22.05.12

Nevertheless, Sarkozy seized the opening to embrace the past rather than confront the future. Just after the visit to Domrémy-la-Pucelle, where he was greeted by a paltry band, a line of local officials and a thin crowd of a few dozen visitors, he stopped in Vaucouleurs, where Joan is said to have begun her duty to lead the dauphin to victory. In a speech in an underheated gym there, he declared that “Joan belongs to no soir, to no faction, to no clan.”

Actually this is hard-core conservative state. And Sarkozy, who is expected to seek a second term, is trailing grievously in the polls behind François Hollande, the Socialist Party candidate. He may try to coax voters from the ultra-right National Front, as he did in 2007, with calls to safeguard the “true” identity of a unified France. To this end, he’s put Joan on his front job. Since the 1980s, she has been the icon of the National Front, which celebrates her every year as the personification of Gallic joy and purity in the face of the country’s modern-day invaders: immigrants. And with his semblance today — during which he invoked the “Christian roots” of France and called Joan the allegory of the country’s “unity” — the president pre-empted the Citizen Front. Marine Le Pen, the expected candidate and leader of the party, will have to play catch-up when she holds her own homage to Joan on Saturday in an open-air rally in front of a statue of the saint in cardinal Paris.

Source: New York Times (blog)

22.05.12

That's why it's rather sudden to see the La Lumiere boys basketball team ranked No. 8 nationally in MaxPreps' Top 10 Academy Rankings . The Lakers were No. 10 last week before upsetting No. 1-ranked Findlay Prep (Henderson, Nev.), 67-66, in Mitchell, S.D.

It was a signature conquest for the Lakers' 47-year-old program.

Dave Kirkby, the first mistress hired, told MaxPreps that the school was started "basically by a heap of Catholic laymen from northern Indiana and Chicago who were looking for a OK champion college-prep school, particularly for their sons. (The school went coed in 1979)."

The Lakers' first basketball conspire was tutored by football coach Ron DeNardo and compiled a 4-14 chronicle. They had no gym - consequently no home games - and had to practice at an elementary school.

Kirkby was energetic to point out, "No one who ever transferred did it for athletics. They did it to improve their  academics. We also taught provisions manners, how to get along in the dorm,

Source: MaxPreps

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Really, I seem like I could cart in Tree Attitudinizing all day and I'd be the happiest camper ever. For me, there's something so comfortably and homey about it. Getting into Tree during one of my first-ever yoga classes is one of the reasons why I stuck with yoga — something just now clicked when I did it. Now, I delightedly do it on and off the mat (i.e. in forests, like in the above photo :) Improves stability Strengthens thighs Stretches the inner thighs and groins I like to do this impersonate when I want like I've been in my crisis too much, and I miss to reconnect with the Mould and get grounded again. I believe of a tree; even when it's zealous-prolix and the branches are wildly waving around, the In is stalwart, strong, and from the word go firm.

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