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November 12, 2010
This Week's Blawg Review: IP Savvy in a Class by Itself.
Over at Cincinnati-based powerhouse Frost Brown Todd, partner and patent lawyer Stephen Albainy-Jenei is still a Mother of Invention. Don't miss this week's Blawg Review (#289), at his Patent Baristas. Even Austrian-born Hedy Lamarr is in play. It's always the quiet ones.
Patent Baristas frolics with the inventive Ms. Lamarr.
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November 10, 2010
My Marrakesh: Christian tattoo artists in Muqattam, Egypt.
East of Cairo, Muqattam is a suburb known for its past limestone cuttings, as well as for being the home of three generations of the Zabbaleen--the Coptic Christians celebrated in film and books as the unofficial "garbage collectors" of greater Cairo. And now, of course, for their work in tattoos. Visit our Yank friend Maryam--artist, writer, and charmed uber-princess--at her My Marrakesh.
Photo: M. Montague
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November 09, 2010
Mother Jones: Fear and Weirdness in the 2010 U.S. Elections.
Kevin Drum's November 5 article in Mother Jones--the enduring hell-raiser and serial winner of National Magazine Awards--is called "Weird Findings From 2010's Exit Poll Data". Excerpts, based on the new numbers:
The most intriguing result here is the top one: People who didn't vote in the previous presidential election shifted into the Republican camp at a fantastic clip. I have no idea why.
The most important categories are probably white voters and older voters, both of whom shifted Republican far more than the general population. Beyond the raw size of the shift, however, whites are important because their absolute numbers are so big and older voters are important because their big Republican shift was accompanied by higher turnout.
Conversely, although rural voters also shifted Republican in big numbers, their importance was diluted because their turnout was down.
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November 08, 2010
Heroes: Jill Clayburgh (1944-2010)
New Yorker. Artist. Warrior. Survivor.
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