Rappers Are Rapping About Being Verified (Or Not) On Twitter

Here’s a question: Are rappers rapping about being verified on Twitter? As it turns out, a number have, both in the positive (verified) and the negative (not verified). And, it also turns out, I am way, way behind.

The lyrics, as you might have already guessed, are fucking incredible. It’s fun to see Twitter become culturally relevant enough that status on the service is something worth boasting about. If you have any other examples, the comments are yours.

To the songs!

Kid Slim: Go! 

Still ain’t verified on Twitter, started from the bottom still here [Source]

In this lyric, Kid Slim points out that he is not verified on Twitter, and that unlike Drake who started from the bottom to reach “here,” he remains low on the status totem.

Slaughterhouse: Funkmaster Flex Freestyle

Your minds on bitter your vibes on Twitter / Check my file my resume is verified on Twitter [Source]

Royce Da 5’9 in this case isn’t impressed that you are whining on Twitter, and would like to point out that his resume is verified by Twitter. That entire Funkmaster Flex session, by the way, is really worth listening to. Crooked I nails his first verse.

Joell Ortiz: Iron On You (Exodus 23:1 Remix)

Ya’ll verified on Twitter, I’m verified by real n*****S / Ain’t they don’t hashtag, they toe tag / Have me send a DM to ya folks pad [Source]

Joell is a member of Slaughterhouse, a rap supergroup that apparently has a thing for Twitter. The irony here is that Joell is actually verified on Twitter, so, there’s that.

Fat Trel: Zonin

When are you gon’ realize? / That Fat Trel certified, that’s why my Twitter verified [Source]

The irony? Fat Trel isn’t verified.

Shawn Chrystopher: Prom Shit

Cause my idol’s going up and verified on Twitter [Source]

Not completely sure what Chrystopher is saying here, but he is verified on Twitter.

XV: The 27 Club

The me-me generation where everybody is famous / Blue check next to ya name or remain nameless [Source]

XV isn’t very proud of the current generation, who are self-centered and focused on ephemeral symbols, such as Twitter verification.

Jake Miller: Knock Out

I just ain’t just a trend, but lately I’ve been trending, baby / Blue check beside my name, so call me maybe? [Source]

Ok, Miller is actually verified, so this isn’t too far out there. But the Carly Rae Jepsen allusion is mostly flat.

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Special thanks to Ellen Cushing for finding most of these for me.

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Camel ancestors lived in the Arctic

Fossils on Ellesmere Island suggest famous desert dweller got its start in the cold

Fossils on Ellesmere Island suggest famous desert dweller got its start in the cold

By Erin Wayman

Web edition: March 5, 2013

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COLD CLIMATE CAMELS

Giant camels, as seen in this illustration, roamed the Arctic more than 3 million years ago when the region was forested, a new study suggests.

Credit: Julius Csotonyi

The desert?s most iconic creature may be a snow lover at heart. Scientists have unearthed fossils of a giant camel that roamed the Arctic more than 3 million years ago, when the region was warmer than today and blanketed by a boreal forest. The discovery, reported online March 5 in Nature Communications, suggests modern camels probably descended from a cold-dwelling ancestor.

?I?m not surprised you?re finding a camel up there,? says Christine Janis, a paleobiologist at Brown University in Providence, R.I., who was not involved in the discovery. Many camel characteristics, such as long legs for efficient walking and fat-storing humps, may be adaptations to living in environments like the Arctic, where food is sparse and distributed at distant intervals, she says.

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These fragments of a giant camel?s leg bone were discovered on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.

Credit: Martin Lipman/Canadian Museum of Nature

A team led by paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa found roughly 30 fragments of a camel?s lower leg bone on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. The researchers estimate the animal?s leg was 29 percent larger than a modern camel?s. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate the beast stood 2.7 meters at its shoulders, Rybcynski says, and weighed up to 900 kilograms.

The researchers determined that the fragments belonged to a camel by comparing collagen proteins extracted from the bones to collagen from 37 modern mammal species. The dromedary camel was the best match.

The protein was also nearly identical to collagen from more-recent camel fossils found in the Yukon Territory, which date to between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago. In 2011, Rybczynski?s coauthor C. Richard Harington, also of the Canadian Museum of Nature, concluded in Quaternary Science Reviews that the Yukon bones resemble an extinct camel of the genus Paracamelus that lived in Eurasia as early as about 7.5 million years ago.

Scientists think Paracamelus gave rise to modern camels. Since the camel lineage originated in North America, Rybczynski says Paracamelus probably did too, crossing into Eurasia when a land bridge connected Alaska and Russia. Scientists had thought that these camels evolved from an ancestor that lived in North America?s lower latitudes. Instead, she says, Paracamelus? connection to the Yukon and Ellesmere Island fossils suggests the camel ancestor came from the forests of the far north.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348716/title/Camel_ancestors_lived_in_the_Arctic

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Researchers identify genetic variation behind acute myeloid leukemia treatment success

Researchers identify genetic variation behind acute myeloid leukemia treatment success

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Researchers from the College of Pharmacy and Medical School working within the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, have partnered to identify genetic variations that may help signal which acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients will benefit or not benefit from one of the newest antileukemic agents.

Their study is published today in Clinical Cancer Research.

In the latest study, U of M researchers evaluated how inherited genetic polymorphisms in CD33, a protein that naturally occurs in most leukemia cells, could affect clinical outcomes of patients treated with an existing chemotherapy drug, gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO), an immuno-conjugate between anti-CD33 antibody and a cytotoxin known as calicheamicin, which binds to CD33 on leukemic cells. As GO is internalized by leukemia cells, the cytotoxin is released, causing DNA damage and generating leukemic cell death.

In recent clinical trials GO has been shown to induce remission and improve survival in subset of patients with AML, however there is wide inter-patient variation in response.

Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D., and colleagues identified and evaluated three genetic variations of CD33 in two groups of patients with pediatric AML ? one group that received the drug GO, and one group that did not. They found that specific genetic variation in CD33 that significantly affected the clinical outcome of AML patients who received GO based chemotherapy.

"Understanding how genetics play a role in how drugs work is extremely useful, particularly for a drug like GO which has shown a very heterogeneous response in AML patients," said Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D., the study's lead author and a researcher who holds appointments in both the College of Pharmacy and the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota. "Our latest findings lead us to believe that genetic variation in CD33 influences how AML patients' leukemic cell responds to GO."

AML is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, and is the second most common form of leukemia in children. Though the most common type of treatment for AML is chemotherapy, Lamba says the disease remains hard to treat and newer, more effective therapies are needed.

"The overall goal of our study was to use genetic data to predict beneficial or adverse response to a specific drug, thus opening up opportunities to use this information for drug optimization to achieve maximum therapeutic efficacy and minimum toxicity. Our hope is that our research could serve as a marker of prognostic significance for clinicians to select the therapy that has the greatest odds of being effective for individual patients based on their CD33 genotype."

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Rihanna gets temporary restraining order

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By Bruna Nessif and Claudia Rosenbaum, E! Online

This is one guy Rihanna definitely doesn't want to stay.?The "Unapologetic" singer obtained a temporary restraining order Tuesday at Los Angeles Superior Court against a man who mistakenly broke into her neighbor's house thinking it was the star's home on Friday.

Ri-Ri has asked the court to order that Steveland Barrow stay 100 yards away until the next court hearing on March 21.

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According to Rihanna's restraining order request, Barrow was arrested for breaking into her neighbor's house believing it to her residence.

Barrow, who reportedly claimed he had been invited into the singer's house, "removed various items from the home and slept in a bed thinking it was Ms. Fenty's," along with having numerous pieces of poetry for her, according to court documents.

Rihanna says Barrow has caused her to fear for her safety. The filing states that Barrow, "will go to great lengths to come into contact with (Rihanna) and has no regard for her privacy."

The hearing on March 21 will decide whether to make the restraining order permanent.

Luckily, Rihanna was away celebrating her birthday during the break-in

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Source: http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/27/17115751-rihanna-obtains-temporary-restraining-order-over-home-intruder?lite

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Dan Henderson gets bigger payday than Ronda Rousey, but disclosed sums don?t tell whole story

The California Athletic Commission announced the reported salaries from UFC 157 over the weekend. While Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche dominated headlines with the first female bout in UFC history, it was Lyoto Machida and Dan Henderson who made the biggest sums of reported money after squaring off in 157's co-main event.

Here are the reported salaries of the top five fights from the card (via MMA Weekly):

Ronda Rousey: $90,000 (includes $45,000 win bonus) def. Liz Carmouche: $12,000

Lyoto Machida: $200,000 (no win bonus) def. Dan Henderson: $250,000

Urijah Faber: $100,000 (includes $50,000 win bonus) def. Ivan Menjivar: $17,000

Court McGee: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) def. Josh Neer: $16,000

Robbie Lawler: $105,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus) def. Josh Koscheck: $78,000

It may stand out to the casual fan that Rousey and Carmouche made much less money on paper than Henderson and Machida. But there are a few things to consider as the money disclosed here is only what promoters are required to report by law.

It does not include money the fighters make of pay-per-view sales. Quite often, fighters at the top of the card will make a percentage of the pay-per-view profits. Early reports have UFC 157 with 400-500,000 pay-per-views, so it could mean a good payday for the headliners.

The UFC also is known to give out "locker room bonuses," or extra money because of a good performance that they are not required to report to the athletic commissions.

During the run-up to UFC 157, Carmouche talked about how she didn't have much furniture in her home and drove a rundown car. UFC president Dana White promised after the fights that her furniture-less days are over.

"She going to have a kitchen table, and a couch, and whatever else the [expletive] she wants," White said.

Also, Henderson and Machida are UFC veterans whose payouts are decided by their contracts well in advance of their fights. Rousey and Carmouche were the main event because the UFC standard is to put the championship fight as the main event. Henderson and Machida taking home more listed money is akin to Mike Trout making $480,000 and Vernon Wells making $21 million for the Los Angeles Angels. Trout finished second in American League MVP voting but makes much less because he's a rookie and not a veteran like Wells.

To use another example, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made much less money than backup Alex Smith. Kaepernick will eventually get paid as his star blossoms but it doesn't change the paycheck he took home from the Super Bowl.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/dan-henderson-gets-biggest-pay-day-ufc-157-215628008--mma.html

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Lance Armstrong visits Livestrong Foundation to apologize to staff

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong on Monday visited the Austin, Texas, office of the cancer foundation he started to apologize to the staff of about 100 people, a spokeswoman for the Livestrong Foundation said.

"He had a private conversation with the staff, who have done the important work of the foundation for many years," said foundation spokeswoman Katherine McLane.

The apology came on the day that Armstrong was scheduled to tape an interview with Oprah Winfrey to air on Thursday -- his first interview since being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

The disgraced cyclist plans to admit in the interview to doping throughout his career, USA Today reported on Saturday.

(Reporting By Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Greg McCune)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lance-armstrong-visits-livestrong-foundation-apologize-staff-192233879--sector.html

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