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Cross Stitch is inspired by antique embroidery samplers and vintage cross stitch patterns and books that I found at flea markets in Paris over the last couple of years.
The design features alphabets in various embroidery fonts, interspersed with folkloric animal designs. Each cross has been hand drawn. The simple monochrome scheme gives the intricate design a graphic quality.
The wallpapers and non-woven substrates are all sourced from sustainably managed forests and are printed at one of the few remaining, traditional, wallpaper printers in England, using non toxic water based inks.
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Raynaud's (pronounced 'ray-nose') is an extreme response to cold, usually affecting the hands and feet.
Key points
- Raynaud's (pronounced 'ray-nose') is an exaggerated response to cold, usually affecting the hands and feet.
- It happens when the small blood vessels in those areas narrow, allowing only a small amount of blood to get through.
- This extreme reaction may affect up to 10% of the population and is more common in women.
When the affected fingers and toes are exposed to cold or sudden temperature change, they go a very distinctive white or blue colour and become numb. When they are warmed again, they go bright red and the numbness wears off to be replaced by painful throbbing.
The colour change is due to spasm and narrowing in the small blood vessels in the skin of the hands and feet. These spasms may also occur in other areas such as the nose, earlobes and occasionally the tongue.
How is temperature normally regulated?
Our body temperature is controlled by the amount of heat retained or lost through the skin. This is regulated by the amount of the blood flowing through the small blood vessels of the skin. When we are hot, the blood vessels open wider, allowing more blood to flow through the skin. Heat is lost through the skin and we may look flushed.
When we are cold, these same blood vessels allow less blood to flow through them, so less heat reaches the skin surface. This system works very well and is controlled by special nerves and the mechanism is automatically controlled by the brain.
The cause of Raynaud's is unknown but it can sometimes run in families. There is no cure, but practical measures can be taken to prevent attacks. The use of chainsaws, jack-hammers or similar vibrating equipment may bring on a Raynaud's attack. In some people, medicines such as beta-blockers and migraine drugs can bring on Raynaud's.
In a small number of people, Raynaud's may be the first indication that an underlying condition, such as an autoimmune disorder, may be present. An example is the connective tissue disease called scleroderma. A simple blood test can be done that looks for special markers or antibodies in your blood that show whether or not you may have this condition. If the test is positive, your doctor will carry out further tests.
Is raynaud's a serious condition?
Most attacks are not serious and are no cause for alarm. Once the blood supply is restored, usually by warming, the fingers may be bright red for a while, and throb, but will then return to normal.
In those with more serious reactions or underlying disease, small ulcers may develop at the tips of the fingers, or chilblains or cracked skin may appear around the nails. See your doctor if you get these additional symptoms, as further investigation may be required.
Milder cases of Raynaud's can be managed with lifestyle measures, such as using gloves to keep your hands warmer and thicker socks. If symptoms are severe or interfere greatly with your quality of life, see your doctor to discuss other treatment options.
Self care
When you have an attack, try to stay calm. Gently re-warm your fingers or toes as soon as you can. Placing your hands under your armpits often helps. Go inside if you are outdoors, as this is usually warmer. Try wiggling your fingers or toes; move or walk around to try and improve your circulation. If you can, run warm (not hot) water over the affected part of your body until normal colour returns.
Aim for constant temperature
- Try to keep your body temperature constant by wearing several layers of clothes. Mittens are warmer than gloves because the fingers keep each other warm. Tight gloves can cut off blood circulation in the fingers.
- Try to avoid sharp changes in temperature: a change in temperature is more likely to bring on an attack than just being in the cold. Do not sit in draughts and be aware of air conditioning as this can make rooms very cool.
- Always wear a hat: you lose a lot of heat through the top of your head.
- Try to avoid sweating too much or make sure you use clothes that wick sweat away from the body, because sweat cools the body.
Exercise and reduce stress
- Exercise is excellent for keeping warm (and for general health), but is not effective if you are experiencing an attack.
- Learn how to handle stress because it can trigger an attack.
- Don't smoke: smoking causes constriction of blood vessels.
Skin care
- Use skin cream to keep your skin supple and soft.
- Keep the affected skin dry: as water on the skin evaporates, it cools the skin which makes the circulatory changes worse.
- Keep your fingernails and hands clean at all times.
Household tips
- Protect your hands with suitable gloves when gardening or doing jobs around the house.
- Do not get things from the freezer without using insulated gloves or mittens.
- Do not handle cold items such as milk bottles straight from the fridge as this can bring on a spasm in the fingers - if you are going on a trip and it's likely to be cold, take a hot water bottle or 'Heat Wheat' mitts which can be warmed in the microwave.
- Do not carry heavy shopping bags with handles because this can restrict the blood flow to the fingers: use shoulder bags where possible.
- Avoid extended periods of cold water exposure e.g. do not peel vegetables under a running tap, avoid hosing the garden if the hose nozzle leaks, avoid hanging wet clothes on a clothes line.
- Start running your bath or shower water ahead of time so that you do not touch cold water. Be careful not to get chilled getting in and out of the tub or shower.
- If possible, have someone start your car and turn on the heater a few minutes before you leave the house.
Learn more
Raynaud's disease Southern Cross Healthcare Group
Raynaud Phenomenon DermNet NZ


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Born in Sarvar, Hungary, Marosi's musical education began at the age of five, and continued at the Music Gymnasium, where he majored on both piano and trombone. He studied conducting at the Liszt Academy of Music with Tamas Breitner, the director of the Pecs Opera.
From 1982 to 1997 Marosi worked as the conductor of the Hungarian Central Army Orchestra. During this period he recorded a number of works by Liszt and several contemporary Hungarian composers. He also conducted his ensemble for radio and television productions and toured with the group throughout Europe.
His book,The History of the Military Music in Hungary from 1741-1945, was published in 2011.


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Years Active: 1992 – 2004
Regular Season Stats: 552 games, 20.8 mpg
8.9 ppg, 4.6 apg, 2.0 rpg, 1.1 spg, 42.5% FG, 78.7% FT
Postseason Stats: 33 games, 13.2 mpg
5.2 ppg, 1.9 apg, 1.1 rpg, 0.7 spg, 38.3% FG, 73% FT
Robert Pack is the quintessential "you had to have been there" player.
He played 13 seasons, but only appeared in half of the possible games due to injury or not being actively rostered by an NBA franchise. From 1995 to 1997, the point guard put up 14.5 points, 7.7 assists, and 1.7 steals a game, but a bevvy of injuries limited him to 127 games throughout those 3 seasons, the supposed peak of his career.
He appeared in the playoffs in 4 different seasons but was basically a non-factor in three of them for the Mavericks, Blazers, and Hornets. The rest of the squads he appered on were moribund: the late-90s Mavericks, the mid-90s Bullets and Nets. If you haven't noticed yet, Pack never stuck with one team too long either.
So what's the fuss? You had to have been there!
Robert Pack was absolutely sensational as the point guard for the Denver Nuggets from the 1992-93 season through the 1994-95 season. This guy was listed at 6'2″ but they must have counted his dazzling high-top fade in the measurement. His on-court speed though was not to be denied. Pack could move up and down the court in a flash. It's the reason why Denver was so insistent on prying him from the Portland Trail Blzaers in the summer of 1992:
Pack yesterday got his first practice with the team, and with it his first look at the team's Reader's Digest playbook. What Issel wants to see from Pack isn't how he runs plays, though. It is how he runs. Pack's strength is getting the ball upcourt quickly, an ideal trait for Issel's passing-game offense.
"It's important, in the passing game, that you get down and get into it before the defenses get a chance to set," [Denver coach Dan] Issel said. "If you have a point guard who just sort of hammers the ball and brings it down slow, and you let a good defense like Chicago get set, it's going to be hard to score against it. That's why we shot 38 percent against the Bulls."
– Mike Monroe, Denver Post, October 26, 1992
Coach Issel certainly didn't have to worry about Pack holding up the pace. In fact, the Nuggets were 3rd in the league in pace during the 1992-93 season as Pack and Mahmoud Abdul-Raouf burned the hardwood rubber. Pack in particular was prone not only to set up teammates for baskets but to also do what you had to have been there to see… to do that thing that made him so special…
Pack could jump out the gym and throw down! Sure he really only had one dunk, but when it was consistently being thrown down on men a foot taller than him, it was truly spectacular. The Nuggets though only had a 36-46 record and thus missed the playoffs. The next season, though, Robert Pack and the Nuggets would give not only spectacular final scores, but a stupendous playoff run.
The Nuggets went 42-40 in the 1994 season and snuck into the 8th seed against the Seattle SuperSonics.Falling behind 2-0, the Nuggets came back to force a 5th and deciding game in Seattle. Pack, having played putrid in the previous four games, delivered a stellar performance of 23 points (8-15 FG, 3-5 3PT, 4-4 FT) off the bench. Brian Williams also had a great game off the bench with 17 points and 19 rebounds. The Nuggets behind this bench duo and Dikembe Mutombo upset the #1 seed Sonics. The Nuggets nearly repeated this comeback feet in the 2nd round as they fell behind 3-0 against Utah and forced a Game 7. But the bid fell short.
The 1994-95 season was unfortunately Pack's apex. He finally gained a starting spot in the Denver lineup but in February of that season hurt his knee ultimately requiring surgery. Traded to Washington the following offseason, Pack never again enjoyed a healthy season as a litany of leg injuries hampered his career.
But believe me, watching this man play in the Mile High City was a thrill a moment that my words can't do justice to. Even YouTube clips can sort of, but not completely, get the point across.
To fully get the joy of watching Robert Pack's mid-1990s play, well, YOU HAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE!
And I'm glad I was.


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With Lanre Oyebanjo expected for another lengthy spell on the side lines manager Gary Mills has acted fast to snap up 22 year old right back Derwin Martina.
The player will miss tonight's game against Lincoln as he hasn't received international clearance. However he has agreed personal terms with York City FC.
For those looking for an insight into the new addition here are five facts:
#1 – Older brother Cuco Martina currently plays for Premier League Southampton
Martina is the youngest of two brothers; Cuco and Javier whom play for Southampton and A.V.V. Zeeburgia respectively. Let's hope he possess a similar footballing ability to that of his Premier League sibling who also plays at right back.
#2 – He is a product of the Ajax youth academy
Born in Amsterdam he joined the world famous academy of Ajax at the age of 13 and started off as a striker before being transformed into a right back.
During this time he was compared to former Netherlands international and fellow Ajax academy graduate Michael Reiziger.
#3 – Was last playing in the 3rd level of Finnish football league.
Making 17 appearances for Ajax's reserve team in the second tier of Dutch football he was subsequently transferred to league rivals RKC Waalwijk on a free. It was here that Martina received his call up to his national team – also making 16 league appearances in the process.
Due to injury problems at the start of the 2015-16 season his contract was terminated in January 2016 and has up until now been playing in the 3rd level of the Finnish football pyramid with Atlantis FC making 3 appearances.
#4 – Accused of match fixing in back in September
Along with three other teammates at Atlantis FC he was accused of match fixing and was investigated but was later found innocent. It was the club however who were found to have had bets on their fixtures by those involved in match fixing.
#5 – A current international with Curaçao
No, not the blue liqueur, but the actual country. Martina has had 3 call ups to his national
team, all being in 2014. Older brother Cuco is the most capped player and captain of the national team.
The newly formed Curaçao National Team only played their first FIFA match in 2011 and are currently ranked 73rd in the FIFA world rankings.
My Say:
On paper it might look like a good signing but I'm going to wait until I see him play. Yes he is a current international but we all remember Luke Woodland who came to Bootham Crescent just to sit on the bench.
Of course it's vital we get some kind of replacement for Lanre Oyebanjo and I'm looking forward to Martina challenging Rooney and Heslop for the right back position. That's if he is able to stay fit because crucially he has had injury problems in the past.
He sounds as if he is an attacking player as he's done a reverse Gareth Bale and gone from striker to right back so let's hope he can replicate a 2011/12 Lanre Oyebanjo.


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Easy Pose Forward Bend provides a good stretch to your groin and inner thighs,
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As you bend forward in this pose, you should focus on lowering your abdomen
and chest, rather than your forehead. Keep in mind that lengthening your
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performing Easy Pose Forward Bend, you should shake out your legs to help
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If your hips are stiff or your knees feel strained in this pose, sitting on
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1. Begin in Easy Pose.
2. Press your sitting bones into the floor and point the crown of your head
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3. Place your palms on the floor in front of you.
4. Spread your fingers out, with your middle fingers pointing forward.
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The sleeves are on loan from Break My Face. I've never been a big Social Distortion fan but 1945 have been hunting me for years and years. I love that song. The Stones cover Under My Thumb is not for me. Boring. Playpen is ok but again nothing compared to 1945. Lacks the catchiness and of course it drags on far too long. This is actually the only record I like with them.
If anyone can make a good 300dpi scan of the above sleeve or the blue one let me know.
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Rhubarb Crumble Granola (and what is a 'natural flavour'?)
Over the last few month I have been working behind the scenes to develop my Wholeplus flavour range, it is still in the works but I hope to unleash the exciting new products and creative philosophy very soon!
A huge part of my investigation process was in aligning optimal taste and texture with highest quality ingredients. When I launched Wholeplus I initially only had three flavours in the range- chocolate, cinnamon and vanilla as these were the only real food powders I could get and I was resistant to explore 'natural flavours' because I didn't understand them. It was very limiting.
So, what are 'natural flavourings'?
Taken from the web: 'Natural flavourings are flavouring substances or flavouring preparations which are extracted from vegetable or animal materials and are not further chemically modified or changed.'
So basically, natural flavours come from natural sources — the original ingredient is found in nature and then purified and extracted and added back into the food. This is the only way it is truly possible to have foods in certain flavours, and nearly all companies use them including most of the health brands I know.
This has become sensationalised in various articles online with headlines such as 'is beaver butt used to flavour your food?' (Yes indeed the anal secretions of beavers can be used in foodstuffs and is actually pretty wide spread in the perfume industry as a musky smell- who knew!) BUT Don't worry this DOES NOT appear in my products!
My biggest takeaway from this process of investigation is to be fully aware, do you own research and ask questions of the manufacturer if you are unsure how ingredients are derived.
My investigations brought me to Foodie Flavours and after doing some thorough research to understand what natural flavours really are, a face-to-face meeting with the company, and confirmation that all of their products are indeed vegan, gluten free, sugar-free and made in the UK, I was gifted some flavours to take home for my trials.
As well as Wholeplus Toppers recipes, I decided to put the Foodie Flavours to good use and created a granola recipe in a couple of flavours combinations. Both were great, but I have a real thing for the sweet and sour tang of rhubarb which is amazing.
Of course you can use any other 'flavouring' types you like- any extracts of choice or vanilla bean, cinnamon ginger etc.
Granola is a perfect snack all on its own, but in a 'smoothie bowl' (top pic) that was almost like custard in its consistency it was a wonderful combo of smooth and crunchy. This was simple to whip up with water, frozen banana and cashews blended up. Yoghurt gives a similar creamy contrast too.
I also love how the freeze dried beetroot gives a great nutritional boost and lovely pink hue to compliment the rhubarb. Beetroot powder would also work well I imagine but I think beet juice would make the resulting granola too wet and soft.
You could add any chopped nuts or seeds you like, I used roughly half pumpkin seeds for some flecks of colour and the rest a combo of mixed chopped nuts.
Other flavours that would make great granolas...
Chocolate orange with cocoa and orange flavour (or zest)
Cinnamon ...because cinnamon with everything works ;-)
Bakewell tart- almond flavour with flakes almonds and some dried cherries (stir those in after!)
Banana Bread- I have tried this mashed with fresh banana and dried bananas chunks and it's great. These was my first granola recipe experiments that used pureed fruit.
Tropical Trip with a tropical flavour and then coconut curls and dried fruit chunks mixed through once cooked.
PB&J granola- this recipe made great chunky clusters!
What are your favourite flavour combos?
Recipe: Rhubarb Crumble Granola
(with Foodie Flavours)
1 1/2 cup oats
1 cup chopped nuts/seeds
a pinch of sea salt
3 tbs coconut oil- melted
1/4 cup mild syrup of choice (I used coconut syrup)
approx 8 drops Foodie Flavours rhubarb flavour* (they suggest 20 drops per kg of product)
1/4 cup freeze dried beetroot powder* (optional for colour)
*You could omit the beetroot and/or use an alternative flavour type of your choice. I also tried 'dulce du leche' flavour as seen below in the lighter variation.
Stir together all ingredients in a medium bowl until well coated.
Spoon onto a lined baking tray in a thin even layer and bake for approx 15-20 mins on a medium heat- roughly 160C until lightly golden and toasted. Allow to cool thoroughly before storing in an airtight container. I found the granola lost it crispness after a couple of days, but it still tasted good!


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Ex-Premier League players, including Manchester United and England's Rio Ferdinand and Andy Cole, face a collective loss of some £100 million ($150m, 140m euros) after investments in film schemes and property ventures turned sour, the Sunday Times reported.
As many as 100 former players said they were victims of bad advice from David McKee and Kevin McMenamin of Kingsbridge Asset management, an investment company, and that they either lost major amounts of money or were hit by huge tax demands from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) when the British tax authority challenged the legality of the film schemes.
Kevin Campbell, the former Arsenal and Everton striker, who invested in five film schemes and faces losses of up to £7 million, is now at the centre of bankruptcy proceedings.
Campbell alleges that he and other footballers have been the victims of "appalling mis-selling".
"When I see the paperwork, it's
horrendous," Campbell told the
Sunday Times. "I am not one to be
bitter, but £7 million is a lot of
Danny Murphy, the former Liverpool midfielder turned BBC television pundit, said he did not feel embarrassed because he considered the investments were mis-sold.
"I feel angry," he said.
Craig Short, the former Blackburn
Rovers captain and current first-
team coach, who has lost an estimated £2.6 million, added:
"These investments were sold for
my kids' education, for my children's future.
"I reckon over 100 retired players
have been hit by this. They feel
aggrieved, they feel duped, anger,
humiliation, really. It's wrong, totally wrong."
However, a spokesman for McKee
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The Kardashian clan just keeps growing and growing. With the addition of Khloé's daughter, True, with Tristan Thompson in April, the world is guaranteed that Keeping Up With the Kardashians will never run out of new material.
Refresh your memory of what each kid is named and why with our handy list.
True Thompson
Parents: Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson
Born: April 12, 2018
Our little girl, True Thompson, has completely stolen our hearts and we are overwhelmed with LOVE. Such a blessing to welcome this angel into the family! Mommy and Daddy loooooove you True! pic.twitter.com/Hn2RFzRMuu
— Khloé (@khloekardashian) April 16, 2018
Khloé's mom, Kris Jenner, explained on Twitter that the moniker is one with deep family roots, as both her grandfather and her father shared it.
Stormi Webster
Parents: Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott
Born: Feb. 1, 2018
Although the youngest Kardashian-Jenner sister has yet to share her reasons for choosing the name Stormi, baby name expert and Baby Name Wizard author Laura Wattenberg tells Yahoo Entertainment that it's a "surprisingly retro name choice."
Mason Dash Disick
Parents: Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick
Born: Dec. 14, 2009
Kourtney has explained that Mason was an easy choice for her son. "The first time I started looking at baby names, Mason was the only one I liked," she told Life & Style in January 2010. "It was the only one that stuck with me. Right before he was born, I told my aunt we were thinking about going with that for a name. She told me that Mason means the same thing in English that Kardashian means in Armenian — stoneworker. Another aunt told me my great-uncle used to use the name Mason when he made dinner reservations because Kardashian was too long. When I heard that, I thought, Oh my God, it's meant to be."
Kourtney also dismissed the suggestion that "Dash" was included in the baby's name in honor of her business venture. "Dash is not for my clothing store, as some people have suggested online," said Kourtney. "That would be stupid. Dash is short for Kardashian, and it was my father's nickname."
Penelope Scotland Disick
Parents: Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick
Born: July 8, 2012
Kris Jenner was obviously too proud of her newborn granddaughter to keep quiet about how she ended up with her name. As Jenner told E! News the month Penelope was born, Kourtney and Scott just liked the moniker. Kris's mom was the one who suggested "Scotland."
North West
Parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Born: June 15, 2013
Nori, as North is nicknamed, would have been called something else, if not for the musician Pharrell and Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. "I remember this is actually where we decided, finally, on North as a name for our baby girl," Kim dished to British GQ at New York City's Mercer Hotel in October 2014. "It was a rumor in the press and we'd never really considered it, seriously, at all, but Kanye and I were having lunch right over there at that table about a year ago and Pharrell came over to us and said, 'Oh, my God, are you guys really going to call your daughter North? That is the best name.' I said, 'No we're not, that's just a rumor.' Then a little while later, Anna Wintour came over and asked the same thing. She told us 'North is a genius name.' Kanye and I looked at one another and just laughed. I guess at that point it sort of stuck."
Reign Aston Disick
Parents: Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick
Born: Dec. 14, 2014
Reign (or Rain) was always going to be the name of someone in the Kardashian family, as Kourtney told People in April 2015. "I actually had the name on our list with Mason," she said. "Then with Penelope, I had it on the list but spelled R-A-I-N." Kourtney considered Rain again for her third child, which she expected to be a girl, and ended up using Reign when it was a boy.
Saint West
Parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Born: Dec. 5, 2015
This one is pretty obvious, particularly since Kim struggled with her first pregnancy and to become pregnant again. A Kardashian insider told Us Weekly a month before the baby was born that Kimye were referring to him as "Saint," because he was a miracle baby.
Dream Renée Kardashian
Parents: Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna
Born: Nov. 10, 2016
Blac, born Angela Renée White, gave her Kardashian offspring her middle name. Rob chose his baby girl's first name, according to Us Weekly just after she was born. "Dream was Rob's favorite name because it was always his dream to have a baby," a source told the magazine.
Chicago West
Parents: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Born: Jan. 15, 2018
The non-Kardashian side of Chicago's family has deep roots in the city for which she's named. Kanye grew up there, with his late mother Donda by his side, and has rapped about his "Chi-town." In fact, we got an inkling of just how important the city continues to be to the rapper when he met with President-elect Donald Trump to talk about the problem of violence in Chicago in December 2016.
Interestingly, none of the littlest Kardashians have a first name that begins with a "K," the pattern their parents followed when naming the girls — Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie — in the family. At least none yet…
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A Boise refugee raised $2,000 to save 15 babies. Now he wants to help rebuild their African city.
During his first trip back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 20 years, former refugee Fidel Nshombo held a lot of babies.
He traveled to his hometown of Bukavu last year to connect with family he hadn't seen since he was 12. He and an estimated 2 million other refugees were forced to flee the nation when rebels regularly invaded homes and shut down schools during the Second Congo War – the deadliest conflict since World War II.
Seven African countries and eight years later, in 2006, Nshombo escaped dire homelessness and refugee camps and relocated in the United States as a 22-year-old refugee.
During his homecoming to the Congo in November, he brought $2,000 raised from the Boise nonprofit Boise to Bukavu to free from local hospitals 15 women and their infants who were being held in poor conditions because they couldn't pay their bills to be released. Many women were crammed into rooms with five, six or seven other mothers and their babies.
Women who had been there the longest were forced to sleep on the ground without a bed or food. Some were forced into rooms with people who were seriously ill or fresh out of surgery.
"When I went there and was holding all these babies, I could see my own baby there within them," the father of five young girls said. "Watching these women say thank you ... there were no words for them. It just kept showing me the hardship is beyond what I thought."
Each woman Nshombo freed had a request as he dropped them off at their homes.
"They kept saying all they needed, despite the hunger and the poverty, all they needed was for me to take one of their kids and sponsor their child through school," he said.
Through Boise to Bukavu, that's exactly what Nshombo plans to do.
The evolution of a nonprofit
Founded in 2008, Boise to Bukavu is the brainchild of Nshombo and his friends Ruth and Keith York, who met Nshombo when he began attending Boise's YMCA and speaking about his experience throughout Idaho and the nation as a Congolese refugee.
"Every one of those days would have been a life-changing experience for us in our cozy little homes," York said of Nshombo's refugee experience. "The murder, the violence ... there are still things Fidel can't talk about. To take all of that into account, his No. 1 obligation is still to go back and fix stuff there."
That's the kind of man Boise can and should support, York said.
The nonprofit, which is largely supported by the proceeds from Nshombo's poetry book sales, speaking fees and donations, was initially founded to financially support his immediate family and help them emigrate from Africa to Canada.
Now that the majority of his family has been relocated to safety, Boise to Bukavu has a new mission, one Nshombo is taking to heart – use land inherited from his grandfather to build a primary school for Bukavu's children.
While some progress has been made toward true stability, many families still face inadequate housing, basic services, health care and an inability to access education for their children.
"There's so much that's happening there," he said. "I have a bigger vision that I want to introduce (to the public), and I want to get their support. We can get movement on this by (this) year."
But a lot has to come together to make the school a reality, York said. The organizational team is researching what it will take to construct the school, what kind of curriculum is required in the Congo, how many teachers are available in that area and how to sustain the project.
The research team also needs to have a better sense of what other nonprofits or nongovernmental organizations are doing in the area, York said, to ensure there isn't a duplication of ideas or services.
"None of the people on the project has ever built a school, so there's a lot of moving parts here," York said. "But (Nshombo) doesn't let things like rules or normalcy get in his way."
From proposal to primary school
To get the project off the ground, Nshombo estimates that $50,000 to $100,000 will be needed, because construction costs are much lower in the Congo than in the U.S. York said those are initial projections that could change with time as the team learns more about what it will take to develop the project.
The school would be about a 45-minute drive from the Rwandan border and 30 minutes from downtown Bukavu, which has a population of about 870,000. Nshombo hopes the school, which will serve kindergarten through sixth grade, will have seven classes with 30 students each. Preliminary plans for the school include a medical dispensary, community room, library and computer room.
Nshombo said it can take as little as $6 a month to sponsor a child to attend school for a month. He hopes half of the students could pay tuition, while the other half would be sponsored.
"If I take my children to a buffet, that would pay for one child there to go to school for year," Nshombo said. "For what it takes to feed my children for a few hours, it could change this child's life there. It changed my perspective really a lot. I went to make a difference, but I left thinking, 'How can I centralize this help all in one place?' "
More than anything, Nshombo hopes to be an example to the Congolese people. He hopes they see that with some determination, they can make a difference in their own lives rather than waiting for someone from a European or a North American background to make change.
"I don't want our story to die just like that," he said. "I want to build the school so my children, and their children, and your children, could say there was something that came through here, through Boise to Bukavu, and together, there is still something left."
Christina Lords: 208-377-6435, @ChristinaLords
Fidel Nshombo's work
▪ Received the Idaho Refugee Integration and Success Award from the Idaho Office of Refugees
▪ Poet and author of two books ("Route to Peace" and "Route to Peace 2"), who is working on his autobiography to benefit the primary school project
▪ Vice chairman of the United Nations Refugee Congress, a nationwide advocacy agency for immigrants
▪ Serves as refugee youth mentor
▪ Serves on the Mayor's Refugee Steering Group
How you can help
To learn more about Fidel Nshombo's story, go to BoiseToBukavu.org or email Nshombo at email@example.com. To donate to the primary school project, go to gofundme.com/fidel-builds-a-school.


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Friday, October 3, 2008
Mother Clucker
Now the other one is really chirping up a storm too. I think the second one is black, at least it's beak and feathers that I can see are. Oh, the sound is adorable and thrilling!!!! The anticipation is killing me--and I could kill Big Kid for not wanting to stay home with me today!
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Oh, yes. When they hatch they will be talking up a storm. It is so cool. I'm so excited that you are going to have chicks finally after all your hard work.
- October 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM
You are making me want baby chicks. DF thinks you are evil now.
- October 3, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Me said...
Wow, that is so exciting! I bet lk and BK are amazed.
- October 3, 2008 at 10:29 AM
OMG how exciting!!!
- October 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Ami said...
Boy, I go out of town for a day and you become a chick mommy! Hooray for baby chicks! I'm excited to see them once they've all hatched.
- October 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- Jamie said...
How exciting! My almost 3-yr-old dd is LOVING the videos!!!
- October 3, 2008 at 10:54 AM
OMG! i never knew i would think something like that was so cute!!
congrats, chicken mama!
- October 3, 2008 at 11:11 AM
- LceeL said...
How very cool. Baby chicks can be fun. and messy. but fun.
- October 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Melodie said...
Big Kid is a party pooper! Watching baby chicks hatch is WAY more educational that anything they can teach him in one day of kindergarten.
- October 3, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- jen.at.work said...
o.m.g. seriously.
- October 3, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this with us. I'm gonna show my daughters later!
- October 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM
- jennyandcompany said...
yay, congrats!
- October 3, 2008 at 11:56 AM
- Mom Taxi Julie said...
How EXCITING!!
- October 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM
- Mekhismom said...
Oh how exciting!
- October 3, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Jeannie said...
Super cute! I can't wait to see pics of them shell-less!
- October 3, 2008 at 12:46 PM
- Me said...
Don't let Lenny squeeze one of them to death.
- October 3, 2008 at 12:49 PM
- Joy said...
OMFG that is the greatest thing ever. I would have made BK stay home and watch the wonder of mother nature.
I will now be pulling all that incubator crap out and hatching my own chicks, we have a shit load of stuff in the shed that someone GAVE us.
- October 3, 2008 at 2:50 PM
- hippy_at_heart said...
How exciting! I'm in awe. How long did it take for the little guy to chip himself out of there? What will you do with the babies once they/now they are out?
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Months after the end of World War II, leaders of Youth for Christ sent evangelists to work in the battered cities of Europe.
The rally teams were led by two of the new ministry's rising stars. The preacher in southern Europe was the Rev. Billy Graham of North Carolina and, in northern Europe, the Rev. Jess Moody of Texas filled that role.
That says something about the oratorical skills of Moody, whose life story was later turned into a Gospel Films feature called "Riding the Pulpit."
So it was no surprise that Moody later served as president of the Pastors' Conference of the Southern Baptist Convention and, in 1969, was asked to address tensions in the Vietnam War era. Moody's sermon -- "The Christian and War" -- left many pastors stunned and others infuriated.
"My country is sick and cannot seem to get well," he roared, offering what he called a "personal paraphrase" of the Prophet Jeremiah. "My countrymen have not been ashamed when they commit all kinds of hell-raising. … It has become impossible for them to blush. This means they are going to fall."
Then Moody veered into another life-and-death issue affecting those committed to ministry in urban America.
"This is my blood I'm spilling in this sermon," he said. "I've been loyal to this convention for the past 25 years and I intend that every breath I take of God's free air will be a Baptist breath, but you listen. … It takes the black and the white keys to play the Star Spangled Banner! And you can't do it without both.
"We must solve the problem of racial hatred within the next 10 years or prepare to become the dinosaurs of the 21st century."
Moody died last month at the age of 93, after several decades out of the spotlight. He lived to see Southern Baptists slowly, but surely, denounce the sin of racism. In 1995 the SBC repudiated "historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest, and we recognize that the racism which yet plagues our culture today is inextricably tied to the past." America's largest Protestant flock apologized to African-Americans for "condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime."
Tensions lingered, and in 2017 the SBC made headlines by repudiating "white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as a scheme of the devil" that continues to attack America, while urging advocates of "racist ideologies" to repent.


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Post by Meghan Ryan, Senior SEO Specialist
A large portion of users search for websites on a smartphone or tablet, which is why search engines are placing greater importance on the mobile experience.
Websites with an optimized mobile site are more likely to rank higher than websites with a poor experience, and users are more likely to engage with a brand when the site is easy to use.
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Responsive design is the ideal mobile configuration to ensure that a site can be accessed on any device, whether it's a tablet, smartphone, laptop, etc.; it looks something like this:
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The resolution, orientation, size of images and other on-page elements proportion themselves to fit in any screen size, leading to the most ideal experience on any device.
Google recommends that websites implement responsive design since it eliminates the need for separate pages catering towards different devices. With only one set of pages, search engines have fewer pages to crawl which reduces the risk of duplicate content.
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The greatest drawback to responsive design is the potential site slowness due to heavy CSS use and imagery, which take even longer to load when dealing with slow networks and connectivity issues often experienced on mobile devices. Brands should limit the size of images, minify code, leverage browser caching and reduce redirects.
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Check Out new Infamous Second Son offscreen screenshot.
MY EYES! It's so gorgeous. T_T This is my most anticipated game for next year (so far). DEM NEXT GEN GFX! ;)
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So, B is heading to another job conference next week, and since he's driving, the baby and I will be tagging along! We're heading to Houston for two days. He'll be doing interviews and such, but I need some suggestions about fun stuff to do (with baby) on my own. I've never been to Houston, so I'm looking forward to it!
— 2 —This past week, I joined a wonderful group of women known as CathSorority. It's a bunch of Catholic gals, most of them bloggers, who are very passionate about their faith! Here's a link to almost all the blogs. If you see me tweeting with a #cathsorority hashtag, now you know what's up!
— 3 —My mom spent the past week up in Chicago for work. One of my cousins got to reap the benefit of a free hotel room and met her up there to explore the city. I used to go on my mom's business trips every so often, and it's how I got to see Chicago the first time. I've only been twice, but I wish I could have been up there with them! I still haven't seen all the great sites of the Windy City.
— 4 —Instead of being in Chicago, I got to hang out here in Pensacola and take care of a sick baby. It was mostly just a cold, but it finally got to a point that I took her into the doctor. They did a breathing treatment on her, and we've had to do a few of them at home. To do it at home, we had to hold this tube/mask thing up to her, and of course she hates it. But it has definitely worked to help her be less congested!
— 5 —Did you catch my post earlier this week about my thoughts on the Lip Dub Proposal? I'm still going off on rants when people tell me how cute it was or what a great song that is. Um, it's not. Listen to the lyrics, people!
— 6 —For my birthday, my mom gave me a check and told me it was for picking out a nice e-reader or tablet. I decided to get a Kindle Fire! This is a big step for me, since it actually means we have mobile internet (we only have "dumb phones" in this house). Maybe I'll update y'all from Houston! I love it, but the only thing it's missing is a way to take or upload pictures. Oh well, I'm pretty happy with it overall, and I love that all my music is now on my Cloud!
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As a very exciting footnote to my post of a while ago about what to put in tunnels, I was delighted to read about the latest news of the Queensland Government's plans for a new underground style system here, involving both heavy rail and bus in the one tunnel, like this:
This will be a great outcome for our city, which will carry forward our heavy rail and dedicated bus system capacity to meet the needs of our growing region, and will also introduce a new level of understanding of what a transit system can be. I am hearing about it as I lead a Green Shoe Travel tour of San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, cities that enjoy a considerable and sophisticated transit systems which are continuously expanding over time. It gives me some confidence that Brisbane can aspire to similar outcomes.
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At LegalCloud we use GoToWebinar to produce our webinar series on LegalCloud and Cloud Computing for law firms. I needed to convert our WMV files that GoToMeeting provides to FLV so that I could integrate them with my tools of choice for our website. I chose Flowplayer; which is excellent by the way. Hopefully this information might help someone else who ends up needing to do this similar task.
You can see the results of my efforts here:
As for how I did this, it wasn't terribly difficult and I'm quite happy with the results. I decided to use a Rackspace Ubuntu 9.04 cloud server of the 1G size. You could use any server you want, this was just what I chose to use. Using your manage.rackspacecloud.com account you need to do the following:
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- Log in to server as root
- apt-get Update
- apt-get install ffmpeg
Transfer your WMV file from where ever you put it to your new server. I uploaded mine to Cloud Files then just downloaded them from there to encode.
The following command can be used to convert a GoToMeeting Webinar (not the proprietary format) to an FLV.
ffmpeg -i "tdp.wmv" -sameq -ar 22050 -ab 96000 -deinterlace -nr 500 -s 720x576 -aspect 4:3 -r 20 -g 500 -me_range 20 -b 270k -deinterlace -f flv -y "tdp.flv" 2>tdp.txt
This command converted the 26MB file in 2-3 minutes for me which I was happy with. I tried this with local desktop tools on a mac and it took well over 1 hour (and wasn't mostly free).
The whole process takes under an hour so you can do this for approximately $0.06 which seems good to me since it's only something I do occassionally.
Note: You cannot use this command to convert the GoToMeeting proprietary format. I haven't found anything that would yet but I hope to. So, make sure you don't choose the compressed proprietary format for recording your meeting!
Once the conversions were done I uploaded the resulting FLV files to Rackspace Cloud Files and enabled the CDN feature for them. Then, I integrated them with our Flowplayer installation on my web site. I'm quite happy with the result and the Flowplayer team deserves massive amounts of credit for their very cool and usable software that building upon jquery.
I'm not an ffmpeg expert but this did produce nice results for me and it's what I came up with after some trial an error. If anyone has any suggestions to make it even better then please let me know.
This same process would work just fine with any cloud provider of your choice really so if you use GoGrid or AWS the same steps should apply. I can't speak for other Linux distros at the moment but I'm sure you'd have good luck there too.


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The Nigerian elections are happening this weekend and over the coming week and Ushahidi has been working with the Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), and developers Dan Woods and Quinn Lee to create an early warning dashboard for violence in the run up, during and immediately after the elections.
I've been told that crowdsourcing of elections isn't a wise move. After all, what value will anyone gain from gathering a bunch of yammering "l33t-speak†texting reports from the unwashed masses? Election monitoring should only be done by trained volunteers and their results analyzed by professionals.
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Benilde-St. Margaret's junior Grant Besse fires a shot on Lakeville South goaltender Tyler Schumacher. Photo by Adam Crane
Nausea forced Benilde-St. Margaret's sophomore Jack Jablonski to miss his first game of the Red Knights spirited postseason run.
Coach Ken Pauly worried what impact Jablonski's absence would have on his team. Jablonski watched Thursday's stirring victory against Edina from a suite at the Xcel Energy Center and later drew hearty cheers from the boys in the locker room.
He stayed home from Friday night's game against Lakeville South and unintentionally created additional pressure on his team in the process. The Red Knights knew Jablonski wanted to be healthy enough to see them play for the state Class 2A championship Saturday night.
So they delivered.
A five-goal first period led to a 10-1 rout of the Cougars, who had knocked top-seeded Duluth East from title contention the night before.
"Coaches told us before the game they had talked to Jabby and he wanted us to go out and win for him," senior defenseman Jonah Johnson said.
They advance to play Hill-Murray in what will be an already emotional game amplified by Jablonksi's story. He suffered severe a spinal cord injury in a Dec. 30 junior varsity game.
He was checked from behind into the boards and doctors have said he will not regain the use of his legs. His injury garnered national attention and led to mid-season changes to the penalty structure of Minnesota high school hockey.
The Red Knights student section kept his presence in the building with third-period chants of "I believe in miracles" and "We love Jabby."
"I told Jabby, 'Elvis left the building, but you need to get back here,'" Pauly said. "This has been an ongoing thing that gets intensified in this environment. To make it this far shows the kids are dealing with it really well."
There was much for the Red Knights to feel good about on the ice as well. Dan Labosky scored just one minute and one second into the game. He added a second goal in the period and got help from Grant Besse, Tyler Ellegard and Alec Anderson.
Besse and Jake Horton added second-period goals and Labosky completed the hat trick in the third as the Red Knights overwhelmed the Cougars.
"They came out and took it to us," Lakeville South Kurt Weber said. "All of a sudden we panic because we can't keep the puck out of the net and they just keep coming."
Weber said he was "shocked" his team struggled to such a degree one night after upsetting top-ranked Duluth East.
With the victory, B-SM moved to 10-1 all time in state tournament games. The Red Knights won Class 1A titles in 1999 and 2001 and took third in Class 2A in 2008.
-- David La Vaque, Star Tribune staff writer
Benilde-St. Margaret's junior Dan Labosky has a step on Lakeville South's Charlie Heller and his eyes on the puck during Friday's state Class 2A semifinal against Lakeville South. Photo by Adam Crane
After beating one of the most storied public-school programs in the state in the quarterfinals of the state Class 2A tournament, Benilde-St. Margaret's coach Ken Pauly about jumped out of his sports coat.
Emotions on his sleeve?
Pauly had them dripping from his tie, smeared his slacks and oozing out of his loafers.
"I know I showed probably some embarrassing emotion last night, but part of that too is almost a culmination of that journey from where we started this thing," a more subdued Pauly said after his Red Knights routed Lakeville South 10-1 in the state Class 2A seminfinals on Friday, March 9, at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. "And now we're playing the most storied public school program in Edina, and we're winning on this stage."
After winning two state Class 1A titles in 1999 and 2001, Benilde-St. Margaret's made the jump to 2A with the intent of winning more championships on an even bigger stage.
"After we won our second Class A title there was this feeling, 'You know what, we're very proud of that,' at the same time we felt like, 'You know what, it's time to move to where we should be.' "
The Red Knights placed third in Class 2A in 2008 but hadn't reached the state tournament since.
Benilde-St. Margaret's beat Lakeville South 10-1 ro reach the state Class 2A title game for the first time. Photo by Adam Crane
Now, as it turns out, the Red Knights will play the most storied private school program in the state in Hill-Murray at 7 p.m. in Saturday's championship game at the Xcel Energy Center.
"It's fun playing another private school," said junior forward Dan Labosky about the matchup with the Pioneers. "But I don't know if it's a rivalry. We think of them as another team that is in our way. Private school versus private school.
"We always want to beat another private school."
The all-private school matchup is just the second in state big-school history. Holy Angels beat Hill-Murray 4-2 in 2002 for the Class 2A title.
"All year coach has been talking about us making history," said Labosky, who scored three goals against the Cougars in the most lopsided state semifinal game since Hill-Murray beat Grand Rapids 11-3 in 1993. "We don't have a double-A state championship yet, and that's kind of what we have been banking on all year. We want to get to that point and keep building our program."
Pauly said Benilde-St. Margaret's didn't use Hill-Murray, also a Catholic school, as a template when trying to achieve big-school success. The Pioneers have made a stunning 25 state tournament appearances, winning titles in 1983, 1991 and 2008.
"I think any private school would look at Hill-Murray as, 'Why couldn't we do that?' " Pauly said. "Hill-Murray had a 30-year head start on everyone, too."
Pauly, who used Labosky as interpreter in the postgame media session and joked about his poor hearing, said his plan was to spend part of Friday night to "soak it all in."
He didn't figure there would be much required in terms of motivational speeches to prepare his Red Knights come Saturday night.
"I don't think it will be difficult," Pauly said. "You are playing for the state championship. It's all there. My goodness, if they don't get that at this point we haven't done a very good job and they haven't been paying attention their entire lives to what this event is about and how important this game is.
"Zero problem there."
-- Loren Nelson, MN Hockey Hub editor
Playing in the last game of the evening, Benilde-St. Margaret's had time to watch the other Class 2A semifinal game between Hill-Murray and Moorhead.
For most of the Red Knights, they were scouting a potential championship game opponent.
For Benilde-St. Margaret's senior defenseman Jonah Johnson, he was watching his former team -- the Pioneers -- beat one of the best goaltenders in the state and lay some punishing hits on the Spuds.
Jonah Johnson
For what he described as "family reasons," Johnson is in his first year with the Red Knights after spending previous seasons with Hill-Murray. One of Johnson's old teammates drew his attention during the Pioneers' victory over Moorhead.
Hill-Murray junior defenseman Blake Heinrich -- the only returning member from the Pioneers' 2010-2011 defensive core -- had no problems catching the Spuds with their heads down; most notably putting a crushing hit on Moorhead sophomore forward Aaron Herdt.
"Heinrich -- that's his game," Johnson said. "He likes taking the body."
Now facing the heavy-hitting Heinrich and the rest of his former teammates, Johnson admits that while he's going to focus on the task of winning the state championship, he's also going to keep his head up.
"Yeah I will," Johnson said. "I mean they don't scare me too much.
"The first time we played them I was getting the texts, 'keep you head up' and everything. So I bet I'll go back to my locker room, check my phone and I'll have some of those too."
While the texts may or may not be sent jokingly, Johnson expects no love from any Hill-Murray fan or player.
"It will be a big rivalry for me," Johnson said. "The crowd -- I'm not good friends with them all, but on the ice it's going to be a challenge."
Hopefully for Johnson and the Red Knights, the adversity will be worth it in the end.
"It's gonna be a big game," Johnson said. "It's on a stage, two great teams with a lot of pride. Both teams are gonna want it.
"It'll be a great game."
-- Michael Murakami, MN Hockey Hub staff
Benilde-St. Margaret's scored five goals in the first period against Lakeville South. Photo by Adam Crane
Already committed to the University of Minnesota, Lakeville South senior Justin Kloos made the decision to play one more year of high school hockey.
One more season with the teammates he grew up with and they made the most of it.
Even in a 10-1 defeat to Benilde-St. Margaret's, Kloos was able to reflect on what it meant to share this last experience with his teammates.
"It's what you dream of doing," Kloos said. "Just like the other teams across the state, you want to do this with the guys you grew up with, your best friends."
Kloos will go into the Class 2A third place game with 101 points (40 goals, 61 assists).
A day later, he could be crowned as Mr. Hockey, as he is one of 10 finalists for the prestigious award.
Lakeville South's Justin Kloos, right, was held without a point for one of the few times in his career in the Cougars' 10-1 loss to Benilde-St. Margaret's. Photos by Adam Crane
This season Kloos had 14 multi-goal games, three hat tricks a 10-point game (2 goals, 8 assists) against Winona in the Section 1AA playoffs.
"He's once in a lifetime as a coach," Lakeville South coach Kurt Weber said. "I don't think I will be around long enough to see anyone like him.
"He was off the radar when he was younger. Now he's arguably one of the best hockey players in the state of Minnesota."
Since Lakeville South opened in 2005, when it split with Lakeville North, it has made one state tournament appearance and it was a short one, losing the first two games without scoring a single goal.
In the quarterfinals of the this year's Class 2A tournament, the Cougars pulled off one of the biggest upsets, knocking out No. 1-ranked and top-seeded Duluth East 3-2.
Kloos was instrumental as he always seems to be, scoring the game-winning goal into the empty net and notching an assist.
If he doesn't come back for his senior season, that upset may not happen.
"He wanted to come back and show the young kids that staying in high school hockey and staying with your friends is the right thing to do," Weber said.
Doing the right thing appears to be in Kloos' nature.
With the notoriety he has received this season, he is quick to give back and recognize the youth program that helped him become the player he has become.
Weber said the Lakeville Pee Wee team was in the state tournament and, without hesitation, Kloos and his teammates were there to watch them compete.
Kloos did not just go there and leave right after the game.
"They look up to Justin and he talks to them and spends time with them," Weber said. "He's just a great kid to have around because he sends the message that it's a great place to be."
So there is one more high school game for Kloos before he will get a chance to crack the lineup for the Gophers in the fall.
Similar to what he has recently experienced, Minnesota plays some big games at the Xcel Energy Center, but Kloos' heart is still with the Cougars. They play Moorhead for third place.
"I'm just in an awe of maybe getting a chance to put on that uniform," Kloos said. "I look forward to my experience there, but we have one more game left, so I will just be focusing on that."
-- Justin Magill, MN Hockey Hub staff
In a season that has been all about moving on, Benilde-St. Margaret's did just that Friday night, crushing Lakeville South 10-1 in the Class 2A semifinals to earn its third trip to a state championship game.
The Red Knights got everything they needed in a masterful first period.
Dan Labosky scored twice in the opening 17 minutes – including a wrist shot from a bad angle 61 seconds into the game – and completed the hat trick midway through the third to lead the charge.
Grant Besse, Tyler Ellegard and Alec Anderson also scored in the first period to set the commanding tone and chase starting goaltender Tyler Schumacher from the cage.
The win pushes BSM to 10-1 all-time in state tournament games. The Red Knights won state championships in 1999 and 2001.
Cougars senior Justin Kloos came into the game with 101 points on the year. He was held to three shots on goal.
Brian Stensaas, Star Tribune
1. Dan Labosky, Benilde-St. Margaret's
Labosky got the snowball rolling for the Red Knights, scoring just 1:01 into the game. He scored a goal in each period to finish with a hat trick . He has 64 points this season (19 goals, 45 assists) good for fourth on the squad.
2. Grant Besse, Benilde-St. Margaret's
Besse sniped Tyler Schumacher to score the Red Knight's second goal just around five minutes after Labosky's. Besse ended with two goals and an assist to push his point total to a stunning 88 for the season (47 goals, 41 assists).
3. Jake Horton, Benilde-St. Margaret's
The senior defenseman did a great job of keeping Lakeville South's Justin Kloos in check throughout the game as well as scoring a goal in the rout. Horton has 14 goals and 28 assists this year, giving him a total tally of 42 points.
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Idris Khan at Sean Kelly gallery, 2015.
"For my writings, I try to draw from people's experiences. I cannot understand what it is like to be in an active conflict zone, but through reading first-hand narratives and the news, I can begin to piece together the fragments in a way that becomes something new."
"I like the idea that people can get lost in my works. There are so many instances in the media about individuals who are displaced by wars, genocides, dictators. I wanted to find a way to tap into those emotions through aesthetics."
"I take a picture of each stroke I make on the canvas. What you are looking at is almost 1500 photographs of the same painting that I've layered in order to create a new composition."
"You have no idea how hard it is to get a perfect sheet of glass. I wanted the viewer to be aware, perhaps for the first time, of what glass really looks like."
"My titles almost always come from my writings. They are sort of visual poems—not that I fancy myself a poet."
"The stamps became a kind of ritualistic part of my practice. It has a kind of rhythm. It can feel almost like prayer."
"What's beautiful about gesso is that it really sucks in the pigment so you can keep going and going."
"I never give away the entire passage. The viewer is asked to fill it in, which makes it a more abstract experience."


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Acclaimed trumpeter, rapper, singer and songwriter Matt Von Roderick is helping to pave the way for a new sound in Jazz. He has been hailed as "Taking Jazz into the Future" by Downbeat Magazine, as "a post-millennial Chet Baker" by The New York Times, and winner of the Independent Music Awards as judged by rock icon Lou Reed. Matt earned his Bachelor's of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory and his Master's from New York University. The Huffington Post declares: "Matt Von Roderick Makes Jazz Dangerous Again".
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This skirt was all made from stuff I had in my stash, red corduroy & a 9 inch invisible zipper.
Where do I put my hands!?
See the zipper? No? well that's the point. Put that baby in by hand.
And did you see these? OBSESSED.
I bought the pattern at Walmart for 7 bucks, but really it's just an unlined pencil skirt.
I used hem lace to, well, hem it. I thought it would add a little something-something to it; even if it is just for me.
Over all I like this skirt, I guess. I really like that it was basically free, and I got to use stuff that has just been laying around for years. I don't like that if I wear it with flats it comes off kinda "Duggar goes to church camp", when I
was am going for Rizzo.
P.S. Here are my new sunglasses.
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We are looking for a third panelist for the 2005 OAH annual meeting in San Francisco, 31 March – 3 April, on the topic of "Patient Narratives." The conference theme is "Telling America's Stories," and our proposed panel centers on the stories of health and disease from the patient's perspective. One paper will examine American patients' critique of medical authority during the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 and the other paper will analyze the role of army medical officers as both patients and physicians in army tuberculosis hospitals, 1900-1930.
The deadline for proposal submission is January, 2004, and the OAH is encouraging work from across diverse disciplines, methodologies, and media. If you would like to join our panel, or know of someone who might be interested, please contact us.
Nancy Bristow, University of Puget Sound Carol Byerly, Independent Scholar


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156 pages
This book examines Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia's Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s – when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of sports – this book demonstrates the depth of these previously under-examined connections. The book challenges, and complicates, the broader historiography of Australia's Asian context – a historiography that has been strongly influenced by the White Australia Policy and the Pacific War. Why, for example, did white Australia so warmly welcome visiting Japanese sportsmen at a time when the Pacific region appeared to be inexorably sliding into a war that was informed by racial antagonisms?
This book examines sporting relations between Australia and seven Asian countries (China, Japan, India, Netherlands East Indies, Philippines, Malaya and Singapore) and a range of sports including rugby, football, swimming, hockey, boxing, cricket and tennis. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
1. Introduction: Australia's Asian sporting context 2. 'Despicable and degrading': Australian – Ceylonese sporting relations 3. 'Little giants of the ring': fighting race and making men on the Australia – Philippines boxing circuit, 1919 – 1923 4. A new China: using sport to expose a multi-class race through the 1923 Chinese soccer tour of Australia 5. Oldfield's XI and the golden bond of empire: the 1927 Australian cricket tour of Singapore and Malaya 6. Second rate Java Jaunters: soccer football, the imaginary grandstand, cultural diplomacy and Australia's Asian context 7. 'Lively little visitors' and 'peaceful ambassadors': reading Japanese sporting tours through the Australian press – 1926 to 1935 8. 'Indian hockey [and football] tricks': race, magic, wonder and empire in Australian – Indian sporting relations, 1926 – 1938 9. Playing fields
The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.


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Fineman: New Orleans is Exhibit A for Stimulus
The vast grid of streets here in New Orleans, laid out long ago on grassy bottomland near a waterway, remains eerily devoid of houses. Modest bungalows were ripped from their moorings by the foul, murderous floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina three and a half years ago. Eventually, the storm-tossed homes were torn down and carted away. Today, cinderblock foundations dot brush-covered lots like archeological remains. Live oaks line sidewalks upon which no one walks to school, or rides a bike, or runs to the corner store.
This is what you see when you drive east out Claiborne Avenue from downtown New Orleans, out past ramshackle streets named Piety and Desire (the streetcar tracks were paved over long ago), across the Industrial Canal bridge and down into the famously beleaguered and still largely abandoned Lower Ninth Ward.
Yes, there is progress: new homes, on taller concrete stilts and therefore eligible for flood insurance, sprout here and there, like dandelions on a lawn. (A few are gaudy, geometric showpieces with huge solar panels. The locals call them "Brad Pitt Houses," since they were built with the actor's support.) The library is open, as is a citizens' service center and a very few shops.
Still, if President Obama wants a vivid place in which to dramatize American economic plight as he sells his recovery package, he should come here, to this still-struggling city, and to the Lower Ninth. The president is on the road, visiting hard-hit towns in traditionally Red States. It's a dramatic way to sell his plan—and to remind congressional Republicans that they oppose him at their peril. Well, Louisiana is such a Red state, where Obama had hoped to win last year.
And even though New Orleans is a special case, it is a case that must not be forgotten. Indeed, in the campaign, Obama promised he'd remember. Let's see how well he upholds that vow. And Obama should not forget that George Bush's glaring failure of leadership in the aftermath of Katrina is a chief reason why Obama, who sought to embody calm competence and attention to detail, is president.
Scott Cowen, the dynamic president of Tulane University here, is watching congressional action on the stimulus package closely. Even before Katrina, he had been drawn into various civic concerns, notably public elementary and secondary education. He championed charter schools for the city system, and the changes are making a difference. But the perpetually cash-short city desperately needs what Obama wants—federal money to rebuild crumbling local schools. The Senate cut the measure out. Cowen wants it back in.
As for the city as a whole, Cowen—who has a management background and a degree in economics—says that New Orleans is about "70 percent back." More affluent and higher-ground areas are doing decently; but 30 percent of the "land mass" of the city and parish remain in dire need. Roughly 30 percent of the pre-Katrina population has not come back, he adds. "We still have a long way to go."
If Katrina had an upside, Cowen says, it was this: after decades, if not centuries, of civic lassitude—a sense that nothing in the beleaguered and often mismanaged tropical city could change, or even should change—Katrina forced the locals to hit the reset button. "It forced us to realize that we've got to change to survive," Cowen says.
Convention and tourism traffic, the heart of the local economy, has come back somewhat, though planners of mega-meetings remain leery of another storm, and the conventioneers who do come are not always as upscale as in the past. Now, just as the city claws back, it is feeling the effects of another hurricane—the global credit crunch and recession. A sure sign: there is widespread talk of fewer krewes at Mardi Gras this year.
And yet, like the live oaks that survived the flood, people here are a hearty breed. If the city comes all the way back, it will be because of people such as the writer Julia Reed (a NEWSWEEK contributing editor), and her husband, lawyer John Pearce. Their renovated book-lined home in the Garden District (she wrote a hilarious book about the re-do) is a testament to the New Orleans ideal of graciousness and artistic achievement; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, which she helps to run, is becoming a major stop of the national gallery circuit.
And if the Ninth Ward makes it back, it will be because of the will and heart of people who managed to avoid being flooded out, or who have now returned, or who are becoming urban pioneers. I am thinking in particular of one survivor I met named Harold. Standing in the side yard of his brick bungalow on an otherwise empty block of Tupelo Street, he is 69 years old, with blue eyes and skin the color of weathered copper. He wore a bright red bandana shaped in the form of a bishop's miter, and the look of a man who had seen everything in life. He had been a longshoreman, and a union man, and had reared a family in the home that he had built the home himself in 1962, at what he assumed was the dawn of a new era, not only in Louisiana, but also in America. The Kennedys were in power; the ideas of Harold's hero—Franklin Delano Roosevelt—were still fresh and largely unchallenged. "The idea was that government could do things for working people," he says. The neighborhood was proud and alive and a generation of men and women reared children with a sense of hope.
His home had survived, he explains, because the brick structure had been "pinned to the slab" when it was built. The lives of working families need similar anchoring, Harold says, of the kind that only government can provide. "The big corporations aren't going to do it," he says. "The foreign countries are taking our jobs away. They're not to going to pay into our Social Security!
"What we need here in this neighborhood is more government help. The bankers up in New York take care of themselves—and they are doing it at my expense! If they get loans, why can't we?"
Good question, and the "stimulus package" doesn't answer it.


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Worst Malware Ever Secretly Records You While Ruining Your Phone
I've heard about a lot of terrible malware during my tenure here at AndroidPIT, but this particular threat is one of the worst I've ever heard of. I'm not saying you'll likely download it, but if you do and then happen connect your smartphone to your computer, you're s**t out of luck. This trojan horse is packed with evil.
The security firm Kapersky discovered a trojan horse malware that advertises itself as a "cleaner" app meant to free memory on your Android's OS, but goes insane once you've connected your smartphone to your computer.
Kapersky says the malware has the "most extensive feature set" it's ever seen in one mobile app. Here's the full list:
- Sending SMS messages.
- Enabling Wi-Fi.
- Gathering information about the device.
- Opening arbitrary links in a browser.
- Uploading the SD card's entire contents.
- Uploading an arbitrary file (or folder) to the master's server.
- Uploading all SMS messages.
- Deleting all SMS messages.
- Uploading all the contacts/photos/coordinates from the device to the master.
Once the app is installed on your Windows PC, it is capable of taken control of the microphone to record you. The app lists the running processes on your device and restarts them in the foreground to make it look like it's doing what you want it to do.
The app is called DroidCleaner – and has a sibling called Superclean – and both are still available on Google Play. Superclean even has 16 five-star reviews (likely posted by the developer's friends). It looks like they were uploaded by a Russian developer. Pro tip: don't download them. While you're at it, don't download any app that is not from a trusted source.
If you're interested in exactly how the malware code infects your smartphone and computer, check out the link below. It's rather fascinating!
Source: Securelist


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Here's one of my favourite new additions to the den, an original album that once held Parkhurst cards.
1952/53 was the second year of hockey cards issued by the company, the "folio" is in pretty fine shape for 60 years old. The reverse of the folder is pictured at the bottom and lists all of the cards in the set.
These are quite rare as they were meant to take a beating while protecting the precious cards inside.
I've also shown my card from this set, #44 featuring Maple Leaf great Ted "Teeder" Kennedy.