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A 17-year-old charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a Spring High School student earlier this week could have been defending himself, prosecutors said Friday.
"I'm not saying that's not true," Assistant Harris County District Attorney Kelli Johnson said when asked if Luis Alonzo Alfaro was defending himself from being bullied or gang violence. "Our job is to find out the truth. But based on what we know, there was probable cause to take charges."
Alfaro is accused of stabbing 17-year-old Joshua Broussard on Wednesday morning near the cafeteria on the campus at 19428 North Freeway.
Classes were canceled after the incident. When the campus reopens on Monday, students will pass through metal detectors to enter the building, district and school leaders said Friday. Students also can expect "heavy police security," Principal Donna Ullrich told parents in a phone message Friday.
In court Friday, Johnson outlined the allegations against Alfaro during his initial appearance in front of state District Judge Denise Bradley.
Johnson said a pushing match came to blows before Alfaro pulled a folding knife from his pocket, put his left arm over his eyes and began swinging the blade.
"He states, in his statement, that other students began punching him," Johnson said after the arraignment. "He then pulls out a knife and begins stabbing the people around him."
'Heavy security'
Johnson said investigators continue trying to figure out what was behind Wednesday's violence.
Alfaro's attorney, Milan Marinkovich, declined to comment as he escorted several of the teen's relatives, some in tears, from the courtroom.
Neither Alfaro nor his attorney spoke during the hearing.
Prosecutors said the teen slashed four people, including Broussard, who collapsed in the hallway and died.
Another student remains in critical condition, Johnson said.
Harris County sheriff's deputies have said gang rivalry appears to be the motive in the case, but Johnson said investigators are trying to confirm that gang members were involved.
After hearing the allegations, Bradley said Alfaro would remain under house arrest and wear an ankle monitor if he posts $150,000 bail.
At a news conference at the high school on Friday, organized by the district's Ministerial Alliance, district police chief Victor Mitchell said the district formed a gang task force to address concerns about gangs in and around the school.
Mitchell also said three officers are assigned at Spring High School, up one from last year. Dogs, he said, will be used for searches as needed.
In phone messages sent to parents on Friday, Ullrich emphasized the increase in police presence.
"We want to remind you that there will be heavy security at the campus on Monday and metal detectors will be used as part of our enhanced safety plan," the message said.
In an earlier message, she noted the increased presence will be inside and outside of the campus "for as long as needed, and other local law enforcement agencies will also be present on campus and in the community."
The message also said that the school will be calling parents throughout the next three days to relay information as it becomes available.
News conference arrest
At the news conference, Spring ISD Superintendent Ralph Draper said the district will be conducting town hall meetings but did not give any specific details about dates or locations.
Members of the alliance urged parents to make sure their children leave home Monday morning prepared to not harm or violate anyone's safety, including their own.
"We may have differences, but we are all brothers and sisters," said Bishop James Dixon II, alliance spokesman said at the news conference.
About 80 people attended the news conference, but a group of parents who wanted to attend said they were kept outside and told to wait for a separate meeting.
Sheriff's deputies arrested Steven Johnson, 46, when he tried to enter the building to attend the news conference.
According to a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman, Johnson was charged with trespassing after refusing to leave the school property despite being asked repeatedly by deputies to do so.


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$2,064 of Awesome; and Why Flaming Red?
By Aless Piper
October 23, 2012
On Friday, Sept. 21, my friend, fellow admin assistant and teammate, Sandie, walked in the door to our department, past my cubicle, and the first thing I said to her was, "We're awesome."
She's known me about a year, and is well aware of my abiding love of sarcasm and penchant for jokes, especially on Fridays, so she hesitated a moment before tentatively replying "... how awesome?"
My answer? "$1,994 of awesome." That's right, as of 8:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 21, with two days to go until the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life, we had exceeded our goal, and probably our expectations too, by $494.
Thanks to the amazing generosity of our family, friends, coworkers and complete strangers, by the end of that day, we had raised a grand total of $2,064 to benefit the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia.
The experience of actually walking was amazing -- last year, I severely sprained my ankle a week before the walk and was out of commission for over a month afterward. I am privileged to have been joined this year by some amazing friends, Sandie, Margaret and Lori. I am so proud of, and grateful for, my teammates without whom none of this would have been possible. I could not have picked better people to be on my team, and of course, to walk with, and I hope they'll join me again next year.
"Why Flaming Red?"
Something that came up quite a bit while fundraising, and at least twice at the Walk itself, was "Why Flaming Red?" And it occurred to me that, although I'd certainly meant to, and it's been on my to-do list forever, I haven't told you the story behind Flaming Red.
In preparation for being a blogger here, in a process that coincidently came to an end on Oct. 8, 2010 while sitting in Second Cup, there were five questions I needed to answer. One of them was what I wanted to call this thing. I had no idea which is why it took so very long to begin.
I put the question to my Facebook friends, who suggested among other things, Red Ribbon Love (what?), Red Passion (I'll have to remember that one for when I decide to become a romance novelist ... or not), Crazy Red Ribbons, and the list went on. Needless to say, although I love them dearly, they weren't much help.
As those of you who've read my World AIDS Day pieces can probably guess, I read a lot of AIDS literature, with a strange focus on drama. Some of my favorites from drama include The Normal Heart, Angels in America, and the seemingly under-appreciated As Is, by William Hoffman.
In 2009, I discovered the interlibrary loan service offered by my local library, which involves them scouring libraries across Canada, including university collections, for the book of your heart's desire. Fast forward to the spring of 2010, and my heart desired As Is. Which they found a very dusty copy of, six weeks later, in a university library at the other side of the country.
For those who don't know, Wikipedia tells me As Is was one of the first plays about how HIV/AIDS was affecting LGBT Americans and that it was produced shortly before The Normal Heart. It was even turned into a television film in 1986. And if you haven't read it, you should. A limited number of copies are available used from Strand Book Store, which is one of my favorite places in New York City.
So, I sat on my bed surrounded by every book about HIV/AIDS I owned, including two of my favorite non-drama books, Like People in History by Felice Picano, and Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson (which also got a mention last World AIDS Day). I leafed through my many dog-eared pages looking for the perfect name and came up empty. It wasn't until that night when I was reading through As Is that I found my inspiration on the last page.
The character known only as "The Hospice Worker" says: "The other night Jean-Jacques -- he's this real queen, there's no other word for it -- he told me what he misses most in the hospital is his corset and high heels. I mean, he weighs all of ninety pounds and he's half-dead. But I admire his spirit."
And she ends with "Last night I painted his nails for him." Here the stage direction says: "She shows the audience her vividly painted fingernails." "Flaming red. He loved it."
And in that moment, reading that line, I was reminded of my favorite line from Angels in America, and Harold Bloom's translation of blessings as more life, and Jane Kansas's article about her friend Wilson Hodder who died of AIDS a few years ago, that exuded so much life I could not write or even think about HIV/AIDS without being crushed all over again for months afterwards, and I knew that that was it. My blog was going to be about life, and it was going to be called ... Flaming Red. I continue to think it was a wonderful choice.
What's Next?
The best time to start planning for next year's AIDS Walk, is of course, immediately after this one. Lori dropped Margaret off at her place, and then we started towards mine, and I was already thinking about what to do next year. A friend said to me, "It's a pity you surpassed your goal by so much this year" and went on to ask how we were ever going to one-up ourselves next year.
As I recounted this to Edward via email later, I told him the answer is of course to be bigger and better. Were we really going to be happy only exceeding this year by $500 next year? I don't think so.
Next year, we're going all out. And we are totally going to replace MAC as top fundraiser. That sounds like a pretty good goal. :)
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When selecting a gift for Mother's Day, or any other occasion, don't try to be "thoughtful." Choose the gift the recipient will like best. Don't confuse what you know with what she feels.
That may sound obvious, but it isn't. A growing body of psychological research suggests that gift givers pay too much attention to the inputs of gift selection — the price, how much trouble they went to, what they got for other people — and too little to what they know about what's likely to make the recipient happy.
This work shows that "people tend to be egocentric when making choices for others and that they often fail to recognize that their own perspective may differ from the perspective of those for whom they are choosing," write Mary Steffel of the University of Cincinnati and Robyn A. LeBoeuf of the University of Florida in a recent article in the Journal of Consumer Research. The article's title gives away the results: "Overindividuation in Gift Giving: Shopping for Multiple Recipients Leads Givers to Choose Unique but Less Preferred Gifts."
Consider one of their experiments. Participants read Facebook profiles describing either one or two imagined cousins (Steph and Sarah). One was supposed to be from the mother's side of the family, the other from the father's, making the two less likely to know each other. The profiles included a list of each cousin's favorite movies. All of Sarah's were animated films. Five out of seven on Steph's list also were animated; the other two were science fiction/fantasy movies.
Participants were then given a list of 10 movie DVDs in six genres, including the Pixar animated hit "Up" and two science fiction/fantasy movies. Some participants were asked to choose a DVD for Steph's birthday after reading only her profile; a second group picked a DVD for her after reading both profiles; and a third group was told to select DVDs as birthday presents for both cousins. Those choosing gifts for both cousins were explicitly told they could give them the same movie. Three parallel groups were asked simply to predict which movie Steph or both cousins would use a gift certificate to purchase on their own.
Both cousins' lists showed they liked animated films most, making "Up" the best bet for a successful present. That's also the film the vast majority of people in all three prediction groups — including 75 percent of those predicting for both cousins — imagined that Steph would choose for herself.
But when it came to choosing gifts, people acted differently. As long as they were picking a DVD only for Steph, more than 80 percent still went for "Up." But a mere 43 percent of those selecting presents for both cousins gave Steph the animated movie she was most likely to enjoy. They paid more attention to what made her different from Sarah than they did to what she liked. They let the irrelevant circumstances of shopping for a second person trump what they knew about her taste.
Trying to be "thoughtful," it seems, leads people to be thoughtless.
Testing that conclusion directly in another experiment, Steffel and LeBoeuf found that participants given more time and encouraged to shop "thoughtfully" did worse than those given limited time and told not to "overthink" the decision. "Givers may, paradoxically, get worse gifts the more they try to be especially thoughtful," they write, "as their focus on giving individuated gifts may make them lose focus on getting the best-liked gifts." (Another experiment found that givers weren't going for variety for its own sake and only mixed up the selection when there was a difference in the movies listed by the two cousins.)
This research has the faults of most psychology experiments. It draws broad, if tentative, conclusions from a relatively small sample, only 168 participants, and it's explicitly limited to the United States (the authors note that gift-giving customs could affect results elsewhere). But it rings true. It's hard to see the world through other people's eyes — even when we're buying them gifts.


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LAS VEGAS – Oscar nominees aren't asked to audition much for their next plum film roles and the most established NBA players don't have to mess with the casting calls of their professions, which at the moment is the Las Vegas Summer League.
The trick sometimes is knowing when you've earned big-shot status and when you haven't.
Jan Vesely, the Washington Wizards' third-year big man and the No. 6 pick in the 2011 Draft, arrived for summer league with much to prove and lacking maybe the right attitude to do so. Reportedly, the 6-foot-11 native of the Czech Republic, the fellow with the fat European resume but meager NBA accomplishments, somehow felt this July hoops rodeo was beneath him.
Whatever that meant – that Vegas games weren't worthy of his full effort or maybe that his commitment to the Czech national team after this ends deserved a higher priority – it was the wrong way to begin a pivotal offseason. As the Washington Post's Michael Lee reported after the Wizards' season ended, working on his game was important, yet second on Vesely's to-do list.
"He needs to work on his head first," [head coach Randy] Wittman said. The Wizards showed their confidence in Vesely before his second season began, when they picked up his option for the 2013-14 season worth $3.34 million. But at no point after did Vesely show that he shared their faith. Vesely regressed in every statistical category and barely finished with more points (126) and rebounds (122) than personal fouls (107).
Chris Singleton, a 6-foot-8 Florida State product selected 12 spots after Vesely in that draft, took a dip in his second season, too. Instead of playing 21.7 minutes nightly for Washington, he slipped to 16.2 and his scoring and rebounding dropped as well. He shot 38.2 percent and after shooting 34.6 percent (44-for-127) from 3-point range as a rookie, Singleton took 36 from the arc and made only seven. Like Vesely, Singleton's $1.6 million guarantee for 2012-13 might be the end of the line in Washington unless the Wizards lock him in for another season.
From the team's side, the two forwards represent a commitment of almost $7 million for next year that has to be evaluated by next spring. Starting now.
"As they walked in, they'd done this before, they might say 'Why me?' " said Wizards assistant coach Don Newman, who worked the sideline Wednesday of a 90-83 loss to Memphis at the Thomas & Mack Center. "But your franchise wants you to be better and wants to count on you. They have to look at it as, hey, this is your job. Your job is to get better and this is a venue you ought to be getting better in. That's how you've got to take it."
Because they came out in 2011, Vesely and Singleton – and all rookies – missed summer league that year due to the NBA lockout. Playing in Las Vegas or Orlando twice isn't that uncommon, but if a player begins to think of himself as more proven than he is, it can take harsh reality or straight talk to get them to reconsider.
These two got a little of both. Neither played all that well in Washington's first couple of days here, and several members of the coaching staff put the challenge directly to them.
"Absolutely. We do that daily," Newman said. " 'We're not putting you guys out here to embarrass you. We're putting you out here to sharpen up and get better.' Sometimes you have to put your arm around 'em and sometimes you've got to kick 'em in the butt.
"They've been to this dance a few times. We're looking for them to be a lot better. That's the story for both Ves and Chris. We want them to be able to be counted on."
Vesely had 15 points and nine rebounds in 27 minutes against Memphis while Singleton finished with 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting in 29 minutes. But a real test came late, when Newman sent them back into the game with 4:12 left, the Wizards down 11. The pair had been part of a minor comeback early in the quarter, but it also was the sort of substitution made to gauge the players' response, on and off the court.
Both played hard, Washington whittled the lead down briefly and the Wizards afterward sounded as if they were on the same page.
"I saw yesterday and a couple days ago, there was a good chance to see how I was working out the last month," Vesely said. "After this summer I can sit down and see what I have to improve more and work on."
Said Singleton: "I had some things I needed to work on. I wanted to come here and show 'em. I had a rough couple days but I think it's starting to pick up."
All right then. Newman, the rest of the staff and the Washington front office knew what it was doing.
"Absolutely," the assistant coach said. "Because they should be the ones carrying the torch and that's why I did that. And they know it. In their demeanor, I think they understand and I think they want to be better."


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From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
From time to time, a physical book will need to be scanned but the existing metadata supplied by the archivists is not of the book as an item, but rather there is metadata per intellectual item in the book.
It's easier to explain this by example:
- Say we have a 3 page book (excluding covers).
- This book is a letter book.
- There is one letter per page.
- The book is called An Example Book and its identifier is z9999_9999999_9999999.
- We don't have metadata for An Example Book.
- We *do* have metadata for each of the three letters (Letter 1 ... Letter 3); they're identifiers are z9999_9999999_0000001, z9999_9999999_0000002, and z9999_9999999_0000003.
- And we want to present this as a book *and* as the three letter items.
So what do we do?
- It's probably going to be easier to scan the book as a book, so let's do that first.
- Then we need to create a match file in tab-delimited form.
- For our example above the text file would look like this:
- Then we'll use a Perl script called bookToItems and ImageMagick to make new image files based on the match file information.
- In other words, with our example above, we would end up with three files (z9999_9999999_0000001.tif ... z9999_9999999_0000003.tif) in addition to our already-existing files (z9999_9999999_9999999_0001.tif ... z9999_9999999_9999999_0003.tif).
Of course, a page in a book may contain part of one letter and part of another.
So for a less-simple example, see http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/1/18/20100720_match.txt which is a real match file that we actually used in production in 2010 July.
As for what the script expects, please read the excerpt from an email from 2010 July 20 by Jody DeRidder:
The script is in the scripts directory at the top level, and is named bookToItems. It will only look in the in_progress folder at present. It writes to an output file in the output directory within the scripts directory. If it runs across a match file for which there is already a corresponding scans directory, it will ask you if you want to reprocess. It expects the match files to be of the form Date (yyyymmdd) underscore "match.txt" -- so, for example, 20100720_match.txt would be a good one for today. It will name the output directory Scans_match_yyyymmdd to match the date of the match.txt file. The Match file needs to have, on each line, old identifier followed by a tab followed by a new identifier. The script expects a Windows newline to end each line. The script expects the input tiffs to be in a Scans directory (or several Scans directories). And – it will process multiple match files if they are present.


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Firefighters responded to the call at 2:15 a.m. Thursday morning and were on the scene until 4:30 a.m.
Greencastle's Rescue Hose Fire Co. responded to a call at 2:15 a.m. Thursday for a barn fire on Burkholder Road in Shady Grove. The Waynesboro Fire Department also responded to the call.
J.R. Koons, deputy fire chief with Rescue Hose, said the building was destroyed in the fire. It contained hay and some machinery, but no animals were inside.
Firefighters were on the scene until 4:30 a.m., according to Koons, who did not have a dollar estimate for the damage caused by the fire.


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Arto Mattila became interested in drilling contracting some 20 years ago, when he bought equipment to drill rock on his own land. His hobby evolved into a job, and now his work is also his hobby.
This shows how much Arto enjoys working on site. In the flatlands of Ostrobothnia (Finland), the small family firm is known for its flexibility, absolute adherence to time schedules and the high quality of its work. The company is now using Atlas Copco's new generation FlexiROC T30 R Construction Edition. By November 2016, the new machine had notched up 250 hours of drilling. Mattila has three different drilling units and two excavators. In addition to the Atlas Copco tophammer rig, he has a tractor-based unit as well as an excavator-mounted ExcaDrill drill unit. The man himself shuttles from one drilling team to another as required, while the next generation handles groundwork contracting activities.
Mattila's drilling equipment is also a familiar sight on the Ostrobothnia railway tracks. Exact timing is of the essence for the windows of time allowed by the Finnish railway company VR. Drilling and blasting are strictly tied to the service intervals in train timetables. The track must be clear when the next train goes past the work site.
In the middle of November last year, one of the company's drilling sites was at Kauhava. Most job sites are found within a 100-150 km radius of Kauhava. More than 1,000 cubic meters of rock was blasted to build a roadbed. The road construction project was the responsibility of a company called Juhan Paja, which specializes in infrastructure projects.
" This site represents a normal job for us. We work for several different clients and at several different drilling sites a year. The sizes of the jobs vary, as do drilling depths. Here, the depth of the hole was two meters at the highest point. The maximum hole depth is 14 meters. "
The new Atlas Copco FlexiROC T30 R Construction Edition was operated by Ari-Pekka Pahkajärvi. Mattila charged the holes drilled by Pahkajärvi. The new Atlas Copco is the second one owned by Mattila. The first one, a previous generation machine, was in use for six years. Mattila's experience of the rig was so encouraging that sticking with the same make was a given. "I didn't really have any problems at all with the old model in all that time", said Mattila.
Because one of the company's selling points is that job sites are for doing work, not repairing machinery, the company likes to keep its equipment fairly up-to-date.
" The new drill rig has a lot of nice updates and automated systems. The hammer is also very powerful and the transmission, too, is stronger than before. The undercarriage is well balanced, i.e. it has a low center of gravity and wide crawler track support width (2,410 mm), which improves driving in terrain. The new radio remote control can now be used to program and regulate a diverse range of drill event values. "
According to Pahkajärvi, the automatic depth setting is a particularly welcome feature. The remote control has been used to set e.g. drill depth, inclination and angle in advance. Drilling is performed completely automatically based on the set values. Pressure and RPM data are also controlled via the remote control.
In November, Mattila reported that his company's work situation was good. The company had jobs booked for most of the winter.
This article was written by Olli Päiviö for Konepörssi.


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New Nebraska Center opened in Tokyo, Japan
Gov. Dave Heineman Friday announced the official opening of the new 565 square foot Nebraska Center in Tokyo, Japan.
Led by Executive Director Koji Nagasaka, six Nebraska Center staffers will promote the state's products and services, participate in Japanese trade shows, introduce Nebraska and Japanese business owners and operators, conduct market research, undertake marketing campaigns and other focused activities that help the state compete there.
"Nebraska has had a strong relationship with Japan," Gov. Heineman said. "With the opening of this office, we hope to pursue an even stronger partnership over the long-term by enabling Nebraskans to work more closely with Japanese companies on business investment and development efforts. The Japanese place a high importance on personal relationships and interactions, and having a physical presence in the country is essential to expanding our opportunities for trade."
Joining the Governor for the announcement were Nagasaka, Richard Baier, director of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED), and Nizar Mamdani, executive director of the Office of International Healthcare Services at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center, two of the many organizations supporting the effort.
The center is located in the Shinjuku District, a business hub known for its high-rise landscape, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Towers. Located a short walking distance away is Japan's busiest railway station, Shinjuku Station, which transports 2 million passengers daily.
"The international program at the medical center has grown to over 100 strategic global partners in 41 countries and each year facilitates bringing hundreds of international patients for treatment, as well as many international researchers, students and prominent speakers to Nebraska," Mamdani said.
"Having a physical presence in Japan is truly a key for further expansion of the medical center's Asian initiatives in the areas of patient care, research, biomedical, biotechnology, education and training. We know that the establishment of this office will drive our strategic international programs to the next level," Mamdani said.
Nebraskans who are in Japan conducting business can use the office's computer, telephone, fax and other services between meetings and travel.
Among the Trade Offices' many services are researching, contacting and meeting with potential Japanese partners, providing basic translation and interpreting services, assisting with trade shows, marketing entry strategy recommendations, providing in-country assistance and selective visits with companies, assisting with hotel and travel needs, and coordinating meetings with Commercial Attache, JETRO, Shizuoka, and other Japanese partners.
"Mr. Nagasaka's experience will be key to helping Nebraska achieve its full potential in Japan," Gov. Heineman said. "The Japanese place a very high importance on personal interactions and spend a great deal of time building relationships and developing trust."
Nagasaka was employed for most of his career at Itochu Corporation, the world's 17th largest company, and one of Japan's largest trading houses involved in the aerospace, textile, agricultural, biotech, chemical, logistics and bio fuels industries. For 17 years, he worked at Itochu offices in New York and Chicago, as manager of the Oilseeds section, and executive vice president of Cigra Inc., a subsidiary company of Itochu, in grain collection and export, respectively.
His main activity was exporting U.S. agriculture products to Japan. He also traded with Brazil, China, Denmark, Norway and Germany. While living in Japan, he managed Itochu's Soybean Section. During his time in New York, he was transferred to Cargill Incorporated and stationed in several different cities, including Central City, Neb., to learn more about grain distribution in the U.S.
Nagasaka also served as president of Kamigumi Air Cargo Service Inc., an Itochu logistics subsidiary, and as executive vice president and owner representative of Kato Real Estate Corp., another Itochu subsidiary. Most recently, he served as deputy secretary general for Itochu Shayu-Kai, a nonprofit organization serving retired employees of Itochu Corporation.
In addition to DED and UNMC, other center partners include Election Systems and Software, Omaha; Lincoln Chamber of Commerce; Nebraska Diplomats, Lincoln; Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce; First National Bank, Omaha; Oxbow Pet Products, Murdoch; Bruckman Rubber, Hastings; Werner Enterprises, Omaha; Nebraska Corn Board, Lincoln; Kawasaki, Lincoln; Nebraska Public Power District, Columbus; and Omaha Public Power District, Omaha.


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- Iron Cupcake is a competition that started in the USA. Each month, a theme or key ingredient is announced and entrants have to bake a cupcake that meets the theme or uses the key ingredient. You can be as weird and wonderful as you like, as long as you meet the brief.
- Iron Cupcake: London is the first Iron Cupcake challenge outside of the USA.
On competition day all entrants bring their cupcakes along and the judges taste them and vote for the best. The winner receives prizes and glory but all entrants get to try each other's cupcakes.
- This is a great opportunity to meet other cupcake addicts (oh yes, fear not - there are many of us!), make friends and eat lots of cupcakes!
- All entries will be photographed and published on this site - so not only is it a great social event, you will also be able to promote your cakes and blogs to a wider audience via this site!
So...anyone in the London or South East area who is up to the Iron Cupcake challenge please visit my Iron Cupcake website (it's work in progress at the moment) and get ready.......


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We need teacher support as we get set for our biggest product yet – Courses. I'll be posting a sneak preview about what is coming this Friday. In the meantime, please tell you staff about our exciting product (use our brochure), visit our teachers guide and get more teacher resources. Help us get the word out! Much appreciated.


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Metzi needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
We will launch a new poker tournament in Croatia in collaboration with a Gambling site. The tournament will be in wonderful location on the sea, in august 2010. Will be a week of good poker, fun, sun and sea.
Will be promoted mostly in Europe, to players between 18 and 45 years old. Most of them are online poker players, 90% men.
It should be a small logo (CPS) plus a complete logo (Croatian Poker Series) and in some way should contain a refererence to the logo of the sponsor (http://www.goalwin.com). Could be using their "I" with the soccer ball.
In attachment the Goalwin logo if you need.
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Bob Musur, valuation and risk management director, Navigant
Bob Musur joined Navigant as director in the Valuation and Financial Risk Management practice. Musur will provide Telecom, Media & Technology, Manufacturing, and Automotive industry expertise to Navigant's Valuation team. Musur brings over 30 years of professional services experience specializing in business valuations, intangible assets, securities and stock compensation across a variety of industries. He joins Navigant from KPMG where he was a senior partner for 19 years, leading the Information, Communications and Entertainment segment of the Valuation practice. Musur also was a partner with firm-wide oversight in Risk Management. His additional Big Four experience includes senior management positions at PriceWaterhouse.
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The government's "vague" explanations of the legality of China establishing a representative office in Taiwan are akin to justifying bringing an enemy into one's house because Beijing would be able to gather intelligence and carry out its unification ambition under the protection of Taiwanese law, the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) caucus said yesterday following the announcement last week that Taiwan and China may set up cross-strait representative offices later this year.
Currently, there are offices on both sides that issue travel documents, TSU Legislator Lin Shih-chia (林世嘉) told a press conference, adding that the moves to set up representative offices could be politically motivated and the result of a "wink-wink deal" between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party to promote bilateral political talks.
Talks about opening a Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) in China and an Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) offices in Taiwan have already begun.
TSU Legislator Hsu Chung-hsin (許忠信) criticize President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) administration for "unilaterally" granting China diplomatic privileges and immunities without a guarantee of reciprocity.
Hsu added that if Taiwan's office in China is unable to deal with consular affairs and protect Taiwanese residing there, it would be a meaningless agency because personal safety and rights are among the most important issues for Taiwanese businesspeople in China.
Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Kuo Cheng-liang (郭正亮) said it made no sense for the pan-green camp to support the institutionalization and normalization of cross-strait relations, while at the same time opposing the establishment of the offices.
With regards to security concerns, Kuo said that every diplomatic mission in the world — including Taiwan's — is tasked with gathering intelligence, adding that China already has numerous channels through which to gather intelligence in Taiwan.
Meanwhile, Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi (王郁琦) said that Taiwan would initially plan to set up three representative offices in China.
Wang made the remarks on the sidelines of a questio-and-answer session at the legislature where Wang, Minister of the Interior Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源) and Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Lin Join-sane (林中森) answered questions from legislators on the government's plans for the establishment of the representative offices and a proposal to allow more white-collar Chinese to work in Taiwan.
Wang said that given the number of SEF staff, the government could initially establish a maximum of three representative offices in China — one in Beijing, in central China and in southern China.
"It is likely that that number would increase in the future, but we could discuss the final number at a later date," Wang said.
During a question-and-answer session at the meeting, DPP Legislator Tuan Yi-kang (段宜康) said that since setting up representative offices on both sides was an extremely sensitive matter, there was a risk of agitating the public if the council did not handle the matter carefully.
"Is it possible that China will establish 10 offices in Taiwan at once? Could China's national flag be unfurled next to Taiwan's national flags at these offices?" Tuan asked.


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7" ADJUSTABLE DAMPER: Adjustable Dampers are used to control airflow through a duct run. The disk is sheet metal and is attached internally to a T-Wyes, Elbows, or start collars. A hole is drilled for attaching the damper handle and screw assembly for adjusting the airflow opening. Sizes range from 4" to 18" diameter.


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Yeah but you only ever need to roll a few of them at a time, max. You can get away with having just one, or re-rolling a d6 that comes up as 5 or 6. You don't get crits with d4s so the re-rolls really wouldn't be that big of a deal.
I'm not talking about the d4 deciding if the guys are worth sacrificing - even a chicken is worth tossing under a bus for an extra +1. It's about players getting maximum return for their choices - an actually competent minifig being worth more than a shitty little mook or spider just seems to make sense, and I wouldn't want to place restrictions on players for being able to sacrifice fewer things.


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Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc., a provider of environmental and hazardous waste management services throughout North America, has opened a new service center to serve West Virginia, southeastern Ohio, and northeastern Kentucky.
The Cross Lanes Field Service Center offers vacuum services, decontamination, product recovery and transfer, demolition and dismantling, tank cleaning, scarifying and media-blasting, and marine services. It also provides immediate response and containment for cleanup operations, as well as access to Clean Harbors land and water emergency response manpower, equipment, and logistical management for any size environmental emergency.
"We're looking forward to serving the tri-state area from this new service center," commented Clean Harbors General Manager Teresa A. Wasson. "It enables us to offer day-to-day environmental services to area industries and, just as importantly, provides access to Clean Harbors' significant North American-wide environmental, emergency response, hazardous materials management and disposal services."


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GENEVA – The County Board has shelved plans to change its leadership structure to add the position of deputy chairman, which was sought by County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen.
Thursday, Lauzen effectively withdrew the proposal.
He told the County Board Administration Committee that he was "personally not interested in moving forward on it" any longer.
"We have big things to worry about," Lauzen said. "If you want to take it off the agenda, it wouldn't hurt my feelings in the least."
Lauzen, an Aurora Republican, had proposed the deputy chairman in December, shortly after he took office.
In a proposed amendment to the county's ordinances, Lauzen stated that the deputy chairman would be a member of the County Board appointed by the board chairman to a one-year term.
The deputy chairman would not have earned additional salary or benefits, and responsibilities would have included acting at the chairman's request to marshal support for issues and positions.
The deputy chairman also would "take the place of the County Board chairman at official ceremonies" Lauzen could not attend.
The idea ran into opposition from members who either desired assurances that the proposal would not bring partisan politics to the board or questioned whether the proposal would create more problems than it might solve.
County Board member Mark Davoust, R-St. Charles, was outspoken against the proposal, saying he believed the position would correspond to the legislative position of "whip," which is awarded to a partisan within Congress or a state legislature to secure support for the positions of party leadership.
With such concerns lingering, Lauzen said he did not desire for the issue to distract the County Board from tackling its "real mission," which he said included dealing with home foreclosures and improving the local economy.
"I was hoping to get a little help from a second person," Lauzen said.
But he said the deputy chairman proposal was "no big deal," and suggested the committee table the proposal.
The administration committee voted 4-2 to set the proposal aside "indefinitely."
County Board member Jesse Vazquez, D-Aurora, who was not on the committee but attended the meeting, thanked Lauzen for withdrawing the proposal.
"It's the right thing to do," Vazquez said. "He listened to the concerns of the board."


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Helium Comedy Club
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Philadelphia PA 19103
Vol. 8 | February 2017
Celebrating Black History Month:
Club Favorites and Rising Stars
Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer is a bona fide comedy legend. Watch as he tears the roof off of the Ryman Auditorium for his first special in over a decade.
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Rodney Perry
Reality can be a tough pill to swallow. Just ask Rodney Perry, who struggles to digest the fact that he is indeed a big man.
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Ms. Pat
Ms. Pat is one of the funniest storytellers in the game today. Listen in as she recalls a chance meeting with President Jimmy Carter at a McDonalds.
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Ali Siddiq
Fresh from his Comedy Central "The Half Hour" special, Ali Siddiq spits some hard truths about the oft-forgotten holiday of Father's Day.
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Ian Edwards
"What the news doesn't tell us is that men in suits are the biggest robbers and the biggest criminals." Preach, Ian Edwards. Preach.
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Byron Bowers
Bowers tackles the real reasons behind the lack of diversity at Harry Potter's famed Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Lil Rel
Have you ever visited your old neighborhood, only to instantly regret the decision? Lil Rel has and it was all thanks to one fateful bus ride.
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Jermaine Fowler
From meanspirited trolls to relatives with grammar issues, the social media jungle is filled with all sorts of characters. We feel your pain, Jermaine.
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Bruce Bruce
Thanks to his larger than life personality and stage presence, it only take a minute to see why Bruce Bruce is one of America's favorite comics.
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Charlize Theron: Blonde & Blue
Someone must have had a good night's sleep. How old is Jackson? Do they get through the night without waking up at that age? Because Charlize Theron looked super fresh tonight in London at the Prometheus premiere. I don't love the sparkly dress on its own. But clothing tends to become something different when she wears it.
If only she'd stay away from all those Jennifer Aniston shoes.
Also attached - Guy Pearce and Michael Fassbender. WHY ISN'T IDRIS ELBA THERE???


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AFTON, Va. - It's 4:15 in the morning, and Sister Andrea Jaeger is already in her full habit, the first prayer session of the day behind her. God speaks to her all the time, tells her what His plan is, but these early wake-ups, this is all Jaeger's idea. She has her brown leather Bible next to her - her name is inscribed on it - and so much to do: sick children to visit, a foundation to run, vows to keep.
Why sleep in when you can do good deeds, and go for a contemplative, one-hour run, too?
"I just love the serenity of the morning," Jaeger says. "The phone doesn't ring. Nobody else is awake. It makes me so excited. Here comes another day!"
Sister Andrea Jaeger is 41. She is three months into her new life as a Dominican nun in the Episcopal Church, and almost a quarter-century beyond her short-lived stint as the biggest sensation in women's tennis, a ball-bashing baseliner with waist-length pigtails that swung with every groundstroke, and braces that befit her teenage station.
Jaeger is an alternative energy source, fueled by Providence. She has a girlish voice and a big laugh, and an amped-up signoff to her cell phone voicemail ("God's love and blessings to you"). She can speak eloquently for 20 minutes in answer to a single question, and often does.
The answers always come back to her personal relationship with God, a journey that has transformed her from tennis brat into humanitarian; umpire-baiter into child-saver; conflicted prodigy into devout caregiver, all without forgetting how to be playful.
During a recent visit to the children's cancer wing of a Cincinnati hospital, Jaeger led sing-alongs and brought lightness, and roared with laughter when a little girl called her "a fun nun." She jokes about how it used to take three minutes to get dressed when she just wore sweats. Now it takes a half-hour.
"I finally understand why women were spending all that time in the bathroom," she says.
Jaeger is here in the Shenandoah Mountains, visiting with her writer friend Rita Mae Brown, having traveled from her home in Hesperus, Colo. Brown, a mentor and kindred spirit whom Jaeger first met when Brown was a tour regular as the partner of Martina Navratilova, is helping her with a children's book. Staying in a cottage at a bed-and-breakfast, Jaeger steps on her flowing black habit as she heads upstairs, briefly stumbling.
"I still have to get used to wearing this," she says with an embarrassed smile.
A first-generation American, Jaeger was a most improbable tennis wunderkind. She was raised in Chicago by her German-born parents, who came to the U.S. in 1956. Her coach/father, Roland, was a former boxer and bricklayer who ran a saloon called The Postillion Lounge. She started tennis at 8, and thanks to inexhaustible energy and abundant athleticism, took to it quickly, becoming a top-ranked junior by the time she was 13, turning professional at 14. She entered qualifying play in her first tournament in Las Vegas, a Futures event for up-and-coming players. She won 13 straight matches and captured the first of her 10 titles.
Jaeger swiftly ascended the ranks of the WTA tour, all the way up to No. 2, at 16. She was a relentless 5-5, 130-pounder who was pushed hard by her father, mouthed off to linespeople and was a regular in the final weekends of Grand Slams. The only trouble, according to Jaeger, is that she felt alone and adrift in the cutthroat culture she suddenly found herself in. She lived with a terrible secret: she did not want to be No. 1 in the world. She did not want to hone a killer instinct, or become an all-time great. As much as she loved to play, to dive for balls and set up points and reach a level few players ever get near, she did not want to do it at someone else's expense. Her conflict ran so deep that she says she intentionally lost a number of big matches, Grand Slam finals included.
When Billie Jean King expressed interest in coaching her, Jaeger wasn't even tempted.
"I saw her drive to be the best, and I did not have that drive to be the best," Jaeger says. "I know if I worked with her I would've been No. 1 in the world. I know it, but it would've come at too great a cost. I was never going to tell people what God wanted me to do - that I wanted to be of service to others."
After losing to Jaeger for the first time, Chris Evert approached her in the locker room and said, "Now that you've beaten me, will your father let me be your friend?"
Wary of Evert's motives, and her hyper-competitiveness, Jaeger replied, "This has nothing to do with my father. I don't want to be your friend."
So it went until the 1984 French Open, when Jaeger's shoulder went out, a chronic injury that had become far worse - and that would effectively end her career at 19 and ultimately require seven surgeries to repair. She had earned almost $1.4 million, but now the financial faucet was off. Her parents were devastated, Jaeger quite the opposite.
"I knew it was God saying, 'OK, now we're going to go help kids together,' " Jaeger says. She smiles. "It was an easy transition from professional athletics to charity, because it was like, 'Get me out of here.' It was such a relief I couldn't live my truth on the circuit."
From sports to charity
Jaeger sold her Mercedes-Benz and passed the money around to worthy causes, supported charities and then stepped it up, launching her Little Star Foundation in 1990, along with close friend, Heidi Bookout. The mission of Little Star was to provide long-term help and support for children afflicted with cancer, and has since expanded to reach kids suffering from abuse, neglect and all manner of mistreatment and illness. By now Little Star has helped thousands, getting generous support from luminaries such as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Cindy Crawford, John McEnroe and Paul Newman. Jaeger herself has put $2 million in, including her entire pension and her investment portfolio.
"She follows her heart. She has always followed her heart. A lot of people don't have the strength to do that," says Jaeger's sister, Suzanne, 44, who played at Stanford and had a short turn on the tour.
Jaeger says that God has been directing her life, showing her the way, since she was a little girl. His message was never more pointed than it was last February, when she was on her way to work out on a stair-stepping machine when she says she could feel Jesus in her heart, inviting her to waltz with Him. She says she took a few spins, self-consciously, and said, "OK, I'm done." Her feeling was very strong, but she wasn't clear about the meaning of it until the next day - Feb. 4, 2006 - when she had a dream that she was in a convent with St. Catherine of Siena, a Dominican nun from the 14th century. St. Catherine was floating, beckoning, showing Jaeger the life she was to live.
A change of habit
Cindy Crawford was the first person she told. "It was a surprise, but not a shock. She has always been very, very devoted to her faith," Suzanne Jaeger says.
Andrea, who had earned an associate's degree in theology, found a Dominican order to study with, and began in April.
"At first I was a little apprehensive because of her celebrity status," says Father Kevin Pritchard, the priest who presides over the aspiring brothers and sisters in the Order. "But the way I looked at it, it was like a prince or merchant back in the Middle Ages, giving up everything to join our community. I think in a culture that worships celebrity and wealth what Sister Andrea is doing sends a powerful message."
Jaeger immersed herself in study and prayer, and was ordained Sept. 16, after she delivered a sermon at Pritchard's church in North Dakota. In one part of her message she said, "Everything great I received from my tennis career God gave me. He didn't take it away. He decided it was time for me to serve Him in a different way."
Sister Andrea Jaeger is officially still in the apprentice stage as a nun, but knows this is her calling. She will live a celibate life, serve God and keep helping children through her foundation.
As King says: "She has done so many good things for so many others since leaving tennis, and her journey continues today."
During her brief time on the tour, Jaeger often seemed surrounded by melodrama, sometimes of her own making, sometimes not. Once a fellow player slipped and fell in the bathroom, went to Tour officials and told them that Jaeger had assaulted her.
Jaeger says she never touched her, which didn't stop the player from serving papers to her before a U.S. Open match, and the story hitting the newspapers.
Another time, Jaeger spotted a bird on a courtside fence. She knocked a ball toward the bird to shoo it away. Before long the story went all over the world about Andrea Jaeger trying to decapitate a bird.
These days Jaeger seems to know nothing but peace, and fulfillment. She calls God "my best friend," such a palpable presence in her life it's as if He is sitting in the next chair. She prays four times a day and does her service, the latest installment which came recently when she visited a children's hospital in South Florida with Chris Evert - the same person she blew off 25 years ago. She steps outside in the bracing mountain air. Her secret is out, her torment long since gone. She feels free, ever replenished. The wind blows, and her habit billows. It's another day to do her work, spread God's love, living a life she calls "a rainbow of miracles." Sister Andrea Jaeger smiles.
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Lost Iowa State's Scott Christopherson way too much — he went off for 30 points. ... BUY GLUCOPHAGE OVER THE COUNTER, Only forced 10 turnovers. ... Basabe had seven blocks in the first half, none in the second.
A 47-39 edge, including 18 offensive boards. ... Basabe was a force, with 14 boards.
Hawkeyes fed off the energy of the largest crowd of the season. ... Fire off the bench, although it did cost McCaffery a technical.
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