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Telematics Update: Spotify Sets its Sights on the Car Radio
As app development issues across the automotive platforms are being solved, and connectivity increases, it has made it easier for content providers such as Spotify to consider this route to customers. Spotify would look to use the car's connected technology and an inbuilt app to provide their radio service over the internet, allowing its users to listen to their favourite music on the road. Spotify's movements reflects a growing interest in the automotive market as a platform for apps and a new way to engage with consumers.
On Wednesday this week, London played host to the Apps World Conference, Europe's largest focused apps conference to date. Telematics Update's Managing Director, Precksha Saksena-Sood, spoke on an automotive panel, alongside BMW and Ford, and addressed how apps are becoming integrated into the vehicle. She noted, "Solutions are now being launched that allow for app development across platforms. This means the complexities for development in the auto-industry are rescinding and opening the gates for an automotive apps ecosystem".
The automotive vertical presents a new and intriguing avenue for content providers and app developers. In light of this Telematics Update has organized the Content and Apps for Automotive USA 2012 Conference in San Diego, CA (December 4-5) which focuses on the roadblocks for integrating apps into the vehicle. Representatives from Spotify, Facebook, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, NPR, Toyota and Honda will discuss the potential of the car as the next mobile platform for apps.
Content and Apps for Automotive USA 2012 will bring together industry executives and thought leaders to share knowledge and create new business relationships in the automotive and apps community. An independently researched program and a world renowned collection of more than 30 expert speakers will address key issues in the development of content and apps for automotive.
Executive representatives from the automaker, app development, platform provider and wireless technology communities will meet to discuss:
– Solutions to suit new cloud-based technologies and captivate a new realm of consumers
– How vehicle-centric apps can be used to create compelling auto-focussed offerings and transform CRM
– Assess the impact of HTML5 on IVI and in-vehicle content
Companies that have signed up so far include Microsoft, Chrysler, Pandora, Hyundai, Toyota, Pioneer, Nokia, Ericsson, BMW, Sprint and many more.
For the complete Content and Apps for Automotive USA 2012 conference program and speaker line-up, access the e-brochure at:
Register before October 12th and save $200 on your conference pass: secure.telematicsupdate.com/content-services-mobile-apps/register.php
Or, contact the Telematics Update team at email@example.com
"This is a recommended event for all creating and supporting automotive content and applications. I was able to get up to speed quickly on the hot topics and future concerns of the industry" – Microsoft
For more information contact the Conference Director on the details below:
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There's something oddly funny about the cluelessness of liberal media companies when their ratings fall or their subscriptions collapse. They just refuse to admit, even consider that the business problem could be (at least in part) their own incessant liberal agitating. Instead, they seem to double down and make things even worse.
ABC's Sunday show "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" could never beat NBC, so what did the ABC brain trust do? They promoted the Bill Clinton spin artist to an everyday anchor job on "Good Morning America." Then they doubled down and replaced him with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who is married to another Bill Clinton spin artist, Jamie Rubin. Can it get more insular?
Here's another case in point: Newsweek's subscriptions collapsed a couple of years back. How could it not be (at least in part) the umpteen Obama-worshipping cover stories that caused some subscribers to cancel? Then they really abandoned the "News" half of their title and wrote cover stories like "We're All Socialists Now" and "Is Your Baby Racist?"
Newsweek was put on the market, and the market has spoken: a $1 sale.
Washington Post Company chieftain Donald Graham wasn't going to let the unwashed "rabble" of journalism win this Cracker Jack prize. So he turned away the conservatives at Newsmax magazine, as well as the publishers of the National Enquirer and TV Guide. "In seeking a buyer for Newsweek, we wanted someone who feels as strongly as we do about the importance of quality journalism," Graham said in a statement. That means nobody broke up into laughter in front of him over whether the notion of "quality journalism" is demonstrated by racist-baby exclusives.
Of course, the Washington Post wasn't going to take that dollar (and unload its obligations) with some conniving Murdoch. They obviously wanted another liberal elitist to take the reins, and so they accepted the bid of Sidney Harman, the husband of Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. This passed with flying colors for radicals like Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, who hailed him on Twitter as a "decent & longtime liberal."
Twitter also contained lots of mockery. Jim Geraghty of National Review joked: "Sidney Harman bought Newsweek, the institution, for $4.95 less than the cost of Newsweek, the print edition." And: "Newsweek's cover story next week is 'MERCIFUL ATHENA: How Jane Harman balances toughness and tenderness in a dangerous world.'"
Mr. Harman has donated $85,000 to the Democratic National Committee (most recently $25,000 in 2004). He's also contributed to liberal politicians from Ted Kennedy to Barbara Boxer to Geraldine Ferraro. There's only one Republican on the list, Scott McInnis of Colorado in 2001. As for the potential that Harman would do his wife's bidding, there are occasions where both Harmans contributed to Democrats at the same time, according to federal election records. Both donated to leftist Mark Green on July 9, 1997; to Ellen Tauscher on Feb. 6, 1998; to Max Cleland on June 29, 2001; to Paul Wellstone on Aug. 21, 2002; to Joe Lieberman on March 31, 2003; and to John Kerry on April 16, 2003.
Even without the major conflict of interest that the owner of Newsweek is married to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Harman has liberal-elite credentials. He was president of Friends World College, a "worldwide experimental Quaker" peace college, in the early 1970s. He's on the board of the Aspen Institute. He was also an undersecretary of commerce under Jimmy Carter and is a trustee emeritus of the Carter Center and a former board member of the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change.
But the media elite still sold this unconvincingly as one "centrist" selling to another. Mike Allen of Politico relayed Donald Graham "felt comfortable with Harman's centrist politics, and was comforted by the idea of selling to a stalwart of the Washington establishment."
This is the magazine that couldn't send one greenhorn reporter to the scene of the earthquake in Haiti this year, choosing instead to rely for its "quality journalism" on a cover story written by (and about) President Obama. Two months later, they awarded their cover story to Michelle Obama to publicize her initiative on childhood obesity. With this kind of shilling for the White House, it won't be at all shocking if Sidney Harman's Newsweek seems run by a left-wing activist. That would mean the status quo is intact.
But that wouldn't mean that Newsweek will stop losing money. This ship is still sinking, and the captains have no plans to plug the leaks.

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No one would ever mistake Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz for a generic rom-com. It's too packed with highly specific, often flagrantly odd details, from the way married couple Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen playfully pillow-talk in goofy voices into each other's eyeballs to the scene where Williams cracks up during a water-aerobics class with Rogen's sister (Sarah Silverman), and eventually gets publicly shamed for her lack of bladder control. The form of the movie is familiar—person in stable-but-stagnant relationship meets someone new and begins to question everything—but actor-turned-writer/director Polley (following up her remarkable 2006 directorial debut, Away From Her) both injects new life into the formula and loses her way somewhat by adding thick levels of idiosyncrasy. Take This Waltz is simultaneously a coming-of-age film, a love story, a breakup story, and an indie quirkfest, and it tries to do so many things at once that it can't hit many of its marks cleanly. But at least it's never boring, and rarely predictable.
Williams stars as a freelance writer comfortably married to Rogen, a cookbook author who spends most of his time experimenting with chicken recipes. Their partnership is close and familiar, characterized by baby talk, wrestling, and the kind of private verbal games that spring up between couples, like their discomfiting habit of describing creative ways they'd like to mutilate each other. But their toxic cuteness curdles when Williams meets neighbor Luke Kirby, a quieter, more intense man whose habit of undermining her and putting her down somehow draws her. There's nothing particularly dark or domineering about Kirby, who banters along with her, but he's franker and more aggressive than Rogen, and his conversation comes without a sense of childish play, and with distinct sexual undertones. (Or overtones, during a sedately erotic scene where he builds a sexual fantasy between the two of them over drinks.) In some ways, he's a Mild Pixie Dream Guy, full of his own twee idiosyncrasies—he's a rickshaw-puller by day and an artist in secret—and newly arrived in the world, free of backstory or friends of his own, ready to pull Williams from her stasis.
Early in the film, Williams pretends to need a wheelchair in order to get preferred boarding and a helpful attendant on a plane trip; when Kirby calls her on her behavior, she admits to hating travel because she doesn't like "being in between things," with the risk of missing connections or getting lost. That conversation forms the all-too-obvious backbone of the film, as she tries to choose between Rogen and Kirby, but without any of the clarity a film like this usually suggests. Both men are troubled and complicated, with needs and barriers, and Williams is no prize herself. Caught in a place of possible contentment between childhood and adulthood, but suddenly seeing new options, she's confused, contradictory, and sometimes outright off-putting. And Polley doesn't glamorize anyone present; Williams, so polished and beautiful in My Week With Marilyn, looks like a real person here, with shiny skin and puffy eyes. The camera sees her, like everyone else, flaws and all.
The general problem with Take This Waltz is that everyone's flaws pile up to a distracting degree. Kirby is periodically snide and hateful; Williams is erratic and more than willing to inconvenience other people for her own comfort; Rogen, while dialed back considerably from his more manic roles, is a variation on the smug man-child he plays so often. Even Silverman has to contend with melodramatic, plot-provoking alcoholism. The film is so obsessed with small detail and drawn-out, atypical conversations on broad but symbolically significant topics that the big picture goes fuzzy. In particular, it's unclear why exactly Kirby is attracted to a woman who's so far from maturity, and so unwilling to take the next steps, and why Williams is so quick to take his mocking as a come-on. Their relationship, composed as it is of odd little moments, is almost as unpleasant as her marriage to Rogen. Polley gives her film a rich texture, filling each scene with background characters and a busy sonic landscape of jangling music, barking dogs, and buzzing insects. Her sense of smallness is admirable, and speaks to a filmmaker unwilling to coast on familiar tropes and obvious characterizations. But the fine focus makes for an unbalanced experience, where all the little pieces never fully add up into a coherent whole.


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A former Cato colleague, Will Wilkinson, made one of the most astute and powerful observations I have ever read when he wrote that, "…the more power the government has to pick winners and losers, the more power rich people will have relative to poor people."I thought about this statement when I read a column today by muckraking journalist Tim Carney, who discusses how former Republican Senator Bill Frist is advising his fellow GOPers to surrender and give up the fight against Obamacare. But, as Tim warns, Frist is not an impartial observer. He is getting rich (or richer, to be more accurate) by helping special interests line their pockets by taking advantage of the government's added power over the health care sector.
If you're a Republican, and you don't want the media to pry into your financial conflicts of interest, there used to be a simple method: support Democratic big-government policies. The latest Republican to try this rule is Bill Frist. …as I wrote in my column last year:
Frist is a partner in a private investment firm that bets on health care companies — and on regulation…. So Frist gets rich by helping pick the health care companies that will get rich. Now he's backing Obamacare — and winning praise for it.
Look at some of the language on Cressey & Co's webpage. "The Cressey & Company strategy applies unique insights and experience to produce extraordinary results" [emphasis added]. What "unique insights" do you think Frist provides? Another page on the site gives us a hint: "With deep expertise in the healthcare reimbursement and regulatory environments, the Cressey & Company team has invested in almost every for-profit niche of healthcare." Stein noted Frist's conflicts of interest, but don't expect the rest of the media to be as thorough — after all, last year, Frist got a free pass as did health-care lobbyist Bob Dole. Sharing the stage with Frist was Tom Daschle, a K Street consultant for many health-care companies. The venue: The Bipartisan Policy Center. That's a clue — if you hear the word "bipartisan," there's a good chance everyone on the marquee is getting paid.
Tim's work on these issues is first rate, and you should follow what he writes – but only if you have a strong stomach and low blood pressure. Why? Because if you follow his work, you will understand that the worst forms of redistribution in Washington are the ones that 1) take place behind closed doors, and 2) transfer money from ordinary people to the rich and powerful.
This is the essential point of my video linking big government to corruption, though I wasn't as succinctly eloquent of Will Wilkinson or as exhaustively detailed as Tim Carney.


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This time around, the head of the Russian chapter of this perversion, Nikolai Alexeyev, allied with two paramount revolutionaries of perversion, the American Andy Thayer and the UK's Peter Tatchell, attempted to gather a flash crowd and make an unauthorized parade of perversion on the streets of Moscow. What is a common sight in the capitals and major cities of the West, men doing unspeakable things with each other (and women with women) in an attempt to shock and pervert the minds of those who watch their self centered love of themselves and hatred of God, has never and will never happen in Russia.
Russia had its experience with anything goes culture, something I am sure the West is absolutely not aware of, in the 1920s of early Soviet rule. Yes, homosexuality was the rage, the family as a unit died, birth plummeted, abortions soared and all was fair game. By 1928, the statistics were in and Russia was dieing and dieing fast. Not only would she not recover the losses of World War One and the Civil War, but she would die as a society and a nation. Being the only power in town, the Soviets acted quickly and brutally and restored what should not have been destroyed (a destruction that started with the murder of the Tsar and his family): the family unit, albeit, minus God.
So knowing this history, our history, is it any surprise that the office of the Moscow city government stated that: "Moscow has never had gay parades and never will" Mr. Sergei Tsoi, the spokesman for city hall, added: "not only destroy morals within our society, but consciously provoke disorder"
My hat is off to Mr. Luzkov, the governor of Moscow, who not only rebuilt the city, fought corruption and turned Moscow into one 0f the biggest, most commercialized, yet greenest and prosperous cities in the world (I dare say at rank or better then New York City and Moscow does not stink of urine, unlike...) but has defended Russian culture against these Western perversions.
Here, I will put a shameless plug for Moscow, a beautiful city, full of history, culture, green and capitalism. It is a pity so many of the West have forever the images of Soviets past in their mind when it comes to Moscow, or most other Russian cities, even twenty years later.
Indeed, Mr. Tsoi is very correct, for the organizers of the 70 persons flash mob parade, of which 40 including the organizers, were arrested, had called upon the audiences of the Eurovision event, a larger percentage of which is homosexual, to come and rally with them. The BBC was quoted as saying "(They) chose Eurovision event for demonstration because it traditionally has large gay following." The audience proved smarter.
But what were/are these social perverts trying to accomplish in Russia? Why nothing more then getting their "rights", Gay rights...does not sound to vulgar on the surface, does it? But let us dig deeper into these "rights". What rights do they want? Right to do what they want in the bedroom? They already have it. Right to vote? They have it. Right to live peacefully, pursue wealth, choose (or rather in their case, reject) God? They have it. So what rights?
Why the rights of the 1 to 2% to shove their perversion down the throats of a whole society and to silence the free speech of any who dare to question this chosen minority. That is exactly the "rights" they have in the West, a post-Christian, God hating society as a whole, which sides with perversion and takes away, daily more and more, the very basic free speech of those who follow God and His views. The rights they seek is to destroy the meaning of marriage to include them. It is to force the school systems (in some Western nations, including parts of the US) to start indoctrinating the children as early as kindergarten, that their perversion is very good and ok. They have gotten the right to shut down churches, or at least silence them, that criticize their perversion and self love. And of course, the absolute "right" to silence any talk about the facts that their life choice is the most destructive short of a third world drug addiction.
The American Andy Thayer was quoted as stating, in Moscow: "international folks he knew would help raise the profile of the event for the international press."
Mr Thayer went on, with his out of this planet ideas that:
I've got news for you, Mr. Thayer, good news for us, crappy news for you: the vast, as in well over 80%, of Russians are disgusted by these Western perverts and their Russian counterparts and chapters. Our Church, unlike the West's, is ascendant and as more and more Russians find Christ, the support for homosexuality will only decline from low to all but non-existent. Keep quiet and about your business and no one will bother you. We will pity you and your bunch of lost souls. Get in our faces to shove your perversions down our throats and the reaction will be swift and brutal and not at the least to your liking. We are not the spineless masses in the post Christian West, who may find you the perverts you are, but are to cowardly, living in their police states, to say it. The West may have no qualms about bombing and killing women and children in other lands or sacrificing its faith for "progressiveness" while reading the rest of us morality lectures, but we are not the West.
As for what the West and "international" opinion thinks of our culture, frankly, the vast majority of us could not and would not give a bigger damn. That this crowd appealed now 5 times to the European Court of Human Rights is supposed to scare us? I am sorry, but I forgot when Europe conquered Holy Russia and made us a vassal of its kangaroo courts of human "rights". Russia is a sovereign state and our culture is more ancient then the modern Western culture, which is dieing, while ours is thriving.
Simply put, we will not kneel at your "enlightenment", we will never surrender our faith or pervert it to accept your sin. We will simply be the dark age Russians, thriving in our Russia, while the "enlightened" West corrodes and collapses. And every time you come to enlighten us with your parades, you will meet the same police wagon waiting for you.


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I haven't done a post about London in while, and I love sharing my adventures in the city with you, and places that I love. This time, I went to St Paul's Cathedral, which is a beautiful, peaceful place. Oddly enough, even though I've been in London for 8 years, I hadn't actually gone inside this beautiful place before.
There has been a church on the site of St Paul's for about 1400 years, with the current building being built a few decades after the Great Fire of London which devastated London in 1666. It's designed by Christopher Wren, who was an incredible architect, and is quite Italianate for an Anglican church, which made it a little controversial in it's day. It's beautiful dome is a well known and much loved icon on the London skyline.
The building itself is full of history and story, and is quite huge. There are certain areas off limits to the public, but you can apply to see them or take a look at them on the virtual tour on St Paul's website (HERE). One of which is an incredibly beautiful library. It's also worth timing your visit to arrive when the bells are rung, they're a quintessentially London sound.
There are few areas inside this building where you're allowed to take pictures, which is quite nice, as it's nice to just be there, but I did take a few pictures inside to share with you.
The Cathedral has three levels, the crypt underneath, the ground floor, which is the cathedral proper, and then the dome, where there are three galleries, where you can see a view over London, if you're brave enough to climb the winding and narrow stairs.
Inside, there is so much, everywhere you look. Art works and monuments, all of which have their own story and significance. You enter in the nave, which is soft coloured marble, down the sides are memorials, and then in the centre is the dome, which is intricate and heavily decorated.
It's hard to describe how beautiful and calm it is under the dome. At this part of the cathedral, huge mosaics and paintings adorn the ceiling, and you can look through in beautiful carved choir down to the sanctuary. I'm not religious at all, but it's very beautiful.
Inside there are many monuments and memorials, many to those who gave their lives and fell during war. It's hard to capture the glow of the light as it comes through the windows and illuminates the statues. They're all incredibly moving and lifelike, incredible works of art, showing very dramatic scenes of battle, each with their inscription.
There are some interesting motifs on the memorials, I loved this lion because he looked so fierce, but each has it's own symbols and there are scenes of battle and ships on the ocean, angels and symbols of strange places here.
The Whispering Gallery is a really famous part of the building, and is located in the dome. You enter a flight of stairs, seen above, and make your way up. You can't take pictures up there, but you can see in greater detail the beautiful paintings in the dome, which depict the life of St Paul. It's name comes from it's unusual effect: when you whisper against the wall, the sound carries perfectly round and can be heard perfectly by person across the space from you. It's quite incredible to witness, sitting there looking up, and being surrounded by ghostly whispers of visitors.
Under the cathedral, is the crypt where you'll find some beautiful pieces of monuments that survived the Great Fire, as well as the resting places of Nelson, Wellington, Churchill, Florence Nightingale, and many other incredible people. It's quite moving to stand there, amongst so much greatness and so much sacrifice. Oddly, the crypt also contains a cafe, which is a wonderful thing, because they do a delicious blueberry cake and sandwiches, much needed after taking everything in, and yet it feels a little strange to buy an iced latte there.


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The Details
Was anyone dying to see yet another movie preaching about how, beneath the slick surface of suburban homes, there lies an unseen malice? Yeah, me neither. "The Details" (available on VOD outlets as well as in theaters,) originally premiered at Sundance in 2011, but it feels more like an offering from Sundance 1997.
Opening with a shot that burrows beneath the torn-up sod of the main character's dream-home - it feels more "American Beauty" than "Blue Velvet," positing this as a bad rip-off of a bad rip-off - the film ends up wasting away a crew of wonderful character actors in favor of focusing on an over-plotted script that seems to take pleasure in vilifying everyone except its white male middle class protagonist. "The Details" is focused on anything but.
And if director Jacob Aaron Estes' shots are ripping off "Blue Velvet," his script is all about knocking off Alexander Payne. Call this "Election for Dummies." We've got the white-bread protagonist - Tobey Maguire as Dr. Jeff Lang - along with an introductory monologue that lays out a number of seemingly disconnected elements. We see his charming-but-sexless marriage with Elizabeth Banks, we see his menagerie of respectable friends, we see his reliable occupation, we see his favorite pornographic website, we see his slightly condescending friendship with a basketball buddy at the gym (played by Dennis Haybert and his incredible beard), and hell, we even see his kidney.
No points are scored for predicting that it all comes together to send his life to hell by the time the credits roll.
For the most part, the connections are as predictable as they are perfunctory. Maguire gets a bit antsy, having not had sex in six months, and calls up friend Kerry Washington in lieu of one of his online hookers (their sex scene, set to "Shoop," only confirms my suspicion that this film time-traveled here from the 1990s.) He's quickly blackmailed by her husband - angry Ray Liotta, naturally - forcing Maguire to take out a mortgage (unbeknownst to Banks) and sit through an overacted moralizing monologue that severely undercuts the Liotta character's status as a badass.
For a moment it seems like a movie depicting Tobey Maguire as the worst human being to ever walk the planet - not a terrible premise - but then it begins to take his side. He listens to Liotta's pontifications; he begins to become a better man; he shows honest sympathy to the crazy cat lady next door played by Laura Linney (he fucks her too); he even donates his kidney to the deeply in-need Haybert.
That all these decisions come back to bite him in the ass seem to suggest that, perhaps, he should've remained as ruthlessly dishonest as he was in the opening scenes. So, less than a darkly comedic character study or a look beneath the shiny veneer of suburbia, "The Details" instead comes off as a film about how much it sucks having to deal with women and minorities.
It doesn't help that, for all the visual depictions of diving 'under the surface', this film is as sanitized as the stereotyped suburban housewife. The screaming matches feel like a middle-school performance of Eugene O'Neill. You can tell Estes was proud of himself for doing things like staging conversational scenes in a bathroom while Elizabeth Banks takes a piss. But all that proves is that he's watched "Eyes Wide Shut" a hundred times; it doesn't make his terrible dialogue - "What I deserve," says Maguire in a moment that grasps at introspection and comedy while achieving neither, "is for a piano to fall out of the sky and land on my head" - any more interesting.
The film finally reaches an interesting ending 80-minutes when Maguire, stranded at a ceremony intended to celebrate him, is forced to accept the fact that he's better at being an admired shithead than he is at being a self-satisfied martyr. So of course, the film feels the need to go on another 22 minutes and really bash us in the head with its themes and smug script.
Saddest of all is a late-in-the-game sequence where Maguire comes clean: basically recounting the entire events of the film to Banks. What we see on this oft-underused actress' face isn't acting. It's a woman listening to a plot and realizing, slowly but surely, that she's in a shitty movie.
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- African populations are structured today, why would they be otherwise at the time of the emergence of Homo sapiens?
- Africa has a great deal of ecological variability, so the emergence and spread of H. sapiens from some region of the continent is consistent with the presence of other H. species elsewhere
- Africa has an extremely long hominin record, and a diverse climate. It is inconceivable that archaic H. forms there would simply vanish, as they were well-adapted in their particular niches
- African populations of today show the greatest genetic diversity: but, to what extent is that a consequence of them being the ur-humans, and to what extent is it the product of admixture between distantly related H. populations in a multiregional model?
- The palaeoanthropological record has important lacunae in much of tropical Africa where conditions for preservation are extremely unfavorable; so, it is possible that there are as of yet undetected H. populations that lived there
- Even the fossils we do have do not paint a picture consistent with the naive Out-of-Africa model. For example, H. sapiens idaltu (Herto) was hailed as our ~150ky ancestor when it was published, only to lose that title by the redating of Omo to ~195ky. Omo is more modern than Herto anatomically, so this is consistent with the idea of modern humans not being the "only game in town", when they make their entrance
- Indeed, unquestionably modern, but archaic-looking forms persist in the available record down to a few thousand years ago, such as the Fish Hoek and Boskop samples
Hammer and his colleagues argue that roughly 2% of the genetic material found in these modern African populations was inserted into the human genome some 35,000 years ago. They say these sequences must have come from a now-extinct member of the Homo genus that broke away from the modern human lineage around 700,000 years ago.
Hammer said that even though the archaic DNA sequences account for only two or three percent of what is found in modern humans, that doesn't mean the interbreeding wasn't more extensive.We must note that detection of archaic admixture is a bit like detective work. For ancient DNA, it involves dealing with contamination and damaged DNA; for inferring admixture from modern DNA it involves statistical modeling and is inhibited by drift (which removes all evidence of admixture) and recombination (which breaks up archaic segments that introgressed long ago into small chunks in present-day humans).
"It could be that this represents what's left of a more extensive archaic genetic content today. Many of the sequences we looked for would be expected to be lost over time. Unless they provide a distinct evolutionary advantage, there is nothing keeping them in the population and they drift out."
In a next step, Hammer's team wants to look for ancient DNA regions that conferred some selective advantage to the anatomically modern humans once they acquired them.
"We think there were probably thousands of interbreeding events," Hammer said. "It happened relatively extensively and regularly."
- Small chunks of DNA are more difficult to assign to a modern or archaic origin; a long stretch of DNA with multiple substitutions relative to most modern humans can be proven not to have arisen by simple mutation in a conventional OoA timeframe, but this becomes increasingly difficult the smaller the segment
- Recombination breaks up DNA into smaller chunks with the passage of time; given enough time there are no longer any identifiable archaic segments but only inconspicuous remnants of archaic DNA that no longer "stand out" as peculiar against the background
- Drift gets rid of modern and archaic DNA alike. A million years from now most of our DNA will be extinct because of it. Archaic admixture that happened a long time ago can no longer be detected.
Interestingly, the Mbuti represent the only population in our survey that carries the introgressive variant at all three candidate loci, despite the fact that no Mbuti were represented in our initial sequencing survey. Given that the Mbuti population is known to be relatively isolated from other Pygmy and neighboring non-Pygmy populations (26), this suggests that central Africa may have been the homeland of a nowextinct archaic form that hybridized with modern humans.
The emerging geographic pattern ofunusual variants discovered here suggests that one such introgressionevent may have taken place in central Africa (wherethere is a very poor fossil record). Interestingly, recent studiesattest to the existence of Late Stone Age human remains witharchaic features in Nigeria (Iwo Eleru) and the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (Ishango) (30–32). The observation that populations from many parts of the world, including Africa, showevidence of introgression of archaic variants (6, 16, 19) suggeststhat genetic exchange between morphologically divergent formsmay be a common feature of human evolution.
So now we are required to believe that homo sapiens interbred first in Eurasia (and the north of Africa) and only afterwards with their closest African neighbors?
Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa
Michael F. Hammer et al.
A long-debated question concerns the fate of archaic forms of the genus Homo: did they go extinct without interbreeding with anatomically modern humans, or are their genes present in contemporary populations? This question is typically focused on the genetic contribution of archaic forms outside of Africa. Here we use DNA sequence data gathered from 61 noncoding autosomal regions in a sample of three sub-Saharan African populations (Mandenka, Biaka, and San) to test models of African archaic admixture. We use two complementary approximate-likelihood approaches and a model of human evolution that involves recent population structure, with and without gene flow from an archaic population. Extensive simulation results reject the null model of no admixture and allow us to infer that contemporary African populations contain a small proportion of genetic material (≈2%) that introgressed ≈35 kya from an archaic population that split from the ancestors of anatomically modern humans ≈700 kya. Three candidate regions showing deep haplotype divergence, unusual patterns of linkage disequilibrium, and small basal clade size are identified and the distributions of introgressive haplotypes surveyed in a sample of populations from across sub-Saharan Africa. One candidate locus with an unusual segment of DNA that extends for >31 kb on chromosome 4 seems to have introgressed into modern Africans from a now-extinct taxon that may have lived in central Africa. Taken together our results suggest that polymorphisms present in extant populations introgressed via relatively recent interbreeding with hominin forms that diverged from the ancestors of modern humans in the Lower-Middle Pleistocene.
- Fossil evidence for the origin of Homo sapiens
- Is multi-regional evolution dead?
- Deep ancestors of human DNA compatible with structured African population
- Is Jebel Irhoud the Father of mankind?
- Human population history from single human genomes (Li & Durbin 2011)
- Homo heidelbergensis and the Ceprano calvarium


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These are the State Assembly districts that will have primaries on Tuesday, Sept. 12. (Incumbents' names are in boldface)
District 22 (Flushing): Democratic primary
• Julia Harrison
• Terrence Park
• Ellen Young
Two years ago, Jimmy Meng surprised many political observers when he beat an incumbent in the Democratic primary and became the first Asian American in the state legislature. Now, Meng has decided not to run again because of health problems. His daughter, Grace Meng, wanted the seat but her bid faltered when she was thrown off the ballot because she did not live in the district.
Remaining in the race are Young, a former aide to City Councilmember John Liu; Park, a district leader who successfully challenged efforts to disqualify him; and Harrison, a former City Council member. With Harrison having been charged with making anti-Asian comments in the past -- and with two Asian candidates running - race and the changing character of Flushing promise to be key issues.
For more, see Gotham Gazette's "Ethnic Politics in Changing Flushing." To read the transcript of a debate between the three candidates, click here.
District 25 (Flushing, Whitestone) Democratic primary:
• Morshed Alam
• Rory Lancman
This seat is open, as Brian McLaughlin has decided not to seek re-election. McLaughlin said he wants to devote ore time to his post as leader of New York's Central Labor Council, but he has been investigated - though not charged - for possible involvement in a bid-rigging scheme.
Lancman is an attorney, community board member and Democratic district leader. An environmental scientist for the city, Alam, who is from Bangledsh, bills himself as "a prime example of a new breed of immigrant politicians who are enthusiastic about democracy and are beginning to claim their rightful places in the mainstream of American politics."
For more, see the Queens Chronicle.
District 28 (Forest Hills, Rego Park, Middle Village, Glendale): Republican primary
• Dolores Maddis
• Walter E. Schmidt
In one of only three GOP primaries for state legislature in the city, Maddis, a community activist who has the party's endorsement, and Schmidt, a machinist long involved in politics, are competing for the right to take on incumbent Andrew Hevesi in November. For more, see the Queens Chronicle.
District 39 (Jackson Heights, Corona): Democratic primary
• Carmen Enriquez
• Jose Peralta
Peralta was elected to the Assembly I 2002, when he was only 30 - and before that he worked as an aide to another member of the Assembly. Enriquez is challenging him but little information about her was available.
District 40 (East New York, Brownsville): Democratic primary
• Kenneth Evans
• Diane Gordon
• Winchester Key
Gordon, who was first elected in 2000, has been indicted for taking a bribe (a half a million dollar home) in exchange for helping a developer get a $2 million vacant lot. But according to the Room Eight blog, few in her district seem to know of the criminal charges, which probably bodes well for Gordon. Key served as an aide to Gordon's legislative predeccessor, Ed Griffith. And Evans has held various community service posts, including serving as Brooklyn director of the Urban League.
District 43 (Crown Heights, Flatbush): Democratic primary
• Karim Camara
• Jesse Hamilton
For years, Brooklyn Democratic leader Clarence Norman held this post. But in 2005, following a conviction for soliciting and receiving illegal campaign contributions, Norman had to resign. Since it was too late for a primary, the party organization chose Camara, a reverend and colleague of Clarence Norman's father, to take the fallen leader's place. In the overwhelmingly Democratic district, that virtually guaranteed his election. But this time Camara has an opponent. Hamilton is a longtime employee of the city finance department, comumnity board member and former community school board president.
District 46 (Bay Ridge, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Dyker Heights, Marlboro, Sea Gate): Democratic primary
• Alec Brook-Krasny
• Ari Kagan
This race is to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Adele Cohen. Brook-Krasny, the founder of Fun-o-Rama, a now closed entertainment center, is executive director of the Council of Jewish ?migr? Community Organization. He reportedly has widespread backing and, if he wins, would become the first of the late 20th century wave of Soviet immigrants to hold elected office in New York City. So, presumably, would Kagan, an immigrant from Minsk and journalist.
District 56: (Tompkins Park North, Weeksville, Bedford-Stuyvesant): Democratic primary
• Annette Robinson
• Richard Taylor
A former member of the City Council, Robinson was elected to the Assembly in 2002. With term limits about to end her time on the council, Robinson for all intents and purposes arranged to swap posts with Al Vann, then a member of the Assembly and now a council member. Taylor, a former district leader, ran unsuccessfully against her in 2002.
District 57 (Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, ProspectHeights, Flatbush, parts of Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant): Democratic primary
• William Batson
• Freddie Hamilton
• Hakeem Jeffries
Three candidates are competing in a spirited contest to fill the seat held by Roger Green, who is running for Congress. A major issue in the race is the Atlantic Yards project, with Hamilton believing the arena and apartments will help the district, Batson opposing the development, and Jeffries wanting some changes in the current plan.
For more on the race, see Gotham Gazette's Succeeding Green in Fort Greene - and Beyond.
District 59 (Flatlands, Canarsie, Mill Island, Bergen Beach): Democratic primary
• Abraham Levy
• Alan Maisel
Maisel is a very recent incumbent. He gained his post earlier this year after the previous member of the Assembly, Frank Seddio, left to take a seat on Surrogate's Court -- a seat many charged was the result of political skulduggery. Maisel, an aide to Seddio, then got his boss's job.
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District 60 (eastern shore Staten Island): Republican primary
• Joseph Cammarata
• Anthony C. Xanathis
Two Republicans are vying for the seat being vacated by Republican Assemblymember Matthew Mirones. Xanathis, a lawyer and unpaid former aide to Mirones, has the outgoing assembly member's endorsement and the lead in fundraising. Cammarata has been a teacher, police officer and detetctive. For more on this little-noticed contest, read Gotham Gazette's A Low-Key Race for An Open Seat in Staten Island.
District 68 (Harlem): Democratic primary
• Edward Gibbs
• Adam Clayton Powell IV
• John Ruiz
Powell, the son of legendary congressmember Adam Clayton Powell, has served in the State Assembly since 2000 and, before that, was a member of the City Council. Two years ago, following two rape allegations (Powell was cleared in both cases), Powell fought back aggressive challenges. This year, one of the men who tried last time, fire fighter and district leader John Ruiz, is running again, along with Gibbs.
District 69 (Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights): Democratic primary
• Daniel J. O'Donnell
• Francisco Spies
First elected in 2002, O'Donnell, Rosie O'Donnell's brother, says he is the first openly gay man elected to the State Assembly. Spies ran unsuccessfully for the post in 2002.
District 72 (Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill): Democratic primary
• Francesca Castellanos
• Adriano Espaillat
• Miguel Estrella
Espaillat, the first Dominican elected to a state legislature in the U.S., has served in Albany since 1997. He is facing challenges from Castellanos, a certified rape crisis counselor, immigration counselor, interpreter and tenants activist, and from Estrella.
District 74 (Downtown and Eastside of Manhattan): Democratic primary
• Sylvia Freidman
• Brian Kavanagh
• Juan Pagan
• Esther Yang
How quickly does an incumbent reap the advantages of being an incumbent? Friedman hopes it is merely a matter of months. Last winter, the Democratic Party anointed the schoolteacher, community activist, and former aide to Mark Green as the successor to veteran Assemblymember Steve Sanders. Kavanagh, a longtime city employee and former aide to Councilmember Gale Brewer, wants to oust Friedman before she gets entrenched. He has garnered support from the Times and Citizens Union, the parent organization of Citizens Union Foundation, which publishes Gotham Gazette, while Friedman has won the endorsements of many leading Democrats. Longtime activist Ester Yang and Juan Pagan, who is involved in a number of commuity organizations, are also candidates.
To read a debate among Kavanagh, Friedman and Yang click here.
District 77 (Highbridge, Morrisania): Conservative primary
• Anthony Curry
• Kathleen Larkins
This is the one Conservative Party contest on the ballot Tuesday.
District 79 (Morrisania, Claremont, Crotona-Mapes, Longwood, Charlotte Gardens, Belmont): Democratic primary
• Michael Benjamin
• Sigfredo Gonzalez
• Wilbert Tee Lawton
In 2003, Benjamin, a Bronx Board of Elections official, became one of those instant incumbents when the Democratic Party chose him to replace Gloria Davis, who quit the Assembly and plead guilty to bribery charges. He won re-election in 2004 and considered a run against Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum last year. This year, still in the Assembly, Benjamin faces a challenge from Gonzalez, who also used to work at the Board of Elections and, no doubt based on what he learned there, submitted 6,000 signatures -- more than 10 times the required 500 for the post. District leader Lawton is also on the ballot.
District 80 (Pelham Parkway, Morris Park, Pelham Bay, Van Cortlandt Village, Norwood, Bedford Park): Democratic primary
Naomi Rivera, the daughter of Bronx Democratic leader and State Assemblymember Jose Rivera and the sister of City Councilmember Joel Rivera, is finishing her first term in the State Assembly. Thompson, a retired police detective and Community Board member, ran against her two years ago. Â


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 6, 2012) – The ETSU women's tennis team continued its home success with a, 7-0, shutout of Mercer on Saturday at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center.
The win extends ETSU's (9-7, 6-1 A-Sun) home winning streak to 24-consecutive matches dating back to 2009, and is also the Bucs' fourth sweep in a row and fifth-consecutive win overall. Senior Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) highlighted the day by taking over sole possession of fifth place in all-time singles victories with her 87th career win in a, 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-3), defeat of Mercer's (2-10, 0-6 A-Sun) Lucie Payrat. The win also moves the Madrid native's team-leading season record to 22-9, 10-6 dual.
"The team played well, and it was a good to see Paula [Jaime] move up for most wins at ETSU," assistant coach Travis Sandlant said. "Tomorrow will be a good challenge for us, and we need to be ready for a long, tough match against Kennesaw State."
ETSU got the day started with its fifth straight doubles sweep.
Jaime and fellow senior Marine Wieliczko (Rouen, France) took care of business at No. 1 doubles, defeating Payrat and Jennifer Lada, 8-6. The other two doubles matches featured the No. 2, senior pairing of Karina Kedzo (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) and Diana Navrostska (Lviv, Ukraine), as well as the No. 3, underclassmen pairing of sophomore Giulia Andreazza (Balneario Camboriu, Brazil) and freshman Jessica Brumit (Elizabethton, Tenn.). Both duos won in convincing fashion, with Kedzo and Navrostska cleaning up Amanda Bertani and Melanie Schumilas, 8-0, while Andreazza and Brumit blew by Sarah Hannah and Katherine Cooper, 8-1.
Aside from Jaime's three set match, the other five singles points were all decided in straight sets.
Andreazza moved her singles record to 13-12 by defeating Lada, 6-3, 6-4, while ETSU combined to drop just two games through the No. 3, 4, 5 and 6 singles matches combined. Wieliczko took out Bertani, 6-1, 6-0, at No. 3 and Navrostska defeated Hannah, 6-0, 6-1, in the No. 5 match. Kedzo and freshman Kelsey Williams (Sunbury, Australia) each won their third-consecutive matches with, 6-0, 6-0, decisions against Schumilas and Cooper, respectively.
The Bucs hit the courts again on Saturday when they look for their 25th home win in a row as Kennesaw State visits the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center.
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Forgoing article: #18 Believing in inhuman or human person
The Anointed begotten Son of God
43. A compromising fact
Christian tradition from the second century embarked on an amazing embellishment of the biblical story which obscured Jesus' Messianic Sonship and humanity. Once the Son was given a pre-history as coequal and coessential with his Father, the unity of God was threatened and monotheism was compromised, though every effort was made to conceal this with the protest that God was still one, albeit no longer one Person, the Father, but one "Essence," comprising more than one Person. But this was a dangerous shift into Greek philosophical categories alien to the New Testament's Hebrew theologyand creeds (cp. John 17:3; 5:44; Mark 12:28ff).
""And this is everlasting life, that they should know You, the only true Elohim, and יהושע Messiah whom You have sent." (John 17:3 The Scriptures 1998+)
""How are you able to believe, when you are receiving esteem from one another, and the esteem that is from the only Elohim you do not seek?" (John 5:44 The Scriptures 1998+)
"And one of the scribes coming near, hearing them reasoning together, knowing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "Which is the first command of all?" And יהושע answered him, "The first of all the commands is, 'Hear, O Yisra'ĕl, יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one. 'And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first command. "And the second, like it, is this, 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.' There is no other command greater than these." And the scribe said to Him, "Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one Elohim, and there is no other besides Him." (Mark 12:28-32 The Scriptures 1998+)
Several other "adjustments" became necessary under the revised doctrine of God. John was made to say in certain other verses what he did not say. This trend is well illustrated by the New International Version in John 13:3, 16:28 and 20:17.
"Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;" (John 13:3 NIV)
"I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."" (John 16:28 NIV)
"Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"" (John 20:17 NIV)
In none of these passages does the original say that Jesus was going back to God. In the first two Jesus spoke of his intention to "go to the Father" and in the last of his "ascending" to his Father. The NIV embellishes the story by telling us that Jesus was going back or returning to God. A Son whose existence is traced to his mother's womb cannot go back to the Father, since he has never before been with the Father. Jesus also does not go to a place where he was before as God, to be God again, but he goes "to" his Father to be "with" his Father.
"יהושע, knowing that the Father had given all into His hands, and that He had come from Elohim and was going to Elohim," (John 13:3 The Scriptures 1998+)
""I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father." " (John 16:28 The Scriptures 1998+)
"יהושע said to her, "Do not hold on to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My Elohim and your Elohim.' " (John 20:17 The Scriptures 1998+)
Preceding article: Jesus begotten Son of God #18 Believing in inhuman or human person
To be continued: Before and After (Parts 44 + 45)
- Not sure there exist a god
- Hashem השם, Hebrew for "the Name"
- Monothelitism
- Monotheism: Christelijke monotheïsten
- Reasons that Jesus was not God
- Concerning gospelfaith
- Only one God
- God is one
- God of gods
- How the Coctrine of the Trinity came to the Church or How the Doctrine of the Trinity came to the Church
- How did the Trinity Doctrine Develop
- Historical Development of Trinity
- Summary on trinity
- Trinity function
- Trinity versus Tritheism
- Why the trinity was accepted in Europe
- The Trinity – the truth
- Preexistence in the Divine purpose and Trinity
- For those who have not the rudiments of an historical sense
- How do trinitarians equate divine nature
- 2 Corinthians 5:19 – God in Christ
- One mediator
- Is the Trinity a Biblical Doctrine? + What is the Trinity? + The Father is the Only True God > Restoration Light
- Who is Jesus #1 Introduction
- Who is Jesus #2 Jesus Christ, man who died
- Who is Jesus #4 Clear statements that our heavenly Father is his "God"
- Who is Jesus #6 Jesus prays to God
- Who is Jesus #8 Father greater than Jesus
- Who is Jesus #9 100% or not
- Who is Jesus #12 Conclusion
- Pre-existence of Christ
- Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Knowing rabboni
- Da Vinci Code: Was Jesus Human or Divine?
- The Pagan Influence of The catholic church ……The Pagan Trinity, and Saint B
- Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
- Admittance with Christ
- Gathering with Jesus
- Sayings around God
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The religion of Islam is based on one core belief, that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah. When a person embraces Islam or a Muslim wants to renew or confirm his or her faith, they profess their belief that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah and that Muhammad is His final messenger. Ashadu an la ill laha il Allah wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah, Saying these words, the Testimony of Faith, is the first of five pillars or foundations of the religion of Islam. Belief in God is the first of six pillars of faith.
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The Presonus Central Station's primary function is that of a speaker switcher and source switcher. But it is more than that, offering many signal routing features needed by users of computer based recording systems. It features: two headphone outputs with individual volume controls and Cue/Mix switching, a talkback function with built-in mic and volume control, digital inputs on SPDIF and TOSlink, up to 24/192k DA converters, 30-segment peak/hold LED metering you can see from across the room, mute/dim/mono buttons, speaker trim controls for the three speaker output sets, and a master level control. All the push buttons are lit, allowing the user to easily see signal status and routing through the Central Station.
According to Presonus, the analog signal path is entirely passive, meaning that the unit will add little to no coloration to the signal you pass through it. This is crucial, as the last thing you want is to make mix decisions based on coloration you hear from a speaker switcher.
Speaking of the remote, Presonus offers the CSR-1 as an option for the Central Station. The CSR-1 remote has a talkback push button and built in mic with volume control, input/output select, main volume controls.


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Before the summer of 1991, when I was just 9, I thought I knew everything about baseball – and, if not everything about baseball, everything about the Baltimore Orioles. I grew up going to games with my family. I also tagged along with my father and some of his college friends, one of which played "fantasy baseball." This particular friend was astounded at my ability to recall statistics, trades, etc.
What changed that summer? I rode in a car driven by my father to Cooperstown, New York. We had an old Volkswagen Rabbit (I think) without A/C. I had purchased Pocket Full of Kryptonite (holy crap what a video) before the trip and we listened to it on repeat the entire way – my father must have hated the Spin Doctors.
Anyway, the whole city is amazing, baseball card stores, memorabilia abounds – and that doesn't include the awesome history-rich spectacle that is the Hall of Fame. On this trip, I opened a 1989 Upper Deck pack and received a Ken Griffey, Jr. card. Magic.
Getting to actually go into the Hall was a special thrill. I got my picture taken in-between the plaques of Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson. Then we wandered around and I saw Hoyt Wilhelm. I had no freaking clue who Hoyt Wilhelm was. I had never studied my Candy Maldonado cards apparently (probably because I hated Maldonado even though I sort of liked the Blue Jays teams from the early 90s…Maldonado always seemed to make errors and lollygag. But, I've already written about Maldonado so there's no reason to dwell).
Wilhelm, who pitched as a 48-year-old, had a career that spanned 21 seasons and 2,254 innings and he racked up a bunch of records on the way.
Wilhelm appeared in the fifth most games in history by a pitcher: 1,070, which trails only Dennis Eckersley, Mike Stanton, John Franco and Jesse Orosco – modern day relievers. He also owns the 30th best ERA (2.52) by a pitcher with at least 1,500 IPs. He owns the most career victories in relief: 124 – a record not likely to ever be broken. He also pitched the most innings in relief in MLB history: 1,871.
And that knuckleball was devastating, resulting in the eighth lowest opposing batting average – people hit just .216 off him – a mark better than Randy Johnson. Hell his knuckleball was so good, the Baltimore Orioles created a bigger mitt so catchers could handle it.
And, really, it wouldn't be until he joined the Orioles that his career would take off. He spent eight seasons with the New York Giants, St. Louis, and Cleveland, until the Indians gave up on him and Baltimore claimed him off waivers. He pitched for parts of five years for the Orioles, amassing 14.7 wins above replacement player, a 2.42 ERA and 2.28 K:BB walk rate. Eventually he would be part of a trade that brought the Orioles Luis Apiricio.
Still, Wilhelm is probably most remembered for September 20, 1958 when he threw a no-hitter against the hated Yankees and Mr. Perfect, Don Larsen. The Yankees wouldn't be no-hit for another 45 years.
Then, the following year, on August 6, 1959, Wilhelm almost pitched a no-hitter in relief. Entering the game at the start of the ninth inning, Wilhelm held the White Sox hitless for 8⅔ innings before finally surrendering a hit in the 17th.
Wilhelm also fought in Europe during World War II and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He received the Purple Heart.
I've found my way to a number of Hoyt Wilhelm cards over the years (all pictured here). I realize he's a borderline Hall of Famer, at best, but his career remains terribly fascinating to this day. I stumbled upon his life much the same way I stumbled onto this topic – just cruising through baseball history looking to soak up knowledge. Who knew something good could come from Candy Maldonado?
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Two men accused of raping women they met at bar
Sexual battery charges have been filed against two men who allegedly raped two women they met at a Gainesville bar, bought drinks for and invited to a nearby apartment, Gainesville police reported.
Arrested were Carlos Gabriel Telleria, 21, of 101 NW 10th St.; and Gustavo Adolfo Herdocia, 26, of 1630 NW 2nd Ave.
Telleria has been admitted as a fall student at the University of Florida, transferring from Santa Fe College, while Herdocia is a Santa Fe student, officials at the schools said.
The incident happened about 3 a.m. on Aug. 9 and began earlier at 101 Cantina, a bar in the 1600 block of West University Avenue.
Police reported that two women met Telleria and Herdocia at the bar and that Herdocia was able to get the women wristbands so they could drink alcohol, the arrest reports state. Police later said the women were not old enough to legally drink alcohol.
The women each had one drink and, shortly before closing, had consumed only about half of the drinks but felt completely intoxicated, police said.
Telleria and Herdocia persuaded the women to walk about a block to Herdocia's apartment, the reports state.
Both women told police they awoke from being unconscious about 3 a.m., the reports state. Herdocia was having intercourse with one of the women, while Telleria was having intercourse with the other on the same bed, police reported.
The women describe comprehending what was happening but being unable to move their bodies. The men continued to force the women into various sexual acts in different rooms before one of the women was able to move, got her clothes and eventually assisted the other woman in getting to their car.
Several days later, one of the women received assistance at a women's center in Jacksonville while another got an examination at a hospital.
One of the women had the phone numbers for the men and recorded calls in which both men admitted to having sex with the women but denied spiking their drinks.
Under police questioning, Telleria admitted that he and Herdocia had sex with the women, saying he took advantage of one of the women.
The report states Telleria suspected Herdocia might have drugged the women but wasn't certain.
Herdocia asked to speak with an attorney upon his arrest, according to his arrest report.
GPD said it suspects that Herdocia and Telleria have victimized other women after meeting them at 101 Cantina and is encouraging any victims of Herdocia or Telleria, or anyone with information about their activities at 101 Cantina, to come forward.
Sexual battery victim information is held confidentially by GPD. Detectives can be reached at 393-7670.


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Tomorrow I will be flying to my hometown (Miami) to give a Website Security presentation to a bunch of enthusiastic online professionals at an event called WordCamp. If you're not familiar with these events, they are global events put together by the local populace to focus on a specific platform – WordPress. The event is called WordCamp Miami 2013, if you plan to be there definitely look me up.
I will be presenting at 1400 (EST), also known as 2:00 pm to most.
I will be volunteering at the Happiness Bar right after my talk at 1445 (EST), 2:45 pm.
If you're interested, they are going to be live-streaming the event and you're more than welcome to watch.


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In case you hadn't noticed: as of the 26th, there will be a new cat in town. Along with a release date, Apple unleashed some new information about Leopard. The system requirements are now official: any Intel or PowerPC G5 Mac, or a G4 running at a minimum of 867MHz. Nice knowing you, G3s and sub-867MHz G4s. The minimum RAM is 512MB—but you'll want some more if you intend on actually running applications. And you need a DVD drive plus 9GB disk space. Some of the included applications have additional requirements, such as an external HD (sold separately) for Time Machine.
Apple set a pretty high bar for itself with 200 new features in Tiger. Now, the company is announcing no less than 300+ new features in Leopard. Some of those aren't all that new, because Apple conveniently counts Safari 3.0 and Boot Camp--features that have been available in the respective betas for some time. That, and the first new feature is that you can now right-click on an address in the Address Book to see the address' location in Google Maps. This feature exists in Tiger as well, except that there, it uses MapQuest. Whoopee.
But not all of them are (entirely) lame. Below are some of the features that caught my eye, and you should really take a few moments to visit the new features page yourself. The new features are helpfully grouped by application or theme for your convenience.
- Automator now has UI recording and playback. This lets you record actions in Automator that can be played back later, even to applications that don't support Automator directly.
- Boot Camp can now copy files between your Windows and Mac partitions because "Leopard understands the Windows FAT32 disk format." Maybe Mac OS X 10.6 will be able to read from NTFS partitions, too! </sarcasm>
- A "Movies" Widget lets you play trailers in Dashboard before buying tickets.
- You can sync Dock items using .Mac so the Dock looks the same on all your Macs.
- Dictionary comes with an Apple section, a Japanese-English dictionary, a Japanese dictionary and thesaurus, and "front and back matter" for the New Oxford American Dictionary to help you with your grammar, spelling and pronunciation.
- DVD Player is much improved (and now needs a 1.6GHz CPU for deinterlacing) with a new full screen mode, a scrubbable timeline, time skip (go back or forward 5 seconds), parental controls, and a window that can float above other applications. The video quality should be much improved and "new technology in Leopard can locate and avoid scratched areas of the disc."
- I know what's good for me so I'm skipping the FFinder, except to mention that it has Instant Screen Sharing, letting you take over another Mac over the network. This sounds a lot like a built-in VNC client to me.
- New built-in fonts such as Arial Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, Papyrus Condensed, Wingdings, and braille fonts.
- During the last WWDC keynote—or was it the one before that?—Steve Jobs stressed that Leopard would deliver "the whole package," giving all Leopard users access to things like Front Row that so far only come with certain Macs. However, the system requirements say Front Row needs an Apple Remote, even though it works just fine with the keyboard. (Command-Esc activates it, use the arrow keys and return or space after that.) The interface should now be AppleTV-like. Hopefully Front Row and iTunes now finally agree on whether you've watched a podcast and how far you got in a move or TV show.
- iCal got a big overhaul and supports a flurry of multi-party calendaring features in Leopard. Check it out for yourself if this is something you're interested in. I fear you need a CalDAV server "sold separately" in the form of Leopard Server to fully make use of this, though.
- iChat supports the low-rent green screen effect that Steve and Phil demoed for us recently, and screen sharing to make technical support for friends and family that you talked into getting a Mac a lot easier. There's also tabbed chatting, recording of audio/video chats, more smileys, an iChat hotkey, and "watch for my name." (Yay!) The new iChat also lets you use an animated buddy icon, which Photo Booth will record for you. Yes, more stuff moving on my screen when I'm trying to work, that's what I need.
- Leopard supports Russian and (Iberian) Portuguese localizations and Russian and Danish spell checkers.
- Mail has a whole bunch of new features, most of them previewed before. But I don't think I saw "archive mailbox" mentioned earlier.
- Networking is improved through a new Airport menu that shows you a lock icon for secure networks. TCP now auto-tunes its buffers for better performance. I recently found myself in regular need of better TCP performance so expect a detailed report on this feature.
- Preview can send images to Aperture and iPhoto and has improved color adjustment, image manipulation, and auto levels. It also supports GPS metadata with help from, again, Google Maps.
- On the security front, downloads are now "tagged" so the system can warn you when you execute them (for the first time). There's an application-based firewall, but that only seems to work for incoming connections. It would be nice to stop apps from phoning home and worse (outgoing connections). Applications can be sandboxed so they only get limited access to the file system, network, and other applications. Bonjour, Quick Look and the Spotlight Indexer all run in sandboxes. Library randomization makes sure that remote code execution attacks will be much harder to mount.
- Spotlight lets you search networked Macs and it will act as a calculator: type in an equation and it will "find" the result.
- There are now guest accounts, which are created on-demand and destroyed after logging out so guests always have a clean account.
- There is a system-wide grammar checker to go along with the existing system-wide spell checker.
- Apple was apparently just as impressed with the Sleep Display utility as I was, because Leopard lets you put your display to sleep by parking your mouse pointer in a predefined corner of the screen.
- Unlike the iWork applications, Text Edit has an autosave feature and it supports the Open Document Format—as well as the Microsoft Word 2007 formats—for reading and writing.
- Last but not least, there's too much new stuff to even mention Universal Access.
So even if we correct for Apple's generous counting, there's a good number of solid new features in Leopard. Whether those are worth US$/CAN$/€129 and a 2.5 year wait is something everyone has to answer for him- or herself.


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A HTML5 prototype…
Finally getting around to have a play with HTML5 Canvas – enabled by attending Seb Lee Delisle's excellent CreativeJS course.
I'm impressed with performance from Canvas nowadays – my first sight of it many moons ago left me pretty disappointed – but now it actually feels useful and some pretty impressive visual effects can be achieved without resorting to WebGL.
The prototype I threw together here demonstrates a growing tree, in 3D with numerous branches, leaves, leaf fall, faux-shading and colour phasing. The demo will re-grow a tree on mouse click, and will allow for left and right rotation by means of mouse position (left/right).
To talk through the code a little: The tree is constructed using a recursive buildBranch function. Every branch spawns two new branches, or in the last generation it has a 90% chance of spawning a leaf. The branches are coloured from brown to green related by the recorded generation of the branch.
No 3D libraries were used in this demo – all of the 3D is via a simple scaling calculation for 3D points [ fov / (fov + point.z) ]. This allows for any 3D point to be translated (scaled) onto the 2D canvas.
The Painter's Algorithm (priority fill) is applied via the sorting of all branches and leaves on their mid-point. This means that those furthest away are drawn to screen first.
Shading is applied by mapping colour to the z value of a branch's position. This is very simply applied. There is a related alpha to add a fog effect to the furthest away elements, this gives some subtle but nasty artefacts and could be improved.
When a branch is fully grown the leaves will then appear and grow to their full size. When they fall a sine value is applied to rotation to make it rock as it falls. Leaves will collect on the ground.
Performance is pretty good here, but I did have to restrict the number of branch generations to 9. Of course some of the out-of-the-box features that Flash has such as Glow and Blur filters don't exist – which means work-arounds or approximations have to be used – sound implementation isn't very consistent across browsers – it is still early days, more and more JS will be used across the web, as it is the browser manufacturers will hopefully drive their products into more useful areas and consistent implementations.
The demo is a fast turn-around 'prototype', so not optimal or well formed. Feel free to have a play with the code, offer improvement suggestions or adapt in anyway you wish.
No attempt has been made to cover HTML5 cross-browser issues – so don't expect this to work in IE!
Direct Link: 3D Tree with Leaf Fall


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We are fundamentally dependent on the presence of copper in the cells of the body. Copper is actually part of the body's energy conversion and protective mechanisms against oxygen radicals, as well as part of the immune system, and it also has great importance for the formation of e.g. hormones and neurotransmitters.
It may not look like much, and it is no more than a couple of nanometers in size, but it is nevertheless this copper pump that safeguards the body's cells against copper poisoning. When the individual parts of the copper pump (indicated in different colors) turn in relation to each other, the passage of copper ions is opened and shut in the cell membrane, marked between the grey and turquoise parts in the membrane. Credit: Illustrations: Daniel Mattle and Magnus Andersson
Imbalance in the body's copper level has therefore a number of serious consequences for our health, as can be seen with the disorder Wilson's disease, where the liver accumulates copper in harmful quantities, and the very serious Menkes syndrome, where a congenital defect in the cell's copper charge of key enzymes causes e.g. neurological defects, muscular disorders, low blood pressure and osteoporosis, and is typically fatal within the first three years of life.
Both Menkes syndrome and Wilson's disease are caused by defects in the mechanism that regulates the copper levels in the cells.
A mechanism which researchers at the Danish National Research Centre PUMPkin at Aarhus University have now moved a step closer to understand.
They have shown that the protein that is responsible for the excretion of copper in the cells of the body makes use of a unique transport mechanism.
The results have recently been published in the recognised scientific journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.
"The copper pump is a protein that has the function of removing the toxic surplus of copper from the cells. The protein is located partially inside the cell, and partially in the surrounding cell membrane. The parts of the protein which are located inside the cell function almost as a series of cogs, which interlace with one another. Putting it simply, when the cogs rotate they draw on the part of the protein located in the cell membrane, and in this manner a tiny passage opens and closes through the membrane. The copper is pumped out through the passage," says PhD student Oleg Sitsel, co-author of the article.
Crystallisation shows the protein's function
The copper pump protein that ensures the transport of copper ions through the cell membrane has been mapped by means of crystallisation.
"The protein passes through a phased cycle to perform the pump function.
We have crystallised the protein in different stages and can thus determine precisely when the passage through the cell membrane is open, so the copper ions can be pumped out.
In other words, we have mapped the copper ions' exit route," explains postdoc Pontus Gourdon who is part of the team - which also comprises PhD student Oleg Sitsel, PhD student Daniel Mattle, laboratory technician Tetyana Klymchuk, laboratory technician Anna Marie Nielsen and Professor Poul Nissen - who have delivered Aarhus University's contribution to the study.
The copper pump gets its fuel from the ATP molecule, which supplies the energy for most of the energy-demanding processes in the body.
Bacteria can be polluted with copper
The results cannot at the present time be translated into a specific treatment, but the new knowledge is nonetheless extremely important for the basic understanding of the causes of diseases related to copper imbalances and why they arise.
In addition, our understanding of the mechanisms of the copper pump can also be used to develop new antibiotics, which can be targeted at blocking the copper pump in harmful bacteria and thereby poisoning the bacteria.
"Now knowing how the pump transports copper out through the cell membrane, we are also closer to being able to say how the copper pump can be taken out of service, so that the copper level in the cell reaches toxic levels. This knowledge can be used in the fight against harmful bacteria by preventing them from excreting themselves with their copper," says Oleg Sitsel.
The copper pump protein, which the researchers have studied, is extracted from the bacterium Legionella pneumophila, which normally can cause the deadly Legionnaires' disease, but which is here cloned in a harmless E-coli strain.
In 2011 the basic properties of the copper pump were mapped – also at Aarhus University – but it is not until now that the researchers have shown exactly how copper is released by the pump. There is still some research to be done into the various phases of the copper pump before the entire puzzle is completed.
Source: http://www.au.dk/
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The following analysis of select Idaho real estate markets is provided by Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner. We hope that this information may assist you with making better-informed real estate decisions. For further information about the housing market in your area, please don't hesitate to contact your Windermere agent.
Job growth in Idaho remains fairly strong. Over the past 12 months, the state has added 22,000 new jobs, representing a solid growth rate of 3.1%.
In August, the state unemployment rate was 2.8%, down from 3.1% a year ago. The state is, essentially, at full employment, and it appears my forecast predicting that Idaho would add just over 20,000 new jobs in 2018 will likely come true.
- 6,592 homes were sold during the third quarter, representing a very modest drop of 0.3% from the third quarter of 2017.
- In Northern Idaho, sales again rose the fastest in Bonner County, where they were up by a substantial 28.7% relative to the third quarter of 2017. There were more modest increases in the other two counties. In Southern Idaho, we saw substantial sales growth in the relatively small Payette County but lower sales in Canyon, Ada, and Blaine Counties.
- Demand for housing remains strong, but pending sales saw a modest decline. Listing activity remains at relatively low levels and, given substantial growth in home prices, this may be limiting the ability for some to buy. I am hoping inventory levels will rise, but it is unlikely that this will happen until next spring.
- The average home price in the region rose 15.7% year-over-year to $326,329.
- Payette County led the market with the strongest annual price growth. Homes there sold for 28.3% more than a year ago, but this is a small market with very few sales, so it is subject to severe swings in average sale prices.
- There were price increases in all but one county compared to the third quarter of 2017. The outlier was Valley County, which had a very modest drop.
- As I have stated in prior reports, listing activity continues to drive home prices up at above-average rates. I do not see this changing substantively until the new year.
- It took an average of 93 days to sell a home in Northern Idaho and 72 days in the southern part of the state.
- The average number of days it took to sell a home in the region dropped six days when compared to the third quarter of 2017 and was down by nine days from the second quarter of this year.
- Homes in all but two surveyed counties took less time to sell than they did in the same quarter of 2017. The outliers were Valley and Kootenai, which saw the time it took to sell a house rise, but very modestly.
- Homes again sold the fastest in Canyon and Ada Counties, where it took an average of 26 and 27 days, respectively.
The speedometer reflects the state of the region's housing market using housing inventory, price gains, home sales, interest rates, and larger economic factors.
Job growth continues to spur the housing market in Idaho and this is unlikely to change. The number of available homes for sale is still well below where I would like it to be, which is causing prices to continue to rise at above-average rates. That said, limited sales growth may be a function of housing affordability, which may be keeping some buyers on the fence.
I will be interested to see if this trend continues in the fourth quarter. Given these factors, I have moved the needle just a little more in favor of home sellers.
Matthew Gardner is the Chief Economist for Windermere Real Estate, specializing in residential market analysis, commercial/industrial market analysis, financial analysis, and land use and regional economics. He is the former Principal of Gardner Economics and has more than 30 years of professional experience both in the U.S. and U.K.