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Chanel's iconic interlocking Cs logo is one of the most widely-recognized logos in the world. However, much like Coco Chanel's life story, much of the origin of the interlocking Cs is shrouded in mystery. A few weeks ago a hairpin belonging to Catherine de Medici, Queen of France in the 16th century, was found at Fontainebleau Palace, a royal residence outside of Paris. A momentous find, the hairpin was the first possession of the Renaissance queen found in modern history. But what makes this find most curious of all is the very familiar looking interlocking Cs.
To fully understand the roots of the interlocking Cs we must take a look into the history of France as well as the formative years of Coco Chanel's life.
Queen Claude of France
Queen Claude of France is the first person recognized to use the interlocking Cs as her insignia. The interlocking Cs are found at the Château Royal de Blois, where "the symbol was carved in white in the apartments of France's Queen Claude, who found in the inital "C" an inspiring personal motto: candidior candidis – the fairest of the fair." (The Secret of Chanel Nº5, Tilar J. Mazzeo, p.107) We get a clearer picture of Queen Claude's personal apartments in Catherine de Medici, where the authors state: "the apartments of Queen Claude of France…in which may still be seen, delicately carved, the double C accompanied by figures, purely white, of swans and lilies signifying / candidior candidis / – more white than the whitest – the motto of the queen whose name began, like that of Catherine [de Medici] with a C…" (Catherine 'de Medici, Honoré de Balzac and Katharine Prescott Wormeley, p.54)
Catherine de Medici
Queen Claude of France was Catherine de Medici's mother-in-law – Catherine de Medici joined the French royals upon her marriage to Claude's second son Henri II. Having an initial C, like Queen Claude before her, Catherine de Medici adopted the symbol as her own.
It seems Catherine de Medici and Coco Chanel shared not only the "C" initial but also a penchant for jewels. Queen Catherine loved lavish jewels but most of her collection was sold, lost or stolen over hundreds of years. Similarly, Mademoiselle Chanel loved jewelry – both real and fake – and like Queen Catherine, many of her signature pieces were stolen in the hours shortly after her death. To find a piece of Catherine de Medici's jewelry now is a significant find, and may help unlock some of the mysteries of the Chanel logo.
As a side note, this is not the only similarity between Catherine de Medici and Coco Chanel – both women loved fragrance as well. In fact, one of the many rumors surrounding the creation of Chanel Nº5 is that the formula is derived from "the lost 'miraculous perfume' of the Medici queens, an elixir said to preserve aging beauties from the ravages of time." (The Secret of Chanel Nº5, Tilar J. Mazzeo, p.31)
Château Crémat
Another legend says that Coco Chanel saw the interlocking Cs at Château Crémat, a château in Nice that Irène Bretz, and American heiress purchased. Coco Chanel was friends with Ms. Bretz and attended parties she hosted at Château Crémat and "one summer night Coco Chanel looked up at a vaulted arch at one of Irène's famous parties and found inspiration in a Renaissance medallion: two interlocking Cs." (The Secret of Chanel Nº5, Tilar J. Mazzeo, p.107)
Chapel at Aubazine
The explanation that Chanel (the modern company) and biographer Justine Picardie subscribe to is that the answer can be found at the Chapel of Aubazine, a Cistercian monastery and abbey that also housed an orphanage where Chanel spent the latter half of her childhood.
Picardie explains:
A few shafts of light pierce the shadows through the opaque grey and pearl-white windows; there is no figurative stained glass in this Cistercian abbey, but the panes form geometric patterns, knots and loops that look eerily like the double C of Chanel's logo.
(Coco Chanel: The Legend and The Life, Justine Picardie, p. 28).
Capel & Chanel
Justine Picardie also alludes to another meaning behind the double C – Boy Capel and Coco Chanel. Boy Capel was the love of Coco Chanel's life and Chanel as we know it today may not even exist without Boy Capel. In addition to being her lover, Boy Capel was in some ways a founding business partner of Chanel. He funded her business and her first boutiques and Coco Chanel eventually paid him back his investment.
After Boy Capel's untimely death, interlocking the Cs of Capel and Chanel was a way of keeping them together. Picardie states:
There was no business contract to bind them together, just as there was no marriage certificate, but it nonetheless joined them, as the double C logo seems to suggest; Chanel and Capel; overlapping, but also facing away from each other.
(Coco Chanel: The Legend and The Life, Justine Picardie, p. 74-5).
The Double C Lives On
We will never know where Coco Chanel found inspiration for the Double C Chanel logo. It could have been from long lost loves, royal families, her sad childhood, or a combination of them. What we do know is that the symbol is as mysterious as the woman who made it infamous.
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Coco Chanel: The Legend and The Life by Justine Picardie
The Secret of Chanel Nº5, Tilar J. Mazzeo (review coming soon!)
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I fondly remember making spin art with a little machine when I was a kid. So it's been on my list of toys to get the kids for some time.
I knew they'd have just as much fun as I did watching the paper spin and the colorful paint splatter. And ALEX's Fantastic Spinner definitely didn't disappoint. The kids had so much fun spinning and squirting paint they didn't want to stop.
We ended up with a whole bunch of colorful spin art that we had to find a creative DIY craft solution for.
So I decided to use them to decorate Sawyer's room by turning them into a long spin art bunting. Here's how I did it…
DIY Spin Art Bunting
I just made a scallop template, traced it on each spin art paper, and cut them out.
Then I used a zigzag stitch to sew each spin art scallop to one long ribbon.
Sawyer was so excited to see his spin art creations hanging above his bed. And this mama was excited to find an alternative to the refrigerator for all of that spin art!
What do you do with all of your kids' artwork?
Find lots of other great art project ideas on our Art for Kids Pinterest board!
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App Review: Voices by Tap Tap Tap
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December 8, 2009
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If you're looking for an app to show off your fancy new iPhone to your friends then add Voices by TapTapTap to your lineup. While not overly exciting, Voices is definitely entertaining and is a lot more fun when there's more than one person around.
If you haven't guessed yet, Voices takes your voice and alteres it into one of 17 different sounding voices. So, now's your chance to be Darth Vader ("dark side" voice) and say those famous words: "Luke, I am your father!" Or if you grew up listenning to the Chipmunks then now you can be just like them too. There's also a fan alteration (who hasn't spoke into a fan?), canyon (gives you an echo) and even reverse.
The app is extremely well polished. The interface is beautiful and when you go to record your voice for transformation there's even the sound of a throat clearing before you speak. Your recordings are saved, if you choose to keep them, for later playback.
Truth be told there's really not much more to say about this app. Transformations worked well, although some of them could be a little better done. One complaint is that it doesn't have a lot of replay appeal. Once we messed with it for a bit trying all the transformations then what more is there to do? I will say, however, that my 5 year old thinks its great – so this may be a better target audience then you and your buddies. Another complaint I have with Voices is that you can't record your voice, then hear or try the same recording on all of the transformations. In other words, you record once and it's good only for the transformation that you recorded it under. (To clarify, if you select Cyborg, then it comes up with the mic, you then speak into the device and touch the stop button when done. The app then transforms it into the cyborg sound and you can choose to save it then).
Don't get your hopes up too high and Voices will not let you down. I was slightly disappointed in the quality of the transformations however, if you can get past this and see it for what it is (entertaining) then I can recommend it.
What we liked: The idea is great, interface is awesome.
What we didn't like: Some transformations need help, limited replay appeal, inability to record your voice once and transform it into any of the different styles.


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Apologies if this has been mentioned.
If you are in a mall or whatever during an attack and you want to fight back, consider a fire extinguisher.
They should be near an exit or in the exit tunnel path. Hold the valve in your strong hand, pull the pin, fire in the attackers face just long enough to blind or confuse him, step to the side, swing extinguisher at side of his head. Hit him again, get his weapon, hold it on him. It he tries to get up, shoot him. Be sure the cops don't think you are bad guy, keep an eye out for them, surrender immediately when confronted.
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Ismet Karamanaga is a German language teacher in the ancient town of Ulcinj in the far south of Montenegro, where Albanians have traditionally lived for centuries. The town is close to the border with what is now modern Albania. It voted in favour of independence.
Ismet is a Muslim and lives with his family in the middle of the Old Town. He is intensely proud of the town's history and its harmonious interethnic relations. He says:
"Ulcinj especially is an example for a life of harmony. We live as followers of three religions, three denominations in perfect cohabitation. I mention this wherever I go in the world and say it often: there was no problem in Montenegro, it was in Kosovo that things were bad."
But he says the Albanian community does need more rights:
"O f course we say we need more justice, more rights for our people, for our children. We need a University. We only have one newspaper, printed in the Albanian language. Many of the texts printed are translated; texts written by me or by someone else; the news is taken from other papers and translated. We want a new school programme, a new curriculum. But overall we are content."
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Don, have you seen this? I was on the Golfsmith site looking at shafts and noticed on the ordering page they allow you to request shaft PUREing, a process they have for testing and identifying the most stable shaft orientation. Is that like the Spine/FLO alignment process you talk about?
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No golf shaft is perfectly round, straight or stiff throughout its length.
Despite modern manufacturing techniques, every shaft is as unique as a fingerprint, and every shaft performs differently. But by PUREing shafts, you find the plane of assembly in which that shaft is the most stable when striking the ball. This allows you to both build a better golf club and expand the revenue stream for your business.
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Golfsmith offers the first and most dominant USGA-legal service of shaft orientation — or PUREing. This service can be performed for any raw shafts purchased through Golfsmith, from any other source, or on complete clubs that are shipped to Golfsmith for retro-PUREing. This amazing technology, licensed to Golfsmith by Strategic Shaft Technologies, LC (U.S. patent #4,958,834 and pats. pending), provides clubmakers with the opportunity to build the most stable clubs possible and expand their revenue source at the same time.
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Alexander Keyssar, The Right To Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Basic Books, 2000). Keyssar's comprehensive survey of the highly contested, always evolving process by which Americans not only choose who can vote but also how we organize the ways in which voters cast ballots (and then how those ballots are counted), is the "gold standard" for voting rights books. If I had to pick a single book on voting rights to recommend to someone new to the topic, it would be Keyssar's book.
Charles l. Zelden, Voting Rights on Trial (Hackett, 2004 [PB]): For those seeking a more concise overview than Keyssar's fine book, with more focus on the role of litigation in shaping the right to vote, this distilled treatment provides a useful guide, with supplementary documents, through 2004.Readers, do you have other suggestions? Join the conversation by posting a comment.
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Stephen F. Lawson, Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Columbia U. Press, 1976 [HB]; Lexington Press, 1999 [PB]). Lawson's book is a highly readable and informative account of the decades-long fight for African American voting rights in the South. Although later work on this subject has added nuance and scope to our understandings of the fight against African American disfranchisement in the South (in particular, exploring the grassroots origins of the fight for voting rights within the southern black community), Lawson's book still stands as one of the best descriptions of the organized fight to break the back of racial disfranchisement.
R. Volney Riser, Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 (LSU Press, 2010). Riser offers a fascinating look at the earliest stages of the fight against African American disenfranchisement. His book reminds us that the defense of African American voting rights arose contemporaneously with Southern whites' efforts to impose disfranchisement on Southern blacks. That these efforts to defend black voting rights failed did not make then any less important.
Christopher Malone, Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North (Routledge, 2008). Focusing on African American voting rights in the antebellum North, Malone provides a useful counterbalance to the mostly south-centric work on African American voting rights and to the tendency to focus the study of the fight for African American voting rights on the twentieth century.
Charles L. Zelden, The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary (U. Press of Kansas, 2005 [HC/PB]). A volume in the "Landmark Law Cases and American Society" series examining the 1944 case that Thurgood Marshall prized even above Brown v. Board of Education.
Richard C. Cortner, The Apportionment Cases (W. W. Norton & Co., 1970). Though badly dated, Cortner's book is still the best one-volume history of the reapportionment revolution of the 1960s, providing a compelling narrative of the legal fight for and against the "one person, one vote" standard in apportioning legislative seats.
Charles L. Zelden, Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in American Democracy (U. Press of Kansas, 2008 [HB]; abridged and updated, 2010 [PB]). The first book to treat the legal/constitutional crisis of the post-2000 presidential election as history (as opposed to adding to the mountain of constitutional and political commentary on the case). This book shifts the debate over what happened in 2000 (and over the Supreme Court's ruling) away from the endless political argument about who became president and how to the electoral and structural issues raised by this event. In summary, the 2000 election exposed many serious practical and administrative flaws afflicting our electoral system – in particular, its vulnerability to the sorts of partisan manipulation that we are seeing today. A subtheme of the revised edition is that at the time of the crisis, and to this day, nobody was willing to acknowledge these flaws (except, that is, for partisans who saw in them opportunities for electoral advantage). The failure to learn the true lessons of 2000 – that we had a broken electoral system -- set the stage for the electoral manipulations and administrative failures that are emerging as prominent problems afflicting this election cycle.
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Pena is Charging the Rays Batteries
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Oh Carlos, how you tend to flirt with our hearts and then break it when you strikeout with men in scoring position, or when the Rays have a chance to cement a victory. How we enjoy seeing that infectious smile and that graceful grin that makes us forgive you for everything that has happened both good and bad this year. But your single in the bottom of the 10th inning last night push your squad towards the playoff once again in 2009.
And Carlos let me tell you, it was done in classic Pena fashion with a accent mark on the night being that gliding RBI-single that seemed to drift forever before it bounced upon that turf. You wonder how you could have built another layer after hitting two home runs for 3 RBIs before your at bat in the 10th inning. When you took that second pitch from Jason Grilli and drilled it back into centerfield you sent more than our hearts a flutter last night. You also might have silenced the wave of critics that have been building energy and momentum concerning another run by you towards a strikeout crown.
But let's dwell on the positives today and forget the past shall we. Can we forget that you currently lead the American League in strikeouts with 147 because of the magic of last night. But a bright side to it all is that you are also tied with Boston's Jason Bay for the top spot in walks with 78 this season. Also fans are forgetting today about how you have gone 9 for 32 with 5 home runs and 10 RBIs followed by 6 strikeouts. But those numbers might be a bit dwarfed by the last two games where you have been 4 for 7 with 3 homers, 4 runs scored and 5 RBIs.
Also missing from the box score might be the fact that you have now had an RBI on your last 4 hits this series. You have lived up to your leadership role in this series. We are taught from a young age to lead by example, and you have done just that Carlos. That stat really freaks me out to the potential you could have to turn this playoff push into a playoff reality soon if you keep on track and get those timely hits.
Now I am not asking for a homer a game, or even a bunch of them. Instead I would love to see a few scattered singles that could produce scoring chances or RBIs in this next road trip. You have done well against the team that drafted you first into the MLB family. Now after three games you will visit another "ex". When you and the Rays arrive in Detroit, it might be time for you again to show the same fire and the same drive to show the Tigers, just like you did to the Rangers, what it is like to miss Carlos Pena.
Another wild stat from last night, only four other players in the last 15 years have ended a game with an RBI-single after hitting 2 home runs in the contest. The Cardinals Albert Pujols did it on April 16, 2006, Twin Torri Hunter did it on May 26, 2001, ex-Dodger and Rockie Todd Hollandsworth did it on April 15, 2001 and ex-Brave Brian Jordan did it again on July 15, 1995. Only Hollandsworth and Pujols did it by ending their games on their third home run. Simply amazing that now your name is etched among these players names.
And why don't we add another kicker to your statistics as you currently have 34 home runs and lead the American League again this season. But lets add another interesting "Carlos" fact to your player resume'. You are currently on pace to become the third player in major league history to hit as many singles (34) as you have home runs. Ex-Cardinal Mark McGwire did it 4 times, and Barry bonds did it in 2001. I know the company might look a bit "tainted" right now, but you are in rare air my friend with this feat.
So Carlos, I can't not love what you are doing right now, but for this team to thrust itself back into contention and make the playoffs they need your clubhouse leadership and your bats to stay upbeat and hot right now. Last night was your third multi-homer game of the season, And more might be needed before it is all said and done on October 3rd, but we know you have it in you Carlos. We do believe!
The fact you now have 8 homers in the last 14 games shows you can do it in the clutch, and nothing is more clutch than coming through for you team in the playoff push. With you next home run you will also own the top two season spot for home runs in a season, and we all know that just might be a matter of time before that record of 46 you set in 2007 will fall too. So now is the time Carlos, we want to again see you "do that dance" in the dugout. We want to again see that Pena smile go deep into October, and last but not least, we love to see those team meetings at the plate!
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Hi, Rays Renegade …
I watched the last couple of innings of Rays very exciting 5-4 extra innings victory over the Rangers last night !!! … Very big win for the Rays !!! … The Rays are still in the wild card race, and, maybe, even still in the pennant race in the AL East … There still are many games yet to play, and even though the Yankees are playing very well, they still need to keep winning games and series' to win the division !!! … This race should go right down to the wire !!! … And, the Yankees play the Rays the final three games of the regular season in Tampa Bay … It will be interesting, and fun to watch !!!
Take care, Rays Renegade !!! … Have a great day !!!
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Pena and Burrell are beginning to see some balls the size of beach balls and are finally starting to hit the ball with power for the Rays.
With the 5 and 6 guys starting to hit, it could be the boost the Rays need right now to start a jaunt towards the top of the Wild Card race.
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The Rays, are making a run and have gotten 2 outta 3 from the Rangers, which is tough to do. With the Sox losing, the Rays didn't fall any games farther back of the Sox. =) Good luck Cliff, and I got some poems on Tribe Talk With Ted if you wanna see.
Any chance Pena could pitch too? Throw him in there! Let him really lead the team. Haha. Nice to see them coming back to life. I'm banking on either the Rays or Rangers to knock out the Red Sox…. just wish someone could knock out the Yanks.
Tribe Ted,
I will stop by your blog soon and check out your rhyming muses soon.
As Meatloaf says, "Two out of Three Aint Bad".
Rays Renegade
I know Wade Boggs and Josh Wilson once pitched for the Rays.
But I think the guy who could throw it and surprise everyone would be B J Upton now on the team.
Aubrey Huff used to throw a heck of a knuckleball when he was warming up in RF when he was with the Rays.
Rays Renegade
I ended up cancelling the rhyming post. I have a better one up though. Thanks Cliff.
Tribe Ted,
I know trying to make everything come up rhyming can be a pain, but sometimes they can transpose into masterpieces.
You never know anymore.
Rays Renegade
The Rays are playing strong and as was said before the wild card spot is up for grabs.
With us playing Detroit for the first time this season during our road trip this week, we might get a better sense of this team by the weekend.
But then again, the Texas Rangers have to go to New York and Minnesota this week before they head home to Arlington, Texas.
And Boston doesn't get off easy as they head to Chicago to take on the White Sox, then pop up to Toronto, who has always played them tough.
Rays Renegade


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Justin Bieber + Selena Gomez are Having '2 Much Fun'
Justin Bieber posted a candid photo of himself with Selena Gomez caught in a hilarious moment on his Instagram. "2 much fun," read the caption, an apt description for the pair's laughter.
There's no further explanation from Bieber about the pic, which looks as though it was taken by a third party and was edited with the X-Pro II filter. It was posted on Monday at 8:44 pm.
"2 much fun" seems to be the best way to describe the couple's relationship right now. Although those baby rumors are still out there, we haven't heard much lately about the state of Justin and Selena's partnership. When the tabloids aren't even trying to create any drama about your relationship, things must be going well.
Bieber's instagram features 241 pics, but glimpses of Gomez on his feed are rare. He seems to prefer posting fun photos with glimpses from his everyday life, like spelling "no fear" out of pretzels or pretending to drive a forklift backstage.


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Semantically: time-ordered list of future values. -- Instances: -- -- * 'Monoid': 'mempty' is the event that never occurs, and @e `mappend` -- e'@ is the event that combines occurrences from @e@ and @e'@. -- -- * 'Functor': @fmap f e@ is the event that occurs whenever @e@ occurs, -- and whose occurrence values come from applying @f@ to the values from -- @e@. -- -- * 'Applicative': @pure a@ is an event with a single occurrence at time -- -Infinity. @ef \<*\> ex@ is an event whose occurrences are made from -- the /product/ of the occurrences of @ef@ and @ex@. For every occurrence -- @f@ at time @tf@ of @ef@ and occurrence @x@ at time @tx@ of @ex@, @ef -- \<*\> ex@ has an occurrence @f x@ at time @tf `max` tx@. N.B.: I -- don't expect this instance to be very useful. If @ef@ has @nf@ -- instances and @ex@ has @nx@ instances, then @ef \<*\> ex@ has @nf*nx@ -- instances. However, there are only @nf+nx@ possibilities for @tf -- `max` tx@, so many of the occurrences are simultaneous. If you think -- you want to use this instance, consider using 'Reactive' instead. -- -- * 'Monad': @return a@ is the same as @pure a@ (as usual). In @e >>= f@, -- each occurrence of @e@ leads, through @f@, to a new event. Similarly -- for @join ee@, which is somehow simpler for me to think about. The -- occurrences of @e >>= f@ (or @join ee@) correspond to the union of the -- occurrences (temporal interleaving) of all such events. For example, -- suppose we're playing Asteroids and tracking collisions. Each collision -- can break an asteroid into more of them, each of which has to be tracked -- for more collisions. Another example: A chat room has an /enter/ event, -- whose occurrences contain new events like /speak/. An especially useful -- monad-based function is 'joinMaybes', which filters a Maybe-valued -- event. newtype EventG t a = Event { eFuture :: FutureG t (ReactiveG t a) } -- The event representation requires temporal monotonicity but does not -- enforce it, which invites bugs. Every operation therefore must be -- tested for preserving monotonicity. (Better yet, find an efficient -- representation that either enforces or doesn't require monotonicity.) -- Why the newtype for 'EventG?' Because the 'Monoid' instance of 'Future' -- does not do what I want for 'EventG'. It will pick just the -- earlier-occurring event, while I want an interleaving of occurrences -- from each. Similarly for other classes. -- TODO: Alternative and MonadPlus instances for EventG -- | Reactive value: a discretely changing value. Reactive values can be -- understood in terms of (a) a simple denotational semantics of reactive -- values as functions of time, and (b) the corresponding instances for -- functions. The semantics is given by the function @at :: ReactiveG t a -> -- (t -> a)@. A reactive value may also be thought of (and in this module -- is implemented as) a current value and an event (stream of future values). -- -- The semantics of 'ReactiveG' instances are given by corresponding -- instances for the semantic model (functions): -- -- * 'Functor': @at (fmap f r) == fmap f (at r)@, i.e., @fmap f r `at` -- t == f (r `at` t)@. -- -- * 'Applicative': @at (pure a) == pure a@, and @at (s \<*\> r) == at s -- \<*\> at t@. That is, @pure a `at` t == a@, and @(s \<*\> r) `at` t -- == (s `at` t) (r `at` t)@. -- -- * 'Monad': @at (return a) == return a@, and @at (join rr) == join (at -- . at rr)@. That is, @return a `at` t == a@, and @join rr `at` t == -- (rr `at` t) `at` t@. As always, @(r >>= f) == join (fmap f r)@. -- @at (r >>= f) == at r >>= at . f@. -- -- * 'Monoid': a typical lifted monoid. If @o@ is a monoid, then -- @Reactive o@ is a monoid, with @mempty == pure mempty@, and @mappend -- == liftA2 mappend@. That is, @mempty `at` t == mempty@, and @(r -- `mappend` s) `at` t == (r `at` t) `mappend` (s `at` t).@ data ReactiveG t a = a `Stepper` EventG t a {-------------------------------------------------------------------- Applying functions inside of representations --------------------------------------------------------------------} -- | Apply a unary function inside an 'EventG' representation. inEvent :: (FutureG s (ReactiveG s a) -> FutureG t (ReactiveG t b)) -> (EventG s a -> EventG t b) inEvent f = Event . f . eFuture -- | Apply a unary function inside an 'EventG' representation. inEvent2 :: (FutureG t (ReactiveG t a) -> FutureG t (ReactiveG t b) -> FutureG t (ReactiveG t c)) -> (EventG t a -> EventG t b -> EventG t c) inEvent2 f = inEvent . f . eFuture -- | Apply a unary function inside the 'rEvent' part of a 'Reactive' -- representation. inREvent :: (EventG s a -> EventG t a) -> (ReactiveG s a -> ReactiveG t a) inREvent f ~(a `Stepper` e) = a `Stepper` f e -- | Apply a unary function inside the future reactive inside a 'Reactive' -- representation. inFutR :: (FutureG s (ReactiveG s b) -> FutureG t (ReactiveG t b)) -> (ReactiveG s b -> ReactiveG t b) inFutR = inREvent . inEvent {-------------------------------------------------------------------- Showing values (exposing rep) --------------------------------------------------------------------} -- | Make the event into a list of futures eFutures :: EventG t a -> [FutureG t a] eFutures (Event (Future (Max MaxBound,_))) = [] eFutures (Event (Future (t,a `Stepper` e))) = Future (t,a) : eFutures e -- TODO: redefine 'eFutures' as an unfold -- Show a future sFuture :: (Show t, Show a) => FutureG t a -> String sFuture (Future (Max MinBound,a)) = "(-infty," ++ show a ++ ")" sFuture (Future (Max MaxBound,_)) = "(infty,_)" sFuture (Future (Max (NoBound t),a)) = "(" ++ show t ++ "," ++ show a ++ ")" -- TODO: Better re-use in sFuture. -- Truncated show sFutures :: (Show t, Show a) => [FutureG t a] -> String sFutures fs = let maxleng = 20 a = (intersperse "->" . map sFuture) fs inf = length (take maxleng a) == maxleng in if not inf then concat a else concat (take maxleng a) ++ "..." -- TODO: clean up sFutures def: use intercalate, concat before trimming, -- and define&use a general function for truncating and adding "...". -- Test. instance (Show a, Show b) => Show (EventG a b) where show = sFutures . eFutures instance (Show x, Show y) => Show (ReactiveG x y) where show (x `Stepper` e) = show x ++ " `Stepper` " ++ show e {-------------------------------------------------------------------- Execution --------------------------------------------------------------------} -- | Run an event in the current thread. Use the given time sink to sync -- time, i.e., to wait for an output time before performing the action. runE :: forall t. Ord t => Sink t -> Sink (EventG t Action) runE sync ~(Event (Future (Max bt,r))) = tsync bt (runR sync r) where tsync :: AddBounds t -> Sink Action tsync MinBound = id -- no wait tsync (NoBound t) = (sync t >>) -- wait tsync MaxBound = const (return ()) -- finished! -- TODO: I'm not sure about the MaxBound case. We could instead just wait -- forever (cheaply). Try out this terminating definition instead. -- | Run an event in a new thread, using the given time sink to sync time. forkE :: Ord t => Sink t -> EventG t Action -> IO ThreadId forkE = (fmap.fmap) forkIO runE -- TODO: Revisit this tsync definition. 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Skip to comments.Is John Edwards' Fall a Tragedy?
Posted on 06/07/2011 4:17:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Washington Post has issued a post-mortem on the career of John Edwards ("American Dream is Irrevocably Undone") and finds tragedy and pathos. "The man born Johnny Reid Edwards had it. Great gobs of potential." He might have been, the Post laments, "a great husband, could have been an enduring statesman ... president."
But fate intervened. With his indictment on misuse of campaign funds last week, "America witnessed the latest distasteful episode in ... (the) fall from grace of a political comet."
Grace, as any unblinkered observer could detect, is not a word that ever belonged in the same sentence with John Edwards. But from the beginning of his political career, liberal enthusiasts gushed about his talents. He was, People magazine pronounced, America's "sexiest politician." Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker called him "the next Bill Clinton" -- without irony. Katie Couric was impressed by more than his looks: "He was the first to raise issues like poverty, universal health care and climate change," she said. "He bucked the conventional wisdom and took political risks, speaking honestly about why he wanted to raise taxes, for example." Ah, yes, bucking the conventional wisdom by talking about universal health care and climate change.
The Washington Post doubtless speaks for Couric and her crowd when it sees in Edwards' fall "the spiral of the Great Man."
In fact, John Edwards, Mr. For the Little Guy, who, in his own words, "represent(ed) people who were in very difficult places in their lives and tr(ied) to give them a shot," made his fortune as an ambulance chaser. No one who examined his career as a fortune-hunting, slick, and unscrupulous trial lawyer should find any inconsistency in his later incarnation as a manipulative, mendacious, and morally bankrupt politician.
As a trial lawyer, Edwards specialized in suing obstetricians after the birth of babies with cerebral palsy. Employing junk science and theatrical courtroom oratory, he convinced juries that the doctors' failure to perform Caesarean sections soon enough caused the disorder. The Edwards technique included speaking for the unborn child. In his summation at one such trial, an emotional Edwards told the jury: "She speaks to you through me. And I have to tell you right now -- I didn't plan to talk about this -- right now, I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you."
The jury came back with a $6.5 million verdict in that case. It was one of 60 such cases Edwards handled during his career -- half of the verdicts were for more than $1 million. Trial lawyers usually pocket between 30 and 40 percent of jury awards. And though Edwards claimed that he was proud of his career, and that he gave "little guys" a shot, The New York Times quoted a fellow trial lawyer: "He took only those cases that were catastrophic, that would really capture a jury's imagination. He paints himself as a person who was serving the interests of the downtrodden, the widows and the little children. Actually, he was after the cases with the highest verdict potential."
It never troubled Edwards' sleep that studies have shown no connection between delivery-room decisions and cerebral palsy. A 1989 report from the Institute of Medicine argued that obstetricians were being falsely blamed. Lawsuits like those Edwards filed led to the widespread use of fetal monitors during hospital deliveries. The result has been a surge in the number of Caesarean deliveries, many of them unnecessary. This, in turn, has contributed to complications like infection, blood clots, longer recovery times, and more maternal deaths, to say nothing of the increased medical costs.
And here's a bitter postscript: Despite the increased use of fetal monitors and the much readier resort to C-sections, the incidence of cerebral palsy in the population has remained unchanged. In fact, a study in Sweden suggests C-sections may increase the incidence of cerebral palsy.
Additionally, thanks to Edwards and his colleagues, medical malpractice insurance rates for obstetricians have skyrocketed, leading many doctors to abandon the field. It is poor women, not the rich who can travel more easily, who suffer most from doctor shortages.
Mr. For The Little Guy adamantly opposed legislation that would have capped damage awards and set up a fund for the 99 percent of brain-damaged children who did not win big verdicts. There were "two Americas" all right -- those whose misfortune Edwards could profitably exploit, and the rest.
Between the 2004 and 2008 campaigns, Mr. FTLG joined Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund. While acknowledging that making money was "a good thing, too," Edwards stressed that he was primarily motivated by a desire to learn more about financial markets and their relationship to poverty. Where, oh where, was the press's gag meter?
Edwards seduced a cooperative press corps with ostentatious displays of affection for his stricken wife -- "the love of my life" -- including annual visits to the Wendy's where the couple supposedly passed their first anniversary.
Fall of a great man? How far can a worm fall?
In the mold of Charlie Manson!!
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
Not as far as I am concerned. Or, to put it another way, not for me.
Only the Com-Post would be naive enough not to have recognized Edwards as a snake-oil salesman the day he stepped into the public spotlight. Great husband? Enduring statesman? President? He was a sleazy malpractice lawyer who played on juries sympathies to win large settlements on grounds not based in medical science, and parlayed that money into a US Senate seat. What would anyone expect from someone with such a background, that he would suddenly grow morals and a conscience?
Such investigation is beyond the skill of any Washington Post reporter.
You see, she was once molested by Karl Marx.
Damning with faint praise! Or consigning to damnation...
I agree
Predictable and not unexpected,but certainly not a tragedy.
(Unless you happen to be one of his children.)
More like a Swan dive, or maybe a triple back gainer, or maybe a "Hold my beer, Bubba, and watch THIS!"
The idiot DOVE into the "mosh pit" and in the end, learned that the floor was concrete.
tragedy?...ONLY IF YOUR A LIBTARD.
Well, Mona, if politicians such as John Edwards turn your stomach, why do you continually throw a pol like Sarah Palin under the bus? 'Cause in the end she's not a slow-speaking, slow-thinking, boring, extremely homely Ivy League mandarin like you.
A tragedy is when your 2 year old kid runs out on to the street and is killed by a car. A suicide is when you run out on to the street and get hit by a car.
No. What should happen to a sleazy person like Edwards.
He'll be missed (NOT)
It's a tragedy only for his children.
In a literary sense, it is the classic tragedy
The press built him up and now they're in the process of tearing him down. He was never what they said he was when they were singing his praises and therefore the "fall from grace" rings totally hollow. But whatever.
Where was John Edwards around the time his alleged "love child" Frances Quinn Hunter was conceived?
The senator was in New York receiving his Father of the Year Award.
Edwards accepted his June 27, 2007, honor from the Father's Day/Mother's Day Council exactly eight months before the child was born Feb. 27, 2008, according to a birth certificate obtained by the Charlotte Observer.
Before beginning his Father of the Year acceptance speech, Edwards told an adoring crowd, "I hate to admit it, but I am not the best parent in my family. ..."
VIDEO at site!
Or, from the Edwards camp itself...
From JohnEdwards.com:
John Edwards receives the Father of the Year Award in New York, N.Y. on June 7, 2007.
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Facebook has always been a huge time suck. The past few years have brought a lot of changes — the news feed, pages, the timeline. If you "like" a page, suddenly you are getting a million updates from it. Casual users who mostly check their own wall and messages may not find it too inconvenient, but daily users who keep a tab open to the site most of the day have definitely been feeling the strain. When you add the groundswell of middle age and older users to the mix – meaning all your relatives and little old ladies from church are now friend requesting you – it can be a real hassle. But, if you're like me, you just can't live without it. Better to make the best of the new Facebook. Here's how.
Create Lists
Sometimes you're going on Facebook to catch up on the day's news, but sometimes you just want to see what your friends are doing or if pictures from last night are up yet. This is where lists come in handy. Facebook has created Close Friends and Acquaintance lists for you in your left hand menu under Favorites. (If these lists do not appear under Favorites, use the second option of the following instructions to add people to one of the lists and it should appear.) To add friends to this list, you can either click on the Close Friends list and then go to Manage List at the top right, or you can go to a friend's page and hover over the button that says Friends and select Close Friends or Acquaintances. Close Friends' posts will show up more in your feed, whereas Acquaintances will rarely show up in your feed unless they have a major announcement like an engagement. Voila! You may never have to see one of Aunt Millie's cat pictures ever again. If you want to make sure you don't, hover over the Friends button on her page and there is also a handy Ignore list.
Restrict, Restrict, Restrict
If it's less about not wanting to see other's stuff, and more about not wanting your Mom to see that you were at a bar during Millie's 80th birthday party when you said you had work, you'll want to restrict her. Restricting is a good option for family friends or acquaintances you just don't want up in your daily business. They can still see your About information and certain posts that you control, and they have no idea they have been restricted. (It's also important to note that people do not see what list of yours they are on.) To create a Restricted list go to Privacy Settings from the top left drop down menu. Click Manage Blocking, and the top section allows you to add or remove people from your Restricted list. Again, these people are not blocked and are still your Facebook friends, they just can't see your posts unless you make them public. I also use this list for people I barely know who find it necessary to comment on every one of my posts.
Control how you post
Just because Facebook went public doesn't mean you have to. If you haven't noticed, when you place your cursor in that little status update box, there appears below it a drop down menu that says Friends, Public or something else depending on your default settings. This is super customizable, as you'll note there is a Custom option. My default is that all my status updates and postings go to Friends (except those I've put on my Restricted list). If you're moving to France and want everyone on your FB to know, you can make that update Public. If you're grandmother passed away and you'd rather just tell Close Friends, select that list from the drop down menu.
Managing privacy settings is a whole other topic, but these are the easiest day to day ways to make the most of your Facebook. Check in on who you want to check in on, get in, get out without sharing your minutiae with the world.


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Animal House Rooster Measuring Cup from Habitat
VIDEOHEYHEYHEY's mini version of Melvin the Machine. Built in two old suitcases, Melvin the Mini Machine is a Rube Goldberg machine specifically designed to travel. Each time Melvin fully completes a run, he 'signs' a postcard and sticks a stamp to it.
VIDEOBig JamBox is the newest wireless speaker from Jawbone and aims to produce big sound with new hardware and designs.
Boska Holland Toasta Bags ~ the perfect way to make a grilled cheese in a vertical toaster
FEATUREDSpirit-preserved flowers, top secret USBs and plot lines captured by infographics are all part of this week's roundup from NOTCOT.org.
Habitat's Bobby Desk Lamp in Jade Green
The Bottle Hanger Shot GlassCard - which is origami'd into a functional shot glass by Fifty Five His
Raul Lemesoff's book-tank is a mobile work of art and advocacy for peace and literacy.
Photographer Yan-Alexandre stumbled upon the set of Michel Gondry's next film, The Foam of the Days, and discovered these beautifully hacked-together cars. The attention to detail is stunning.
Graffiti street art in sheffield , home is where the heart is by faunagraphic and rocket01
Incase Box Case for the iPhone 4 and 4S ~ while i wasn't sure about it from pictures, once i felt it in my hand, it makes my iphone feel amazing. Also awesome packaging.
VIDEOTripwire, by visual artist Jean-Michel Albert and composer Ashley Fure, is a kinetic installation using computer controlled vertical strings. The installation has a simple, yet amazing visual and audio output.
Cast with sensors ensures quick recovery from bone fractures
Sandworks is an ecological tectonic system based on sand's self-organizing behavior, providing a temporary architecture in desert areas. In this instance, the project is an Eco-resort in Redsea, Egypt.
Clip on Fisheye, Polarizing or Mirage lenses for iPhone, iPad or anything really...
Squish Studio is located in Fogo Island, Canada, and designed by Saunders Architecture.
Fun line of Worktop Saver Designs for Joseph Joseph by Brad Woodard.
VIDEOKitchen Budapest and UrbanCyclr visualize the beautiful patterns created by the bike traffic of Budapest.
data.anatomy [civic] by Ryoji Ikeda created entirely from data from the Honda Civic.
MEDICI is a low chair with a comfortably reclined posture. - designed by Konstantin Grcic.
FEATUREDPopcorn Bacon! Black Hogg, a new Los Angeles restaurant, features deep fried bacon, fried olives, and a great selection of high end tacos.... bone marrow, pork belly, and anything else you can wrap a tortilla around.
VIDEOThe ExoHand from Festo, an exoskeleton that can be worn like a glove.
Adriano Studio's foosball tables for the Teckell Collection, '90° minuto' and 'intervallo' for B.lab italia.
The Ballavaz planter series from Kul Designs, a system of self-watering modular planters.
Wyatt John Little's 'Bird Poop Chandelier' with playful pendants.
The Sip Panel House by Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolph.
Top Secret USB, combining modern data storage with old school wax-stamp security. Created by Rob Hermes and Marlies Romberg of Studio Her-berg.
VIDEOGorgeous aerial footage of London shot by Jason Hawkes.
Adorably designed/packaged DUO Sparrow Key Rings ~ they go home to the bird house, and are a whistle as well.
VIDEO"Fiction" mini film for Vitra by Florian Böhm ~ i love that it shows their pieces in REAL LIFE, not treating them like museum pieces, but part of your home.
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VIDEOCute set up of bucky balls, wire, and a battery for a little motor...
Though World Tapir Day was on April 24th, it's not too late for this fun DIY Tapir Mask by Natalya Zahn.
The Chicken Chair by Sebastian Errázuriz
Post Living creates unique pieces of furniture featuring exclusive art prints - pictured is 'The Owler' series from Pete Fowler.
Poster of the skin with tattoos as advertising salon Chaos Crew Tattoo Studio.
Sarah Pease uses 12 truncated pentagonal pyramids to form a dodecahedron.
limited edition art printed ceramic plate. (31,5 cm) by Hugo Mulder
Chinese artist Liu Wei creates chaotic cityscape installations; some using stacked schoolbooks, others with edible dog chews.
Kaitlyn Schoeck created this Astronaut Glove Assistant, which uses Muscle Wire to increase pressure and improve dexterity.
Wax Tableware Lets You Make (and Melt) Your Own Dishes
Infographic: What makes a prize winning novel?
Supercharged - The new french website about sport cars, tuning, oldies, customs & race. Galleries, videos & daily news!
Cool swing made from reclaimed hickory salvaged from a railway depot in Alabama.
VIDEOCNsilk is an ongoing project from the MIT Media Lab's research group Mediated Matter. The project uses a robotic arm to weave string to produce structure, much like a spider.
Zak Zarak is a desk lamp designed by Lutz Pankow for Ingo Maurer.
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April 17, 2014 Media Release – Groups seek legal remedies to stop re-introduction of the Ontario Spring Bear Hunt
April 14, 2014 – Notice of Constitutional Question
April 14, 2014 – Notice of Application to Divisional Court for Judicial Review
The Facts – Sault Ste. Marie Statistics (source data: Freedom of Information)
Background Information – David Estrin, Julie Woodyer and Liz White
The Issue:
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By Jason Jones, Kiva Fellow, Nicaragua
(This entry is the first in a two-part series. The second will be published in the coming week.)
I have a running debate with my girlfriend regarding the Nicaraguan class system. Usually, it comes up as we're driving around Managua. We'll be cruising around a particular neighborhood when one of us will begin speculating as to the economic classification of the area, based solely upon its outward appearance. For example, I always claim that the neighborhood I currently call home is "middle class", basing my assessment on such factors as select individuals owning their own vehicles, most houses having non-dirt floors, and in the majority of cases, at least one family member finding him/herself with the luxury of reporting to work on a daily basis. My girlfriend, on the other hand, looks around at the number of individuals sleeping on the sidewalk at any given moment or the neighborhood's reputation for being especially high in crime and subsequently assigns it a rating of "upper lower class". Of course, being as though neither of our respective opinions is actually based upon any real economic study or indicator, we are probably both wrong. That being the case, however, I continually find myself speculating about such things, especially when I hear someone use that well-known phrase of "One Dollar Per Day".
It's difficult to get very deep into any poverty-related discussion these days without this phrase making an appearance. It's cited in anti-poverty campaigns all over the world, it's touted by numerous celebrities and spokespersons, it makes its way into most studies of the official variety and it's even listed in the FIRST objective of the UN's Millennium Development Goals. One dollar per day. There it is. Sometimes, it's listed as "A dollar twenty-five per day" or "Two dollars per day", and the scale can certainly change depending on the source. What remains consistent, though, is the idea. And in this case, the idea is really just a tool by which to measure one's economic activity.
So what does a life based upon one dollar (or one and a quarter or two) per day really look like? That's mainly what I ask myself. Beyond that, how does one go about living on one dollar per day? Could I personally live on one or two dollars per day? In all fairness, I should probably mention that I've never actually tried, nor do I have any real desire to do so (I suspect I'm not alone on that one). I mean I do try to keep things relatively "simple" on the average. I go from point A to point B on two wheels rather than four. I afford myself very few "luxuries" such as new clothes or cutting edge electronic devices (nope, no smart phone for this guy…..mine is ignorant at best). Come to think of it, I've all but stopped going to any restaurant that charges more than four or five dollars per entrée. But despite such "drastic approaches" to life, even my modest rent of two dollars and fifty cents per day automatically disqualifies me from the official dollar per day club. Throw in another five or so for food, one for gas and another for such things as phone and internet, and I'm not even close to the cutoff. Based upon those numbers alone, I'm living a life of luxury.
According to most statistics, however, nearly half the population of Nicaragua IS living on less than two dollars per day. How do they do that? Before I go on, I should lay out the disclaimer. All expressed views and opinions in the following paragraphs are simply my own. As I mentioned before, I've never lived a life characterized by such figures. I have, on the other hand, spent the last three years working in one the poorest communities in Nicaragua, and what I've listed below are simply bits of information I've picked up over the course of that time. As for the content, it is taken from a specific urban area in a specific nation.
It Takes a Village: I think the first and most important point to remember if one wishes to live on one dollar per day is that it will most likely NOT be a solo endeavor. Coming from that large land of plenty located a few nations to the north of my current location, I'm accustomed to a significant amount of independence and space. Prior to moving south, I had MY house, MY car, My stuff, MY accounts, etc. etc. As one scales down economically, however, such words as space, privacy and isolation get, for the most part, omitted from the vocabulary. I certainly understand that there are additional cultural and sociological factors at play on this one, but much of it still comes down to a simple consolidation of resources. For example, it's really quite difficult to construct a roof over one's head with a gross income of one or two
dollars per day. On the contrary, a family of 6 or 8 may very well be able to pool the resources and live in a one or two room structure. Don't get me wrong. These are not "McMansions" appearing on the suburban horizon. These structures are generally made from scrap materials and may or may not have a functional (i.e. one that keeps the rain on the outside) roof. Hopefully, though, they'll provide a little shelter from the elements or those particularly menacing neighbors. The same idea applies to food. If I buy MY beans to cook in MY pan over MY firewood in MY kitchen, MY budget is going to disappear quickly. But, if WE pool OUR resources, OUR one or two meals per day should go much more smoothly. And so it goes with this form of collective living. Historically speaking, it's probably more common than not. After all, isn't there some saying about strength in numbers?
Let Them Eat Cake! (or papaya): So I'm cutting a papaya one day, when this kid I know approaches me and asks about the fruit. "You ALWAYS eat fruit!" he tells me. "What do you mean?" I ask. "You just had a papaya like a week or two ago!" As the conversation continued, I inquired a bit more about his particular diet. Fruit? Hardly ever. Vegetables? Rarely. Rice, beans, and a tortilla? Daily. He wasn't unusual. For most of my time in Nicaragua, I worked with a nutritional program in an economically disadvantaged community. What I learned was that the staples of rice, beans, tortillas and oil make up the large majority of the standard diet. That being said, if I want to stretch my dollar per day into great culinary variety, I'm basically out of luck. While I'm at it, I should probably go ahead and forget about quantity as well. Due to various limitations, the all you can eat buffet is not a popular attraction in such communities. At the end of the day, if I am a normal member of my economic peer group, I will find myself missing at least one or two of the essential daily nutrients, and a state of chronic malnutrition will often be an accompanying factor.
A Clean Bill of Health: Speaking of malnutrition, let's talk a moment or two about healthcare. The good news for me and my daily dollar is that the government does provide a basic level of healthcare without charging a fee. I mean so what if I have to find my way to the clinic and wait around for any untold number of hours, only to receive a potentially substandard level of care. When I leave, I don't have to pay the cashier! The bad news is that if the doctor happened to scribble anything on the notepad falling under the category of "medicine" OR "additional tests", then I actually DO have to pay in most cases. More good news; medicine and tests are super cheap compared to other parts of the world! More bad news; taking my dollar per day into account, there's really no such thing as cheap prescriptions or medical tests. Even more bad news; the environmental conditions associated with my minimalist lifestyle aren't always the most healthy or sanitary available. Chronic levels of malnutrition (see above), parasites and infectious diseases are commonly the result. At the end of the day, I'll probably spend a great deal of time making my way to the local medical clinic. Unfortunately, I'll rarely be awarded a clean bill of health.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Collegiate coaching veteran Byron Samuels will embark on a new chapter in his career with his appointment as head men's basketball coach at Florida A&M University (FAMU).
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CINCINNATI -- Since returning from the disabled list on May 10, Reds catcher Ryan Hanigan appears on his way to rebooting his season. In the 11 games since being activated, Hanigan has gone 11-for-37 (.297) with two home runs and eight RBIs. He is riding a four-game hitting streak.
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