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The Anti-Immigrant Movement that Failed:
Positive Integration Policies by State Governments Still Far Outweigh Punitive Policies Aimed at New Immigrants
A Report by the Progressive States Network
September 2008
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About the Progressive States Network
The Progressive States Network was founded in 2005 to drive public policy debates and change the political landscape in the United States by focusing on attainable, progressive state actions. The Progressive States Network advances this agenda by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state policymakers, legislative staff, and non-profit organizations. We function as a meeting space for progressive legislators, activists, and citizens, and serve as a hotbed of information exchange. We track legislation in all 50 states, helping to spark change across the country. We make it easier for people to learn more about how to get good ideas passed into law "" and how to take power into their own hands.
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Angeles Guis also contributed research for production of this report
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Anti-Immigrant Movement that Failed. 2 [5]
Real Solutions, Not Scapegoating, Begin to Win the Public Debate. 2 [6]
How the Media Got Distracted by Anti-Immigrant Wedge Politics. 3 [7]
Integrative versus Punitive Immigrant Policies in the States. 4 [8]
Charting Policy Differences on Immigration Between the States. 5 [9]
Table 1: Categories of Immigration Policies by States. 6 [10]
Punitive versus Integrative Policies: Comparing Individual Policies. 8 [12]
Chart 3: Number of Undocumented Immigrants Living in States with Different Policies 9 [13]
Conclusion. 9 [14]
Appendix A: State-by-State Policies on Immigration. 10 [15]
Executive Summary
The Misguided Media Hype over Anti-Immigrant Legislation: Despite much media hype, the supposed wave of anti-immigrant politics has amounted to a few punitive laws in a handful of states, even as most states have quietly been moving forward with positive, integrative approaches to new immigrants in their communities.
The Failed Use of Immigration as a "Wedge" Issue: The current hype around anti-immigrant policies is, unfortunately, about electoral politics. The media largely fell for the tactics of political opportunists who hoped to use the issue of immigration as a "wedge" issue, much as they have used gay marriage and other social issues to undermine progressive coalitions and support rightwing politicians during elections. Yet the result has largely been political failure for rightwing politicians trying to play the anti-immigrant political card.
The Success of Positive Immigration Policy: Many states, including those where most immigrants live, now provide in-state tuition (so-called DREAM Acts) for undocumented immigrants going to public universities. Others are promoting policies to integrate immigrants through English language instruction and assistance in navigating the citizenship process. A number of states are providing health insurance to undocumented children. And instead of trying to punish immigrant workers, states are increasingly working with native and immigrant workers to crack down on bad employers who are violating minimum wage, safety and workers compensation laws.
Highlighting Positive State Legislation for New Immigrants: In this report, we have provided a state-by-state summary of major immigrant-related policies, both punitive and integrative, enacted in the last few years. We divide states based on those policies into six categories, from integrative to punitive, and highlight charts and graphs that demonstrate that positive integrative policies are far more common in the states than negative punitive policies.
A few key findings:
· Integrative policies are far more pervasive than punitive policies, with the later having been enacted only in a small minority of state populations.
· Only 11% of undocumented immigrants live in states that have enacted comprehensive punitive policies, while a significant majority of undocumented immigrants live in states with positive integrative or somewhat integrative policies.
· Only 16% of undocumented immigrants live in states that have enacted sanctions against private sector employers.
· On the other hand, over 50% of undocumented immigrants live in states that provide in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant children.
· Nearly the same majority of undocumented immigrants live in states that are promoting "New Americans" policies to better educate new immigrants and nearly a majority also live in states that have recently enacted new penalties for wage law violations in order to raise wages for all workers, native and immigrant alike.
Introduction: The Anti-Immigrant Movement
that Failed:
Positive Integration Policies by State Governments Still Far
Punitive Policies Aimed at New Immigrants
With most 2008 state legislative sessions at an end, we can take a step back and make a few conclusions about what happened in the states on policies effecting the immigrant population:
· In a few states where the right-wing controlled the legislature, they jammed through some laws creating punitive sanctions against undocumented immigrants.
· However, in states where moderates or progressives had any significant influence, the momentum for anti-immigration legislation stalled and almost all anti-immigrant legislation failed to pass.
· In the largest states where most undocumented immigrants actually live -- California, Illinois, New York, Texas and Florida -- no significant anti-immigrant legislation was enacted this session or last.
· Largely ignored by the media, over the last few years, quite a few states have pioneered programs and laws to positively integrate new immigrants into our communities and address citizens' economic fears in ways that raise wage standards for everyone, immigrant and native worker alike.
· In fact, when you look at what policies states have actually enacted, most undocumented immigrants live in states that have enacted positive programs to integrate new immigrants and rejected punitive approaches to new immigrants.
As the charts in the rest of this report demonstrate, punitive anti-immigrant policies have been enacted in only a handful of states, states where only a small percentage of the U.S. population live and an even smaller percentage of undocumented immigrants reside. Strikingly, given the national media focus on anti-immigrant legislative battles, only 11% of undocumented immigrants live in the states that have enacted comprehensive punitive policies.
Real Solutions, Not Scapegoating, Begin to Win the Public Debate
The bottom-line is that despite much media hype, the supposed wave of anti-immigrant politics has amounted to a few punitive laws in a handful of states, even as most states have quietly been moving forward with positive, integrative approaches to new immigrants in their communities. Many states, including those where most immigrants live, now provide in-state tuition (so-called DREAM Acts) for undocumented immigrants going to public universities. Others are promoting policies to integrate immigrants through English language instruction and assistance in navigating the citizenship process. A number of states are providing health insurance to undocumented children. And instead of trying to punish immigrant workers, states are increasingly working with native and immigrant workers to crack down on bad employers who are violating minimum wage, safety and workers compensation laws.
One reason bad legislation stalled in all but a handful of states in 2008 is that legislators and the public have increasingly recognized that scapegoating immigrants is not going to solve the economic pressure working families experience. The real problem is a far more pervasive one of employers violating the workplace rights of all workers, both native and immigrant.
Notably, in states that have begun to consider new penalties for employers violating minimum wage and other labor rights, many of the right-wing politicians who had previously talked eloquently about the suffering of workers due to the supposed immigrant onslaught often back away from their concern about illegal activity in our workplaces. With lobbying by more responsible business leaders deploring the distraction of the anti-immigrant debate away from the real needs of state economies, you had a recipe in 2008 for putting aside anti-immigrant legislation in multiple states across the country.
How the Media Got Distracted by Anti-Immigrant Wedge Politics
The current hype around anti-immigrant policies is, unfortunately, about electoral politics. It is true that there is a vocal minority of the public that has promoted anti-immigrant policies for years, much as they have on and off throughout American history. This has been especially true in a few states, especially those with little previous historical experience with immigration, that have experienced rapid immigrant population growth in recent years.
Yet with so few states actually passing anti-immigrant legislation, the remarkable thing is how much attention the media has given anti-immigrant politicians. The media largely fell for the tactics of political opportunists who hoped to use the issue of immigration as a "wedge" issue, much as they have used gay marriage and other social issues to undermine progressive coalitions and support rightwing politicians during elections. Politicians like Congressman Tom Tancredo championed anti-immigrant proposals at the federal level and conservative state politicians sought to promote similar policies for electoral gain. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty proposed a series of anti-immigrant executive orders earlier this year, a tactic that Javier Morillo-Alicea, President of SEIU Local 26, noted "has everything to do with the presidential race [16]," since Pawlenty was angling for a slot as the Vice-Presidential nominee.
Yet the result has largely been political failure for rightwing politicians trying to play the anti-immigrant political card. In 2006, many analysts raised fears that anti-immigrant fervor would doom progressive candidates. Instead, progressives won big in those elections. In 2007, it was more of the same in elections in Virginia and New York where Democrats gained control of the Virginia Senate and expanded control in Long Island's Suffolk County, despite opponents trying to make political hay off of the immigration issue. Typical headlines last November read "In the Ballot Booths, No Fixation on Immigration." (Washington Post) Anti-immigrant candidates failed to even make headway in the Presidential primaries; arguably, the most pro-immigrant major Presidential candidates in each party won in both party primaries.
Yet the media continued to fixate on the handful of states debating anti-immigrant policies, abetted by Lou Dobbs and politicians still hoping to stir up racial divisions in the population. In the end, however, only in state legislatures already dominated by rightwing leadership such as Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, and Utah were significant anti-immigrant policies able to make headway in 2008, just as they only made headway in similar rightwing-controlled legislatures like Arizona, Georgia, Oklahoma and Tennessee in previous sessions. Everywhere else, states either stalled anti-immigrant bills or enacted positive policies to better integrate new immigrants, the latter a story almost completely overlooked by the national media.
Integrative versus Punitive Immigrant Policies in the States
In Appendix A at the end of this report, we have provided a state-by-state summary of major immigrant-related policies, both punitive and integrative, enacted in the last few years.
Punitive policies detailed in that state-by-state chart have gotten the most public attention, including legislation to cut-off benefits to undocumented immigrants (usually involving benefits they already were not receiving), local enforcement of federal immigration laws, and workplace sanctions applying additional criminal or civil penalties against private employers and undocumented immigrants hired by those employers.
Integrative policies enacted in the states have gotten far less public attention nationally, so it's worth highlighting a few of these positive policies enacted in multiple states:
· Nine states provide in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants to attend public colleges and universities. These include most of the states with the highest populations of immigrants, including California, Illinois, New York and Texas, along with a number of relatively conservative states like Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah which have recognized the gains from strengthening educational attainment among the new immigrant population.
· Many states have promoted "New Americans" policies to provide English language instruction and provide help to immigrants in navigating the process to attain citizenship. States including Illinois, Massachusetts, and Washington provide funding for community organizations to provide assistance to new immigrants seeking citizenship.
· Some states, including New York, Illinois and Washington, as well as several California counties, provide health insurance for undocumented immigrant children using state tax dollars. Recently enacted programs in these states have expanded health coverage for tens of thousands of such undocumented immigrant children just in the last few years.
· In order to raise wage standards for native and immigrant workers alike, many states are cracking down on the low-wage economy exploiting undocumented immigrants and many native workers as well. Colorado, Minnesota and Connecticut have enacted new crackdowns on companies misclassifying employees as "independent contractors" in order to evade wage and tax laws. California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York have created new investigatory arms to coordinate a crackdown on wage law violators, including a new Bureau of Immigrant Workers' Rights established in New York State.
· Many states have enacted laws to crack down on employers engaged in
abusive trafficking of immigrant workers against their will, including states
like Florida, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Texas which make public
benefits available to undocumented immigrants who are trafficking victims.
Charting Policy Differences on Immigration Between the States
To create an overall comparison of whether punitive or integrative policies are more common, we have divided states into six categories as outlined in Table 1 based on the kinds of policies that have been enacted in recent years (again see Appendix A for more details on each state):
· Inactive policies on the subject of immigration, with only minor positive or negative legislation enacted in the state;
· Integrative policies with broad support for new immigrants, including in-state tuition, policies for English language instruction, strong wage enforcement, and providing preventive health care for new immigrants;
· Somewhat Integrative policies, including a handful of integrative policies and at most minor anti-immigrant legislation;
· Mixed policies that include both some integrative policies and some punitive anti-immigrant policies;
· Somewhat Punitive policies, including selected workplace sanctions or benefit cutoffs or additional state enforcement of federal criminal law, but not passed as part of comprehensive anti-immigrant legislation;
· Punitive policies where anti-immigrant policies are part of a comprehensive policy to criminalize immigrants with little focus on integrating them into our communities.
Table 1 on the next page lists states grouped by these policy categories and includes a column for the state's population and for the number of undocumented immigrants estimated to be in each state. (The later data comes from the Pew Hispanic Center based on estimates of the undocumented population in their 2005 report, Size and Characterization of the Unauthorized Migrant Population. For the charts, we use the mean population range estimated by Pew on p. 14 of that report).
What is striking is that when you create a pie chart grouping these categories of immigration policies by state population (Chart 1) and by the population of undocumented immigrants (Chart 2), Integrative and Somewhat Integrative policies are far more pervasive policies. Punitive or even Somewhat Punitive policies apply to only a small minority of the population. In fact, a majority of undocumented immigrants live in states with Integrative or Somewhat Integrative policies and only 11% of undocumented immigrants live in states that have enacted comprehensive Punitive policies.
Chart 1 and Chart 2 on U.S. and Immigrant Population Living in States with Each Category of Immigration Policies
Percentage of US Population Living in States with Each Category of Immigration Policies
Inactive |
64,066,496 |
Integrative |
88,999,019 |
Somewhat Integrative |
56,328,148 |
Mixed |
37,265,793 |
Somewhat punitive |
11,966,189 |
Punitive |
40,772,839 |
Undocumented Immigrants Living
in States with each category of policy
Somewhat Integrative
Somewhat Punitive
Integrative versus Punitive Policies: Comparing Individual Policies
When you compare the implementation of individual policies, the dominance of positive state policies to integrate new immigrants over negative punitive policies in the states is even clearer.
Workplace Sanctions: For example, the most highly debated punitive policy in most states during the last few legislative sessions has been applying workplace sanctions against employers hiring undocumented immigrants and often criminalizing the undocumented immigrants themselves. Eleven states have enacted some form of workplace sanctions focused on private sector workplaces, including Arizona, Colorado , Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma , South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia. A number of these were watered down with final passage; Virginia's law only effects employers engaged in a "pattern" of employing undocumented workers, Mississippi exempted small employers until 2011 and Utah's law delayed implementation until July 2009. Yet only a small minority of undocumented immigrants live in all of these states combined.
In-State Tuition: Compare that to the over 50% of undocumented immigrants who live in a state offering in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant children to attend colleges and universities. Those states include California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington. (Note that Utah is the only state with both employer sanctions and in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant children.)
New Americans Policies: Similarly, the "New Americans" policies to provide greater English language instruction to new immigrants and/or assist those who can to apply for citizenship status have been enacted in multiple states. Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington have established formal commissions supporting New Americans initiatives, while California, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, and Missouri have all committed funds to similar programs. Additional states have promoted English education for immigrants as well, but even the handful of states listed again covers nearly 50% of all undocumented immigrants.
Wage Law Enforcement: Similarly, states where nearly 50% of undocumented immigrant live have significantly increased their penalties for violation of their wage laws in recent years, including Arizona , California, Colorado , Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Utah.
Chart 3 compares the number of undocumented immigrants living in states with employer sanctions, in-state tuition, New Americans policies, and recently increased penalties for wage violations. What this chart makes clear again is that, for all the media focus on negative punitive approaches to the immigration issue, most states with significant immigration populations are promoting policies that focus on integrating those new immigrants into their communities and on raising wage standards for all workers, native and immigrant alike.
Chart 3: Number of Undocumented Immigrants Living in States with Different Policies
The main message of this report is that the media and many politicians have been paying too much attention to a few states enacting punitive policies, since they are the aberration, not the norm of policy dealing with new immigrants.
The states with the largest numbers of undocumented immigrants "" and notably the states that have the longest history in dealing with multiple waves of immigration over their histories "" have been quietly promoting a whole range of policies based on integration of new immigrants, from promoting educational opportunities to expanding the safety net of health insurance to better enforcement of labor laws for all residents of those states. Ideally, both the media and other states will spend more time understanding these positive policies in next year's legislative sessions and less time buying into the hype of anti-immigrant activists and politicians.
Appendix A: State-by-State Policies on Immigration
State |
Rating |
Alabama |
Inactive |
ӢProtect Public Benefits: Resolution requesting study of federal reimbursement and health care cost mitigation options (part of bad bill) (08) |
ӢEmployer sanctions: Resolution requesting Governor look into
E-verify (08); resolution asked federal gov't for E-verify resources
(08). |
Alaska | Inactive | Ӣ Employer sanctions: Some confidential information must be provided to Homeland Security to verify the immigration status of people claiming unemployment benefits (08) | ||
Arizona |
Punitive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Triple damages for wage violations (06);
increased penalties for employee injuries/death, including aliens/minors
unauthorized to work (08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Clarifies crime of taking another identity
for employment; prohibits employing undocmented workers (07); Prohibits
identity theft and trafficking, knowingly employing undocumented workers;
requires E-verify (08); prohibits localities from having worker centers
that facilitate the hiring of undocumented workers (05)
Arkansas |
Somewhat Punitive |
ӢTrafficking: Anti-trafficking law (05) |
Ӣ Employer Sanctions: Prohibits state agencies from using
businesses employing undocumented immigrants; contractors must certify
they don't employ illegal workers (07) |
California |
Integrative |
ӢProtect Public Benefits: Allowance for clinics
to apply for funding for increasing migrants served (07); extends certain
public benefits to migrant workers (07); Authorizes cities/counties to
provide aid to people not eligible under immigration requirements of
ӢRemoving Public Benefits: Prohibits persons who can't prove eligible alien status from receiving temporary homeless relief shelter (07) |
Colorado |
Mixed |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Requires all
workers/independent contractors to be covered by workers' comp (07);
felonizes coerced labor by employers threatening to or actually destroying
immigration documents, or threatening to or actually notifying law
enforcement of status (06); establishes pilot program to expedite H2A visa
process including anti-retaliation provision (08)
Ӣ Employer Sanctions: DOL must remind employers
for 2 years to use E-verify and of the prohibition on employing
undocumented workers (08); E-verify program available and soon required
for contractors; E-verify for public contract hires (07); E-verify for
contractors (06); requires proof of legal residency for unemployment
applications of non-CO residents (07); penalties for employing
unauthorized workers (06); mandates wage-withholding of employees without
valid SSN/ITIN etc. (06) |
Connecticut |
Somewhat Integrative |
Ӣ Wage Law Enforcement: New punishment for
workers' comp fraud (07); Misclassification Advisory Board and enforcement
commission (08) |
Delaware |
Inactive |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Study of
costs/impacts of undocumented immigration (07)
Ӣ ID Laws: Limits expiration date on a driver's license or ID card to the period of time that a temporary foreign national is authorized to be in US (07) |
District of Columbia |
Somewhat Integrative |
Ӣ Public Safety, IDs: Resolution declaring state of emergency regarding fear in immigrant community due to lack of federal immigration policy (07) |
Florida |
Inactive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Good interest/rates on
IOLA accounts (04) |
ӢID Laws: Specific documentation requirements
for drivers' licenses and IDs would require legal presence
(08) |
Georgia |
Punitive |
Ӣ New Americans & Integration: Notorio fraud
(08); funding for English language instruction
(08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires public employers,
contractors and subcontractors with 500 or more employees to participate
in E-Verify for all new employees beginning July 1, 2007. The law is
phased in for public employers, contractors and subcontractors with 100 or
more employees effective July 1, 2008; and for all employers by July 1,
2009 (06); prohibits certain business tax deductions and requires income
tax withholding (06) |
Hawaii |
Somewhat integrative |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Resolution
opposing increase in naturalization fees (07); bill improving Dept. of
Labor services for limited-English persons
(08) |
ӢAnti-integration: Public housing rules amended restricting certain loans to those legally present (06) |
Idaho |
Somewhat punitive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Repealed part of law
prohibiting undocumented workers from working on Capitol building projects
(08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Unemployment and workers
comp only available to those lawfully present (06); prohibition of
non-citizens/citizen-eligible workers on public works projects (except
Capitol building as of 08); Exec. Order requires state agencies to
participate in E-verify, and contractors must have verified and eligible
employees (06) |
Illinois |
Integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Prohibits using E-verify
(07);prohibits citizen discrimination with E-verify (07); employee
misclassification (07); sweatshop procurement
policy |
ӢLaw Enforcement: Allows for deportation of undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes (06) |
Indiana |
Mixed |
Ӣ Protect Public Benefits: Rural health care
pilot program with migrant health centers (07) |
Ӣ Removing Public Benefits: Requires
verification of legal residence for TANF (07) |
Iowa |
Somewhat integrative |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Requires
maintainance of new Iowans centers offering one-stop services to deal with
immigration and employment issues (information, referrals, language
training, resettlement, technical assistance.)
(07) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires businesses using state economic development grants to certify work-authorization of all new employees (07) |
Kansas |
Mixed |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Notorio fraud
(06) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Limits unemployment and
employment protection status to those lawfully present (06) |
Kentucky |
Inactive |
ӢTrafficking: Trafficking penalties (07); creates trafficking crime (05) |
Louisiana |
Somewhat punitive |
ӢTrafficking: Criminalizes trafficking (05) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Urges and requests Congress
to increase penalties for employers who employ unauthorized aliens (08)
Maine |
Somewhat Integrative |
ӢPublic Safety, IDs: Resolution to study how
limiting IDs to legal residents affects migrant workers (07) |
ID Laws: Licenses and ID cards require lawful presence (08) |
Maryland |
Integrative |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Funding for
development of immigrant legal services (07); creation of Task Force on
Preserv-ation of Heritage Language Skills (08); funding for limited
English proficient general fund (08), citizenship-law education, Russian
Immigrants Program (08) |
Massachusetts |
Integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Triple damages for wage
law violations (08) |
Michigan |
Somewhat integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Requests continuation of
returning H2B worker exemption (07); funds housing for migrant farmworkers
(07) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires state agencies to
consider the status of contractors' employees and if using non-citizen
workers is detrimental to residents or the state economy (07) |
Minnesota |
Mixed |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Misclassification of
contractors (07) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Allows personal data from
unemployment applicants to be sent to the US Bureau of Citizenship and
Immigration, prohibits unemployment benefits for time without work
authorization (07); Exec. Order requires executive branch to use E-verify
and comply with immigration laws for vendors and employers receiving
business subsidies (08) |
Mississippi |
Punitive |
Ӣ Trafficking: Trafficking prohibited, increases
penalties (06) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires public/ private
employers to use E-verify with felony sanctions otherwise; effective for
small employers in 2011 (08); excludes illegal aliens from unemployment
insurance (07); Exec. Order requires executive branch and employers
seeking state contracts over $50K to use E-verify (08) |
Missouri |
Punitive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Requires OSHA training
for public works project sub/contractor employees (by 8/28/09) (08);
Prohibits misclassifying workers (08) Funding for naturalization
assistance to refugees and certain legal immigrants (08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Prohibits and penalizes
employing undocumented workers (08); requires use of federal verification
program for public agencies and businesses receiving certain state funding
and allows participation as an affirmative defense (08); requires
employers of 5+ workers to file federal 1099-misc. forms (08); removes
contractor liability under certain conditions (08) ӢRemoving Public Benefits: Prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving state/local benefits (08) Prohibits municipality sanctuary policies (08) |
Montana |
Inactive |
ӢTrafficking: Forbids involuntary servitude and trafficking (07) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Excludes some aliens from unemployment insurance and from definition of employment (07) |
Nebraska |
Mixed |
ӢDREAM Act: In-state tuition (06) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Prohibits tax credits, exemptions, or refunds for any ex-employee who has been deported due to immigration status (07); |
Nevada |
Inactive |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Establishes
pilot program to study English immersion and language-learner programs
(07); funding for teaching English pre-kindergarten (07)
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Imposes administrative
procedures for sanctioning employers for hiring/employing unauthorized
workers, and requires a link to the Social Security Administration so
employers can verify employees' SSNs (07)
New Hampshire |
Inactive |
New Jersey |
Somewhat integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Sweatshop procurement
policy |
New Mexico |
Integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Memorial for federal
worker program protecting lives of undocumented workers and providing for
worker safety (07) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Excludes certain aliens from unemployment insurance (07) |
New York |
Integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Unpaid Wages Prohibition
Act makes failure to pay wages a felony (97); sweatshop procurement policy
North Carolina |
Mixed |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Improvements in standards
for migrant housing (07) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires public employers
to use E-verify after 01/01/07. |
North Dakota |
Inactive |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Funding for schools teaching English to new immigrants (07) |
Ohio |
Inactive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Triple damages for wage law violations (06) |
Oklahoma |
Punitive |
ӢTrafficking: Prohibits human trafficking, sets
guidelines for treatment of victims (08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires public
employers/contractors/subcontractors to use E-verify and withhold income
tax from contractors not providing SSNs (07) |
Oregon |
Somewhat integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Requires Farm Labor
Contractors to provide workers' comp (07) |
Ӣ Employer Sanctions: Excludes nurse
practitioners in violation of immigration laws from some workers' comp
(07) |
Pennsylvania |
Inactive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Sweatshop procurement
policy |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Prohibits undocumented labor on projects funded by state grants/loans (06) |
Rhode Island |
Somewhat Punitive |
ӢTrafficking: Criminalizes trafficking and involuntary servitude (07) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Exec. Order requiring
executive agencies and all persons/
businesses/grantees/contractors/vendors to use E-verify (08) |
South Carolina |
Punitive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Increases penalties for
misclassification for workers' comp (07); provides remedies for wrongful
discharge of authorized workers (08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires E-verify for
public employers and their contractors (08); prohibits certain income tax
deductions related to undocumented workers and requires certain income tax
withholding (08); requires private employers to verify employees'
immigration status (08); makes person guilty of fraud for using another
person's identity information to gain employment (06)
South Dakota |
Inactive |
Tennessee |
Punitive |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Notorio fraud
(06) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Allows gov't official with
good reason to believe a company is hiring undocumented workers to spark
DOL investigation (07); employer who knowingly hires undocumented worker
can lose local/state-issued business-related licenses for up to a year
(07); E-verify users shielded from sanctions (07); Requires DOL
commissioner, upon receiving complaint about employment of undocumented
workers, to inform the employer that he/she may request the name of the
complainer (08); Criminalizes transporting undocumented people into the
state for commercial/private gain (07); Prohibits persons from knowingly
employing, recruiting or referring an undocumented person for employment
for a fee (07) |
Texas |
Somewhat integrative |
ӢDREAM Act: In-state tuition 2004
ӢAnti-integration: Provides penalty of deportation or other status-affecting measure for non-citizens convicted of misdemeanor involving family violence (07) |
Utah |
Punitive |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Prohibits
misclassification for workers' comp purposes (08); establishes Independent
Contractor Enforcement Council and Database (08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Requires public employers
and state contractors to verify legal status (08); excludes undocumented
workers from unemployment compensation (07) |
Vermont |
Somewhat integrative |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Study of
misclassification effects (07) |
Virginia |
Mixed |
ӢWage Law Enforcement: Makes it a felony to
extort money by withholding immigration/identification documents (07)
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Suspends employer's right
to operate for 1 yr. for employing undocumented workers (08); requires
gov't contractors to contract not to hire undocumented workers (08)
Washington |
Integrative |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: New Americans
Policy Council (08); funding for immigration assistance services (07);
better services for English learning students (08); funding for school
districts with 20% of students in transitional bilingual instruction
programs (08) |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Excludes nonresident aliens from definition of "employment" for workers' comp (06) |
West Virginia |
Somewhat punitive |
ӢEmployer Sanctions: Prohibits employing undocumented workers, imposes penalties and requires work status verification (07); law authorizing DOL to promulgate a legislative rule relating to verifying employment status (08) |
Wisconsin |
Inactive |
ӢNew Americans & Integration: Notario fraud (08) |
Wyoming |
Somewhat punitive |
ӢID Laws: Criminalizes using false identity,
citizenship, or resident alien documents (07) |


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- community Perkins cove
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The Best location for a great Maine vacation. Enjoy all Ogunquit has to offer while living in a beautiful home just steps from it all: walk across the famous footbridge to Perkins' Cove; take a scenic cruise or sail from the Cove; walk the Marginal Way along the Rocky Coast; sun, swim & play on the award winning, beautiful three mile Ogunquit Beach; shop in the boutiques and enjoy the many wonderful restaurants. All while staying in a lovely, delightful 4 bedroom gem with a wonderful wrap-around porch nestled in the rocky Maine ledge. If you listen closely you can hear the surf of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Almost New Private Home with gourmet kitchen, new appliances and furniture. AC; Cable TV; WiFi and small gas grill. Master bedroom suite first floor with Queen bed and large Master bath; Second Floor has Full Bath and 3 bedrooms with: 1 Queen, 1 Double, & 1Twin bed.
Great wrap-around porch; lovely yard; in friendly quiet neighborhood close to Perkins' Cove, trolleys, restaurants and shops, museums, Art galleries, summer theater, antiques, golf course, beautiful vistas and lovely ocean breezes. Services nearby: Groceries, ATM, Banks, Medical/Hospital.
Easy acces from hiway #1, miss the slow heavy Ogunquit traffic by using back road.
activities and attractions in Ogunquit Maine
3 mile spectacular Beach- swim, sunbathe, fly a kite, surf, have a picnic; breathtaking views along the Marginal Way path along the ocean; Explore Perkins' Cove: a working harbor with lobster boats, fishing, sailboats and boats for scenic cruises, shops & restaurants and the historic pedestrian Perkins' Cove Drawbridge. Ogunquit is a lovely, very walkable New England village.
Short drive to: Golf, Zoo/Amusement Park, Nubble Lighthouse, Cooking School, Outlet shopping
vacation rental rates
2013 June 29 - August 30 $2,500 Weekly, $10,000 Monthly
2013 August 31 - Sept. 6 $2,000 Week
2013 Sept. 7 - Sept. 27 $1,500 Weekly, $6,000 Monthly
2013 Sept. 28 - Oct. 25 $1,000 Weekly, $4,000 Monthly
2013 Oct 26 - Jan 6 '14 $1,000 Weekly
2014 May 10 - May 24 $1,000 Weekly
2014 May 24 - June 28 $1,500 Weekly$5,500 Month
2014 June 28 - August 30 $2,500 Weekly$9,500 Month
2014 Aug 30 - Sept 6 $2,000 Week
2014 Sept 6 - October 4 $1,500 Weekly$5,500 Month
2014 Oct 4 - Oct 25 $1,000 Weekly
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50% initial deposit due when lease signed to Reserve dates (This is non-refundable). Remaining 50% plus $500 Security Deposit, $100 Cleaning Charge and 8% Maine Rental Tax due 60 days before check-in date. (Security Deposit is refundable within 30 days after check-out)
Fees: 8% Maine Tax; $100 Cleaning; $500 Security Deposit
If reservation is made before January 1, 2014 you can request that payments be made by thirds: 1/3 to Reserve (Non-refundable); 1/3 by April 1, 2014; Final 1/3 rent, plus $100 Cleaning, 8% Maine Tax, and separate $500 refundable Security Deposit 60 days before your check-in date.
Marilyn Eimon 207-646-7141
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Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.
Learn more in our Security CenterTop things to do in Ogunquit
- Enjoy the Spectacular Ocean Views
- Walk the Beach & Marginal Way
- Take a scenic Boat Cruise
- Dine in fine Restaurants
- Eat the best Lobster in Maine
Top things to do on a budget
- Walk the Marginal Way
- Visit the Cove & cross the Drawbridge
- Picnic on the Beautiful Beach
- Window shop in boutiques
- Take Pictures of the Rocky Coast
Top things to do with a family
- Play ball on the lawn
- Find Ice Cream and Candy Stores
- Go Fishing or take a boat ride
- Explore Ocean Tide Pools
- Fly a Kite on the Beach
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MSU Remains Perfect With Win over Rhode Island
Posted: 6:56 PM Feb 26, 2013
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The first seven Bulldog batters hit safely and scored in the first inning Tuesday as No. 5 Mississippi State (10-0) stayed unbeaten with a 13-2 win over Rhode Island on a chilly afternoon at Dudy Noble Field.
State and Rhode Island (0-7) conclude their two-game midweek series Wednesday with a 4 p.m. contest.
Rams starting pitcher Milan Mantle (0-1) faced 10 Bulldog batters in the opening frame. C.T. Bradford, Alex Detz and Mitch Slauter began multi-hit plate performances with first-inning hits. Each finished the game with a double and a single. Detz drove in three runs, two on a first-inning double and Matthew Britton matched that on a 2-for-2 afternoon with a single and a double.
State starter Luis Pollorena allowed two runs on five hits over 4-1/3 innings of pitching. Freshman Myles Gentry followed Pollorena and retired the two batters he faced to close out the fifth. Senior Chad Girodo (2-0), the third of four Bulldog pitchers in the game, fanned six and blanked URI with one-hit pitching over three innings to earn the win. Rookie John Marc Shelly closed out Bulldog pitching with a scoreless ninth. State's bullpen has now allowed four earned runs in 40.2 innings
URI shortstop Tim Caputo went 3-for-4 and scored the first of the Rams' two runs during a four-hit URI burst in the third-inning burst.
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Almost all Cellphone carriers now offer an easy way to upgrade to newer Smartphones, and with Samsung's upcoming keynote featuring the release of the new Galaxy Note 3, and next week's Apple keynote featuring the announcement of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, it seems to be the perfect time to upgrade to a new Smartphone.
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If you upgrade to the latest and the greatest on a yearly basis, it is likely that your phone is still officially supported by the manufacturer, so it has some trade-in value.
Earlier this week, Ars Technica posted up an article about Apple's trade-in program for the iPhone, along with a comparison of different online trade-in companies:
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Of course, the older the Smartphone, the less you will get for it, and of course if the demand is high, prices will be higher as well.
While the article addresses the iPhone, of course these same services can be used for trading in other Smartphones and even tablets, so it is worth checking out.
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Services like eBay and Craigslist, or directly to friends/family are good ways to get a better price for your old Smartphone. Trade-in services have to make a buck as well, so they buy for a low price and sell for a high price. To get an idea of current value of your phone, just visit one of the trade-in sites, and look at the prices they offer to buy your phone, the price to purchase one from them in a similar condition, and then take the middle ground.
There are a variety of different services available that you can donate your Smartphone to. A Google Search brings up a wealth of them, but I found this article on HowStuffWorks has a nice rundown of the bigger ones:
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Even if you upgrade to a new model, the old Smartphone is still perfectly capable of doing whatever else you did with it aside from calling.
The WiFi will still work, even without a phone-plan attached to it, so it can be used for games, playing/streaming music and video etc.
And, especially with top-end models, the modding community is quite active to release updates for the phone, even if the manufacturers stopped releasing updates for it.
After I upgraded from a Motorola Droid X to a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, I initially had no use for the Droid X anymore, but after a while I ended up setting it on my desk with a dock (picked up for cheap after the phone was no longer mainstream) as a clock, weather display and Pandora streamer, and it works great.
Of course the above can also be reversed.
If you don't care about the latest and the greatest, now is also the time to get a previous-generation top end phone such as the Galaxy S3 or the iPhone 5 for a more reasonable price.
I'm getting closer to being able to replace my Galaxy Nexus for a new Smartphone myself, but I'm not sure yet if, when or even what.
While writing this article, I've been fiddling a bit with my Droid X, installing Netflix and HBO Go on it (both work), and with both phones next to each other, I don't see much difference in usability. I guess the biggest difference would be that the Galaxy Nexus takes better pictures, but the rest, higher resolution, faster processor, it really doesn't matter much in how I use it.
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Definition of echolocation in English:
Syllabification: ech·o·lo·ca·tionPronunciation: /ˌekōlōˈkāSHən
- The location of objects by reflected sound, in particular that used by animals such as dolphins and bats.More example sentences
- Many odontocetes can navigate by echolocation, producing sound waves using a complex system of nasal sacs and passages, and using the echoes to navigate.
- Like bats, dolphins use echolocation, an internal sonar system, to help them navigate, avoid predators and find food.
- The rivers used by most platanistids are muddy, and these animals probably rely on echolocation more than vision to locate their prey.
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Prospect Press: Brett Lawrie, Toronto Blue Jays
Friday August 5th, 2011
Brett Lawrie will make his big league debut with the Jays. (Icon SMI)
This year has been and up-and-down experience for Toronto prospect Brett Lawrie, who was promoted to the major leagues on Thursday. Lawrie was on the brink of a major league call-up about six weeks ago, but an errant pitch at Triple-A Las Vegas led to a wrist bruise and forced a trip to the minor league disabled list, delaying his Blue Jays debut. It was a setback for the British Columbia native, but his rehabilitation went well and he returned to action last month.
Since then, after going 0 for 7 with 5 strikeouts in a doubleheader on July 19th, Lawrie has torn up pitching in the Pacific Coast League by going 24 for 62 (a .387 average) with three home runs and 12 RBI, bringing his combined minor league season numbers up to a .347 average, a .415 on-base percentage, 18 homers, 24 doubles, 61 RBI, and 13 stolen bases.
Those numbers are impressive, but Lawrie was already making headlines before the start of the season when he was dealt from the Milwaukee Brewers to the Toronto Blue Jays for pitcher Shaun Marcum. Lawrie spent several years as one of Milwaukee's top hitting prospects, but he switched positions a few times since being taken 16th overall in the 2008 amateur draft and his defensive abilities have always lagged behind his bat. Still, Lawrie is just 21 years old, and the former catcher and second baseman appears set to play a lot of third base for the Jays. That move would send slugger Jose Bautista back to right field to replace recently demoted outfielder Travis Snider.
Throughout his minor league career, Lawrie has displayed solid power and contact numbers, but also great athleticism. He tallied just 8 home runs in 135 minor league games last season, but he also smacked 36 doubles and 16 triples, plus he notched 30 stolen bases. As many expected, his home run power has improved, and when he fully matures he seems capable of hitting 25 to 30 long balls over a full big league season. As with most youngsters, there will likely be a bit of a big league learning curve for Lawrie, but his proven numbers over 300-plus minor league games speak well of his chances for major league success.
From a fantasy baseball standpoint, Lawrie could be a very valuable piece for any roster, particularly since any of his defensive shortcomings won't hurt his value. Even if his batting average isn't on-par with his minor league rates, his power and speed combination would add immediate value, and his various position switches means he could be eligible as both a second and third baseman this year. It's important that fantasy owners looking to enlist his services strike early and get him before competitors catch on.
At his full potential, Lawrie could be an all-star candidate every season, and he has the skills to become a major league star very soon. He's one of the rare prospects who has met or exceeded all hype, though that distinction will definitely be put to the test now that he's joined a major league roster. Overall, though, he could soon become one of the game's very best.
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Local thoroughbred horse racing to take place at 2 tracks this yearBy Sherri Welch
Thoroughbred horse racing will return to Metro Detroit this year. The Michigan Gaming Control Board on Tuesday issued executive orders that authorize thoroughbred races at Hazel Park Raceway in the summer and Northville Downs in the fall, following races at Mount Pleasant Meadows in the spring. Standard-bred races will take place at the Hazel Park and Northville tracks in the spring. But following that, thoroughbred races will take place at the two Metro Detroit tracks for the next five years, said George Kutlenios, president of the Howell-based Michigan Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association. The association, which represents thoroughbred horsemen in Michigan, negotiated the agreement for the five-year contract with Hazel Park Raceway and Northville Downs, Kutlenios said. The races will mark the return of thoroughbred racing to Hazel Park for the first time in 30 years and for the first time ever at Northville Downs, which has operated as a harness racing track since its 1944 opening, according to Kutlenios. Topics in this article: Entertainment Michigan Gaming Control Board
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Giants tight end Jake Ballard faces long road back
He knew something wasn't right, before his knee buckled, before he collapsed on the sideline cradling his left leg against the pain that contorted his face.
The Giants medical staff had examined Jake Ballard and thought he had torn his meniscus, not his ACL, when he went down in the fourth quarter of the Giants' Super Bowl XLVI victory. But that was reason enough to try to go back out there — even if he was experiencing the worst pain of his life.
"I definitely felt it rip and heard it pop," said the tight end, describing his knee after he had been jammed by Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes. "I felt like I ripped everything and broke everything.
"But it was the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. I wasn't not going to try to get back out there."
So the trainers watched and NBC cameras filmed as Ballard tested his knee on the side. He doesn't know exactly what happened, but he thinks he already had torn his ACL, then damaged cartilage when his knee buckled while testing it.
Ballard, 24, underwent microfracture surgery to repair the cartilage as well as surgery to repair his torn ACL in February, casting doubt on when – or if – he will return for the 2012 season.
"My knee just collapsed," Ballard said Monday night in a phone interview, a week before the Giants begin OTAs. "I definitely tore [my ACL] on the field. I'd say [the cartilage damage] probably happened on the sideline from trying to run with no ACL.
"But I don't regret trying to get back in the game. It's the biggest game in any football player's career."
The injury is just the latest obstacle to overcome for the 6-foot-6, 275-pound Ohio State product, who broke out as a starter in his second season, rising from an undrafted "blocking tight end" who had been twice-waived as a rookie and played just one game.
He likely faces eight or nine months of rehabilitation for his rebuilt ACL. The microfracture surgery could add another six weeks because he has been unable to put weight on the leg, according to Dr. Alexis Colvin, attending orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan.


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The primary objective of the study is to check the ability of Neurokeeper's algorithm system to detect and monitor changes in cerebral electrophysiological parameters as compared to clinical evaluation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
The secondary objectives is correlations of EEG + ERP measurements with clinical evaluations as assessed by NIHSS ThiS study is a prospective, open label, single arm, self control, single center study.
This study will be conducted in 50 subjects according to the inclusions/exclusions criteria.
Condition | Intervention |
Stroke |
Device: Neurokeeper stroke detector |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Cohort Time Perspective: Prospective |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Neurological detrioration detection [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The primary objective of the study is to validate an EEG base algorithm system to detect and monitor changes in cerebral electrophysiological parameters as compared to clinical evaluation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time from deterioration to detection [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The secondary objectives is correlations of EEG + ERP measurements with clinical evaluations as assessed by NIHSS
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Patients undergoing cardiac surgery |
Device: Neurokeeper stroke detector
Electrophisoloigcal monitoring
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
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Patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
Inclusion Criteria:
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01737749 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | NK-005 |
Study First Received: | November 27, 2012 |
Last Updated: | November 27, 2012 |
Health Authority: | Israel: Ministry of Health |
Keywords provided by Neurokeeper Technologies:
Stroke |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Stroke Cerebrovascular Disorders Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases |
Nervous System Diseases Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases |
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Podcasts are getting ever more popular on the web and for good reason. They're a portable easy way for many of us to keep up with what's going on whilst on the move as well as a welcome alternative to wasting trees by printing things off to read on the train. Listening to podcasts from South by Southwest 2007 (SXSW), Web Axe and Equal Access to Software and information have provided a welcome distraction for me whilst wedged in between disgruntled commuters on the way home (and also a lot easier than reading a paper). For many people it's also their preferred format when sourcing information. When meeting with Hidden Differences last week, an organisation that represents people with cognitive and reading problems, they talked about how when canvassing a large organisation's employees recently on their preferred format for internal communications around a third opted for audio. Interesting. However for some of us listening to podcasts it is not an option. If you're deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, do not have a soundcard or speakers you'll be locked out of content if it is only provided in audio format. Not only that so too will search engines. The guidance therefore, according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, is to provide a transcript of what's being said. But here's where the problem starts. Some of you may have noticed I have been promising for some time now a transcript of Shawn Henry's presentation on WCAG 2.0 that RNIB hosted in June. This has proven a trickier promise to meet than I first anticipated and through conversations with other people it's clear that I'm not the only one finding it difficult to get a quality transcript from an audio file. So here are some tips to help you on the way when you're looking at getting a transcript for a podcast:
I'd say that of the majority of presentations I listen to the speaker will kick off with a round of questions such as "How many of you are web designers?", "How many of you are from the US" and so on. This is a great technique for not only the speaker to gauge who they are talking to and who's awake, but also for the audience to know who else is interested in what they are. The problem is that 9 times out of 10 the speaker will fail to repeat the number of hands that go up. This can be very frustrating for the listener and reader who are not there and it leaves you with a sense of "if your name's not down then you can't come in". Equally problematic is the use of images in presentations used to illustrate a point which is then not described. Often you'll see a speaker use a cartoon or some funny photo in a presentation and not describe it. This is an issue not just for people listening to the podcast and reading the transcript after the event, but also for users who can't see the presentation slides when they are there. The final one here is not repeating comments or questions made by the audience which are out of range of the mic. I'd always advise repeating a comment or question anyway not just for the benefit of people who can't here it during the live presentation but also to give both the speaker and audience time to take stock of the question. So the advice is, when presenting take care to describe what is happening.
This is obvious I know but when it comes to transcribing you really need to ensure that what you're asking to be transcribed can be heard. It goes back to that old adage of "garbage in garbage out". Try and minimise background noise, noisy clothing, tapping the podium or shuffling about. It can be a long an laborious process for the sound engineer to have to go back and clean up the audio. If you have good equipment this should go a long way to managing this but we don't all have that luxury and even the best of equipment can't block everything out.
When it comes to actually transcribing the audio think about providing the person who is doing it with a list of key words, technical words, acronyms, abbreviations, people and place names, or anything else that is mentioned in the podcast that maybe difficult to transcribe. It is better to assume that the person doing the transcription doesn't have an in depth knowledge of your topic area. Their skill is in transcribing after all, not web accessibility, quantum physics, rhythmic gymnastics techniques from Uzbekistan or what ever your topic is.
If you're not a touch typist or trained in transcription it is very hard to transcribe audio and probably counter productive time wise. If the amount of time it takes you to transcribe a podcast takes you away from other areas of your job then think about outsourcing. A quick Google search on podcast transcription services lists a multitude of companies who can do the work for you, it's then just a matter of finding one that can work to your timescales, budget and deliver to a high standard. If you're concerned about cost then think about it in a different way i.e as a cost saving exercise. Think about how much you earn per year and from that work out how much you earn per hour. If what you earn per hour is more than the cost of having somebody do the transcription then there you have your answer (as well as your business case for your boss): outsource. This useful little nugget came from a SXSW podcast called The 4-hour work week: secrets of doing more with less in the digital world by Tim Ferriss (come on, who isn't going to listen to a podcast with that title!).
Another common mistake, especially for audio or video delivered in Flash, is to make the link to the transcript difficult or impossible to find. It may be buried in a pop-up window reliant on JavaScript or a link at the foot of a Flash movie. Ideally a link to both the podcast and transcript should be placed side beside within the HTML clearly stating in the link text what they are.
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Posted at: 31/07/2007 4:46 PM by Verity Cork
Urbania to Stoneheads ~ said on 2008-01-22 15:07:05 [...] Today i went to look stuff up on this issue. there isn't a lot out there - most searches on podcast and deaf leads to videopodcasts by deaf people (which is of course a good thing), but i found a few. This page (by the RNIB - Royal National Institute for the Blind, funnily enough) has good tips on how to make a good podcast for the disabled, including the deaf, this blog entry, although rather old, has some valid points, and this blog entry has more tips, including autotranscribing services. [...]
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LizM said on 2008-09-19 14:54:11 I work for a public sector research body and we're looking at trialing some podcasts. These are likely to be based on original written publications. It's been suggested that any transcripts would need to include references or footnotes from the orginal publications. How necessary is that? Is it not better that a transcript is purely that - a record of what was said? Thanks!
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November is National Caregivers Month Free Consultation Helps Families Navigate Services to Help Chronically Ill or Elderly Relatives
SAN FRANCISCO—11/01/02—Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) offers free consultations with licensed professionals to Bay Area families caring for loved ones with long-term, debilitating illnesses. The consultations, as well as other support services, are funded through the California Department of Mental Health and local Area Agencies on Aging. Services include:
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FCA serves as the Bay Area Caregiver Resource Center (CRC), and is the lead agency in California's statewide system of CRCs as well as a center for care information and support nationwide. For more information, call (800) 445-8106, visit www.caregiver.org, or send an email to [email protected]
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