Henri II ( Henri Deux). Architecture in France from 1547 to 1559 following the reign of François Ier. Italian Renaissance influences became stronger, and arabesques were much favoured, although Gothic traces were never entirely eliminated. Philibert de L' Orme was an active protagonist of the period, notably at Anet, while Bullant also contributed. The style Henri-Deux was revived in C19.
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We all want to capture absolutely amazing photos but sometimes we need a little help in making our photos stunning. With a few easy edits we can easily achieve this. What's more we can do these on our phone with photo editing apps that are now readily available on most devices. Here are several FREE apps you can use on your next travel adventure.
Filters to Add Style- such as Glamour Glow, HDR Scape, Noir and many more.
Publish your own images or curate other photos to your personal VSCO profile.
Boasts of over 2 million combinations of free effects, overlays, and filters. Includes collages, layering of multiple photos, effect packs, and more.
Basic edits and features Artwork, Typography & Effects to your photos.
Taken from Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom gives you the option of more than 40 presets. You can play with color, adjust clarity and add vignettes.
Basic edits, Blemish removal, image rendering, RAW photo support (selected cameras) and one touch filters.
Gorgeous photo effects, filters and frames, One-tap auto enhance, Focus (Tilt Shift), Cosmetic tools and more.
Very helpful, thank you. Though it's important to always check the commercial licenses before you use any editor for a picture on your blog.
It is user friendly, intuitive and fast, all what I need. I tried others couple times but always returned to Pixlr because I was spending too much time finding options which I use regularly on Pixlr .
Thanks for this, going to Spain on Friday so this is pretty ideal for me! Will take note of them, I actually have adobe photoshop on my phone but never used it.
Great list! I haven't ever used one of these apps. But in september I'll be visiting Poland and I'll definitely try some some out. Adobe photoshop lightroom sounds very nice!
I use most of these but pixlr is much simpler to use. I love it. I haven't heard of photo director. I am gonna give it a try !!!! Great list. These are all really handy !!!
I have heard good things about vsco, the app is meant to be brilliant. I use picmonkey its a great tool to edit pictures.
These apps sound cool but I have a Windows Phone so none of them are available. Do you use all of these depending on the type of photo you take?
Hi Kari, I believe the Photoshop Express app is available on a Windows phone. Yes, it depends on the kind of photo you want to take.
Oh great! I was actually looking for the photo editing apps and I am glad to have come across your post.
Great list! I think most use vsco because it is easy to work with and not that daunting as well. Snapseed haven't heard of that much but sounds interesting too!
I haven't use any of these apps. I usually edit my photos on computer that's why when I am travelling I usually don't update my accounts and usually a late post. I might try one of these. Thanks!
These are great apps! I mainly use Snapseed and VSCO cause both are so easy to use 😀 will definitely try the others!


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The following is a list of animals that are or may have been raised in captivity for consumption by people.  For other animals commonly eaten by people, see Game (food).

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 Game (food)
 List of meat dishes
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Les élections régionales de 2011 en Bade-Wurtemberg () se tiennent le , afin d'élire les  de la  du Landtag, pour un mandat de cinq ans. Du fait de la loi électorale,  sont finalement élus.

Le scrutin est marqué par la victoire de la  du ministre-président Stefan Mappus, qui reste la première force politique du Land. Toutefois, l'écologiste Winfried Kretschmann parvient à accéder au pouvoir en s'associant avec le , provoquant la première alternance depuis la fondation du Bade-Wurtemberg.

Contexte
Dans ce Land où l'Union chrétienne-démocrate d'Allemagne (CDU) gouverne, seule ou en coalition, depuis , les élections législatives régionales du  n'ont pas dérogé à cette situation.

Porté au pouvoir en , le ministre-président chrétien-démocrate Günther Oettinger maintient la domination de la  avec un score de 44,2 % des voix, concédant un recul d'à peine un demi-point. Le Parti populaire démocratique (FDP/DVP), partenaire de la CDU depuis dix ans, réalise pour sa part une belle remontée. Avec 10,7 %, il repasse au-dessus des 10 % pour la première fois depuis près de quarante ans.

Dans l'opposition, le Parti social-démocrate d'Allemagne (SPD) ne confirme pas sa poussée de . Il retombe à 25,2 % des voix, soit un net recul de huit points. À un dixième de point, il s'agit de son second plus mauvais résultat régional. Cette régression profite en premier lieu à l'Alliance 90 / Les Verts (Grünen), qui obtient 11,7 % des suffrages, une hausse de quatre points qui leur permet de signer leur deuxième meilleur score dans ce Land, mais également à l'Alternative électorale travail et justice sociale (WASG), qui atteint 3,1 %.

Par ailleurs, Les Républicains (REP), qui avaient fait sensation en  et , confirment leur déclin. Ils passent effectivement de 4,4 % à seulement 2,5 %, actant la défaite de l'extrême droite dans ce bastion conservateur.

Au cours de la législature sont survenues les élections législatives fédérales du . Si les résultats confirment la prédominance de la droite dans ce territoire, elle se rééquilibre entre les chrétiens-démocrates, qui se contentent de 34,4 %, et les libéraux-démocrates, qui montent jusqu'à 18,8 %. Ils sont devancés d'un demi-point seulement par les sociaux-démocrates. Les autres composantes de la gauche confirment leur vigueur, avec un score de 13,9 % des suffrages pour les écologistes et même 7,2 % pour Die Linke, nouvelle formation de la gauche radicale qui réalise une importante percée dans ce Land acquis à la droite.

Mode de scrutin
Le Landtag est constitué de  (en , MdL), élus pour une législature de cinq ans au suffrage universel direct et suivant le scrutin proportionnel de Sainte-Laguë.

Chaque électeur dispose d'une voix, qui compte double. Elle est d'abord attribuée au parti politique dont le candidat est le représentant, puis elle permet de déterminer le score du candidat dans sa circonscription, le Land comptant un total de .

Lors du dépouillement, l'intégralité des  est répartie en fonction de la première attribution, à condition qu'un parti ait remporté 5 % de ces voix au niveau du Land (les voix des candidats indépendants sont donc exclues de ce décompte). Cette répartition est ensuite répétée au niveau des quatre districts. Si un parti a remporté des mandats avec la deuxième attribution, ses sièges sont d'abord pourvus par ceux-ci. Les sièges restants sont ensuite comblés par les candidats des circonscriptions non-élus, dans l'ordre décroissant de leur résultat en pourcentage.

Dans le cas où un parti obtient plus de mandats au scrutin uninominal que la proportionnelle ne lui en attribue, la taille du Landtag est augmentée jusqu'à rétablir la proportionnalité.

Campagne

Principales forces

Enquêtes d'opinions

Thèmes

La polémique autour du projet ferroviaire « Stuttgart 21 », qui oppose le gouvernement à l'opposition de gauche, et conduit à de fréquentes manifestations de la population à Stuttgart, constitue un thème majeur de la campagne. Avec la demande répétée de l'organisation d'un référendum sur la question, le problème de la démocratie directe devient un autre enjeu de la campagne, un sentiment renforcé par les référendums d'initiative populaire sur les droits des non-fumeurs en Bavière et la réforme éducative à Hambourg. De plus, le gouvernement reste critiqué après avoir décidé de faire disperser une manifestation par la force, la police régionale ayant fait usage de canons à eaux et un homme ayant perdu un œil. Ces événements ont conduit cent mille personnes à défiler à Stuttgart contre « la violence policière et gouvernementale ».

La décision du gouvernement fédéral, soutenu par une coalition identique à celle du gouvernement régional, de prolonger de  la vie des centrales nucléaires, alors que le premier cabinet rouge-vert de Gerhard Schröder avait décidé la sortie du nucléaire pour , pèse lors de la campagne, dans la mesure où le Bade-Wurtemberg accueille trois centrales de ce type. Cette thématique s'est d'ailleurs nettement renforcée en fin de campagne, du fait de la crise nucléaire au Japon qui a conduit Angela Merkel à reporter l'allongement du durée de vie des centrales, une décision dénoncée comme « politicienne » par l'opposition et l'opinion publique.

Résultats

Voix et sièges

Analyse
Le résultat de ce scrutin présente plusieurs caractéristiques inédites. Ainsi, la  reste la principale force du Landtag mais réalise le deuxième plus mauvais résultat de son histoire régionale. Depuis , c'est seulement la quatrième fois qu'elle passe sous le seuil des 40 % des suffrages exprimés. Le véritable succès de ces élections revient aux . En totalisant 24,2 % des voix, ils réalisent son meilleur score dans une élection parlementaire.

Franchissant pour la première fois la barre des 20 % dans ce type de scrutin, ils parviennent même à devancer le , qui poursuit sa chute et atteint son plus bas historique avec seulement 23,1 % des bulletins valables. Le  se trouve dans une position similaire. Avec 5,3 %, il évite de peu d'être expulsé du Landtag et se contente de son pire score depuis .

Les Piraten, bien qu'ils restent hors de l'assemblée connaissent un succès certain alors que la  reste exclue du Landtag avec un score en très légère baisse par rapport à .

Conséquences
Le , l'écologiste Winfried Kretschmann est investi ministre-président de Bade-Wurtemberg et forme une cabinet de coalition verte-rouge avec les sociaux-démocrates. Il est le premier membre de l'Alliance 90 / Les Verts à prendre la direction d'un gouvernement en Allemagne.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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What Works Cities is an initiative of Bloomberg Philanthropies, started specifically to help cities improve services for their residents by using data – doing things like making school rankings public, sharing open data, and aggregating public safety numbers.
Bloomberg Philanthropies wanted to know if WWC is actually having an impact. WWC had occasionally come across success stories in their partner cities, but it wasn't happening as often as they hoped. Plus, they suspected they weren't mining the entire field; were there stories floating around that they just didn't have access to? So, WWC came to the Public Policy Lab, looking for a way to create systematized mechanisms around success-story collection.
We sat down with Results for America, the on-the-ground partners for the WWC Initiative, and learned that their current system only allowed for high-touch story collection; one individual was responsible for making progress calls to every participating city. With 80 participating cities, this "manual" method made it difficult to monitor the whole WWC landscape.
We created three proof-of-concepts, each one meant to be deployed at a different stage in a city's engagement with WWC. My favorite of the bunch was something we called TickleBot – a quick, automated survey that would poke participants for success tips during the course of their regular WWC communications.
In order to stand out from government and city communications, which are usually formal and impersonal, I created a character we named "Herman." A little jellyfish avatar, he appeared throughout the survey as a personification of the warm, inviting tone we hoped to convey.
What would incentivize someone to share their successes with WWC?
How do users respond to the visual design and tone of TickleBot?
Would participants actually have information to share with WWC?
How frequently would they be willing to get tickled (poked)?
After presenting our findings and design concepts to WWC, they began discussions about which concepts they will carry forward and who they will approach to design/implement the concepts. With the limited man hours they currently have, the main challenge will be finding the right hours or people to implement the concepts. Meanwhile, we've been able to apply some of our learnings from this project to our other projects. Love that cross-pollination.


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A nearly 2 hour joint presentation (including extended Q&A) at the Columbia Law School by Prof. Stephanie Kelton of UKMC and investor and MMT pioneer Warren Mosler. The YouTube video is embedded below and you can also find it here (with comments) at the New Economic Perspectives blog site.
An audio interview of Prof. Kelton on Harry Shearer's Le Show. If you prefer reading a transcript, you can find it here.
As I've said many times on this blog, an understanding of MMT opens up all sorts of positive economic policy possibilities, especially when compared to the current austerity-focused policies that are slowing and distorting growth, and threatening to do so even more severely in the future (i.e., it's austerity, not federal deficits, that will place an onerous burden on future generations).
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So I understand you guys will devalue the U.S. dollar as the East Asian economies do to their currencies. However what I've noticed about these economies is that they are closed off, as in foreigners have very little investment opportunity in places like Japan. So foreigners are not allowed to purchase anything in Japan. So Japan devalues its currency and then through regulation stops foreigners from investing in Japan and foreigners therefor have very little control over the Japanese economy, and therefor can only spend their yen on Japanese products or exchange it and devalue it more. So you want the U.S. to devalue its currency significantly and then the government to subsidize' U.S. only companies'. This may help the U.S. short term but in the long run will it lead to a closing off of the world economies and a halt to globalization and would it be worth it? Wouldn't it bring back mercantilism, nationalism and therefor war?
I'm just really wondering how as a consumer as your proposing an American government subsidized car is more beneficial to me than say a Japanese government subsidized car. I think that is the ultimate question you people need to answer. Since Adam Smith said the Japanese government subsidized car is ultimately more beneficial to me.


Today is Higher Education Sunday. In the UCC, this is the Sunday we lift up the institutions of higher education which are affiliated with our denomination.
We are honored today to have Scott Haldeman, Associate Professor of Worship at Chicago Theological Seminary as our guest preacher. Specializing in the history, theology and practice of US Protestant worship, Professor Haldeman is also interested in the less formal ways human beings ritualize themselves in relation to various categories of identity, such as race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
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Ring News 24Boxing NewsFighter Spotlight: Kevin Asmat
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As featherweight and North Bergen, New Jersey-native Kevin Asmat (2-1, 2 KOs) prepares for his upcoming fight against Bronx-native Rafael Castillo Rosendo, who is making his professional debut on the Thursday, October 5 installment of the Mohegan Sun's Rising Stars Boxing Series, he will once again work with his long-time trainer, Diego Rosario, and his biggest fan, his father.
Kevin grew up listening to his father talk about his days fighting as an amateur boxer in Peru before he immigrated to the United States 29 years ago. Asmat's father dreamt of becoming a professional fighter, but after his wife became pregnant with their first child, he opted for a career in law enforcement instead. Kevin explained, "Over there, pros, when they start off, they don't pay well. But he was very known because of the boxing. They offered him a job in police and stuff. He took the job then boxing just died for him."
Despite no longer being a fighter himself, the elder Asmat continued to take an interest in the sport, but did not necessarily want his son to follow in his footsteps. According to Kevin, "As I was growing up and he was telling me all his stories. He was showing me how to throw a right hand, how to throw a hook, how to throw a jab. I always asked him, 'Dad, if you would've put me in boxing when I was little, I probably would have been in national teams and everything.' But he said, 'I know all the suffering you got to do, all the training you got to do and I rather you not do that. Because I went through that and I don't want you to go through it.'"
However, as Kevin's interest in the sport increased, so did his father's support. "When I first started boxing, I didn't like getting hit," said Asmat. "I'm in the contact sport but I don't like getting cut. I don't like getting hit. I like keeping my face pretty. My father liked that, so he allowed me to continue. He knew that I would protect myself in the ring. I'm pretty sure that if I was just a Mexican-type fighter getting hit a hundred times, my father would've not let me box."
Now that he has begun his professional career, Kevin trains with Diego Rosario in Paterson, New Jersey but his father still works his corner. He said, "My father helps me and Diego in the corner. He comes to the sparring too. He's very supportive. He worked my corner as an amateur. I went to the Olympic trials with him. I went to a lot of national tournaments with him. He was in my corner. As a pro, now he's my second. Diego's my first and then he comes in the ring with me."
With his father and Rosario in his corner, Kevin's confidence continues to grow. He concluded, "As time was going by as amateur, I kept racking up a lot of fights. Then I went to Peru. I made the Olympic team in Peru but they wanted me to stay over there for two years and I didn't want to do that. I started seeing that a lot of people were turning pro that I had beat. They were making money and I already beat them, like Shakur Stevenson. He went to the Olympics and got a silver medal. When I fought him, I made him look like a regular fighter. If he could win a silver medal and I made him look like a regular fighter, I could do something with this. With my parents support and my family, I knew I could do this."
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That simply means more auroras coming! In August 1859, astronomers around the world . The geomagnetic storm was the result of a coronal mass ejection from the Sun by an M1-class solar flare that lasted for about four hours. Solar storms: GPS and the internet One other area of disruption that would potentially affect everyday life is navigation systems. The video, recorded on June 2 by hobbyist astronomical . . Solar flares occur when two magnetic forces collide . In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima--and failed.
The geomagnetic storm was the result of a coronal mass ejection from the Sun by an M1-class solar flare that lasted for about four hours. Sometimes, as with yesterday's eruption, solar flares can trigger coronal mass ejections, which are huge eruptions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun that travel outward into space at.
Space weather experts were shocked when a solar storm slammed into Earth with no warning on June 25, 2022. Scientists have warned about a solar flare that passed by Earth on Wednesday, June 15, that could cause a geomagnetic storm lasting for days. Jun. . Check out its full effects and what we can expect. The Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) tweeted that on April 14, 2022, this solar storm will hit the Earth at a speed of 429 to 575 kilometers per second. The coronal mass ejection (CME) was a "glancing blow . However, if a solar storm is big enough, it . Such phenomena have been receiving increasing attention, especially with the aim of forecasting strong geomagnetic storms generated by high-energy solar events since they can severely perturb the near-Earth space environment. And if it isn't maneuvered to a higher orbit, it can fall back to Earth. (NOAA) Download Image NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) a division of the National Weather Service is monitoring the Sun and solar winds following two solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) that occurred on Monday, March 28. Geomagnetic storms can also cause bit flips, surface charging or internal charging to satellites orbiting our planet all things that occurred this October when a solar flare produced a coronal. A chance for isolated G1 (Minor) storming periods remains on 07 Jul as effects gradually begin to cease. An S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm began on 28 March, 2022, at 9:25 am EDT (1325 UTC). ET. However, even weaker solar storms can cause weak power grid fluctuations and have a small impact on our tech. Mar 16, 2022. Solar flares and sunspots..Volcano and earthquake updates.Current World Earthquake Map https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/Re. solarseven/iStock. Shop 'til you drop with these 40 Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2022 . Solar eruptions can . An astonishing solar storm that reaches as far out from the Sun as four entire Earths was discovered by telescope by an amateur photographer. Know when the solar storm will hit Breaking News. The current solar storm will probably just pass the Earth by, but it could disturb Earth's magnetic field enough to produce a minor geomagnetic storm of G1-class. Solar Radiation Storm Forecast for Jul 05-Jul 07 2022 An image by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft reveal the source of the strongest flare to have been released in four years by the Sun, leading to warnings that a resulting geo . Breaking News. "The geomagnetically induced currents, which. The above stock image shows an illustration of the sun in space. Additionally, a G1 (Minor) watch is in effect for 30 March, 2022, for likely effects of initial CME shock arrival and a G2 (Moderate) watch is in effect for 1 April, 2022, in anticipation of continuing, but weakening, CME influences. The . Meanwhile, it could also have the power of affecting power grids and communication networks. Thursday's impact is likely to trigger auroras that could be observed at lower altitudes.
May 11, 2022. Solar Weather Updates.. A solar storm that zoomed past Earth recently might create problems for satellites and the country's power grid, experts say. An image by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft reveal the source of the strongest flare to have been released in four years by the Sun, leading to warnings that a resulting geo . But before you resort to panicking, we're exploring what that will mean for life on planet Earth, and what a solar flare really is. This event was associated with an M4 flare nearly 2 hours earlier at 7:29 am EDT (1129 UTC). Thursday's impact is likely to trigger auroras that could be observed at lower altitudes. It has the power to dismantle a satellite and throw them directly on the face of the Earth. There are two distinct types of solar storm: Geomagnetic storms and solar radiation storms. The Earth's magnetic field gets disturbed when the CMEs strike the Earth's surface.
According to NOAA, the dangerous solar storm today can . "That can induce currents in our power lines, and when that happens, transformers can blow or power outages can occur," Gary added.
What Is a Solar Storm? The solar storm of May 1967 is ranked as one of the top in the record books. A flood watch will be in effect for the D.C. area from 3 p.m. Wednesday to 3 a.m. on Thursday. Satellites are being pushed out of their orbits by the sun as space weather is set to get even more intense over the next few years. The lead-up to Solar Maxima causes solar storms to be more intense than usual . The solar storm that is known as the most powerful in recorded history is known as " The Carrington Event " took place in September of 1859. Solar storms can interfere with communication and navigation channels by disrupting satellites in their orbits, and even cause entire cities to blackout by crippling power grids.
An S1 Warning was issued at 28/1203 UTC in anticipation of reaching this activity level and currently remains in effect until 29/0600 UTC. Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. According to NOAA, a solar storm will strike Earth today. Updated: 14:02, 29 Jun 2022; . The storm caused atmospheric density to increase in the satellites' low orbit deployment area, increasing the drag on the machines, which subsequently fell out of orbit. According to a report from The Weather Channel, a solar storm is likely to hit Earth on April 14. 6 / 2022. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern. Edited by: Shriya Bhasin New Delhi Updated on: June 22, 2022 11:38 IST A CME erupted on Jan. 30, 2022. During a solar storm, the sun emits huge "bursts of energy," sending a stream of " electrical charges and magnetic field s " towards the Earth. Yes, these fascinating colour variations in the sky at the poles on Earth are the best effects. No significant active region activity favorable for radiation storm production is forecast. The understanding of extreme geomagnetic storms is one of the key issues in space weather. and can cause a blackout. B. NOAA Solar Radiation Activity Observation and Forecast. A solar flare is an intense burst of electromagnetic radiation generated in the sun's atmosphere the layers of sparse but hot gas that lie above its visible surface, or photosphere. It is detrimental to the human body as it causes radiation. Shop 'til you drop with these 40 Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2022 . It's the root cause of relentless heat waves, wildfires, coral bleaching, and more which is precisely why the prospect of a 2022 solar flare, as well as a rapidly growing sunspot, sounds incredibly daunting. Solar flares emit radiation that could affect technology on Earth and cause serious health problems to humans if they reach a direct hit. Recent News Regarding Solar Storm The sun occasionally releases pent-up energy in the form of a blast of plasma called a coronal mass ejection (CME) or solar flare. It was imaged by the SOHO Observatory. Apr 12, 2022 (Updated: Apr 12, 2022 05:45 EDT) Sunspot AR2987 SpaceWeather. Here, the disturbance storm time index Dst, a crucial geomagnetic activity . A presumed dead sunspot exploded on the 11th of April sending large amounts of solar material in our direction. Share Via. The Carrington Event was a large solar storm that took place at the beginning of September 1859, just a few months before the solar maximum of 1860. It's the root cause of relentless heat waves, wildfires, coral bleaching, and more which is precisely why the prospect of a 2022 solar flare, as well as a rapidly . There is a direct connection between the Sun's solar storms and human biological effects. Back in February, Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX announced . One other area of disruption that would potentially affect everyday life is navigation systems. . 6 / 2022. Solar radiation, as observed by NOAA GOES-16 over the past 24 hours, was below S-scale storm level thresholds.
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Free Rodney Reed: Celebrities come to the aide of death row inmate headed for execution – theGrio
Rodney Reed is set to be executed on November 20, 2019 for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. He says he's innocent and there are several people who believe him. (Photo courtesy of (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP).)
New evidence has become public in the case against death row inmate Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas on November 20 2019. Reed, who is Black, was convicted in 1998 for the rape and murder of Stacey Stites, a white woman who he admitted to having an affair with while living in Bishop, Texas.
Reed has been sitting on death row for the last 21 years ago, but a recent Change.org petition with over 100,000 signatures is bringing new attention to his case. Not to mention he has growing support from a slew of high-profile celebrities including Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, Meek Mill, and T.I.
The petition calls for the State of Texas to reprieve the execution and provide Reed with a new trial in the wake of the new evidence that has come to light, according to .
Reed has beed denied a new trial in the past, but the social media attention and a gathering of nearly 100 supporters in front of the Capitol building in Austin, Texas will hopefully prompt Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a new trial.
"There's so much evidence out there, there's so much doubt out there, and it just blows my mind that they can sit back, and let us sit in this state of uncertainty," his brother, Rodrick Reed, told CBS Austin during the demonstration. "That's torture."
Why do people believe Reed is innocent?
Stites was living with her fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, Jr., at the time of her death and disappearance. It was rumored that Fennell, a local cop, was violent and failed a polygraph test twice when questioned about Stites' murder.
Forensic evidence only found both Fennell and Stites' DNA in her car and their apartment, the last place she was seen alive, was never searched. In fact, her body was later discovered off of a dirt road where two beer cans were discovered nearby. The DNA on those cans came from to local police officers who worked with Fennell, Jr..
Reed's semen, however, was recovered from Stites during the medical examiner's autopsy. The conclusion was that the semen was older than 24-hours, but the medical examiner has apparently recanted his statement. Reed admits they were in a sexual relationship even though she was engaged to Fennell, Jr. Reed and Stites were together the night before she disappeared, but that fateful encounter could now lead to his imminent death.
The contradicting evidence and new insight from other experts have led Reed's attorneys and the Innocence Project, to conclude that Fennell is the prime suspect in Stites' murder and that Reed has been unjustly convicted of a crime he did not commit. They have filed an application for clemency with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, according to
"Between the medical and scientific evidence, and multiple new, credible witnesses, the original case trial has been completely deconstructed and disproven," said Bryce Benjet, a senior staff attorney at the Innocence Project and Reed's lead counsel in a statement after filing.
"It should be clear to anyone who looks at the evidence in this case that Mr. Reed did not commit the sexual assault or murder of Stacey Stites. To execute Mr. Reed would be a grave miscarriage of justice that will create irreparable damage to public confidence in the accuracy and fairness of the Texas criminal justice system."
Celebs have their say
Several celebrities have posted about Reed's 1998 rape and murder case.
On October 19, Kim Kardashian West tweeted a plea to Texas Gov. Abbott to stop Reed's execution to her 62 million followers. is reporting that Kardashian West actually spoke with Reed last week to discuss his case and ways to help grant him a stay of execution.
Now, rap artists, singers, and political pundits are doing the same to support Reed, his family, and his attorneys in their efforts to save his life. Check out some of the reactions below.
One Click!!! SIGN this petition if you don't believe the Government should kill an innocent man!!! @GovAbbott https://t.co/L3xrvn7MJO
I just signed this petition to tell @GovAbbott to stop the execution of Rodney Reed. You should too!!!#FreeRodneyReedhttps://t.co/HGwLatcE7S
— T.I. (@Tip) November 4, 2019
I just signed the petition to stop the execution of #RODNEYREED @Justice4Rodney Thank you shaunking for shining such a bright light on this situation where this brother will be executed in the next 16 days for a… https://t.co/8afYTBPuOn
— Busta Rhymes (@BustaRhymes) November 4, 2019
Texas is scheduled to execute #RodneyReed on 11/20.
We must act now & fight for justice.
According to the @NAACP, Black people make up 13% of the population, yet make up 42% of death row & 35% of the executions.#FreeRodneyReed and sign the petition @ https://t.co/fZWsFQ2mfU! pic.twitter.com/cPdKtcb4EE
— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) November 4, 2019
PLEASE @GovAbbott How can you execute a man when since his trial, substantial evidence that would exonerate Rodney Reed has come forward and even implicates the other person of interest. I URGE YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) October 19, 2019
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Internet Association set out to research short-term rentals (STRs) in Seattle in order to contribute accurate, scientific data to the highly-charged issue. Short-term rentals are an oft-maligned bogeyman in the city's housing debate, but there's scant research on their actual impact.
There's no doubt that the impacts of short-term rentals has been a subject of vigorous debate in Seattle as policymakers have been working on a regulatory framework to oversee the STR market. But before policymakers act, they should consider all the facts.
First, prior research indicates that STRs are a tiny percentage of the Seattle housing market. HomeAway estimates they represented less than 1 percent of the entire Seattle housing market between April of 2015 and 2016, for example.
Second, this study produces evidence that contradicts two of the most common assertions made by STR opponents. Internet Association found no statistically significant relationship between STRs and reduced owner-occupancy or increased commercial property listing activity. In fact, it appears to the find the opposite to be true: STRs may actually help Seattleites stay in their homes and reduce commercial property activity that would drive residents from their neighborhoods.
Finally, we found that STRs and hotels service geographically and economically distinct areas of Seattle. Our research found no evidence of hotels and STRs occupying similar markets in Seattle; they serve different communities at different price points.
STRs do enormous good for cities like Seattle and their residents. An Airbnb host in Seattle typically earns an extra $9,000 per year and nationally, 70 percent of HomeAway owners are able to cover at least half of their mortgage through rentals. Beyond these obvious first-order benefits, STRs tend to bring much-needed commerce and tourist spending to under-served neighborhoods. In fact, 60 percent of Airbnb users report that the extra income they received helped them stay in their homes.
More work certainly needs to be done in this area, but the results in this paper point us in the right direction. Available evidence tells us that short-term rentals are not the blight on housing markets they've been portrayed to be; in fact it appears the opposite is true.
Purpose: This report seeks to empirically examine several claims used against short-term rentals (STRs) through a comprehensive empirical case-study analysis of the Seattle market. Specifically, the report examined two aspects: 1) the relationship of STRs with the residential housing market and 2) the relationship of STRs with the hotel market.
Findings: The report finds no evidence that STRs negatively impact either the residential housing market or commercial hotel market. Rather, case studies provide some initial evidence that STRs may support homeownership for individuals and families and lead to market creation in the area of accommodations. While these findings are encouraging, the authors recommend additional research on these matters.
Methodology: The report investigated several research questions related to purported claims by opponents of STRs. The following table presents each opponent claim, its corresponding research question(s) for this paper, and a summary of the findings for the respective analytical exercise.
'STRs cause higher rents forcing individuals out of their homes' Do STRs correlate with owner-occupancy and/or the number of vacant housing units? STRs demonstrate positive correlation with owner-occupancy and negative correlation with housing vacancy. Our research found initial evidence that STRs may actually help Seattleites stay in their homes, not force them out.
'STRs lead to an increase in commercial property listings that turn residential areas into de-facto hotels' Is there any correlation between the number of STR listings and commercial mortgages? STRs are negatively correlated with both commercial mortgage applications and commercial mortgage originations. Our research found that more STRs in Seattle corresponded with less commercial property listing activity.
'STRs are only in commercial areas of the city and don?t help local neighborhoods' What is the spatial structure of STR listings? STR listings are highly diverse spatially with higher density outside of traditional hotel zones. Our research found STRs appear all over Seattle, especially in areas underserved by hotels.
'STRs take away business from hotels, hurting the sector and its employees' What is the degree of coincidence between STR listings and hotel rooms? There is very low degree of coincidence between STRs and hotels; out of 239 block groups in Seattle with STRs, only 35 also had hotels. Our research suggests STRs serve different people and different markets than hotels.
Do the STR market and the hotel market have different spatial structures in their pricing? There is no statistical evidence of similar spatial autoregressive price structures.
Conclusion: There is no basis for restricting STRs based on any of the opposition claims examined. Rather, there is evidence that STR markets may safeguard home ownership by effectively providing revenue to local neighborhoods while also facilitating increased numbers of visitors thanks to a more geographically diverse accommodation market. Policymakers seeking to end the abuse of rental properties (of all types) should focus efforts on enforcing the existing regulations around: 1) the declaration of commercial investment properties in mortgages, 2) maintaining city property registers, and 3) the enforcement of existing licensing laws for landlords.
Short-term rentals are a relatively new phenomenon and, consequently, there is little evidence on their impacts in the literature. This report seeks to address that gap by directly investigating several of the primary negative claims used by opponents of short-term rental services like Airbnb, Homeaway, and others to assess their validity. Our primary conclusion is that there is no empirical evidence to support any of the opponent claims investigated here in the Seattle market, and we suggest that policymakers more closely examine data when formulating policy around STRs and the sharing economy more broadly. Based on our analysis, we find that STRs provide a geographically diverse accommodation market with some initial evidence that they 1) help support owner occupancy of units, 2) provide a more spatially equitable distribution of accommodation revenue throughout a city, and 3) may create a new and unique demand.
The findings of this report are important because they directly address many of the arguments and claims used in the debate on the new sharing economy. While the authors recommend additional research on some of the analytical exercises, the findings provide a comprehensive empirical foundation of evidence on how STRs interact with the two most purportedly affected areas within an urban market: residential housing and hotel accommodations. With the former, we find no evidence of negative impacts on owner-occupancy or on commercial landlord activity – claims that STR listings saturate housing submarkets have no basis in the data given the spatial distribution of listings and their relationship with housing stock characteristics. With the latter, we find a very low degree of coincidence between STRs and hotels and no statistical evidence of encroachment by STRs into hotel markets. The primary takeaway, which mirrors other recent findings such as those of Hathaway and Muro1Hathaway, Ian and Mark Muro (2016). "Tracking the gig economy: New numbers." Report. Brookings Institution.(2016), is that there is simply no evidence to support the primary opposition arguments to STRs.
Our primary conclusion is that there is no empirical evidence to support any of the opponent claims investigated here in the Seattle market.
We structured the report into two analytical sections on housing impacts and hotel market impacts. Section 2 lays out our analytical approach and general empirical strategy. Section 3 presents the methodology and results on our housing market analyses while Section 4 presents the methodology and results for our hotel market impact analyses. Section 5 concludes and offers a brief policy discussion.
This report uses information for the city of Seattle in order to investigate a set of research questions concerning the impacts of STRs on housing and hotel markets within the city. Each research question corresponds to one or more popular opponent claims on the impacts of STRs in markets. Combined, they serve as an empirical foundation for future research into STRs and their impacts. Table 1 presents each of the claims investigated along with their respective research question(s).
'STRs lead to an increase in commercial property listings that turn residential areas into de-facto hotels' Is there any correlation between the number of STR listings and commercial mortgages?
'STRs take away business from hotels, hurting the sector and its employees' What is the degree of coincidence between STR listings and hotel rooms?
Do the STR market and the hotel market have different spatial structures in their pricing?
The goal, and consequent research approach, of the report is to examine a breadth of issues through a single intensive case study rather than investigating a single analytical or policy issue through a breadth of observations. In other words, the aim is to provide a comprehensive look at a single market. The rationale of this approach is that it offers a better entry into the contentiousness of the debate on STRs by examining all (or at least most) of the primary points of argumentation with data and robust analysis. The authors hope that this report may offer methodological guidance for future research on additional markets and for more in-depth analyses of individual policy issues. More immediately, the authors hope that the findings will help inform and guide policymakers as they consider STRs and the sharing economy.
The city of Seattle was chosen for two primary reasons. First, it is a contentious market for the sharing economy broadly and for STRs specifically. Stakeholders from all sides are closely watching STR impacts and potential regulations on the market. The second reason is more practical and related to the availability of comprehensive data on STR listings, the housing market, and hotel markets within the city.
The analyses are grouped into two sets – one set on housing impacts and one set on hotel market impacts. For the former we used a longitudinal analysis with annual observations aggregated at a metropolitan statistical area level. For the latter, we analyzed listings with a booking in the 12 months ending December 1, 2015 aggregated at block groups.
Housing is understandably an issue of great importance to individuals and policymakers, which is why it is important for stakeholders to shape housing policies based on empirical evidence rather than unsubstantiated arguments. This section examines if and to what extent opposition claims against STRs are supported by empirical evidence in the Seattle market. Specifically, it examines claims that 1) STRs lead to an increase in individuals acting as commercial landlords via STR platforms and 2) STRs lead to a decrease in owner-occupancy.
To investigate these claims, we looked at two aspects of the Seattle housing market: 1) the relationship between short-term rentals and commercial landlord activity and 2) the relationship between short-term rentals and unit occupancy.
The report finds no evidence for these claims. Quite the opposite, the analysis suggests that STRs are negatively correlated with commercial landlord activity. Further, while causal relationships cannot be ascertained given the scope of analysis here, the evidence suggests that STRs may even support homeownership, acting as a stabilizing force in economic downturns by allowing individuals and families to capitalize on their assets and earn supplemental revenue.
Data were collected from the United States Census Bureau's American Housing Survey, the United States Federal Financial Examination Council's Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Aggregate Reports, and from public Internet Association member company data on short-term rentals in the Seattle metropolitan market.
Using these data, the report conducted a series of Pearson's Product-Moment Correlation tests between individual metrics, which offers a test of the strength of the linear association of two variables. These tests were limited in scope and the report did not seek to establish full explanatory models of dependent variables. Rather, the analysis simply focused on establishing 1) whether a positive correlation between short-term rentals and investment activity existed (i.e. whether short-term rentals potentially lead to increased rental properties) and 2) whether a negative relationship between short-rentals and owner occupancy existed (i.e. whether short-term rentals potentially lead to a decrease in owner occupancy in housing). Had either of those relationships existed, additional modeling work would have been required to ascertain the causal effect of short-term rental units on each metric. Put differently, the analysis was looking for the existence of claimed relationships.
The analysis found that claims of these types of relationships have no basis in the Seattle metropolitan area. There was a negative relationship between short-term rentals and commercial property activity (as measured by investment property mortgage applications and approvals). There was a positive relationship between short-term rentals and owner occupancy.2As well as with the total number of housing units, which counters suggestions that STRs reduce overall housing stock.Finally, STRs had a negative relationship with unit vacancy.
Far from being the source of great strain on residential housing markets, short-term rentals may provide residents an additional tool for obtaining and maintaining home-ownership.
While the report does not make causal claims because of its limited scope, the results do provide some initial evidence that, far from being the source of great strain on residential housing markets, short-term rentals may provide residents an additional tool for obtaining and maintaining home-ownership.
An a priori assessment would be that the access to additional income provided by short-term rentals allows residents to supplement income as needed depending on housing market conditions and broader metro area economic trends. This flexible additional income can be used to supplement incomes in economic downturns and to assist in rent or mortgage payments should they increase. For example, there was an increase in short-term rental activity in 2008 and 2009 during the height of the Great Recession, a reduction in listings from 2010 through 2013, and a stabilization of listings in 2013-2014 as the economic recovery stabilized and gained momentum. Results are presented in Table 2 and Figures 1-3.
Note: Correlation coefficients show the relationship from -1.0 to 1.0 between pairs of metrics with 1.0 being perfect positive correlation, -1.0 being perfect negative correlation, and 0 being no correlation. Negative correlations mean the pair of metrics move in opposite directions while positive relationships mean they move in the same direction. The p-values reported are for unadjusted standard errors and informational purposes only. P-values with 0.10 or less are significant at a 90% confidence level or higher.
One of the more contentious issues surrounding the emergence of the sharing economy has been its impact on established sectors and businesses, particularly through its market effects. Some analysts have claimed that the sharing economy enjoys the advantage of a looser regulatory structure over traditional firms. But to date there is not robust evidence of such an effect, while it is possible the sharing economy has actually enlarged the marketplace: a phenomenon called "market creation." To investigate this debate, the report posed the following question: Do the STR listings and hotel accommodations have a different spatial structure of their pricing?
Some analysts have claimed that the sharing economy enjoys the advantage of a looser regulatory structure over traditional firms. But to date there is not robust evidence of such an effect.
Differences between these estimated spatial structures would provide evidence of market creation, in contrast to market capture by the new economy companies. The question is answered by mapping listings for STRs and hotels to determine the degree of coincidence between the two markets and then using a set of alternative spatial econometric approaches to investigate possible differences between spatial structures.
The results demonstrate: 1) a very low degree of spatial coincidence (geographic overlap) between STRs and hotels, 2) a geographically diverse distribution of STR listings, and 3) no statistical evidence of market capture by STRs of the hotel market.
The main takeaway is the lack of coincidence between both datasets, either by planning or market circumstances, which are beyond the reach of the econometrician to detect with the small samples compiled. This is perhaps more direct evidence that STRs and hotels cater to different markets.
The market creation in the case of STRs is related to two particularities: a) its users prefer the intimate experience with the local realities of shared accommodations, in contrast to the more distant experience of the traditional accommodations (hotels); and b) many of its users could not generally have used the hotels' service because of their prices.
We assessed if the parameter of spatial association of the accommodations' prices had the same sign and absolute value for both the sharing economy and hotel providers. In order to produce comparable parameters for both sets of data, the information was standardized so that the units of measure were strictly comparable in absolute values. In addition, as the two data sources differed in the number and location of the block groups with information, we developed the assessments for all the information first, and then developed block groups where both sources had information to allow a more direct comparison. The second strategy involved simultaneously using the block groups where both sources provided information as observations, and then testing the possibility of a difference due to the hotel characteristic using a dummy variable. This strategy allowed us to enlarge the dataset available when using the two sources of information, and their combination also offered a direct comparison.
In the first strategy, if the parameter was positive and significant in both regressions, and it was statistically different between them, we can argue that the two markets have different spatial structures, and consequently, there is market creation (in contrast to market capture). If the opposite held true, the two markets over-impose on each other, and short-term rentals are a substitute (market capture) for hotel accommodations.
In the second strategy, if the dummy variable for the hotels and its interaction with the spatial association parameter were significant, there is evidence of market differentiation. If only the first one was statistically significant, we have evidence of a different spatial structure, but not necessarily of the spatial association parameter. The second strategy still requires significance of the spatial association parameter, as it determines the existence of (or lack thereof) a spatial structure. Both sets of estimations will use the corresponding listings or count variable as control of the regression, a more robust regression setting.
We compiled information about prices and count of listings (or adverts) per block groups in the city of Seattle. The compiled information amounts to 235 block groups with shared economy short-term rentals and 54 block groups with hotel adverts (209 independent hotel adverts). For reference, there are 482 unique block groups in Seattle. However, only 35 block groups have information from both sources, which required small sample bias correction measures when used in regression settings.
A "standardized" spatial dependence parameter was produced by regressing the nightly price in standard deviations on the spatially weighted version of itself. This is called a SAR (Spatially Autoregressive) model. The spatial weighting has used a [0,1] standardized inverse distance matrix, where the maximum possible spatial relationship (1) is the shortest possible distance between block groups' centroids. The SAR was estimated using both Full Maximum Likelihood (FML) and Bootstrap Errors, the first one is the standard technique in dealing with spatial correlation, while the second assesses the reliability of the estimation in presence of Small Sample Bias.
Two sets of econometric exercises were performed, first for both the independent full samples of block groups, then for the coincident small samples. This set tries to identify if the standardized SAR component of the two regressions was statistically different, implying a different spatial autoregressive structure, and consequently different markets. The second set of exercises was performed only on the coincident block groups. It used a dummy variable for the hotels and its corresponding interaction with the SAR, and it attempted to determine if the characteristic "hotel block group" had an impact on both the general regression and then the SAR parameter. A full description of the methodology is presented the Appendix.
The two sets of exercises are in general inconclusive, because Bootstrap regressions that deal with small sample bias show non-reliable SAR parameters. However, the second set of exercises seems to suggest different regression structures for both groups even in the Bootstrap setting. These sets of results, combined with the low degree of spatial coincidence between the two markets and the broader geographic distribution of STRs in the Seattle area (versus the concentrated nature of hotels), suggest that they are fundamentally different markets.
209 online hotel adverts collected by the author. All of them correspond to a low season, three months' advance, 5 days stay. The search was made simultaneously from 10 different computers to avoid machine-tailoring of the demand, and the obtained nightly prices are reported in Map 1, while Map 2 reports the hotel count of observations per block group (only 54 block groups report at least one hotel advert).3Two hotels are located outside King County. They are included as they are close enough to be considered central Seattle.
Information on listings, prices, and occupancy for 239 block groups, delivered by the sharing economy companies. The count of listings per block group is reported in Map 3.4Note: While the report had data for all block groups, those with fewer than 6 listings were censored for privacy and are shown the same as blocks with no listings.
The average nightly price for the hotels and the STRs are reported in Maps 4 and 5 correspondingly. We can appreciate that in the case of the hotels, the count and the average price are coincident, relatively higher in the downtown, with a radial distribution towards the peripheries. Although they are non-present in vast residential areas, there is a higher presence of hotels in the Aurora Avenue and University Districts.
In Map 5, the STR listings do not have the same spatial regularity. They are abundant in residential areas towards the north and east of downtown, almost non-existent on Aurora Avenue, and report higher prices in both the city center and purely residential sectors as Queen Anne and Ballard.
We have then a situation where there is a low degree of coincidence between hotels and STRs per block group, with a different pattern of spatial distribution of the prices in both groups. Consequently, we expect a different spatial association parameter in the econometric results. Due to the low degree of coincidence (only 35 block groups; presented in Map 6), we will also use robust SE approaches to ensure statistical validity. The fact that both sources are basically located in different city sections might be due to either market or planning considerations – a hypothesis that we discuss below in the section of econometric results.
Spatial comparison strategy. All the regressions presented in this report are performed in Standard Deviations, so that they are strictly comparable in absolute values. This strategy is preferable in our case to the most common use of logarithms, as in this last case there are still different absolute values despite offering an interpretation in terms of elasticities. The use of the variables in standard deviations brings them to a common unit of measure, which is crucial to compare the difference between estimated parameters.
In Table 3, we report the results for the sharing economy 239 block groups, where we have a positive and significant SAR component. In fact, there is a sizeable difference between the total and indirect effect of the SAR, which informs a complex set of spatial interrelationships, and a not robust estimate. Bootstrap errors have been applied with 100 repetitions and the absolute value of the SAR and its indirect effect, are significant and about the same in absolute value as the FML estimates.
In Table 4, we have the results for the 54 block groups with information. The SAR was not significant in both FML and Bootstrap estimations, even when using count control in the last specification. In fact, the Likelihood Ratio (LR) was not significant in the Bootstrap specifications, in contrast to always being significant for the sharing economy outputs of Table 3. We consider that this result must be due to the lack of observations, which affect the reliability of the spatial econometric output in presence of a cluster of high price observations in city center, and low priced hotel accommodations on Ballard Avenue.
The results using only the 35 block groups that are coincident between the sharing economy accommodations and the hotels are reported in Tables 5 and 6 respectively. As stated above, the use of standardized variables allows us to compare directly the absolute value of the SAR parameter (total and indirect) in these tables. However, SAR was not significant in the Bootstrap estimations of Table 3, consequently, we have to assess only the statistical significance of the difference between the parameters in the FML total and indirect effect estimates. The p-values for these tests were 0.399 and 0.398, indicating the same degree of spatial association for both datasets.
The fact that Bootstrap errors did not produce significant SAR estimates in Table 6, implies that there is a strong small sample bias due to the lack of coincident observations. Because of this we cannot make definitive statements at this spatial scale (with this number of observations).
Treatment group comparison strategy. In this section, we follow the dummy test as presented in the methodological section above. Its set of results, presented in Table 7, offers a relatively similar picture to the one in Tables 5 and 6. The SAR estimate is positive and significant in most of the FML specifications, except when using Count (Listings) as a control in FML4. The same happened in the Bootstrap specifications when using the Count control in Bootstrap2. The hotels dummy was significant when used in the models FML2 and FML 4, but it was not significant in the model with the interacting parameter FML3. Furthermore, the dummy was significant in both Bootstrap regressions, even in the one with interacting parameter Bootstrap 2. However, we know that the spatial parameter was not significant in such case.
In the results of the final test, presented in Table 7, once again we cannot definitively ascertain whether hotels and STRs share a single spatial market. There is some suggestion from the results of models FML2, FML4 and Bootstrap1 that this may be a possibility, but the most direct and precise test FML3 did not produce significant results. Also, the regressions change when introducing Count as regression control in specifications FML4 and Bootstrap2, further evidence of non-fully reliable results. Even when we extend the database to 70 observations in this exercise, the use of the count control proves the unreliability of the SAR estimates while the interaction of the SAR and Hotel Dummy has never been significant – these results apply for both the FML and Bootstrap results. All of this most likely is due to the lack of spatial coincidence as presented in Map 6.
We have performed two sets of empirical tests examining the relationships of short-term rentals with 1) the residential housing market and 2) the hotel market in the city of Seattle. In the first set, we collected data on commercial investment mortgages (applications and originations) in the metro area as well as the composition of its housing stock from 2005-2016. We then conducted a series of Pearson's Product-Moment Correlation tests between short-term rental listings and a variety of variables to examine their impacts of STRs on owner occupancy and vacancies. Using two sets of spatial econometrics exercises, we found no statistically conclusive evidence demonstrating the shared economy and hotels share the same markets in Seattle, or on the contrary, they serve different markets. The main problem found is the lack of coincident spatial information for both the shared economy and hotels sets of information, which required us to use bootstrap errors in order to detect any small sample bias in the FML estimations, when using full or only coincident samples of block groups. However, while the statistical evidence is inconclusive one way or another, the very low degree of spatial coincidence, the greater spatial diversity of STR listings, and some of the inconclusive statistical tests lead the authors to believe that STRs and hotels serve fundamentally different markets. In other words, STRs create demand rather than encroaching on hotel markets.
We found no statistically conclusive evidence demonstrating the shared economy and hotels share the same markets in Seattle.
What does this battery of tests and their findings imply? We argue two things.
First, while there are many claims around the negative impacts of STRs on local markets, there is little evidence in the literature to support those claims. Furthermore, when they are addressed systematically through empirical research, we find none of them hold up. There is no evidence of negative impacts from STRs (as claimed by opponents) in the Seattle market, and initial evidence showing that STRs help stabilize housing markets while boosting accommodation stays (aka tourism).
Second, it is critical that policymakers not succumb to unsubstantiated claims surrounding STRs and, rather, that they use the empirical evidence that does exist. Policymakers seeking to end the abuse of rental properties (of all types) should focus efforts on: 1) the enforcement of existing regulations around the declaration of investment properties in mortgages and to city property registers and 2) the enforcement of existing licensing laws for landlords. However, when they examine the empirical evidence, there is no basis for restricting STRs based on any of the opposition claims examined here.
The evidence suggests that STR markets may provide a safeguard for home ownership while increasing visitors through a more geographically diverse accommodation market – one which more effectively provides revenue to local neighborhoods. It would be a disservice for policymakers to work against these positive impacts simply because they haven't seen the evidence.
The SAR regresses a variable against itself spatially weighted , and has a iid u vector of errors, which do not necessarily satisfy non-autocorrelation, precisely because of being per definition autoregressive. The SEM regresses the same variable against the spatially weighted vector of errors of an OLS regression between it and another variable (or set of variables). The choice of anyone of these models is a purely empirical matter as the benchmark from which to add more variables or perform more analyses. In the present document, however, even when the SEM has the advantage of not having indirect (feedback) effects through its spatial weighting, it does not offer an absolute value spatial association parameter for the variable of interest (prices), consequently we use SAR and test its robustness by checking its indirect effects.
The spatial weighting process for any of the proposed tests involves the creation of a Spatial Weights Matrix , which relates one-to-one every spatial unit (block group) with its neighbors, or with the entire spatial system. In the present case, it is advisable to use a matrix of inverse distances, because the block groups with information have very different areas, plus they have a scattered distribution on the urban space.5That contrasts with a continuous spatial distribution that would require a spatial matrix where vicinity is determined by sharing bordersThe maximum distance possible between two block groups determines their zero (0) relationship, while their closest possible distance determines the relation one (1). All the other relationships lie in between these extremes, weighting the entire set of possible spatial relationships between block groups.
Finally, as the resulting database that has comparable information for the sharing economy and hotels per block groups will be very small, we used Bootstrap errors to determine if there is any "small sample bias". Bootstrap makes multiple re-samplings and re-estimations of the parameters and standard errors of an OLS (or quintile) regression, if the changes in these values are significant, it means that the estimated parameters are not reliable due to the small sample bias.


If you had family living in New South Wales in 1886, have you thought of looking in Police Gazettes for information? These are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians.
Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these Gazettes contain details and information that can not be found anywhere else. Apart from any changes within the police force which are all listed (promotions, demotions, dismissals, deaths etc), information is also given on housebreak-ins, robberies, arson, murders, lost horses and cattle, deserters, escaped prisoners, inquest verdicts, missing friends, and reports on those released. Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.
Albury - Ellen Jordan charged with the wilful murder of her illegitimate female child at Albury, has been arrested by Sergeant Brown, Albury Police. Committed for trial at Albury Circuit Court.
On the 6th April, 1886.
No. 1,519, Gunner William Lynn, born at Portsmouth, England, 29 years of age, 5 feet, 10 3/8 inches high, dark brown hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, bullet hole in calf of leg; a surveyor; dressed in regimentals. Under one years' service.
The Police appointed Collectors of the Electoral Lists are enjoined to exercise the greatest care in the preparation of the same, to ensure accuracy and prevent any repetition of complaints hitherto made by persons entitles to the franchise being omitted from the Roll.
Issued weekly, this CD contains all 52 issues that were produced for the year 1886, and this truly is a fascinating read for learning about the social history of the time, even if you don't have family there.


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Clark Baker's Second Fund Raiser Request is more Truth Challenged than the First
This is the second fund raising request set up for Clark Baker and OMSJ in the past few days. For each fund raiser there is a synopsis that describes why the funds are needed. In the first donation request I detailed six examples from the synopsis that where completely untrue proving that Baker is grossly misleading those individuals who might donate. While the numbers of untrue statements in the synopsis for the second fund raiser have decreased, the audacity of the misinformation has increased exponentially.
Clark Baker is claiming that the entire pharmaceutical industry is out to destroy him and OMSJ via a legal "proxy war" headed up by Dr. Robert Gallo:
…the pharmaceutical industry now wages a legal proxy war that could destroy OMSJ.
…disgraced HIV discoverer Robert Gallo MD uses activists like Jeffery Todd DeShong and James Murtagh MD to wage a legal war against Baker and OMSJ in hopes of destroying the organization and Baker's reputation.
Robert Gallo's proxy war has cost OMSJ more than $200,000 to defend itself from false claims, including two meritless lawsuits filed by Dr. Murtagh.
Just let that sink in for a moment. Clark Baker thinks he is so important that an entire industry is threatened by him and must resort to clandestine legal measures to stop him. Such delusions of grandeur and wild conspiracy theory rationale should give pause to anyone considering donating to this cause. However, if one does believe this could be true, let me explain why it is 100% false.
The most definitive way I can prove this is false is personal experience. I am Jeffrey Todd DeShong, the activist supposedly helping to wage a legal war against Mr. Baker. Although I was involved in a legal lawsuit with Clark Baker, it was Baker who waged the lawsuit. I was the defendant. The only part Dr. Gallo played in the suit was in Mr. Baker's fantasy. As I have reported before, Mr. Baker told me during a phone call that he was going to sue me so that he could depose Dr. Gallo. After that phone call I found evidence where Mr. Baker expounded on this fantasy in a radio interview on The Robert Scott Bell Show dated July 14, 2011. Mr. Baker said the following:
1:22:56 CB: Actually Robert Gallo received a subpoena on one of our cases as well as last year. As did Sam Broder who is behind the AZT debacle and both of them basically forwarded their subpoenas to the NIH. The NIH stonewalls such subpoenas they don't listen to State subpoenas. They simply ignore them. And it cost so much time and energy we basically learned in our future subpoenas to them they will be Federal Subpoenas. And Federal Courts don't let the NIH ignore such things.
Mr. Baker filed a lawsuit against me in Federal Court after having already lost to me in arbitration. Mr. Baker lost all three points of the arbitration and was found guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking, the arbitration equivalent of "bad faith". Baker should have known after that ruling that suing me in Federal Court was a loser case and yet he did it solely as a vehicle to depose Dr. Gallo. Baker lost in Federal Court and then appealed and lost again. That was easily a $150,000 gamble that did not pay off.
If my goal was the economic destruction of Baker and OMSJ, my attorneys would have pressed for discovery and depositions instead of dismissal. The amount of billable hours for Baker's attorneys during discovery and depositions could easily have quadrupled the above figure. Instead my pro-bono attorneys took the least expensive strategy of getting the case dismissed. From these indisputable facts it is obvious that Mr. Baker is being fundamentally dishonest. Baker is trying to manipulate others into paying for his ego-driven bad debt.
The only other person Mr. Baker specifically names as part of this sinister, nefarious cabal out to destroy him via the legal system is Dr. James Murtagh. The synopsis states:
Robert Gallo's proxy war has cost OMSJ more than $200,000 to defend itself from false claims, including two meritless lawsuits filed by Dr. Murtagh. Trial is set for October 2015, and OMSJ needs at least another $200,000 to defend itself.
This is also blatantly false. Dr. Murtagh is suing Mr. Baker to stop Baker's systematic, 7 year harassment of his employment. Baker has set up several defamatory websites about Dr. Murtagh with the intent of employment harassment. The statement below is found on the home page of JamesMurtaghMDTruth.com (formerly JamesMurtaghMD.com and formerly JamesMurtaghMDPsycho.com) and also on Propagandists.org:
WELCOME to the unofficial page of James J. Murtagh, MD. Its purpose is not to defame the former Emory University professor, but to provide hospitals and "locum tenens" staffing agencies easy access to publicly-available court documents about Dr. Murtagh's ongoing conduct and behavior. Visitors are encouraged to verify the authenticity of all documents with the appropriate judicial jurisdictions before making any hiring decisions based upon these court records.
That statement is painfully obvious why the websites exist and prove that Dr. Murtagh's lawsuits are not "without merit". They were to stop the on-going employment harassment. They have nothing to do with pharma, HIV/AIDS or Dr. Gallo. So far the courts have agreed with Dr. Murtagh and I have detailed three major losses Clark Baker suffered as a result of Dr. Murtagh's legitimate suits.
Again, for Mr. Baker to make such fundamentally false claims shows just how desperate he is to manipulate people to donate and help get him out of a legal mess of his own making.
Mr. Baker can not get his stories straight. The first funding site to benefit Sgt. David Gutierrez contradicts the information presented at Baker's second funding site for OMSJ Defense. At the first site we see:
…corrupt doctors working for so-called HIV co-discoverer Robert Gallo MD have filed a lawsuit and expensive motions in an effort to bankrupt OMSJ and prevent them from effectively defending Gutierrez.
Here Baker uses the plural "corrupt doctors" that are all working for Dr. Gallo in a coordinated effort to brind him down. But as you can see from the second funding site and what I have detailed here, it is just myself and Dr. Murtagh. That's it. And when a person can't keep their story straight and has to resort to exaggerations, misinformation and complete dishonesty to maniplate people out of their money, some tough questions need to be asked.
The truth is, Clark Baker's reckless ego got him into a financial quagmire and he is asking others to bail him out to the tune of $200,000. The most egregious part of this request is that Mr. Baker does not have the personal integrity or respect for others to be honest about why he needs the money.
OMSJ Money Beg for Sgt. David Gutierrez; Distorted Facts and Outright Untruths
Oh how I wish I could use the "L" word to describe Clark Baker. But that would be legally actionable so I can only make the major understatement that he is less than truthful. Take for example Baker's money beg in the name of OMSJ to allegedly help Sgt. David Gutierrez. The title alone has two false statements:
US Air Force veteran has been imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth since 2011 on false charges of exposing others to HIV. He's not infected.
1. There were no "false charges of exposing others to HIV". Gutierrez does have HIV and this fact was never disputed in court in the original trial. And on appeal, the defense supported this fact by discussing Gutierrez's viral load. Also, Gutierrez had sexual, unprotected intercourse with women at swinger's parties thereby exposing them to HIV. The defense even presented witnesses and witness affidavits supporting this fact.
2. "He's not infected." Gutierrez is infected with HIV. Again, this was never disputed in court and Baker proudly boasts that he thinks HIV tests are worthless, meaningless and fraudulent. This is even the cornerstone of his defense strategy.
The next two untruths are also about Gutierrez's HIV infection:
3. Despite the fact that he was never competently diagnosed with HIV…
4. OMSJ found no evidence that he was infected with any infectious disease and found no evidence that he ever was.
Again, Mr. Baker has no credibility when it comes to HIV infection. He is an out and proud HIV Denialist. Mr. Baker has made it quite clear that in all the HIV cases he has (supposedly) worked on, he has never found one, single person to be "competently diagnosed with HIV". Baker has also claimed that in each and every case, "OMSJ found no evidence of HIV infection". These statements are not at all surprising coming from a man who claims that HIV tests are "worthless, fraudulent and meaningless". Every time Mr. Baker makes some grand pronouncement that a defendant has "never been competently diagnosed with HIV" and/or "OMSJ found no evidence of HIV infection" only makes Baker look like the ridiculous hypocrite he is. If Baker doesn't believe in the HIV testing methodology, then just what would it take to satisfy Mr. Baker regarding proof of infection?
This next statement is completely false:
5. Last February, the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled in his favor 5-0, based upon the findings of OMSJ's defense team.
This untruth is easily verifiable because there is an audio link to the court proceedings in the appeal. I have discussed the court audio previously and supplied a link to the audio. In this audio we clearly hear defense attorney, Kevin McDermott laying out his client's defense using solid, current, orthodox science about HIV tests, the success of HAART in suppressing viral load and transmission rates. And you can read the judgement for yourself. The appeal ruling turns on transmission rates given by HIV expert Donna Sweet as well as supporting information from the Centers for Disease Control. It had absolutely nothing to do with "findings of OMSJ's defense team." That is complete non-sense.
NOTE: You can read all about the case at this military blog.
The last statement is a whopper of untruth:
6. At the same time, corrupt doctors working for so-called HIV co-discoverer Robert Gallo MD have filed a lawsuit and expensive motions in an effort to bankrupt OMSJ and prevent them from effectively defending Gutierrez.
This is completely false. Mr. Baker is involved in two lawsuits. The one he filed against me is over. Baker lost his last appeal. The only on-going part of our suit is an appeal my attorneys initiated to recover fees. They plan to show that Baker's suit against me was completely frivolous and wholly without merit.
The other lawsuit involving Mr. Baker is one with Dr. James Murtagh. Baker is the defendant in this suit and it has nothing to do with HIV. It was brought solely by Dr. Murtagh in response to Mr. Baker's alleged on-going harassment of Dr. Murtagh and his employment. Baker has called Dr. Murtagh a "corrupt doc" in the past so I am sure he is referring to the suit with Dr. Murtagh here. Although it is hard to be certain because Baker accused me of being a puppet of Dr. Gallo, the entire AIDS Truth team as well as all of Big Pharma in his lawsuit against me. Of course Mr. Baker provided zero proof of this grand conspiracy theory and two courts ignored it as such. And to think that anyone would file a lawsuit for the sole purpose of stopping the defense of Sgt. Gutierrez, or anyone else for that matter, is simply more of Baker's conspiracy theory non-sense.
To anyone who is seriously considering donating to this "cause", I would suggest you take all of this into serious consideration. Why would Mr. Baker resort to such hyperbolic grandstanding and outright misinformation? And if you do donate, I would strongly suggest you demand some transparency about what exactly Mr. Baker does with the money. Mr. Baker has never been transparent in the past. After all, his guidestar report for 2012 & 2013 shows contributions totalling $888,546 but nowhere has Mr. Baker ever divulged where one cent of that money has gone. Besides, I thought OMSJ was a non-profit and Mr. Baker was doing this work pro-bono.
If Mr. Baker truly wants to take responsibility for Sgt. Gutierrez's appeal, I would assume he would see this through to the very end and would have taken into account the money necessary to do so. Or perhaps this is like the Bobby Russell Case where Mr. Baker claimed he had spent $100 Grand on the case but bailed when a paltry $12,000 was needed to go forward. It seems Mr. Baker has a history of bailing on people after they have outlived their usefulness.
Or perhaps it is more sinister than that. Elizabeth Ely had a some serious advice for one person considering asking Clark Baker for help:
5/4, 3:57pm
Elizabeth Ely
At the very least, talk to the most experienced people in this. I'd start with a phone call to Clark Baker.
And don't piss him off by getting advice and not following it.
6/3, 6:29am
It doesn't matter anyway; Clark Baker and OMSJ only work with clients who follow his instructions to the letter.
No matter what one thinks about Clark Baker and the supposed success of OMSJ or his now abandoned HIV Innocence Group, I would ask some serious questions before donating to Baker in any way. Of course they might as well be rhetorical questions because Mr. Baker answers to no one.
Clark Baker to Set Up Electron Microscopy Lab; Yeah, Right!
Clark Baker is a scientist for all seasons and reasons. Not only is he an expert in Flow Cytometry, he is also an expert with phylogenetic analysis of HIV as well as an expert on ebola, or at least he will be once he gets adequate air, water and soil samples. He also has some unique knowledge about vaccines. And he is already an expert on Electron Microscopy. Now Mr. Baker is opening an entire laboratory dedicated to Electron Microscopy. The following is directly from Baker's personal facebook page dated March 20, 2015:
Clark Baker Keep up the good work, Dean. OMSJ's mission transcends politics and boundaries, but that doesn't mean I must surrender my personal beliefs or ignore my experiences. I'm currently setting up a new lab to examine blood samples for people around the world. For a standard fee, we'll resume our examination of blood samples using electron microscopy. That's much more important right now than politics…
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I'm not sure if the lab will be diagnostic, research or both. My bet would be both. I mean hell; a wunderkind like Mr. Baker should not limit himself.
Who the hell does Baker think he is fooling? There is no way he has the resources for such an undertaking. Unless of course he is going to forgo proper accreditation and that did not work out too well for his fellow Re-Thinking buddy, Marco Ruggiero. He and his partner got busted with a scam lab in the UK trying to produce GcMAF. Mr. Baker will quickly discover that it is much easier to criticize laboratories than it is to adhere to the incredibly strict guidelines, policies and protocols of a reputable lab. And once Mr. Baker realizes that his lab will be subjected to periodic and sometimes even random inspections, he might think again.
I also doubt this will ever get off the ground because of the myriad regulatory agencies that have already been alerted to Mr. Baker's previous "undertakings". I still cannot elaborate on this development but Mr. Baker may soon be too busy explaining his actions for the past several years and may not have the time for any other projects. Or he may find that he has nothing but time on his hands.