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Actually, I fixed my app crash problems. I updated Zeppelin and removed xMessages. Mobile Substrate tweaks definitely affect it, because I'm having little to no problems now.
People are quick to dismiss this study's data yet it is consistent with my personal usage. I have the Samsung Galaxy 10.1, Asus Transformer 101, the HP Touchpad running CM9(Ice Cream Sandwich), the OG ipad, and the Samsung Galaxy SGS2. The ipad crashes more than all of my Android devices totalled together. The only consistent crash on Android occurs on the stock browser. Never due to over tasking. Android manages multitasking better, but they have been doing it longer as well. Apple will iron things out eventually because they are an OS driven company. It is what they do best.
The OP's comment about haphazard Android releases is truly uninformed.

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Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:46 am
Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:48 pm
Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:41 pm
promiseland wrote:It's an official release does it surprise you?
Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:05 pm
Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:06 pm
Johnny2523 wrote:as with the venus release from months ago, They had Glen D Playing the intro to Can't Help Falling In Love, when elvis called out for I Can't Stop Loving You,
Now on Prince from another planet, This was left Out. Did they edit it out?.
I know its just a little piece missing but still..
Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:24 pm
Rock Legend wrote:Hasn't it been suggested earlier that this was done by Venus?
Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:48 pm
elvisjock wrote:Rock Legend wrote:Hasn't it been suggested earlier that this was done by Venus?
Meaning, Venus made an artificial edit, so it appeared to be a mistake? I don't remember how it sounded. I played it once or twice, then got pissed at myself for rushing to buy something I had a feeling was going to be a ripoff.
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R&B star Chris Brown ignited Midtown Manhattan today (July 15) when he performed as the featured artist on The Today Show Summer Concert Series. Serving the crowd with his hits "Yeah 3X," "Forever" and "She Ain't You," he dazzled spectators with his fierce moves and shiny gear.
Paying homage to the late-great Michael Jackson, he sported sparkling gold gloves, a pink bow tie, black slacks, and a black vest with matching gold embroidery. Contorting his body with precision and electrifying intensity, he proved that not only can he mirror the fashion of the King of Pop, but he can move like him too.
Brown ended his performance with a tap-influenced dance segment as he moved to the rhythms of "I Can Transform Ya," "Kush" and "Teach Me How to Dougie." Breezy then showed the crowd his Cat Daddy dance moves and hit them with his Dougie, before expressed his love for the Big Apple and exited the stage.
After the performance, Brown showed his appreciation for the 18,000 fans that came out to the event. It was the largest turnout ever for a Today Show performance.
"I love my fans!!!! It is really truly an honor and a blessing to create music and evoke emotion for positivity. Can't live without my fans," Brown tweeted.


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From: "Jim Thompson" <jim at netgate dot com>
> Marc M. Adkins wrote:
Some additional comments...
>> I wanted to confirm that I can in fact use all three ethernet ports and
>> create a usable DMZ on one of them. I understand that total bandwidth
>> will not be huge, but my DSL pipe isn't huge. I want something that will
>> get me started...if I ever need bigger iron I'll hopefully have
>> justification for bigger expenditures. I do see the DMZ section in the
>> documentation...I just wanted to make sure the WRAP board with three
>> ethernet ports will do this.
> Yes, the third port will end up as "OPT1".
>> The other question...just curious...I'm using a DSL modem now. Will
>> m0n0wall connect directly to DSL line if I'm so inclined? I have heard
>> horror stories about doing this from a *NIX-based firewall box and in
>> fact had some delays original getting the modem properly configured. I
>> do remember it being PPPoE something-or-other...which seems to be in the
>> m0n0wall documentation. Not a necessary item since I have the DSL modem,
>> but I like the idea of one less piece of hardware and then I have a spare
>> for failover.
> If your DSL provider uses PPPoE, then you'll need to use that. Many DSL
> providers no longer require PPPoE, and instead just hand your equipment an
> IP address via DHCP.
There are two questions here. "Doing DSL" and PPPE. Monowall does PPPE,
and does it well. DSL, however is a different electrical standard from
ethernet. There are DSLcards, but m0n0wall does not support them at this
That said, you will get an adapter from your provider. It will either be a
smart or a dumb device. A dumb device is where you have to put a PPPoE
stack within Windows to use it directly. A smart device will do NAT and
DHCP for you , and allow several computers in your home to connect at once.
You can connect m0n0wall to one of these devices, but you will have problems
if you do this. (Double nat, and port forwarding issues, as well as making
VPN to home not work) To make it work "right" you have to turn the smart
adapter into a dumb one. This is called "setting it into bridge mode" and
is documented all over. Then m0n0wall does the PPPoE, and has a real IP
address in the real internet.
>> WRT wireless, which I wouldn't have on a bet without a reliable firewall
>> (being one paranoid SOB), I'm wondering if anyone has input on cards and
>> antenna configurations. This is just a stand-alone house configuration.
>> All my wiring is in a centrally located utility room in the basement,
>> only one floor above that. I figure a 60-90 foot sphere covers the house
>> but I'm not knowledgeable about antennas and we seem to have continuous
>> coverage issues with OTS wireless hardware at work (concrete and
>> reinforced steel construction in downtown Seattle vs. normal wood frame
>> house if that matters).
> Unless you are *very* good, and like messing with the software, your best
> bet for wireless, if you want "Access Point" fuctionality is to get one of
> the prism2.5-based miniPCI cards on the market. Since Prism-anything has
> been EOLed,
> and has been "non-competitive" in price (at the chipset level) for years,
> your choice comes down to finding something on EBay,
> stripping something out of a notebook (many of the earliest 11b notebooks
> carried such a card. If you want a 'new' card you're essentially limited
> to the ones by Zcommax or Senao/Engenius. There are several resellers for
> both brands (ODMs) on the web. A few of them even know how to spell
> "m0n0wall".
It is hard to find supported cards, and the hostAP code is not all that
nice. Most people recomend a cheap AP. You can get one for less than you
would pay for a supported wireless card.


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What is an example of osmosis?
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Osmosis is diffusion of water across a semi-permeable membrane. Salt is too big to pass through a cell membrane, but water molecules can fit. Since everything wants to reach equilibrium, the only thing that can flow to create equal concentrations is water.
Real world examples of osmosis:
1. Why we use saline solution for contact lenses - if you ever placed your contacts in pure water you will notice how uncomfortable it is the next day, or if you fail to rinse out your contact case it will get too salty. Saline solution for contact lenses is the same concentration of salt water as your eye.
2. Saline drips at the hospital - same ratio of salt water as is in your cells.
3. Making french fries - more salt makes the french fries more crispy and less soggy. This is done by pre soaking the potatoes in salt water before frying.
4. Reverse osmosis - add energy to the system to force the water to flow backwards through a membrane. It is used as a method to filter or desalinate water (but requires alot of energy)
5. The different salt ratios in cells explain why salt water fish cannot go in fresh water and vice versa.
osmosis is the phenomenon in which the two solutions of two different concentrations are separated by the semi permeable membrane. the molecules of the solvent move from their higher concentration to their lower concentration till the concentration of both the solutions becomes equal.
e.g: take a thistle funnel and cover its mouth with a parchment paper. and fill it with concentrated sugar solution.
place thistle funnel in a beaker containing water and mark the level of sugar solution in the stem of thistle funnel.
leave the apparatus undisturbed for 4-5 hours.
you will observe that the level of sugar solution in the stem rises and the level of water decreases as water passes through the parchment paper into the sugar solutin. it it because of osmosis
A good example of osmosis would be dipping a sponge into water, because there is a higher concentration outside, so the water goes in and makes the sponge expand.
osmosis is a process which the movement of water molecules from a solution of higher water potential to a solution of lower water potential through a partially permeable membrane, and is present in animal or plant cells.
osmosis is the movement of solute from a higher concentration to lower concentration through a semi permeable membrane.
eg. soak some dry grapes in water after 10 to 15 mins u can see them swell up. thisis due to the water.
thank you, i hope u find this usefull.
Osmosis is the movement of something through a membrane from an area of greater concentration to an area of lesser concentration.
An example would be to place two tablespoons of raisins into one cup of water and let sit overnight. The next morning, observe the changes to the raisins. Take them out, keeping as much of the water in the cup as possible. Re-measure the water to see how much the raisins absorbed through osmosis.
Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from a region of higher water potential i.e. a hypotonic solution to a region of lower water potential i.e a hypertonic solution, against the potential gradient, through a partially permeable membrane.
e.g:- The cellular system of animals/plants, which allows the water molecules and other dissolves substances to pass readily across the partially permeable cell surface membrane in or out from the cytoplasm of the cell. This accounts for
01. turgidity and plasmolysis in plants
02. crenation in animals
P.s:- don't confuse osmosis with diffusion for diffusion is the movement of fluid particles from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration (not water potential) against the concentration gradient (not thepotential gradient). Unlike osmosis it is not an obligation to have a membrane. e.g:- evaporation
Ways I have showed my students examples of osmosis:
Soak a gummy bear in water.
Soak a raw egg in vinegar to remove the shell. Then you can soak it in water and have the students measure the diameter of the egg. You can also soak it in other solvents and see how the diameter of the egg will change.
Osmosis is the movement of liquid molecules from a higher concentration to a lower concentration through a partially permeable membrane.
An example of osmosis can be the intake of water molecules in plants. As the cell sap of the root hair cell has a more concentrated solution than the soil, water particles moves in the cell through osmosis.
What is osmossis, it is the process of movement of solvvent from low concentration of soloute to high concentration of solute.
When you put rasins in water, after some time they swells. That is due to osmossis.
Thanks for asking.
a good eg.:-if u submerge some grapes in plain water(isotonic soln.),after some time the grapes swell up and may even burst
example of osmosis can be :
movement of water molecules form the mesophyll cells to the guard cells where the water gets transpired
Osmosis is a process in which liquid from one solution moves to another solution separated by a semi-permeable membrane. The most common examples of osmosis is provided by all plants and animals. Plant absorb water from the earth through the process of osmosis. Exchange of water in body fluids and body cells in animals (including humans) takes place through osmosis. Arabian countries with limitited supplu of drinking water use the proces of osmosis to generate drinking water from sea water.
Examples of Osmosis Applied
The following are examples of osmosis for those of you who need to see an example to clearly understand science (like me)…
Example of osmosis 1.
If you put rice into a bowl of water, the water will move into the rice causing them to swell, while causing the water level to drop.
Osmosis example 2.
If a cell is placed in a container which is full of a hypotonic solution (not many solutes) than the fluid in that container will naturally want to be drawn into the cell and this will cause the cell to swell up and rupture (lyse).
Example of osmosis 3.
If a cell is placed in a container which is full of a hypertonic solution, than the cell will lose fluid as it is diffused outof the cell into the area of greater solute concentration. This will cause the cell to shrink (crenate).
Example of osmosis 4.
In medicine, if a patient drawns in salt water, the hypertonic water in the lungs will cause more fluid to be drawn out of the pulmonary arteries into the alvioli and lungs. This will more often result in pulmonary oedema than a patient who has drawned in fresh water.
Example of osmosis 5.
If you admister normal saline to a patient intraveneously (which has the same osmolarity as blood / the same amount of solutes as blood) it will mean that the fluid remains unchanged, because their is no osmotic gradient (basically all the fluid stays the same). Now, if you were to give mannitol (which is a very hypertonic solution) the fluid within the blood will be drawn out of the cells and into the mannitol solution.
Examples of Osmosis in Cells?
This becomes important when looking at the structure of cells in biology.
If a cell has a high concentration of a solute (salt) it will draw fluid into its cell. If allowed to continue to do this, it will eventually swell up and rupture (this is called cell lysis).
If a cell has a low concentration of a solute it will lose fluid as the fluid within its cell is allowed to be drawn out of the cell through osmosis and into the intersitial space. This will cause the cell to shrink (this is called cell crenation).
Practical Examples of Osmosis in Medicine
Basically, this concept becomes important when we start to administer hypertonic or hypotonic solutions. We understand that if we were to admister 100% sterile water intraveneously to patients who are dehydrated, the cells within the vasculature (blood vessels) would draw up all that fluid due to the osmotic gradient shift (this basically means that the fluid will want to shift into the cells) and this will cause the local cells to swell and lyse (rupture). This means that the red blood cells themselves will no longer be capable of carrying oxygen and serving their purpose.
Likewise, if you were to administer 50% glucose intravenously, the hypertonic solution (lots of solutes) will cause a lot of fluid to shift towards it. Now, so long as the canula is in a large vein, it will be able to draw fluid from a large area. However, if the canula is inserted in a small vein or accidentally inserted into the intersitial space and not a vein, it will not be able to draw fluid from all over, and consequently draw all the fluid from the surrounding cells. This will cause the cells to shrink (crenate) and again, become unable to sustain life. In these circumstance, patients may develop cellulitis or damaged veins.
when salt water is added to an elodea leaf and all the chloroplasts within the cell moves to the outside of the cell or to the center of the cell. It balances the water
A red blood cell is placed in fresh water. There are more free water molecules outside the plasma membrane then inside the cell, so osmosis occurs- water diffuses through the blood cell (causing it to swell and burst).
the movement of water from an area of lesser concentration to one of greater concentration
Also when you soak rice the starch from the rice goes into the water causing the change of color.


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Earlier this month, we lauded the move by Bank of America to charge $5 a month to customers who used debit cards for purchases. That upfront fee is a more honest way of recouping the costs of providing a service and allows consumer to choose to pay -- or not.
For that same reason, we see the benefit of a proposal that the city of Los Angeles ban free, single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores and require reusable bags.
What do single-use plastic bags and debit cards have in common, other than their physical composition? Plenty.
Both have been sold to consumers as "free," but come with hidden costs. For debit cards, it was the merchant fees tacked onto every transaction and passed on to customers in the cost of goods. For single-use bags, it is a double whammy: the pass-through cost from the retailers, as well as the cost of dealing with billions of discarded plastic bags in our landfills, sewers, gutters, parks, trees, rivers, beaches and oceans. We all pay for the estimated 1.2 billion to 2.3 billion (yes, billion) single-use plastic bags and 400 million paper bags used each year in the city, whether we know it or not.
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works last week voted to pave the way for a ban on single-use bags, including paper bags, at many city retailers by requesting an environmental review and recommending it to the City Council. The council must approve the final ordinance.
It seems likely council will give its approval, since it adopted a motion in 2008 to seek a citywide ban on single-use plastic bags if a statewide ban hadn't been enacted by 2010. It hasn't; but many cities and counties in California have. The county of Los Angeles adopted a ban of single-use plastic bags last year, and since then Calabasas, Long Beach, Santa Barbara and Santa Monica have adopted similar bans. The city of Malibu had a ban in place since 2008.
Earlier this month a plastic-bag maker in South Carolina filed a lawsuit against the county's ban, specifically claiming the requirement that retailers charge a fee for single-use bags is a violation of Proposition 26. That's the law, passed last November, that requires a supermajority vote of the people on new fees.
Los Angeles city's proposal doesn't appear to violate Prop. 26 because it is an outright ban on single-use plastic and paper bags, while requiring retailers to replace them with reusable bags of some variety. They might even be plastic.
The most pervasive argument against the ban of single-use bags is that doing so kills jobs at companies that produce plastic bags. That doesn't make sense when you consider reusable bags are often made from plastic. And shoppers won't stop needing bags to carry their purchases, though it's true they won't need as many.
In fact, some forward-thinking companies have already jumped on the opportunity to make reusable bags, creating jobs that didn't exist before. That includes the Van Nuys-based company, Green Bag America, which makes private-label reusable shopping bags for retailerss.
The other argument is that a ban will hurt poor people most. Funny how corporate interests suddenly get worried about the bottom line of working folks only when it affects their own bottom line as well. If it were true, it would be terrible. It's not. Reusable bags are very affordable, if not free. (Who hasn't received a reusable bag as some sort of giveaway?) Besides, just like "free" debit cards, single-use plastic bags have hidden cost for all consumers, regardless of their incomes.
Consumers already seem to be handling the cultural shift toward reusable bags. Go to any grocery store and you will see people with reusable bags of all sorts -- from well-worn canvas totes to designer grocery bags.
When retailer Ikea quietly stopped handing out free plastic bags a few years ago, shoppers didn't revolt; they quickly adjusted. They either bought the big blue plastic Ikea bag, brought their own bag or carried their purchases out of the store by hand.
It's understandable that retailers and customers might be uneasy about having the government dictate what kind of packaging a store can use. For that reason, it's important that the city has the support of the public if it goes forward with a ban. We urge the City Council, when is is evaluating the idea and legal challenges, to consider putting it to a vote of the people of Los Angeles. This would require making the case to the public but would have the benefit of a stronger law that would avoid Prop. 26-related lawsuits.
As the second-largest city in the nation, Los Angeles is a leader in public policy. As such it has a responsibility to do it right.


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Brace yourself: Dickens World. Here. Don't care to go? Then stay put and read this.
Arthur Goldwag (The New Hate) on Glenn Beck and the rest. Here.
Q&A with Buddhist and debut novelist Vanessa Veselka (Zazen). Here.
"'You can tell how serious people are by looking at their books,'" said Susan Sontag. And what can you tell when they have no books? Here.
"Yoga's history, its charlatans and the occasional sexual predator." A review of New York Times science writer William J. Broad's The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards.


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The final play in the college career of California's Jahvid Best will be a memorable touchdown and fall that sidelined the running back for the final four games of his junior campaign. That's because Best announced Saturday that he will skip his senior year and enter the NFL draft.
"It wasn't an easy decision. It took a lot of thought and we got a lot of advice from everybody," Best said on a conference call. "This is an opportunity that I can't pass up."
The frightening fall against Oregon State on Nov. 8 sent him to the hospital with a concussion and sore back. Best said the injury played only a small role in his decision and actually made it more likely that he would have stayed so he could have ended his career on a high note.
Best, who produced several highlight reel runs with his outstanding speed, said he has heard projections that have him going as high as the first round and as low as the third round in April's draft. ESPN's Mel Kiper has him rated as the No. 2 running back in the draft behind Clemson's C.J. Spiller.
Best said he's still not fully healed from the injury. "I'm still not 100 percent right now," Best said. "But I'm very optimistic about my ability to come back by the time the combine and pro day come around. I have no doubt in my mind I'll be able to perform."
Best entered the season as a contender for the Heisman Trophy. He finished with 16 touchdowns and 867 yards rushing before the injury. In his career at Cal, Best had 2,668 yards rushing, 62 catches for 533 yards and 35 total touchdowns.
Thankfully, the cupboard is not bare for the Golden Bears. With Best out, sophomore Shane Vereen rushed for 566 yards and six touchdowns in the final four games.
If you have been under a rock and not see video of Best's injury, here it is for the final time in Campus Rivalry.
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Two Tucson hospitals will receive an additional $6.4 million in federal funding in the coming months thanks to a somewhat complicated agreement with Pima County.
Tucson Medical Center and St. Mary's Hospital qualified for the funding after the county pledged $3.3 million in matching grants.
The federal funds will be used to pay for unreimbursed care in previous fiscal years with $4.1 million going to TMC and nearly $1.2 million going to St. Mary's.
The funds will pay only a small portion of the bad debt incurred by TMC, said Julia Strange, the vice president for Community Benefit at Tucson Medical Center.
TMC wrote off $25.5 million in "charity care" and bad debt in 2010, $38 million in 2011 and $48 million in 2012, according to its annual report to the community.
The two hospitals were eligible for funding because they met a minimum standard set by the federal government: More than 25 percent of both hospitals' patients are poor.
"TMC and St. Mary's Hospital have struggled to maintain their financial viability in spite of the rising levels of uninsured," County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry wrote in a memo to the county staff last week.
"The impact is particularly severe for hospitals serving many lower-income patients as the uninsured frequently resort to emergency rooms for medical or behavioral health issues. Federal law prohibits hospitals from turning them away; forcing the hospitals, at a minimum, to respond with triage and essential care without regard to the individual's ability to pay."
Carondelet St. Joseph's, Northwest Medical Center and Northwest Oro Valley Hospital were not eligible for federal funding, according to a county memo.
Local matching funds offered by the University of Arizona and Pima County — worth $97.4 million alone — have generated $216.2 million in new federal funds for local hospitals.
The financial mechanism allowing local governments provide the local match for federal healthcare funds emerged in 2008 after state funding dried up, Huckelberry said.
"The number of uninsured has risen significantly since 2008 when the state made the decision to eliminate essentially all funding for Graduate Medical Education, restrict eligibility for Medicaid and reduce the scope of reimbursed services," he wrote.
There are an estimated 133,000 uninsured people in Pima County, according an estimate by county officials using U.S. census data.
The roughly $3.3 million in county funds will be used by a nonprofit associated with TMC for the construction of a park designed by the county near Julian Wash, including the cost of county staff oversight.
Huckelberry said the county funds are protected and can be returned to the county in the unlikely chance that the federal funding falls through.
"There is no jeopardy to taxpayers," Huckelberry said.
The completion of the project is tied to a multi-use path known at The Loop, offering locals more options to exercise outdoors.
Developed by Pima County, The Loop will be 131 miles when completed and will connect the Rillito, Santa Cruz and Pantano River Parks with the Julian Wash and Harrison greenways.


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My goal isn't to be the next Cindy Crawford or Gisele. Don't care for fame - I just want to be successful at what I do. There's nothing like earning a living doing something that you love.
I heard about Model Mayhem from friends and hope to get some quality work here. I don't particularly like working for free unless the photographer is REALLY good. I've been disappointed in the past with unprofessional pictures, etc.
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Once people have been infected and recovered from hepatitis A, the body develops antibodies to prevent future infection for the hepatitis A virus.
Although symptoms of hepatitis B and C can subside after a few weeks, symptoms may return at a later date and in some cases become chronic, especially with hepatitis C. There is no cure for hepatitis B. Newer drug treatments have made a cure possible in 80-95% or more of people infected with hepatitis C, however. The effectiveness of treatment depends on the type of hepatitis C (called a genotype) a person has, whether they've been treated before and whether they've developed liver damage yet.
Hepatitis brought on by alcohol or drugs can be treated and cured by ending the use of either or both substances.


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Passengers from 16 cities can now book tickets online on Jet Airway's portal and pay by cash later
Mumbai: Jet Airways has announced a convenient payment option for its customers which allow them to book tickets online on the domestic carrier's portal and pay by cash later, a move aimed at enhancing the airline's distribution network.
The latest offering "cash on delivery" is available only for those customers who book their tickets through the Jet Airways' website, the carrier said in a release.
The airline has tied-up with the Hyderabad-based cash collection solutions provider GharPay to deliver the service, it said.
"Guests selecting the cash-on-delivery option while booking their tickets online will be contacted by GharPay to confirm the time and location for collecting the payment. Once the payment is collected, the e-ticket will be automatically sent to the guest's email address," the release said.
More importantly, guests are not required to make any advance payment online at the time of booking the ticket and there is no additional fee for this service, it added.
"We are happy to introduce a worry-free payment initiative for the discerning guest. We are confident that the convenience and simplicity of this service will increase our distribution reach and will be appreciated by our guests who chose cash-on-delivery as a preferred mode of payment," Jet Airways chief commercial officer Sudheer Raghavan said.
The scheme has been made available across 16 cities pan-India covering over 900 postal codes and will be available in additional cities, which include places like Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Visakhapatnam, the airline said.
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Mitt Romney is criticizing the Supreme Court's ruling on immigration, saying states should have been given "more latitude."
The Associated Press reports Romney told donors at a gathering in Scottsdale, Ariz., that immigration policy has "become a muddle."
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"I would have preferred to see the Supreme Court give more latitude to the states, not less," Romney said. "And there are states now under this decision that have less authority, less latitude, to enforce immigration laws."
Earlier today, the high court struck down three parts of the controversial law. It let stand the heart of the Arizona statute, which requires state and local police to check the immigration status of people who have been stopped if there is "reasonable suspicion" they are in the United States illegally.
Romney attributed the "muddle" on immigration to what he calls President Obama's failure to act.
Shortly after the court's decision, the GOP presidential nominee's campaign sent out a news release sharing Romney's reaction. In that statement, Romney used the court's action as a way to criticize Obama.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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EMU urban education speaker series begins Oct. 27
YPSILANTI - Donna Ford, professor of special education and the Betts Chair of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, kicks off the John W. Porter Distinguished Chair for Urban Education Speaker Series with "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Erase: Closing the Achievement Gap," Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., in the Porter Building Auditorium (room 203).
Ford also hosts a workshop, "Creating Culturally Responsive Curriculum," Friday, Oct. 28, 9 a.m.- noon, room 301 B/C, Porter Building. The workshop is for teachers, students and faculty members. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. To attend, R.S.V.P. email@example.com.
The Speaker Series continues through Jan. 26, 2006.
"Her work in the area of education for gifted and talented students is most impressive. She has a particular interest in the under-representation of minorities in gifted and talented programs," said Vernon Polite, dean of EMU's College of Education. "Her personal stories bring home the importance of providing rich educational opportunities for all students, especially students who are at the margins of society."
The John W. Porter Distinguished Chair in Urban Education in the COE is named for John W. Porter, former EMU president and state superintendent of public instruction. It is the first endowed chair in the COE. The C.S. Mott Foundation and the MacGregor Foundation largely funded the chair. The chair is designed to actively expand the University's role in urban school districts in Michigan, with an emphasis on school/community relations.
Typically, one visiting professor occupies the Porter Chair for one year and makes periodic visits to campus. This year, the COE reconfigured the format to provide opportunities for EMU faculty, students and staff to interact with a variety of scholars through a "Speaker Series" format.
During her career, Ford has been a professor of special education at Ohio State University, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Virginia and a researcher with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She also taught at the University of Kentucky. Ford conducts research primarily in gifted education and multicultural/urban education.
Specifically, her work focuses on recruiting and retaining culturally diverse students in gifted education; multicultural and urban education; and minority student achievement and underachievement.
Ford's work has been recognized by various professional organizations, including the
Research Award from the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies; Early Career Award from The American Educational Research Association; Early Scholar Award from The National Association for Gifted Children; and the Esteemed Scholarship Award from The National Association of Black Psychologists. She has published more than 90 articles.
Ford is a former board member of the National Association for Gifted Children and has served on numerous editorial boards, such as Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal of Negro Education and Roper Review.
Ford received her doctorate of philosophy in urban education (educational psychology); her master's of education degree (counseling); and her bachelor's degree in communication and Spanish, all from Cleveland State University.
After Ford's presentation Oct. 27, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception will follow to celebrate the opening of the COE's Office of Urban Education and Educational Equity.
The purpose of the office is to support efforts to create supportive educational environments that enable all students to achieve, with a focus on populations that are disenfranchised, including students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, second language learners and minority students. The office conducts research; develops and implements programs; and supports current programs in areas such as teacher development, addressing the achievement gap, institutional environments, assessment and technology.
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The most recent Jewish Community Study of New York held few surprises for those who have followed the sobering Jewish trends of recent decades.Yes, the 1.5 million or so Jews living in New York City and surrounding counties included a rising tide of people living in interfaith relationships and some had even begun calling themselves "partially Jewish." Participation in liberal Jewish congregations declined, again. Jews who said it was "very important" to affiliate with Jewish institutions … [Read more...]
The fall and the strange rise of liberal religion
Fewer Protestants, but better Protestants?
After decades of sobering statistics about rising intermarriage rates, falling birthrates and their declining flocks, eventually Jewish clergy began talking about a future in which there would be "fewer Jews, but better Jews."Faced with sobering evidence that the number of priests was falling, along with statistics for Confession and weekly Mass, many Catholic leaders started talking about a future in which there would be "fewer Catholics, but better Catholics."Now, according to a new survey … [Read more...]
Yet another preying Presbyterian?
Once again, shocked onlookers painted from familiar palettes as they described the latest young man to march into the public square with his guns blazing.The alleged killer was a moody, quiet loner who excelled at school. He was a normal guy who loved movies and super-hero tales, only he cheered for the villains. When seen in bars, he was usually sitting alone.Journalists also quoted people who knew the family and said that James Holmes was once, as The Los Angeles Times noted, "heavily … [Read more...]
Maher says Obama's faith is fake
The last thing the White House needed was another TV preacher questioning the sincerity of President Barack Obama's Christian faith.But there was a twist. This time it was HBO's Bill Maher -- sermonizing against religion has become his life's work -- who claimed that Obama is hiding a deep, dark secret. During the Feb. 11 episode of his "Real Time" talk show, Maher said he knows an unbeliever when he sees one and that Obama is probably an agnostic.This came a week after the president made … [Read more...]
Thumbs down for Obama faith, again
For those keeping score, let it be noted that the White House transcript from the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony says that President Barack Obama shouted "Merry Christmas" before adding "Happy holidays."In fact, Obama said "Christmas" eight times, twice as often as he mentioned "holidays." With his family at his side, the president also used an even more controversial word -- "Christian.""Each year we've come together to celebrate a story that has endured for two millennia," he … [Read more...]
Shocking words for Presbyterians
Anyone who attends one of the national church assemblies that dot the calendar every summer knows that they are highly ritualized affairs.Officers will be elected.Political issues will be discussed. Lofty resolutions will be passed. At least one long business session will include a proposal about clergy benefits and salaries.In recent decades, gatherings in the "seven sisters" of mainline Protestantism have also -- to varying degrees -- featured battles over sex. These flocks are, in … [Read more...]
Voices of unbelievers, in pulpits
On Sunday mornings, you will find him leading hymns in one of the independent Church of Christ congregations somewhere in South Carolina.Call him "Adam." He is a church administrator, a "worship minister" and a self-proclaimed "atheist agnostic." That last detail is a secret. After all, his wife and teen-aged children are devout believers and he needs to stay employed."Here's how I'm handling my job. ... I see it as playacting. I kind of see myself as taking on a role of a believer in a … [Read more...]
Twin rocking chairs for ELCA gays
There was no way for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to affirm the ministries of clergy living in "publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships" without attracting attention.After all, debates about the Bible and sexuality had rocked America's largest Lutheran flock since it was born in 1988 through the merger of three older Lutheran denominations. Similar fights have caused bitter divisions among Episcopalians, Presbyterians, United Methodists and other … [Read more...]


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Everyone heard what he said, loud and clear. But fast forward 5½ years and it seems no one really listened. As a result, Australia is facing a serious long-term budget problem that few in the Canberra political class seem, or want, to comprehend.
The Grattan Institute sounded an alarm bell during the week. It warned that Australian federal and state governments were staring at a "decade of deficits" topping $60 billion or 4 per cent of GDP annually unless there was significant spending cuts, including to politically sensitive areas of welfare, health and education.
A further wake-up call has been issued by former Treasury forecaster
Yet heading into his sixth and almost certainly final budget on the eve of the September 14 election, Treasurer
Labor is promising new multibillion-dollar programs such as the Gonski education reforms and national disability insurance scheme, the latter of which most agree is highly worthy providing it can be funded.
But given the true state of the budget, including the build up of huge spending commitments beyond the four-year forward estimates, can Australia really afford to go down this path?
Debt due to overspend
Europe and the United States are prime examples of what can go wrong when governments defer difficult decisions on spending. Instead of saving in the good times, they are being forced to cut spending at exactly the wrong time, when the economy is very weak.
Australian government net debt of around 10 per cent of GDP remains low by international standards, so it is no immediate cause for concern. But net debt has grown from negative $44 billion in 2007 towards $200 billion. While Australia is far from the basket case that is Europe, it is worth remembering that a rapid build up in debt was what hurt most European economies. Spain, Ireland and Iceland were thought to be in sound fiscal and debt positions before they blew up.
Swan has cast a sombre picture of the budget in the years since the global financial crisis, with constant reminders it has suffered from a "sledgehammer" hit to revenue and that tax receipts have "fallen off a cliff".
It has given the distinct impression that the government's revenue has declined. If that were the case, that would be a real cause for alarm. The reality is that federal government revenue is increasing but has fallen short of over-optimistic forecasts predicated on an unprecedented bounce back in company tax revenue after the GFC.
Revenue in the past financial year grew a robust 9 per cent to $329 billion, short of the heroic 12.7 per cent originally forecast in the 2011-12 budget.
Stephen Bartos of ACIL Allen Consulting, and a former Department of Finance deputy secretary, says the claim that revenue is falling is inaccurate. "Revenue is still growing, it's just not growing fast enough to meet the rise in spending," Bartos says. "A lot of that rise . . . is driven by health and ageing costs."
Spending rose 7.2 per cent in nominal terms to $371 billion last year, or from 24.7 per cent of GDP to 25.3 per cent. Total spending rose $118 billion or 46 per cent over the past five years, including the GFC stimulus.
Bureacracy gets bigger
Underlining how government keeps growing, the number of ongoing commonwealth public servants has increased by 10,437 to 154,307, according to the Australian Public Service Commission. That was after Rudd promised to take a "meat axe" to the public service.
In the last five years of the Howard government, spending rose at a similar runaway rate of 34 per cent and the number of bureaucrats surged 31,537 in the same period.
Much of the growth has been in more expensive senior executives, including in health and education, even though the Commonwealth doesn't operate schools, universities or hospitals.
Still, there is some truth to the government's talk about revenue being under pressure.
The Australian dollar has remained above parity for a couple of years, crunching the non-mining economy and hitting profits. The first part of the mining boom under Howard didn't face a similarly high exchange rate when the terms of trade rose.
As a percentage of GDP, revenue is tracking at about 23 per cent over the past five years, down from an average, near historic high of 25 per cent during the Howard government's reign from 1996-2007.
But that era was an unsustainable revenue bubble, off the back of the windfall gains delivered by the China-induced mining boom that took off around 2004. Macroeconomics estimates that the commodity-boom, windfall revenues contributed about $160 billion to the commonwealth budget bottom line over the eight years to 2011-12.
Much of this extra revenue was doled out on personal income tax cuts, family payments and other middle class welfare, industry assistance and tax breaks for superannuation. "The Howard government engaged in a major discretionary loosening of fiscal policy over its last five budgets," Anthony says. "Even allowing for a one-off stimulus in the face of the global financial crisis, the Rudd-Gillard governments have also tended to outspend savings efforts, while continuing to raise expectations for future spending.
"As a result, the risk is that Australia's medium-term structural budget deficit could deteriorate further based on new spending priorities and longer term spending pressures."
The structural budget balance, which strips out the effects of the temporary ups and downs in the economic cycle, is estimated to be in deficit to the tune of $41 billion or 2.7 per cent of GDP in 2012-13.
Notwithstanding challenges from the high Australian dollar to some industries, this is occurring when unemployment is relatively low at 5.6 per cent, the economy is growing about trend and commodity prices have been well above their long-term average.
In a further worrying sign, the budget is projected to remain in structural deficit for more than a decade, even if the government manages to restrain spending, says Anthony's paper, sponsored by the Minerals Council of Australia. It notes the views expressed are his own. He was been making similar warnings for several years, since leaving public service confines.
Long-term outlook looks gloomy
Interestingly, Labor published similar structural deficit figures in the 2009 budget to finger the Howard government for its lax fiscal discipline during its final two terms.
The budget entered structural deficit around 2006-07 under Howard and treasurer
The concerns are not short term.
Although the long-term outlook into the middle of the century is more difficult to predict, Macroeconomics suggests the ageing population and rising costs of health technology could push the structural deficit to above 5 per cent of GDP without significant remedial action.
This is in line with the government's intergenerational report, last published in 2010, which noted the proportion of working age people is projected to fall, with only 2.7 people of working age to support each Australian aged 65 years and over by 2050, compared with today's five-to-one ratio.
The gap between budget expenses and revenue is projected to balloon to 5 per cent of GDP in 30 years' time, the Intergenerational Report warns.
Why does this matter? After all, debt and deficits are not necessarily bad.
The aim of successive governments has been to run budget surpluses "over the cycle", allowing the automatic stabilisers (lower tax revenue and higher welfare payments) to temporarily push the budget into deficit when there's an economic downturn.
But for reasons already mentioned, the Australian economy is performing reasonably well in aggregate, notwithstanding challenges for some sectors. It seems reasonable to assume we are at a point in the cycle where we should be in, or close to, surplus, rather than staring at multi-year deficits as far as the eye can see.
Warning of a credit downgrade
The budget position is now capturing the attention of credit ratings agencies. Although there is no immediate prospect of Australia losing its AAA rating, Standard & Poor's warned this week that government must chart a credible path back to surplus in the next five years or face a downgrade.
That would not only increase the government's borrowing costs and debt repayments, but have a knock-on effect to the country's banks, which are implicitly backed by the government. A Commonwealth downgrade would almost certainly mean the big four banks fall out of the AA rating band, increasing their cost of funds and pushing up the price of credit.
Still, experts such as Westpac Institutional Bank chief Rob Whitfield point out that federal government borrowing costs are at historic lows, putting it in a position to borrow to fund infrastructure projects.
That is true. The issue at present is that the deficit spending is overwhelmingly financing recurrent expenditure on areas such as welfare, industry assistance, defence, health and education. Very little of the federal budget is financing productive infrastructure that could produce a long-term pay off.
The $44 billion needed to fund the national broadband network does not even hit the budget bottom line, because the NBN Co has been set up off the government's balance sheet.
So after years of appearing to over-spend temporary windfalls, governments have refused to tighten their spending belts.
Business has tightened its belt in response to the higher dollar, but the government has not had the same conviction.
Still, business is complicit in some of the budget failings. For example, BHP Billiton chairman and former Ford president
Another contradiction is from industry groups seeking an extension of various tax breaks, such as for research and development, while also wanting income tax and company tax cuts.
Swan has overseen some nips and tucks to various programs, including introducing a means test of $150,000 on most family payments and the baby bonus, and cuts to tax breaks on employee share schemes and superannuation for the wealthy.
But Labor has not had an overarching framework or a big hard-cutting budget.
Political economists argue the ideal time to make the hard cuts is in the first year of a new government. Labor got spooked by the GFC in its first budget in 2008 and then went hell for leather in its 2009 stimulus budget, increasing spending $44.2 billion or 12.7 per cent to ward off the GFC impacts.
Still spending up large
Regardless of the merits of the size of the stimulus, the so-called "temporary" spending was never properly unwound and has actually continued to rise in nominal terms since the stimulus package.
Hence, the spending baseline of $371 billion in 2011-12 is not sustainable without big spending cuts or large tax increases.
"You can either balance the budget by cutting spending or by raising taxes," Bartos says.
"I favour a mix of both, with consideration to the unfinished agenda of the Henry tax review."
If the opinion polls are accurate, the Coalition's key treasury and finance frontbenchers,
Given the budget rot set in during the final years of the Howard government and has deteriorated since, it seems appropriate that they will have to play their part in repairing the fiscal mess. Hockey will need to act on the entitlement mentality he has identified.
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Kyle Hendricks shut out the Brewers over 7 1/3 innings in the Cubs' 3-0 shutout victory on Tuesday.
MLB.com's Mark Feinsand reports that the Rays are "very close" to acquiring Steve Cishek from the Mariners in exchange for Erasmo Ramirez.
Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News reports that the Mets are expected to call up first base prospect Dominic Smith "soon."
ESPN's Buster Olney reports that David Price had an MRI on his left elbow Thursday.
Martin Prado will have season-ending surgery on his right knee.
ESPN's Jerry Crasnick reports that the Braves are "listening" to inquiries on Jim Johnson, but they're "not actively looking to move him."
Brett Gardner scored the tying run in the ninth inning before hitting a walk-off homer in the 11th to give the Yankees a 6-5 win over the Rays on Thursday.
According to Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports, the Yankees' trade talks for Sonny Gray have stalled because the Athletics are seeking one of either Clint Frazier or Gleyber Torres.
J.D. Martinez hit a grand slam that accounted for all the scoring in the Diamondbacks' 4-0 win over the Cardinals on Thursday.
According to MLB.com's Mark Feinsand, if the Dodgers are willing to offer OF prospect Alex Verdugo in a trade, Yu Darvish is "probably going to L.A."
Zack Godley held the Cardinals scoreless over seven innings in a win Thursday.
Chris O'Grady fired seven shutout innings Thursday, scattering five hits and two walks en route to a 4-1 win over the Reds.


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WinStar Farm's Colonel John, winner of the $1 million Travers Stakes (gr. I) by a nose at Saratoga Aug. 23, worked four furlongs Sept. 14 on Santa Anita's Pro-Ride surface in :48 4/5 for trainer Eoin Harty. The colt is headed for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) Oct. 25 at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meet.
"I thought it was great," Harty said when asked for his evaluation of Colonel John's drill. "He did it very easily. He looks fantastic. He had such a hard race in the Travers that I gave him just a little break, a little freshening, after that. This was his first work since the (Aug. 23) Travers. Iggy Puglisi was on him."
Colonel John will not go in the Goodwood Stakes (gr. I) at Santa Anita Sept. 27, according to Harty. The trainer said he does not want to run the colt again before the Classic because of "his very hard race" in the Travers.
"If he were to give 110 percent in the Goodwood, he could then be a little bit flat in the Breeders' Cup," Harty said. "I want him to bring his best effort in the Breeders' Cup."
Colonel John, a Kentucky homebred son of Tiznow --Sweet Damsel, by Turkoman, won both the Sham Stakes (gr. III) and Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) on Santa Anita's main track earlier this year. However, those races were run on a hybrid synthetic track consisting of both Pro-Ride and Cushion Track materials.
"I thought he handled this surface very well," Harty said of Colonel John's first workout on Santa Anita's new Pro-Ride track. "I think this surface is just better than the one we had here before. I thought Ian Pearce (of Pro-Ride) did a marvelous job when he came in and fixed the track (by mixing Pro-Ride with Cushion Track last winter). But I think this surface is even better."
While Colonel John will pass the Goodwood, the Harty barn is to be represented in that race by a different son of Tiznow. That would be WinStar Farm's Well Armed, runner-up in the $1 million Pacific Classic (gr. I) at Del Mar Aug. 24.
"He's doing super," Harty said. "I'm planning to work him Tuesday, probably either five-eighths or three-quarters."
Well Armed won Santa Anita's San Pasqual Handicap (gr. II) last Feb. 9 and Del Mar's San Diego Handicap (gr. II) Aug. 24. In between those victories, he finished third behind Curlin and Asiatic Boy in the $6 million Dubai World Cup – Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) March 29.
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One gun bought during Atlantic County's buyback could end up in a museum instead of being melted down.
A World War II-era gun, a Sturmgewehr 44, caught a lot of attention when it was turned in Friday at the Guns for Cash event in Pleasantville's First Baptist Church.
The StG 44 is an assault rifle developed in Nazi Germany during World War II. It is considered by many historians to be the first modern assault rifle.
There is some precedent for saving guns turned in during buybacks.
A vintage Uzi collected during a previous buyback in Trenton was sent to the State Police Museum in Mercer County, State Police Lt. Col. Louis Klock said. An Uzi is an Israeli submachine gun designed by Uziel Gal in the late 1940s. It went into service in 1950 and is now in worldwide use, according to the website www.uzi.com.
"If it has historical significance ... we would notify the State Police," acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain said.
That wouldn't be the place for the StG 44, however, Klock said.
Depending on its condition, it would most likely best be suited for the National Guard Militia Museum in Sea Girt. But he wasn't optimistic.
"It appears in pretty rough shape," he said. "So, in all likelihood, it could end up melted down with the rest."
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Volvo sinks teeth into 'Twilight'
Volvo has quickly become one of "Twilight's" biggest Twihards.
Volvo has quickly become one of "Twilight's" biggest Twihards.
Summit Entertainment's "Eclipse" grossed an estimated $24.2 million on Thursday from 4,416 theaters for a domestic cume of $92.8 million.
Femme auds helped Summit's "Eclipse" continue to smash box office records.
Summit's "Eclipse" scored massive figures Tuesday night.
The interests of Hollywood and the journalists who cover the town seldom converge, but the two have much in common regarding their unease toward zealots like the most ardent "Twilight" fans: Studios…
(Above: Thesps Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart greet "Twilight" fans outside the Nokia Theater at Thursday's "Eclipse" premiere) LIVE BLOG: Summit's premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"…
Summit Entertainment set a dozen free outdoor screenings of the first two "Twilight" pics Saturday, as part of a celebration of the lunar eclipse on that evening.
European hysteria for "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" started spreading on Thursday from a Rome red carpet with St. Peter's in the backdrop and stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner strutting amid…
The studio is still tight-lipped on whether "Breaking Dawn" will be one or two films.
Will Summit Entertainment definitely break the story into two films?
Summit Entertainment has closed its deal with helmer Bill Condon to close out the "Twilight" saga.


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Walt Disney World Construction Photos
Not quite Miami, but in the Orlando/Kissimmee area. However, as kids and just because we're so close to it, Walt Disney World has been a part of all our lives. Here are a couple photos of Walt discussing the project and then photos of the Princess' Castle and Mainstreet USA being built (early 1970/1971). And then the construction of Epcot in 1982. Walt Disney passed before either park opened, but his vision was definitely present in the construction of both.
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Closing the Box on Pandora?
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On April 16, three men—a retired bankruptcy judge from Alabama, a former litigator with expertise in transportation industry economics and a career attorney for the Copyright Office—made a decision that has profound implications for the future of webcasting, and for the music and Internet industries in general.
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Supporters of this decision argue that these new, higher royalty rates will ensure that musicians are paid fairly for their work as the music industry shifts its focus from traditional media to the Internet. Currently, record labels and recording artists don't receive any royalties at all from terrestrial radio, which is required to pay only composers and publishers. However, detractors argue that the new rates are ruinously high and will lead to bankruptcy for the vast majority of webcasters, eliminating a resource that entertains more than 70 million Americans and financially supports tens of thousands of recording artists.
In order to learn more about the webcasting business, and the potential effects of this ruling, we spoke with Tim Westergren, the founder of popular Internet radio provider Pandora and one of the most vocal proponents for lower webcasting royalty rates.
Aram Sinnreich: What, exactly, is Pandora, and how does it work?
Tim Westergren: Pandora offers personalized radio over the Internet. The secret to our product is the music genome project, which is this enormous collection of songs that have been musicologically analyzed, each along close to 400 musical attributes, by a team of 50 trained musicians. We use this musical DNA to connect songs and create playlists.
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Sinnreich: What's Pandora's business model? How do you make money?
Westergren: It's advertising-supported. Our primary costs are licensing and streaming, and the core personnel. But a business like ours scales, so the whole thing is, build a large listener base, and then you start to get the advantages of scale. We sell visual advertising right now, and we recently experimented with audio ads. But we haven't made any decision about whether that's something we would pursue long-term.
I can't tell you too much about our financials, but we're not profitable right now, and [until the CRB ruling] we were looking at a year or two from now being able to turn a profit. It's a relatively small-margin business, and it's all about getting a big audience.
Sinnreich: What are the new webcasting rates, and how do they affect your bottom line?
Westergren: As a webcaster, we pay a performance royalty for every song that we stream. It's a royalty that's not paid by terrestrial broadcasters, and is paid at a much lower rate by satellite broadcasters. Until this ruling, the rate that we paid was 1.17 cents per listener-hour, which equates to about 0.076 cents per song streamed to each listener.
The new rates, which are retroactive to the beginning of 2006, are immediately higher than that. They go from 0.076 to 0.08 cents per song, and then they go up incrementally over the subsequent five years. And by the end, they're at 0.19 cents per song. That's close to a tripling.
Economically, these new rates will represent 70-80 percent of gross revenues for folks like us, as opposed to only about 25 percent today. So they make the business completely uneconomic. There's nobody that can deliver an advertising-supported webcast at those levels, because advertisers won't allow us to raise rates high enough to cover it.
When you consider that satellite radio providers pay between 5 and 7.5 percent of gross revenues for the same thing, it seems especially unreasonable.
Sinnreich: As of May 15, you're going to owe higher royalties retroactively to January 2006, due in one lump sum. How big is that check going to be?
Westergren: I can't tell you specifically, but the near-term impact is many millions of dollars.
Sinnreich: What do you think the impact of these new rates will be on the Internet radio industry as a whole?
Westergren: If these new rates really stick, it'll stop. No legitimate webcaster can afford to stream. There may be a few large terrestrial stations that keep their streams going online as a loss leader, but the whole business and ecosystem around Net radio is really going to be wiped out.
On the other hand, there are 70 million Americans currently listening to radio over the Internet. If you suddenly turn it off, the demand doesn't go away. More Web radio will start sprouting up from countries where royalties aren't strictly enforced, and people will start tuning in to them.
Sinnreich: The RIAA and SoundExchange argue that higher rates are necessary in order to adequately compensate recording artists as CD sales and other traditional music channels continue to lose customers to the Internet. What's your take on this?
Westergren: I'm a musician myself, and I'm a huge fan of paying artists for their work. Our position is that we're happy to pay it, but it has to make sense for the business. You're right—CD sales are really dropping dramatically, and there's a fair bit of panic going on. But that's coupled with a serious misperception about the economics of online radio. SoundExchange and the RIAA say that since Internet radio's getting bigger, a bigger piece of the webcasting pie needs to go to artists. In reality, revenue might grow, but that doesn't mean it's going to become much more profitable. You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
Sinnreich: So you don't think they're malicious so much as misinformed.
Westergren: They're definitely misinformed. But there's another piece of the story. Half of the money we pay to SoundExchange each month goes to the labels, and half goes directly to the artists. If these new rates do stick, then the only way webcasters will stay alive is to start striking direct licensing deals, at lower rates, with the major record labels. If those deals are struck, then all of that money goes directly to the label, and goes under the umbrella of traditional record deals, where only a very small percent ends up going to artists.
Sinnreich: So you believe that one of the strategic reasons the RIAA has for supporting these higher rates is so labels can offer a competitive lower rate directly to webcasters, which would mean more income overall for labels and less income for artists?
Westergren: That's exactly right.
Sinnreich: That sounds pretty nefarious.
Westergren: It's business. These are businesses that are struggling, and they're trying to maximize revenue.
Sinnreich: Have you seen any evidence of labels making direct deals with webcasters?
Westergren: SoundExchange just announced that they're happy to let the RIAA deal directly with webcasters. Labels, throughout this process, have also been soliciting deals on the side. And they've already signed some—[popular webcaster] Last.fm signed a couple.
Sinnreich: Some have argued that the labels might also negotiate lower rates in exchange for promotional concessions from webcasters—the kind of thing that's sometimes referred to as "payola" in terrestrial broadcasting. Would Pandora consider such an arrangement?
Westergren: Pandora has never, ever taken money to play music, and we never will. Labels have certainly offered, and I don't think that's nefarious—it's the same as buying a billboard, or an end-cap [a type of display] in a record store. I think that is undoubtedly part of the motivation for direct licensing deals, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a promotional element to many of those deals. And that's just business.
The problem is that listeners lose out. What's being killed here is this channel that's a wellspring of discovery and deep catalog and music-centric programming. And to my mind, it's the future of music, and the only hope for it. And if it gets bottled up and stuck in these kinds of deals, it's going to wind up being more of the same of what you already have.
Sinnreich: How deep is your catalog, and how much comes from the major labels?
Westergren: We have close to 600,000 songs now, and half the music we stream is independent of major label affiliation. And 70 percent of the songs we play come from albums whose Amazon music sales rank is 10,000 or lower. It's indie, indie stuff.
Sinnreich: Some people would argue that if the market won't support webcasting, it's no great loss. If Pandora's going to go out of business, who cares? This is an age of booming consumer access to a broad range of content. There's digital terrestrial radio, mobile music services, satellite radio—why do consumers need Internet radio on top of that?
Westergren: That's a fair question. The only answer to that is to look at how consumers respond. We've grown like a weed, and the only reason that's happened, considering that we don't advertise the service, is because there's a need for what we're offering. And I think that it's going to grow faster and faster. And if you want to shut off these kinds of services, sure you can force people to be happy with what they have, but that doesn't mean there's not an appetite for a lot more.
Sinnreich: What's Pandora going to do if the new rates stick?
Westergren: There's a pretty good chance we'll just turn it off, and give the money back to our investors.
Sinnreich: Fortunately for you, there are still some options on the table. You were involved in the recent launch of SaveNetRadio.org. Tell me a little bit about it.
Westergren: It's a coalition led by webcasters—us, AOL, Yahoo, Live365, RealNetworks and a huge slew of smaller sites—and it includes many musicians and listeners as well. Its intention is to collectively solve the problem, and to marshal our respective audiences, directing that energy into congressional pressure to get a bill passed that will create parity between Internet radio and satellite radio.
We launched it on April 16, and had a quarter-million people sign the petition and contact their congresspeople in the first three days. And it's continuing to grow. Pandora listeners are very energized.
I think musicians really need to pay attention to this, and not be passive, and get smart and get active. This is a watershed moment. There's this budding vibrant online radio phenomenon that's got massive energy and enthusiasm, and is growing in leaps and bounds. And it's a new voice for the newly empowered creative class. Musicians are now able through technology to produce this huge volume of really good music. There's no room for it in broadcast radio, but there is in this new medium. And it's under threat right now, in a big way.
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By cdcollector, September 10, 2008 at 3:25 pm Link to this comment
I have always supported the artists I enjoy. I have a wall with 3000+ CDs to support that claim. Even with the internet, it takes time to really look for new music that I like. Radio (terrestrial and satellite) is nearly worthless unless you listen to the top 40. Even listening to internet radio serving up a genre that nobody else plays is still too time consuming for finding new artists (albeit is much better than other radio). Pandora, which I just discovered, has given me a "to-buy" list from just passive listening that is orders of magnitude better than any other mode of music advertising that I've ever used. Even Apple iTunes is starting to think the same way with the Genius feature, even though it still isn't anywhere near Pandora.
By Laurie, May 14, 2007 at 8:55 pm Link to this comment
Regarding Music/Artists which/whom the Labels Do Not promote, carry, and especially broadcast - Danny Peck, a Los Angeles based musician is very much to the point with powerful to the point lyrics and acoustic music to carry the message to your heart. The following song is a message that is censored by the kind of legislation which prevents musical artists any venue for finding their audience.
words and music by Danny Peck http://www.dannypeck.com
Took a train to New York city
Cuz there's a war goin' on, There's a war, war, war, goin' on
Mama's leavin' daddy cuz Daddy wasn't happy
Cuz there's a war goin' on , There's a war, war, war, goin' on
You didn't join the army and
Cuz there's a war goin' on, There's a war, war, war, goin' on
Drive by shootings blow up
While outside in the real world
Cuz there's a war goin' on , There's a war, war, war, goin' on
Alcoholics ain't anonymous
Cuz there's a war goin' on, There's a war, war, war, goin' on
Chemicals for pleasure
Cuz there's a war goin' on, There's a war, war, war, goin' on
And who will pay the price
Soldier boys in desert heat
Body bags and unmarked graves
Cuz there's a war goin' on, There's a war, war, war goin' on
And who will pray for peace
Now I stand out on the street
Cuz there's a war goin' on
Words and Music by Danny Peck
By Laurie, May 14, 2007 at 8:37 pm Link to this comment
I am impressed with Westergren's composure. What no one is directly addressing here is that the independent artists we discover on Pandora are the artists that the "Labels" do not "carry, represent, promote". Prior to projects like Pandora the majority of these artists have been locked out by Corporations which otherwise buy them up and suck them dry (unless their product is commercial enough and the artist sets up a corporation in self defense)Otherwise the Labels appear to be bent on eradicating the competition of talent that doesn't knuckle under to produce their mind control soliloquy muzak. If the Labels have their way our best artists will be under the thumb of the uni-think state that the culture is being numbed and dumbed into.
This is a freedom of choice matter which is being secretively legislated away. The newspapers are not working to keep the citizenry informed - rather to promote the corporate agenda. So much legislation is hammering away at our lives on so many fronts - that anyone who is paying attention is overwhelmed.
Artists who wake people up to the deeper truths of our circumstances and the plight of our planet and its inhabitants represent the most powerful medium for constructive inspired action and change. They aren't very popular these days- even in the "indy" outlets.
This culture derides serious messages or attempts to nullify them with public relations campaigns that congratulate corporations for paying lip service to the state of emergency which is the current reality of humanity's survival prospects.
As Danny Peck, LA based musician and one of my most beloved independent courageous musical artists has put it (in his independently produced CD and far too infrequent gigs… "Body Bags and unmarked graves ... There's a War going on… There's a war, war, war Going On!" I will post the words in a subsequent post (from Danny's website) because they deserve to be heard, as does Danny- especially in these times. If for some reason they do not show up here the following link will take you to the song or you could listen to the mp3 on dannypeck.com .
I truly hope some of the readers of this website will listen. This is not meant to be a "commercial" promotion - the intent is only to bring a message that the industry does not promote, support - in fact it could be argued that the "music" industry is just one of many working hard to stifle the kind of message which follows. I hope some of you will take a few minutes to go to Danny's site and treat yourself to something you might otherwise never have the remarkable opportunity to hear - a passionate activist who is also an awesomely talented musician bringing it all together.
While the words are powerful - it is the combination of Danny's inspired acoustic music and passionate delivery that transport the meaning past the anesthetized lockdown of the mind to ignite understanding of what is being said.
By Rob in Madrid, May 4, 2007 at 5:59 am Link to this comment
I'm a big fan of streaming radio. I usually listen to yahoo music and other streaming stations. It's a faublous way to discover new bands and sounds that I might never bother tuning into. I can't be bother to download music from Itune I prefer commerical free radio.
I would really miss it it went away
By J, May 2, 2007 at 11:57 am Link to this comment
My primary question would be-is it possible to set up a station via the internet in Mexico or Canada-pay publishers royalties and get around this…?
By Michael Zapruder, April 27, 2007 at 1:54 pm Link to this comment
hey all - I'm pandora's music curator - just want to let everyone know that pandora isn't going away yet, and that you can do something to help.
A new bill has been introduced in Congress that will set fair, sustainable webcasting rates. It's essential that reps get phone calls from their constituents now, and get the message that people want them to co-sponsor this bill.
more details:
There is now a bill being introduced to Congress called the Internet Radio Equality Act, H.R. 2060. Simply put, it is designed to save Internet radio from obliteration.
To call and ask your Congressperson to co-sponsor the Internet Radio Equality Act, H.R. 2060, follow this link to find your Congressperson's phone number:
Your opinion matters to your representatives - so please take just a minute to call.
Visit http://www.savenetradio.org to continue following the fight to Save Internet Radio.
please pass the word, and thanks,
By Annisarsha, April 26, 2007 at 3:13 am Link to this comment
I can't even begin to list the # of artists I've discovered via Pandora. I don't listen to any other radio format, esp. FM. Pandora has exposed me to music I KNOW I probably wouldn't hear otherwise as well as helped me redisover artists I'd forgotten about. And yes, my cd purchases went from 0 to 5 or 6 in the past 6 mos. I've been listening. In fact, I'm going CD shopping Friday, thanks to Pandora. I can only hope I don't wake up one morning to find them gone. It seems it's out of our hands.
By fkm, April 25, 2007 at 7:05 pm Link to this comment
I made the same argument to my so called representatives in the U.S. Congress. I have bought more music since listening to Pandora and other Internet radio than in the last six years combined.
By granola, April 25, 2007 at 2:12 pm Link to this comment
Let's hear a good word for the interviewer. This is a most informative article, put the case clearly and forcefully. Give us more from Sinnreich.
By Kane Miller, April 25, 2007 at 11:31 am Link to this comment
The mainstream recording industry is sinking fast, torpedoed by decades of executive greed and a complete lack of awareness of modern technology, and how to deal with it. They don't give a damn about musicians or music, only profit. They are now grasping at any straw they can get their grubby hands on.
People aren't buying CD's because of vapid acts, overpricing, and a resistance to marketing hype. Internet radio is just a convenient scapegoat - one among many. The labels will blame their obsolescence on anything but their own greed and incompetence.
By Rusty Darbonne, April 25, 2007 at 12:43 am Link to this comment
Number of CD's I was interested in buying prior to listening to Pandora about two weeks ago: 0.
Number of CD's I'm now interested in buying thanks to Pandora: about 20, mostly from artists I had not known about until Pandora turned me onto them.
Big music biz doesn't know how to sell anything to me. Pandora does.
By wykydred, April 24, 2007 at 7:15 pm Link to this comment
Very true. I'm wondering how much money went into these judges' pockets? But I'm sure the record industry will make it up. They'll just take the money spent to insure this ruling out of the artist's pockets.
But to be fair, the recording industry execs NEED 6 houses and $20,000 suits to impress everyone and show people how very successful they are, so even a tiny drop in income will sorely affect them, their families and the women who bonk them just to rub up to tubs of money.
Internet radio has given the record industry 15 sales in CD's so far this year from me and my very meager income. Mostly for the reason that I hear music that reminds me of growing up and how I don't have it around the house, so I buy the CD's. It's exposed me to different types of music that makes me say "WOW I gotta have that!" I don't listen to the radio except in the car, but I listen to Internet Radio all the time in the house.
I know my lousy 15 CD's won't pay for anyone's piece of fluff on the side, but without Inet Radio, I will utterly lack the motivation to buy any more music, or pass the word to friends about buying what I'm hooked on at the moment to buy the CD as well.
Music sales are in the toilet because the music is generally crap, people are TIRED of feeding the beast and being told it's "our" fault that CD sales suck and we are no longer settling for one good song on an album full of garbage. We ain't buying the hype anymore, people, and when Internet Radio goes dead, we ain't buying the product either.
By Lefty, April 24, 2007 at 1:25 pm Link to this comment
Who ever said that the federal court system isn't every bit the corporate whorehouse that the Congress and White House are. Almost all sitting judges at trial and appellate levels are republican appointees.
What did you expect? That a federal judge would rule in favor of the little guy! Get real!
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How do the book, characters and circumstances of Esther point us to Christ?
It seems that a major qualification for a book in the Bible should be some mention of God, Christ, the Scriptures, or even prayer. The book of Esther has none of these. Yet the story clearly records God's extraordinary deliverance of his chosen people from annihilation, and foreshadows our ultimate delivery from death through Christ's victory on the cross.
The character of Esther mirrors the character of Christ. Esther is willing to sacrifice herself—risking a potential death sentence by going before the king's throne unsummoned—in order to save her people. She is more concerned with the overall good than with her own life: "I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish." (4:16) Likewise, Christ is willing to perform a miserable task—die a gruesome death on a cross—in order to save his people.
Granted, Esther is not without faults. She goes to the king only after Mordecai rather brutally points out that, even as the queen, she would not escape the upcoming slaughter of the Jews. He tells her, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish." (3:13-14) While she is frightened, Esther does obey Mordecai, relying on his wisdom to set her path in the right direction. By looking to his guidance, Esther shows wisdom herself.
Similarly, Christ is also obedient to his Father. He does not anticipate the cross with joy, but is more concerned with obeying God than with maintaining his own comfort. Though he asks the Lord to come up with another way to deliver humanity, he willingly goes: "Not as I will, but as you will." (Matt 26:39) Esther mirrors Christ's obedience and consequent wisdom.
Not only does Esther act as a Christ figure, but the entire book mirrors—or perhaps more adequately, foreshadows—the salvation story. Paul writes in Romans that "we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good for those who have been called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28) The truth of this statement is demonstrated throughout the Bible, and Esther's story is no exception. Hamon means to slaughter all the Jews in Persia; instead, the Jews are able to take "an eye for an eye" from their enemies, and Hamon is hanged on his own gallows.
In Sunday school, I used to sing a kids' song with these lyrics: "From bad to good, in all things. God works for good, in all things. What's meant for evil God turns it around from bad to good, yeah." (Dean-O and the Dynamos) Christ's death is the ultimate example of God working from bad to good. For the disciples, Jesus' death must have been the worst event of their lives. They had given up everything—family, livelihood, the respect of the righteous religious leaders—to follow the man they thought was the Messiah. His death represented utter failure—the new world they had hoped for would not come into fruition.
Yet in reality, it was the best event that has ever taken place in the history of the world. It saved mankind from itself. Even though the book of Esther makes no mention of God, his presence and the faith of his people are visibly present, from the moment of Vashti's demotion to Hamon's execution.


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Flash_Cart, you're great. That really did make me laugh out loud.
Thanks for responding everyone and for your support. The person in question actually did send me the money this afternoon. So maybe you're all giving good karma. At any rate, I'm not sure why he still hasn't communicated anything or what his reasons were, but a paid invoice means that there's potential for me being willing to do any future work. It's always better not to have a burned bridge.
I did a very small job for a prominent social marketer whose job is to speak at conferences on LinkedIn networking. He came to me in a panic about fixing his website css in time for an influx of visitors. Well, I did an hour of work, fixed his site, he promised to pay and (you can guess)...dropped of the planet. I invoiced him and emailed and he won't reply.
My question is this: since he's dishonest, should I
1. let other people know so they don't waste their time with this guy? Isn't that what LinkedIn recommendations are for? To let people know what it's like to work for/with someone?
2. He's got 20,000 Twitter followers, should I call him out on Twitter?
3. Or should I tell him that I'll accept a recommendation from him in lieu of payment?
4. Or should I forget it altogether?
What advice do you have?
How about more readable text colors with more contrast from the background.
I find the Welcome text on the homepage so low contrast that I couldn't even see that there was any text at all. I wondered why there were links scattered randomly across the div until I realize that there was a whole paragraph of text there that I couldn't see and the links were just part of the text. It's really really bad when you can't even see that there are any words there at all. I have a window by my monitor with sun coming in, so that's part of it, but wow. That's pretty low contrast. Must be a nightmare for anyone with bad vision.
Hi. I just wish that that fixed/liquid were in the stats displayed in the right sidebar.
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