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The clergy in Mercer Island are upset about a new city ordinance regulating Tent City 4 that they say infringes on their constitutional right to minister the homeless.
Clergy on Mercer Island want the city to change a new ordinance aimed at regulating homeless encampments like Tent City 4, arguing the city's new rules limit their constitutional right to minister to the homeless.
And a constitutional-law professor has agreed with the clergy's assertions, saying the ordinance, passed by the City Council 5-2 last month, "trampled all over the church's rights."
"It's actually kind of precisely how you're not supposed to treat churches as a city," said Stewart Jay, a law professor at the University of Washington.
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At issue is the Mercer Island clergy's religious right to host the homeless encampment as part of its ministry. Law experts say that hosting a homeless encampment is a protected religious activity and that cities are required to use the least restrictive means necessary to regulate such camps.
But city officials say they welcome Tent City and have been in talks with the clergy to try to come up with a solution. Mayor Jim Pearman said it's possible the ordinance could be reconsidered. After initial discussions with the city, some ministers say they are hopeful they can find a resolution and plan to continue talking.
City officials say the ordinance is supposed to ensure the encampment and its residents are respectful of residents and neighborhoods. The camp of about 100 homeless men and women rotates among Eastside cities and is now in Issaquah.
Mercer Island clergy are most concerned about a requirement that says Tent City's managing organization must obtain warrant and sex-offender checks for residents within seven days of their arrival on the island, and the Tent City host is responsible for verifying checks took place. They also dislike other features of the ordinance: a time restriction that says 18 months must pass before a camp can return within 1/2 mile of the previous site, a requirement that the host church enforce the camp's code of conduct including no alcohol, no weapons and no drugs; and a requirement for an informal public meeting before applying for a permit to host Tent City.
"We feel it's a way to prevent us from having Tent City, going through these hoops," said Mark Travis, president of the Mercer Island Clergy Association. "This ordinance just plays into the stereotype of Mercer Island not being a welcoming place."
Mercer Island City Attorney Katie Knight said compared with those of other municipalities, Mercer Island's ordinance is "middle of the road."
"I'm surprised that after all these years of litigation ours would raise any eyebrows whatsoever," she said.
The ordinance went through several public hearings. Clergy members attended hearings but could have spoken up more during the public process, Travis acknowledged.
Leslie Ann Knight, pastor of Mercer Island United Methodist Church, which hosted Tent City in 2008, said the clergy is not responsible for making sure an ordinance is constitutional.
"Part of it was we did not pay close enough attention, but it really isn't our job to be writing constitutional ordinances," she said.
The state Legislature also passed a bill recently, which awaits the governor's signature, that provides cities with guidelines on what is and is not acceptable when adopting an ordinance regulating homeless encampments.
The bill requires churches to get insurance to prevent cities from getting sued, which takes care of one concern the clergy had over signing a "hold harmless" agreement, Knight said, but otherwise doesn't appear to impact any other elements of the ordinance.
Other Eastside cities have floundered while trying to regulate Tent City or even keep it out. Bellevue had a yearlong, contentious debate before the city agreed on a policy. The state Supreme Court recently ruled the city of Woodinville could not refuse to consider permits from churches for homeless encampments, calling a ban on the encampments unconstitutional.
State law has come down in favor of religious institutions, and Mercer Island's ordinance clearly limits churches, said law-professor Jay. Applying warrant checks to just the homeless encampment and no one else on the island is unconstitutional, he said. A restriction on weapons is a problem, he said, because the city is not allowed under state statute to have regulations on firearms.
Mercer Island was obviously trying to balance previous Tent City cases while drafting the ordinance, he said.
"It very likely violates federal statue, the federal land use statute, and I think clearly the Washington State constitution," Jay said.
Ted Hunter, the attorney for Share/Wheel, which oversees Tent City, said the organization believes ordinances that require warrant checks are unconstitutional because they treat a population of people differently. But Share/Wheel chooses not to contest the requirement in court and instead educate by complying with various city ordinances, he said.
Warrant checks provide cities with some sense of security, said Hunter, who said Mercer Island has been welcoming to Tent City.
"There's a broad array of concerns and passions about the homeless populations," he said. "From a Share/Wheel perspective, we think a lot of the concerns are misplaced."
The Mercer Island clergy association also has been working with the Greater Church Council of Seattle on the dispute. Executive Director Michael Ramos said the pastors are highly regarded members of the community.
"This is a fundamental religious duty to shelter those who are homeless and feed those who are hungry," he said. "The Mercer Island ordinance flies in the face of that basic right."
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Golden Lane Housing rewarded for social investment initiative
Last night Golden Lane Housing was awarded the Social Investment Initiative of the Year for our £10m charity bond launched in February this year.
Golden Lane Housing is Mencap's housing arm, the bond has enabled people with a learning disability to live independently in specially adapted houses and bungalows in their community.
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Monday 23 April 2012
Runners race around London to raise money for Mencap
A team of 134 runners took part in the Virgin London Marathon yesterday (Sunday 22 April), in aid of Mencap.
They joined 37,500 other runners to complete the 26.2-mile course. The marathon took them from Greenwich to St James's Park, past iconic London landmarks such as the Tower of London and Big Ben.
Thursday 01 March 2012
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) today (Thursday 1 March) published its report on the implementation of the right of disabled people to independent living.
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Voyages to Antiquity
Voyages to Antiquity ShipsAegean Odyssey
- Mediterranean and Asia cruises with historical and cultural bent
- Lots of onboard enrichment in the form of lectures
- 378-passenger Aegean Odyssey is particularly singles-friendly
- Most shore excursions and wine and beer at dinner are included
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OnboardOne-ship line Voyages to Antiquity puts a huge emphasis on learning throughout each cruise -- guest lecturers play a big role in the cruise experience. Among those presenting the daily lectures are professors from great British universities, a former ambassador, historians and chefs. A frequent lecturer is historical author Lord John Julius Norwich, who helped plan the cruise line's itineraries.
Voyages to Antiquity is marketed as a "premium, small-ship product." The ambience is country-club chic: never dressy, never sloppy. The public address system is seldom used, other than for the captain's daily update. Gratuities are included in the basic fares, as are most excursions and wine and beer with dinner.
While lone cruise ship Aegean Odyssey has no casino or showroom, plenty of enrichment opportunities are available onboard. The entertainment is purposely low-key, usually just a string trio, a pop ensemble or a pianist playing show tunes -- no midnight comedy acts, no dance troupes, no bingo. Yet, the small library is filled with books on the ancient world, encouraging passengers to embrace education and enrichment on their cruise holidays. Facilities include a small swimming pool and a compact spa.
There is no assigned seating for meals, and the mainly Filipino waitstaff will remember your preferences. Dining venues include an open-seating dining room named Marco Polo and the Terrace Cafe and Grill -- a casual buffet restaurant with an alfresco section that's home to "Tapas on the Terrace." Afternoon tea is served in the Terrace Cafe, and hors d'oeuvres are offered during the late-afternoon cocktail hour and again after dinner in the Charleston Lounge, which also features musical performances.
Cabins range from 130 square feet (inside and outside cabins) to 550 square feet with balconies (Owner's Suites). There are 26 dedicated single cabins (4 inside, 20 outside and 2 balconies).
About Voyages to AntiquityLaunched in 2010, one-ship line Voyages to Antiquity is the latest effort from cruise entrepreneur Gerry Herrod, who headed up Ocean Cruise Line, Orient Lines and Discovery Cruises. The cruise line -- which is targeting U.K., U.S., Canadian and Australian passengers -- entered the market in 2010 with a selection of Mediterranean cruises on Aegean Odyssey (the former Aegean I).
Having sold his single vessel, Orient Lines' Marco Polo, in early 2008, Herrod essentially was out of a job. But, after reading Lord John Julius Norwich's "The Middle Sea," a historical account of the fabled ancient civilizations that flourished in the eastern and central Mediterranean, he was inspired with an idea for a new cruise line.
Herrod contacted the author, who agreed to help him craft voyages for a new cruise line that would focus on ancient civilizations and the journeys of ships of the past, including visits to ports of significant historical and cultural interest. The itineraries would take passengers to see the still-visible remnants of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman life. Initially, Voyages to Antiquity featured only nine itineraries between March and November, but since November 2012, it has doubled its total offering. The nine additional itineraries are part of a winter program to Southeast Asia, India and the South Pacific, which provides variety and an expanded geographic region for the line to continue its practice of cultural and historical cruising.
The focus of each itinerary is the destination, with plenty of onboard lectures to educate passengers on the cultural and historical background of the places they'll visit. Shore excursions (nearly all included) are the highlight. For example, in Palermo, passengers tour the 1,000-year-old mosques that were finessed into Christian churches by Sicily's Norman conquerors, and in Libya, they spend two days touring the well-preserved, seldom-viewed Roman ruins of Leptis Magna.
Voyages to Antiquity FleetThe line purchased a single ship (the former Aegean I), which was built as a ferry in the early 1970's and renamed it Aegean Odyssey. Aegean I sailed most recently on charter (for the now-defunct Renaissance Cruises and others) but was laid-up for several years after a deal to send it to Louis Cruise Lines in 2005 fell apart.
A major refurbishment of the ship -- from cabins and public rooms to the galley and funnel -- cost three times more than the purchase price of the ship, according to Voyages' managing director, David Yellow. Aegean Odyssey's capacity was lowered from 570 to 378 by creating larger cabins via the combination of smaller cabins. An additional reconfiguration in early 2013 created 18 additional outside cabins by relocating the spa to replace 10 inside cabins.
Yellow says there are no plans to add other ships.
Fellow PassengersMany of those onboard are former passengers of cruise line founder Gerry Herrod's earlier ventures, Orient Lines and Pearl Cruises. Because of the educational focus of Voyages to Antiquity itineraries, the passengers tend to be educated, intelligent and curious. Generally, these discerning travelers are well-to-do, older than 50 and speak English as their native language. Voyages to Antiquity cruises are marketed in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia.
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One little boy's curiosity got the best of him after he saw his mom and her friends getting their eyebrows waxed, so he decided to try the beauty procedure himself. His response is about the same as ours (in our heads) whenever we have a hot substance dribbled onto our bodies and subsequently ripped off.
As noted by the mother on YouTube -- "I used a piece of wax smaller than a dime." Totes coulda been worse...she could have painted his toenails pink.


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Two men have been knocking on folks' doors and asking to come inside in three incidents in Woodland and the Lexington area of Kelso-Longview, says Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark Nelson.
In one case, jewelry was stolen, Nelson said in a bulletin. The men have claimed to be "contractors."
Don't open the door if you don't know them, Nelson warns, whatever reason they give.
Instead, say no and try to get a description of the men and their car. Be ready to call 911.
Also, if someone comes to your door claiming to work for the gas company and needing to check for a leak, you might want to ask them for ID before letting them in, officials said.
That happened at the home of a Vancouver woman, said Kim Kapp, Vancouver police spokeswoman. A woman let two men into her home who said they worked for the gas company. She let them in but became suspicious when one of the men went into a bedroom. She asked the men for ID. When they didn't have any related to a business, she asked them to leave, Kapp said.
The men left, the woman is OK and nothing appeared to be stolen, Kapp said. But, "It's a good reminder that residents confirm actual identification" before any stranger enters your home, she said.
"Most businesses would have people wearing a uniform," she said. If you're still unsure, you can call the business to ask if they have service people in the area. "They don't want to be misrepresented either," Kapp said.
Anyone with information on the two can call VPD West Precinct at 360-487-7355 or the East Precinct at 360-487-7500; or 911.


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Digital Economics
I think the highly disputed Digital Economy Bill is an interesting development. With a lot of opposition. Having had a 40 minute debate about it with Raj, and generally having thought about it a fair amount over the years, I would like to say that I support the Bill. I may be the only 20 something in the UK doing this.
The reason I support it (in principle, anyway) is that ultimately, illegal downloading is bad for the music industry, bad for the movie industry. Most of us don't have terribly warm fuzzy feelings about any kind of industry – just wait for my wife's upcoming post on the meat and dairy industry – but I think a dislike of a large industry simply for its largeness is not a terribly mature response.
Welcome to the Capitalist State
Many people complain about "huge profits" and "ridiculous markups on CDs". Then they do their shopping at Tescos, and go to the pub and pay £2 for a small orange juice. Ultimately, we live in a Capitalist society, one based on the idea of: you do something, you get paid for that, you buy things with your pay. We either accept that, and thus accept that there should be rich people. Otherwise, the alternative is everyone getting equal pay, and all possessions are freely distributed. Whilst that one sounds great, it kinda doesn't seem to work in real life.
Also, the huge profits people love to talk about, and overpriced albums? Here is a sample breakdown of where money goes when you buy a CD for £10.49:
- £0.11 Musicians' unions
- £0.52 Packaging/ manufacturing
- £0.52 Retail profit
- £0.54 Publishing royalties
- £0.59 Distribution
- £1.05 Artists' royalties
- £1.12 Label profit
- £1.57 Marketing/ promotion
- £1.91 Label overhead
- £2.55 Retail overhead
That's a heady profit of £1.12 for your label there. I don't consider that a huge and outrageous profit. Yes, it could be lower, but its not like from every £10 cd, the industry is making £6. The industry responded to piracy in two ways:
- Cutting back on less "sure bet artists": for example, 50 Cent is still in a job, but Capdown couldn't make a living out of music and had to break up.
- Cutting CD costs. Pushing the retailers to make less profit, causing the independant music stores (and Fopp, and Virgin) to shut down. Resulting in less quality places to purchase music, to meet people, to buy zines, and to make create high streets that are full of even more homogenous buy-it-on-our-website-for-less chains.
It's nothing to do with me!
People think music downloading is fine, saying "I wouldn't have bought it anyway". Yet the figures don't back this up. Whether or not they would have bought it, someone was. Over the last 10 years, we have seen a 25% overall drop in music sales – in the words of the Economist, "paid digital downloads grew rapidly, but did not begin to make up for the loss of revenue from CDs". In 2008, the US physical album sales fell 20 percent to 362.6 million from 450.5 million, while digital album sales rose 32 percent to a record 65.8 million units. That sounds okay, but when you do the maths, that's a drop of 21.6 million albums.
So the industry responds with focusing more on singles, but is that a positive? Do we want just catchy pop hits, and an industry that focuses on artists who maybe don't experiment with albums, with inventive, non radio friendly ideas? As the boss of Atlantic Records says "You have to really be right about your hits. If you're going to invest that amount of time in them and not run as many records, you have to be way more right today than wrong".
The Industry is stale and needs to innovate…
So then the industry has responded by trying other options. Three in fact:
- Subscription fees for downloading
- Ad supported streaming
- Paid music downloads
Let's look at these, and see why they suck more than the original system.
Subscription fee services such as Napster, and Emusic charge you a fixed fee per month, and give the consumer the option to download either a limited number of tracks permanently, or listen to an unlimited amount of music within restrictions. The downsides of these are two fold. Either they give consumers a limited selection (such as Emusic), where you can't get chart tracks, or they prevent them from using the music they download (such as Napster) who prevent you from burning tracks onto CD, or putting them on some mp3 players. Also, they are often worse value for the artists.
Ad supported streaming has gained a huge following. Services such as spotify, with a free service or subscription supported option, seem the perfect solution. You get to listen to music, adverts pay the music industry. Except, you can't listen to music unless you are attached to an internet connection. Or listen to it on your cd player in the car. Or in the high quality of a CD. And your music is interrupted by adverts. And the artists get approximately nothing. For example, Lady Gaga had a million plays on spotify. How much did she get paid? $167. That's less than a weeks Tesco's wages for being one of the most successful artists on an international music service for FIVE MONTHS.
Paid music downloads. These are the worst of the lot. This awesome article nails down a lot of the stuff I was gonna say here. What it comes down to though is that they are a bad deal for consumers, providing people with albums or singles at a similar price to the physical product, yet tied in with restrictions, less material, no resale value and, in contravention of the Consumer Protection Act, no right to return.
Plus, when you consider that labels, musicians and consumers are all forced to obey the arcane rules that (for example) the oh-so-cool Apple force you to comply with. You think the £1.12 CD cut was bad above? How about Apple taking a 30% cut on all sales? That's compared to the traditional 9% of the old system. Not that I don't like Apple, of course, although obviously their products are overpriced, with poor consumer value and imperialist business strategies.
A need for control.
One thing I do agree with, is that maybe big industries, like the music industry, need to be controlled a little, reigned in somewhat. Maybe them taking a 9% cut, back in the day was a bad thing, posting large profits. Personally, I accept that the larger a business is, potentially the larger the profits, but I also think there needs to be a balance.
I was talking with Raj about this earlier, saying I felt there was a need for regulation, some kind of Government OffMedia group overseeing all media stuff. And then I read some more about the bill to discover that, oh look, this terrible bill we are all against introduces, as its first point, the move to "Widen Ofcom's scope from TV and radio to all 'media services', promoting investment in networks and public service content". Now, I'm not sure how much of that has survived the numerous edits, but its still a good first step.
It's all about me. As long as I'm happy…
Ultimately, it comes down to the basic sinful nature. People like getting free stuff. They like not getting caught. Yet most of us would agree with the following scenario:
You are an artist, that relies on your work for a living, and you draw a beautiful picture. I then come and take a photo of your picture and put it on my wall without your permission. You might be upset?
And if it turned out that hundreds of people had my photo on their wall, yet very few had paid me. You haven't had your original painting stolen, yet also, something of your work has been taken?
Don't you think our society should be making those people that stole your work pay you the fair price for it?
This is illegal music downloading (and film downloading). Yes, often the main losers are the big companies, but that results in less R&D from the music industry, less investments and less opportunities in the smaller artists, ultimately leading to the painter not being able to focus on their art.
Whatever you believe about man's sinful nature, you would probably agree that a LOT of people go for the taking photos of the painting option when it comes to illegal downloads. And that if we feel for the artist in the story above, then actually maybe we should align our actions in downloading, with our beliefs in a moral code.
So, ultimately, if you want to see lots more paintings, you probably need to start buying some.
There are 19 Responses to "Digital Economics"
if it's illegal anyway then why not take the people to court and deal with the fines there? why also block internet access for the entire family, possibly ruining a home-business due to the actions of a single family member?
if a person steals a car does the 'law' also take driving licenses away from family members? no, cos that doesn't make sense. why so for digital crimes?
yes, illegal downloading is… erm… illegal (hence it's name) but we already have a system in place, do we not, to deal with law breakers? why then have they rushed this through without a proper debate?Comment by MaFt on April 8, 2010 at 10:20 pm
@Maft The point of a potential three strikes policy would be to allow you to cope with that. As in, if little Jimmy upstairs is downloading movies, once you get the first letter through, you would tell him to stop. Specially if you are running a business.
Secondly, the newly reworded clause doesn't just knock off your internet straight out, but after three hits, blocks your access to the sites, ip addresses and ports you've been downloading from.
The other key thing is that its not that there will be no debate. You will be able to say, err, actually this ain't illegal.Comment by Chris on April 8, 2010 at 10:55 pm
no-one is saying that people should be allowed to steal, but the government themselves have said an internet connection is now a basic human right… so why are they removing it over three unproven allegations of piracy?
Lets not forget Piracy isn't the only use for p2p and torrentsComment by peeved on April 8, 2010 at 10:39 pm
@peeved The bill "provides for a limited power to propose regulations in the future. The regulations would allow copyright owners to apply for court injunctions. These injunctions would require ISPs (or other service providers) to block access to specified internet locations providing access to copyright infringing material. The safeguards are extensive, including provisions on consultation, threshold and proportionality, Parliamentary accountability, legitimate use of websites, freedom of speech, and ensuring due court process."
In other words, its not going to take out your "basic human right of internet", and will take into account legal use of torrents, etc. I myself am a big torrent user for software and linux distros, as well as free music, and CDs I own, but I am not scared the bill will hurt me.
I think my issue is that basically the figures tell us that an awful lot of people are stealing, that actually most of us don't morally agree with that, yet many of us persuade ourselves that its not really a problem, and that this is hurting a creative industry that provides us with so much beauty.
Also no government has actually come out and said that internet is a human right, it was just a big bbc poll. I hope the governments will deal with all the people worldwide without other basic human rights such as homes, health, water and education before they buy everyone a laptop.Comment by Chris on April 8, 2010 at 11:02 pm
You mention sales are dropping and focus purely on Piracy as the cause, its not. Sales were artificially inflated during the 90's by the transition from Cassette to CD, rebuying their old collections. Its no wonder sales are dropping when the figures were swollen to begin with.
Also there has been no independant evidence to suggest piracy affects sales in a negative fashion. All research doing so (funded by the industries themselves) has been quickly discredited. The latest by DEMOS (an independant UK think tank) showed "pirates" spend £70 more per annum on music than non-pirates.
File sharing might hurt established artists (I don't see Bono at the social security centre asking for support) but most small artists support it completely (legal or illegal) as it is a conduit for them to gain publicity without the need to spend a fortune on expensive campaigns.
Everything boils down to profit margins. We have digital media…which after creation costs virtually nothing, yet are charged identical prices for movies, games, music online as we are in the stores.
You also make no mention of the fact that government can block ANY website on the suspicion of copyright content violations, Wikileaks showed a video of American soldiers killing iraqi's last week, wikileaks is banned. Access a torrent file through Google? Google Banned. Copyrighted video on Youtube? Youtube banned. Image on facebook? Facebook Banned.
It also allows your connection to be throttled, even cut-off without ANY conviction, all it requires is a suspicion of infringement. Guilty until proven Innocent.
Lets not even get into how the bill was forced through on a wash-up, making a complete mockery of democracy in the Uk.
Its disgusting.Comment by G Isherwood on April 8, 2010 at 11:33 pm
You also make no mention of the fact that government can block ANY website on the suspicion of copyright content violations
I think the key thing is that we have no idea what the Government will and won't do. There are no set in stone bits of legislation yet, we will have to await the nitty gritty of how appeals processes, internet censoring and various other bits and pieces will be implemented.
I however, trust that they will not be draconian, but fair, and may actually punish some of those who do commit crime, which is ultimately the purpose of the bill.
I agree that the figures we have to work on are not perfect. I do however think that we desperately need to work out laws regarding digital media. I think this is a first step, and its far from perfect. I would rather see it implemented, and then, if it is horrific, no worries, because then there will be a 2,000,000 strong facebook group against it, 5 papers having it as a headline, and then the reactionary politicians will conform to the public will. And if it works, then the only people it will punish are those who are breaking the law. Which is kind of what law is for.
And with regards to democracy: I don't think it makes a mockery of British democratic rights. Ultimately, we still have a Queen – our parliamentary system is highly irregular anyway, and this just highlights that rather than doing it a mis-justice. I think the British system is a wee bit archaic, but I reckon it works happily enough. I'd rather live here than China, and I don't think the Bill is taking us anywhere nearer to that.Comment by Chris on April 8, 2010 at 11:46 pm
I think that to a large extent filesharing is something that cannot be stopped no matter how hard the government tries to clamp down it. Napster was relatively easy to stop, but when it was stopped someone created Gnutella, then later BitTorrent came about and so on. I've never used Usenet for downloading anything but I understand that the nature of it makes it physically impossible to track who is downloading what (please correct me if I'm wrong on this). And I believe Limewire now offers the functionality to share files with trusted friends by letting you set up a darknet – ultimately the only way to obtain evidence that filesharing was taking place via darknet would be to infiltrate the network, which would be difficult. So we can anticipate more powerful filesharing technologies appearing in the future which are even harder to stop.
For that matter, filesharing via sneakernet is perfectly possible – I've heard of "hard drive parties" where people bring a hard drive loaded with all their music and/or films and copy them all, and realistically there's no way the UK government could stop these on a large scale. The issue of filesharing is like a game of Whack-a-Mole in that as soon as they take out one means of filesharing another pops up that's harder to squish. So in the longer term we need to find a way that is acceptable to the music industry but also attractive enough to customers that they use it in preference to filesharing, because no matter how much legislation they may pass I think it's just dragging out the inevitable.
I certainly think the single format needs to die in its current form. CD singles are just as expensive to duplicate as albums, and artists almost never make money from them, so it would make a lot of sense to release all singles as free downloads – it would encourage people to listen to music they otherwise might not try, it would act as a taster for the album, and by releasing it to a peer-to-peer network there isn't even the cost of web hosting to pay when distributing it. As for albums, that's a harder call to make.
As you said above, the legal alternatives at the moment aren't that great, but that tends to be less a problem with the basic concept and more with how they choose to implement it. DRM is almost universally hated by consumers, prices are often extortionate and services are often hamstrung by all sorts of daft constraints laid down by the record labels. That said, I do buy quite a bit of music off Amazon's MP3 download store and I really feel they get almost everything right – the price is usually better than the iTunes store, it's DRM-free and it's high-quality audio. I also use Last.FM and Spotify quite a lot and they're both great services that have encouraged me to listen to and then buy a lot of new music – so really you need to take into account how many sales have been created by these services that wouldn't have happened otherwise. Just because Lady Gaga made only $167 from Spotify directly doesn't mean she didn't gain additional sales because of it.
I also think that in general music labels and artists need to be re-evaluating their relationship. The model of the past where the artist gains access to the label's distribution network and finance to record their album is dead – there's plenty of high quality open-source audio production software available, and music can be distributed via P2P or a service like Jamendo, so in theory an artist could create and distribute an album extremely cheaply without label help. After all, The White Stripes managed to record Elephant for around £6,000.00, in a regular recording studio, and this was a hugely popular album. There's not really any excuse for artists going insane in the studio and spending money like water. The only thing that's left then is promotion, so perhaps the labels need to move to just doing that and taking a smaller cut of the proceeds since they're doing less work.
In general I think the current model is doomed and the Digital Economy Bill is just a silly attempt to prop it up. It's not going to change the final outcome, and it'll just drive filesharing to more robust methods.Comment by mattbd on April 9, 2010 at 12:27 am
We know exactly what will happen. Let me give you an example…the stop and search laws introduced to combat terrorism approx 9 years ago were vague, just like this bill. For the past 9 years (since the very beginning) police in london have used the bill to stop anyone and everyone regardless of reason. A vague law WILL be abused.
Exactly what is right with huge levels of collateral damage? Local internet cafe gets shut down because a user downloads some copyrighted material? An entire family loses access to the internet because their teenager knows how to work a PC better than they do? Universities, Libraries? This is like demolishing a road to punish a drunk driver…other people use that road aswell!
And for me it does make a mockery of democracy. We have a house of commons with 650 MP's, this bill was debated for 20 minutes with a handful of MP's, then voted on by only one third…a THIRD. Most of those forced into voting by the Whip system (Vote how we tell you or lose your job). How in the world can you consider a Yes vote of 180 people out of 650 to be anything close to democratic? Regardless of the fact the people voting on it have little to no idea what it means.
Music, Games, Movies…they arn't dying, Big business is. We are seeing a shift to "classic" culture, where people create for the joys of creating and sharing ideas, not to make profit (did you know there are only two species on the entire planet who are known to share voluntarily? We are one of them)…thats actually a good thing. Give me a film like REC, a game like World of Goo over smash and grab hollywood blockbusters and $10 million produced games that are shallow any day.Comment by G Isherwood on April 9, 2010 at 1:09 am
@G Isherwood As someone who has lived and worked in London since that bill was passed, I disagree that the bill has been used to "stop anyone and everyone". In fact, I know no one, black, white or otherwise, who has been stopped under it. Sometimes there is a call for vague rules, since the situation that they need to be applied to is often ill defined, or constantly changing.
Regarding third party internet useage, the vagueness of the Bill, to me, implies that this has been taken into account, and will be detailed in the final writing into law. Just to repeat what I quoted above – "The safeguards are extensive, including provisions on consultation, threshold and proportionality, Parliamentary accountability, legitimate use of websites, freedom of speech, and ensuring due court process."
Regarding the wash-up period in Parliamentary politics, whilst not ideal, I think it plays a role. If you check this list of previous washup bills, there are a huge number of useful and important bills over the years that have passed during it. Part of the intent is to ensure that laws get passed quickly, that democracy can move and adapt quickly through compromise, rather than just getting caught up in years and years of argument.
"Where people create for the joys of creating and sharing ideas, not to make profit"Comment by Chris on April 9, 2010 at 7:49 am
But, my point is that we live in a society based on money. That actually, if people don't make a profit, then they don't have jobs, they don't create jobs; record shops, cinemas, record labels, etc; and they can't afford to put as much time, money and enthusiasm into creativity.
You made some good points, but the main controversy is mainly about the power record labels would have to deny you internet access until you launch a legal action to prove your innocence (lengthy and expensive) and internet censorship. It is also quite disgusting that only 40 out of the 646 MPs were present during the hearing, even though it is an extreme important and complicated issue, and that it is rushed through into law without proper debate even though there is obviously huge interest.So even if it is true that they might have the right intentions (we hope), the implementation is flawed at best.Comment by Colin Leung on April 9, 2010 at 1:10 am
@Colin I agree with some of that, but also disagree. I have a question for you though- do you illegally download, and do you think this might make you more against it, because you don't want to be stopped?Comment by Chris Lowry on April 9, 2010 at 6:53 am
I don't illegal download as far as I know, but legality shifts a lot these days, so I won't attach too much sentiment to that. How legal was mephedrone two weeks ago? Yeah, the comments on your blog covered most of the bases, I read through your responses, and I am impressed by your faith in the government. Regarding this faith, how much thought had the two hundred MPs put in when they've voted, when only about 40 was there for the 2nd reading. How much would a bunch of middle aged MP, most who could just about check their emails, would understand the complexity of the bill they just passed? Why are they rushing something so important through when there are still so much more to debate?Comment by Colin Leung on April 9, 2010 at 11:46 am
I was tempted in by the shiny pie chart…at the end of the day, even as a 'musician', I really don't think the profits of big business should be favoured over and above the civil rights of citizens. Live shows cannot be digitized, artists have to go out and work to earn the money through hard graft and touring. The atmosphere of a live show is not something you can compress and download. CD's should be the promotional tool for the live circuit in my opinion, and if enough of them sell to turn a profit then great for the record label, but the meat and potatoes of music should always be the live performance, and there's still plenty of money to be had from that.Comment by Stuart Marsh on April 11, 2010 at 6:49 pm
To be fair, part of my issue is that when it comes to music I'm totally selfish in a slightly weird and unique way. Technology exists such that you're average working bloke can save up for the equipment to record stuff to a fairly decent standard. Not great, not that of a record label but OK. Check out this:
That is a bloke who pretty much paid for all his own recording equipment and recorded it all in his room in Broomhall. Did it cost money? Yeah but I don't care – my point is that if he can afford it (mostly as a student) then it's just about saving up and putting the work in.
For every band I really like, there's probably 100 other bands out there who I'd like equally. There is no good reason why that one band should get more money than the other 100.
Given that the distribution is no longer a problem (do it via The Pirate Bay), what is the purpose of record labels? Bands only go through them because that's the traditional method.
Put it this way – if you want Capdown to do better, don't buy one of their CDs. 'Steal' their music via The Pirate Bay and uTorrent, then give one of their band members £10. Your pie chart then reads like this:
£10 – Capdown
Win.Comment by King Rajin IX on April 11, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I agree that live gigs are important. And yet, these days, I can't afford to go to them. I saw Iron Maiden multiple times 6 years ago for about £20. Now it would be £50. Yes, the smaller bands you can see for cheap. Meaning they are making nothing from CDs, nothing from live shows, and are less likely to get signed to the major labels forced to avoid less surefire bands.
The atmosphere of a live gig is an awesome thing. Yet also, something that easily goes wrong. Rancid, one of my favourite bands, played in Sheffield. It cost me like £25, and the sound at the venue blew. Whereas their albums are good every time.
Also, where do we hear music most? Is it live gigs? Or are we surrounded by music every day with radio, tv, adverts, ipods, spotify, films and everything else? Does it make sense that the music we listen to 90% of the time should be profitless for the hard working artists, yet the gigs be their salvation?
As a guy who played in a band, our EP took me months, and I could appreciate how much more we could have achieved with a recording studio, people with experience (which means they deserve pay too) and the equipment to make it work. But yeh, in the end I was proud of what we made. Our live performances, on the other hand, were totally at the whim of the venue, the battered PA, or the curmudgeon at the mixing desk.
Live shows make me buy CDs. And CDs make me go to live shows. I think I should pay for both.Comment by Chris Lowry on April 12, 2010 at 11:21 pm
I don't see the problem that the bands don't get any money. Most people in a band do it because they like being in a band and not because they expect to get rich. Unless free music stops people from making music, I don't care. As long as the quality is roughly that of the link I posted in my previous comment, I don't care.
(Link was to: http://www.myspace.com/rainblind)
Just because you do something difficult, doesn't mean you deserve paying. If I liked your EP, I would give you money to carry on playing and/or I would go and see you at a gig. If that means you (or whoever) haven't got the money to carry on, why am I supposed to care? If I did, I'd pay you the money directly.
It'll just mean it's not anywhere near as viable a profession as it once was. Good. There are enough musicians as it is. I find it very hard to care about a musician's salary when Arctic Monkeys may be rich but a probably equally good band are nowhere near as rich. Basically, I find it very difficult to care.Comment by King Rajin IX on April 13, 2010 at 3:16 pm
"It'll just mean it's not anywhere near as viable a profession as it once was. Good. "
I think that's where we disagree. I think people should be able to make a living in Music, just as people good at maths should be able to earn money as accountants, or good at words at writing.Comment by Chris on April 14, 2010 at 6:18 pm
This is a british chart of royalties fromn 2010 on how each is split up.Comment by LDS (@cherry1779) on June 27, 2015 at 3:39 pm
@taylorswift13 was right artists dont get much according to http://t.co/NqUEtvJi6T . Apple falls under distributor.Comment by @cherry1779 on June 27, 2015 at 3:43 pm


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When it came to reaching the pinnacle of athletics success, no hurdle was too great for Conner Stapleton to overcome.
Really, it wasn't.
On the football field, the 2013 Center Grove graduate was one of the area's top running backs on a team that advanced to the Class 5A semistate.
On the track, he was the state's No. 1 performer in the 300-meter hurdles.
A two-sport athlete who helped fuel the Center Grove football team's offense and powered its state-ranked track and field team, Stapleton was a versatile performer who excelled well beyond traditional expectations.
He rushed for 1,067 yards and 15 touchdowns during the football season and concluded his spectacular track career by winning the 300 hurdles title at the May 31 IHSAA State Track and Field Championships.
In recognition of his accomplishments, Stapleton has been selected the 2012-13 Johnson County Male Athlete of the Year, as selected by the Daily Journal sports staff.
Stapleton was honored Tuesday, along with 22 other senior athletes from the county's six public high schools, at the 15th annual Johnson County Athlete of the Year Banquet at Franklin College.
Sponsored by the Daily Journal and the Johnson County athletics directors, the event honors male and female athletes for outstanding achievement in athletics and sportsmanship.
Whiteland resident Brad Long, who portrayed Hickory Huskers basketball player Buddy Walker in the classic 1986 movie "Hoosiers," was this year's guest speaker.
"I look back and it has, at the very least, been a roller coaster" said Stapleton, who, like all Athlete of the Year candidates, was nominated by his school. "It's been the highs and lows.
"I just tried to have a championship attitude."
Winner of a combined seven varsity letters in his career, Stapleton was a first-team member of the Daily Journal's 2012 All-County Football Team and was a three-time all-state selection in track.
His finest moment on the track was at the state meet, where we won the 300 hurdles with a time 37.26 seconds. He finished eighth in the same event as a sophomore and was third last year.
Besides winning the hurdles, Stapleton ran the fourth and final leg of the Trojans' second-place 1,600 relay team. The podium finishes helped Center Grove finish an impressive third in the team standings.
It's been a very humbling experience," Stapleton said. "When I look back I have a tremendous amount of people to thank."
An honors student who maintained a 3.79 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale, Stapleton will continue his track career on scholarship at Notre Dame.
He plans to major in in finance, with a career goal of becoming a chief financial officer.


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At an intimate gathering for an fundraising auction Passionately Indian organized by Siddharth Kak, noted filmmaker and producer of Surabhi - the popular cultural series on Indian Television, Shah Rukh Khan who opened the auction was in a wonderful mood singing, dancing and amusing the crowd who got to see SRK unplugged even as he turned auctioneer and urged them to bid for the Indian artefacts on sale. SRK who made his on-screen debut with the TV serial Circus shared an amusing anecdote regarding his co-star Renuka Shahane.
SRK spoke fondly of Renuka who went on to become the face of Surabhi and is now not only a renowned actor and well known film personality but is now also one of the trustees of the Surabhi Foundation. "I remember very well the days of shooting with Renuka for my Television series Circus. There was a scene where she was to climb on top and her character was supposed to be affected with vertigo. We didn't know that in real life too Renuka suffered from vertigo and when she was called to shoot the scene she panicked and we got a real shot" SRK told the amused audience.
While SRK was not sure whether the shoot happened in Satara or Goa, Renuka who too was present at the auction remembered the incident quite clearly. "Shah Rukh forgot but we were shooting in Goa. About the scene that he is talking about, yes… I did have problem shooting the vertigo scene and everyone was surprised when they came to know that I had vertigo in real life too. Eventually we managed to shoot it when they reduced the height" said Renuka who looked resplendent in a lovely green saree and ethnic jewellery which matched her ever dazzling smile.
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Olmert: I Am Shamed by Hebron Settlers' Pogrom
PM says he told defense establishment 'to do all it takes, with all the strength needed' to stop such attacks.
Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday lashed out at settlers in Hebron who attacked Palestinians and their property in recent days, joining other Israeli figures in branding the attacks a "progrom."
Settlers in the West Bank city went on a rampage after Israel Defense Forces evicted dozens of them from a building whose ownership is disputed. The move came after Israel's High Court ordered that the settlers leave the building, dubbed the "House of Contention."
"We are the children of a people whose historic ethos is built on the memory of pogroms," Olmert said during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. "The sight of Jews firing at innocent Palestinians has no other name than pogrom."
"I am ashamed that Jews could do such a thing," Olmert went on. "I have asked the defense minister and other relevant elements to do all it takes, with all the strength needed and in any place controlled by the State of Israel, in order to stop this phenomenon."
Video footage supplied by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem shows a settler firing shots at Palestinian rock-throwers from close range, hitting two of them. A second settler is also seen opening fire.
"I have turned to the appropriate elements in order to assure that law enforcement authorities will take aggressive and sharp action to bring those responsible to justice," Olmert said Sunday.
Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann also slammed the attacks as a pogrom, in a television interview over the weekend.
Palestinians said that 17 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, five of them by gunfire. The two settlers caught on film have turned themselves in to police.
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10 Directors Who Should Helm Marvel's Doctor Strange
Joe CornishWhy It Might Happen: Cornish has been flirting with the blockbuster field since his rowdy debut, the sensationally entertaining Attack The Block. Since then, hes been linked to the directors chair for sequels to Die Hard, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, and, for a hot minute, Star Trek 3. Hes also an in-house option: Cornish has reportedly been writing Ant-Man with Edgar Wright since 2006.
Why It Might Not: Cornish has been very outspoken about his reluctance to jump onto a studio picture, and we can imagine him facing a heavy intimidation level in assembling a major effects blockbuster. Hed be affordable, but would his heart be in it?
Panos CosmatosWhy It Might Happen: Cosmatos is maybe the cheapest option on this list, given that hes only done the low budget sci-fi chiller Beyond The Black Rainbow. Any five minutes of that audacious debut would be trippier than the entirely of all the Marvel films combined, but Doctor Strange would require a commitment to, at some points, vex, confuse and startle the view. Cosmatos already proved he could handle it.
Why it Might Not: Hes still only got one movie under his belt, and for those that love Beyond The Black Rainbow, theyd have to acknowledge that theres not much coherent visual language on display. This is ultimately going to be a PG-13 broad-appeal blockbuster, and Cosmatos might be a little too edgy for the part.
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The newly launched Lookout unveils a one-of-a-kind dining destination with 360-degree views of the Central Business District and Marina Bay skyline.
The Clifford Pier presents an Afternoon Tea menu of novel tea time treats that are spun off familiar Singapore dishes with distinctively local flavours.
Come and play, dip, sip and savour at Lantern every last Sunday of the month.
Illuminated by 10-metre high floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the sparkling waters of Marina Bay, the elegant La Brasserie presents classic French bistro favourites with contemporary flair.
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Newly unveiled at The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore in May 2014 is The Clifford Pier, our hotel's latest destination restaurant. more
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Kyagalanyi Masajja Development Group, Kampala
This married mother of four has educated all her children with earnings from this business. Her business generates her profits in the range of 100 to 120 thousand shillings a week. She also ekes out additional profits operating a local commercial motorcycle business.
With this loan, Florence wants to buy more bananas and charcoal that she can later sell to her customers. She also wants to buy another commercial motorcycle or boda-boda as they are known here. Florence hopes to be the leading supplier of foodstuffs in the area.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
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The Leica 180/2.8 APO-Elmarit-R shows what is possible, with performance wide open that barely improves by stopping down, except to improve contrast slightly, and to provide more even illumination (vignetting) across the field. This is as good as it gets with diffraction quickly being the limiting factor.
The Leica 180/2.8 exhibits a clarity lacking with the other lenses. It's a lens that will perform on 40-60 megapixel cameras with grace, and when the going gets tough (flat light, subtle tones, color, etc), it's likely to excel in ways one can't see on a test chart.
The price of the Leica 180/2.8 APO-Summicron-R is out of reach for most photographers, but used samples can sometimes be found for much less. The sample tested here was tested using the Leitax converter; conversion takes about 10 minutes with a screwdriver—very easy.
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NBA infamy is hovering over the 76ers like a buzzard eying a carcass.
A loss to the Detroit Pistons on Saturday at Wells Fargo Center would mark their 27th straight loss. That would give them the record for consecutive losses by a U.S. professional team.
Based on this season's previous matchups with Detroit (26-45), a loss appears unavoidable for the Sixers (15-57).
Just don't tell that to Thaddeus Young.
"I always felt like we can go into any game and beat anybody on any given night," the Sixers power forward said. "So every game is a must-win for me personally, for the team. . . . And we all talk about having the same goals as going out there and try to win a game."


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Death Becomes Her
Moorhouse, Roger, New Statesman (1996)
Wendy Lower
Chatto & Windus, 288pp, [pounds sterling]18.99
The conventional image of women in Nazi Germany is well known. In what was a very masculine world, women generally appear either as hysterical, weeping Hitler fanatics or as hapless rape victims, reaping the Soviet whirlwind. Some readers, however--those familiar with the execrable concentration-camp guards Irma Grese and Ilse Koch or perhaps with Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader--might recognise a third stereotype: that of the woman as perpetrator.
Hitler's Furies, a new book by the American academic Wendy Lower, brings this latter image to a non-specialist audience. Distilling many years of research into the Holocaust, Lower focuses her account on the experiences of a dozen or so subjects--not including Grese and Koch--ranging from provincial schoolteachers and Red Cross nurses to army secretaries and SS officers' molls. Despite coming from all regions of Germany and all walks of life, what they had in common was that they ended up in the Nazi-occupied east, where they became witnesses, accessories or even perpetrators in the Holocaust.
Lower is scrupulously fair to her subjects, providing a potted biography of each, explaining their social and political background and examining the various motives--ambition, love, a lust for adventure--that propelled them to the "killing fields". This objectivity is admirable, particularly as most of the women swiftly conformed to Nazi norms of behaviour, at least in turning a blind eye to the suffering around them. One woman, a Red Cross nurse, organised "shopping trips" to hunt for bargains in the local Jewish ghetto, while another, a secretary, calmly typed up lists of Jews to be "liquidated", then witnessed their subsequent deportation.
Most shocking of all are the accounts of the women who killed. One of Lower's subjects, a secretary-turned-SS-mistress, had the "nasty habit", as one eyewitness put it, of killing Jewish children in the ghetto, whom she would lure with the promise of sweets before shooting them in the mouth with a pistol. Lower presents another chilling example: that of an SS officer's wife in occupied Poland who discovered a group of six Jewish children who had escaped from a death-camp transport. A mother, she took them home, fed and cared for them, then led them out into the forest and shot each one in the back of the head.
Despite these horrors, Lower's book resists the temptation to wallow in emotive rhetoric; nor is it drily academic. She writes engagingly, wears her considerable erudition lightly and has opted to stick with a broad narrative account, comparing and contrasting but never allowing her analysis to outweigh the fundamental humanity of the stories. …


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The folks at 100 Days of Real Food hosted a lunch box contest on Facebook last week. You were supposed to make a real food lunch and then post a picture of it that day. Most of the pictures were of kids lunches that were sent to school.
Here's what I posted.
It's a salad made from salmon, quinoa, cucumbers and grape tomatoes. The dressing is cider vinegar, honey and olive oil and the salad is topped with shaved parmesan cheese. I used this recipe for Quinoa and Salmon Salad for inspiration. I also had fresh pineapple chunks, along with Triscuit crackers and a few Peppercorn cheese slices.


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Within PHP, if I have one function that calls another function; is there any way to get the called function to exit out of the caller function without killing the entire script?
For instance, let's say I have some code something like:
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This is some text. After this text, I'm going to call funcA.

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This is more text after funcA ran.

Unfortunately, if I find something inside of funcB that makes me want to stop funcA from finishing, I seem to have to exit the entire PHP script. Is there any way around this?
I understand that I could write something into funcA() to check for a result from funcB(), but, in my case, I have no control over the contents of funcA(); I only have control over the contents of funcB().
To make this example a little more concrete; in this particular instance, I am working with WordPress. I am hooking into the get_template_part() function, and trying to stop WordPress from actually requiring/including the file through the locate_template() function that's called after my hook is executed.
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IMMIGRATION: Inland activists urge Republicans to oppose Boehner plan
Robin Hvidston, right, at a March picketing in front of Rep. Gary Miller's office at which people on both sides of the issue demonstrated.
Anti-illegal-immigration activists from the Inland area and elsewhere in California are visiting nine Republican congressional offices today to urge opposition to efforts to provide legal status for any of the 11 million-plus people living in the country illegally.
Rep. Ken Calvert's Corona office, Rep. Gary Miller's Rancho Cucamonga office and Rep. Paul Cook's Yucaipa office are among those targeted.
"We're telling them to listen to their constituents," said Robin Hvidston, executive director of the anti-illegal-immigration We the People Rising and an Upland resident. "We want you to go there on behalf of the American worker. We want them to tell Mr. Boehner to shelve his proposed immigration amnesty bill."
The New York Times reported Saturday� that House Speaker John Boehner and other House Republican leaders likely will release a plan later this week that includes a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants who have employers sponsoring them or family members who are citizens. The proposal, to be released during a House GOP retreat in Maryland, also would provide a path to citizenship for many young undocumented immigrants, strengthen border security and implement stronger sanctions against employers who hire people not legally authorized to work.
The measure stops short of a broader path to citizenship that most Democrats, immigrant-rights groups and Latino and Asian American organizations support. But anti-illegal-immigration groups still view it as "amnesty" that rewards people who are living in the country illegally.
The visits are part of a national effort to pressure GOP House members to resist calls for a legalization plan.
The anti-illegal-immigration NumbersUSA this morning urged members to call their House representatives to tell them to oppose legalization.
Hvidston is visiting Miller's office today. Miller, who in the past was a leading anti-illegal-immigration voice, has not taken a position on legalization or a path to citizenship since he began representing a majority Latino and Asian American district. He has been heavily lobbied by people on both sides of the issue.
Cook, a freshman Republican, also has not taken a position on the issue.
Calvert's position roughly aligns with the immigration plan that the Times said Boehner and other GOP leaders will unveil this week: A path to citizenship for many young people living in the country illegally, legalization – but not a path to citizenship – for many older undocumented immigrants, stronger efforts to stop the hiring of unauthorized workers and stricter border security.
Hvidston said members of Congress should focus on reducing unemployment, helping veterans and alleviating homelessness rather than assisting people in the country illegally.
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