| DNA test frees man convicted of 1979 rape
ATLANTA (AP) — A man enjoyed freedom Tuesday for the first time in nearly three decades after a DNA test proved he did not commit a 1979 rape. John Jerome White, 48, left Macon State Prison on Monday evening. “I'm just thankful that this is behind me," White said at a news conference Tuesday morning with the Georgia Innocence Project, which had worked to free him. “When I first started out, I wondered why this happened to me," he said, breaking into tears. “I just saw it as something that had to happen because I wasn't living a moral life." White is the seventh Georgia convict to be cleared by DNA evidence, said Aimee Maxwell, director of the Atlanta-based Georgia Innocence Project. In every case, the men were wrongly convicted on the basis of eyewitness accounts.
Cop lab backlog haunts victims
A SEX attacker who almost strangled a young woman in an unprovoked attack is free because of a backlog in DNA testing which could provide vital clues. More than four months after university student Nina Funnell, 23, was threatened with a box cutter and almost raped, vital DNA tests on her clothes and swabs are yet to be done. Ms Funnell has been told by police there is so much evidence from across the state to be tested they simply have too few resources to test items quickly. The delay has left Ms Funnell living in fear, frustrated that a simple DNA test could lead to her attacker being locked up and stop him from striking other women. "If he is a repeat offender there is a good chance he is out there now attacking other women or thinking about attacking another woman, in which case I would have thought it would be a matter of urgency to test the DNA," she said yesterday.
Scientists identify the cat genome, a breakthrough
WASHINGTON: Scientists have mapped the genome of the domestic cat, raising hopes that the genetic identification of the seventh mammal to date will open the path to new research advances for humans. US researchers sequenced the DNA of a four-year-old Abyssinian cat named Cinnamon whose lineage traces back to Sweden, said the findings published on Wednesday, in the journal Genome Research. Cinnamon is one of a number of test mammals currently undergoing comparative analysis involving genetic research performed on cats and other mammals.
The similarity between the cat genome and six recently completed mammalian genomes (human, chimpanzee, mouse, rat, dog and cow) allowed the scientists to identify 20,285 putative genes in the cat genome, the study said.
Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS ...
With Web 2.0 being the rage that it is, Web-based productivity software from the likes of Google, Zoho, and WebEx appears to be getting all the buzz while Microsoft which has so far eschewed the idea of a Web-based offering. But if Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the beta program of which opens today, is any indicator of Microsoft's preparedness to deal with the onslaught of Web competitors, everybody from Microsoft's followers to Wall Street can rest assured that the Redmond-based company is not about to get caught with its pants down the way it did in the mid-1990s when it was forced to regroup after being blind-sided by the Web. Attached to this blog is a video of a demonstration of Office Live Workspace (OLW) given to me by one of the directors on the Microsoft Office team, Kirk Gregersen.
Ponderings from PapaBear
The NFL regular season has come to a close and the Cleveland Browns just missed making the playoffs. A few weeks ago it sure looked like they were in good shape as far as the post season was concerned, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Still, the Browns did register a victory over the San Francisco 49ers in their final game and there will be high hopes for this team entering the 2008 season. The Brownies finished with a 10-6 record, far exceeding expectations for this team entering 2007. This is the first time this franchise has reached a double digit win total since they re-entered the league in 1999. They provided many thrills for their die hard fans this season and belive me it was long overdue. I grew up in Cleveland and have been a life long Browns fan, so the following opinion might be a bit bias.
Explosions In The Sky: "It’s shocking that we have any fans at all"
I've loved working with him on these last two albums, ‘cause we really don't know what we're doing in the studio at all. We're very ignorant of recording techniques, and what this or that microphone does. We can give him descriptions like, ‘we need this part to sound more sunshine-y', and he can take that and know what we're trying to say. We've learned to communicate so well, and if he doesn't quite get it we can sit around and talk ‘til he does. “We ended up finishing the ten days [in the studio] but weren't happy with the mix, so we spent three more days in Dallas finishing up. It was great having that much time – it allowed John to bring out certain sounds of the studio which I think were beneficial to the record. I'm glad we had the time. We're very particular about how we sound – we wanted a live, raw sound, and the studio was geared for that.
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