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Notable things: Wish list: BBEdit as a cloud service; NASA debunks this end-of-the-world business; the worst free throw ever
I've been experimenting with HackPad recently. It's nice and simple and quick, but at this point I'm not sure why I'd choose it over Google Docs ("enmeshed" aptly describes my relationship with Google Docs).
However, the only thing I love / use more than Google Docs is BBEdit. I adore BBEdit. And when I'm in Hackpad's scaled down interface it reminds me of the elegance of BBEdit.
And that got me thinking — what if BBEdit was a cloud service?
It has to be possible. If the heavy functionality of word processing and spreadsheets and presentation software can be ported into a browser-based environment, surely a text editor could make the jump. Browser-based code editors exist, so why not port BBEdit — or some variation on BBEdit — over to that side as well?
A NASA FAQ explains why the world won't end in 2012.
So they say …
This is being called the worst free throw ever:
That's bad, but this is far worse:
Notable things: Stop showing violent promos for your violent shows during sports broadcasts; that's a big baby; Apple needs to get on this TV thing, stat
I tend to avoid serious pop culture critiques because, good lord, we're talking about television and movies and music and … it's entertainment, people. You're over thinking it.
But somehow this NPR essay, which certainly tiptoes along pretentiousness as some NPR things do, didn't make me dry heave. I don't necessarily agree with all of it — i.e. we really must do something about all the gore and violence in our "good" television shows — but it did get me thinking about a different type of gore and violence that sneaks in where it doesn't belong.
I'm talking about the horrific commercials for the likes of "CSI" and "Criminal Minds" that air during sporting events.
Now, I can forgive an extended take of slimy entrails on "The Walking Dead" because: 1. That show is on cable late at night and 2. It's a damn good drama that just happens to be set amidst a zombie apocalypse, so slimy entrails make sense from a contextual perspective.
More importantly: No one is showing those entrails when the network goes to commercial at the two-minute warning and my kids are in the room.
There is absolutely no reason — none — why CBS, NBC and Fox should be showing gunplay and violence and crime porn in their promos. Not during the day / early evening. Not when it's entirely likely that sports fans with families are watching sports with their families.
Put another way: If I show my kids "The Walking Dead," I'm the asshole. But if you sucker-punch my kids with violence and horror tucked within the promos for shows I would never show them, then you're the asshole.
So knock it off.
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"When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that."
Apple, you better get this right. The disruption is upon us, but we need a catalytic event (something like this) to spur a mutant leap in the television experience.
Hey, journalists, this is why you need a blog
A phenomenal post from Jason Fry at the National Sports Journalism Center: When I started Faith and Fear in Flushing with my friend Greg Prince in the winter of 2005, I'd been at The Wall Street Journal Online for nearly…
A phenomenal post from Jason Fry at the National Sports Journalism Center:
When I started Faith and Fear in Flushing with my friend Greg Prince in the winter of 2005, I'd been at The Wall Street Journal Online for nearly 10 years. But despite all that time as a Web guy, I'd adopted some rather unhealthy attitudes. I was studiously uninterested in knowing how many readers read my columns, and only took a passing interest in their reactions to them. I thought that my job was to be a thinker and a writer. Worrying about traffic numbers? That was somebody else's job – and a lesser calling.
This was arrogant and dumb, and a few weeks of writing Faith and Fear showed me that. On my own blog, the numbers were of immense interest to me. I pored over them every day in an effort to figure out what posts were connecting with readers and what posts weren't. I was singing for my supper, and it made me a better columnist. If a column was well written but didn't seem to connect, I wasn't happy with it. I no longer dismissed Web traffic as not my job, complained about writing promos for my stuff, or gave reader comments and emails short shrift. And I realized those folks on the business side were critical to our collective success, and could teach me things. [Emphasis added.]
I'll add this: journalism's biggest mistake was allowing business apathy/hatred among the editorial ranks. That's a far more egregious "sin" than publishing free Web content.


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The judge presiding over the SEC's lawsuit against Bank of America denied the proposed $33 million settlement, saying the settlement was "neither fair, nor reasonable, nor adequate", in part because the Bank's "innocent shareholders" would be picking up the tab.
In an order that calls the proposed fine "trivial" and quotes Oscar Wilde, U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff could not be more clear in expressing his displeasure.
The parties' submissions to the Court, the judge said, "leave the distinct impression that the proposed [settlement agreement] was a contrivance designed to provide the S.E.C. with the facade of enforcement and the management of the Bank with a quick resolution of an embarrassing inquiry..."
The ruling comes after the August hearing when Rakoff demanded more information from the parties, resulting in hundreds of pages of briefing that clearly failed to satisfy the Court. Rakoff scheduled a trial for February 1, 2010.
The order reinforces the judge's doubt earlier stated doubt that $33 million is a fair pay-off for the $5.8 billion in Merrill Lynch bonuses Bank of America allegedly failed to properly disclose to shareholders.
At the hearing and in today's memorandum opinion, the judge expressed frustration that Bank of America, who has repeatedly stated its proxy statement was not misleading, has so far failed to provide specifics.
From the opinion: [I]n all its voluminous papers protesting its innocence, Bank of America never actually provides the Court with the particularized facts that the Court requested, such as precisely how the proxy statement came to be prepared, exactly who made the relevant decisions as to what to include and not include so far as the Merrill bonuses were concerned, etc.
Rakoff does not let the SEC off the hook, either, noting that although the S.E.C. concedes "its normal policy in such situations is to go after the company executives who were responsible for the lie," it claims it cannot do so in this matter because company lawyers made the decisions concerning the disclosures. If that's the case, Rakoff wrote, why not go after the lawyers?
Whether this case will actually go to trial remains to be seen, but it is highly unlikely the Court will approve any future settlement agreement without either proof of exactly what happened.
Here's the judge's order:
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Pelicans finalize opening-day roster
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans, Class A Advanced affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, have announced their Opening Day roster for the 2010 season. This year's squad includes eight players ranked in Baseball America's top-30 prospects in the Atlanta Braves system including pitchers Randall Delgado and Zeke Spruill. The first Pelicans roster of the new year includes 15 players who saw time on the Grand Strand in 2009.
Outfielder Adam Milligan is also in Baseball America's top 10 Atlanta prospects. Milligan spent time with Danville, Rome, and Myrtle Beach in 2009 and posted a combined .344 average and .985 OPS accompanied by 13 home runs and 49 RBI.
Right-handers Delgado and Spruill lead a Pelicans pitching staff that welcomes back eight hurlers from the 2009 campaign. Righties Yeliar Castro, Jaye Chapman, David Francis, J.J. Hoover, and Benino Pruneda join southpaws Jose Ortegano, Chad Rodgers, and Cole Rohrbough .
In addition to newcomers Delgado and Spruill, right-handers Juan Abreu (20) and Angelo Paulino and lefty Matt Crim are the other new faces rounding out the Pelicans' pitching staff.
Seven more position players return, including both catchers, Matt Kennelly and Jesus Sucre. Myrtle Beach will carry six infielders and four outfielders to start the season. Around the diamond are first baseman Gerardo Avila, second baseman Yoel Campusano, third baseman Shayne Moody, third baseman Amadeo Zazueta, and 2009 Pelicans shortstop Randy Gress and first baseman Geraldo Rodriguez.
In the outfield will be Cole Miles, Milligan, and Chris Shehan, all of whom saw time in Myrtle Beach last year, along with Jahdiel Santamaria. Outfielder Luis Sumoza will begin the year on the disabled list.
Manager Rocket Wheeler returns to for his fifth season as the winningest skipper in Pelicans history, a mark he set on September 5, 2009. This season, new pitching coach Kent Willis joins fourth-year hitting coach Rick Albert and 2009 Carolina League Athletic Trainer of the Year Chas Miller on the club's field staff. Matt Kepley is the strength and conditioning coach.
The Pelicans open the regular season Thursday with the first of a four-game home series against the Wilmington Blue Rocks at BB&T Coastal Field.
Single game tickets, season tickets, flex books, and mini-plans are available now, as are tickets to the 2010 California-Carolina League All-Star Game, through the Pelicans Box Office at (843) 918-6000 or (877) 918-TIXX or by visiting the Tickets page at the all-new MyrtleBeachPelicans.com


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Links with mafia organizations and the complicity of the financial system make the Asian country a perfect destination for Latin American money from drugs and other illicit activities.
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The Salvadoran Army increases response capabilities for border control, terrorism, human trafficking, and human rights.
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Brazilian cadets visited institutions linked to the U.S. Marine Corps in Washington, D.C.; Annapolis, and Quantico.
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U.S. Navy Admiral Kurt Tidd served as SOUTHCOM commander since January 2016.
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Military doctors from the United States and other nations improve the lives of thousands of Peruvians thanks to the Enduring Promise humanitarian mission.
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The Guatemalan Navy carries out combined operations with regional countries to block narcotrafficking.
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Colombia is one of the United States' closest allies in Latin America.
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An analysis on the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
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The Argentina-Chile Southern Cross Joint and Combined Peace Force exercise reinforced participants' concept and planning processes.
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Turbo is the first of two scheduled stops in the South American country.
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The 14 detainees smuggled drugs to Central America and the Caribbean using speedboats.
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Colombian officers visited Guatemala as part of their international educational tour.
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The humanitarian operation benefited the indigenous Wayuu community that experienced water shortages in the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
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The change in the organization is the first step in restructuring the Argentine Armed Forces.
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The M-41C vehicles that the Brazilian Army used through 2009 will be part of the Uruguayan Army's 13th Armored Infantry Battalion.
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Reducing on-site data storage, archiving to cloud and recovery are few aspects of a cloud backup. For an IT team, backup is a critical task and cloud helps simplify on-site backup process and cuts resource time.
Why use a cloud backup?
Traditional backup methods using tapes, or disks has few setbacks. Lesser security, longevity, and additional costs for increase in storage, and for managing.
Whereas, a cloud backup solution does not require additional hardware, it is flexible, and storage is reliable. You can implement in two ways, a hybrid cloud backup and a direct cloud backup.
Problem scenarios with small businesses
Backup planning and poor implementation are two major issues with small businesses. In a research by Gartner, they say about 35% of businesses have a backup plan, and 70% are not confident.
Other than the above two issues, onsite server management, PC based backup solution running on all staff computers, an office manager taking daily backup only on hard drives are a few other problem areas. Also, lacking a document management system adds to it, as there is no proper way to organize and control duplicates which makes data storage and access inefficient.
Our client Alliance mechanical, a specialty contractor was desperate to solve their ongoing data storage issues and managing their servers. There were two options, either to continue managing servers and fix the storage part or offload their server management to cloud so they don't have to deal with on-premise servers. Application hosting on cloud was making sense for them, so their choice was to move away from on-premise server management.
Microsoft Azure is a great fit for any size of organizations and allows to set up either direct or a hybrid cloud backup. We at AEC Cloud have been supporting our customers on Azure for both application hosting and backup services.
What does Azure Cloud backup offers?
The ability to meet the requirement in size or volume allowing business to continue function is the value of cloud. Conversely, as data grows the need for increase in storage, and relative costs are unstoppable.
The main element in the cloud backup process is confidentiality as internet is the medium for data transfer.
Data goes through an encryption process when you upload or download. It converts as a code during upload and decodes while downloading. This encryption involves a key to code or decode. And encryption takes place over the network using protocols including Secured Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) . In addition, access controls helps to avoid over writing existing backups.
IDC research states that the average cost of downtime is about $20,000 or more for 80% of businesses. And about 20% claims their cost per hour of data loss is at $100,000.
A cloud based-backup is also a solution to business continuity and disaster recovery due its ability to restore or recover.
Cloud backup solution in Microsoft Azure provides Global redundant storage (GRS), and Local redundant storage (LRS). GRS creates three copies of data in three regions, and LRS generates three copies in a single location. Enabling these features, the recovery experience is better than any other tools.
The emerging trend in the Cloud is causing all types of solutions to be transparent. Pay as you go model allows you to only pay for the volume of data in offsite storage. An IT team can easily forecast costs and usage which may not be possible before. But the cost is incremental as the data grows. However, when comparing between buying hardware which is a capital expenditure, cloud storage cost becomes an operational expenditure.
Cloud backup, an entry point
Cloud-based solutions are transforming IT infrastructure management and using a Cloud backup can be an entry point for businesses to realize the value it offers.
The two options to test them are, setting up backup directly to cloud or setting up a hybrid cloud backup solution.
Azure stand out among the available cloud backup solutions, and it is a best choice for businesses. You don't need to install backup software on individual user computers or keep running a backup round the clock on your server. The backup agent on the server can handle the process depending on the backup routine.
However, with a backup plan including retention policies and recovery procedures, you may realize the value.
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Mother's Day Printable Quotes
Mother's Day is right around the corner!
I can let a lot of days slide in terms of not really celebrating them or putting a huge effort into them. Ironically anniversary, Valentine's Day, Arbor Day :) , fall into these categories!
The two days I expect to be celebrated and thought of are my birthday and Mother's day. These two days are about me and aaaallll of the things I do! I try to make many days meaningful for my family, they'd better try on these two days! :) I don't think it's too much to ask.
Here are some old, but still fabulous, posts about Mother's Day: Lessons I've Learned Via Motherhood. Are We Not All Mothers? Mothers Day Luncheon.
AND, I made a set of Mother's Day printables a long time ago. They are still available, and you can find them here at this post: Mother's Day Quotes and Printables
This is an example of an older printable. I refreshed it this week, and here it is again.
I have felt like it's time to refresh, to create some cute new Mother's Day printables. I have been working on them this week and I hope you like them, can use them, and choose to share them!
These are great to display in your home or to print off and give away. You could give them to a girlfriend, neighbor, or your own mother, along with chocolate of course!
We all like to be recognized and this is a small, but thoughtful way to give a lift to someone, to recognize them for their efforts of being a mother, woman of influence, or grandmother.
I love this thought. The follow up is this from Sheri Dew's talk Are We Not All Mothers...
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
As women we have the capacity and nature to mother, whether we bear children or not. Honor that!
I am a woman of faith, and I have faith that we are sustained and uplifted by the faith of others. I believe it is a power, that can be utilized by those that believe. I absolutely believe this. There are times, especially as my kids get older, more independent, making more choices on their own, and spending a lot of time away from my influence, that I rely on the power of prayer, to do what I can for them. I also am assured that my own mother does this for me, and I am sustained by her faith and prayers.
There are a lot of wonderful things to accomplish in life, so many ways to discover ourselves, develop our talents, give to those around us, and be powerful influences.
But, for me, the greatest work I will ever do, my crowning achievement will always be these 4 people that I raised and mothered, that I taught and loved, cried with and cheered for, disciplined and played with. These four people, that I continue to watch grow, am forever linked to, and will always love, and still have so much to learn from, will continue to bring me joy throughout my life.
I hope that as they go out into the world, having discovered who they are here in the home I created for them, that they are happy, well adjusted, independent, strong and centered individuals with caring hearts and committed spirits. Yep, that is probably the best thing I can give to the world and the thing I will be most proud of!
I hope that you enjoy Mother's Day, if you are a mother, and that you take time to recognize those around you that have mothered you in some way. Maybe take a minute to thank them and give back to them.
Each of these Mother's day printables can be downloaded here, without my watermark on them. Feel free to print one or all of them off! Go ahead and pin them, that is how you can repay me! :) Give a little something to the ladies around you, they will be so grateful!
None of us is perfect, but we are perfectly placed and totally capable, sometimes we just need that reminder!


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Campaign velocity – and the engagement of our base
The first mass mailing we ever did with Mail Chimp went out 4 hours ago and one result is that we have just under 1,000 messages sent to the Chilean government — coming in at the rate of about 240 per hour. This is considerably faster than what we were able to achieve in the past. But it was expected.
A few years ago I wrote about the 'velocity' of campaigns and noted that when I demonstrated this in Canada, it took us 40 hours to get from 1 message to 1,000 sent. Today it takes one-tenth that amount of time – only four hours.
But also interesting to note another number that is persistent over the last four hours. About 20% of those who open their email — even if only to glance at it — then go on to support the LabourStart campaign we're promoting. That's an extraordinarily high number. At the moment, we're talking about 970 people out of 4,550. Imagine if all 60,000 people were to open their email message — it would mean 12,000 messages sent to the Chilean government, our largest campaign by far.
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Visit Erice
Erice is a sizable town found in north-west Sicily near Trapani where it has been an important regional centre for at least 2000 years. Erice occupies a hilltop position about 750 meters above the sea. It has splendid views over the sea and surrounding countryside.
You can get a cable car (funivia) from the outskirts of Trapani up to Erice and enjoy the tremendous views along the way.
Explore Erice
A visit to Erice can start with the cyclopean walls that surround the town. These ancient walls date back to the Elymians, but were later rearranged by the Phoenicians, Romans and even by the Normans. The walls incorporate towers and three gates.
There are two castles in Erice. The Venus castle and the Pepolic castle. The Venus Castle was built during the Norman period on the site of an ancient pagan temple dedicated to Venus. Inside the castle even today you can see a well where, according to legend, Venus bathed in milk.
The castle was always considered important for the military control of the territory, a role it retained until the 16th century. In the early 1800s, with the reform of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies the castle became the property of the municipality.
The castle offers excellent views over the countryside and you can make the most of these at the cafe outside with its panoramic terrace.
Pepoli castle also has commanding views and is now a hotel.
Mother Church of Erice
Another important site in Erice is the gothic style Mother Church, of which construction probably began in 1312 for Frederick II of Aragon (1272-1337) using material from the ruins of the pagan temple of Venus.
At the heart of the church a museum displays the treasure of the church and contains 70 precious works of silverware, jewellery, alabaster, ivory, painting, sculpture, coral and gold and silk embroidery from the period between the 14th and 19th centuries.
Also in the church the first altar on the right has a 17th century painting of Saint Isidore by Orazio Ferraro da Giuliana (1622) and the statue in the third Chapel of the "Madonna Assunta" by Domenico Gagini (1420-1492) is also interesting.
Next to the church is the bell tower, also known as the Tower of King Frederick, 28 meters high and built at the end of the 13th century on the ruins of a previous watchtower.
Erice has many churches and many are worth a visit. It is possible to get a combined ticket for the entrance to all the churches as they are not free to enter. The three main ones are perhaps the church of San Martino, the church of San Giuliano and the church of Saint John the Baptist.
The current Church of San Martino, built for Count Roger, dates back to 1339 but the original church here was probably built by the Normans in the 12th century. This small gothic style church was then demolished and rebuilt in the second half of the 17th century and the subject of further interventions during the 18th century and to the present.
The baroque church contains a bust of "San Martino" and carvings of "souls in Purgatory". The interior is predominantly white with elegant black lines.
On the highest point of the Mount, the Church of San Giuliano was built in 1076 by Count Ruggero to thank the Saint for his intervention during a siege by the Muslims.
The church has a renaissance portal, a bell tower (accessible from the sacristy, added in 1770) and a roof pagoda - the two parts form a pleasant ensemble with the dome of the Church.
Entering the church, on the right you can see the original baptismal font, placed on the octagonal stairs of Libyan marble and realised by Leonardo Crivaglia in 1718. There is also a fresco of the 'Saints Jesuits and heart of Jesus' and, in the chapel of St. Giuliano, a wooden statue by Pietro Orlando (17th century).
The Church of Saint John the Baptist is the widest in Erice. Although now mainly used for cultural events, it still contains some of the most valuable works of sacred art to be found in Erice. At the bottom of the apse there is a statue of Saint John the Baptist, dated 1539 and by Antonio Gagini from a family of sculptors who introduced the Renaissance style to Sicily.
Arts and tradition in Erice
Artistic traditions are deep-rooted in Erice and include iron working, a craft which between the 16th and 17th centuries constituted one of the most influential guilds in the town, and of which the consul was usually the eldest of the Cetino family.
That is why in the town some ancient artefacts of wrought iron can still be seen in the palaces, churches and monuments such as the gate which closes the chapel of the Church of San Giovanni Battista, a work of rare technical perfection by maestro Carlo Cetino (19th century).
Woodworking, ceramics and carpet-making are also important traditions. The ancient carpets of Erice are characterized by intertwining of colourful cloth over a light background with the colours forming shapes, Arabesque lines and sinuous geometric designs.
Local cuisine
The traditional cuisine has always been passed through generations and communities in the area. Especially important historically were the large lunch rituals celebrated in honour of the goddess Ericina, involving not only the priestesses but also many pilgrims.
See also history of Erice.
Places to visit nearby
The pretty islands of Levanzo and Favignana can be visited by taking the ferry from nearby Trapani.
You can find more local travel ideas in the Sicily guide.


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A colleague pointed rather sniffily at an event which took place at a local school over the weekend.
"Well, I mean it's daft, isn't it? We never had that sort of thing in my day," she said, flouncing off.
The event in question was a prom fair held at Wolstanton High School aimed at giving hundreds of youngsters ideas for the big party to mark the end of their school days.
For those who don't know, the idea of the 'prom' originated in the U.S. and Canada.
Prom is short for promenade – sadly nothing at all to do with the front at Rhyl or Blackpool.
No, this kind of prom is a formal dance for high school students.
It is a chance to choose a 'Prom King' and 'Prom Queen' – awarded to the most popular students chosen in a school-wide vote.
Other accolades are also given out for sporting excellence and such like – often leading to the creation of a Prom Court of the school's great and good from a particular year group.
In the States the prom figures greatly in popular culture and is a major event for high school students.
It has only really taken off in the UK in the last 10 years where more and more schools are starting to embrace the concept.
However, many people – like my colleague – don't approve of the idea of allowing spotty herberts to dress up in black tie and young girls to don evening gowns.
They see it as a nonsensical extravagance – an excuse for the underage to consume alcohol, dress inappropriately, ride around in limousines and and make ill-advised lunges at their classmates.
In other words … they are jealous that such parties didn't happen when they were at school.
Of course, the idea of a big bash to celebrate the end of your school life is nothing new.
In fact, my very first experience of a nightclub was when the class of 1988 from Holden Lane High held its leavers' party at the infamous Chicos in Hanley.
I can still vividly remember dancing (I use the term loosely) to Erasure and making eyes across the dancefloor at a dark-haired girl who was way out of my league as I sat nursing a glass of Coke.
I may not have been cool but I don't think the leavers' party did me any permanent damage.
Although, I have to say, I'm pleased there was no voting for the most popular pupils in my day because, unless there had been an award for Squarest History Student, yours truly wouldn't have troubled the scorers.
Nonetheless, I firmly believe that the end of your school days is a milestone worth celebrating.
For many, it marks an end to the comfort blanket of full-time education before the great party-pooper that is work kicks in.
For everyone it is the end of friendships and acquaintances that began way back in primary school, perhaps at the age of just five years old.
You don't realise it at the time but very often you never see some of your school friends again and so creating a shared memory at a prom is perhaps no bad thing.
There is a tendency in this country to assume guilt when it comes to our young people.
We seize on mistakes, blame bad parenting and a lack of discipline and forget that, yes, we too were young once.
Maybe I'm being naive but I like to think that the more we treat our youngsters like adults the more they are inclined to act responsibly.
The fact is that most teenagers will be dressing beyond their years, dabbling with booze and exploring relationships with the opposite sex anyway.
At least a prom focuses their energy on an event where they can perhaps appreciate the changes that are coming upon them and really understand and value friendships forged over time.
Let's face it, being a grown-up is grim enough, so we should let our school-leavers live a little before inflicting real life on them.
Later this month the class of '88 from Holden Lane will hold another reunion and I dare say every one of us would give our right arm to be 16 again and for a shot at a prom crown.
Don't be a party-pooper over prom nights
A colleague pointed rather sniffily at an event which took place at a local school over the weekend.


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(CNN) — After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.
On Tuesday, Amazon announced it has chosen New York's Long Island City and Virginia's Arlington for HQ2. Both locations will receive a $2.5 billion investment from Amazon, and each will have more than 25,000 workers over time. Hiring begins next year.
The development projects promise to bring the cities a giant infusion of high-paying jobs and tax revenue, but are almost certain to draw fire from critics concerned about their impact on infrastructure and property values.
Amazon said it in a blog post it will receive incentives of about $1.5 billion based on job creation in Long Island City, and incentives of $573 million for Arlington. Jobs in both cities will have an average annual salary of $150,000, it added.
The company also announced a new hub in Nashville to oversee customer fulfillment, transportation and supply chain activities. It will employ 5,000 people. Nashville was on Amazon's short list for HQ2.
The second headquarters search began in September 2017 when Seattle-based Amazon announced it would start accepting proposals for what quickly became known as HQ2.
During the process, Amazon narrowed 238 bids to 20 finalists, including Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, and Miami. Executives traveled across the United States — and to one Canadian city — to tour sites to find the company's next home.
Amazon's criteria for HQ2 included proximity to a major airport, ability to attract technical talent and a suburban or urban area with over 1 million people.
In a surprise twist, Amazon ultimately decided to choose two winners instead of one. It originally said HQ2 would create 50,000 high-paying jobs and would be a full equal to its Seattle headquarters.
One of the main concerns about the process was how a city would navigate an influx of 50,000 new workers. Splitting the project in half could ease the impact, and help Amazon avoid some of the blame for higher housing prices or more traffic in those regions. The move also allows Amazon to recruit top talent from two major Metropolitan areas.
The search ignited a frenzy among cities looking to boost their economies. Some cities responded with elaborate gestures to try to woo Amazon. Tucson, Arizona, famously sent Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a giant cactus, and Birmingham, Alabama, installed massive Amazon delivery boxes around the city. Kansas City's mayor gave five-star reviews to 1,000 random items on Amazon's website, and Stonecrest, Georgia offered to rename some of its land the city of Amazon.
Amazon has said employees who work in Seattle will have a chance to relocate. It will also hire teams and executives for the new locations.
The company estimates that its investments in Seattle from 2010 to 2016 added $38 billion to the city's economy. These investments include buildings, parks and infrastructure, such as corporate offices and Prime Now delivery sites.
But Amazon's search for HQ2 was never just about finding a new home.
Throughout the process, Amazon skillfully obtained free data from cities across North America, including proprietary information about real estate sites under development, details about their talent pool, local labor cost and what incentives cities and states were willing to pony up to bring the company to town.
"Amazon was not going through this exercise to pick a single HQ2," said Richard Florida, a leading urbanist and professor at the University of Toronto. "It was part of a broader effort — a corporate relocation strategy — to crowd source a wide variety of data."
And the company itself has said it would use the information from the bids when considering where to open new facilities, such as warehouses and smaller corporate offices. Several cities that didn't make the final 20 have already seen an investment from Amazon, including fulfillment centers in Spokane, Washington, and Ottawa, as well as a new office in Vancouver with jobs in fields like machine learning and cloud computing.


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When it came time to put the finishing touches on Burlington's largest municipal de-paving project, we took a strong ecological approach when selecting plant material to reclaim this former industrial landscape. Taking cues from the surrounding natural landscape, many native plants were chosen, including food-rich serviceberry and birch trees, and stands of dogwood and winterberry shrubs. Native plants provide seeds, berries, and nectar for pollinators like birds, moths, and butterflies while offering shelter and nesting sites throughout the year for birds.
Climate change predictions project increased flooding and water-erosion in Burlington. The de-paving of the Urban Reserve intercepts stormwater runoff, protecting the lake from nutrient and sediment loading and reducing erosion.
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Fall Candle Light Hike
This year's Candle Light Hike will be Sat Oct 6 from 7pm-9pm. Meet at Cox Hollw Beach. Enjoy an autumn evening hike on the Lakeview Trail (1.25 miles) lined with luminaries. Bring family and friends and enjoy the evening outdoors including a campfire and s'mores at Governor Dodge State Park. This is a free event, however a park admission sticker is required. For more information contact the Park at 608-935-2315. Sponsored by the Friends of Governor Dodge State Park and the Kiwanis Concession.


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South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa's president says.
Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa's transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27 years in prison.
He had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital.
In a statement on South African national TV, Mr Zuma said Mr Mandela had "departed" and was at peace.
"Our nation has lost its greatest son," Mr Zuma said.
He said Mr Mandela would receive a full state funeral, and flags would be flown at half-mast.
BBC correspondents say Mr Mandela's body will be moved to a mortuary in Pretoria, and the funeral is likely to take place next Saturday.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was one of the world's most revered statesmen after preaching reconciliation despite being imprisoned for 27 years.
He had rarely been seen in public since officially retiring in 2004. He made his last public appearance in 2010, at the football World Cup in South Africa.
'Bid him farewell'
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves," Mr Zuma said.
"Fellow South Africans, Nelson Mandela brought us together and it is together that we will bid him farewell."
US President Barack Obama said Mr Mandela achieved more than could be expected of any man.
"We have lost one of the most influential, courageous, and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth. He no longer belongs to us – he belongs to the ages," Mr Obama said.
Mr Obama, the first black president of the United States, said he was one of the millions who drew inspiration from Mr Mandela's life.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to Mr Mandela, saying "a great light has gone out in the world".
Since he was released from hospital, the South African presidency repeatedly described Mr Mandela's condition as critical but stable.
Born in 1918, Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1943, as a law student.
He and other ANC leaders campaigned against apartheid. Initially he campaigned peacefully but in the 1960s the ANC began to advocate violence, and Mr Mandela was made the commander of its armed wing.
He was arrested for sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, serving most of his sentence on Robben Island.
It was forbidden to quote him or publish his photo, but he and other ANC leaders were able to smuggle out messages of guidance to the anti-apartheid movement.
He was released in 1990 as South Africa began to move away from strict racial segregation – a process completed by the first multi-racial elections in 1994.
Mr Mandela, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993 jointly with white President FW de Klerk, was elected South Africa's first black president. He served a single term, stepping down in 1999.
After leaving office, he became South Africa's highest-profile ambassador, campaigning against HIV/Aids and helping to secure his country's right to host the 2010 football World Cup.
He was also involved in peace negotiations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and other countries in Africa and elsewhere.
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You know I had so much great stuff planned for this year, but it has just been few months into the New Year and life's curveballs have been thrown to me. Sometimes I feel I am strong enough to pass this, other times I don't think I can make it out alive.
I try to keep calm and say positive words but then again, I am not seeing the words come alive when I really need them to. I am trying so darn hard to stay and be strong for not just myself but for everyone else. Maybe that's the problem! Honestly, I am tired of being so strong. I need someone stronger than I am to carry me and the weight of this situation away.
I know of one who carries the burden of man and He definitely can handle this one. The only problem is that He is silent. Sometimes I think He isn't hearing my voice when I pray, sometimes I think He isn't watching and seeing the tears that fall from my eyes when I desperately need Him to come through for me. Other times I doubt that He exists! Wait a second, I know He exists because I have heard Him speak to me but why is He not talking now?
I decided to take a walk at my local park, to talk and ask Him to come through for me in this situation, to give me a sign that He hears my cries and longing that I will not be put to shame. But I left the park more broken than I came because I heard no words.
Why are you so silent to me? Why are you so far away from me? Why have you forsaken me? I use to feel your presence in my own room but now I feel rejection in the same room. Sometimes I manage to get the words out and pray but in times like this, I just stare at my bible and computer lost for words and with heaviness in my heart.
Why are you so silent? I have been waiting on you to show up but you haven't. I have no other person to trust but you. You are my only hope and sometimes I feel time is running out. Would you please come to my aid? Without you, I am not in this world. I know you haven't given up on me but I am stretched too thin. Will you carry me please and let me know that this is not the end?
I planned my life and my dreams but everything seems to be going in reverse. Just let me know that You have still got my back. I am holding on to your promise that you'll never leave me nor forsake me. Help me for I am weak and you are strong! I am waiting for the wonders and miracles you have got in store for me this year, for I know they are far beyond what I have imagined.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has received the Best Actress award for her excellent performance in Mani Ratman directed Guru at the Fifth Annual Central European Bollywood Awards. This is the first award Aishwarya received for the movie Guru. The actress expressed her happiness for the award and termed it a 'double celebration' as Guru received five awards in different categories, being nominated in 14.
Nashik.cityupdates reported:
An elated Aishwarya Rai told a newspaper, "I am happy to be honored by Annual Central European Bollywood Awards. It's like double celebration for me as my film Guru too has won Five Awards in different categories."
It might have been a triple celebration for the Bollywood beauty if her hubby Abhishek Bachchan could bag the Best Actor award for his excellent acting in the male lead role of the movie. Farah Khan directed Om Shanti Om has been awarded as the Best Movie.
Aishwarya Rai could not bag any major award this year before this Best Actress award from Fifth Annual Central European Bollywood Awards. Kareena Kapoor has been the most highlighted actress in the award giving ceremonies of this year for her excellent performance in Imtiaz Ali directed Jab We Met. However, Kareena could not defeat Aishwarya here at the Fifth Annual Central European Bollywood Awards.


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WhatIWore: I really like how this outfit came together - a bit of a boyish base (ripped up jeans and a button up shirt) with a feminine touch in the heels and blush cross body bag. I love that these heels are actually comfortable enough not to worry how far we walk or where we go!
When: May 3, 2015
Shades: Karen Walker 'Super Duper'
Button Up: J. Crew (very similar)
Jeans: J.Crew (same cut without destruction)
Bag: Vera Bradley, gift
Heels: Rockport, gift
Where: Lunch at Scenic View


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PAMPA, Tex., Feb. 9 - No one prosecuted the war on drugs in the Texas Panhandle more zealously than Richard James Roach. As the blustery and hot-tempered Republican district attorney for five counties overrun with methamphetamines, he had eked out an election victory in 2000 vowing a crackdown and was soon gleefully reeling off the harsh sentences he had wrung from juries: 36 years, 38 years, 40 years, 60 years, 75 years -- even 99 years. "I think it's quite clear that the good citizens of this district are fed up with drugs," he said.
He had barely missed riding the issue to victory in an earlier race. "My campaign is centered around doing something with the dope dealers," he told a local newspaper in 1996, complaining that "it's kind of hard to fight drugs when you've got dirty law enforcement."
But of all the quarry brought down by drugs in the district's 4,600 square miles of achingly flat oil fields and cattle rangeland northeast of Amarillo, the biggest by far was the stunned figure clapped into handcuffs by F.B.I. agents in the Gray County courthouse here one morning last month: the $101,000-a-year prosecutor himself, Rick Roach.
Even as he was hounding drug offenders into jail, it turned out, Mr. Roach was sinking into his own hell of drug addiction, by his own account stealing methamphetamine and other drugs from police seizures to cope with depression and sexual impotence. Equally astonishing was that his taste for drugs was hardly a secret: it had come to light in two election campaigns.
In a chain of events that Mr. Roach said in an interview "makes absolutely no sense," he injected himself with methamphetamine in the presence of his office secretary, who was secretly working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration and who, he has since learned, was wired with a hidden recorder.
"I just sort of, you might say, went nuts; I made irrational and wrong decisions," he said in several hours of often rambling narrative, part confessional, part defensive, after a reporter knocked on his door with a question on almost everyone's lips in the Panhandle: what could explain his astonishing downfall?
"There's no excuse," he said. "I've gotten what I deserve."
He was ill, he said; drug addiction was an illness, "but there's no defense for taking an illegal substance to treat mental illness."
"Who in their right mind would inject themselves in front of an employee?" he said.
Asked if he was looking to be caught, he replied, "There's some truth to that."
Government officials said they had also been investigating him for pornography and weapons possession -- two guns were in his briefcase when he was arrested on Jan. 11, and 35 others were found in his home and office, along with stashes of drugs. Officials also were looking into his handling of millions of dollars in cash confiscated from drug traffickers along the Interstate 40 corridor that skirts the sparsely populated counties of Gray, Wheeler, Roberts, Hemphill and Lipscomb, where only 33,500 people live, fewer than 8 per square mile.
A Guilty Plea
Last Tuesday, in a deal with the United States attorney's office, Mr. Roach pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm while using illegal drugs, a charge that could send him to prison for up to 10 years and carry a fine of $250,000 when he is sentenced in coming months. Three other drug charges were dropped. He also resigned the office to which he had just been elected to a second four-year term.
Some said that given Mr. Roach's turbulent history -- hardly a secret from the voters, who seemed perversely forgiving -- they were less than shocked. "He's a damned outlaw, he's always been an outlaw; the rules were made for him," said John Mann, a Pampa lawyer and district attorney from 1993 through 2000 who feuded with Mr. Roach, his political archrival and eventual successor.
Now Mr. Roach, 55, is under house arrest, confined to his mother's and stepfather's home in Canyon, an electronic monitoring bracelet signaling the authorities if he strays more than 200 feet beyond the door.
"If I'm ever a prosecutor again, which will never happen," he said, "I would be much less Rambo-ish and more compassionate in the way I handle an offense, particularly for users."
Although some defense lawyers and drug defendants he prosecuted have voiced outrage, officials said it was unlikely that any of Mr. Roach's cases would be overturned merely on the basis of his conviction, without specific evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
A Rough Road
Mr. Roach's road to the district attorney's office was hardly smooth. He came from nearby Plainview, where his father, Lavern, was a rising star in the boxing world, voted rookie of the year in 1947. On Feb. 22, 1950, his 24th birthday, Lavern Roach was felled in the 10th round of a fight with Georgie Small at St. Nicholas Arena in Manhattan and died in the hospital the next day.
"He had been scheduled to fight Sugar Ray Robinson the next month," said Mr. Roach, fiddling with his father's prize gold ring. His mother remarried, and the family moved to Pampa, the Gray County seat, where Rick went to school and entered the Army, serving in Korea. At Texas Tech University in Lubbock, he studied accounting and earned a law degree.
But he was plagued for years by alcoholism and drug addiction, at times openly, his estranged wife, Cindy, said in a separate interview at the Yellow Rose, a restaurant they once frequented. She said that made it particularly astonishing that he would ever have sought, and been elected to, a top law-enforcement position.
While Mr. Roach was district attorney, his wife said she repeatedly found narcotics and drug paraphernalia in their barn and threw them away. Last year she found a tin of drug crystals in one of his coat pockets, she said.
"I was furious," she said. "He had promised me."
She said she dumped the crystals in the toilet and then confronted her husband. "He said he didn't know what I was talking about," she recounted.
But around the turn of the year, Mrs. Roach said, her husband had come to her distraught. "He thought he had almost overdosed," she recalled. "He had shot something in his arm. He was scared, crying. He never cried. He wanted to come home. He had thrown everything away. If he couldn't come home, he was going to die."
Janet Stone, a bartender at the Pampa Country Club, recalled that on Dec. 30, Mr. Roach was found lying on the floor in the card room, pale and shaking. He later insisted, she said, that someone had spiked his wine.
Mr. Roach disputed the account but said he had indeed come to a decision: "No more illegal substances." On Jan. 3, he showed up at work determined, he said, to apologize to the staff, and "say, 'Sorry, I've been out of it,' and turn over a new leaf."
But that was the day, the F.B.I. said, he injected himself with methamphetamine in front of an employee one more time.
Mr. Roach identified her as his secretary, Rebecca Bailey, and remembered having an uneasy feeling. "I told Becky I felt like something bad was about to happen; I know something's not right," he said.
"No," he said she had responded, "everything's fine."
Mr. Roach's first recorded brush with the law, according to a Lubbock police record, was in 1975, when he was arrested on charges of drunken driving and using abusive racial language. The charges were later dismissed. He was working in the town of Canadian when he and Cindy met, and they married in 1980. Their relationship was stormy from the outset, she said. "He drank a lot" and sometimes smoked marijuana, she said. She left him in 1987, filing for divorce, only to withdraw the papers because, she said, by then they had three boys, including twins.
Descent Into Drugs
In 1988, while they were living in Breckenridge, between Fort Worth and Abilene, he showed signs of drug use, Mrs. Roach said. Once, she said, he drove to Plainview and begged a relative to fly him to Lubbock "because he thought an ambulance was chasing him." He finally checked himself into a treatment center, she said.
Mr. Roach said he had suffered from depression since he was 13 and underwent treatments with a medicine chest of drugs, some self-prescribed and, recently, ordered over the Internet. "They were all debilitating on my libido, which created problems with my wife," he said. Viagra, he said, left him with a splitting headache. He said that in Breckenridge he had started injecting methamphetamine, finding eventually that, mixed with the sexual enhancer Levitra, it had the desired effect.
"I was going to patent it," he said with a hollow laugh. "I'm definitely a mixed-up person."
He said the pornographic images reported on his office computer had popped up unbidden, and that once he replied to be taken off the list to receive them, the solicitations multiplied. He said he had not stolen seized drug money or maintained an arsenal, describing the weapons as heirlooms and collectors' pieces.
Mr. Roach's first campaign for district attorney came in 1996. At the time he was the Roberts County attorney, prosecuting misdemeanor cases at $500 a month. His opponent, Mr. Mann, won the race by 500 votes and according to Mrs. Roach, the loss plunged her husband into depression.
It was a hard fought race, with a zesty local weekly, The Canadian Record, printing reports of Mr. Roach's drug abuse and legal problems.
Four years later Mr. Roach beat Mr. Mann by 6 votes in a Republican primary marred by charges of fraud, and then beat him again -- by 21 votes -- after a court ordered a new election. He went on to win the general election.
Mr. Mann said the voters were chiefly swayed by Mr. Roach's highly popular family, particularly his stepfather, Weldon Trice, a beloved high school football coach.
Mrs. Roach said their lives slid badly downhill in late 2003. She found glass smoking or snorting implements, foil packets with a burn hole, and white powder and a razor blade in their barn and spied on her husband sniffing something.
Mr. Roach said of his downfall, "It just presented itself."
He said that in July 2004 he had come across a glass pipe that Texas troopers had overlooked in searching a seized car. "A girl called it a crack pipe, so I assumed there was crack in it," he said. He took it home. "I happened to be having a bad day, so I smoked it in the barn," he said.
Soon after, he said, he found another stash of overlooked drugs. "I just remember how ecstatic I was when I found it," he recalled. He used that, too.
On Dec. 16, the F.B.I. said in affidavits for search warrants, one of Mr. Roach's employees found a syringe floating in the toilet of the office bathroom. Tests showed it contained residue of methamphetamine.
On. Dec. 20, Dec. 31 and Jan. 3, the F.B.I. said, he was seen by an unnamed witness injecting methamphetamine.
The only one who could have seen him, Mr. Roach said, was Ms. Bailey, who later went public as the named complainant in the lawsuit to remove him from office. Ms. Bailey, at her desk in the district attorney's office, did not dispute it, saying, "He trusted me." She declined to say more until the sentencing.
Mrs. Roach voiced no interest in a reconciliation but at one point sounded wistful. "He told me, 'There are some things you don't know about me,"' she recalled. "I wasn't patient. I should have shut up and listened."
At his parents' house, Mr. Roach stepped outside the house for a cigarette. He had been pronounced addiction-free at a Dallas treatment facility he was sent to after his arrest, he said, but still needed his nicotine. Smoking is banned in prison, he reflected bleakly. He should give it up, he said, but added that now "is not a good time to give up anything."
If he is sentenced to prison, he said, he does not know where he will end up, but that no place will be much good.
"Prosecutors don't do well in the pen," he said.


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