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Youth here thank you for bringing us here and hopefully one day one the youth behind me will take our position thank you very much thank you very much thank you. Next speaker, please. Approximately im dana i work here and talked about the high rates of Breast Cancer in marin county it was believed to have the highest rates of Breast Cancer in the world oh thank you this book come out maybe four or five years ago that says it was beautifully landscaped Breast Cancer in the world oar ive talked ab...

Organizations like the Community Housing Partnership Long enough that he should have been properly trained about the shelter the sunshine ordinance and the ordinance creating the committee and the standards of care and he should have known that and he did not mention any of those documents. The report or the shelter shock created by the homelessness and i am just saying that if he prepared for this and especially if he prepared time wise, this is an extremely long, it is almost a part time job. ...

Silver bullet i created a competition in the marketplace and made the Consent Decrees unnecessary. But that is not the world were living in right now. So especially given that weve seen increasing consolidation among the publishers some of which was justified because we have the Consent Decrees as a backstop and we have this federal court case where a judge found that the publishers have the opportunity to compete and to coordinate with each other that sunset in the Consent Decrees at this time ...

Gentleman said for 15 years it was fine and now its gotten bad. That really is not a change in our system as i said earlier. Thats a change in the rain patterns and we again agree with that and trying to deal with that but have to stress that whatever we do and even if we were to spend billions of dollars when a 25 year storm hits we will flood. We cannot as a city ever invest enough money to deal with that storm. Its just not an effective use of public funds. I understand the frustration when y...

Are buying in order to figure out what each cost and also i would note that on the songwriter side, Songwriters Guild featured Music Coalition that have brought up issues of transparency because arbitration might lead to issues where the artists themselves dont necessarily know what the rate is or how it was decided. I think my time is up mr. Chairman. Thank you. Senator franken. Thank you mr. Chairman for this hearing. Mr. Harris and you talked about this 150,000dollar fine that could be impose...

We wish you the best of luck with the tax code. [laughter] thanks for raising the issue in being here. It is an important topic with that industry moving that there is a lot of music activity in atlanta but the music marketplace has changed to undergone radical changes over the next decade the year the top 100 singles sung by bryan adams and boys to men. Gore like to start with the threshold question about both Consent Decrees the the part of justice had a mandate with the decrees have a sunset ...

Hypothetical situations make worse law. In this case, i would just urge members of this committee not to make a decision based upon a hypothetical threat. Thats first. Second of all, the very fact that the Music Publishers were talking about are big enough to make a threat that scares ascap and b. M. I. Shoumd raise a lot of eyebrows on this committee and the department of justice. Those withdrawals as has been mentioned here the possibility of those withdrawals are best put in the light of what...

Different consent points. So here, in creating that market, its allowing new perspectives to enter into the market pay areas and launch consumers and give consumers a new choice. I have a general question for anyone if youd like to speak on it. Im trying to get a sense of each of your view what fair market value means for your perspective. And im happy to have anyone. But im really just trying to understand how the Consent Decree stands in the way of achieving it as well. But, to anyone, we can ...

Pretty telling example of what the state of competition is there. So, i think that the publishers would be able to begin to act like that. Because they have similar levels of market concentration and for partial withdrawals i think the danger with partial withdrawals over just disbanding the Consent Decrees entirely is that we have seen how the pros and ascap act when they think they can partially withdraw and it resulted in a lot of competition problems and my concern is that if the doj was to ...

I would simply say that from personal observation, i was in bud a pest in 1994 when the agreement was signed that the russians have violated, so im very alive to the the possibility that we had then and i think still need to stick up for of independent ukraine able to find its own way politically and economically is the only thing i would say. In the first instance it is terribly important that that occurment and occur. And the other thing i will say is that nobody should mistake that ukraine is...