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Former Toms River School District Superintendent and Insurance Broker Charged with Additional Counts of Conspiracy and Tax Fraud
|U.S. Attorney's Office December 07, 2010
NEWARK, NJ—A federal grand jury has returned a superseding Indictment against Michael J. Ritacco, the former superintendent of the Toms River Regional School District, and the District's former insurance broker Francis X. Gartland, United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
The 27-count superseding Indictment, returned and filed today, adds nine counts to the previous Indictment: two counts charging separate conspiracies to defraud the IRS, and seven counts of making and subscribing to false federal personal income tax returns—for tax years 2004 to 2006 for Ritacco and 2004 to 2007 for Gartland. The initial indictment, returned October 19, 2010, contained 18 total counts of mail and wire fraud, travel and use of facilities in interstate commerce to promote bribery, and bribery in connection with a local government agency receiving federal funds.
According to the superseding Indictment:
Count 19 charges that Ritacco and Gartland conspired with others to defraud the IRS by hiding corrupt cash payments and other benefits that Gartland provided to Ritacco and others, at Ritacco's direction, from at least 2002 to April 2010. Ritacco and Gartland used third parties—including co-conspirators Frank D'Alonzo and Frank Cotroneo—and sham companies to secretly pass cash, money, and other benefits to Ritacco and others. Ritacco also instructed others to structure cash transactions at banks and financial institutions to avoid those entities filing reports regarding the transactions, and used a safe deposit box at a bank in Naples, Fla., to conceal cash proceeds. Ritacco also filed false federal personal income tax returns that did not report the cash, money and other benefits that he accepted from Gartland and others. Counts 21, 22, and 23 specifically charge Ritacco with filing false federal personal income tax returns and failing to report income of approximately $351,852 in 2004; $1,110,988 in 2005; and $126,631 in 2006.
Count 20 charges that Gartland conspired with Cotroneo and others to defraud the IRS by hiding payments that Gartland made to Cotroneo, and others at Cotroneo's direction, from at least 2005 to October 2008. Gartland funneled money for Cotroneo into a sham company, EAdministrative Systems, Inc., and then used that company to pay significant personal expenses for Cotroneo, including $571,000 to a landscape firm; $41,400 to a golf club in Colts Neck, N.J.; and over $200,000 to American Express. Gartland failed to report the payments on IRS forms for Cotroneo, and Cotroneo did not disclose them on his federal personal income tax returns.
Counts 24 to 27 charge Gartland with filing false federal personal income tax returns, and failing to report income of approximately $823,735 in 2004; $1,159,804 in 2005; $527,410 in 2006; and $608,073 in 2007.
The additional counts carry the following maximum potential penalties:
|Maximum Potential Penalty
|19 – conspiracy (Ritacco and Gartland)
|Five years in prison; $250,000 fine
|20 – conspiracy (Gartland)
|Five years in prison; $250,000 fine
|21 – false return (Ritacco)
Three years in prison; $250,000 fine
|22 – false return (Ritacco)
|Three years in prison; $250,000 fine
|23 – false return (Ritacco)
|Three years in prison; $250,000 fine
|24 – false return (Gartland)
|Three years in prison; $250,000 fine
|25 – false return (Gartland)
|Three years in prison; $250,000 fine
|26 – false return (Gartland)
|Three years in prison; $250,000 fine
|27 – false return (Gartland)
|Three years in prison; $250,000 fine
An arraignment will be held before Chief United States District Judge Garrett E. Brown Jr., in Trenton federal court on a date to be determined.
D'Alonzo and Cotroneo both pled guilty in federal court to related bribery and tax charges on October 18, 2010, and await sentencing.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of IRS - Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Victor W. Lessoff, and the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward, with the investigation leading to the superseding Indictment.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dustin Chao and Jenny R. Kramer of the U.S. Attorney's Office Special Prosecutions Division.
The charges and allegations contained in the superseding Indictment are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Defense Counsel:
- Ritacco: Jerome Ballarotto, Esq., Trenton, N.J.
- William J. Hughes, Esq. Atlantic City, N.J.
- Gartland: John D. Arseneault, Esq., Chatham, N.J.


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Hotel Nikko Saigon announces the official Opening on December 18, 2011
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Hotel Nikko Saigon announces the official Opening on December 18, 2011
Hotel Nikko Saigon is the newly-developed large-scale commercial complex Royal Centre Project, located in Ho Chi Minh City. Hotel Nikko Saigon construction has been started from 18/12/2009. Now the project has entered the stage of completion.
The hotel will have 23 floors above ground and 3 basement-level floors, with 334 guestrooms and 53 service apartments occupying a total of 58,473 square meters. The hotel's guest rooms provide a spacious 40 square meters, larger than most hotel guest rooms in the city, with high-quality amenities including LCD flat-screen TV and washlet toilet.
The dining options include an all-day dining restaurant named La Brasserie that serves excellent International cuisine includes Japanese cuisine, an authentic Chinese restaurant named Ming Court and The Lounge at the lobby. Guests staying on the Nikko Club Floor, the 21st and 23nd floors of the hotel, will receive additional privileges such as complimentary access to the Nikko Club Lounge, where breakfast, afternoon tea and snacks will be offered.
Banquet and meeting facilities include a variety of options, ranging from the Grand Ballroom that holds 450 guests in a buffet-style banquet (600 guests for cocktail reception) to a small meeting room and six function rooms, which are perfect for a large conference with multiple programs and meetings being held simultaneously. In addition, as an adjunct to the business center, the hotel offers 14 temporary offices, which are ideal as a first base of operations for people who are preparing to open businesses in Vietnam. Other hotel facilities include a spacious fitness center with the latest exercise machines, an outdoor pool and a spa – one of the largest in the city.
Hotel Nikko Saigon's premier, convenient location is perfect for both business and leisure. It is a 7-minue drive to the city center and 5-minute drive to Cho Lon, the Chinatown of Ho Chi Minh. The hotel is surrounded by large shopping malls and outlets in a lively section of the city.
Ho Chi Minh City is the largest center of commerce in Vietnam and one of the largest cities in South East Asia. A large number of corporations, including many multinationals, operate businesses here in industries such as high-tech, electronics, machinery, light industry, construction, materials and agricultural products. The city was formerly called Saigon, and the old name is still remained in the names of many hotels and other types of facilities. With its rich history, culture and exquisite cuisine, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam's main gate, attracts visitors from all over the world.
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May 24, 2016
Starting in January, more than 350 students and teachers from Bond Elementary will be packing their classrooms and moving to portables at Wesson Elementary, an early start to a merger that was supposed to begin with the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year.
Iris Wilson, Leon County Assistant Superintendent, says, "We are moving the entire school intact. It gives the assurance that the students will be with the same teacher, they'll be together, and that way it will ease some of the transition for the students."
The reason for the early start on construction is builders want to preserve some parts of the old school and incorporate them into the new building, but the move to Wesson has some parents concerned.
One of the main issues is whether after school programs will be affected.
"We will have buses to pick the students up at the end of the day and drop them off at the stops where they were, so that program will not be discontinued nor affected at all," says Wilson.
The Leon County superintendent's office says the early move is necessary and is in the best interest of everyone involved.
Wilson adds, "The end result is what we're looking at; a beautiful state-of-the-art school, and yes, this is an inconvenience for now, but we know when this school is built and children are in there receiving quality education, a school in the community that we all will be proud of, this will be a minor piece."
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Caleb's different spirit
Faith & Inspiration
Caleb was one of 12 men sent by Moses to scout out Canaan and bring back intelligence to prepare Israel for conquest (Numbers 13). Twelve spies all observed the same data: fertile soil, fortified cities, and giants descendent from Anak. At the debriefing Caleb said cheerfully, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it." But the other men (except Joshua) gave the people "a bad report":
"The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim . . . and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them" (13:32-33).
How little have we understood the deadly poison of "a bad report" on the hearers? I do it all the time. I nearly gave one today. Someone told me his relationship with the mother of his son was unsalvageable and that the idea of their reconciling and marrying was out of the question. He listed several reasons why he should give up and move on, and they were such formidable reasons that I almost agreed with him. (God could never fix that! Too far gone!)
No Christian who insists that he is unable to do a difficult thing thinks he has a spirit of unbelief. He thinks, rather, that he is a realist. He considers someone with Caleb's attitude to be nutty at best and theologically dangerous at worst.
God later weighed in on the spies' reports and decreed that the 10 realists would never enter the land of Canaan. But as for the obnoxious faith fanatic, God said, "My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went. . . ." (14:24).
There are two kinds of Christians in the world: the kind of Christian who goes around expecting too little from God and the kind who goes around expecting too much from God. There is nothing in the middle.
We have made things complicated but they are simple: Put your faith in God, in spite of all outward appearances. And do not go around giving "a bad report" and dousing other people's faith by always pointing out the negative side of things, the obstacles and probabilities and statistics. Caleb saw opportunities for God to be glorious, where others saw only difficulties. His spirit was, of course, the Holy Spirit.
It used to be very important for me to know who was right about the continuance of miracles and of healing and of shooting up prayers for parking spots. But the case of Caleb slices through all that armchair theology. God favors men who have outsized expectations of his power. That's enough for my brain to ponder.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Details:
The School of Physics, University of Melbourne is offering full time Postdoctoral Fellowship for Australian and international applicants. This fellowship is available for a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to take a major role in the analysis of the Epoch of Reionisation dataset from the Murchison Widefield Array. Duration of fellowship is of three years which covers salary. Applicant must have a doctoral degree in Astrophysics or a related area. Application deadline is 1 November 2013. University of MelbourneThis position, based at the School of Physics, at the University of Melbourne, will provide the opportunity for a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to take a major role in the analysis of the Epoch of Reionisation data set from the Murchison Widefield Array. The candidate will join a team working on the pipeline and data analysis at the University of Melbourne, and would work closely with other CAASTRO investigators and the MWA EoR collaboration team both in Australia and internationally.
Postdoctoral Fellowship for:
International students, Australian citizens or permanent residents are eligible for this postdoctoral fellowship.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Offering Institute:
School of Physics, the University of Melbourne
Amount of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Salary: $61,138 – $82,963 p.a. (PhD entry level $77,290 p.a.) plus 9.25% superannuation.
This fellowship is available for pursuing postdoctoral level at University of Melbourne in Australia. The fellowship is awarded in the Epoch of Reionisation data-set from the Murchison Widefield Array.
Applicant's Eligibility for Postdoctoral Fellowship:
-CAASTRO supports a flexible working environment; for Australian citizens or permanent residents, this opportunity is available as either a full-time or part-time position.
-Due to visa restrictions, international applicants can be considered only on a full-time basis.
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Uncontested candidates prepare for next terms
A number of uncontested state House races were held throughout the region in Tuesday's general election.
In the 113th Legislative District, Democrat Marty Flynn collected 19,262 votes at press time, according to unofficial open returns. The district consists of parts of Scranton, South Abington Twp. and the boroughs of Clarks Green, Moosic, Taylor and Throop.
In the spring primary election, Mr. Flynn narrowly defeated incumbent Kevin Murphy, who was first elected to office in 2008.
In the 114th Legislative District, incumbent Democrat Sid Michaels Kavulich, who earned the Democratic and Republican nominations in the spring primary, earned 23,329 votes. The 114th covers parts of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties.
In the 117th Legislative District, Republican incumbent Karen Boback tallied 23,819 votes. In the spring primary, she mounted a successful write-in campaign to beat Mark "Duke" Barrett in the Democratic primary. The 117th includes the Back Mountain, Mountaintop and Shickshinny - areas of Luzerne County, Benton and Berwick areas in Columbia County and southeastern Wyoming County, including Tunkhannock.
In the 139th Legislative District, which covers parts of Wayne County, including the borough of Honesdale, as well as parts of Monroe and Pike counties, Republican incumbent Michael Peifer tallied 11,245 votes. He also ran unopposed in the spring.
In the 110th Legislative District, which encompasses parts of Susquehanna and Bradford counties, along with all of Sullivan County, Republican Tina Pickett collected 15,289 votes. She ran uncontested in the spring.
The winners will serve two-year terms in Harrisburg. The base salary for House members is $82,026.
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The Gospel Messenger -- January 1887
And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.--Gal., vi, 9.
Some reflections are in my mind concerning the above words, that have seemed pleasant and profitable to me, and I feel a desire to pen them down for the readers of the MESSENGER. We are all desirous of seeing some fruits of our labor, whatever the work may be in which we are engaged. And if no fruit appears we are apt to become discouraged. It is so with those who labor in the vineyard of the Lord. Whatever place we may fill whatever service we may be rendering--we all like to see some result. If no result appears we soon begin to question and feel anxious, and to doubt our usefulness, and the utility of what we are doing. This is true of every servant of the Lord, but I think it is specially true of those who are called to give their whole life to the work of the ministry; to reprove and exhort and rebuke, and to feed the flock of God. We want to see fruit. And we have a right to expect fruit. But we may expect it too soon, or in ways that would not glorify God, or be good for us, arid so we are disappointed. Then comes seasons of depression, when we are ready to faint and give up alt, and conclude that our ministry is of no use; that we have mistaken our field of labor; or that we were never called to this work. Now, to us all, ministers and members, the language of the verse quoted at the head of this letter, comes as a word of kindly promise of warning and admonition, all in one. It says: " Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due time we shall reap if we faint not." What a striking figure the apostle uses in the word "reap" in the text! Suppose one who knew nothing of the process of the germination and growth of plants from the seed, should be told that a certain seed would produce, if cast into the ground, bread for the use of man. He casts the seed into the ground, but days pass and he reaps no fruit. He becomes discouraged and faint in his mind. He ceases to expect fruit; he ceases to watch for it; and when the fruit appears, it does not gladden his heart and he does not reap it, because he has quit expecting fruit, and does not know there is any. This is the thought of the text. On the other hand, here is one who has long patience; he expects fruit; he ceases not to watch for it, though it be long delayed; he is not weary in well doing; he does not become faint, he sows the seed and trusts the Lord to give the harvest when the proper season shall come. He reaps the fruit, for he has continued to sow; he is in the field where the fruit ripens and when it ripens. The words are encouraging and true, and have been fulfilled again and again. How many times has our doubting and our unbelief been rebuked when we were beginning to be weary in well doing, and were getting ready, as it were, to fall out of the ranks. How often, at such times, our God has shown us a little fruit of our labor, and we have been strengthened and helped to still hold on our way. This, I think, is the general meaning of the text. And it is thus seen to be in full harmony with such expressions as these: "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand," etc., and "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and after many days thou shall find it again."
I feel like standing as a witness to the truth of these promises, and I had it in mind to narrate an incident in my own life, in order to show how our Father above fulfills his own words and does not let them return to him void. And when he gives us to see his promises fulfilled, how it rejoices our hearts! How good it is to think that all his word is fulfilled; both that which he gives us to see, and that which we cannot trace. By now and then showing us a promise fulfilled, he would lead us to believe that all are or shall be fulfilled. If he permits us to reap once where we have sown the seed, he means us to understand the harvest shall never fail, whether our eyes behold it or not. Thus was my mind led to believe by the instance, which I will now narrate.
I had been in the habit of visiting, once or twice a year, and preaching in Frederick county, Md., at a place about twenty-five miles from my home, where a few Old School Baptist friends live. I had gone from time to time, hoping that there were some who loved the truth, and who took pleasure in hearing it. I also hoped that I might, at some future time, see some good results from these visits. One year ago, in November, I visited and preached two evenings in this place. But everything seemed discouraging to me. Even those, for whom I had a good hope, seemed very cold and farther away than I ever knew them to be. I could not feel that the spirit of the Lord was with us. I came home with the question in my mind, of what use have all my visits there been? I felt as though they had been of no use. I was heartsick and discouraged. I thought that I had been sowing in vain. The Lord had not given me one soul for my hire; I had better cease going there. I was greatly troubled. But now for the result: About this time I received a letter from a lady in that county whose name was not familiar to me; so unfamiliar was it that it required considerable thought before I could locate the writer in my mind. She said that she had fallen into deep trouble of mind a few days Before; that she felt herself to be such a sinner, and knew not where to turn nor what to do. She said that while she had always respected religion, and had been accustomed to saying her prayers, she had never known her sins until a few days previous. Those around her (she was at the time teaching, and was boarding in the family of a Methodist minister) did not understand her, though they seemed anxious to do her good. "And now," she said, "I heard you preach some years ago, and my mind is led to you. Can you tell me anything to comfort me? Is there any hope that God will forgive such a sinner as I?" To this letter, so full of bitterness and sorrow, I could only reply by presenting Jesus as the Saviour of the very chief of sinners. In a few days another letter came, thanking me for my kindness, but still expressing the utmost despair. While I knew that it was not in me to give her peace where the Lord had given her trouble, yet I felt to reply at once and tell her a portion of my own experience. About three days later I received a reply asking me to join her in praising God for his great work in her behalf. The God of Salvation had appeared to her gloriously one night upon her bed, and she knew him for her Saviour. I did rejoice over her with great gladness of heart. After this she began in her letters to inquire about doctrine, and what Primitive Baptists believed, honestly telling me when things were clear to her mind, and when they did not so appear. My confidence in and fellowship for her grew continually. At last I wrote to her that it was so, and asked her to come and visit me, and go with me to Black Rock and get acquainted with the brethren there. She came on the first of February under circumstances of peculiar trial. Her faith and love were tested more than is usual. She herself is very frail and weak--hardly ever seeing a well day; the snow lay drifted all over the country, in places from six to ten feet in depth. She had five miles to go to reach the cars and forty miles on them to my place, and then eight miles to drive with me to Black Rock, with the snow so deep that we were three hours going eight miles. She was a total stranger to the whole church, and had seen me but twice, and could hardly call herself acquainted with me. Yet she came, spite of all these discouragements; and in the midst of the cold, and ice, and snow, went down into the watery grave and arose to newness of life. After she returned to her home she wrote: "I have made the journey that seemed so hard; I have done what I felt was my duty to do; I have returned to my home, and not a hair of my head is hurt." "I will glory in the Lord who has strengthened me." Again she wrote: "How I love that people that received me so kindly and loved me so freely." I have not tried to tell of the precious conversations, of the contents of her many letters, because time and space would fail. She is still rejoicing in the Lord and praising his name.
And did not I feel rebuked at the Lord's goodness to me for all my unbelief and fainting by the way? Here was fruit where I had said, "there is no fruit." I felt to say let me not be weary in well doing again, for the reaping time will come, if not to me personally, then to some one else. I felt humbled and yet exalted. I saw more clearly than ever that I was nothing, but Jesus was all and is all. I was abased in myself, but I was exalted in Jesus.
I have told this instance of the Lord's power and goodness, hoping to encourage some dear brother who is disheartened and weary. It is true "we shall reap in due season." Oh, for more of a spirit of humble reliance upon God, so that we may toil with the patience of the ox and the boldness of a lion!
I remain, as ever, your brother in hope of life eternal.
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Digital Download: Supreme Ruler 2020
At the core of the expansion pack a whole new sandbox style campaign paints a new and far more intricate portrayal of the world of 2020 based on many of the ominous events from recent real-world headlines. The possibilities to change the underlying storyline for new play experiences are limitless.
- 20 new SP scenarios which more than doubles the number of scenarios that originally shipped with the game
- Additional new multiplayer scenarios
- New campaign/sandbox map along a new storyline leading players towards World War III
- New scenario features including scripted and random events
- Improved unit control and grouping
- Expanded tech tree
- New units and unit meshes
- Additional game lobby options
- Graphic improvements
- AI enhancements
- More tutorials and in-game tips
- User interface improvements
Economic instability, the battle for natural resources, military alliances and international relations creates a world filled with tension where the next Cold War could turn hot at any time.
There's always something going on in the world that, thanks to human nature, can easily escalate into a conflict. We are not talking about the situation today. We are talking about a very close future depicted in the new expansion for the Geo-Political, Military Strategy game Supreme Ruler 2020 – Global crisis.


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50g grated raw potato (liquid squeezed out),
Pinch of salt
1 egg white, lightly beaten
60g grated onion
1 tablespoon of oil
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
Half teaspoon of salt
Black pepper
Half teaspoon of mixed herbs
1 small cauliflower, cut into small florets
125g mushrooms, sliced
2 large handfuls of baby leaf spinach
2 eggs
4 tablespoon skimmed milk
250g grated Cathedral City Lighter
Pinch of paprika
A little oil
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Pre-heat oven to 200°C. Combine grated potato and onion, salt, and egg white in a small bowl and mix well. Transfer to the pie dish and pat into place, building up the sides. Bake for 30 minutes, then brush the crust with a little oil and bake for 10 minutes more. Remove from oven, and turn the temperature down to 180°C.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large pan. Add onion, garlic, salt, pepper and herbs, and cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Add the cauliflower and mushrooms and stir-fry for about 5 minutes or until all liquid has evaporated. Add the spinach and stir-fry quickly until it has just gone limp.
Sprinkle half of the Cathedral City onto the baked crust. Spoon the vegetables over and then add the remaining cheese on top. Beat the eggs and milk together, and pour this over the top. Dust lightly with paprika.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 9:09 AM HST
Program gears up to test space vehicles
By Associated Press
HILO, Hawaii (AP) A program to test space vehicles on the Big Island is gearing up.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser says the state is putting a new investment of $2.34 million into the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) to help the program prepare for missions to Mars or the moon.
Rob Kelso is the center's new director. He says the long-term goal is to establish the center as a high-tech park in Hawaii for research into technologies related to space travel and colonization.
Kelso says in the near-term, researchers will look into a number of areas, including a project to develop a concrete-like building material that can be used in space and back on Earth.


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True Design Freedom Still Missing in the Mobile Web
At the heart of the incredible success of the World Wide Web lies its openness—not just that the standards on which it is based are free and open, but that it is permission-less. You need no one's say so to set up a website, no one has to approve your design and no one gets to decide how you build your site or what it can do.
Contrast that to the experience of designing an application for mobile platforms. Guidelines, approval processes and vetting are the norm for many developers.
But it wasn't intended to be like that. The mobile Web was originally supposed to be just as free.
When the first iPhone launched in 2007 there were only a handful of native apps that came with it. Everything else was supposed to be accessible via the Web—so called Web apps.
"Our innovative approach, using Web 2.0-based standards, lets developers create amazing new applications," wrote Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the time. Web apps promised to deliver the digital nirvana of "write once, run anywhere," meaning you don't need a different website for a PC and a Mac.
In contrast, so-called native apps run only on the device for which they were written. Apps for Apple's iOS won't run on Google Inc.'s Android operating system, nor vice versa.
That Web standard is HTML5 , which stands for Hypertext markup language. But it has recently suffered some knocks that make some doubt if the technology is suitable for the demands being put on mobile applications today.
Professional social network LinkedIn recently canned its HTML5-based mobile application. "Native apps provide us primary benefits," said Kiran Prasad, LinkedIn's senior director of engineering, mobile. "First, excellent, fully supported tools and a strong ecosystem around Android/iOS allows us to find and fix issues faster—keeping our members working.
"Second, native apps allow us to more tightly integrate with the devices capabilities quickly."
Last week, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg laid the blame for Facebook's tardy response to the growth of mobile at the feet of HTML5. "We made a big bet on HTML5," she said on a visit to London. "It basically didn't work. We had to start over."
If the world's biggest social network can't make HTML5 work, is this the death knell for the technology?
Yes, says Safa Sofuoğlu, chief technology officer of Istanbul-based Peak Games. "HTML5 is doomed to fail on mobile because it will always fall behind native apps in utilizing device capabilities and squeezing the limited processing power mobile devices offer."
Nor is Berlin's Rocket Internet, one of Europe's most successful Web companies, very impressed. "We do not use HTML5 for apps, but rather build them in the native languages of the platforms," said Global Chief Technology Officer Christian Hardenberg. "We use HTML5 to build our mobile websites, but we only use a very small part of HTML5 specific features."
But many others are optimistic about the future, suggesting the current drawbacks with HTML5 aren't a problem with the standard itself, merely how it is currently implemented.
"Some of the issues cited have to do with performance for really heavy processor applications like games," said Ian Jacobs, head of communications for W3C, the international body that develops Web standards. "But even today putting out an app for reading the news you can probably do even better in HTML5 [than a native app] and have live updates and you would not notice the difference."
He was confident that performance issues would be addressed by future developments.
Furthermore, said Mr. Jacobs, to concentrate only on mobile devices is to miss the bigger picture.
"EBooks, tablets, digital signage, mobile devices, interactive TV, watches; the only platform that lets you reach them all is the Web…HTML5 is the only option if you are designing for more than one platform."
One who has built his entire future around the adoption of HTML5 is Paris-based Jolicloud CEO Tariq Krim.
"We were probably the first company in Europe to build a company around HTML5," he said. His company unites your music and photos, wherever they are stored, through a single HTML5 interface. Mr. Krim is scathing in his assessment of the state of mobile development today.
"Whatever you do [in mobile] you can only do it on the periphery. You cannot be at the core of the user experience. You have to go through the interfaces designed by Android or iOS. you can't do it yourself," continued Mr. Krim.
"The alternative would be to develop an entire HTML5 alternative, but at the moment you can't do this."
In fact, you can. Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, launched a cellphone at this year's Mobile World Congress that is entirely HTML5 based. In an earlier interview, Matthew Key, head of digital for Spanish telco Telefónica, said the company was backing the development as a way of helping break up the Apple/Google mobile duopoly. "For us to have a third OS is an important de-risker from a strategic perspective," he said.
But for Mr. Krim the attraction for HTML5 is all about freedom, the freedom that he saw in the Web.
"You can build a great native app, give your users a great experience, but you have to stay within the rules. If you want to go outside of the rules, and that is where the real creativity is, you have to go with HTML5.
"More and more it will be the only way to be free."
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The Proggosphere is segregated [Karl]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
With its power-to-the-individual approach, the new media world promises anyone with a laptop the possibility of a publishing empire. But, as some black bloggers are finding out, the new media world is a lot like the old one: racially segregated, with many prominent black voices still fighting to be heard.
Some bloggers felt insulted this month when the Democratic National Committee selected 55 state-oriented blogs to cover its convention in Denver; critics said few featured African American voices. The DNC said race wasn't considered in its selection from 400 applicants. Officials were more interested in the sites' audience size and how much chatter about local issues appeared on them. The DNC answered critics Thursday by adding several sites led by African Americans to its general blogger pool.
One of those added was Gina McCauley:
Essence magazine named McCauley one of its 25 most influential people last year alongside Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and filmmaker Tyler Perry. "Black bloggers link to other black bloggers, and progressive white bloggers link to other white progressive bloggers," she said.
At the moment, a Technorati search suggests that is largely true of McCauley's blog, What About Our Daughters?
In contrast, it appears that more conservative, individualistic bloggers like La Shawn Barber, Sister Toldjah and Baldilocks draw a diverse array of blog reactions.
Perhaps the lesson is that the proggosphere is so enmeshed in identity politics that black bloggers get taken for granted — much the way the Democratic party takes black voters for granted. Given the Democrats' support for racial preferences, it is odd that the DNC blew the call in credentialing black bloggers to the convention planning to nominate Barack Obama as its standard bearer.
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Update x2: Insta-lanche!
Correction: As marcus and another pw reader correctly note, Sister Toldjah is white, which was a complete brain lapse on my part. The nom de blog is a play on the infamous Sister Souljah, which causes what psychologists might call proactive interference with my memory.  It is a doubly egregious error, given that Sister Toldjah is hawt, whereas Sister Souljah is not so much. The main point of the post remains the same. As does the part about Sister Toldjah being hawt, afaik.
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Clearly, what is needed is federal passage of an Affirmative Linking Action bill requiring a percentage of all blog cross references to minority blogs. That will at least prevent some bloggers from being forced into the realization that they don't get traffic because no one wants to read what they're pushing. For the self esteem preservation.
We got a glimpse of this during Amandaquiddick.
It sure would be nice to squish this Russkie trackbacking plagiarism bot.
Howard Dean was just trying to keep catering costs down by excluding Oliver Willis.
Black blog. White blog. Green blog. Yellow blog.
Who gives a shit? Besides the proggs, that is. If your blog sucks, nobody's gonna read it.
End of story.
If your blog sucks, nobody's gonna read it.
Not true. I have readers.
I thought blogs were about ideas, not race. I'll be chillin' a forty for the DNC in August.
Not true. I have readers.
your cats don't count.
I should know. : (
I was under the impression that one of the strengths of blogs was that there was no color or gender unless the blogger wanted it to be.
I'm not so sure. There was once just a Blogosphere, and then some black bloggers wanted it segregated, i.e. into an area now called the Afrosphere and/or Black-o-sphere and/or Black Blogosphere. "White Blogs"…"Black Blogs"!?
If you do read the "BLACK" blogs, you'll find that they are rather tiresome and painful. While progressives are by nature masochistic, malevolent forces of evil, there's only so much self inflicted pain that they can endure, and they get more than enough from their own writing and that of the general progressives. Reading yet another post about how horrible white people are and how Oliver Willis was once again discriminated against by the KKK members that make Dunkin Donuts so tasty and the racist scale manufacturers that know to increase the weigh of black users by 50 lbs just isn't appealing to anyone. Reading the Womanist (because progressive feminists are evil, evil racists, doubly so because they refuse to admit it to anyone or engage in anything like discrimination except for not engaging in an orgiastic bout of self denunciation or just asking Alice Walker for the opinions they should have) blogs is even worse: tiresome, radical anti-capitalist, bigoted gender segregation feminism layered with tiresome, radical anti-capitalist, racist black nationalism.
Somehow no one wants to read the unadulterated works of staggering genius put up on the internet by these people. I'm shocked! IT MUST BE A RACIST PLOT! Then they go and find some way to have a good People's Front of Judaea vs Judaean People's Front splittist controversy.
The major crime of George H W Bush is to not have taken advantage of the fall of communism to prosecute every single leftist for treason and crimes against humanity by their aiding and abetting mass murder from 1915 onward and adhering to the enemies of the US. So these evil, despicable people are still with us, and do whatever they can to destroy the country and the human species.
Sister Toldja is actually white.
Other than Jeff, I do not really know the race of anyone who posts or comments here – other than what they say – nor do I care.* What a strange world the Democrats have constructed.
*Some exceptions, such as Baldilocks, applies.
I was under the impression that one of the strengths of blogs was that there was no color or gender unless the blogger wanted it to be.
It was… until black progressives realized that no one wanted to read their nonsense. Then it became a social justice concern!
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I think there are circumstances in which race preferences and race quotas make sense.
For example, when it comes to media outlets, the DNC should want outlets that serve each major (and many minor) constituencies.
It was a stupid mistake for the DNC to go race-blind the one place where it doesn't make sense.
"…much the way the Democratic party takes black voters for granted."
More than that.
They treat black like political lawn jockeys.
On the internet nobody knows you're a black dog.
your cats don't count.
Funny, they sure know how many hours since they were last fed.
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It's really hard to believe that they missed O Dub. I thought he was so big he had satellites orbiting him.
"Not true. I have readers." And we're both tired. That Popo Agie trail is a bitch. We always pronounce it like it's written (popo aggie). If we have the breath for it.
Thanks for reading.
I put my photo "under the fold" for this very reason.
The Democratic Party needs racial tension. Without 90% of the black vote, the Democrats can not compete. Keeping African-Americans, Latino, Women and other identity politics "victims" angry is the only hope to maintain a competitive Democratic Party. Democrats continue to make promises they can't keep to their clients and when it doesn't work out, as it cannot, they blame "racist" society (or "sexist" or other -ist ).
There will be no progress toward a society where tensions are minimum so long as one major party needs hate and fear to attract its following.
Funny, they sure know how many hours since they were last fed.
My theory is they judge by the light. Carlos gets confused on rainy days and I can wait a bit longer to feed them.
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Eh. I have just grown so tired of demographics = destiny and the unrelenting leftists who perpetuate it.
Interesting that the eeeevil "right-wingers" are behaviorally more inclusive than the morally superior progressives. What was it that MLK said? Something about content of character rather than color of skin? Evidently some people have embraced that message more enthusiastically than others.
We always pronounce it like it's written (popo aggie).
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The New York Times has an editorial this morning on the nomination of Goodwin Liu, a law professor at UC-Berkeley, to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. What does this have to do with education? Mr. Liu is perhaps the foremost legal scholar in the United States today on the connection between constitutional law and education. Among legal scholars, he's been one of my absolute favorites (along with Tim Wu). Having written some fascinating pieces on education and rights law, Mr. Liu's nomination is "raising some hackles" (in the words of the Times):
Mr. Liu, who is 39, has written extensively on the Constitution and education law, among other areas. His views are not uniformly liberal — he has written in support of school vouchers and charter schools, market-oriented policies that many liberals and labor unions strongly oppose. But Mr. Liu's conservative critics are taking aim at his support for affirmative action, gay marriage rights, and national health care, and his endorsement of the view that the Constitution is a document that evolves over time.
Mr. Liu is also talked about as a possible Supreme Court nominee in the near future. Most exciting for me is his article, "Education, Equality, and National Citizenship," published in the Yale Law Journal in 2006. In it, Liu argues that under the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, we as citizens are endowed with certain unenumerated rights, as yet unrecognized by the Supreme Court, including the right to education. This is key. A long line of Supreme Court cases, including San Antonio v. Rodriguez and Plyler v. Doe, hold that education is not a right under the Constitution (the tortured analysis of Roe v. Wade notwithstanding).
Here's what's going on: Since the 60's and 70's, there has been a movement among legal progressives to establish new positive rights under the Constitution (e.g., the right to housing, healthcare, fair wage, education, etc.). Across the board, and on the backs of countless of legal rationalizations (including the right to education as incident to the 1st amendment, since the right to communicate and receive information is meaningless unless one has an education), these cases have failed. Liu's article offers a new stratagem for pursuing this right to education, and signals that he, along with many others, is still willing to find a way to make education a right. Of course, if it were established as such, the implications would be far-reaching (see the history of equity and adequacy lawsuits in the last 30 years).
Goodwin Liu is an amazingly accomplished and brilliant man. I agree with the Times that he would make an excellent addition to the 9th Circuit (and maybe, one day, the Supreme Court). I really encourage you to read the Yale Law Journal article if you have the time. This is exciting stuff. I kind of wish he could just skip the 9th Circuit, go straight to the Supreme Court, and set Clarence Thomas straight.
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The crowds in Beirut last year demanding a Cedar Revolution, "the first shoots of democracy" supposedly planted by the United States, are a distant memory. Yesterday we saw in their place the fury of Lebanon directed against the capital's United Nations building — an early "birth pang" in Condoleeza Rice's new Middle East. If Israel wanted to widen its war, it could not have chosen a better way to achieve it than by sending its war planes back to the mixed Muslim and Christian village of Qana in south Lebanon to massacre civilians there, as if marking a morbid anniversary. A decade ago, Israeli shelling on the village killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians sheltering in a local UN post.
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When journalists use the word "apparently", or another favorite "reportedly", they are usually distancing themselves from an event or an interpretation in the supposed interests of "balance". But I think we should read the "apparently" contained in a statement from the head of the United Nations, Kofi Annan — relating to the killing this week of four unarmed UN monitors by the Israeli army — in its other sense. When Annan says that those four deaths were "apparently deliberate", I take him to mean that the evidence shows that the killings were deliberate. And who can disagree with him? At least 10 phone calls were made to Israeli commanders over a period of six hours warning that artillery and aerial bombardments were either dangerously close to or hitting the monitors' building.
This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist" who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch-hunts against American professors who have the impertinence to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Arabs have minds and feelings like the rest of us. It was a revealing experience, at least for a British journalist rarely exposed to the depths of ignorance and prejudice in the United States on Middle East matters — well, apart from the regular wackos who fill my email inbox. But five minutes of listening to Horowitz speak, and the sympathy with which his arguments were greeted by Laura ("The Professors — your book's a great read, David"), left me a lot more frightened about the world's future.
Two myths are taking root as the carnage mounts in Israel and Lebanon. The first is that, while Israel is doing its best to target "terrorists" and fight a clean war, Hizbullah is interested only in killing Israeli civilians with its rockets and in endangering Lebanese innocents by hiding among them. The second myth claims that Israel's current bombardment was triggered not simply by Hizbullah's attack on an army post on July 12, in which three soldiers were killed and two captured, but by an unprovoked barrage of rockets from the Shiite militia on Israeli towns. Both ideas are shaping the British government's understanding of current events, including that of Foreign Office minister Kim Howells as he tours the region. However, there is little evidence that Hizbullah is acting any worse, or better, than Israel in the confrontation between them.
The general surprise that Lebanese civilians are taking the brunt of Israel's onslaught – and the unwillingness in some quarters of the media to report the fact – reflects a poor understanding of Israel's historical use of violence. Since its birth six decades ago, Israel has always been officially "going after the terrorists," but its actions have invariably harmed civilians in an indiscriminate manner. The roll call of dishonor is long indeed, but its highlights include: the massacre of some 200 civilians in Tantura, as well as large-scale massacres in at least a dozen other Palestinian villages, during the 1948 war that established Israel; Ariel Sharon's attack on the village of Qibya in 1953 that killed 70 innocent Palestinians; the Kfar Qassem massacre inside Israel when 49 farm workers were gunned down at an improvised army checkpoint; …….
A cactus bush in Nazareth, Israel's largest Arab town, was riddled with holes from the shrapnel that sprayed out as a Katyusha rocket slammed into a street here today. Playing in front of the bush at the time were two children, aged three and nine, who were killed instantly. This was not the first Hezbollah strike on one of the 100 or so Arab communities inside Israel – several have been hit in the past few days – but the two children, Rabia and Mohammed Abu Taluzi, were the first deaths among Israel's 1.2 million Arab citizens. A second rocket strike on a car showroom in the centre of Nazareth reportedly injured one person.
After two Hizbullah rocket strikes on the largest Arab city in Israel yesterday, the residents of Nazareth might have expected a little sympathy from their Jewish compatriots. "Rockets don't discriminate between Jew and Arab," said one young hijabbed woman close to the site where two brothers, aged three and nine, died from the spray of shrapnel as a rocket landed outside their uncle's home. These were the first deaths among Israel's 1.3 million Arab citizens since Hizbullah's rocket attacks began more than a week ago, though several of their towns and villages had previously been hit. Some Arab citizens may have hoped that the arrival of the minority's own moment of grief would help remedy the popular image of it as "a fifth column" inside the Jewish state.
Israel has opened "windows" for the foreign powers to evacuate their terrified nationals from Lebanon. Obligingly, the foreign media have turned these "windows" into an opportunity to avert their gaze further from the death and destruction in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. On BBC World, for example, we have been following the progress of one 12-year-old British boy fleeing Beirut. When he observed that he was worried for the Lebanese family members he was leaving behind, reporter Clive Myrie noted his was a "very mature attitude". If only the BBC was demonstrating such maturity. I have to keep reminding myself that this is BBC World, not its domestic news service. You would hardly know it watching the coverage of the past couple of days.
Nazareth hit the international headlines for the first time in this vicious war being waged by Israel mostly on Lebanese civilians. Reporter Matthew Price, corseted in a blue flak jacket in Haifa, told BBC viewers that for the first time Hezbollah had targeted Nazareth late on Sunday. "Nazareth is a mostly Christian town," he added, managing to cram into a single sentence of a few words two factual mistakes and a disturbing hint of incitement. Whatever the precision of its rockets (and Nazareth's residents are certainly worried enough about that), Hezbollah struck not at Nazareth but at a site some distance from Nazareth – a site of strategic significance to Israel, though I cannot say more than that as we are now officially under martial law in the country's north.
Here we go again – another "serious escalation" has begun in the Middle East, or so BBC World was telling audiences throughout Sunday. So what prompted the BBC's judgment that the crisis was escalating once more? You can be sure it had nothing to do with the more than 130 Lebanese dead after five days of savage aerial bombardment from at least 2,000 sorties by Israeli war planes that are making the country's south a disaster zone and turning Beirut into a crumbling ghost town. Those dead, most civilians and many of them women and children, hardly get a mention, their lives apparently empty of meaning or significance in this confrontation.
The parallels between Israel's military assaults on Lebanon and Gaza are striking. It is not so much the unconvincing claim by Israel that both attacks were triggered by the capture of its soldiers as the similarities in the nature and goals of each response. What is presented as righteous Israeli indignation on two fronts is more truthfully war-mongering according to a prepared script. The first point to note is that Israel has preferred "shock and awe" tactics in Gaza and Lebanon familiar from the United States' assault on Iraq. It is in the nature of these kind of bombing campaigns that they inflict their heaviest toll on civilians.
One early and easy victory for Israel in Gaza has been in its battle to manage the news. Israel's invasion is a very private war against Gaza's population, to which only invited guests — the representatives of our major media outlets — are being given access. In the last Iraq war, America set a precedent by requiring Western reporters to "embed" with its forces before they were let near the battlefield. Israel is following suit, adopting similar measures to control the flow of bad news from Gaza. The restrictions on who can report and what they can tell us explain in part why more than a fortnight after an Israeli soldier was captured, almost every Western reporter is still referring to him as "kidnapped"; why the destruction of vital civilian infrastructure such as Gaza's only power plant is described as "pressure" rather than what it is ……..
The same malign intent from Israel towards the Palestinians is stamped through its history like the lettering in a children's stick of seaside rock. But despite the consistent aim of Israeli policy, generation after generation of Western politicians, diplomats and journalists has shown a repeated inability to grasp what is happening before its very eyes. The Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi once noted that the first goal of Israel's founders as they prepared to establish their Jewish state on a large swath of the Palestinian homeland in 1948 was to empty Palestine's urban heartlands of their educated elites.
One needed only to watch the interview on British television this week with Israel's ambassador to the UK to realise that the Israeli army's tightening of the siege on Gaza, its invasion of the northern parts of the Strip today, and the looming humanitarian crisis across the territory, have nothing to do with the recent capture of an Israeli soldier — or even the feeble home-made Qassam rockets fired, usually ineffectually, into Israel by Palestinian militants. Under questioning from presenter Jon Snow of Channel Four news on the reasons behind Israel's bombing of Gaza's only power station — thereby cutting off electricity to more than half of the Strip's 1.3 million inhabitants for many months ahead, as well as threatening the water supply — Zvi Ravner denied this action amounted to collective punishment of the civilian population.


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This week, after being spotted together multiple times, Rihanna and Chris Brown have left fans wondering whether or not they are a couple once again. While we all wait for some sort of confirmation, there is one person who would not mind the couple hooking back up – Rihanna's dad!
Rihanna's dad would not be the person who comes to mind when we think of someone wanting the singer to hook up with Chris Brown again – especially after he beat her up previously. But, apparently, Rihanna's dad believes in second chances. Speaking to In Touch recently, he told them: "I think everyone makes mistakes and they shouldn't be held to them forever. Everyone should be forgiven once. There's a lot more to Chris than the whole world knows."
And what the world may not know about Chris Brown, is that Rihanna is apparently happiest when she is around him. "I know they love each other. They always have. She's happiest when she's around him, and as long as she's happy, I am happy and the whole world should be too," her dad gushed to the gossip site.
He also went on to say of Chris: "I love Chris, man. He's got so much charisma. And he's always had so much respect for me. That's what I love about him. He's always shown me respect."
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When I arrived here for the Air New Zealand shoot, it was about an half-an-hour before sunrise. The sky was very light already, as you can see below. They have these little lanterns that hang down and around the Green Dragon Pub. I got in close to one to show the detail, and in the distance, you can see many hobbit holes reflected across the water.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.


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Country-music legend George Jones dies
Jones, whose career began back in the rockabilly era and whose hard-living ways were almost as legendary as his incomparable singing, has died at 81.
The esteem other artists held for him was perhaps best captured by the lyrics to "It's Alright" by fellow county-music giant Jennings, which contains the couplet: If we all sang like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones!
A native of Saratoga, Texas, Jones sang for tips on the streets of Beaumont as a teenager before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. He launched his recording career in 1955 and never looked back. He was married four times, including once to fellow country-music legend Tammy Wynette, with whom he recorded such memorable songs in the 1970s as "Near You," "Golden Ring" and "We're Gonna Hold On."
After their 1976 divorce, Jones had a rocky number of years. In 1980 he recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today," an exquisite ballad that revived his moribund career. It earned him a Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Country Performance.
For decades, Jones was nearly as noted for his hard-living ways -- especially when it came to drinking and using cocaine -- as he was for his wonderfully expressive music. He missed so many concert appearances that he earned the nickname "no-show Jones." He was more fondly known by fans as "Possum." James Taylor wrote the song "Bartender's Blues" for Jones and they recorded it together.
His chart-topping 1959 hit, "White Lightning," required more than 80 vocal takes by Jones, who was too inebriated to sing more than a few words at a time. He once drove his lawnmower to a liquor store, after his second wife, Shirley Corley, had hidden all the car keys in a futile effort to get him to stop drinking. And, in an especially memorable incident, he decided to make his tour bus more airy by firing off a round of bullets from his pistol into the floor of the bus.
In 1999, Jones spent weeks in a hospital after a serious, alcohol-induced car accident. It was surely not coincidental that one of his hits was entitled "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."
In his 1996 autobiography, the then-optimistically titled "I Lived to Tell It All," Jones offered a no-holds-barred look at his tumultuous life. For the caption to one especially haggard-looking photo of himself, he wrote: "I'm at the point of exhaustion during an alcohol and cocaine binge in 1977."
In the aftermath of his near-fatal 1999 car accident, Jones cleaned up. He stopped drinking, stopped taking drugs and even stopped smoking.
Speaking to U-T San Diego in 2000, Jones said: "I definitely have quit drinking. I definitely will never do that again. I'm a little closer to the good Lord. And I quit smoking. And I feel so much better. For the first time in my life, I really feel good. "And if I had known this years ago that I'd have felt this good, I would've taken better care of myself. You know how that goes."
He also elaborated on the benefits of not smoking, saying: "It's been 11 months now and I can hit the highest notes in the world again. The only thing is, I'm getting too fat. I'm about 3 inches larger in the waist, and that's where it goes to -- it don't go nowhere else on a 5-foot-7-inch frame. It goes right straight to the belly."
Four years later, Jones remained clean and sober.
"I go on stage and I know what's going on now," he told U-T San Diego in an interview to promote his 2004 performance at El Cajon's East County Performance Arts Center.
"I really enjoy the people more, and I think they enjoy me more. It's a new beginning and it's just wonderful to know what's going on for a change."


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Sometimes what everyone knows is not actually known by everyone. Often those who know something don't pay any attention to what they know. At times that avoidance of the known can be costly.
Everyone knows that the Hispanic population of Indiana and the United States has been increasing. While the total population of Indiana advanced by 7.3 percent between 2000 and 2012, our Hispanic/Latino neighbors increased by 90 percent. Of the 446,000 additional Hoosiers, 196,000 or 44 percent were Hispanic/Latino.
Whereas in 2000, this ethnic group represented 3.6 percent of the Indiana population, today they account for 6.3 percent.
We have seen some governments, institutions and businesses make adjustments to the growth of the Hispanic/Latino population as if they were a homogeneous entity. In smaller towns that might be true, but in our larger cities our new residents come from many lands other than Mexico — including Central and South America plus the Caribbean.
Therefore we find signs, forms and booklets in English and Spanish to accommodate populations that today require them. Will that need persist?
To ask the question is not to deny the utility of what has been done. Rather, the question becomes: Will the next generation of immigrants to the U.S. from Spanish-speaking areas be better prepared to function in this country using English than their predecessors?
To date we have drawn often from the poorest, least educated, least skilled portions of the sending nations. A new immigration policy could lead to a new set of Hispanic/Latino applicants for admission to the U.S. who have basic English skills.
In Indiana we have not seen a similar response to the near 90 percent increase in the Asian and Pacific Islander population. Why? There are three reasons: First, although increasing almost as fast as the Hispanic/Latino population, this group is still small in numbers (116,000), just 1.8 percent of the state's total population.
Second, the Asian and Pacific Islander population is made up of many more language groups than the Spanish-speaking population. It would be far more costly to accommodate numerous languages. Third, many of the Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants are already well versed in basic English when they arrive.
Growing more slowly (19 percent) is the black-only population in our state. Even though this largely native group is still the second-most-numerous race (616,000), they represent less than 10 percent of the total. But that might be misleading. The fastest growing minority (106 percent) are those who identify themselves as being of two or more races. In earlier times, multiracial people might have been classified as black.
This increased racial and cultural diversity of our state's population could easily help reduce Indiana's image as a white-only state where others are unwelcome. In the next generation, we may find that breaking the old mold will enhance our desirability as a good place for everyone to live and prosper.
Morton Marcus is an economist, formerly with the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Send comments to email@example.com.


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Greetings friend! My name is Joseph and my nickname on chat is SCOC. SCOC stands for "Second Coming Of Christ". Before we come to that awesome subject (fact) I think it is proper to first introduce you to Him, so that you get aquainted as to Who He really is. Don't shy away from Him because He is the best friend you could ever have. I hope you enjoy reading my pages, and your comments are always welcome.
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God's Awesome Creation.
Are you sure you don't believe in God? What proof have you got? Oh! you believe in evolution.
So therefore, you really believe that there was an explosion and hence the universe and the worlds came together. Well, I can give you that, but I would like to ask you to prove it to me. However, I can prove to you without going into a long explanation that there is a God who created all. First of all, if there was an explosion, there had to be some elements which caused that explosion.
My simple question to you is:
Where did those elements come from? My answer would be, that there had to be somebody to produce those elements. Those elements which make the universe and the worlds are so humongous that the "somebody" who made them had to be far more greater than the things He produced. The explosion must have been so powerful to split the elements and send them flying away to occupy a place in the heavens.
This "BEING" who caused all this had to be more powerful than what He produced. Things just don't happen they are made to happen. A "nothing" cannot produce anything. Let's call this "BEING" GOD. Do you feel easy with that name?
So God created the heavens, and the earth and they are there for us to see. Let's have a look outside at night and look at the dark skies. There we see the stars which God created, and they are where He placed them. He made the sun for our days, and the moon for our nights. He made the seas for our enjoyment. He made the seasons for our change of scenery and comfort. He prepared everything for us to live comfortable. When He created these things, He created them specially for you. He knew you and He loved you before you were even created.
When He made the first man on earth He gave him one commandment. He warned the man, that if he breaks that commandment he will surely die. Unfortunately that commandment was broken, and we, his offsprings have inherited death through Adam. But you know what? God is so loving that He provided a way out for us so that we may live forever again. And the greatest thing God done for you is that while you were destined to die forever, He sent a Saviour, His son, to die on the cross in your stead. That's how much He loved you. I hope that I have convinced you with my theory, and now it's your turn to try to convince me. Of course there is more to my story which I hope I'll be able to tell you about it somewhere else in here. There is everything to gain to believe, and everything to loose if you don't.
Now I want to hear your part. Try to convince me that evolution is the only way, and if it is more logical than mine.
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3 IT Strategies You'll Be Adopting in 2012
While your IT department is humming along now, it is always important to gear up for the next wave of strategies and implementations. We spoke to experts to narrow down some of the top IT trends that will impact your business in 2012 and beyond.
Integration of mobile devices
While iPhones, iPads, smartphones and other mobile devices have been available for personal use for what seems like eons, IT departments have been hesitant to adopt these devices as a way to access corporate data due to security and support concerns. But observers expect the tide to turn in 2012.
"IT departments have been moving away from the command and control philosophy and I predict that we will see it die in 2012," said Tim Crawford, CIO of All Covered, an IT services company. "They will start accepting chaos and making mobility a key element of their technology strategies going forward," he said.
Better tools are making this technology worthy of attention from CIOs, according to analysts at Gartner. This technology partitions a server into smaller parts, with each part running independently with its own software and operating systems. This can help balance the IT budget, as less hardware is required.
Virtualization will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged, according to a report from Gartner.
Gartner vice president Thomas Bittman even predicts that the days of the monolithic, general-purpose operating system will soon be over.
"Traditionally the operating system has been the center of gravity for client and server computing, but new technologies, new modes of computing, and infrastructure virtualization and automation are changing the architecture and role of the operating system," he said.
Cloud computing
"The market for cloud computing exploded in 2010 and continues strong in 2011, and I see even greater adoption 2012," said Ed Laczynski, vice president of cloud strategies for Datapipe, a provider of IT management services. He said that many businesses have moved some of the "low-hanging fruit" such as email to the clouds, and the trend will continue.
"As more and more IT departments have success with cloud computing, the more comfortable IT managers will be with the security and viability of this technology and the more they will put it to use strategically in their organizations," he said.
Among the benefits of cloud computing is that it is standardized and works over the web, he pointed out. "It is essentially the same pipeline have in your office today, so you don't need to invest too much on reconfiguring your in-house infrastructure. In addition, in a disaster, your data can be accessed from virtually any location," Laczynski said.
He noted that the uptick in mergers and acquisitions will fuel even more interest in cloud computing. "This provides an easy way to hand over the keys in terms of data ownership."