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There are two major school networks in France, and a large number of minor ones. Public Schools (écoles publique), also called Secular Schools (écoles laïques), are state run and free (as in free beer). In most areas, they are the default schools and their quality is highly dependent upon their localization. Some, in suburban ghettos for instance, are dreadful, others, such as Henri IV in Paris or Clémenceau in Nantes, are elite institutions, on par with the best British public schools can offer.
Normally, the school you go to is determined by the place you live in, but, of course, there are ways to game the system, for instance by choosing rare languages. It was common knowledge in my (pretty average) high school, that those learning Russian (and later Latin) would be put in a "good class".For the record, I learned Russian, mostly because most of my schoolmates chose English and I felt contrarian.
Private Schools, also called Free Schools (as in free speech) are run by the Catholic Church. They are particularly numerous in Western France and in a few area they are the only available ones. They are emphatically not free (as in free beer) but the fee is generally within the means of the average French working class family. They were originally created to provide their pupils with a Catholic education, and religion is still a part of the curriculum, but for most people, they are merely a higher quality alternative to the public system. If they are numerous in Brittany, even in a working class city such as my native Saint-Nazaire, it is, of course because the region used to be a stronghold of the Catholic Faith, but also because Bretons tend to invest more heavily in the education of their children and are more willing to pay for it.
Ironically, Catholic schools are more open to religious minorities than secular schools. Most are under contract with the State, which pays the wages of the teachers, and must welcome all children, whatever their religion, which in practice means that a veiled Muslim girl's is better off in a catholic school than in a secular school where showing one's religion is likely to get you expelled.
Universities are mostly public and secular – there are only seven Catholic universities in the whole of France. There is however a clear dichotomy between universities and the so called great schools. In France, university is relatively cheap and open to anybody who has graduated from high school. French universities are however chronically overcrowded, underfunded and understaffed and a significant percentage of the students drop out in the first couple of years. This is a feature, not a bug. Despite what politicians regularly say, the mission of the university is emphatically not to train the elite of the nation. This is the job of the Great Schools, a collection of specialized, mostly state run, institutions such as Polytechnique, Science-Po, or HEC. Those schools are not necessarily expensive but they are highly selective, so selective, in fact, there are specialized preparatory classes, the only purpose of which is to get you ready to try to enter them. Those classes are themselves highly selective (I got admitted in one of them, but due to some administrative SNAFU, I was the only candidate from Saint-Nazaire. It helped) and the workload is hellish.
Similar system evolved during the nineteenth century at around the same time in all European state, from reactionary Prussia to supposedly enlightened France and Britain, and of course the reasons for that had nothing to do with humanitarianism. Thanks to an ever growing supply of cheap energy, the advanced societies of the time created a lot middle management jobs, something earlier cultures simply could not afford. Those jobs could not be filled by illiterate peasants, hence the necessity for the western European countries which wanted to compete in the new international environment to invest heavily in education.
The school I studied at, for instance, was created after the Franco-Prussian war because a leading industrialist, Émile Boutmy, felt that Frenchmen kind of underperformed in political sciences... and that It might have had a part in the recent and somewhat embarrassing presence of Prussian soldiers in the Loire Valley.
Things were more complicated in France, however, because of the conflict between the republicans , heirs to the 1789 revolution, and the monarchist who, albeit they had accepted the inevitability of a constitutional regime, sill nurtured the nostalgia of the Ancien Régime.The Church openly favored the latter ones, which caused the republican left to become more and more anticlerical. After the overthrow of Napoleon the Third and the failure of the royalists to reinstate monarchy, the Republicans became dominant and fought a long ideological battle against the Church.
School was one of the main battlefields. France had, since the Falloux laws in 1851, a weird dual system, with some schools run by the states and some run by the Church. All were under the supervision of both the mayor and the commune's priest, and a large place was given to the representatives of the three main religions in supervisory bodies. In 1881 and 1882, however, the republican (and imperialist) Jules Ferry created a entirely state-run, free, mandatory and secular system. The state and the (Catholic) Church were separated in 1905, which started a protracted war between the "Devil's School" and the "School of Lies" for the young Frenchmen's hearts and minds.
This war lasted until 1983 when the newly elected socialist government tried to create a "big unified secular public service of education", which would have put private schools under the tutelage of the state. The Church successfully mobilized and after a mass demonstration in Paris, President Mitterrand decided to call the whole thing a day and to fire the Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.
After that the "war of the schools" essentially disappeared from French politics . Fringe atheist groups may rant about "anti-secular laws" and Catholic fundamentalists run fringe schools where one teaches that democracy is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. Most people, however, don't care, and rightly so, for the real victor of the war has been neither secular civic spirit nor Christianity.
After World War II, Western European nations underwent a period of rapid growth, in a great part thanks to American oil and resources. This caused an equally rapid complexification of their societies and the creation of a lot of middle management jobs. As a consequence, the number of university students exploded, something the until then rather rigid institution was not ready for. Many of those new students were of peasant or working class background and many adopted one or another of the leftist ideologies which were in fashion at the time – maoism was particularly popular in France, even though Trotskism was a close second – while leading the same hedonistic and bohemian lifestyle as all students since François Villon. This led to the may 1968 pseudo-revolution, when Parisian students took to the street and occupied the Sorbonne because they were denied access to the girls' dormitory (yes, no kidding, that's how it began). They threatened for a time General De Gaulle's regime, then found out that Frenchmen were not interested in a free love utopia when the government recovered from its initial shock and rallied its supporters.
The maoist groups lingered until the eighties, a few student leaders acquired a lasting fame, most notably Daniel Cohn-Bendit, but the most lasting result of the 1968 events has been the the invasion of the school system by the hedonistic, utilitarian and materialist ideology of the upper middle class. This invasion was progressive, of course, and teachers, as a group, are still marked by the republican ideology – in the original, philosophical, meaning of the term.
Their resistance is more and more ineffective, however. From the mid-eighties onward, ironically when the Socialist Party got into power, schools was seen less and less as a tool to train citizens and more and more as a way to choose elites and train workers according to the needs of the economy.
This is a particularly perverse evolution because, as Chistopher Lasch demonstrated, social mobility is a poor substitute for democracy. It does not question the supremacy of elites but actually promotes it. The fact that a woman of Muslim background became minister of justice in France will bring little comfort to another woman of Muslim background working part time for misery wages in a suburban supermarket. It can even make her plight harder to bear. As a woman and a Muslim, she will be told to consider Rachida Dati's success as somehow her own (and therefore please shut up when Rachida Dati's decisions harm her). Besides, the meritocratic mythology will brand her as a failure while legitimizing the power of the elites and justifying the said elites' contempt for the common people.
We are light-years away from the democratic ideal, which postulates that all citizen are of equal worth and can have an equal say in public affairs.
The irony is that this happened just as France, and most other western European countries, began to develop a chronic case of mass unemployment. The global EROEI of our society had begun to decline, and unlike the United States, we couldn't compensate by extracting more resources from our vassals. The supply of high-paying jobs suddenly dried up and the competition for those left intensified. Connections and ability to game the system (yours or your family's) became crucial and the rift between the professional class and the rest of of the population became to widen again.
This trend is bound to continue. As the amount of energy available to society shrinks, the upper classes will fight to keep their privileges, which means driving everybody beneath them into permanent poverty. Chances are that they will use various kind of affirmative action to legitimize this power and resource grabbing operation – in fact they have already begun – and invest resources into elite replacement through education rather than in something really useful.
As our resources dwindles, so will our capacity to support not only parasitic elites, such as Wall Street traders or bankers, but also useful ones such as engineers or scientist. Our focus will have to change from building to maintaining, and for that we need the kind of skill that apprenticeship, not classroom, can teach.
We also need civic culture – what Montesquieu called virtue – if we don't want the coming decline to be far more messy and bloody than it needs to be. That can, and must, be taught in classrooms through the study of history, literature, philosophy and sport – in short the classical education of your average Imperial British boarding schools. The purpose of such a curriculum would not be to teach marketable skills but to train citizens and provide them with the frame of common values and references they need to constitute themselves in a true civic body – and effectively contest the supremacy of whatever elite claims the right to rule at any particular time.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether collapsing societies can afford this kind of schools. They certainly won't be able to support such clumsy behemoths as the French Éducation Nationale but both Song China and Tokugawa Japan had extensive school networks and a high level of litteracy. Medieval Europe, with its (generally literate), village priests might have achieved the same result, if it had had the will.
On the long run, I fear it is this will, which will be lacking. Teachers, who have mostly become bureaucrats, have no reason to decentralize the system they live off, and elites little incentive to educate into citizenship the people the claim intellectual supremacy over. Schooling is therefore likely to remain focused on the training of cranks for a global economic machine peak energy has already doomed, and civic education likely to be more and more limited to the indoctrination of "correct thinking".
This kind of education system is bound to become more and more irrelevant as the crisis deepens and people are forced to acquire survival skills and it is easy to envision a point when it will be restricted to an elite – a process, which is well advanced in some African countries. When this elite will fall, and it will fall, what will be left of our education system will go the way of Roman rhetoric schools. Only those groups, which need their members to be formally educated – the equivalents of the medieval Church or the Britto-Roman bardic orders – will maintain educational structures.
In some areas, that may mean nobody at all if local communities don't take the matter in their own hands.


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The future of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is coming into focus, as details on plans were released today including how the attraction would display the space shuttle if it gets awarded one of the final three orbiters from the program after they retire next year.
The 10-year-master plan for the complex that highlights interaction with visitors has been awarded to PGAV Destinations, a design group that has worked with SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Niagara Falls and several other travel destinations across the nation. The master plan's main attraction will be a $100 million exhibit displaying either the Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour, although the final destination for those three orbiters has yet to be officially determined.
"We would be honored to showcase one of the space shuttle orbiters so we have begun designing a dynamic, interactive exhibit to tell the space shuttle story from our own unique perspective," said Bill Moore, Chief Operating Officer of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. "Kennedy Space Center is home to the space shuttle; all of the 132 missions have launched from here."
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ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College football team dominated both sides of the ball in a 17-6 Homecoming win over Alfred on Saturday afternoon at Butterfield Stadium. The Bomber offense put together three long scoring drives that each covered more than five minutes and more than 70 yards. Ithaca's defense held Alfred to just six points, forced three turnovers, and the Saxons held the ball for less than 22 minutes. Alfred entered the game averaging nearly 32 points per game.
Junior quarterback Tom Dempsey made his first-career start and led the Bombers to a win. He is the 10th consecutive Ithaca quarterback to win his debut start. Dempsey was 14-for-20 passing for 166 yards and a touchdown. Running back Rakim Jones had career-best totals of 31 carries and 170 yards.
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The Arkansas Drought
The Arkansas Drought
I think we can (almost) safely say we are out of "danger" when it comes to drought like conditions in NW Arkansas or the River... at least for now.
There are small parts of Washington, Franklin, Logan, and Crawford counties that are still considered abnormally dry according to the US Drought Monitor, but in general our situation is manageable.
Over the next couple of days there is really only one chance of rain and that will come in to play and that's on Sunday. Isolated showers or possibly a random thunderstorm may move through on the back side of the weekend. It's about a 20% chance.
If your lawn is beginning to look a little dry - dust off the ole sprinklers - at least until Sunday.
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People were wondering what Windows version the ReactOS team was aiming its compatibility arrows at. Some claimed Windows 2000, others were sure it was Windows XP. As it turns out, the situation is a little more complicated than that, as the team looks separately at the kernel and Win32.
The kernel target for ReactOS is the kernel used in Windows Server 2003. This target doesn't change very often, allowing the team to get the kernel working and stable. The Win32 target, on the other hand, changes more often. The team states that the Win32 target for the ReactOS project is always the one from the latest Windows release, which currently means they're aiming for Windows Vista. In their own words:
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10 Wonderful Ways To Cook Chicken Tonight
I grew up in the Midwest and far away from fresh seafood so my standard fallback lean protein is chicken. But it's easy to fall into a rut with this accessible poultry. If you need something to break the routine, check out these ten ways to add something new to the mix!
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Dear Vserver users,
I know some explanation was given about the TUN device on a vserver with openvpn
I'm trying to get vpnc to work on a virtual server. I can't use openvpn because I need to connect to a Cisco PIX that only understands IPSEC.
I've created /dev/net/tun with apt-get install uml-utilities
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my vpnc.conf is IPSec gateway x.x.x.x IPSec ID somename IPSec secret somepass Xauth username some username Xauth password some pass
Now when i try to do vpnc-connect on my vserver, I get : vpnc: can't initialise tunnel interface: Operation not permitted
chown 777 /dev/net/tun doesn't help
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About memory limits for a guest
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Most American films come now in one size only: XXL. Dragged down by their own size, they're monster productions, buried under the weight of cast and crew, whose end credits last longer than a short story
Not that size has anything to do with merit in an absolute sense, of course. And we're not pre-judging or anything, are we?
Although I have to say I never cared for Chris Petit's stuff in Time Out much. I bet there's more people on the end credits of some of James Cameron's movies than turned up to form the audience for most of Petit's glum films.
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It's really that old argument again - genre work (whether comics, TV, books, or films) cannot be Serious because it's genre.
<soapbox>And the corollary, that if it's Serious then it's not Genre - and the further corollary that there is no Serious Genre... hence literary critics can scorn eg. science fiction novels, by defining the speculative works of eg. Doris Lessing, John Updike, Margaret Attwood as by definition not science fiction.</soapbox>
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Another advantage of the Dolby technology is that if you slipped a couple of the dichroic filters into the colour wheel of a Texas Instruments-based DLP projector you could show proper 3D movies on the wall of your living room. Bugger – I was hoping my 42in LCD panel would see me out....
By this time next year there'll be HD-3D-stereodolbyphonic-100megainch-withEXPLOSIONS!!-TV.
I'm waiting until technology stops improving before spending on anything new.
Oh, yeah! Forgot to mention (O/T, sorry), for anyone who might've missed it that, despite massive community opposition, McDonalds' application for consent for a Balmoral "restaurant" has, with minor restrictions, been granted.
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I'm waiting until technology stops improving before spending on anything new.
For what definition of "stops improving"?
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Oh, yeah! Forgot to mention (O/T, sorry), for anyone who might've missed it that, despite massive community opposition, McDonalds' application for consent for a Balmoral "restaurant" has, with minor restrictions, been granted.
A savage servility slides by on grease...
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For what definition of "stops improving"?
The singularity would suit me nicely.
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Although I have to say I never cared for Chris Petit's stuff in Time Out much. I bet there's more people on the end credits of some of James Cameron's movies than turned up to form the audience for most of Petit's glum films.
Well, better glum than dumb, I say!
the great genius of MySky is that old folks can use it.
Based on recent observations, I worry that it advances senility by allowing aging people to have something they want to watch on telly for the entirety of their waking hours, rather than forcing them (through a lack of acceptable telly) to read or enage with others.
Perhaps there should be an upper age limit introduced, after minimal research of dubious scientific merit of course.
Again, apologies for the temporary threadjack, but it's important.
Here's why having a McDonalds in a quiet suburban street is a really bad idea:
Thanks for the summary, Geoff. I really should have gone... but hey, it was the weekend!
Interesting times for 'the media' indeed. If PB is going to be the principle survivor in the TV world, New Zealand had better get some more! TVNZ is due for a lot more change- imagine One and 2 as 7 and 6.
For what definition of "stops improving"?
He'll be buying up big at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
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I don't think it's real TV unless you can peek under the desk and see if the newsreader is wearing shorts and jandals
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sorry "real 3D TV"
The problem I have with 3D movies is the constant want to focus on stuff that's out of the camera's focal plane. I like to swivel my eyes about the screen and absorb the details. In 2D this is fine - I can accept what the director deems to be in focus and that which is out - but in 3D you suffer from believing that you should be able to pull things into focus. This hurts my brain. It's a nice idea but until we get on the spot 3D renderings that respond to our direction I say it's a gimmick!
Here's why having a McDonalds in a quiet suburban street is a really bad idea:
Is it too late for a petition for an appeal against this stupid decision?
With regard to the extensive options available for incoming television broadcasts, can anyone point me in the direction of a reputable(?) commercial operation in Auckland that would be willing to visit our home and take readings of signal strength, etc and provide some decent advice on what componentry and in what configuarion would optimise our televisual entertainment?
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We are in the Waitakeres with some dodgy signals, working off direct UHF for the 'main' channels and a soon-to-be-defunct Sky-UHF set-up.
I am expecting to be told that it will be expensive and require digital/satellite broadcast reception, but not knowing what would work in situ means I don't really know where to start when considering an upgrade.
what configuarion would optimise our televisual entertainment?
I think you will find DVBT (uhf freeview) will be fine. Analogue suffers terribly from reflected signals but not so Digital. In the Waitax you are really close to the transmitter and may even need attenuation but if you can "borrow" a freeview box and just plug it in I think you will be pleasantly surprised .
By "borrow" I mean. Go to Dick Smiths and get one, if it don't work they have a 14 day no questions asked return policy. ;-)
Thanks for that info, Steve. I'll give it a go...
Is it too late for a petition for an appeal against this stupid decision?
Not quite. The Balmoral Says No group are, as I understand, planning to appeal to the Environment court.
Haven't followed the recent developments. Is it true that McD's managed to successfully claim that their site including drive through was only on the larger Balmoral Rd, not the quiet residential street parallel to it?
I confess that I haven't either, but as I understand it, the official address must be listed as Balmoral Rd., though it will have an entrance/exit on both Balmoral Road and Wiremu Street. What bloody use that is, I don't know.
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The thing about DVB-T (and other digital broadcasts like ATSc and your cell phone too) is that basically either it works well or not at all - the packets carry FEC - extra bits to fix any noise related errors when you run our of error correction bits the noise takes over and ).5% errors in an mpeg stream can trash the screen completely.
Signal strength is not everything - digital signals are just as susceptible to ghosting as analog - but it doesn't show up on the screen as a shifted image, it just causes noise and totally destroyed images as above
So, as I said the other day - borrow a friend's decoder and try it on your TV to see what sort of signal you can get, if it's almost OK maybe get a better aerial - otherwise toss up a dish and get a signal off the satellite
We're not that far off the trigger-point for the minister declaring a digital switchover date, and at that point Sky will have to play sensibly.
Does Drinnan lurk here? This week he not only fails to have a shot at Media7, he leads with a leak from Coleman that a Prime/Freeview announcement is imminent.
And he goes on to muse on the Bennett story, asking why do the media fail to ask tough but obvious questions before running a story?
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Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. has spoken before about his interest in returning to a significant role with a major league club. And with Davey Johnson finishing his final season as the Washington Nationals' manager, some have wondered if Ripken could replace the former Orioles skipper in D.C.
Ripken addressed his interest in managing in television interviews with Comcast SportsNet Washington and Comcast SportsNet Chicago this week, acknowledging that he has "the itch to look into the big league scene."
"Yeah, I'm feeling the need to apply what I know to the big league level, don't know how yet," Ripken said in one of the interviews. "Ideally, you'd want to to it with the Orioles, but you'd have to look at what the opportunities are, at who might be interested in you and who might be not."
In one interview, Ripken was asked if he would be interested in succeeding Johnson, a former Orioles player and manager who is retiring at the end of this season.
"I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process," Ripken said. "I haven't been asked by [the Nationals]. ... I think I would be more curious at this stage in my life than I have been."
Ripken's spokesman, John Maroon, said Friday that Ripken has indicated that his desire to get involved in the major league game again in some capacity has grown. But Maroon said Ripken's interest in any specific job was hypothetical.
"If and when he is approached by a team, I would imagine he would listen and see what comes of that," Maroon said. "Time will tell."
During spring training, Ripken said he is interested in pursuing a new challenge now that his youngest child, Ryan is in college.
"It's always flattering to be thought of in the way I have been thought of, put it that way," Ripken said then. "And there is a side of me that wants to be challenged in a big league sense, a big league way. What that is, I'm not sure. I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college. That was my mindset. Now that they are off to college, it could be a time in your life when you think about these things. Don't know yet."
For what it's worth, Johnson said in a recent radio interview with 106.7 The Fan in Washington that he isn't sure Ripken wants to become a manager. The hosts posed the question as a true or false on whether Ripken will ever manage in the big leagues.
"True, if he wants to, but I think he's got too many other commitments," Johnson said. "I think he'd rather be an owner."


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HSWRI researcher Michael Shane led the charge on the hands-on project, showing students how to monitor water quality in the sophisticated classroom aquaculture system, observe and understand various life stages, utilize technology employed in culturing the white sea bass, and tag and scan the fish for monitoring prior to their release in the wild.
"They are part of a larger program called the Ocean Resources Enhancement Hatchery Program, and we've released nearly two million fish through that program up and down the coast of Southern California," said Shane. "These fish will become part of that larger overall program, and these students are helping to replenish stocks of white sea bass, which have declined since the early 1950s."
By the time the fish were ready for release on Jan. 24 in Crown Point Park, students had learned the intricacies of sustainable fishing, the importance of aquaculture systems and how to monitor water quality and calculate waterflow-turnover rates during their lessons throughout the semester.
"They can actually compare with other schools that are participating and see how fast their fish are growing," said Shane. "Certainly the important message is our responsibility for the environment and sustainability of seafood and aquaculture."
By the end of the hands-on project, 22 of the sea bass survived, following casualties from euthanization due to physical damage.
Four of the fish were turned over to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for health evaluations to look at growth abnormalities and parasites.
A total of18 fish were cleared for release on Jan. 24.
The average total length of the fish increased from 174 millimeters to 215 millimeters. The average weight increased from nearly 53 grams to more than 92 grams.


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Uterine Fibroid Cysts
Fibroid cysts are common, non-cancerous growths in or on the walls of the uterus. Approximately 20-40 percent of women age 35 and older have this condition. In fact, of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year, one-third are due to fibroids.
When faced with fibroids you may suffer from symptoms including:
- Heavy bleeding
- Pelvic discomfort
- Bloated abdomen
- Anemia
- Painful intercourse
- Leg pain
- Pressure on other organs
If you suspect that you have fibroids, please see your physician. A typical pelvic exam or ultrasound can confirm the diagnosis.
Fibroids Do Not Mean a Hysterectomy is in Your Future
Did you know that the hysterectomy is still the most common treatment of uterine fibroids, despite the proven effectiveness of less-invasive procedures?
Interventional Radiologists at Southern Illinois Healthcare Imaging Services use an image-guided procedure to offer a safe, non-surgical treatment for uterine fibroid cysts.
Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE)
Through a small incision (less than ¼ inch) into an artery in your leg, Interventional Radiology physicians guide a tube up to the uterine artery, where they apply tiny particles to block the blood flow to the fibroids. This causes them to shrink and symptoms to subside.
This minimally-invasive procedure is performed using conscious sedation and does not require general anesthesia.
The result is a shorter hospital stay, fewer complications and your ability to return to normal activity within seven to ten days.


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Recently, a bunch of us PDX Vegan Iron Chef volunteers and friends headed north to Seattle to support our pals at Veganscore & The Great Vegan Chili Cook-Off. The fundraiser for their own eventual Vegan Iron Chef was a super fun and sold-out event full of enthusiasm, smiles and chili peppers, and I'm stoked to see what they have in store! Keep your eyes peeled to Tofu and Sprouts for 2nd place winner Marti's wrap up soon. Hopefully she'll post the recipe for her now-famous New Mexico Green and White "Chicken" Chili, too!
My typical adventures to Seattle naturally include coffee, Vietnamese or Thai food, rainboot wearing, lots of walking, and vegan bar food. Vacation consumption-wise, this past trip featured Trabant, Araya's Vegetarian Place, brunch at Wayward, late night greasy bites at Highline and recuperation at Bang Bang Cafe the following morning. My camera battery didn't make it very far, so here are a few pics from our 30 hours of vegan frolicking I wanted to share:
Next time I'm up there, I'm hitting up my beloved Georgetown Liquor Co. and In The Bowl again. It's been far too long.


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Just as the Chicago area is getting ready for air conditioning weather, residents can expect to be jolted by higher electric bills.
Starting June 1, Commonwealth Edison customers on average will see monthly bills jump 21 percent, to about $82 a month from about $69 a month.
City residents and others who have switched to competing suppliers won't escape the higher prices because the cost of all electric power is higher.
"The increase that was announced today is something that is going to affect everyone … no matter who you use to supply electricity," said David Kolata, executive director of consumer advocate group Citizens Utility Board, based in...


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While in Miami taping I Love You Phillip Morris; Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor and Rodrigo Santoro were spotted catching Martini Tuesdays at gay bar Halo. I'm sure its because they like the music!
Actually, Ewan McGregor told the Miami Herald that he Jim and Rodrigo were doing research for their role.
Ewan and Rodrigo had champagne. Mr. Carrey had water.
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Among social conservatives, a pocketbook message
In search of a new standard-bearer, evangelicals are looking for a lot more than opposition to gay marriage and abortion.
At an annual meeting of social conservatives, a new wave of Senate Republicans auditioned before prominent conservative activists and faith leaders, deriding President Barack Obama's health care law and his steering of the economy and foreign policy.
Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday described a nation teetering on "the edge of a cliff" while Rand Paul of Kentucky said U.S. foreign policy needed to stop a "war on Christianity." Mike Lee of Utah said the nation's economic problems represented "moral threats" to the stability of families.
"We can't stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture," said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. "We can't stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being."
Social conservatives gathered at the annual Values Voter Summit at a Washington hotel as congressional Republicans sought agreement with Obama on a way to end the government shutdown, now in its 12th day, and avoid an economic default. Few in the audience expressed interest in backing down from efforts to defund or delay Obama's health care law, a primary driver of the impasse, and said they wanted congressional Republicans to bring down the nation's debt.
Marlene Kellett of Columbia, Md., said Republicans needed to hold firm in their opposition to the so-called Obamacare law. But she expressed pessimism that Republicans would make progress.
"I'm very opposed to Obamacare — it's a disaster," Kellett said. "But I'm not feeling very positive about it. So often the Republicans cave and they can't seem to get what they want."
Adrienne Grizzell of Lexington, Ky., said the accumulation of nearly $17 trillion in debt — the source of a debate over whether to raise the nation's borrowing limit — is too often shrugged off. "It's as if, 'No, it's not a problem, let's keep spending,'" she said. "Nobody is saying, 'OK, we've going to start spending less.'"
While social issues touched the hearts and minds here, speaker after speaker stressed pocketbook issues a year after Democrats vilified GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney as being oblivious to the needs of middle-class families during tough economic times.
Cruz, whose speech was interrupted several times by immigration reform advocates, said the health care law and Obama's spending priorities had put the nation on the wrong track. "We have a couple of years to turn this country around or we go off the cliff into oblivion," he said.
Lee said economic issues like a lack of economic opportunity, stagnant wages and spiraling housing costs represented "moral threats to families' stability." Families, he said, "are bearing the brunt of all of these things and as a result too many are falling behind."
Rubio said too many families are struggling to pay for child care and grappling with student loan debts. Paul devoted his remarks to foreign policy, describing attacks on Christianity in the Muslim world.
The list of speakers included former GOP presidential candidates, too: former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
To be certain, gay marriage and abortion got plenty of attention. Dr. Ben Carson, a Maryland physician popular with conservatives, rejected the notion of a "war on women," raised by Democrats, saying, "The war is on their babies." He said marriage was a "sacred institution" that did not need a new definition.
Along the sidelines, conservatives said they were actively seeking a new group of conservatives to rally behind — and made clear that they don't want capitulation.
"We don't have enough Ted Cruzes and Marco Rubios," said Jerry Skirvin, who runs a marketing firm in Lynchburg, Va. "We have too many John McCains and Lindsey Grahams," he said, identifying two GOP senators often accused of seeking conciliation with Democrats.
The search also took place in private. Before the summit, Cruz and Paul sat down for separate closed-door meetings with a group of evangelical leaders, including Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, which sponsored the event, former presidential candidate Gary Bauer and Robert Fischer, a South Dakota businessman. The senators were joined by their wives during the session and discussed their faith and views on issues.


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Junior biology major Daphne Petit-Homme is the inaugural recipient of the Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS) Founding Member Scholarship. The scholarship is in honor of BMS students Joseph Dubery, Terrell Martin, Elizabeth Ottey, SchMiyah Smith, and Luther St. James, who founded MAPS in fall 2011; all graduated in spring 2012 and are now enrolled in medical or dental school. Petit-Homme has the distinction of being the first recipient of this honor which includes a $50 Barry Bookstore certificate. As co-president of MAPS, this semester she participated in the Breast Health Symposium, Miami-Dade Heart Walk, Breast Health Initiative, Little Haiti Health Fair and the Empower U AIDS conference. Petit-Homme is a 2010 Gates Millenium Scholar, vice president of the Haitian Intercultural Association, and a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National, Delta Epsilon Iota, and Sigma Eta Biological Honor Societies.
MAPS is a multicultural student organization with members from undergraduate (biology, chemistry, nursing) and graduate (BMS) programs at Barry. For more information about this organization, e-mail: email@example.com and/or visit: BarryMAPS.blogspot.com.


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Social media has made it easier than ever to catapult from obscurity to prominence. In recent years, the web has blossomed into a more egalitarian version of American Idol, where nobodies compete for attention alongside somebodies.
Today, a teenager posting webcam videos to YouTube can get a movie deal. (For example, Fred: The Movie.)
A 30-something posting one-liners on Twitter can land a TV show on CBS: $#*! My Dad Says. Bloggers creating internet memes are being offered book deals at a dizzying pace.
However, alongside breakout web celebs — not to mention actual celebrities with huge online followings such as Rihanna and Katy Perry — there's a new class of microstars who are highly popular and viral, but have no aspirations of going to Hollywood.
How they became internet-famous — and made comfortable incomes — offers insights to those who are unsure of how to use Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr to promote themselves or their projects.
The mobile phone quipster
Tattoo photos and stories posted by Kimber Turner on Tumblr.Like many teenagers, Joey Mueller, 19, spends much of his time texting on his iPhone. But when he taps out a 140-character message and presses send, he's talking to nearly 400,000 people.
Mueller created his Twitter account, @itisjoey, in 2010 as he was travelling to compete at the World Horseshoe Tournament in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He figured using Twitter to comment from a big event might help him draw an audience.
"I didn't get any followers or anything," he recalls. "I guess it wasn't interesting."
Joey Mueller, aka @itisjoey. Photo: TwitterNow a sophomore majoring in graphic design at the University of Minnesota, he decided to avoid personal messages and focus on observational humour.
Mueller says his personal Tumblr website already had 75,000 followers. He added a link to his Twitter account. Immediately, his follower count jumped. Then a curious thing happened: the numbers kept climbing. In 2012, he hit 440,000.
I'm not sure why," he says. "Sometimes I think I got lucky."
Mueller says he has never purchased followers. He says that posting from noon to 6pm, when people typically spend more time online, helps. He also routinely adopts popular hashtags, especially political ones, which he says helped get him retweeted by organisations including Move On.
The fame hasn't gone to his head, he says, or at least his parents keep him down-to-earth. "They're like, 'You know, you're not really famous. Stay in school."'
The tattoo chronicles
Kimber Turner was bored. In the spring of 2008, when she was a 22-year-old journalism major at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Turner completed all of her courses online. Which is to say, she spent a lot of time on her laptop.
Turner started killing time online by collecting found images of tattoos borrowed mostly from body modification websites. She decided to post the photos on a Tumblr account she hastily titled with an obscenity common among youthful creators of Tumblrs — personalised web pages where ephemera is deposited. In a few months, Turner had 300 followers. Other Tumblr users began emailing pictures and explanations of their own tattoos to her.
"Everybody wanted their story out there," Turner says. "People just really liked how interactive it was."
She said in 2008 she received 200 submissions a day. Four years later, she gets 350 a day. Images are contributed by fans all over the globe.
Today, Turner has more than 695,000 followers. For comparison, when Texts from Hillary went viral on Tumblr earlier this year, it attracted 45,000 followers in a week.
Her secret? Volume. She publishes about 50 photos a day, one every 30 minutes, to keep fans coming back. She also follows Tumblr's other popular users
"There's so many people on Tumblr who post all sorts of random things," Turner says. "Having a focus really lets people connect, and it's a great way to stand out."
Although she took various odd jobs after graduating in 2011, including one as a receptionist for a seamstress, ads on the site earn her $60,000 annually, she says.
"When I realised it could very well just be a full-time job, I nearly had a heart attack," she says. "Now I make more than my parents."
The hyperlocal radio DJ
Jaime Black, 29, says he has been a "huge radio nerd" since he was 15. He cut his teeth at an alternative rock station, Q101 in Chicago, where he graduated from an internship to a weekend producing job.
On the side, in 2005, he began podcasts about Chicago's underground music scene. Called Dynasty Podcasts, the episodes — 10 to 15-minute interviews Black records with local artists and club owners — were made available as MP3s on his website. The response was modest.
Five years later, when he created a SoundCloud account, he saw just how broad his reach could grow. He has amassed more than 43,000 followers on the audio-sharing website, which has been called the "YouTube of audio".
"I was very fortunate to get there early," Black says of SoundCloud, which claims to have 20 million users. "I might have beat some of the larger radio stations to SoundCloud. I didn't see that much non-music content when I started."
Today, Black posts two to 11 shows a week, which he records with a hand-held Olympus digital recorder. His philosophy is, "make it easy for people to discover the content and know right away what it is".
"I'm sharing it on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest," he says. "I don't just post things without putting some effort into the presentation. All the imaging is uniform. All the metadata is uniform."
In 2011, Black started running local event promotions, just like a radio station. He turned Dynasty Podcasts into a full-time job and said he earned $500 for one hour of work.
"A few years ago it was like, 'Oh, how cute, you have a pretend radio show,' " Black says. "And now, we just did a promotion with Supercuts."
The metropolitan paparazzo
Whenever a new digital service is started, there is a race to claim user names. In January 2011, Liz Eswein, then a senior at New York University, claimed one of the better Instagram user names: @newyorkcity.
"People have said, 'Oh, I thought the city of New York was running it.' " Eswein laughs. "It's like, nope, it's just me."
It is difficult to tell that the feed is not maintained by someone in the mayor's office. Eswein, 23, posts only photos taken in and around the city. Using her iPhone 4S, she sticks to snapshots of familiar landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and Central Park, and pictures taken at local events such as the US Open and New York Fashion Week. One of Eswein's recent snapshots of the Plaza Hotel earned 13,330 likes.
She says she often sees comments from users across the United States and as distant as Australia, South America and Greece.
"Instagram is a great way to see different parts of the world through your phone," she says, "Everyone has a special place in their heart for New York City."
Soon after starting the account, Eswein began attending local Instawalks, where users gather to socialise and take photos. The gatherings publicised her account among the app's power users.
By April 2012, @newyorkcity had 195,000 followers. It jumped to 422,000 after the release of an Instagram app for Android phones. (For some perspective, Lady Gaga's account currently has about 440,000 followers.)
In March, Eswein founded a business with two Instagram users. They now consult with brands, including Evian and Samsung, that are looking to engage users on Instagram.
Does she also keep a personal account on Instagram? "Yeah, but I don't use it at all," she said.


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I must say, GOSH have got some really nice polishes out for this season. I have already featured Spot On! Pink back in July with my Saran Wrap Manicure tutorial, so today I'll be focusing on my other favourites from the bunch.
Lazy Green* isn't the sort of colour I usually go for, but it's surprisingly nice. I'm usually all about bright colours, or dark vampy shimmers, or in-your-face glitters. Very rarely do I opt for a neutral shade (is it right to consider khaki a neutral?), but this is quirky enough to satisfy me. Khaki is a shade of green that looks good against pretty muchn all skintones. Colours of this nature usually give me lobster hands but the undertones in this are neutral enough that it works with my cool skin. I bet this would look amazing on dark skinned ladies. Although the brush on GOSH polishes are a bit on the skinny side, Lazy Green applies smoothly and evenly and dries relatively fast. You can get away with one coat if you're careful, but if you're a little more slapdash with your application like me then two thinner coats is perfect.
Galaxy* is beautiful! It's really interesting to look at in the bottle but terribly hard to describe. The base colour is as much of a chameleon as the shimmery glass flecks – the base flits between deep bronze, sort of dark gunmetal grey and dark olive green.. and the glass flecks are insane, in my scientific observations (i.e. waving my hands around under the light and going 'oooh!') I noticed gold, green, blue, and magenta sort of flashes. I keep saying 'sort of' – it's just so hard to describe and it's really one that you must see in person. Luckily, the awesomeness in the bottle translates excellently onto the nail and is opaque in two coats.
Well, I had to save the best till last didn't I? Holographic is back! Well, under a new moniker – Holographic Hero*. I mentioned the return of Holographic back in July. GOSH Holographic is without a doubt THE best silver holo polish on the market, anywhere – it has the strongest linear holo effect by far. We all know that it's wear time is crapola, but with this re-release GOSH have honestly touted it as a 'one night wear' polish so there shouldn't be any nasty surprises for the unsuspecting consumer. There's not an awful lot to say about Holographic, it's just amazing. Obviously it looks its best in sunlight as all holos do, but as there's apparently no such thing as sunlight in the UK at this time of year flash pictures will have to suffice!
Here's some cool news; GOSH are kindly going to provide one of you lovely lot with your very own bottle of Holographic Hero – think of it as an early Christmas present! This mini giveaway is only open until Wednesday 5th December, so get in quick! I'm afraid since GOSH will be sending the polish to the winner, it's UK only.
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Well, the good news for Jet & Cord fans is that by the look of things, they are one of the early teams to the Road Block. Not very many broken coconuts when we see Jet.
If it's any help, Dawne, when they show Louie, you can see that it is a sandy area by the water.
I noticed that, but there is a lot of beach in penang.
Thank you chills for the video! I watched for that till 5 then had to go, but am starting on the screen caps now...guesstimate about an hour or more.
I'm confused then... What's with the carrying of the flags with the mouth?
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MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - October 7 marks Brittanee Drexel's 22nd birthday, and approximately four and a half years since she disappeared from Ocean Boulevard on April 25, 2009.
Brittanee was 17 years old when she traveled to Myrtle Beach for Spring Break in 2009. Her mother Dawn Drexel thought she was vacationing with friends somewhere closer, and realized she was missing when she received a call from her equally concerned boyfriend.
Surveillance video shows her leaving a hotel on Ocean Boulevard that day, and that's the last anyone saw of the teen. After four years of investigation, following several leads, the case remains open, as authorities hold out hope that the answers to her disappearance will come to light.
The Drexel family has returned to the Grand Strand several times in the past four years to honor Brittanee and bring new energy to the search. Billboards have been posted with her photos, a tree was planted in Valor Park, and age progression photos have been released.
Anyone with information regarding Drexel's whereabouts or her disappearance is asked to call the Myrtle Beach Police Department at 843-918-1963 or the CUE Center For Missing Persons' 24 hour tip line at 910-232-1687.
Read all the latest stories, see photos from the search for Brittanee and revisit the timeline since her disappearance by visiting our Brittanee Drexel page. You'll find videos from each search, interviews with investigators on the case, and hear from Brittanee's family.
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Make Indian Food at Home: 20 Great Recipes, from Chutney to Chapati
When you're craving Indian food, it can be tempting to rely on your neighborhood Indian restaurant. But you shouldn't be intimidated by Indian recipes - it's very possible to replicate your favorite dishes at home! Here are 20 Indian recipes we love, from a simple Dal Palak to Spiced Lamb Meatballs.
1 Cooking with Fresh Cheese: Indian Paneer
2 Cumin and Coriander: 7 Indian Dishes to Try at Home
3 Tilapia in Yogurt and Ginger Curry
4 Good Question: How Can I Make a Good Mango Lassi?
5 Cilantro-Mint Chutney
6 Savory South Indian Soul Food: Khara Bath
7 Casseroles Around the World: Indian Biryani
8 Recipe: Very Simple Dal Palak
9 Make-Ahead, Freeze-Ahead Recipe: Spiced Lamb Meatballs
10 Basic Indian Recipe: Kerala Spiced Peas
11 DIY Recipe: Garam Masala
12 South Indian Recipe: Brown Rice Appams
13 Simple South Indian Recipe: Pongal
14 Weekend Snack: Sev Puri (Chaat), an Indian Street Snack
15 Recipe: Spiced Chickpeas with Anardana
16 Weeknight Recipe: Potato and Cauliflower Curry
17 Recipe: Sour Cream Cucumber Salad with Mustard Seeds
18 Word of Mouth: Chapati
19 Recipe Review: Indian Spiced Carrot Soup with Ginger
20 Recipe: Breakfast Poha
Other Indian Food Resources
• What's The Difference Between Jasmine and Basmati Rice?
• Not the Usual Holiday Spice: Garam Masala
• Awesome Achars! The Indian Answer to the Pickle
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Hon. Susil Premajayantha, Minister of Environment and Mr. Subinay Nandy, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Sri LAnka, with other officials during the launch of the Sri Lanka UN-REDD National Programme
On Friday, 7th June, Hon. Susil Premajayantha, Minister of Environment and Renewable Energy, officially inaugurated a programme to put forests at the heart of Sri Lanka's strategy to tackle climate change. The programme will help Sri Lanka to prepare for an international mechanism to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). REDD+ will be part of a future international comprehensive agreement to tackle global warming, which is currently being negotiated through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
REDD+ will be implemented on a voluntary basis; no country will be obliged to take on such a commitment if they see no benefit in doing so. Under a REDD+ mechanism, industrialized countries are expected to provide positive incentives to Sri Lanka and other developing countries in exchange for verified information which proves that they have improved forest and land use management practices. Sri Lanka will do this by measuring the emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), a potent greenhouse gas, caused through clearance of forests or loss of forest quality. The country will aim to reduce the levels of these emissions over time, and thus qualify for the positive incentives.
This is a significant challenge for Sri Lanka. As the country's economy continues to grow, ever more pressure is put on scarce forest resources. To help them prepare, the Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy have requested the assistance of the UN-REDD Programme, a collaborative initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Inaugurating the UN-REDD Sri Lanka programme, Hon. Minister Susil Premajayatha, thanked UN-REDD for providing funding for the implementation of Sri Lanka's REDD readiness proposal. He expressed that this programme will provide an opportunity to equip the country with knowledge and capacity required to implement a national level REDD programme. While affirming Sri Lanka's commitment to combating human induced climate change challenges, he added, that the inception of the UN-REDD national programme is an important step forward in this regard.
Also speaking at the launch, Mr. Subinay Nandy, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, expressed, "In the post-conflict accelerated development of the country, initiatives like the UN-REDD Programme can provide opportunities to ensure the sustainability and resilience of the development, and also propose ways to share the benefits of development with multiple stakeholder groups." He further added that through such initiatives, Sri Lanka will be able to become a global model in Environmental Management.
The UN-REDD Programme works with over 40 countries around the world to help them get ready for REDD+. Among the services that the UN-REDD Programme will provide to Sri Lanka are: capacity development for national forest monitoring systems, multi-stakeholder consultation processes, and the development of a national REDD+ strategy that identifies policies and actions to reduce pressure on forests and ensure their sustainable management.


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Recession, Dodd-Frank rules, and criticism from their own shareholders may have slowed the growth of corporate pay in recent years, but according to initial reports on 2011 compensation, the chief executives of publicly traded companies are hardly going wanting.
The 10 highest-paid CEOs were paid an average of nearly $90 million dollars, when all of an executive's compensation is considered. The compensation figures listed represent total calculated compensation (TCC), which includes salary, bonuses, estimated stock and stock option awards as well as other incentives. Note that the salary breakdown in this report displays only major sources of compensation, whereas other incentives, such as increases in retirement or pension funds, are not displayed. The information represented here is according to data from Capital IQ and analyzed by the CNBC Analytics Team.
So, who were the highest paid CEOs of the year? Read ahead to see who made the most in 2011.
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'Dry run' gives Harbaughs idea of what to expect
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh are spending Super Bowl week
celebrating the good fortune of having two sons at the pinnacle of
pro football.
Once the Super Bowl between John Harbaugh's Baltimore Ravens and
Jim Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers has ended this Sunday night, the
parents know their first priority will be expressing sympathy to
the coach who didn't get to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
"The one thing that I do think about is after the game. There
is going to be one winner and there is going to be one that is
going to be totally disappointed. My thoughts go to that one that
will not experience the thrill of victory," Jack Harbaugh said.
"That's where our thoughts will be."
Harbaugh explained that he and Jackie had a "dry run" on how
to handle the postgame last season when the Niners lost at
Baltimore on Thanksgiving night.
After leaving an office in the stadium where they watched the
game – in private and emotionless – the first locker room they
walked past was that of the Ravens.
"We've all experienced that excitement of victory-guys jumping
up and down, the smile on John's face. They were just ecstatic. …
Then you realize that you're not needed here," Jack said. "You
walk across the hall, and you went into the 49ers locker room and
you walked and you saw the players walking about – that look in
their eyes, that look of not being successful and coming up short.
We opened up a couple doors and finally saw Jim all by himself in
this room, just a table and a chair. He was still in his coaching
outfit. His head down in his hands and you looked into his eyes and
you realized that this where you're needed as a parent.
"Every single parent can identify with that," he continued.
"On Sunday night, we're going to experience both of those great
emotions. Our thoughts will be with the one that comes up a little
Now comes the second act in New Orleans, which happens to be the
home of another set of parents who can relate to watching NFL games
involving two of their sons on opposing teams: the Mannings.
As it turns out, Jack Harbaugh said, Archie Manning called
before the Niners-Ravens Thursday night tilt last season to offer
some advice.
"The advice was this, `This will be over on Friday. I promise
you it will be over on Friday,"' Harbaugh recalled. "Sure enough
it was great advice and that's exactly how it happened."
The elder Harbaugh was a longtime coach himself, and a former
assistant of Bo Schembechler at Michigan, where Jim quarterback
before a playing career in the NFL, followed by a college coaching
career and then his NFL head coaching debut just last season in San
Jack credited Jackie for taking their sons to Michigan practices
when they were young so they could learn about what their father
did during long days at work. And he was thrilled that they wanted
to play and later coach football.
Now that has put them in the spotlight in the Big Easy, where
the Harbaugh parents were fittingly at ease as they sat – talk show
style – in lounge chairs in front of a large crowd of international
Jack opened the news conference by loudly asking, rhetorically,
"Who has it better than us?"
Then he and Jackie both exclaimed, "Nobody!"
It appeared well rehearsed because it has long been a family
But when it comes to navigating the rest of Super Bowl week,
they acknowledged they were neophytes, and didn't have much of a
plan beyond spending time with relatives and friends. They didn't
even know where they were sitting for the game. They added that
both sons have simply urged them to make sure they enjoy the
When asked if the knowledge that one son will lose will diminish
their enjoyment of the game, Jackie Harbaugh said, "I don't think
so because we will see both of them after the game. We're going to
hug both of them and tell them how proud we are of them."


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X Contract - "In The Mist"
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X Contract was formed in 2007, and released their first album in april, 2012. They've received several online awards, and they're continuously getting a bigger fan base, and getting more attention worldwide.
After the release of "Dearest Dream" in april 2012, X Contract immediately started working on their second album, Territory:Hours.
Territory Hours is very different from Dearest Dream.It's a progressive rock album, with slow build-ups, truly coming from a band with sparks!
The entire album is filled with surprising twists as well as beautiful harmonies and epic, well-constructed culminations to 12 great tracks!
Preparations for their live tour are well on their way, and the album will be available both live and in the stores from august, 2013
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"In The Mist" is the first single from X Contract's new album. In this unpredictable music video, they strike again. With a well written song, and beautifully directed video, they kick off "Territory:Hours" with a bang!
About The Video:Credits:
Produced by: Reptilia Productions
Written, directed and filmed by: William Findinge
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Yen Breaks Y100, Where to Next?
Japan's stock markets are cheering the yen's fall to past 100 to the dollar, a crucial step in helping exporters and bringing inflation back at home. But where does the currency go next? The WSJ's Jacob Schlesinger has the details.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... to date the Japanese markets with the yen fall in the following through on the dollar ... this is Jake the awning ... on Asia today I'm joined by Anthony Jake Jake says instead to give your chief Jake thanks adjoining us into this cheering the streets to take Ava to ... sow the seeds that when the markets that stocks are rallying point this film is me running ... absolutely it's as easy a moment that the Tweed waiting for for a long time ... um United about the streets is obviously in in in terms of the real economy is a small change but the markets are loving it after period of time when ... there is fear that the yen might be strengthening again or possibly hit ceiling ... it's that that is more weakness to go which is generally seen as good for Japanese stocks ... a lift from the playbook by Advantage Pentagon Ezrati hissing and now we seen the yen falling stocks top bank lending up from here is all coming together now six months off to this so the rally in expectations this to happen but was stopped ... the positive signs but he is way too soon to say you know things are all coming together ... on bank lending is up a little bit and aam ... from a low base ... yields on two percent a month on which is not all of them is the biggest said ... in two thousand and nine in the aam ... it is also interesting warning signs in their own bond yields are of JGB yields are up which is ... I in in as result of the big ... banks are raising their interest rate sandwiches knowledge was to happen ... this is a lot as an element of this that that could still go around ... took me about the yen it feels like everybody's vexing on me and so we cannot ten hundred ten hundred twenty one shows a sense of where we get from a diner reasons stumbled to get to his hundred mommy finally did the weight of the day from here ... you know it's still a big open question and is willing to some bedding that once it finally did breakthroughs hundred mark ... in we just ... plunge from that hasn't happened it has continued to weaken a bit but it's actually been ... fairly stable trading ... on after that the market hit ... there could still be some resistance um ... yeah I think a lot of people here are betting that the nice table is around this level on ... what investors here I think there are still cautious about converting many their assets to foreigners that so ... to have to see me and it certainly is up and it may not move a lot more during ... a road chasers Joey's one a story tasty but thank you so much for joining that's it Asia's today mine GE ...


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Charles George Taylor (21 November 1816 at Turnham Green, Middlesex – 10 September 1869 at Frensham Hill, Surrey) was an English cricketer in the mid-19th century who played, as an amateur, mainly for Sussex and MCC, having begun his career at Cambridge University. He was a good all-rounder who batted right-handed and bowled right-arm slow, roundarm style.
Taylor made his known debut in the 1836 season and had 125 known appearances in major matches to the 1859 season. He scored 3088 runs @ 14.29 with a highest innings of 114, which was one of two centuries he achieved. He took 69 catches and 287 wickets with a best tally of eight in one innings. He is known to have taken 10 wickets in a match on six occasions.


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Loving Lemon: 15 Sweet & Savory Recipes with Lemon
In honor of spring, before things really warm up, here's a look at 15 of our favorite lemon recipes. Lemon is versatile, and that shows here — there are sweet things, like a lemon elderflower cake and lemon brioche baked French toast. But there there are also plenty of savory recipes for dinner: Meyer lemon grain salad with asparagus, braised chicken with lemon and mint pesto, a leek and lemon frittata. If you have a lemon or three hanging about, read on for some inspiration!
Lemon and other citrus have their peak season in the winter, when they are flown in from warm places in big shining heaps to remind us of sunshine. But as winter brightens into spring, I always feel that lemon is the flavor to take us there. Lemon's spritz of scent and bite of flavor taste of spring sun and brightness, its juice livening up the first salads, and its zest making cakes fragrant and delicious.
• 1 Elderflower Lemon Cake
• 2 Lemon Brioche French Toast and Raspberries
• 3 Meyer Lemon Shaker Pie
• 4 Sticky Lemon Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Glaze
• 5 Lemon Rice Pudding
• 6 Lemon Sandwich Cookies with Triple Citrus Filling
• 7 Lemon Cream and Coconut Icebox Cupcakes
• 8 Pork Meatballs with Lemon and Thyme
• 9 Lemon Braised Chicken and Beans with Mint Pesto
• 10 Meyer Lemon Grain Salad with Asparagus, Almonds and Goat Cheese
• 11 Chickpea Casserole with Lemon, Herbs and Shallots
• 12 Roasted Chicken Thighs with Fennel and Lemon
• 13 Lemon Frittata with Leeks and Goat Cheese
• 14 Spaghetti with Mascarpone, Meyer Lemon, Spinach, and Hazelnuts
• 15 Teeny-Tiny New Potatoes with Lemon
What's your favorite way to use lemons — especially in the spring? Any favorite dishes for springtime that are infused with lemon flavor?
(Images: See linked recipes for full image credits)