photographs kudzu-covered trees, and photographs and sculpts weathered buildings with rusty metal signs. Like a dog with a bone, he perpetually finds fresh bits of meat in his subjects to fuel his appetite and imbue his works with spontaneity and energy.
Although his sense of composition, variety of marks, and skill at manipulating positive and negative space make his abstract tree drawings particularly noteworthy, Christenberry is perhaps best known for his work dealing with the Ku Klux Klan. As a young adult horrified by racist violence, he decided to infiltrate a KKK meeting. He made it only to the top of the stairs, where a hooded figure's anonymous glance terrified him so much that he had to leave.
"I've never been a marcher or a joiner," Christenberry said in a Museum presentation, "but, privately, I began a body of work dealing with racism."
In addition to grappling with this subject in drawings and paintings, he began compulsively gathering and making Klan-related items, such as satin-hooded dolls, which he assembled into an evolving tableau. The piece was mysteriously vandalized in his studio in 1979. Christenberry's dreams following this harrowing violation led to a new body of work that elides the terror of the Klan with literal "constructions" of the South, i.e. peak-roofed houses.
Christenberry also resumed developing his "Klan Room Tableau," exorcising the KKK's demons by confronting them artistically. Currently installed behind a red curtain, in the UVA Art Museum's velvet dome room, the floor-to-ceiling tableau— encompassing sculpture, drawings, photographs, and even a hologram— offers a chilling, obsessive reflection on the South's own iconic brand of terrorism.
Having mounted such an important exhibition, the Museum should encourage, not discourage, viewers.
William Christenberry's epic exhibition, "Site/Possession," is on view through December 23 at the University of Virginia Art Museum. 155 Rugby Road. 924-3592.


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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 — emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Beginning at the Republican National Convention, the McCain-Palin ticket has touted the pipeline as an example of how it would help America achieve energy independence.
"We're building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever, to flow those sources of energy into hungry markets," Palin said during the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate.
Despite Palin's boast of a smart and fair bidding process, the AP found that her team crafted terms that favored only a few independent pipeline companies and ultimately benefited the winner, TransCanada Corp.
And contrary to the ballyhoo, there's no guarantee the pipeline will ever be built; at a minimum, any project is years away, as TransCanada must first overcome major financial and regulatory hurdles.
In interviews and a review of records, the AP found:
- Instead of creating a process that would attract many potential builders, Palin slanted the terms away from an important group — the global energy giants that own the rights to the gas.
- Despite promises and legal guidance not to talk directly with potential bidders, Palin had meetings or phone calls with nearly every major candidate, including TransCanada.
- The leader of Palin's pipeline team had been a partner at a lobbying firm where she worked on behalf of a TransCanada subsidiary. Also, that woman's former business partner at the lobbying firm was TransCanada's lead private lobbyist on the pipeline deal, interacting with legislators in the weeks before the vote to grant TransCanada the contract. Plus, a former TransCanada executive served as an outside consultant to Palin's pipeline team.
- Under a different set of rules four years earlier, TransCanada had offered to build the pipeline without a state subsidy; under Palin, the company could receive a maximum $500 million.
- "Gov. Palin held firmly to her fundamental belief that Alaska could best serve Alaskans and the nation's interests by pursuing a competitive approach to building a natural gas pipeline," said McCain-Palin spokesman Taylor Griffin. "There was an open and transparent process that subjected the decision to extensive public scrutiny and due diligence."
Only one viable bidder
There were never more than a few players that could execute such a complex undertaking — at least a million tons of steel stretching across some of Earth's most hostile and remote terrain.
TransCanada estimates it will cost $26 billion; Palin's consultants estimate nearly $40 billion.
The pipeline would run from Alaska's North Slope to Alberta in Canada; secondary supply lines would take the gas to various points in the United States and Canada. The pipeline would carry 4.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily, about 8 percent of the present U.S. market.
Building such a pipeline had been a dream for decades. The rising cost and demand for energy injected new urgency into the proposal.
So too did the depletion of Alaska's long-reliable reserves of oil, which are trapped in the same Arctic Circle reservoirs as clean-burning natural gas. Not only does that oil provide jobs, it pays for an annual dividend check to nearly every Alaska resident. This year's payment was $2,069, 25 percent higher than 2007 — plus a $1,200 bonus rebate to help offset higher energy costs.
Palin was elected as governor two years ago in part because of her populist appeal. Promising "New Energy for Alaska," she vowed to take on Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips and BP, the multinational energy companies that long dominated the state's biggest industry.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Oil interests were particularly unpopular at that moment: Federal agents had recently raided the offices of six lawmakers in a Justice Department investigation into whether an Alaska oil services company paid bribes in exchange for promoting a new taxing formula that would ultimately further the multinationals' pipeline plans.
Palin ousted fellow Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski, who pushed a pipeline deal he negotiated in secret with the "Big Three" energy companies. That deal went nowhere.
With Alaskans eager for progress and sour on Big Oil, Palin tackled the pipeline issue with gusto, meeting with representatives from all sides and assembling her own team of experts to draw up terms.
Palin invited bidders to submit applications and offered the multimillion-dollar subsidy. Members of Palin's team say that without the incentive, it might not have received any bids for the risky undertaking.
The ties that bind
Palin's team was led by Marty Rutherford, a widely respected energy specialist who entered the upper levels of state government nearly 20 years ago. Rutherford solidified her status when, in 2005, she joined an exodus of Department of Natural Resources staff who felt Murkowski was selling out to the oil giants.
What the Palin administration didn't tell legislators — and neglected to mention in its announcement of Rutherford's appointment — was that in 2003, Rutherford left public service and worked for 10 months at the Anchorage-based Jade North lobbying firm. There she did $40,200 worth of work for Foothills Pipe Lines Alaska, Inc., a subsidiary of TransCanada.
Foothills Pipe Lines Alaska Inc. paid Rutherford for expertise on topics including state legislation and funding related to gas commercialization, according to her 2003 lobbyist registration statement.
Palin has said she wasn't bothered by that past work because it had occurred several years before. But Rutherford wouldn't have passed her new boss's own standards: Under ethics reforms the governor pushed through, Rutherford would have had to wait a year to jump from government service to a lobbying firm.
Rutherford also has downplayed her work for Foothills.
"I did a couple of projects for them, small projects," she told a state Senate committee examining the TransCanada bid earlier this year. While a partner, Rutherford said, she "realized that my heart was not in the private sector, it was in the public sector, and I sold out for the same amount of money I bought in for."
At one point, Palin's pipeline team debated Rutherford's role, but concluded there was no problem.
"We were looking at it in terms of is this an actual conflict or is there the appearance of impropriety of Marty's participation," said Pat Galvin, the commissioner of the Revenue Department and another top team member. "It was determined that there was none, and so we moved forward."
Patricia Bielawski, Rutherford's former partner at Jade North, spent last summer in Juneau, the state capital, serving as TransCanada's lead private lobbyist on the pipeline deal. While the Legislature debated — and ultimately approved — the TransCanada deal, Bielawski met with lawmakers and sat in on the public proceedings, several legislators said.
Bielawski told AP earlier this month that Rutherford's employment at her firm was irrelevant. She said Rutherford never directly lobbied the Legislature for Foothills, and that Rutherford broke no rules based on 2003 state ethics guidelines.
"There's no statutory or regulatory prohibition that extends to things that many years ago," Bielawski said. "So there's no issue."
But others say it's a legitimate question.
"I'm not saying someone's getting paid off for a sweetheart contract, but it's very hard to ignore that this is your former partner and your former client standing there before you," said Republican Sen. Lyda Green, a Palin critic who in August was among the handful of lawmakers who voted against awarding TransCanada the license. "Every time it was mentioned to the governor or to the commission, it was like, 'How could you question such a wonderful person?'"
Tony Palmer, the TransCanada vice president who leads the company's Alaska gas pipeline effort, rejects the suggestion that his company benefited.
"We have gained clearly no advantage from anything that Ms. Rutherford did for Foothills some five years ago on a very much unrelated topic," he said.
Rutherford did not respond to interview requests made directly to her and through the governor's office. But Griffin, the spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign, said Rutherford "had no decision-making role or authority," and contended that such matters were handled by others on the Palin pipeline team.
TransCanada also had a connection to the team hired by the Palin administration to analyze the bid. Patrick Anderson, a former TransCanada executive, served as an outside consultant and ultimately helped the state conclude that TransCanada's technical solution for shipping gas through freezing temperatures would work.
Narrow set of rules
In January 2007, Palin spoke the first of at least two times to Vice President Dick Cheney, the Bush administration's point person on energy issues, according to calendars obtained by the AP through a public records request. Cheney's staff pressed the Palin administration to draw in the energy companies, said current and former state officials involved in those discussions.
As the governor's approach unfolded in the spring of 2007, there were signs it was skewed in a different direction.
Palin said she saw problems if the firms that own the gas also owned the pipeline. They could manipulate the market or charge prohibitive fees to smaller exploration firms, discouraging competition.
Several important requirements in the legislation were unpalatable to the big oil companies. In the talks under Murkowski, the firms asked that the rates for the gas production tax and royalties be fixed for 45 years; Palin refused to consider setting rates for that long.
Under the Palin process, the pipeline firms had an advantage because they simply pass along taxes paid by oil and gas producers.
Oil company officials warned lawmakers they wouldn't participate under those terms. Still, in a near unanimous vote, the Legislature passed the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act in May 2007, generally as written by Palin's pipeline team.
Once the state issued its request for proposals on July 2, 2007, the level of communication between the government and potential bidders was supposed to decrease drastically, so that no one would be accused of gaining unfair advantage. State lawyers advised public officials to keep their distance, and bidders were told to submit questions on a Web site where answers could be seen by all.
Several of the state's gas line team members interviewed by AP said they had no contact with possible bidders. But Palin had conversations with executives at most of the major potential bidders during that period, according to her calendars.
While the calendars don't detail what was discussed, the documents indicate that the pipeline was the subject of the discussions, or that the conversations occurred immediately after a briefing with Palin's pipeline team.
When she was in Michigan for a National Governors Association summit in late July 2007, Palin and her team met executives from Williams Co., a pipeline builder that ended up not bidding.
"The purpose of the meeting was to more fully understand the details of the project, which we were still evaluating at the time," company spokeswoman Julie Gentz said in a statement.
TransCanada's Palmer described communication with state officials as nonexistent.
According to the governor's official schedule, however, Palin called TransCanada President and CEO Hal Kvisle on Aug. 8, 2007. Asked about that call, Palmer said it was to clarify the bidding process.
Griffin said that in keeping with legal guidance, Palin never spoke in any of the meetings about the competitive bidding process.
By the Nov. 30 submission deadline, there were five applications. But the state disqualified four for failing to satisfy the bill's requirements.
That left TransCanada.
The Canadian giant had been pursuing an Alaska pipeline since at least 2004, when the company negotiated a deal with Rutherford that the state ended up shelving. While the details remain confidential, six people familiar with the terms told the AP that TransCanada was willing to do the work then without the large state subsidy.
In testimony this July before the state Senate, Rutherford herself confirmed such a willingness, but described the 2004 deal as presenting a different set of trade-offs. A state lawyer warned her not to say more, lest she violate a confidentiality agreement.
Others who reviewed the deal think much of the $500 million will be wasted money.
"Most definitely TransCanada got a sweetheart deal this time," said Republican Sen. Bert Stedman, who voted against the TransCanada license. "Where else could you get a $500 million reimbursement when you don't even have the financing to build the pipeline?"
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about Islamic State militants to Russian officials during a meeting at the White House last week, The Washington Post reported Monday.
The newspaper cited current and former U.S. officials who said Trump shared details about an Islamic State terror threat with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The threat was related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft.
The officials told the newspaper that the information Trump relayed during the May 10 meeting had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement. They said it was considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government.
"The president and the foreign minister reviewed common threats from terrorist organizations to include threats to aviation," National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who participated in the meeting, told the newspaper. "At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed, and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly."
Monday evening, after the Post published its story, McMaster stumbled onto a crowd of reporters gathered outside of Press Secretary Sean Spicer's office.
"This is the last place in the world I wanted to be. I'm leaving. I'm leaving," he said when questioned by reporters.
The Post said the intelligence partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russian officials. By doing so, Trump jeopardized cooperation from an ally familiar with the inner workings of the Islamic State group.
Afterward, White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency, the newspaper said.
It's unlikely that Trump has broken any law. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets.
Lawmakers from both parties were quick to weigh in.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters Monday evening that the Trump White House "has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and order."
He said he would have more to say when he knows more about the news report.
"The shame of it is there's a really good national security team in place and there are good, productive things that are under way through them and through others," Corker said. "But the chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline – it's creating an environment that I think makes – it creates a worrisome environment."
The story prompted Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., to tweet: "Protip: Don't give the Russians classified information. #Classified101."
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., tweeted: "If true, this is a slap in the face to the intel community. Risking sources & methods is inexcusable, particularly with the Russians."
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When it comes to the holidays, 'tradition' rules. But that word can mean all kinds of things.
We think of a traditional Christmas tree as one cut from the forest, draped in lights, and sparkling with ornaments. But that doesn't hold true for everyone.
Matthew Bliss, for one, grew up gathering with his family around a series of ultra-modern acrylic trees designed by his grandfather, Lawrence 'Bud' Stoecker. They cast light and shadows around the room and seemed to glow with a magical quality.
Now Bliss, 37, is bringing that design to the public through his homegrown company Modern Christmas Trees, based in Denver.
Stoecker, an engineer who made a career out of building modernesque A-frame cabins in the Colorado mountains, started building 'trees' for his family in the mid-1950s.
Steeped in the aesthetic trends of the time, Stoecker conceived of the homemade tree as a way to bring his family a bit of unique Christmas cheer while saving a few bucks on live trees bound eventually for the trash.
He brought it together using a series of rings of graduating size, strung together with bead chains, that formed a tree shape when they were hung from a pole or the ceiling.
"It's always been one of my favorite memories, spending Christmas Eve over at their place," Bliss says of his childhood visits to his grandparents' place, which started in the 1970s.
"I guess my earliest memories were just being in awe of it. My grandfather would put our heads under the tree, me and my two brothers, and we would look up, and he would slowly rotate the tree. He was definitely proud of it."
Stoecker's design pre-dated by several years the aluminum trees that would sweep the nation starting in 1959.
But Stoecker wasn't building for the nation. He was building for his family and himself, modifying his design with each passing year but keeping true to the graduated-circle construction that could be packed away in a flat box until the following Christmas. It's a concept whose commercial potential Bliss would come to realize later.
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Miuccia Prada revealed four of her sketches from Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Luhrmann and Prada wanted to create a world that seemed slightly familiar yet foreign as well.
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NAACP head slams stop-and frisk in speech at Crown Heights church
The head of the NAACP said Sunday that even some members of the New York Police Department oppose the city's policy of street stops, with mostly minorities being questioned.
Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the congregation of the Nazarene Congregational Church in Crown Heights that the civil rights group is hearing from its members who are NYPD officers.
Addressing Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was not present, "I ask you, before you leave, repair the damage you have done," Jealous said from the pulpit. "Kids in this city are too afraid of the very people who have sworn to respect and protect them."
At his State of the City address several days ago, the mayor "felt the need to evangelize what he sees as the value of the stop-and-frisk program," Jealous said.
He said his speech Sunday was intended as a direct response to the mayor's "fear-mongering."
The NYPD's practice of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking hundreds of thousands of people on city streets each year has received widespread criticism. Officials say the technique deters crime. Critics say the stops intimidate innocent people and raise issues of racial profiling.
There's "no statistical relationship between stop-and-frisk and New York City's steadily dropping crime rate," said Jealous, adding that there's "increasing discomfort among the rank-and-file of the NYPD about this policy."
Police officials did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment on the remarks by Jealous, leader of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
But Bloomberg spokesman John McCarthy said that under the mayor and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, New York City is the safest big city in America.
"In New York City fewer young men are being killed or shot and fewer are going to jail than ever before — and that's a record of accomplishment that we intend to continue until Mike Bloomberg leaves office," McCarthy said.
As Bloomberg's third, and last, term nears its end in January, Jealous said he expects the city's new mayor to oppose stop-and-frisk tactics, along with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Democrat announced recently that he's working to help stop the practice.
If the new mayor doesn't do that, too, Jealous vowed that "we'll do a lot more than march."
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A north Queensland MP is lobbying the BBC to film an episode of cult TV show Dr Who in Australia.
For almost 50 years, the Time Lord has been battling Daleks, Cybermen and other foes around the world and across the universe.
Now the federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, is pushing to bring the Doctor Down Under.
Mr Christensen has set up an online petition asking the series' producers to come to the Whitsundays to help mark the show's milestone in 2015.
He has even suggested that killer kangaroos, cyber crocodiles and drop bears could team up with the Doctor's traditional enemies.
Mr Christensen says the Whitsundays has already hosted a number of big budget films, including Australia, and would be an ideal location for the TARDIS to touch down.
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The two vectors contain pointers of base class actor, which are used to point to members of two derived classes (player and enemy) and polymorphically call the Update function from the current Enemy, with the current player as an argument.
I believe I have to use pointers, to allow polymorphism (though I read references could be used also, I'd love to be able to do that) since Player's Update function differs from Enemy's.
The error I get is:Code://///////////// // Game Loop // /////////////// while (Game.IsOpened()) { if (UpdateClock.GetElapsedTime() > GameLoopTimeLimit) { for (vector<Actor*>::iterator p_it = Players.begin(); p_it != Players.end(); ++p_it) { GetInput(Game, p_it); for (vector<Actor*>::iterator e_it = Enemies.begin(); e_it != Enemies.end(); ++e_it) { *(e_it)->Update(p_it); } } UpdateClock.Reset(); } Render(Game, Camera, Players, Enemies); }I may not have explained the idea well, but basically a vector of pointers to Player is looped though, and for each player, each Enemy Pointer has it's Enemy Object's Update function run with the current player as an argument.Code:/storage/Projects/Recent/Refactored Game/src/main.cpp|156|error: request for member 'Update' in '* e_it.__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<_Iterator, _Container>::operator-> [with _Iterator = Actor**, _Container = std::vector<Actor*>, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<_Iterator, _Container>::pointer = Actor**]()', which is of non-class type 'Actor*'|
Any help fixing this code up would be wildly appreciated.
I read through and realized I may not have made it clear what I want to do.
I want to call the appropriate Update function, of the Enemy Object, pointed to by e_it. If anyone can help me just decipher that error code, I can work on it myself. I really don't want or expect anyone to re-write my code for me.


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Model UN is a simulation of a United Nations negotiation, in which school and university students assume the roles of international diplomats. Model UN provides a fantastic forum in which you can hone and develop a range of skills and techniques in diplomacy, public speaking and debating. It offers an opportunity to research and prepare papers on some of the most pressing international issues of the day, and to develop policies of your own, while considering how real countries are carrying out their international commitments - and possibly defending their views, even if you do not agree with them yourself. Model UN also provides an exciting opportunity to build confidence and network with others. Model UN programmes are available around the world.
Model UNs in the UK got their chance to shine this year as the United Nations Association – United Kingdom held its inaugural Model UN schools tournament, Uniting the Nations, on 10 March. Over 200 students from schools across the UK gathered at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organization in London to compete for bronze, silver and gold awards as they discussed how the ideals of the Olympic Truce could be used to build a safer, fairer and more sustainable world for us all. The top prize - a trip to the UN headquarters in New York - was won by students from Ellesmere College, Shropshire.
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3DTV Sales: Insight Media's Global View
The success of 3D as a consumer television format will be dependent not just on what happens in the U.S. market but also on global adoption fueled by the quantity and quality of content production.
That was one conclusion reached by the emerging display technology market research company Insight Media, whose most recently issued 3DTV forecast report projected that 50 million 3DTVs will be sold worldwide in 2015.
"Every element in the 3D adoption chain is coming into place now," said Insight Media president Chris Chinnock. In the near term, meaning the 2010 calendar year – for which his firm projects 3.3 million 3DTV worldwide sales – there will be limited content. "There's a big pipeline to fill," he said, adding that production of quality 3D content "won't happen that quickly. It requires a different production flow and also, the artistic form is different."
Worldwide 3DTV yearly sales projections leading up to 2015, Insight Media's research shows, are as follows: for 2011, 9.9 million sets; for 2012, 17.2 million sets; for 2013, 25.3 million sets; and for 2014, 36 million sets.
Chinnock said his figures show that roughly a fifth of all worldwide 3DTV sales in 2015 – 11.7 million – will be to U.S. consumers, and that by that year, Europe (including Eastern Europe) will have the largest sales share. He added that LCD will dominate among 3DTV format choices over the next five years, but that the technology will help the plasma format to maintain market viability.
A good jumpstart for the 3D, said Chinnock, would be the low pricing premium for 3D sets, with ticket differences between 3D and non-3D sets "manageable." The firm further estimated that within 2010, worldwide content availability beyond physical media could include more than 15 VOD channels, 12 to 15 Internet channels, eight to 12 cable/satellite channels and one or two terrestrial broadcast channels.


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Chef to unveil new Mexican recipe cookbook
Pati Jinich, a chef on the "Mexican Table" TV show on the PBS channel, has a very different idea of Mexican food than most people are used to.
"Everyone knows tacos and burritos but not everyone knows the wholesome, fresh home-style cooking I grew up eating," Jinich said. "This isn't greasy or labor-intensive; it's the traditional cooking I knew.
"I wanted to break down the myths of Mexican cooking and showcase the two traditional styles of Mexican cooking; one the foods I grew up with and two, the creative twists I created with the differences of the products here in the United States."
Jinich will be teaching a class and signing copies of her new cookbook, "Pati's Mexican Table" at Central Market Friday. The class is $80 and Jinich will teach students how to make minguichi (tomato-zucchini soup with Mexican chicken broth), pickled Chayote salad, chilorio (shredded pork in ancho-orange sauce), arroz verde and cochinitos.
All students will receive a copy of "Pati's Mexican Table."
A mother of three and native of Mexico, Jinich came to Texas after marrying her husband. She became a production assistant for the PBS food series "New Tastes from Texas" hosted by Chef Stephan Pyles, along with Diana Kennedy and Patricia Quintana.
Jinich and her family eventually moved to Washington, D.C., and Jinich put her love of cooking on the back burner, pursuing a master's degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University.
She worked at the Inter American Dialogue, a policy research center, until 2007 when she gave cooking another shot as the official chef for the DC Mexican Cultural Institute.
"As years have gone by, I've seen a radical difference in what's available in fresh chilies and herbs," Jinich said. "For me as a Mexican cook, it's very easy. What I want to do is introduce their ingredients and what they can do for people in their kitchens."
In her new cookbook, Jinich combines storytelling with modernized traditional Mexican recipies. For beginners, Jinich recommended starting with a tomatillo salsa.
"Even though I share many traditional recipes, within the recipes I really streamline them," Jinich said. "I respect the soul of the dish, but I try to make them easy.
"I think a good recipe to start with is the green salsa. You can find tomatillos everywhere, and it's a easy start. There are so many things you can do with that salsa. You can make enchiladas and eggs and so much more. I think people will be amazed how easy it is."Rather than focus on one part of Mexico, Jinich paints with a broad brush of flavor. Favorite recipes include the hearty pinto bean soup from Michoacán and the chicken tinga from Puebla.
Jinich also includes several healthy options and tips to make dishes healthier, such as not frying tortillas for enchiladas and alternative preparations.
"I want people to buy the book because it will change their perception of Mexican food and Mexican perceptions," Jinich said. "It will give them new ideas and inspiration. It's not going to be completely exotic and hard to find dishes.
"I worked hard to share entertaining stories and good recipes for healthy, wholesome food. This is not your typical Mexican cookbook."
Although Jinich may be a Mexican culinary goddess, she cautions she is not a food snob.
"I love the San Antonio food," Jinich said with a laugh. "I love the Tex-Mex. I know a lot of Mexican purists don't think it's Mexican food, but I love it."
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Most of the original LOTR cast remains unconfirmed, but Elijah Wood's definitely reprising Frodo. Frodo's not in the book, so what's his role in The Hobbit? Spoilers away!
According to TheOneRing.net, Frodo will be used to introduce readers to Bilbo's tale and that Wood will appear in the film's opening:
As readers of "The Hobbit" know, the tale of "The Downfall of The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit or There and Back Again," are contained in the fictional "Red Book of Westmarch." In Peter Jackson's LOTR films, the book is shown on screen and written in by Bilbo and Frodo and handed off to Sam Gamgee. (Not explained on film are Sam's progeny later having the book and being Wardens of the Westmarch - hence the book's title.)
The fictional book, and either the telling from it or the reading of it, will establish Frodo in the films experiencing Bilbo's story. Viewers are to learn the tale of 'The Hobbit' as a familiar Frodo gets the tale as well.
So yeah, Frodo's a means to acclimate audiences to Bilbo's earlier foibles. It is however nice to know he's being portrayed by Wood and not, say, Bobcat Goldthwait. Actually, that would be awesome.


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Coal research group head says carbon storage over emphasized as near term solution
With the Department of Energy making an 11th hour decision to rework its FutureGen carbon capture and storage project, and issues with investors mounting, is interest in CCS technology waning? During today's OnPoint, Ben Yamagata, director of the Coal Utilization Research Council, gives his take on how Congress should include CCS in upcoming climate change legislation. He explains why he believes DOE should pursue both the original version of FutureGen and the new version in order to address both near- and long-term issues. Yamagata also addresses some of the key public acceptance and investor confidence issues surrounding CCS technology.


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Orphan Photo #7
This adorable photo was taken by Munger in Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin. The name John D Comstock is written on the back.
A quick search on Ancestry turned up a death record index result for John D Comstock in Waukesha County, Wisconsin on 31 August 1900. Is this the same person? I'm not sure, but it is a possibility.


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A Florida woman who was pulled over for speeding was arrested after officers found crack cocaine hidden in her underwear and genitals, police said.
Tracy Lynn Irvin, 26, was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to sell, and possession of dangerous drug after she was pulled over in Waldo, near Gainesville, according to the Gainesville Sun.
Irvin, who was driving a 2008 silver Dodge Charger, didn't immediately pull over after she was spotted speeding, according to a police report.
She was given a verbal warning for the traffic offenses but when the officer asked to search the car and Irvin agreed, he found a white substance of the driver's seat and on Irvin's blue jeans and shirt, the report said.
Irvin admitted it was crack cocaine and said she tried to hide it in her underwear and in her person when she realized she was being pulled over, the report said.
When a female officer responded to the scene, she found the crack hidden in Irvin's privates, the report said. Irvin said she never used the crack but was delivering the drugs as a favor, the report said.
Irvin was booked into the Alachua County Jail and later released. It was unknown whether she has an attorney.


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The perfect balance, the happy medium, just enough - these are the most desirable positions. Just as we can have equilibrium in life, wood also has the proper balance measured in what is called an equilibrium moisture content and for this reason the practice of acclimation is not recommended for Superior flooring products.
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Why are people creationists? Like most of my colleagues at NCSE, I get that question a lot. Chris Mooney recently summarized some of the psychological research relevant to that question in a recent post at Mother Jones. "Our brains," he writes, "are a stunning product of evolution; and yet ironically, they may naturally pre-dispose us against its acceptance." Why? Because evolution contradicts many of our intuitions and cognitive biases. He lists seven major factors:
- essentialism: that each species is utterly distinct from all others
- teleology: that things exist for a grand purpose, while evolution does not entail any such purpose
- hyperactive agency detection: seeing a conscious intent behind the arbitrary and thoughtless events around us (faces in clouds, the dice being against us, a giraffe's neck stretching so it can reach inaccessible food)
- mind-body dualism: that thought and consciousness are distinct from our physical form
- inability to comprehend vast time scales
- group identity: protecting one's place in a (religious) community, which sometimes requires rejecting evolution
- avoidance of uncertainty and doubt: being asked to think about death or causes of uncertainty in one's life makes people less likely to accept evolution, and increases religiosity.
In short, a lot of the same processes that predispose people towards religion also predispose people to being skittish about evolution. Or at least that's true of Americans, the subjects (I believe) of all the studies cited.
But Americans are weird about evolution. Reviewing research on a standard science literacy questionnaire, a National Science Foundation workshop in 2011 reported:
Nick Allum showed…that the evolution item is more "difficult" in the US than in the UK (that is, one needs to have a higher level on the knowledge scale in order to answer it correctly). It is also a relatively weak discriminator for overall science literacy in the UK, but a much stronger one in the US.
A 2006 analysis of international attitudes towards evolution, published by Jon Miller, NCSE's Genie Scott, and Shinji Okamoto in Science, found that religion was far less important in explaining differences in evolution-acceptance in European countries than in the US (where it, along with educational attainment, is the dominant predictor of anti-evolution sentiment).
This isn't totally surprising. The creationist movement was born in America, and as Michael Lienesch observes in In The Beginning, it operates as a core component of the fundamentalist movement, a key marker of religious and political identity. I'd expect to see different results from several of the tests Mooney describes if they were run in other countries without that ninety-year history of creationist identity politics. America's history, especially post-Scopes but also going back to our frontier mentality, the competition between religious denominations unfettered by a state church, and the quirks of our hyper-local educational system, surely play major roles in explaining why creationism emerged here and remains such a politically potent force.
Which brings us to Jerry Coyne's response to Mooney's report. Coyne is an eminent evolutionary biologist, but his dabblings in social science are far less impressive. He sees Mooney's article as an attempt to "downplay religion as a cause of creationism," even though, as Jason Rosenhouse observes, Mooney's argument links creationism and religion throughout:
I don't know what article Jerry read. I don't see how Mooney could have been clearer that he thinks religious belief tends to make one hostile towards evolution. As Jerry notes, it's right there in the subtitle. The juxtaposition is also pretty obvious from the article's introduction.
But Coyne has an agenda. He doesn't want to conclude that anti-evolutionism and religion are both driven by innate biases that the human brain evolved over the generations. He wants to conclude that religion qua religion makes people reject science, and therefore is bad. To do that, he wants to toss out the empirical work Mooney cites, work focusing on how individuals respond predictably to certain stimuli that make religion appealing and evolution less so. He instead focuses on a correlation among nations.
There are several problems here. First, correlation is not causation, so the empirical correlation he observes is not really at odds with the more detailed model Mooney is proposing. The empirical correlation could mean Coyne's "religion is teh suxx0rs" model is right, but it could also mean that religiosity and anti-evolution attitudes are driven by a shared, underlying factor. Second, he's trying to use national trends to explain individual beliefs. This is called "ecological correlation," and introductory statistics books all spend some time explaining how this can go astray.
Here's a recent example, and it involves cats, so Coyne may like it. Cats are known to carry a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite's life cycle also takes it through mice and rats (via ingestion of cat feces, or other food contaminated by cat feces), who get eaten by cats and thus complete the cycle. In rodents and humans, the parasite enters the brain, and may change the behavior of the host, making them less fearful and risk-averse. Toxoplasma infections can cause severe brain problems in developing fetuses, and pregnant women are urged to steer clear of cats and cat feces as a result. Some researchers wondered whether cat ownership might cause other brain problems in adult humans, and they found a correlation between national rates of Toxoplasma infection and national rates of brain cancer. But a look at 600,000 British women over 50 found no difference in brain cancer rates between those who own cats (and are thus more likely to be exposed to the parasite) and those who don't (cheers to ScienceNOW for the story). The correlation between nations may well be real, but it isn't any more meaningful than the fact that countries which consume more chocolate win more Nobel Prizes per capita. In both cases, broader cultural factors are probably at work, including correlations between disposable income to buy treats and national investment in research infrastructure, and correlations between economic and medical development with changes in pet ownership and rural lifestyles.
Correlation is not causation, and ecological correlation is not reliable. Ecological correlation is especially unreliable when the relationship between the variables changes between aggregated units (nations, in this case). And as discussed above, the relationship between religion and attitudes toward evolution does differ between nations. In particular, Miller, Scott, and Okamoto's results compared individuals within nations and found that the effect of religiosity varied; Coyne used their national data to build his ecological correlation, even though the paper's own analysis shows why that's inappropriate.
Coyne's idea that religion qua religion makes people anti-evolution is also less explanatory than the approach Mooney takes. If religion inherently makes people anti-evolution, then we need some special explanation for people like Francis Collins or Ken Miller or the 13,000 US Christian clergy who have endorsed evolution as fully compatible with their faiths. Nor does it explain the large and persistent differences in evolution acceptance among members of different faiths. On the other hand, if certain personality traits predispose people towards rejecting evolution and towards certain sorts of religions, that would generate testable predictions about the religions that would be the most anti-evolution, and the religions that are most friendly toward evolution. It even would suggest ways to reduce that conflict, both in how we present evolution and how religious communities discuss topics like teleology and, dualism, and how evolution-acceptance relates to group identity.
To really understand what drives individual beliefs and behaviors, national correlations aren't enough, we need to talk about individual traits. That's what the studies Mooney cites do, and anyone who wants to dispute those results should do so with comparable data.


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We have experienced a few image posting issues the last week where images are posted and the disappear.Its not wide spread, but its annoying to say the least. I have been working with out server support to identify the issue and its going to take some time. Its not something that has a glaring cause. It may even be a problem with the forum software itself, though I am skeptical there apparently there are reports of it on other forums. It may even be a combination of problems.
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John Barrowman will be doing a stint on Desperate Housewives starting in April 2010.
He will be playing a villan starting April 2010.
Here's a link from the BBCAmerica Blog:
Should definitely be interesting!
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