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I have generated stables with puromycin res construct which contains a gene coding for a chemokine of my interest. I need to use the spent media to culture other cells in it ! I guess the puromycin contained in the spent media is not allowing the new cells to grow. Is there any way to remove puromycin ? Is it ok if I do not add puromycin for few days and use that spent media ? Will the stable expression get lost ?
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 08:28 PM
Typically stable cell lines only require a maintanence level of antibiotic to keep the stable expression, so you should be using about 1/10th of the original dose. I don't know of any way to get rid of the puromycin that won't also damage the medium components and probably your chemokines too.
It should be OK to culture for a day or two without the puro, but you would have to assay this for yourself.
It should be OK to culture for a day or two without the puro, but you would have to assay this for yourself.
Posted 28 September 2012 - 02:17 AM
what I have done in the past is 24/48 hours prior to you needing your media containing your chemokine remove your antibiotic containing media and replace with your normal media (with no antibiotic). Collect that media (24/48 hourse later) and use as required, then replace with your selection media. If the cells are stable a few days out of section should not affect them too much
Edited by drwho, 28 September 2012 - 07:31 AM.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 12:58 AM
yea thanks ! I removed puro pressure for 2 days and checked for expression of the gene and protein.. its there.. So i guess 24-48 hours without pressure wont affect ..
Thanks again !
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An email notification that the city's domain registration was expiring never made it to the Inbox of city IT staff.
Last month, the domain name for Las Cruces, N.M.'s official website las-cruces.org expired, resulting in a temporary shutdown of the site.
When the domain expired, the city received calls to its desktop support team from people having difficulty using city email addresses. External access to the city's website was also unavailable as a result of the expired domain name, explained Scott Marr, Las Cruces IT director.
"It took staff half an hour to an hour to figure out what was going on," Marr said. "At that point, we got in contact with our registrar, which is Network Solutions, and basically renewed the registration."
Telephone service was unaffected by the shutdown, according to local media.
Marr said the city was able to get the site back online after a couple of hours once it renewed the domain registration. To avoid similar incidents in the future, the city renewed its domain for a 20-year term.
While the temporary interruption in service was considered a minor incident, Marr said similar issues can be prevented going forward as long as the city takes proper steps.
Under Las Cruces' previous three-year Web domain license agreement, a distribution list was set up to receive notifications from Network Solutions. However, when the company sent a Web domain renewal request, spam filters prevented city staff from receiving it. Marr said Network Solutions has since been white-listed so that notifications from the registrar aren't blocked by the city's email spam filters anymore.
Las Cruces set up multiple emails on its distribution list with Network Solutions, instead of creating one point of contact. Marr said problems can arise if a domain registration renewal request is sent to a single email account, particularly if the individual leaves the organization.
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Balgal Beach - a Townsville northern beaches suburb - is located 50 kilometres north of Townsville Central Business District and is central for day trips to Ingham, Wallaman Falls, Paluma or numerous nearby islands. The combination of well-equipped units, peaceful location and family friendly atmosphere ensure a relaxed stay. Looking for a place to stay to relax and unwind? - Here's your getaway to 'relax in paradise'.
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A cardinal rule of racing is to never celebrate before the race is over, no matter how far ahead you are.
It also helps to know when the race is ending.
Last week, racer Riccardo Russo in the Italian CIV Motorcycle Championship crossed the line and started his victory celebration. The problem was that there was still one lap to go.
Russo gets out of the saddle and starts celebrating, and he is promptly passed by 13 other riders, leaving him to finish in 14th place.
While I'm willing to bet that his face was pretty red, I can actually sympathize with the guy. When I was karting years ago, I crossed the line in third place and thought the race was over. I slowed down and had my hand up. But guess what? It was the white flag. I still drove a relatively brisk cool down lap, and when I finally noticed that the starter was now waving the checkered, I stepped on the gas big time.
I still ended up on the podium, but it was almost a very embarrassing race. In the heat of the moment, you can miss a flag, lose track of the lap count, or get a little confused.
I learned a very important lesson that day: never slow down until you are 100 percent sure you see the checkered flag and corner workers are on the track.
Russo learned the same lesson I did in this race. It's a mistake you don't make twice.
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Bless David Einhorn's fight with Apple
David Einhorn, the occasionally outspoken hedge-fund manager at Greenlight Capital, has faced public vilification for taking on Apple's board. Investors and securities regulators should instead be thanking him for upholding shareholders' rights.
Journalists have accused Einhorn of abusing his freedom to do things such as -- gasp! -- talking to other people about stocks his funds own and suggesting ways to improve their prices.
Martin Lipton, the esteemed corporate lawyer, complained on a Harvard Law School blog that "one of the most successful, long-term-visionary companies of all time is being told by a money manager that Apple is doing things all wrong and should focus on short-term return of cash." Even the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the big public-pension fund and self-styled authority on corporate governance, slammed Einhorn while campaigning on Apple's behalf.
Here's what Einhorn did. He saw that one of the proposals in Apple's proxy statement forced shareholders to vote yes or no on a bundle of unrelated issues -- a violation of the Securities and Exchange Commission's rules. The SEC's staff had missed the problem and wasn't doing anything about it. By early February, when Greenlight sued Apple, Einhorn's only chance to get someone to fix it was through the courts. So that's where he went, at considerable expense to his fund.
The federal judge who heard the case, Richard Sullivan, ruled that Greenlight was correct. It wasn't a close call. Apple's "proxy materials are plainly noncompliant," Sullivan wrote. Apple had pointed to the SEC's inaction as a sign it complied with the rules. Sullivan, rightly, slapped down the company's argument as nonsense.
The principle Einhorn sought to uphold is fundamental: Shareholders should be allowed to vote on important, unrelated issues separately. The SEC's rules generally prohibit companies from bundling disparate questions together in their proxy statements. Otherwise, companies might try to win passage of unpopular measures by combining them with proposals investors favor. Einhorn complained about a proxy item that combined four distinct proposals for an up-or-down vote, including one revoking the board's ability to unilaterally issue preferred stock.
Before filing suit, Einhorn asked Apple to withdraw the preferred-stock amendment or break up the proposal into separate voting items. Apple declined. Einhorn has been pitching Apple on a novel idea to issue perpetual preferred shares as a way to boost the value of Apple's common stock. He has estimated it initially would result in Apple distributing $1.9 billion a year in preferred dividends, a small amount compared with the $137 billion of cash and marketable securities on its books.
Lipton's blog post didn't name Einhorn, but it clearly was referring to him. Far from telling Apple it's doing everything wrong, here's what Einhorn said in a Feb. 21 slide presentation: "We aren't here to offer any thoughts on their strategic plans to operate their business -- they are the experts on that." His main beef is with the company's strategy for allocating capital. He's far from alone in criticizing Apple for hoarding cash.
Whether you like Einhorn's preferred-stock idea is beside the point. (As the judge noted in his order, giving boards unchecked authority to issue preferred shares "has been derided by shareholder rights advocates given its potential use as an anti-takeover tactic.") Greenlight argued that Apple had violated the SEC's rules. The judge agreed and issued a preliminary injunction barring Apple from accepting votes on the proposal at issue.
Calpers said it campaigned for the bundled proposal because it supported a part requiring unopposed board candidates to be elected by a majority vote. While that surely is investor- friendly, Calpers can't also be for violating SEC rules and expect to be taken seriously as a good-governance champion.
The majority-voting provision sought by Calpers almost certainly would have passed if Apple had presented it separately. Now, with the court's injunction, the pension fund will have to wait a year to try again. Calpers would have been better off joining Einhorn and opposing Apple's bundling from the outset.
It would be easy to blame the SEC's staff for dropping the ball here. But they have a tough job. They can't review every company's filings every year. Violations go undetected all the time. The SEC doesn't claim to catch everything.
That's why Einhorn's decision to sue is important. Few people have the resources to make companies abide by the rules when the authorities, for whatever reason, don't require them to.
The next time something like this happens, perhaps the SEC will be more attuned to the issue and won't let it slide. Or maybe companies won't be as inclined to try to pull the same trick in the first place.
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Fish are great pets – quiet and fascinating to watch.
Whether you have an aquarium filled with exotic fish or a solitary gold fish, there are basics you need to know to create a healthy environment for your fish.
pH Levels
The pH scale is used to describe the relative strength of acids and bases. It ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 7 is neutral, a pH less than 7 is acidic and a pH greater than 7 is basic.
It is important to create optimal conditions for pet fish in your home aquarium including the natural pH level of your fish. You should know the optimal pH level for your fish and avoid fluctuations to keep your fish healthy. When choosing multiple fish for an aquarium try to choose fish with similar optimal pH levels, so all your fish will be comfortable.
Many products are available to help you control, change and monitor the pH levels in your aquarium. These products tend to be easy to use and fast-acting. Some products also help to remove unwanted substances like chlorine from the water.
Protecting Your Fish
Fish can become 'stressed' by handling, shipping, fighting, moving to a new aquarium, a change in water or the addition of new fish to their aquarium. Try to minimize your fish's exposure to stressful events to help keep them healthy.
You can also try a product formulated to protect fish during times of stress. These products help to condition the water so it's optimal for your fish, and they also provide a protective barrier on the fish itself.
It can also be helpful to not replace an aquarium and all accessories at the same time. Fish create 'good' bacteria within their environment and removing all water, accessories and changing the filter will effectively erase the bacteria leaving the fish susceptible to disease. When changing to a new aquarium, use the same filter for awhile, or put the same accessories in the new tank without cleaning them. There are also products available to encourage development of beneficial bacteria in the water.
Algae build-up in your aquarium is usually caused by too much sunlight or leaving the light on too much. If this is a problem for your tank, try reducing the amount of light on the tank by moving it to a darker area with little direct sunlight only turning the tank light on for eight hours a day. If it's not possible to move your tank, you can easily control algae with either algaecide products or algae-eating fish.
Ick is the shortened name for Ichthyophthirius multifilis or White Spot Disease. It's a parasite that is capable of killing a large number of fish in a short period of time. A serious outbreak of Ick will look like white grains of salt on the skin of your fish.
Early diagnosis and treatment are essential for controlling Ick and reducing fish loss. PET VALU stores sell treatments that can kill the parasite as well as provide a synthetic slime coat replacement that helps form a barrier against repeat infection.
A wool-like fungus can grow anywhere on your fish. Fungi spores are naturally present in water. Water fungi, like their land relations, are actually plants that grow and thrive on dead organic matter.
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Marushin Super Blackhawk (8mm)
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-Heavy weight and detailing
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-Limited capacity (6 shots)
For revolver aficionados Marushin are definitely worthy to look at. While the power-player may still opt for the TM Hi-Capa as their sidearm, the Marushin revolvers provide a wholly different experience, and look much better in a display cabinet too!
A quite fitting weapon of choice for lonely riders in trench coats is a single action revolver. The development of those didn't stop in the old west, but new designs were made as recently as the (19)50's, and they are still manufactured. Marushin makes some quite refined revolvers for the serious collectors, but one should not think these are useless in a skirmish either! We are pleased to present to you the Marushin Super Blackhawk series in our closer look at these six-shooters.
The real Sturm Ruger Blackhawk revolver series have been produced since 1955, and capitalized on the popularity of western style weapons. Their adjustable and otherwise improved sights and credited accuracy makes them viable for serious target shooting and even silhuette shooting and not just a novelty item.
Marushin makes four replicas of the Super Blackhawk, consisting of two barrel lengths and two color options. All of these are HeavyWeight models, which means that metal powder has been mixed into the plastic to increase weight and produce a cool feeling. The grip frame is metal, as are the trigger, hammer, sights and other detail parts. The finishing method is immensely good looking, with the black parts having a very smooth matte surface, while the silver finish on the silver models is even more beautiful with a very metallic gloss. These represent the highest level of finishing plastic to look like metal.
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The operation method is quite realistic. Apart from loading gas into a tank inside the grip, the operation procedure is precisely the same as with the real one. Marushin has replicated the new model from 1973, which introduced a transfer bar mechanism, allowing to load all six chambers with a cartridge. With the older single action revolvers, the user would have to half-cock the hammer and open the loading gate, load one cartridge in, skip one chamber, and then insert four more cartridges. After this the user would close the gate, fully cock the hammer and then lower it on the empty chamber. With the new model, you simply open the loading gate to allow the cylinder to turn, and load all chambers - it is not necessary to leave the chamber below the hammer empty, because of the transfer bar. The Marushin Super Blackhawk can be decocked realistically.
To our surprise, the barrel length didn't make much of a difference in the muzzle velocity of these revolvers. It may be that the 7.5" barrel is long enough to make efficient use of the gas charge, but in any case the extre three inches didn't show a huge boost in the velocity. This is good news for people who are yearning for power, but prefer the look of the shorter model.
A little known fact is that Marushin has a special clause in Japan for manufacturing 8mm replicas with a muzzle energy below 1.64 Joules, while guns that shoot 6mm BBs are strictly limited to 0.98J. Game organizers should also take this into account when defining energy limits, because an 8mm BB is equally safe for gaming use even if the energy is higher.
While a pistol with a capacity of only six may not be the most practical skirmish tool, gas powered revolvers are seen from time to time in the skirmish fields as well. They are notorious for being powerful, and their users have a reputation of knowing how to use their special tool to maximize the effect. Among non-blowback gas guns, revolvers are the most realistic models because the real ones don't have a moving slide either. The use of shells adds even more to this, and extra shells on a belt or bandolieer is a definite cherry on top of a street-credible kit.
The Marushin Blackhawks have a detachable cylinder, and playing around with the various functions is a great past-time for those Sunday afternoons when you put on some classical music in the background and forget what you have been doing from Monday to Friday. The disassembly can be done in five seconds by pushing in the detent pin on the left side, sliding the cylinder shaft out from the front and pushing the cylinder to the right out of the frame.
All in all these models can not really be faulted for the low capacity and single action trigger, because their real counterparts are built like that. The performance is quite decent and the Marushin Super Blackhawks look great on the outside as well, so if you're looking for an airsoft-rendition of a single action revolver, you could do a lot worse than these!


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Landmark handstands and other photo traditions
By Katia Hetter, CNN • Updated 28th July 2012
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We had no idea
five guys with a clever photo tradition
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But the overwhelming response to a recent story about high school friends who've kept in touch over three decades through summer lakeside reunions and a commemorative photo shoot made us wonder what other creative ways people document their travels, relationships and experiences.
If you're traveling with
Andrew Bennett
, you know he'll hand over a camera to capture him doing a handstand in front of some of the world's noted landmarks.
Is the photo better than the vacation?
Bear, an aptly named stuffed animal, is likely to turn up in Sue Brady's travel shots.
Claire Warmenbol
doesn't need any help or props: She simply points her camera at her feet to get the right shots.
In an era of digital photography and smartphones, it's easier than ever to create special traditions. The photo essay is no longer limited to professional photographers or people documenting the first day of school,
Christmas or a college reunion.
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Where the tradition starts
iReporter Bennett wanted a twist on the usual smiling-in-front-of-a-landmark shot.
"I thought to myself, 'I bet there aren't too many pictures of people doing handstands in front of the Eiffel Tower,'" wrote Bennett, an Austin, Texas, resident who started his tradition in 2007 when he was studying abroad in Spain.
"So I started doing handstands everywhere we went. I've traveled abroad several times since that trip, most recently to Israel this summer, and the tradition has continued."
Geneva-based iReporter Claire Warmenbol, who has been taking pictures of her feet around the world for about 10 years, thinks she started snapping shots in response to the question, "Why do you travel so much?"
Her answer: "Itchy feet!" Warmenbol often travels alone for the great sense of freedom it gives her.
From the stoop to social media
Steve Springer's photo project didn't start with photography or travel in mind.
On August 25, 1971, his Bronx-based trio of childhood friends were in high school when they decided to meet at the stoop where they always hung out in exactly 10 years. They didn't take a picture that day, but found a photo later taken about that time and decided to replicate it each decade.
Every 10 years, Springer, Steve Haimowitz, Errol Honig and other friends and assorted spouses and children travel from Florida, Washington, D.C., California and just around the block to meet at the stoop to take the picture (standing in the same positions), play stickball and reminisce.
Now the photos are posted on former CNN staffer
Springer's blog
and the group's Facebook page. The men even made a
YouTube video
of their photo shoot.
"That stoop was our hangout, it's where if we weren't playing ball or going to movies or playing records, that's where we hung out," said Springer. The tradition and the electronic community the men have created is "simply a continuation of a friendship built 40 years ago, and we're trying to keep it going and keep it alive. People post every day on our Facebook page. It's like we're hanging out on the stoop."
Last year's 40th anniversary celebration was delayed by 24 hours because Honig was driving his daughter to start college in upstate New York.
"That seemed an awfully good reason to delay things by 24 hours," wrote Springer on his blog.
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Gratitude for many things
While the photos bring back memories, they also remind people of their families, friends and other items on their gratitude lists.
"I think about how blessed I've been to have had the opportunity to go to all these places," Bennett wrote. "Some were during study abroad, some were on family vacations, and some were for work with ISA (International Studies Abroad). I also try not to take myself too seriously, so doing handstands is my way of keeping a light heart during my travels.
Warmenbol's ritual reminds her why she travels. "It's 'me' moments on holidays, key moments of being somewhere special; capturing stillness whilst being on the move," she wrote.
It's not too late to start a tradition
A friend gave "Bear" to Sue Brady of Los Banos, California, after Brady's gentleman friend of 22 years passed away three years ago. Brady, 63, had always traveled with her companion, and now preferred to travel alone -- except for Bear, the stuffed polar bear.
He has joined Brady on her travels around the country and became the star of her travel pictures. "Some people when I take the picture will smile and think it's cute, and some people look at me like I'm nuts." Having bear along makes traveling more fun, she said.
If you don't want to take the same picture every time you travel or return to a hometown you never liked, you don't have to make the same commitment as these travelers.
"You don't have to wait 30 years to get the same sequence of pictures," says Heather Maddan, chief storyteller at Shutterfly.com and manager of the website's storytelling section. "It doesn't have to be 'Let's meet at the lake.' It could be any day. You could go out for the weekend and take the same picture every day (and see the progression of the weekend)."
For the hard-core enthusiast: a challenge
For those of you interested in a more intense challenge, turn to
Charles and Rose Benoit
for inspiration. The Rochester, New York, couple, who married in 1984, started taking a picture of themselves every single day about 20 years ago.
"It all started one night when we were looking for pictures after many of our friends started to have kids," said Rose Benoit. "We had pictures of all our friends' kids (and) we didn't have any pictures of us together."
Now the Benoits have pictures from all over the world.
"When we used to live overseas, we were both teachers and we went to this educational conference where Jane Goodall was a speaker, so we took a picture with Jane Goodall," she said. "Syria, Jordan, Thailand, Singapore -- we don't take a lot of pictures, but every day we have our picture."
Has social media changed the way you share your travel photos? Please share your stories in the comments below.
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How to Open a Wine Bottle
Even though screwcapped wines are on the rise, you still should know how to properly open a bottle of wine the traditional way. After all, there's nothing like the romantic ritual of pulling the cork from a bottle. Corks aren't going out of style any time soon, which means you'll always need at least one wine opener at home — especially if you want to enjoy the range of Mazzoni wines.
There's more than half a dozen styles of wine openers available to use — from traditional corkscrews to the friendlier electric wine openers — but which is best all depends on your own preferences. Explore the major styles below to find the one that's right for you.
Twist & Pull Corkscrew
This is what many consider to be the "basic corkscrew" — and the first corkscrew patented, by Samuel Henshall, in England in 1795. The "twist and pull" method may sound simple, but this wine opener can be difficult to use, and definitely not a foolproof way to uncork a bottle of wine.
The Winged "Butterfly" Corkscrew
Perhaps the most popular wine opener in American kitchens, this double lever "wing" corkscrew has been around since the late 1800s. It isn't the worst way to open your wine, but I've often found it has its flaws. The screw part of the device too often shreds apart even well made corks, so I've thrown mine away.
The Waiter's Friend Corkscrew
This is the most versatile, affordable, and reliable corkscrew there is. If you're a serious wino, you need one of these. My favorite waiter's friend variation has a double-hinge to helps you get better leverage when removing a cork. Most come with a small knife for removing foil, and this method leaves little trace of having been used on the cork. It requires moderate skill, but after a few bottles of practice you'll be a pro!
The "Bunny Ears" Lever Corkscrew
This wine opener has grown in popularity over the years because it's so easy to use. Two handles wrap around the neck of the bottle, and a third handle is used to pull a lever over the top of the neck. With a simple push and pull open of the lever, you've done the "hard" work of uncorking the bottle. This single lever wine opener may require minimal effort, but you need maximum space to store them, so it's not the best option if you're low on drawer space like me.
Electric Wine Opener
It doesn't get much easier than this. With the push of a button, these electric corkscrews do all the pulling and uncorking for you. It's especially helpful if you have weak wrists or encounter difficulty when opening things. Just be sure to keep it charged!
And what if you need to open a bottle of wine but don't have access to any corkscrew? Well, people have opened bottles with knives, scissors, and even with their shoes, but I wouldn't recommend any of that. Always stick with a wine opener. If you don't have one already, now is the time to go buy a waiter's friend corkscrew. They're inexpensive and versatile, and small enough to fit in your pocket wherever you go.


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Iran Fires 105 Ahwazi Workers
In its latest wave of implementing apartheid policies, on 11 October 2011 the Iranian authorities shut down the Ahwaz Zamzam Company and sacked its 105 local Arab workers. "We no longer need those 105 employees," said Moghaddam Shapurjian, the spokesperson for Zamzam Company in Ahwaz.
Despite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps General and Khuzestan's Governor Mohammed Hejjazi's New Year message promising "to provide 137,500 jobs for the young girls and boys", EAHRO has learned that Iran has intensified its crackdown against at least 1,000 Ahwazi Arab workers in Ahwaz Pipe Factory and Ahwaz municipality on the grounds of race and ethnicity in 2011.
In August 2011, Ktanbaf Mansoor and IRGC member fired 400 Ahwazi workers apparently for participating in or supporting pro-democracy demonstrations in April and May 2011. Many of the sacked employees have not been paid their salaries and their appeal has reached deadlock. The average monthly payment of these sacked workers was I.R. 3,500, 000 ($390).
"These dismissals are nothing less than a 'political purification' of the workplace and it's another ethnic cleansing crime," said Zaydan Sayahi, ex-employee in Ahwaz council.
Hundreds of Ahwazi Arab workers have been discrimated against and fired by private employers and state-owned companies this year alone. Hundreds more are facing the same fate as employers begin a wave of punishment. Large-scale dismissals of Ahwazi workers demonstrates Iran's breaching of its own labour law.
Article 6: By virtue of Clause 4 of Article 43, Clause 6 of Article 2, and Articles 19, 20 and 28 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, The people of Iran, of any tribe and ethnic group, shall enjoy equal rights. Colour, race, language and their likes shall not be treated as a privilege, as all people, whether male or female shall be equally protected by law. Every person has the right to choose his desired occupation provided that it is not contrary to Islam and public interests, and does not infringe upon others' rights.
In February 2011 a report published by Minority Rights Group International rated Ahwaz the second poorest and deprived region in Iran:
'In regard to economic inequality, [Arabistan Al Ahwaz] Khuzestan is only outdone by Sistan-Baluchistan, another province where ethnic minorities constitute the bulk of the population, where unverifiable reports put 76 per cent of the population below the poverty line, in stark contrast to the national rate of 18 per cent."
In a recent report Amnesty International said 'Iranian government-directed migration of non-Arabs into Khuzestan(Ahwaz) is linked to economic policies that offer zero per cent interest loans to Migrants, but not to Arabs'
British Arab Media Watch also condemned "the systematic ethnic cleansing policies" and said, "89% of Ahwazis live under poverty line and the rate of unemployment among the Arabs is much higher than the national average in a region which is home to more than 80% of Iran's oil reserves."
In April Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi called to the United Nation's High Commissioner of Human Rights saying "more than 12 people were killed, 20 wounded and dozens were arrested" when Sunni Ahwazi Arabs staged a peaceful demonstration to protest "their dire conditions and discrimination" and were attacked by Iranian authorities.
Date: 16/10/2011
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A riff on traditional potato salad made with sour cream, peas, bacon, and fresh mint.
This potato salad strays from the mayo-based classic but is just as creamy and flavorful. First, cook the bacon until brown and crispy; then sauté the shallots in the bacon fat. Add some peas and mix everything together with boiled new potatoes, sour cream, a touch of heavy cream, and mint.... Read More
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Abigail Washburn Radio
Abigail Washburn is a banjoist who writes and sings folk, bluegrass and Appalachian tunes, lives in Nashville and collaborates with Bela Fleck. Quintessential Americana right? But this American artist had to go to China to find her way to American roots. Washburn grew up singing in Illinois but never took music seriously until she took a trip to China in 1996 and fell in love with the country's music, culture, and language. The experience renewed her interest in American traditions, and she took up the banjo upon her return. Abandoning plans to move to China, she instead took up residence in Nashville. Washburn's resume includes stints with the Cleary Brothers and all-girl string band Uncle Earl, as well as extensive solo work. Her 2005 debut solo album, Song of the Traveling Daughter, featured Bela Fleck and Ryan Hole from Collective Soul. During this period, she also began writing songs in Chinese, and in 2008, she released an album with the Sparrow Quartet (a group that also features Fleck) that blends Asian and Western sounds. In 2009, she collaborated with the Shanghai Restoration Project to create Afterquake, a tribute to the victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.


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Sony TVs are state of the art. With their fantastic picture quality and superior sound, they make a great addition to any home cinema system, living room or bedroom.
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Dell 2355dn
This is a Tron-style tank of a machine, with plenty of capacity and a price to match. The 50-sheet ADF is duplex, so you can directly copy double-sided documents in one go. The control panel features a slightly insensitive, but usable, 109mm touchscreen, as well as a physical number pad for fax dialling. There's a 250-sheet paper tray and a 50-sheet multipurpose tray, and the machine has USB and Ethernet connectivity. I measured speeds of up to 25ppm and 14spm duplex, and saw a five-page copy in 20s. Text and greyscale graphics are fine for day-to-day use and running costs come out at a low 1.3p per page.
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Epson Aculaser MX20DN
Another machine that can cope with being networked among several people and another one which has a duplex ADF for single-task copying. A conventionally laid out control panel includes a back-lit LCD panel and below this is a 250-sheet paper tray with a 50-sheet multipurpose pull-down, too. USB and Ethernet connections are provided, and the photoconductor drum is a lifetime-of-the-printer component, making maintenance simple. Speeds of up to 19ppm single-sided and 14spm duplex make this a little slower than some of its rivals here and a cost per page of 2.2p knock it back a little.
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Tolentino v. New York
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|Mar 29, 2011
Holding: The Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted and therefore did not decide whether pre-existing identity-related governmental documents are subject to the exclusionary rule when they are obtained as the direct result of police action violative of the Fourth Amendment.
Plain English Holding: The Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted and therefore did not decide whether a defendant's identity must be suppressed when it is discovered as a result as a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Judgment: The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted. on March 29, 2011.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
- Last week at the Court in Plain English (Lisa McElroy)
- Argument recap: What's in a name? (Sophia Lin Lakin)
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- Last week at the Court - in Plain English (Lisa McElroy)
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- Brief for Petitioner Jose Tolentino
- Brief of Respondent State of New York
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- Brief for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Support of Petitioner
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- Brief for the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc. and The New York State Sheriffs' Association Institute, Inc. in Support of Respondent
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It's a year old, but I just read a paper on one of those species that pops up pretty frequently in environmental impact reports — the Mohave ground squirrel, Xerospermophilus mohavensis — whose conclusions add a little bit more depth to the Deep Time perspective of the desert around here. And by "depth" I mean "epic stories."
And by "around here," I mean "at least 45 miles northwest of here": the Mohave ground squirrel's range is all on the other side of the Mojave River, aside from a strip of land a few miles wide along the north desert foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, where it mostly hasn't been seen for the last few decades anyway. The squirrels' historic range was somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,000 square miles or 20,000 km2, depending on which authority's rounded-off guesstimate you use.
The Mohave ground squirrel is a foliage and seed eater — you may have guessed that second part from "Xerospermophilus," which essentially means "desert seed lover." It's about nine inches nose to tail, short-haired, roughly ground-squirrel-shaped, ranges in color from pinkish to gray to cinnamon, in a more or less solid-colored coat. The species is rare throughout its range, which is shown in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service map embedded below:
That map is from the Federal Register, dated October 2011, in a "Finding" that the squirrel didn't warrant protection as endangered or threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. That finding was more politics than science. The squirrel is threatened by urban and industrial development, off-road vehicle use, and by climate change. Under CalESA, the California version of that law, the squirrel is listed as "Threatened": the IUCN classifies the species as "vulnerable."
The authors of the paper I mentioned up top, K.C. Bell and Marjorie Matocq, wanted to learn more about historic habitat colonization and connectivity among Mohave ground squirrel populations. They sampled nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from 258 individual squirrels collected in 13 locations throughout the species' range, then charted the genetic diversity among the samples. They also sampled nearby populations of the closely related round-tailed ground squirrel, Xerospermophilus tereticaudus, and some suspected hybrids between the two species.
Bell and Matocq found that the Mohave ground squirrel species comprised three genetically distinct geographical populations — one from the northern part of the species' range, one occupying the west-central part, and one in the range's southern extension. The populations aren't reproductively isolated: there's unambiguous evidence of gene flow among all three groups, though the northern population seems more isolated from the other two. The southern population turned out to be more genetically diverse than the other two, which supported earlier researchers' suggestions that the squirrels have inhabited the southern part of their range for significantly longer, evolving genetic diversity. Populations to the north would have been established by small "founder" groups, and would thus have less diversity.
When you talk about the Mojave Desert more than 11,000 years ago, you're talking about a very different place than the Mojave Desert of today. For one thing, there were elephants and lions and saber-toothed cats and sloths the size of cows wandering around there. For another thing, there were huge lakes for them to wander past. 11,000 years ago the Mojave Desert was enjoying a pluvial period, with warm, wet weather, and all across the desert valleys were filled with lakes.
In the northern Mojave, the Owens River — now a pale shadow of even its 19th Century self — filled a chain of five gigantic lakes with runoff from the glaciated Sierra Nevada. At the end of the line was Lake Manly, 80 miles and 600 feet deep at its largest, filling Death Valley. Lake Manly was fed by overflow from Panamint Lake, in the next valley to the west. Panamint Lake was fed by overflow from Searles Lake, now the site of the trona mine at Trona, California. Searles Lake was fed by China Lake, now the site of a U.S. Naval Air Station. China Lake was fed by Owens Lake, up at the top of the chain.
Twelve thousand years ago the climate started getting drier. Sierra Nevada runoff didn't run off the Sierra Nevada quite as abundantly. Lake levels dropped across the desert, and eventually — when the level of China Lake dropped below its spillover into Searles Lake — Searles Lake dried up.
Which was about the time Mohave ground squirrels started moving north, across land that had once been flooded, to the territory on what had been the far shore. After 7,000 years another wet cycle — about 3,500 years ago — filled Searles Lake again, isolating squirrels in the northern population from their cousins to the south. The lake lasted long enough that the northern and southern populations of ground squirrels evolved every so slightly away from each other.
And then the lake dried up again, and squirrels moved into the land where it had been, forming the central-western population.
If the lake had lasted for longer, two species of Mohave ground squirrel could have been the result. That's almost exactly how the Mohave ground squirrel species itself came into being, split off from its sister species, the round-tailed ground squirrel, X. tereticaudus. I mentioned above that the Mojave River marks a major boundary of the Mohave ground squirrel's range. There are ground squirrels on the other side of the river too: round-taileds. The river itself isn't much of a barrier: for most of its 110-mile length, most of the time, it flows underground. There's not enough of a barrier there to split a species: a squirrel could cross it 364.9 days out of 365 without getting its feet damp.
Up until 6,000 years ago, though, there was usually a lot more water in the Mojave. Fed by runoff from the Transverse Ranges in Southern California, it made its own chain of lakes across the southern Mojave Desert, which chain may also have ended in Lake Manly — at least in phenomenally wet years. But there were dry periods even then, and at one point during one of those prolonged droughts the ancestors of Mohave and round-tailed ground squirrels ranged across it all.
Somewhere around 1.6 million years ago the Mojave River filled back up again. The ancestors of Mohave ground squirrels stood on the northwest bank, looking across at the ancestors of round-tailed ground squirrels on the far shore. Eventually they evolved in different directions. The river dried up 6,000 years ago, and there's been some movement of each species across the river since, with some evidence of interbreeding — though Bell and Matocq found that two of three putative hybrid squirrels kept in storage since the 1980s-90s were actually pure round-tails, with no Mohave ancestry — that interbreeding is rare enough to be insignificant. The two species have diverged.
So, reproductive isolation can cause genetic divergence and even speciation. Nothing new there. But I've long thought of the Great Divide between Mohave and round-tailed ground squirrels as one of the wonderful epic tales of Evolution: There was once a nation that was divided by a flood, and when they eventually reunited they had become irrevocably different. When I learned that story what had been a mere edge of a line on a range map became, in my mind, a saga millions of years in the unfolding. And there are stories like that everywhere you look in the natural world. Sometimes they're obvious, an abrupt discontinuity between two related species. And sometimes, as with Bell and Matocq's work, you need to dig stories out of mitochondria and read them in scatter plots.
But they're there, and as old and jaded as I am I often wish I had a few more centuries left me in which to hear them all.
Bell, K. C. and Matocq, M. D. (2011), Regional genetic subdivision in the Mohave ground squirrel: evidence of historic isolation and ongoing connectivity in a Mojave Desert endemic. Animal Conservation, 14: 371–381. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2011.00435.x


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Kevin Cole
The Little White Book of Baseball Law
Baseball has gifted us not just with summer fun, salty snacks and occasionally alarming renditions of the "Star Spangled Banner," it has also presented a number of legal issues over the past 150 years. USD School of Law Dean Kevin Cole has partnered up with law professor John Minan to present The Little White Book of Baseball Law, an informative, fun 18 chapters that "touch on nearly every major area of the law." Those who have spent nights staring at the ceiling pondering the answers to questions such as, "who is the legal owner of Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball?" need look no further.
Dean Cole was executive editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced law in Philadelphia before joining the faculty in 1987. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of evidence, and criminal law and procedure. He served as reporter for the Committee on Forfeiture in Drug Offense Cases of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He is the co-author of both the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Handbook (Shepard's/McGraw-Hill) and the Federal Sentencing and Forfeiture Guide (Del Mar Legal Publishers). He has been a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University.


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BlackBerry Z10 gets clip-on speakerphone, charger bundle and cases galore
No launch of a new flagship is complete without a few new accessories to go along with it. While RIM is still banking big on the NFC-powered Music Gateway, it wasn't about to let the Z10 sit around with no new friends to keep it company. Obviously, a BlackBerry isn't a BlackBerry with out few leather holsters to keep it strapped to your hip. The fancy leather cases (both the "Holster" and the "Pocket") even have a magnet inside them that automatically turns off the display on your Z10 when it's slipped inside. The rotating holster will set customers back $40, while the Pocket, with its fewer moving parts, will cost only $30. There are other cases on the horizon too, the Transform Shell and Flip Shell, which feature build in kickstands and basic protection in standard black or bright red. Both shells will retail for $35 when they hit shelves.
A bit more intriguing is the BlackBerry Mini Stereo Speaker, a tiny speaker phone that pairs using Bluetooth and has a unique "U" shape that allows you to clip it on to a seatbelt or (shudder) a lapel. The little white speaker will launch alongside the Z10 for $99. The charging bundle is pretty simple at first glance -- it contains a spare battery and a separate charging cradle for $50. But, upon closer inspection, you'll realize the charger has a microUSB out, for pushing power to any device with a compatible adapter. We're sure more fun accessories are in the pipeline too, once third parties start updating there product lines.
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Our friends at Crave magazine are pairing more than 30 Columbus-area restaurants with local meat, dairy and produce farmers for special menus that will be available only Aug. 10-19.
Our friends at Crave magazine are pairing more than 30 Columbus-area restaurants with local meat, dairy and produce farmers for special menus that will be available only Aug. 10-19.
We've chosen especially delicious-sounding menu items from five of the restaurants participating in Farm to Plate Week; each menu contains at least 70 percent local products. You might be pleasantly surprised at some of the names you see supporting local farmers.
Farm to Plate Week happens in conjunction with Local Matters' fourth annual Local Foods Week. Visit the Sensory Overload blog for more details on Local Foods Week.Mary Kelley's
7148 Muirfield Dr., Dublin
Bellfontaine Pan Seared Loin Pork Chop: The pork chop is paired with peach and apple salsa along with apple cider from Laurelville Fruit Farm and a corn fritter. The pork is courtesy of Bluescreek Farm Meats. The fruit, tomatoes and corn come from Jacquemin Farms and Yutzy's Farm Market.
What else is on the menu? Fresh Mozzarella and Sliced Tomatoes; Seasonal Fruit and Ice Cream in Pastry Shell
Price: $17.95 for three coursesGallo's Kitchen
2820 Nottingham Rd., Upper Arlington
Jerk Rubbed Pulled Chicken Sandwich: The chicken comes from Gerber's Poultry and includes Adobo sauce with Ohio maple syrup, L.W. Randles Amish cheddar, homemade avocado ranch and your choice of a side.
What else is on the menu? Prince Edward Island Mussels; Heffelfinger Farms Pork Tenderloin; Ohio Proud 8-Ounce Filet Mignon
Price: $9.50 to $29, a la carteT. Murray's Bar and Kitchen
560 S. High St., German Village
Ohio Pork Tenderloin: Blue Ribbon Meats will be supplying the tenderloin, which will be paired with an Oyo whiskey and Ohio peach chutney, crispy polenta cake and local green beans from Fischer Produce.
What else is on the menu? Beef Carpaccio; Local Ohio Caprese Salad; Local Frisee Salad; Ohio Chicken Roulade; Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta
Price: $31 for three courses
Moretti's of Upper Arlington
2124 Tremont Center, Upper Arlington
Eggplant Lasagna: Cavatelli pasta with grilled chicken from Blue Ribbon Meats and tossed with pesto and vegetables supplied by Arena Produce
What else is on the menu? Summer Salad; Gazpacho; Tuscan Gouda Mac N Cheese; Caramel Apple Cheesecake
Price: $18 for three coursesPolaris Grill
1835 Polaris Parkway, Polaris
Ohio Mud Pie: Vanilla ice cream from Johnson's Real Ice Cream with praline pecans, peanut butter, chocolate crust and whipped cream.
What else is on the menu? Caprese Salad; Mixed Berry Salad; Lake Erie Walleye; Tournedos Chasseur Ohio Beef Tenderloin; Berries and Cream
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The big gap in posts was because I was busy creating a little person but a few months on I've got my hanker back and so it is fitting to recommence with a baby related hanker!
Inspired by the quirky baby blankets I wrote about by Carousel Belle I decided to try to make my own. How hard could it be? Well certainly harder than hitting 'Add to Basket', but not too hard. I may have lost a few hours looking at colourful cottons and soft plush fabrics on Plush Addict and hanging around my local fabric shop. But eventually I chose retro lions;
Colourful pigs; and
Faux cow hide to match the nursery wallpaper.
I sewed the two pieces of fabric together wrong sides facing leaving a small gap so I could turn them right side out and sewed up the edge. I had a bit of an issue with the plush fabric stretching in the machine so had to redo some of the stitching to correct the wonkiness. They're certainly not professional quality but I'm pleased with how they turned out and the cow one is a bit of a favourite with baby already.
Plush Addict have gorgeous fabrics and some good value remnant packs to start out with if you fancy having a go.


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MILWAUKEE — By the time the Nuggets hit the court against the Milwaukee Bucks in their second game after the all-star break, they'll already know whether they are officially past the Andre Miller era.
And if he is dealt by 1 p.m. Thursday, the NBA's trade deadline, it will go down as one of the most challenging deals Nuggets general manager Tim Connelly ever made.
Connelly is dealing from a position of no leverage, so the Nuggets are getting one-sided offers. Miller has wanted out of town since an episode Jan. 1, when he publicly ripped coach Brian Shaw during a game against Philadelphia.
The veteran point guard has not been around the team since, while the Nuggets have tried to move him. But as of Wednesday, they weren't close to a deal.
It gets trickier if the Nuggets can't deal him by the deadline. Neither Miller nor the Nuggets want him to stay. Instead, the Nuggets would be forced to waive him. If he clears waivers, he would be free to negotiate with any team.
In part because of that, other NBA teams can hold a hard line with deals in their favor, figuring they could just claim him off waivers or, if he cleared, could sign him outright as a free agent.
Meanwhile, the players who are on the court look to build off a good-effort performance in an overtime loss to Phoenix on Tuesday night.
"We're not trying to take a consolation prize," Nuggets forward J.J. Hickson said. "But we're happy with the fact that we played as hard as we did for a long time."
The Nuggets have lost five consecutive games. Their last win was over the Milwaukee Bucks on Feb. 5. Since then, they've lost games and players — point guard Ty Lawson is expected to miss his fourth consecutive game with a fractured rib.
"Every night is a game we have to win," guard Jordan Hamilton said. "So we've just got to continue to grind and continue to play hard and play smart."
Guard Evan Fournier called the latest bout of losing "very frustrating. We have to be motivated. It doesn't matter what kind of game we played (Tuesday). We're going to be motivated. We're going to play hard."
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Spotlight on Caron Butler: The oft-injured Butler returned from a high ankle sprain Tuesday and lit up Orlando with seven 3-pointers off the bench in the Bucks' victory. Butler has been in and out of the lineup.
Nuggets: Point guard Ty Lawson is listed as doubtful with a broken rib that has sidelined him for three consecutive games. However, Lawson said he's out. … The Nuggets have lost six of their last seven road games. … Jordan Hamilton is averaging 11.3 points and 4.3 rebounds in his last three games.
Bucks: The Bucks will be without Larry Sanders, who had 25 points and 15 rebounds in the previous meeting between the teams. He's out with a broken orbital bone. … The Bucks are 3-7 in their last 10 games against the Nuggets at the Bradley Center.
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Depending on who you ask, we as spirited beings get to live on after our bodies decay. But what then? Clouds, harps, songs of praise, and streets of gold; or weeping, flames, gnashing of teeth, and eternal torment? Maybe we live on, inhabiting the bodies of a lesser life form, or we sort of melt into a collective greater consciousness. Or perhaps it really isn't that different. Maybe we still have jobs, we still have friends, and, whenever possible, we still like eating ice cream cake. Continue reading
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As I type, the story of this album has already passed into folklore. As much a production of corporate whoredom, as of Timbaland and his catalogue of beats, Magna Carta… Holy Grail marks a turning point. Not only for hip hop's hitherto unchallenged monarch, but for the genre itself.
Saying that the deal with Samsung was yet another cynical nail in the crumbling coffin of hip-hop would be too obvious. Jay-Z's affiliation with corporate America have long outstripped the weight of his youthful crimes on the street corners of Brooklyn. It's not even revelatory for a major artist to give their latest release away - it wasn't so long ago (in a deal which made even his most ardent apologists cringe) that Prince and The Mail On Sunday became dubious bedfellows.
Instead, it's the wider implications that this album can exist in a world where other major label hip hop struggles to make big numbers, while up-and-comers claw tooth and nail through a purgatory of mixtapes. That the most iconic living figure of the game can give his work away to a select few, get paid large, and expect to retain his position at the top of the tree.
If as he claims on 'Crown' he has ascended beyond his traditional role in rap, "You in the presence of a king/ Scratch that, you in the presence of a god", then the release of Magna Carta… Holy Grail feels like he's spitting in the face of his disciples and asking them to applaud his boardroom strategising. Maybe then, when approaching this album, it would pay to remember that sometimes even "a god" lets bad things happen.
State-of-the-rap-nation moralising aside, once the hype's swept away and our faces wiped clean, what can we really expect from the hip-hop Alfather's thirteenth release?
We live in a post-Yeezus world and in light of that record's ragged and snarling skullfuckery, Magna Carta… Holy Grail's production might come across as rather slick and palatable. That said, it would be a mistake to equate its relative sonic safety for unvaried vitality - indeed this record might contain the best beats of Jay's late career.
This is in no small part due to the skilful work of lead producer Timbaland. His beats are the glue that hold this album together, binding even the tritest of Jay's flows into something close to captivating. Whether it's the loose cosmic swirls of 'Picasso Baby', the rippling, dissonant electronica of 'Tom Ford', or the lively snap, clap and rattle of 'Versus', he doesn't fail to bring inspiration and bounce to proceedings. He even samples the infamous "no wire hangers EVER!" line from Mummy Dearest for the close-to-Kanye-but-not-quite-as-bugfuck-insane fatherhood angst of 'Jay-Z Blue'. A few fellow producers get close, most notably Hit-Boy with the delicate piano, boom-bap beat and pulsating horns of 'Somewhere in America', but the work of Tim Mosely proves hard to follow.
Sadly, the bond between Jay and his list of heavyweight associates pretty much ends with his producers. Justin Timberlake reciprocates the phone-it-in favour of Jay's weak verse on 'Suit & Tie' for opener 'Holy Grail', Rick Ross pours gruff ennui on product placement ego-wank 'FuckwithmeyouknowIgotit', while the all-star team of Nas, Pharell, Timberlake and Beyonce fail to liven things up on 'BBC'. The latter of these tracks is possibly the most deplorable, feeling like a party in a vacuum, the beats seemingly recycled from another Pharell production, 2013's pop nadir 'Blurred Lines'.
A few saving graces come in the form of Beyonce and the ever reliable Frank Ocean. Mrs Carter lending her breathy vocals to 'Part II (On The Run)' and its r&b retro futurism. Undercutting easy criticism by admitting it's a hackneyed love song from the outset, this thematic sequel to '03 Bonnie & Clyde' takes their tale of romance as criminality to tender new heights. 'Oceans' sees Jay as elder rap statesman, considering the servitude forced upon his antecedents, with thoughts of slave ships between champagne sips, as he looks across the water from his yacht. Subtler metaphors interweave the sweeping vocals of Frank Ocean and this time thankfully, some deft production from Pharell .
Moments of collaborative semi-poignancy aside, Jay is most at home without guest vocalists around, as they only hinder his increasingly aggrandising lyrical content. Whether he's shunning Molly and rocking Tom Ford, letting his daughter touch his prize Basquiat, "Go ahead lean on that shit Blue/You own it" on 'Picasso Baby', or justifying his lack of philanthropy "And just for clarity, my presence is charity/My flow is a gift, philanthropist" on 'Nickels and Dimes', this is overblown cognoscenti rap in its purest form. In part trying to live up to the ludicrous allusions of the album's title, in part born out of almost two decades spent breathing rarefied air.
Elevating his concerns to a higher plain, Jay is clearly setting his desires beyond those of the average rapperatti, but in doing so, tests this luxury rap aesthetic to its wearisome limits, creating a world where art, style and traditional hip-hop culture have never felt more hollow, meaningless and disconnected from the bounds of reality. An unselfconscious place, where he can happily name-check Michael Jackson, but is oblivious that a boast of; "Bulletproof glass, glass roof like the Pope", shows he's as far removed from the spectrum of relatable human reality as that musical 'king' ever was.
Magna Carta… Holy Grail isn't a total bust, but neither is it anywhere close to Jay-Z's finest moments. Instead it's a strange and anodyne record, that speaks of a king, nay a god, who may not have lost his crown, but would benefit from leaving his lofty boardroom once in a while. Maybe if he did, he'd pay more attention to acts like Joey Bada$$ or Run The Jewels: both also released free albums this month and both leave Hov artistically in the dust. It may be true that their payday will be smaller than one of his well brokered deals, but for them hip hop is no longer Jay's fiefdom, it's a republic and their #newrules mean they don't need a king anymore.
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|[Letter from Henry Cowing to Mary Jones, ca. December 1872 or January 1873] Mrs Mary Jones Madam - I am [on] way to Matagorda for the purpose of commencing suite and taking [depassions] for to remove the cloud from my title of the two labours of land on Matagorda penenceler [i.e. peninsula] at the mouth of Caney, and being as Joseph E Fields in now getting old and life unsertaine and being so much pleased and convinced of youre desire to do right and your promis not to interfere with my clame, I could not comence such a suit where it would be published without calling and leting you know, and to see if you would wish to avoide it be giving me a transfer Now the Case stands thus in Jany 1837 Joseph E Fields agrees with E K Whightmore to exchange his quarter League of land for sed two labours of land at the head of the penenceler [i.e. peninsula] Sed Whightmore contract was swore to by a subscribing witness in 1842 Mr Anson Joneses title is gived or dated the twe[l]vth of June 1837, without meets or bounds simbly agreeing refiring to the intrist in the above Contract which transfir which transfer[sic] was sworn to be one of the subscribing witness of 19 Oct 1840 And received for record 1849, and Allso the contract the same day You will be plesed to write me at Corpus Christi and to [ ] Matagorda so that it will find me either at one place or the other I will further state that both the two Labours and half of the quarter League was sould for by the Collector of taxes of the County for Convention tax of 1868 and purchased by Joseph Forrester and redeemed by me in 1870 a purch[as]ing his Title. over ------------------------------------------------------------------- Now Madam I think that these are all the Items I can give you. You will be plesed to diside and let me know as soon as possable and if you Conclude to give me the transfer be sending it to me properly acknoledged I will pay for within the deed and acknoledging Yours Sincerely Henry Cowing [In another's hand]: December 1842 or Jany 1843
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I am wondering if it is improper to create an owned window using WS_POPUP. When I used this window style, the window would not show itself, however, when I changed it to WS_OVERLAPPED it worked just fine. Is WS_POPUP the incorrect style to use for an owned window, or should I be looking in my code for some other underlying problem?
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Catherine Keener and John Malkovich, together again?
EXCLUSIVE: Film fans eager to see "My Idiot Brother," Jesse Peretz's Sundance hit starring Paul Rudd that will be in theaters later this year, could soon get another dose of seriocomedy from the filmmaker.
Peretz is making headway on a new family drama called "What's This S%^@ Called Love?" Peretz, who wrote the script and has been talking to financiers, said that Catherine Keener and John Malkovich are attached to star in the movie -- the first time, if financing and scheduling work out, that the actors would appear on-screen together since "Being John Malkovich," the 1999 surrealist hit that turbocharged both their careers. (Representatives for the actors could not immediately be reached for comment.)
The new movie, which is being produced by Tim Perell ("Last Chance Harvey," "The Rebound") is set in Cambridge, Mass., during the 1980s, a place and period in which Peretz, the son of well-known journalist Marty Peretz, came of age.
It centers on a teenage boy who's contemplating coming out. But in a twist, his ultra-progressive family actually wants to celebrate the boy's newfound sexuality, while all the boy wants is to be left alone. (Keener and Malkovich would play the parents; Keener has played the open-minded parent of precocious children before, perhaps most famously in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin.")
"My Idiot Brother," a story of a dimwitted man and his doting sisters, became a breakout at Sundance, snapped up by The Weinstein Co. for more than $6 million. Peretz doesn't make movies very often -- it had been five years since his previous effort, the Amanda Peet-Jason Bateman dramatic comedy "The Ex," came out.
When asked if "What's This S%^@ Called Love?" was a little like the coming-of-age story in "The Squid and the Whale," Noah Baumbach's paragon of upper-middle-class family dysfunction, Peretz didn't disagree. "It's kind of like that," he said. "But maybe a little more positive."
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Let (X,x) be a pointed space. There is an action of π1(X,x) on πn(X,x) -- determined by considering πn(X,x)=πn-1(ΩxX,x), where ΩxX denotes the space of loops in X based at x, and x denotes the constant loop -- given simply by conjugation. We can speak unambiguously of πn(X), the free (i.e., not necessarily basepoint-preserving) homotopy group exactly when this action is trivial.
On an algebraic level I'm fine with this, but I'm having trouble envisioning how a homotopy class might be conjugated to a different homotopy class in this way. Besides my admittedly small collection of toy examples, my issue could also be that I'm mainly thinking about π1, in which case it might (???) be that the action is trivial. (I seem to recall that before learning about general homotopy theory, I heard a statement along the lines of "for path-connected spaces, you may as well ignore basepoints". Certainly the groups are all isomorphic, but I'm not certain whether there is a unique natural isomorphism.)
Also, are there (necessary and/or sufficient) conditions for when the π1 action on πn will or won't be trivial, and does this depend on n?