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i've seen people touch on this in several other threads and i don't want to hijack so im starting a new one.. when people are talking about trading/keeping flynn they keep hitting on a couple of things.. his value in trade and his cap hit in relation to having wilson as a 3rd round pick not making much.
personally i'd think keeping flynn is a good option when considering the likely trade value for him is going to be a 3rd at best or later unless we start blowing everyone out and he gets a quarter or two of play in the next couple games and is able to show off some. if we were offered a 2nd.. i'd jump on that in a heart beat.
however, i dont think keeping him beyond this season is viable.. yes we have russell wilson at a very low cap hit because he's a 3rd round rookie.. however we have to think beyond just the position of qb.. we could find a backup for wilson at a much cheaper price.. consider the avg salary for an nfl backup qb is about 1.6-2 mill per year.. however they are widely varying and thats probably a little higher than it should be due to situations like ours and the niners where there is/was a qb controversy and you end up with a backup making 5-8 million in a year.. flynn's contract calls for 5.25 million in 2013 and 6.25 million in 2014, over the course of the next two years that would be 11.5 million dollars.. wilson has shown no signs of being injury prone, our line is starting to play better around him and should improve in the offseason some more, he's taken some hits this year already and no signs of ill effect so i'd assume flynn will just rot away another season. now you have to consider the names on defense who will eventually want to be paid.. and its going to be cutting it very close to keep the guys we have.. i think we will end up losing atleast one or two names that most of us dont want to see go, browner is the guy i see being a casualty of not having enough to pay him.. he's almost 30.. hasn't had a big pay day yet in the nfl so he's going to be looking for his contract to get him set up for the rest of his life. anyways, to sum it up that 11.5 million dollars would go a lot further for our team in putting it towards a guy like sherman who we would be crazy to ever let go of.


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Magic's Howard asks to be traded to Nets
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard asked to be traded to the Brooklyn Nets, ESPN.com reported Saturday.
Howard, who missed the last stretch of the season after getting back surgery, met with new Orlando general manager Rob Hennigan in Los Angeles on Friday and asked to be traded to the Nets, sources told ESPN.com.
Howard amended his contract in March, waiving his right to opt out at the end of this past season and extending the deal another year. He can become a free agent next summer. Howard told people in his inner circle that he was blackmailed into signing the option, sources told ESPN.com.
No decision has been made about whether Howard's trade request will be granted or not.
Howard, a first team All-NBA selection with 20 points and a league-leading 14.5 rebounds per game, played in 54 of 66 games.


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African Agency in International Politics
Jonathan Fisher
International Relations theory has tended to overlook the role of Africa and Africans in the international system. Traditionally, the discipline's most influential theorists have focused instead on relationships between and perspectives of "major powers." A growing body of work, however, has challenged these more limited efforts to conceptualize African agency in international politics. This scholarship has emphasized the significant space available to, and carved-out by, African states in molding the agendas of international institutions, and the role of African governments and advocacy networks in influencing the trajectory of major international debates around issues such as aid, development, trade, climate change, and migration. The study of African agency in international politics continues to wrestle with two key debates: the meanings of "agency" and "African." Much of the literature focuses primarily on the role and influence of African states rather than that of African citizens and communities. This focus provides, at best, only a partial and qualified view of the ways in which African agency is secured and exercised at the global level, particularly given the significant structural constraints imposed on Africa by global economic and political inequalities. The extent to which contemporary analysis captures the breadth of African engagement with the international system is also compromised by current state-centric approaches. It is thus necessary to examine a range of approaches adopted by scholars to deepen and nuance the study of African agency in international politics, including work on agenda-setting, mesolevel dynamics and microlevel dynamics.
Capitalist Peace Theory: A Critical Appraisal
Gerald Schneider
Capitalist peace theory (CPT) has gained considerable attention in international relations theory and the conflict literature. Its proponents maintain that a capitalist organization of an economy pacifies states internally and externally. They portray CPT either as a complement or as a substitute to other liberal explanations such as the democratic peace thesis. They, however, disagree about the facet of capitalism that is supposed to reduce the risk of political violence. Key contributions have identified three main drivers of the capitalist peace phenomenon: the fiscal constraints that a laissez-faire regimen puts on potentially aggressive governments, the mollifying norms that a capitalist organization creates; and the increased ability of capitalist governments to signal their intentions effectively in a confrontation with an adversary. Defining capitalism narrowly through the freedom entrepreneurs enjoy domestically, this article evaluates the key causal mechanisms and empirical evidence that have been advanced in support of these competing claims. The article argues that CPT needs to be based on a narrow definition of capitalism and that it should scrutinize motives and constraints of the main actors more deeply. Future contributions to the CPT literature should also pay close attention to classic theories of capitalism, which all considered individual risk taking and the dramatic changes between booms and busts to be key constitutive features of this form of economic governance. Finally, empirical tests of the proposed causal mechanism should rely on data sets in which capitalists appear as actors and not as "structures." If the literature takes these objections seriously, CPT could establish itself as central theory of peace and war in two respects. First, it could serve as an antidote to the theory of imperialism and other "critical" approaches that see in capitalism a source of conflict rather than of peace. Second, it could become an important complement to commercial liberalism that stresses the external openness rather than the internal freedoms as an economic cause of peace and that particularly sees trade and foreign direct investment as pacifying forces.
Economic Incentives as Weapons of War
Katherine Barbieri
International relations scholars tend to differentiate between a state's use of military and economic instruments of power and also between rewards and punishments. In conflict scenarios, leaders are typically depicted as facing a choice between using military versus economic forms of punishment to achieve desired political outcomes. The role of economic rewards is seldom analyzed within the context of adversarial relations or within combat operations. The U.S. military has used money in combat and noncombat operations to influence actors and shape the operational environment in a manner favorable to the troops. There has been some attention devoted to the military's noncombatant role and to efforts to win hearts and minds. Little attention has been devoted to the use of money in kinetic operations. The military's use of money in its operations, including counterinsurgency and stability operations, provides insight for international relations scholars interested in when economic inducements may be effective within adversarial relations or conflict situations. It represents a form of targeted sanctions, in the sense of applying positive inducements selectively at the micro level, to achieve macro-level objectives. The U.S. military has relied on a growing body of empirical research in persuasion science to inform its operations. The case and findings from persuasion science could contribute to understanding the problems and possibilities of harnessing the power of money to achieve political outcomes.
Emerging Powers in Foreign Policy
Leslie Wehner
Emerging powers are usually referred to as states whose increasing material capacities and status-seeking strategies may potentially have an impact on the international system and also affect the dominant position of the hegemonic powers therein. The rising of new powers is a recurrent phenomenon in international relations. When talking about emerging powers, scholars associate the words with the so-called BRICS states: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The emergence of BRICS, and especially of China, poses the question of whether the rising process is a peaceful one. Realism, institutionalism, and constructivism have all dealt with the possible systemic impacts of the BRICS states. BRICS nations seem to be reformist rather than disruptive, meaning that they are pushing for the better representation of their self-perceived new status in multilateral institutions rather than challenging the current system per se. In terms of foreign policy, BRICS states interact with well-established powers such as the United States and European ones—herein they display balancing or bandwagoning strategies, as they do also toward each other. Moreover, well-established powers either accommodate or contest the rising process and status claims of these emerging powers. However, BRICS states are also regional powers. Regional peers contest the rising processes of BRICS and particularly claims to global powerhood.
While BRICS can be seen as striving for the reform of multilateral institutions, the traditional view of BRICS as a homogenous force, comprising countries with similar interests, is sometimes misleading. Even though BRICS states have their own institution with a new bank, they also pursue different interests within traditional institutions. Therefore, the existing literature on BRICS is tilted toward systemic and institutional concerns. Although works taking into consideration the interplay between the domestic and international levels in foreign policy analysis do exist, they are not necessarily related to emerging processes and rarely go beyond foreign economic policy issues. People, leaders, and governmental institutions are decision makers or are part of the decision-making process in foreign policy, and thus they form perceptions and act according to how the rising process of the state is unfolding. An integration of the systemic, state, and personal levels captures the essence of the foreign policies of BRICS states in the context of rising and can take into consideration the ups and downs and stalemates of rising-process trajectories in international politics.
The Eurozone Crises
Kurt Hübner
Even the most critical observers of the creation of the euro found some nice words on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. And yet it needed only a marginal event like the announcement of the newly elected Greek government that the previously stated public debt ratio was gravely miscalculated to move the euro into a critical crisis zone. Swiftly the attention of private credit markets turned to more member states of the eurozone, only to eventually detect that financial stability of banks did not meet sustainability indicators.
What is often labeled as "eurozone crisis" is better understood by a political-economic forensic analysis that rather speaks of eurozone crises. First, the causes for financial and then sovereign debt crises of Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland (to name only the most prominent) differ fundamentally. They were triggered by the same events but caused by differing factors. Second, it is a crisis of economic governance, and thus an institutional crisis that needs fundamental institutional changes. Third, it is a crisis of political leadership.
The overlapping character as well as the interplay of those three dimensions hampers a proper understanding of the dynamics of the processes that started in 2010. By differentiating between national crisis causes, triggering mechanisms, policy responses, and multi-level crises management, we suggest a comprehensive analytical framework that may guide current as well as future research in the operating of an incomplete currency union.
The Expansion of Economic Freedom and the Capitalist Peace
Erich Weede
On the one hand, the idea of a capitalist peace is a set of loosely integrated, but testable propositions. On the other hand it is part of a wider, libertarian philosophy of life. The spirit of this wider conception is best expressed by a quote from a pioneer of quantitative international politics, in 1981 Rummel wrote, "If you want peace, then minimize the power of government." Although there has been a proliferation of variables assessing capitalism and economic interdependence—from economic freedom via contract intensity to the avoidance of state ownership or protectionism—the most frequently analyzed proposition about the capitalist peace says that trade makes military conflict and war less likely. By and large, the evidence supports this proposition in dyadic designs as well as in monadic designs. This cross-design validity of the proposition is important, because it distinguishes the peace by trade proposition from the democratic peace proposition. Most researchers agree that war is extremely unlikely in dyads where both nations are democracies. But only a minority contends that democracies are less frequently involved in military conflict than other states. The dyadic and the monadic findings are compatible because military conflict looks even more likely between an autocracy and a democracy than between two autocracies. Whereas the democratic peace is limited in application, the pacifying impact of trade or economic interdependence is more general. Moreover, the democratic peace may be embedded in a wider economic or capitalist peace. There is strong evidence that democracy rests on a foundation of capitalism or economic freedom and the prosperity that has been gained only by capitalism or some degree of economic freedom. Moreover, economic freedom and prosperity contribute to the avoidance of civil war. Better still: Economic freedom does not only promote economic growth and prosperity among those nations where people enjoy economic freedom, but the economic freedom of rich countries provides poor countries with the advantages of backwardness and catch-up opportunities.
Capitalist peace theory evolves. It has been suggested that the pacifying impact of trade rests on the expectation that trade, or access to resources and markets, will continue. This suggestion requires a new look at economic sanctions, too. By interfering with trade, sanctions must undermine the expectation of future benefits of trade and globally interconnected markets. Given the rareness of evidence in favor of the effectiveness of economic sanctions in eliminating undesirable policies of other nations, a capitalist peace perspective implies the recommendation to use sanctions much less frequently than politicians do. They are likely to eliminate a pacifying factor when it is most urgently needed.
The wider or visionary perspective on the capitalist peace is useful not only in connecting it with the issue of sanctions, but also in demonstrating the inherent limitations of capitalism as a tool to achieve peace. From a static perspective, capitalism, economic freedom, or trade may exert some pacifying impact, as argued above. But capitalism is a dynamic economic order. It is about "creative destruction". Capitalism is not egalitarian. Nations grow at different speeds. They rise and decline. Capitalism and unequal economic growth upset pecking orders and contribute to power transitions that are related to risks of war, especially great power war. Whether the contribution of capitalism to power transitions—or its pacifying impact prevails—cannot be judged with much confidence.
How Did American International Political Economy Become Reductionist? A Historiography of a Discipline
W. Kindred Winecoff
First-wave international political economy (IPE) was preoccupied with the "complex interdependencies" within a world system that (it believed) was rapidly devolving following the 1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. The original IPE scholars were more dedicated to theorizing about the emergence and evolution of global systems than any strict methodology. As IPE developed, it began to emphasize the possibility that institutions could promote cooperation in an anarchic environment, so IPE scholarship increasingly studied the conditions under which these institutions might emerge.
Second-wave IPE scholars began to focus on the domestic "level of analysis" for explanatory power, and in particular analyzed the role of domestic political institutions in promoting global economic cooperation (or conflict). They also employed a "second-image reversed" paradigm in which the international system was treated as an explanatory variable that influenced the domestic policymaking process.
In opening up the "black box" of domestic politics, in particular as it pertained to foreign economic policy, the "American school" of IPE thoroughly explored the terrain with regression-based statistical models that assume observational independence. As a result, complex interdependencies in the global system were increasingly ignored. Over time the analytical focus progressively shifted to micro-level units—firms and individuals, whenever possible—using neoclassical economic theory as its logical underpinning (with complications for political factors). This third wave of IPE, "open economy politics," has been criticized in the post-crisis period for its narrow focus, rigid methodology, and lack of systemic theory. Leading scholars have called modern IPE "boring," "deplorable," "myopic," and "reductionist," among other epithets.
A "fourth-wave" of IPE must retain its strong commitment to empiricism while re-integrating systemic processes into its analysis. A new class of complex statistical models is capable of incorporating interdependencies as well as domestic- and individual-level processes into a common framework. This will allow scholars to model the global political economy as an interdependent system consisting of multiple strata.
Ireland and the European Union
Ben Tonra
Ireland joined the European Communities—as they were known then—in 1973, alongside the United Kingdom and Denmark. In many ways, that membership was defined by the bilateral British-Irish relationship. Ireland was, to all intents and purposes, an underdeveloped appendage of the British economy, and membership alongside the United Kingdom was deemed by most of the Irish political and economic establishment as virtually axiomatic. Irish policy makers, however, took full advantage of the opportunities offered by membership; in particular the Common Agricultural Policy, the direct transfers that derived from cohesion, regional and structural funding, and the opportunity to present the country as a successful location for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) with access to the entire European market. Irish policy makers also positioned themselves rhetorically close to the heart of European construction, which had the added value of creating an Irish antithesis to Britain's ongoing European discontents.
There are perhaps four key themes to be analyzed with respect to Ireland and its membership of the European Union. The first is the question of a small state and its sovereignty. As a former colony, with a bitter experience of imperialism and a strong sense of independence, Ireland's pooling of sovereignty with its European partners has most often been presented as a desirable trade-off between legal, formal sovereignty and effective sovereignty. Having a seat at the main table—alongside the former imperial hegemon—was deemed to be a major advance, one that allowed the state more effectively to pursue its interests—including the resolution of conflict on the island of Ireland. The 2008 financial collapse, and Ireland's experience of the EU-led "troika" has profoundly challenged that narrative, with concerns often now expressed at the loss of political and economic autonomy to technocratic multilateral institutions rather than a democratic, transnational European polity. The prospect of Brexit and its consequences for peace and security on the island is also a contemporary challenge in that regard.
A second theme of inquiry is that of Irish economic development within the European Union. In contrast to other similarly under-developed states and regions in the EU, Ireland is seen by many as something of a poster child for making a success of EU membership. In the run-up to the 2004 enlargement and shortly thereafter, Dublin was a magnet for central European and Mediterranean states looking to replicate the success of the so-called "Celtic Tiger." Debate however persists on the precise balance of costs and benefits deriving from the model of economic development pursued by the Irish state, the role of Irish government policy therein, and the precise added value of EU membership.
A third theme of inquiry is the intersection of local, national, and European democracy. Once membership was secured, the European Union became a central and largely uncontested fact of Irish political life. Early constitutional referenda authorizing ratification of EC and then EU treaty changes, while vigorously contested, were overwhelmingly won by coalitions of the mainstream political parties and sectoral interest groups. With both the Nice (2001) and Lisbon (2007) treaties, however, ambivalence, antagonism, and complacency combined initially to thwart ratification. The gap between popular opinion on EU treaty change, which ultimately divided roughly 60/40 in favor, and the near unanimity among political elites and sectoral interests, opened a conversation on the relationship between local, national, and European democracy, which is as yet unresolved, but which many see as having further centralized policy making and distanced it from effective democratic control.
A fourth theme is that of Ireland and Europe in the world. Ireland joined the European Communities with no expressed reservations on its further political integration, but as the only non-member of NATO. During those initial debates, economic arguments overwhelmingly predominated, but the political issues were aired and the implications for Ireland's traditional neutrality were robustly discussed. The subsequent membership of other non-aligned states ought, on the face of things, to have made Ireland's position all the more secure. Thus, with a long and popular history of UN peacekeeping and active international engagement, the development of European foreign, security, and defense policies should not have proven to be problematic. In fact, neutrality, security, and defense remain neuralgic issues for Ireland within the European Union and have contributed in a very modest way to the challenges faced by the Union in its attempts to craft a coherent and credible common security and defense policy. This speaks to debates surrounding Ireland's proper place in the world, the lessons of its own history and the perceived capacity for smaller states to shape the international community.
These four themes underpin much research and analysis on Ireland as a member of the European Union. In an unstable contemporary climate, with many well-established expectations under threat, they also serve to identify the pathways available to navigate beyond political and economic instability both for Ireland and the wider European project.
Land Grabs: The Politics of the Land Rush Across Africa
Pauline Peters
The currently extensive land appropriation across Africa signals the most radical shift in the distribution and tenure status of land since colonial times. The first alarms about "land grabs" by foreigners were raised by advocacy groups around 2007–2008. The search for land, always watered land, by foreign agents is driven by concerns about rising food and oil prices, and most of the acquired land is put under food crops, biofuels, and flex crops. The promises of profits from the exceedingly low price of land across Africa, as well as the rising demand for the mentioned crops, have also attracted speculation by private equity funds. With more detailed research on the processes and effects of this shift in rights to (and use of) land, the focus on a "new scramble" by foreign agents has extended to the multiple processes involved in the increasing demand for Africa's land, internally and externally.
The increase in acquisition of land by international agents, not only for cultivation but for minerals, oil, timber, and so forth, exacerbates the accelerating demand for land within African countries by nationals such as salaried, middle-class people and politicians acquiring land for cultivation and for an investment fast increasing in value. The millions of small-scale users of largely "customary" land struggle to derive a livelihood from their smallholdings and access to dwindling and increasingly enclosed common land, including grazing and watering areas. These linkages among local, national, and global dynamics of land acquisition reveal mounting socioeconomic and political inequality across Africa. In addition, research on the land rush reveals competing visions for African agriculture, invoking the debate of large- versus small-scale agricultural futures, a long-standing question of agrarian studies now being asked within much changed political-economic, social, and environmental conditions.
Both macro-data and field studies show that most of the foreign acquired land is used for large-scale plantations, some of which include contract farming and outgrower schemes. Although, for a variety of reasons, some large land deals fold, the most recent Land Matrix data show most do move into production. Research on these large-scale projects has shown, however, that most fail to attain the projected aims of providing benefits to the countries and people from which they acquired the land. Most appropriated land was already in productive use by local users rather than "under-utilized" or "waste land" as described in many documents by investors and donors such as the World Bank; there were fewer benefits in the form of employment, higher and sustained income, and lower risk for most laborers, contract farmers, and outgrowers; far less infrastructure (schools, clinics, roads, etc.) built, as promised, for local populations; and output that is either exported or that proves unsuitable for the locales, with lower production value at lower efficiency compared with the land uses before the large-scale projects were put in place. These negative findings have to be set alongside the facts that the investors acquire the land at either extremely low cost (usually lease rather than sale) or even free, and receive tax, import/export and other "incentives."
The failure to benefit the millions of small- to medium-scale users of land, despite the rhetoric of land investors, major donors such as the finance arms of the World Bank Group, and governments facilitating the deals, has emerged as a key problem in light of deepening poverty, and a dearth of sufficient employment to absorb the young population, let alone people "exiting" from the land. Numerous experts conclude that a continued rapid alienation of land, especially to large-scale investors, will exacerbate localized land scarcity, restrict the potential of smallholder-led development, and put unrealistic pressure on the non-farm economy to absorb Africa's rapidly rising labor force.
Multilevel Governance as a Global Governance Challenge: Assumptions, Methods, Shortcomings, and Future Directions
Joachim K. Rennstich
Multilevel governance (MLG) as a research approach has mostly been applied to explain governance issues surrounding the European Union or international organizations. As a general research framework in the area of international relations (IR) theory, however, MLG has widely been underutilized, despite the many advantages that the approach offers in the empirical investigation of an increasingly complex international or global system. There are key concepts, assumptions, and definitions of MLG that focus separately on levels and governance as key elements of the approach and its interdisciplinary lineage. Some contested IR concepts include sovereignty, the nation-state, the international system, anarchy, agency, and levels of analysis. These IR concepts benefit from the application of an MLG framework by enabling the use of an interdisciplinary and multimethodological, yet systematically comprehensive, approach—which allows for nuanced use of these concepts. Other areas that benefit from IR methodologies applied in MLG research are methodological toolkits with a special focus on the areas of global governance, security studies, and international political economy.
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In mid-January, Ramon Parsons received a phone call that is every researcher's worst fear. Just weeks earlier, the molecular biologist, who works at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his research associate Jing Li had finally nailed the tumor-suppressor they had been hunting for the past year. It was potentially a major prize, but they still had to verify that the gene was indeed a tumor suppressor-one whose loss or inactivation can lead to cancer development-and determine the range of tumors with which it might be involved.
But just as they were anticipating the fruits of success, one of their collaborators, molecular biologist Michael Wigler of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, called to say that he had just read in a biotechnology newsletter that Myriad Genetics had also found a tumor-suppressor. There was scant information in the press release, but what was there set off alarms. Myriad had linked its gene to malignant brain tumors called gliomas-just as Parsons had. The two genes, he feared, were the same.
What happened over the next few weeks, as both the Parsons and Myriad groups rushed to get papers in press and file patents on the gene, is testimony to how complex life has become for researchers tracking down disease genes. With industrial collaborations on the rise, the competition has grown more intense, and patenting and stock-market worries are having an ever greater influence on how scientists go about their business.
The immediate cause of Parsons's panic was a press release that Myriad put out on 22 January. This release simply highlighted the gene's role in gliomas, without mentioning its chromosomal location, or giving any information about its protein product or other cancers the gene might be involved in. Also missing was any indication that the work had been published, or was at least submitted for publication. "I thought it was bizarre, because they were announcing a discovery without publishing it," Parsons recalls.
Mark Skolnick, Myriad's vice president of research, says the company put out the release to guard against possible charges of insider trading by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Sean Tavtigian of Myriad notes that the company was about to enter one of the quarterly periods during which employees with stock options are allowed to trade their Myriad stock, and wanted to make sure that the public knew what the employees knew-that it had the glioma gene in hand-during that period. "We have to be uniform in our release of information," says Skolnick. "There's a potential liability if information gets out in an uneven fashion."
But when the release was mentioned in the biotech newsletter Bioworld, it also alerted Parsons to the competition at Myriad. "From reading the press release, [it seemed] we were farther along than they were," says Parsons. Nevertheless, he worried that if the two groups had converged on the same gene, this announcement might jeopardize his chance to get credit for the discovery. "Do you know how hard it is to publish in a small lab if you're second?" Parsons asks.
Li and two graduate students worked around the clock for the next 4 days screening various tumor samples, mostly primary brain tumors, to verify that the gene is indeed missing or aberrant, as would be expected for a tumor suppressor (see main text). But they skipped some of the tests they had planned to show that the gene is aberrant in more kinds of tumors, and also put off filing a patent on the gene until the paper was submitted. "My interest was to get a paper out the door," Parson says. Indeed, on 31 January, as soon as the paper was finished, Li flew to Washington, D.C., to hand deliver it to Science. "It was pretty crazy," he says.
Meanwhile, Myriad's academic collaborator on the project, Peter Steck of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston found himself caught up in Myriad's commercial priorities. "The first emphasis was patenting," he explains. In addition, he was racing to meet a renewal deadline for his grant. He didn't get to his paper until later, even though he began hearing through the "industrial grapevine," as Steck calls it, that they had competition. The paper was submitted in late February to Nature Genetics, accepted within a week, and published 3 weeks later, technically 4 days after Parsons's report.
But while Parsons beat Steck and Myriad to publication, albeit by a narrow margin, there's no telling yet which group will wind up with the patent. And perhaps neither will. Both groups' searches led as them to the GenBank computer database of gene sequences, which already turned out to contain several small DNA bits, called expressed sequence tags (ESTs), that fell inside the gene. A computer program had even grouped those ESTs into a tentative gene, which contained a sequence indicating that its protein product is a dephosphorylating enzyme. Myriad's Tavtigian points out that this could mean that a company that has generated many ESTs- Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland-may have beaten both Steck and Parsons to the Patent Office. That company declined comment on that possibility. -E.P.
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It turns out that those Israeli air strikes inside Syria were directed at a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Iran that was intended for Hezbollah. Iran and Hezbollah both back Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. But the weapons shipment may have been as much or more about strengthening Hezbollah in a post-Assad Syria as about helping Assad retain power.
In any event, Israel was not about to tolerate the arming of Hezbollah with weapons with enough range to reach Eilat in southernmost Israel if fired from Lebanon. The Israelis have consistently said they will not allow Hezbollah to receive "game changing" weapons that could threaten Israel's heartland. And just four months ago, Israel carried out an attack in Syria designed to disrupt the pipeline of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah.
The New York Times, of all outlets, contrasts Israel's approach in Syria to President Obama's:
As Washington considers how to handle evidence of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government, a development it has described as a "red line," Israel is clearly showing that it will stand behind the red lines it sets.
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DOVER — New Hampshire could soon be released from a requirement to clear new voting laws with the federal government before they can go into effect.
Following years of preparation, the New Hampshire attorney general filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15. It asks a panel of judges to release all portions of the state from Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
A key piece of civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act has been credited with improving voting practices and boosting minority participation in wide swaths of the country. It guarantees that voters aren't disenfranchised on account of race or color.
It also contains several special provisions that impose more stringent federal oversight in certain areas of the country, known as "covered jurisdictions." Under the terms of Section 5, no voting changes are legally enforceable in these jurisdictions until approved either by a three-judge court in the District of Columbia or by the U.S. Attorney General.
Ten New Hampshire towns, including Newington, have long been covered by Section 5. That means changes to election laws that affect any of these 10 towns — ranging from a change in polling hours to a new statewide law — must be reviewed by federal officials.
The state's new voter identification and voter registration laws are examples of legislation that required pre-approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before they were implemented earlier this year.
Section 5 also authorizes the U.S. Attorney General to send federal election examiners to covered jurisdictions to monitor voting activity and ensure eligible voters are free to register for elections.
U.S. DOJ also reviews changes to New Hampshire's State Senate and House districts to ensure they don't have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color, or membership in a language minority group.
DOJ analyzes the impact proposed laws would have for voting on language and race minorities in the 10 New Hampshire communities, Mavrogeorge said.
"When you make preclearance submissions, they're pretty standard submissions, but they can be rather involved," Assistant Attorney General Matthew Mavrogeorge said last week.
The Voting Rights Act also contains a so-called "bail out" mechanism, which allows jurisdictions with a track record of following election laws to erase their obligations under Section 5.
More than 100 jurisdictions have been granted bail outs over the last three decades. However, if its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice is successful, New Hampshire would be the first state to completely free all parts of its territory from Section 5 obligations since the early 1980s, when Maine, Colorado and other states accomplished the same feat, according to Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt, an election law specialist.
"It's a big deal for the state," Mavrogeorge said last week. "It really is. It's been a long time coming, and there have been a lot of people involved in it."
History of Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act was adopted by Congress at a time when African Americans faced significant voting challenges in many southern states. Congress granted federal election overseers new authority over some matters that were previously delegated to the states in an effort to safeguard civil liberties.
To establish which districts would be covered by Section 5, Congress developed a two-part formula. The formula was an expedient way for Congress to avoid the thorny issue of naming states where minority voters were being disenfranchised, Levitt said, essentially branding them as racists.
Low voter turnout proved to be a measure that correlated strongly with race-based discrimination.
"Whether it's because of racial discrimination or not, that's not healthy,"Levitt explained.
The first element of the formula was whether the state or political subdivision used a "test or device" to restrict voting, such as a literacy test.
The second element centered on voter turnout. Voting districts became covered under Section 5 if, during elections in the 1960s, less than 50 percent of residents were registered to vote, or less than half cast ballots.
It was an election in 1968 that led to 10 New Hampshire communities qualifying for increased federal oversight. At that time, there was a statewide literacy test in use in New Hampshire, and voter turnout in the 10 communities — Rindge, Millsfield, Pinkhams Grant, Stewartstown, Stratford, Benton, Antrim, Boscawen, Newington and Unity — was below the threshold set by the Voting Rights Act.
Within the last three years, critics have challenged Section 5 in court, arguing it now imposes an arbitrary burden on states that have improved voting practices.
Defenders of Section 5 counter that even this year, legislation was blocked around the country because it failed to pass muster with the Department of Justice. In Texas, for example, courts found substantial evidence of inherent racial discrimination against Latinos in two laws that were passed this year, Levitt said.
"It is doing work," he said. "There is no question. It has stopped some intentional discrimination. Texas is the primary red flag."
N.H. looks toward bail out
Although many territories have managed to get bailed out of Section 5, nine states are still covered in whole: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.
Counties in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota also fall under Section 5 jurisdiction, as well as the 10 New Hampshire towns and portions of Michigan.
While some portions of the Voting Rights Act are permanent, Section 5 is temporary, and must be reauthorized by Congress on an ongoing basis. It was last reauthorized in 2006, when a Republican House overwhelmingly voted to the renew the act, including the basic scope of jurisdictions that are covered by Section 5. It's set to remain in effect through 2031.
It wasn't until the early 2000s when the New Hampshire attorney general started filing for preclearance from the Department of Justice, as required by federal law.
After a lengthy process of getting up to date on existing election laws, the state was in a position for the first time this year to file suit on behalf of the 10 towns to be relieved of Section 5 obligations.
To get out of Section 5, covered jurisdictions must show they've abided by the Voting Rights Act for at least the last 10 years, and also generally made efforts to improve the political power of minorities in the jurisdiction.
"Generally speaking from what I understand, New Hampshire has in fact improved the election laws that structure political power for racial and language minorities within the state, and in particular these towns have done so," Levitt said.
U.S. Supreme Court will also consider issue
A case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court could also have wide-ranging effects on the voting rights law.
The court announced earlier this month that it will hear arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case brought by an Alabama jurisdiction. The state is challenging whether Congress was within its authority to assign the covered jurisdictions when it reauthorized the Voting Rights Act six years ago.
Supreme Court watchers have taken an interest in the case because several justices have already indicated their displeasure with Section 5 in the past.
In 2009, the Supreme Court heard a case called Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, which touched on the same issues. The court's ruling in that case didn't address the central question of Section 5's constitutionality; instead, the court gave Congress an opportunity to tweak the Voting Rights Act without the mandate of a legal ruling, according to a New York Times report.
Levitt believes the outcome of New Hampshire's bail out lawsuit could bear significance for the Supreme Court case. If the state is successful, New Hampshire could be presented by the federal government as further evidence that the law passed by Congress is effective, since it contains an appropriate mechanism for relief.
"I think there's no question that several justices are very uneasy with the structure of Section 5, but that's not the question," Levitt said. "The question is whether Congress is within the zone of its authority in putting forth Section 5."
N.H. seeks 'bail out' from federal voting law
DOVER — New Hampshire could soon be released from a requirement to clear new voting laws with the federal government before they can go into effect.


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Charles Alexander Moffat
Charles Alexander Moffat or Charles Moffat (born 1979 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada) is a controversial Canadian artist, writer and movie director. Moffat has directed movies and short videos like "The Fear Americans Series", "Nuclear Winter" and "Nightmares in the Morning".
Charles Moffat studied at Hillcrest Public School in Teeswater, Ontario, Walkerton District Secondary School in Walkerton, Ontario, John Diefenbaker Secondary School in Hanover, Ontario and at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Moffat's acrylic and oil paintings focuses on controversial topics such as abortion, genetic manipulation, sexuality, gothic culture, fetishes, feminism, American politics, censorship, the Korean Demilitarized Zone and atheism.
Moffat is also known for his paintings of female violinists.[1]
Moffat is a prolific writer and has written four fantasy novels including: "The Paladin Assassin" (1995), "Ice War" (1996), "King Culprit" (1997) and "Rise of the Blade" (1998). The fourth book "Rise of the Blade" was meant to be published as part of The Harpers Series for the Forgotten Realms fantasy world, but The Harpers Series was canceled.[2]
Moffat has also written on a variety of topics including from art history, mythology and politics including "The Neo-Gothic Art Manifesto", "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction", "The Demonification of Lilith" and "Canadian Unity and Quebec Separation". He translated a Sumerian legend about Lilith into English.[3]
- ↑ Violinist painting by Charles Alexander Moffat
- ↑ List of Forgotten Realms Novels, retrieved on May 25th 2007.
- ↑ Sumerian Lilith, retrieved on May 25th 2007.


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Starting midway this year, KTM will be bring the higher capacity 390 Duke to our shores. The 390 Duke, shown at the EICMA show last year, sports a 373cc, single-cylinder engine that develops 43bhp! Though prices are still under wraps, we are suspecting it to hover close to the Rs 2 lakh mark for the ABS version (on-road, Mumbai).
Next up will be the RC8 inspired small displacement bike, (baby RC8) that should go on sale early-2014. Though KTM has not given much info on this little cracker, we suspect it to be a fairing clad version of the 390 Duke. Expect the power rating and pricing to climb further north.
KTM has devised a strange strategy - luring innocent window shoppers into the booth and converting them into KTM customers. Come March this year, the RC8 1190cc superbike will be on display. Mind you, not for sale, just on display.
We are still wondering about what could be the motive behind putting the RC8 up for display purposes only. But we suspect this to be a brand building exercise for the baby RC8.
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Creative Ideas of IDists as reviewers
Mark Perakh
posted Entry 47 on March 26, 2004 09:50 AM.
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My book Unintelligent Design
became available from Amazon in the middle of December 2003. On December 22
those curious observers who watch the sometimes funny exchange of opinions
regarding books offered by Amazon, already could read a review of my book signed
"A reader from Waco, Tx." The opinion of that anonymous and very prompt reviewer
was that my book was bad because it was published by a bad publisher -
Prometheus Books. The anonymous reviewer recommended instead a forthcoming book
by William Dembski titled The Design Revolution (which presumably must be good
because of being published by a good publisher - InterVarsity Press). The
reviewer from Waco promised that Dembski's book would answer all my concerns.
Of course, the fact that Dembski holds a non-teaching position at Baylor university which is located in Waco, Tx, was supposed to be a mere coincidence.
Some other reader responded to
the reviewer from Waco referring to the latter's review as that from
"reader from Waco." Suddenly, a few days later, the review from Waco reappeared on Amazon, word for word, but now signed "A reader from Riesel, Tx," thus making a reference to "a reader from Waco" in another reviewer's reply incomprehensible. Of course, the fact that Dembski happens to live in Riesel, Tx, was supposed to be just another of those coincidences whose probabilities Dembski is so fond of calculating. Indeed, Dembski would not, of course, advertise his own book anonymously, would he? It would be against his rigorous standards of decent behavior. Then something unthinkable happened. There was a glitch on the Canadian Amazon website wherein all real authors of anonymous reviews were revealed for a whole week. Who turned out to be the reader from Waco a.k.a. reader from Riesel? Surprise, surprise! It was our old acquaintance, mathematician, philosopher, theologian and the Isaac Newton of information theory, William Dembski. Hey, Bill, how come you acclaim your own book without taking good measures to keep your anonymity? Such lack of caution on the part of the sophisticated philosopher and prophet of the imminent Design Revolution? It turns out, though, that some colleagues of Bill Dembski have practiced similar maneuvers for some time and so far managed to get away with it, so Dembski had perhaps good reasons to believe he might get away with it too. Besides the review from Reader from Waco (or Riesel?) on the same Amazon site appeared one more negative review of my book signed by a "reader from San Jose, CA." Then, a few days later the same review, word for word, reappeared being already signed "A reader from Sunnyvale, CA." However, the more interesting thing about this review was that it was an exact replica, word for word, of a review, also signed by the same reader from San Jose (or Sunnyvale?) but of a different book - The Creationism's Trojan Horse by Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross. A boilerplate review applicable to any book, if one wishes to sabotage its sales - what a creative idea! How convenient - the reviewer only needs to fill out the lines for the book's title and the author's name in a prefabricated form and email it to Amazon as well as to any other place willing to post the review. This also saves time and money as the reviewer has no need to buy the book and to waste his valuable time on reading it. And, of course, this way all those vile scientists who dare disagree with ID are vanquished and the victory of the Design Revolution is assured. And what about arguments of substance? Who needs them when the brave defenders of faith stand up for the glory of God?
Posted by Ed Brayton on March 26, 2004 11:22 AM (e)
What I find odd about all of this is that Dembski seems impossible to embarrass. You'd think getting caught at something as ridiculous as this would cause at least a bit of sheepishness. Even leaving aside the ethical questions and the intellectual dishonesty, it requires the attitude of a carnival barker to do this sort of thing without walking away with at least a little bit of humiliation on your face.
Posted by Jeremy on March 26, 2004 01:04 PM (e)
So, the reasons for thinking that Dembski actually wrote the review in question is that the reviewer recommends one of Dembski's books and *claims* to be from Waco, Tx? The evidence for this hypothesis seems a little thin. Especially if the hypothesis is going to be the basis for a character attack on Dembski. I mean, c'mon guys. You might give people the impression that you're prone to accepting theories on insufficient evidence. ;o)
Posted by andrew on March 26, 2004 01:12 PM (e)
uh, jeremy, the reason for thinking Dembski wrote the review is that there was a bug in Amazon and it was revealed that he wrote the review. But nice "catch," champ!
Posted by asg on March 26, 2004 01:14 PM (e)
Either Jeremy is a parody poster (which I fervently hope) or has an allergy to reading more than one paragraph in a single sitting.
Posted by C.E. Petit on March 26, 2004 01:24 PM (e)
I know a couple of carnival barkers who would resent being compared to Dembski. They quite properly point out that a carnival is primarily for entertainment. Wait a minute… Inscrutable Design/creationism/Dembski seem primarily to be for entertainment, so maybe it's not inapt after all.
All seriousness aside, I think a better comparison is to a "used car dealership," because carnival barkers usually work with a one-level sales scheme. They don't try to make up for anything they have to concede on the sale (biochemistry) with even more needless charges on financing (complexity), backed up with shoddy service (use of outdated and out-of-context support materials).
Posted by Jeremy on March 26, 2004 01:40 PM (e)
Doh! I didn't notice the link to the rest of the post and am glad to be corrected. Embarassed too, but probably not as much as Dembski!
Posted by Shag from Brookline on March 26, 2004 02:28 PM (e)
I have been reading extensively about ID at various websites in recent months. Prior thereto, I followed The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at www.ctns.org and its literature and have not detected whether that organization is pushing ID openly. Its purpose is to bridge theology and science. But I'm not sure that bridge will support much weight. Can someone who is familiar with both ID and CTNS opine how closely these groups are related?
Posted by JohnK on March 26, 2004 04:19 PM (e)
As many here, I'm very familiar with ID but I only know CTNS from review of their site. Based on that I would say there little to no relationship. The large variety of names approvingly dropped at CTNS are almost without exception theistic evolutionists (including its founder and director Robert John Russell), some of whom are opponents of the ID movement. My impression of CTNS is that it is a scholarly academic center which recognizes/acknowledges the wide spectrum of creationists/IDists, does not spend a great deal of effort either supporting or debunking them but thinks their claims should be addressed on their merits without appealing to religious motivations.
I see Dembski was given a forum there on April Fool's Day, 2003.
Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry on March 26, 2004 04:31 PM (e)
Bob Russell of CTNS is no friend of "intelligent design". I saw him dress down Discovery Institute Center for Renewal of Science and Culture Director Stephen C. Meyer during a panel discussion in 2000, and have heard that he did much the same for Dembski last year.
Posted by Jan Haugland on March 26, 2004 05:58 PM (e)
Now that is rich! I heard about the Amazon glitch and wondered who would end up with eggs on their faces… somehow it doesn't surprise me that Dembski was one of them.
Isn't there something in the Bible about not lying for God?
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 26, 2004 06:47 PM (e)
The location changed because Amazon reports the same location for all reviews. Dembski must have posted another review and given Reisel as his location. Dembski anonymous reviewing antics are nothing compared to those by John Lott. See here
Posted by Frank Schmidt on March 27, 2004 12:13 PM (e)
Clearly, this review is a case of Intelligent Design! Does it fit the Explanatory Filter?
Posted by ms on March 29, 2004 02:51 PM (e)
The allegation of Dembski being revealed as the anonymous poster is very interesting. How can I substantiate it?
Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry on March 29, 2004 03:12 PM (e)
Good question. It seems there are three choices that I can think of:
1. Ask Google.ca to verify the information. They did release it publicly, and there is at least some slight possibility that they might do so. This would be the best evidence, circumstantial evidence with provenance established by an unimpeachable source.
2. See if anyone who saw the released information on the Google.ca site also happened to store a local copy of the page. This would be circumstantial evidence one step removed from absolute provenance.
3. Find out how many people will attest to having personally seen the released identification on the Google.ca site. Testimonial evidence is the weakest class we can get, but if multiple people come forward, I think we reduce the uncertainty drastically.
Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry on March 29, 2004 03:18 PM (e)
I'm sorry, brain fart… It's Amazon.ca that's the relevant source, not Google.ca.
Posted by ms on March 29, 2004 03:25 PM (e)
Did anyone here actually see it?
Posted by ms on March 31, 2004 05:40 PM (e)
Mark Perakh,
Did you actually see Dembski's name when the glitch occurred? If not, how did you substantiate the claim that he was the anonymous poster? Thanks.
Posted by Nick on March 31, 2004 09:02 PM (e)
In the interests of pedantry: Among various bits of circumstantial evidence,
1. It sounds like Dembski (he does have a very definite style, unsupported scorn is the main ingredient).
2. He works in Waco and lives in Riesel, IIRC.
3. There are only a very few amazon.com reviewers from Riesel, and Dembski is one of them.
4. Reading the reviews, several people commented on the suspicious review first from Waco, then from Riesel, even before the amazon.ca glitch in mid-February, which embarrassed many people, according to this AP story
5. Dembski's reviews once were from Waco, TX, as remembered by many and as shown in this google archive page.
6. Dembski probably changed his location from Waco to Riesel, intentionally or unintentionally, when he posted his review of Science and Christianity on January 20, as noted by Tim Lambert.
7. There is a rather similar anonymous review from Riesel, TX, from May 2, 2002, of Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics:
9 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
[1 star out of 5] Retreads and Bias, May 2, 2002
A reader from Riesel, TX USA
There is virtually nothing new here — most of the articles are retreads. What's more, many of the articles are readily available online (and not difficult to access as Robert Pennock claims). Intelligent design proponents were not invited to put their strongest foot forward, and intelligent design critics were given the lion's share of the space. These two facts make this a highly biased book. The historical introduction by Barbara Forrest of the intelligent design movement is especially problematic. She makes it all political and agenda driven and ignores that there is a genuine intellectual project here. Worse yet, she distorts the history of the intelligent design movement, placing its beginnings with Phillip Johnson, when in fact people like Polanyi, Schuetzenberger, Thaxton, and Denton were employing design-theoretic arguments well before Johnson. This is a bad and misleading book. Buy it if you must, but supplement it with primary source material from the intelligent design community. Especially recommended here is the work of Behe and Dembski.
Now, I don't particularly mind if someone wants to post an anonymous review, people have a right to do that and lots of people do. It is, though, a little weird if the book in question is directly critical of your own work, you consistently put your name on glowing reviews of books supporting your position and consisently leave your name off of negative reviews, and you consistently recommend your own books in the third person in the negative reviews. Once a news-making glitch confirms what is widely suspected, it becomes a blogworthy tidbit (IMO).
Posted by Mark Perakh on April 18, 2004 08:51 AM (e)
Yes, Dembski's name as the author of the review in question was seen on Amazon.ca and there are witnesses who would testify if need be.
Posted by Pim van Meurs on April 18, 2004 12:18 PM (e)
What is even more ironic is that the 'reader from Riesel' references books that had yet to be published as relevant rebuttals of Perakh's claims. Would be interesting to know how this 'reader from Riesel' had access to such resources :-)
If simply by reading Perakh, you think he has decisively demolished intelligent design, you need to read the primary literature. Especially recommended here are John Campbell and Steve Meyer's _Darwinism, Design, and Public Education_ as well as Dembski's _The Design Revolution_, which answers many of Perakh's concerns.
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The Design revolution by Dembski was published by Intervarsity Press on February 2004.
Posted by Pim van Meurs on April 18, 2004 12:18 PM (e)
Dembski may be happy, a succesful design inference.
Posted by Mark Perakh on April 18, 2004 01:14 PM (e)
Pim, your comment is very well pointed. Dembski was apparently so eager to pounce on my book that he did not exercise a bit of caution and posted his review prematurely, before the books he refered to were out. There was never, though, a doubt that the infamous review from Waco/Riesel was authored by Dembski even before Amazon.ca made it explicitly revealed. One of the readers (who signed his comment as ms - see comments above)asked whether anybody can assert that he/she has in fact seen Dembski's name as the review's author. I did not want to name such persons without their explicit consent, but now I got a permission to name at least one such person. Alec Gindis has personally seen Dembski's name as the writer of the review in question, on Amazon.ca and on some other version of non-USA Amazon site. He gave his consent to testify anywhere, if need be, to that fact. It is easy to imagine what Dembski would do if he were not in fact the writer of that review - he certainly would have raised a lot of noise complaining about being subjected to slander. But he is deafeningly silent about this matter, as well as all of his cohorts - he and they know that he was caught in an unseemly behavior and all he and they wish - this story to be forgotten ASAP. In his latest post he had the gall to assert (in a derisive tone of superiority) that in his dispute with Tom Schneider he had the last laugh - and the laugh was not at his expense. In fact the opposite is true: Tom dealt with Dembski very well, showing the lack of substance in Dembski's assertions. Unlike Dembski, Tom is a genuine researcher performing interesting experiments, so he had to get distracted from his work to answer Dembski's attack which boiled down to arbitrary asseverations having no foundation in facts. In view of Dembski's flop on Amazon, he should have been more cautious speaking about laughs and at whose expense they occur. Obviously, his aplomb is so great that nothing can embarrass him - even being caught in not very respectable tricks.
Posted by Loren Petrich on April 18, 2004 01:56 PM (e)
Dembski may not be alone.
Walter ReMine has allegedly used the pseudonym LaserThing in the Usenet newsgroup talk.origins to give his work glowing reviews.
Jonathan Sarfati uses the pseudonym Socrates over at TheologyWeb; he gets very sore when anyone tries to make the connection.
High-school science teacher Jan Peczkis uses the pseudonym John Woodmorappe for his creationist writings, like "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study"
Posted by Mark Perakh on April 18, 2004 02:18 PM (e)
IMHO, using pseudonims is in itself OK - this a tradition and many respectable writers used pen names (including some contributors to this blog) - and there is nothing wrong in this as long as pen names are not used for underhanded shenanigans. In Dembski's case the point is that he used the anonimous review not only to denigrate my book but also to praise his own book, and pretended to be just an unbiased reader while in fact having personal interests at stake. Moreover, since in my book I critiqued his work, his referring to himself in the third person and asserting without argumentation that my critique was defectous amounted to deception.
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Walter ReMine has allegedly used the pseudonym LaserThing in the Usenet newsgroup talk.origins to give his work glowing reviews.
ReMine also posted to both a Mormon group and sci.bio.evolution as "Ithinkso", and when this was pointed out at ARN, the warning, deleting, and banning began.
Several ARNites actually defended him, which is ironic as ReMine makes much about 'anonymous posters'.
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"Oh please! Spare us, Brett. Macarons? That is so 2006," cry those food bloggers who just last year wrote about the macarons from the legendary Parisian pâtisserie, Pierre Hermé.
The veterans protest: "2006? People, we blogged about PH macarons way back in '05 (even '04!)."
Too bad. Add one more blogger's post and mouth-watering photos to the long list. This time it comes from the same blogger (me) who once left a comment vowing to boycott further posts on the topic on the grounds that such descriptions and their accompanying pornographic photos were too "deliciously cruel."
Call this photo set my revenge.
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Here's my take. (This is the part where I get in trouble).
Macarons are to Paris what cupcakes are to America. Like cupcakes, they're ubiquitous. Also like cupcakes, they're as irresistibly cute as baby chicks and as colorful as a bouquet of tulips. You just wanna squeeze their little cheeks and say "aawwwww." The main difference is that, instead of being smeared on top of cake, the buttercream frosting is squished between two sugary meringue buns, like a hamburger re-imagined by Oompa-Loompas.
Don't get me wrong. I like cupcakes. Even the sickly sweet ones sold at NYC's Magnolia Bakery. On occasion. Like once every year or two.
And I liked Pierre Hermé's macarons. At least some of the flavors. Whenever the master pâtissier added a healthy dose of bitterness to the cookies' buttercream filling, I was in heaven. Café, Chocolat, Caramel à la Fleur de Sel, even Huile d'Olive & Vanille (olive oil and vanilla) all made my tongue smile. I could gobble them up all day long. But the rest, brilliant and creative and sexy as the flavors were, made my teeth ache.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – No. 9 Florida State (34-9, 15-8 ACC) hung on to an 8-6 victory over Wake Forest (24-22, 7-16 ACC) Saturday night to clinch the season-series from the Demon Deacons. With the victory, the Seminoles have now won 20 of their last 24 games against Wake Forest, while securing their 11th straight series victory at home over the Deacs.
The win came on a special night at the ballpark as an announced crowd of 5,217 on Mike Martin Field inside Dick Howser Stadium helped celebrate Military Appreciate Night. The Seminoles wore army green jerseys and camouflage hats on Saturday in honor of our nation's service men and women.
"I just can't tell you the pride that we all have for our service men and women," said head coach Mike Martin. "And this means an awful lot to us and certainly the signing of God Bless America (during the seventh inning stretch) was very meaningful; a very proud moment for everybody in the stadium. I think our guys were very, very pleased to be a part of such a great night."
After both teams exchanged a pair of runs in the first, Florida State ran out to an 8-2 lead only to see Wake Forest climb its way back into the game late with two runs in both the eighth and ninth innings.
The Demon Deacons had the tying run at the plate in the ninth with one out but Robby Coles was able to preserve the victory as he got pinch hitter Conor Keniry to ground into a game ending 4-6-3 double play.
"You never think you got Wake Forest closed out," said Martin. "They are a good baseball team. This just happened to be a night that things went our way early. We build the lead and didn't panic when things didn't go right late."
John Sansone, who started that double play in the ninth, led the Seminole offense on Saturday night as he tied a career-high with three hits. The freshman second baseman recorded hits in his first three plate appearances picking up a pair of singles and a double. His two-run single in the fifth highlighted a four-run inning.
Seth Miller and Casey Smit both recorded two hits and drove in a run in the win, while Jameis Winston scored a game-high three runs as he singled and walked twice.
After giving up two first inning runs, Brandon Leibrandt settled into his own to improve to 6-4 on the year. The sophomore southpaw gave the Seminoles 5.0 innings on Saturday night allowing two runs on five hits as he walked three and struck out seven.
"It was a game in which I didn't have my best stuff but was able to battle through," said Leibrandt. "They were battling me all night long; I was just trying to make key pitches in key situations.
"I was able to throw all three of my pitches for strikes tonight. They made it tough on me never giving me a 1-2-3 inning. But I was able to throw the change-up and slider when I needed to."
Gage Smith worked a season-high 2.2 innings as he gave up two runs on two hits. Smith finished with a career-high five strikeouts.
"If you look at the entire ball game, you say that Brandon Leibrandt had a little shaky first but he kept his poise and got us to the sixth inning," added Martin. "Gage came in and did extremely well; ran into a little difficulty with a couple of runs but he still ate up innings and did a very good job."
Game two got off to a shaky beginning for both starting pitchers as the two teams exchanged a pair of runs in the first inning. Wake's Evan Stephens drew a leadoff walk to open the game off Leibrandt and scored one batter later on a double to left by Mark Rhine. Matt Conway brought home Rhine for the second Wake Forest run of the inning on a double to left.
The lead for the Deacs was short lived as the Noles scored twice off Justin Van Grouw (4-6) to tie the game at 2-2. Back-to-back singles by DJ Stewart and Marcus Davis put runners at the corners with one out. Stephen McGee drove in Stewart on a sac-fly to left and after Davis moved into scoring position on a stolen base, he scored on a fielding error at shortstop on a groundball off the bat of Jose Brizuela.
The Noles took its first lead of the evening in the bottom of the second on an RBI single by Miller. FSU loaded the bases with one-out off Van Grouw on a single to right by Winston, a hit-by-pitch to Giovanny Alfonzo and a single to right by Sansone. Miller came through with a bloop single to left to plate Winston and give the Seminoles a 3-2 lead.
FSU pushed its lead to 4-2 in the fourth when Winston scored his second run of the evening. The Seminole right fielder led off the inning with a walk, moved to third on a double by Sansone and scored when Wake Forest relief pitcher Jack Fischer unleashed a wild pitch.
Van Grouw's night came to a close after giving up Sansone's double. The senior right hander was charged with four runs, three earned, in 3.1 innings of work.
The Seminoles broke the game open in the fifth with four runs to increase their lead to 8-2. Sansone registered the big hit in the inning clearing the bases with a two-run single to left plating Smit and Winston. Alfonzo also scored on the play courtesy of a throwing error by the Wake Forest left fielder. McGee got things going in the inning with a double to left and scored two batters later on Smit's RBI double to right.
The Demon Deacons cut the deficit to 8-4 with two runs in the eighth off Smith. Jack Carey reached on an infield single to short but then advanced to second on a throwing error by Alfonzo. Brett Armour brought Carey home one batter later on an RBI double down the line in left. Smith struck out Conway for the last batter he would face as Martin went to the bullpen and brought on Billy Strode. The Seminole southpaw gave up an RBI double to Andrew Williams and then a single to Grant Shambley before retiring the side in the top of the eighth getting Stephens to groundout to second.
Wake would not go quietly in the ninth scoring two runs, one earned, off Coles. The Deacs manufactured three hits in the inning including a double by Pat Blair and back-to-back singles by Carey and pinch hitter Charlie Morgan.
Florida State and Wake Forest will wrap-up the series on Sunday, April 28 at 1:00 p.m. The game will broadcast live on ESPN3. Fans can listen to the game on the Seminoles.com All-Access player and locally on 100.7 FM. As always, Seminole fans can follow the Noles on twitter @FSU_Baseball and remember to like the Seminoles on Facebook (www.facebook.com/FSUBaseball). Live stats will be available via gametracker.


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