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The Wall / aRecords

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How Bad is Homelessness

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The Wall is a revival center for homeless individuals. All individuals will get their own miniature room,with a desk, closet, bed, white eraser board, and a desktop computer. The twelve step recovery programthat has been made popular by Alcoholics Anonymous will be used and all residents are required toattend AA meetings for the first 90 days. aptisms in !hrist are not required but recommended duringtheir first week of housing. The main area has a wall that pro"ects recorded church services fromaround the country #like Tampa, $lorida%s &elevant !hurch and 'os Angeles% (osaic !hurch along with

)ewish *ervices to help better understand the +ld !ovenant and live high definition feeds on *undayswith general public attendance welcomed. The second area is where the A.A. meetings are held and thethird area is a recording studio for neighborhood musicians to use. $or every hour of assistance of thehomeless by individuals of the neighborhood, one hour will be allotTed to use the -00,000 studio withstudio engineer included. The Wall will also pro"ect /isney films when not pro"ecting prerecordedsermons and will run twenty four hours a day when the recovering are sleepless and restless, especiallyin the early of recovery. aptisms in the 'ord )esus% name will be held on *aturday 1ights. At night,hallway audio from the pro"ection television will shut off to provide rest for the restless in anatmosphere that is loving and regular communal events and interaction to heal the bodies, minds, andspirits of the abandoned.2olunteer and paid nurses will assist in physical issues, including bloodwork.(ental issues will be assigned to a building psychiatrist, with the ability to prescribe drugs like

'ithium, and paid for by The Wall.

/onations will be accepted via electronically on *undays when The Wall is open to the general publicand online. 'ive highdefinition video feeds will be streaming on the The Wall *ocial 1etworking*martphone Application #iphone and android in all main areas twentyfour hours a day. A smallpercentage of profits from a&ecords, 3arthreneur 4ublishing, 3arthreneur $ilms and 3arthreneur rick5 (ortor will go towards the e6ponential e6pansion of The Wall, 7*A. Artists and authors will theoption of donating part of their 88 percent profit margin to The Wall, but at their own free will : werecommend to only do that once they #and their families are out of poverty before they do that but wealso recommend that they get led by The ;oly *pirit.

After 90 days of recovery, the recovered will begin "ob training in an area of their liking and basic toolslike clean clothes, a smartphone, and fast food gift cards will be supplied, along with any tools neededfor their trade prior to starting employment. They will be alotted assistance for housing for one monthand market gift certificates for one month%s food supply after their first check is received, with twoweeks of additional living at The Wall and transition assistance.

The goal is rapidly open locations at an e6ponential rate with the intention of completely endinghomeless in the 7nited *tates of America by *ummer of 0 ma"or cities by the end of


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These are the twelve steps as introduced by Alcoholic%s Anonymous but is also used for 1arcoticsAnonymous, (ari"uana Anonymous, and (ethamphetamine Anonymous.

1. We admit we were powerless over alcoholthat our lives had becomeunmanageable.

2. Come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care o !od as we

understand "im.

#. Make a searching and earless moral inventory o ourselves.

$. %dmit to !od& to ourselves& and to another human being the e'act nature o ourwrongs.

(. )o be entirely ready to have !od remove all these deects o character.

*. "umbly ask "im to remove our shortcomings.

+. Make a list o all persons we have harmed& and became willing to make amends

to them all.

,. Make direct amends to such people wherever possible& e'cept when to do so

would in-ure them or others.

1. Continue to take personal inventory and when we we/re wrong promptly

admitted it.

11. 0eek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with

!od& as we understand "im& praying only or knowledge o "is will or us and the

power to carry that out.

12. "aving had a spiritual awakening as the result o these 0teps& try to carry this

message to alcoholics& and to practice these principles in all our aairs.

The Wall staff will seek out their individual desires, strengths, and talents, to move and motivate themto start a life more powerful, more meaningful, and en"oyable than their past life.

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@t is difficult for e6tremely talented musicians to get into music as a profession because they do not fitthe moldB label reps are looking for. WhyC They are completely different beings then what the keyholdersB are looking for. The truth is, the new talent is too new, too evolved : they are !&3AT7&3*,not humans, that are a product of a world even more difficult to survive in than it was for thegeneration that came before. All of a sudden, in "ust a single generation, the information put upon them

because of the @nternet turned them into heavyburdened e6periments. @f the generation that camebefore #parents are ;umanD 2ersion =.=< and the generation before them #grandparents areEwhere;umanD 2ersions =.== , todayFs youth are !yborg ;umanD 2ersion


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The world will change in all the ways every generation wants or once wanted when a&ecords as a teamof leaders and musicians is the idle ;umvee thatFs on the frontline the ig War. WhatFs the ig WarC@tFs all the wars tossed into +ne War : 4ride, ;ate, Terrorism, /ependenceO you name it and itFs inpart of the ig War and, as Nod as my witness, a&ecordsF talented warriors will be doing all thefighting for you until the ig War is Won by the singing angels that )ohnny !ash sings about when theman comes aroundB and by The 4eople of this fine country who support these singing angels. +ne

thing that @ learned to be fact is there isnFt nothing you canFt accomplish in the World with the use ofmusic, specifically, in regards to influencing it : when music is received well #when its popular itreally means youFve roaredB really loud #thank you Maty 4erry and you will be heard by the wholeplanet.

@ wouldnFt start a&ecords if it wasnFt to, in short time, give artists the opportunity to do live shows allover the country independently and, if successful, they can come home to a really nice apartment,condo, or house and live normal life. They can make -80,000 a year if they sell only =0,000 copies oftheir album over their tour, based on artist choosing to sell their album for -=0, selling =0,000,

receiving 80 commission. Hou donFt start to see that kind of money from current labels until you hitNoldB #=00,000 copies sold. +f course you need money to tour, but itFs


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When a&ecords is first ready for the public it will be able to deliver content at rates as high as !/quality, as low as iTunes quality, and anywhere in between because it will be based out of a Noogle$iber ;ood in Mansas !@ty. *ee google.comEfiber for more info.

As a&ecords continue to grow, it will be able to act a fulfillment center. @t will be able to receiveposters, buttons, vinyl records, and !/ albums that the artists create under quality controlled guidelinesand be able to add them to purchasing options for their fans.

When a&ecords reaches its full potential, it will dump the fulfillment center and be able to make andprint posters, buttons, vinyl records, and !/ albums. @t will much cheaper for the beautiful artists andtheir beautiful fans because the artists donFt have to pay shipping, mastering, and printing costs.+h, and everybody is welcome to play ball from the first day a&ecords opens its doors to the pointwhere its conquering The World. )ust signup and start selling. The rest is up to you.

When a&ecords reaches its full potential #no time at all, people, hereFs what you, the consumer will beable to get at a price that the artists setsD

@nstant download at quality up to !/

4ay - more and get either a 2inyl &ecord or !/ Album of the same !/ to your door tocover shipping, parts, and labor costs

/ue to awesome copyright laws, your electronic receipt is the proof youFre the owner the rights to thatalbum so if we copy it to 2inyl or !/, itFs no big deal, baby. $or a few bucks get buttons that the artistscreate and for -=0 get A1/ 4+*T3&*PPP

n summary& kiss my ass ig 0i' Warner& 4M& C0& M!& 5M!& P!6. @f youFre financiallydependent or responsible forEto any of these companies #@ love you AmaIonP @Fm not talking to AmaIonhere, people, itFs time to start looking for new "obs, liquidating your corporation, and start renting outyour offices and cubicles on !raigslist because starting today, youFre on a lifeline that is counting downto Iero #i.e., your death. Hou M13W this day was comingO and now itFs here. (erry !hristmasPHouFll thank me later.

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According the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,there are 610,042 Homeless People in America (January 2014).

Chicago, City ofThe city of Chicago, Illinois is also noted for its number of homeless people. Over the years,Chicago has gained a reputation as the city with the most homeless people, rivaling Los Angelesand New York, although no statistical data have backed this up. The reputation stems primarily fromthe subjective number of beggars found on the streets rather than any sort of objective statisticalcensus data. Indeed, from statistical data, Chicago has far less homeless per capita than peers NewYork, and Los Angeles, or other major cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Boston,among others, with only 5,922 homeless recorded in a one night count taken in 2007.

Homeless woman taking a nap on some construction lumber in Chicago.

Denver, City ofWhile Mayor of Denver, Colorado, Colorado Governor John Hickenloopermade dealing with theissues that underlie homelessness a top priority on his Mayoral agenda, speaking heavily on theissue during his first "State of the City" address in 2003. While Denver's homeless population ismuch lower than other major cities, the homeless residents have often suffered when without shelterduring Denver's infamously cold winters. Now officials have said that this number has risen overthe past few years.

As of January of 2014 and found that 5,812 individuals were experiencing homelessnessand 2,230 people were at-risk of homelessness in the Denver area.

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Florida, State ofHomeless advocate and urban designer Michael E. Arth proposed building a Pedestrian village forthe adult homeless in Volusia Countynear Daytona Beach, Florida in 2007. As of 2009, Arth wasstill working toward trying to consolidate most of the scattered 19 local agencies into an attractivecommunity that would be designed to more effectively address the needs of the chronically adult

homeless and the temporarily adult homeless, as well as others who may be having difficulty fittinginto the pervasive, automobile-dominated culture. He writes that the current "piecemeal approach"inefficiently spreads out services and work opportunities, and aggravates the problem by polarizingcitizens who might otherwise be inclined to help. In response to critics who say that such a villagewould be like a concentration camp, Arth points out that the U.S. already concentrates their citizensinto prisons at 78 times the rate of Canada or Europe. "There should be alternative between livingon the street and being locked up that addresses the needs of the chronically and temporarily adulthomeless." His proposed "Tiger Bay Village" would have a community garden and orchard, a placeto hire certified workers, and a work crew to help build and maintain the village. "Little shops in thevillage center could process and rehabilitate donated clothes and furnishings to be sold to the

public." Housing would range from multi-bed barracks to small Katrina cottages depending on a

person's contributions to the village, special needs, and income. Arth claims that this would cost lessand be far more effective than any of the other solutions tried elsewhere.

In a bizarre story, George Grayson, 37, was paid $50 to get beaten by an attractive female for fetish websiteshefights.net along with other St. Petersburg homeless men who where paid $25 to $50 for female domination purposes.

According to the Department of Children and Families' most recent report, there are 85,907 personshomeless on any given day, and only about 9,000 emergency shelter beds and an additional 13,000transitional shelter beds available to provide lodging to the entire homeless population. Accordingto the Huffington Post, the State of Florida is the most dangereous place for homeless people.

From left to right, a homeles teenage Pinellas Park couple at the laundramat (left); a homeless family as a result of aFlorida home foreclosure (right).

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Indianapolis, City ofIn Indianapolis, Indiana, as many as 2,200 people are homeless on any given night, and as many as15,000 individuals over the course of a year. Indianapolis is notable among cities of similar size forhaving only faith-based shelters, such as the century-old Wheeler Mission. In 2001, Mayor BartPetersonendorsed a 10-year plan, called the[139]Blueprint to End Homelessness, and made it one of

his administration's top priorities. The plan's main goals are for more affordable housing units,employment opportunities, and support services. The Blueprint notwithstanding, Indianapolis hascriminalized aspects of homelessness, such as making panhandling a misdemeanor; and the City-County Council has twice (in April 2002, and August 2005) denied the zoning necessary to open anew shelter for homeless women.

A hidden living area with makeshift bedding, child's tent, a bicycle for transportation and a iron rod for protection.

Los Angeles, City-County of

In its January 2013 census, Los Angeles County counted 39,463 people sleeping on thestreet or in homeless shelters. When including persons sleeping on private property with

permission to stay no more than 90 days, the estimated number of homeless in Los AngelesCounty is 57,737.

The number of people in the latter category, called "precariously housed" or "at risk ofhomelessness", was estimated by means of a telephone survey. The number of homeless in

Los Angeles County, including the precariously housed and at risk of homelessness, was51,340 in 2011, of which 23,539 were in the City of Los Angeles, and 4,316 were in the 50block area east of downtown Los Angeles informally known as Skid Row. It is estimatedthat 190,207 people are homeless in Los Angeles County at least one night during the year.

The 2013 census notes that 31.4% of the homeless in Los Angeles County are substanceabusers, 30.2% are mentally ill, and 18.2% have a physical disability. The census also notesthat 68.2% of the homeless are male, 38% are African American, 37% are Caucasian, 28%are Hispanic, and 57.6% are between 25 and 54 years old.

On a given night, about 12,934 homeless people stay in a shelter. The number includesfamilies staying in motels on emergency vouchers.

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Massachusetts, City ofIn December 2007, Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, announced that the one night homelesscount had revealed that the actual number of homeless living in the streets was down.

In October 2008, Connie Paige of The Boston Globe reported that the number of homeless inMassachusetts had reached an all-time high, mostly due to mortgage foreclosures and the nationaleconomic crisis.

In October 2009, as part of the city'sLeading the Way initiative, Mayor Thomas Menino of Bostondedicated and opened the Weintraub Day Center which is the first city-operated day center forchronically homeless persons. It is a multi-service center, providing shelter, counseling, health care,housing assistance, and other support services. It is a 3,400-square-foot (320 m2) facility located inthe Woods Mullen Shelter. It is also meant to reduce the strain on the city's hospital emergencyrooms by providing services and identifying health problems before they escalate into emergencies.It was funded by $3 million in grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the MassachusettsMedical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation, and the United States Department of Health

and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

In 2010, there was a continued crackdown on panhandling, especially the aggressive type, indowntown Boston. Summonses were being handed out, with scheduled court appearances. Theresults were mixed and in one upscale neighborhood, Beacon Hill, the resolve of the Beacon HillCivic Association, which has received only one complaint about panhandlers, was to try to solve the

bigger problem not by criminal actions.

Due to economic constraints in 2010, Governor Deval Patrick had to cut the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts 2011 budget so dental care for the majority of adults, including most homeless

people, covered by MassHealth (Medicaid) would no longer be provided except for cleaning andextractions, with no fillings, dentures, or restorative care. This does not affect dental care for

children. The measure took effect in July 2010 and affects an estimated 700,000 adults, including130,000 seniors.

In September 2010, it was reported that the Housing First Initiative had significantly reduced thechronic homeless single person population in Boston, Massachusetts, although homeless familieswere still increasing in number. Some shelters were reducing the number of beds due to lowerednumbers of homeless, and some emergency shelter facilities were closing, especially the emergencyBoston Night Center.

There is sometimes corruption and theft by the employees of a shelter as evidenced by a 2011investigative report by FOX 25 TV in Boston wherein a number of Boston public shelter employeeswere found stealing large amounts of food over a period of time from the shelter's kitchen for their

private use and catering.

Collen, 20, gets a remodeled sign by Viral Nova(left); a woman and her baby in a temporary shelter (center); anexhausted man walking home from work and passing by a homeless man on a winter Boston evening (right)

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New York City, Boroughs ofAccording to the Coalition for the Homeless, the homeless

population of New York rose to an all-time high in 2011. Areported 113,552 people slept in the city's emergencyshelters last year, including over 40,000 children; marking

an 8 percent increase from the previous year and a 37percent increase from 2002. There was also a rise in thenumber of families relying on shelters, approximately29,000. That is an increase of 80% from 2002. About half ofthe people who slept in shelter in 2010 returned for housingin 2011.

According to the NYC Department of Homeless Services,64 percent of those applying for emergency shelter in 2010were denied. Several were denied because they were said tohave family who could house them when in actuality this

might not have been the case. Applicants may have facedovercrowding, unsafe conditions, or may have had relativesunwilling to house them. According to Mary Brosnaham,spokeswoman for Coalition for the Homeless, theadministration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg employs a deliberate policy of "active deterrence".

On March 18, 2013, the New York City Department of Homeless Services reported that thesheltered homeless population consisted of: 27,844 adults, 20,627 children, 48,471 total individuals.

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San Francisco, City ofThe city of San Francisco, California has a significant and visible homeless problem.Approximately 61% of the homeless population were already living and working in San Franciscowhen they became homeless, indicating that a vast majority of people experiencing homelessnessdid not come to the city for its resources but rather are being priced out of their home. The city's

homeless population has been estimated at 7,00010,000 people, of which approximately 3,0005,000 refuse shelter due to the conditions within the shelters including violence, racism, andhomophobia and transphobia. Additionally, there are only 1,339 available shelter beds for theapproximately 10,000 people sleeping outdoors. The city spends $200 million a year onhomelessness related programs.

On May 3, 2004, San Francisco officially began an attempt to scale back the scope of itshomelessness problem by changing its strategy from cash payments to the "Care Not Cash" planwhich has had no visible impact on reducing homelessness in the city. At the same time, grassrootsorganizations within the Bay Area such as the Suitcase Clinic work to provide referrals for housingand employment to the homeless population. Other organizations like the Coalition On

Homelessness fight for increasing affordable and supportive housing in the quickly changinghousing landscape of San Francisco. In 2010, a city ordinance was passed to disallow sitting andlying down on public sidewalks for most of the day, from 7 am until 11 pm furthering a"criminalization" strategy for responding to homelessness.

A group of San Francisco teenagers sitting behind a building.

A couple living in a tent behind a building.

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Washington D.C., Providence ofComing in at only 69 square miles, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmentestimated in 2013 the number of homeless in Washington, D.C. as 6,865, which was a 29 percentincrease after 2007. D.C. ranks eighth regarding total homeless population among other majorAmerican cities.The city passed a law that requires to provide shelter to everybody in need when

the temperature drops below freezing. Since D.C. does not have enough shelter units available,every winter it books hotel rooms in the suburbs with an average cost around $100 for a night.According to the D.C. Department of Human Services, during the winter of 2012 the city spent$2,544,454 on putting homeless families in hotels, and budgeted $3.2 million on hotel beds in2013, temporary solutions, that if re-planned can pay for some, if not all of their revival.

A homeless person getting some rest on a city bench.

Other American CitiesArea :Amount (rounded to nearest 100)

Austin, City of : 2,300 people

Kansas City: 1,200 people; 15,000 vacant homes

Detroit, City of : 20,000 people

Philidephia, City of : 5,500 people

Baltimore, City of : 2,600 people

[Downtown] Escondido/ San Diego City:11 people / 2,700 people

Seattle, City of : 2,300 peopleCalifornia Students enrolled in 2012-2013 School Year :270,000 people

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Austin, TX

Austin Echohas fed Mayling (left) and

her mother Marta during Harvest FastDay. 2,017 AISD (Grade 7 to 12 -2013 to 2014 Year) are currently

without a home and lost 1,200 studentsfor the '14 - '15 School Year.

Kansas CityAccording to theHomeless

Services Coalition,thereare 11 unaccompanied

youths between 11 and 17and 364 homeless families

with youth.

A Detroit man (below) was foundfrozenin the winter's ice after hiding in thebasement of a building after being threatened for trespassing on ground level.

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Philadelphia

A homeless woman holding a sign thatsays "Homeless. Husband has cancer.

Got proof. $25 daily co-pay."

Baltimore

Two African Americans getting somesolace on a hot day and hot concrete.

San Diego

A row of homeless people's shoppingcarts with their belongings.

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Seattle

A gathering for the homeless on a hill overlooking city lights.

AFRICA

The Continent of Africa, the proven birthplace of humanlife approximately 6,000 years ago, is home to one billionhomeless people, with over 500,000,000 being under sixyears of age because they don't live that long under thoseconditions. To put it in perspective, one out of every 14human being on earth is homeless, under six years old, livesin Africa, and looks something like this.

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The other half [billion] are still too young to watch a Rated

R movie or smoke cigarettes in the United States.

Most of this section was directly extracted from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States

on September 22, 2014.

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