The headstrong supply and demand imbalances in much of the country slightly tempered the pace of sales and caused home prices to maintain their robust growth in the second quarter, according to the latest quarterly report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The national median existing single-family home price in the second quarter was $255,600, which is up 6.2% from the second quarter of 2016 ($240,700) and surpasses the third quarter of last year ($241,300) as the new peak quarterly median sales price. The median price during the first quarter increased 6.9% from the first quarter of 2016. Single-family home prices last quarter increased in 87% of measured markets, with 154 out of 178 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) showing sales price gains in the second quarter compared with the second quarter of 2016. Twenty-three areas (13%) recorded lower median prices from a year earlier. Twenty-three metro areas in the second quarter (13%) experienced double-digit increases, down from 30 areas in the first quarter (17%). Overall, there were slightly more rising markets in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, when price gains were recorded in 85% of metro areas. Total existing-home sales, including single family and condos, slipped 0.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.57 million in the second quarter from 5.62 million in the first quarter, but are still 1.6% higher than the 5.48 million pace during the second quarter of 2016. At the end of the second quarter, there were 1.96 million existing homes available for sale4, which was 7.1% below the 2.11 million homes for sale at the end of the second quarter in 2016. The average supply during the second quarter was 4.2 months — down from 4.6 months in the second quarter of last year.
Last quarter, a rise in the national family median income ($71,529)5 was not enough to offset weaker affordability from the combination of higher mortgage rates compared to a year ago and rising home prices. To purchase a single-family home at the national median price, a buyer making a 5% down payment would need an income of $56,169, a 10% down payment would require an income of $53,213, and $47,300 would be needed for a 20% down payment. The five most expensive housing markets in the second quarter were the San Jose, California, metro area, where the median existing single-family price was $1,183,400; San Francisco, $950,000; Anaheim-Santa Ana, California, $788,000; urban Honolulu, $760,600; and San Diego, $605,000. The five lowest-cost metro areas in the second quarter were Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio, $87,000; Cumberland, Maryland, $98,200; Decatur, Illinois, $107,400; Binghamton, New York, $109,000; and Elmira, New York, $111,600. Metro area condominium and cooperative prices — covering changes in 61 metro areas — showed the national median existing-condo price was $239,500 in the second quarter, up 5.4% from the second quarter of 2016 ($227,200). Eighty-seven% of metro areas showed gains in their median condo price from a year ago.
Total existing-home sales in the Northeast rose 1.3% in the second quarter and are 0.4% above the second quarter of 2016. The median existing single-family home price in the Northeast was $282,300 in the second quarter, up 3.2% from a year ago. In the Midwest, existing-home sales increased 4.2% in the second quarter but are 0.5% below a year ago. The median existing single-family home price in the Midwest increased 6.6% to $204,000 in the second quarter from the same quarter a year ago.Existing-home sales in the South dipped 3.0% in the second quarter but are 2.5% higher than the second quarter of 2016. The median existing single-family home price in the South was $229,400 in the second quarter, 6.7% above a year earlier. In the West, existing-home sales decreased 3.7% in the second quarter but are 3.1% above a year ago. The median existing single-family home price in the West increased 7.5% to $372,400 in the second quarter from the second quarter of 2016.
– As of early August, Chinese dealmaking in the US has dropped by 65% this year, according to Dealogic.
– The sharp decline comes amid greater uncertainty around whether the Trump administration will allow the deal to be completed.
– The Dealogic report estimated a further drop in Chinese deals in the US, putting $75 million in advisor fees at risk.
As the Trump administration looks to take a tougher stance against Beijing, Chinese investments into the US have more than halved this year, according to Dealogic. "Amid growing regulatory scrutiny of China outbound M&A targeting the US, volume has seen a 65% year-on-year decline in 2017 year-to-date," Nicholas Farfan and Karl But of Dealogic Research said in an Aug. 8 note. "In comparison, such deals peaked at $65.2 billion last year, with high-profile deals including HNA's acquisition of 25% of Hilton Worldwide." "With tightening restrictions, Chinese buyers may look to stop pursuing or shelve potential acquisitions in the US," the note said. The pressure and uncertainty is coming from both countries. On Beijing's side, authorities are reportedly targeting some of the largest Chinese dealmakers to try to keep capital from fleeing the country and contributing to yuan weakness. On the American side, reports indicate the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is looking to use national security concerns to prevent more Chinese purchases of US firms, especially in technology. Anecdotally, Gregory Husisian, chair, export controls and national security group at law firm Foley & Lardner, noted that an increasing number of clients are concerned about working with Chinese buyers due to the potential for regulatory intervention. The dealmaking industry could also suffer some significant business setbacks. The Dealogic analysts estimate about $9.7 billion in pending Chinese deals to buy US firms could fall under regulatory scrutiny, potentially putting $75 million in advisor fees at risk.
Nationwide housing starts fell 4.8% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.16 million units, according to newly released data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Commerce Department. Single-family production slipped 0.5% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 856,000 after a strong, upwardly revised June reading. Year-to-date, single-family starts are 8.6% above their level over the same period last year. Multifamily starts dropped 15.3% to 299,000 units. "The overall strengthening of the single-family sector is consistent with solid builder confidence in the market," said Granger MacDonald, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder and developer from Kerrville, Texas. "The sector should continue to firm as the job market and economy grow and more consumers enter the housing market." "New-home production numbers this month are in line with our forecast for a slow and steady recovery of the housing market," said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz. "We saw multifamily production peak in 2015, and this sector should continue to level off as demand remains solid." Regionally in July, combined single- and multifamily housing production rose 0.6% in the South, and fell 1.6% in the West, 15.2% in the Midwest and 15.7% in the Northeast. Overall permit issuance in July was down 4.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.22 million units. Single-family permits held steady at 811,000 units while multifamily permits fell 11.2% to 412,000. Regionally, overall permits rose 19.2% in the Northeast. Permits fell 1.4% in the South, 7.9% in the West, and 17.4% in the Midwest.
Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) said Tuesday it will partner with BMW and Intel (INTC) to develop a platform for self-driving cars. The Italian-American automaker will contribute engineering and other technical resources to the existing BMW-Intel alliance, which launched in July 2016 to create an automated driving system for global manufacturers. Fiat Chrysler also said its involvement in the group will accelerate product development. Earlier this year, the alliance announced its plan to test 40 autonomous cars on public roads by the end of 2017. The companies, including Intel-owned Mobileye, expect to offer solutions for fully automated driving by 2021. The alliance's goal is to create the "most relevant" self-driving platform that automakers can adopt while maintaining their brand identities. "In order to advance autonomous driving technology, it is vital to form partnerships among automakers, technology providers and suppliers," said FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne. "Joining this cooperation will enable FCA to directly benefit from the synergies and economies of scale that are possible when companies come together with a common vision and objective." In a joint announcement, the companies said they invite other automakers and technology firms to adopt their platform. Financial terms of the Fiat Chrysler deal weren't disclosed.
Single-family rents, as measured by the CoreLogic Single-Family Rental Index (SFRI), climbed steadily between 2010 and 2016. However, the index shows year-over-year rent growth has decelerated slowly since February 2016, when it peaked at a 4.4%. As of June 2017, single-family rents increased 2.8% year over year, a 1.6 percentagepoint decline since the February 2016 peak. The index measures rent changes among single-family rental homes, including condominiums, using a repeat-rent analysis to measure the same rental properties over time. Using the index to analyze specific price tiers reveals important differences. The index's overall growth was pulled down by the high-end rental market, defined as properties with rents 125% or more of a region's median rent. Rents on higher-priced rental homes increased 1.9% year over year in June 2017, down from a gain of 3% in June 2016. Growth in the low-end market, defined as properties with rents less than 75% of the regional median rent, increased 4.4% in June 2017, down from a gain of 5.5% in June 2016.
Rent growth varies significantly across metro areas. Rental vacancy rates are available quarterly from the US Census Bureau Housing Vacancy Survey. Figure 3 shows the relationship between the rent growth and rental vacancy rates for 37 metro areas that are available for both CoreLogic's rental index and the Census's vacancy survey in Q2 2017. Cities with limited new construction and strong local economies that attract new employees tend to have low rental vacancy rates and stronger rent growth. Orlando experienced 4.5% year-over-year rent growth in Q2 2017, driven by employment growth of more than 3% year over year and a rental vacancy rate of 7.1%, slightly lower than the 7.3% national single-family rental home vacancy rate in Q2 2017. In contrast, Oklahoma City, which has been hit with energy-related job losses since early 2015 and a rental vacancy rate of 11.5% in Q2 2017, experienced a 3% year-over-year decrease in rents, according to CoreLogic data.
Foreclosures can be a messy process for all involved—from the homeowner that loses their home, to the servicers that eventually take care of the property—it is anything but a pleasant experience. In addition, the entire process can be complicated by a slew of paperwork, payments, and transfers with many moving parts that are easy to miss. But, according to The Journal Times, one county in Wisconsin is making a small change to its foreclosure procedure that could go a long way in ensuring smooth transitions of title, one that the rest of the country could possibly benefit from if it goes as planned. The proposed change is as simple as removing a middle-man, the article notes. In Racine County, as of now, when a foreclosure is sold through the sheriff's office the buyer receives a copy of the deed and is required to take that deed down to the Register of the Deed's office to get it filed. However, this little step is often overlooked, according to the Racine County Register of Deeds, which can cause big problems for borrowers and the state, since the tax bill will continue to be sent to the old owner to never be paid. This can lead to further complications, like tax interception. The proposed bill, Senate Bill 175, would allow the Clerk of Courts Office to simply take the deed directly to the Register of Deeds Office, and eliminate the middle man, who has little incentive to make sure the task gets accomplished.
Currently, this practice has been implemented in Milwaukee County, but if passed would become state-wide practice. Critical and constant examination of foreclosure requirements and best practices are vital to streamlining and simplifying the industry, and taking a look at what certain states and municipalities are doing is just one of the many ways for the industry to stay ahead of the curve.


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using Nucleo.Views;
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A High-Energy, Low Footprint Planet
From China to India to sub-Saharan Africa, industrializing countries are leading the way on energy innovation, with the development of advanced nuclear a key piece of their portfolios. Given the twin challenges of expanding energy access and shrinking the human footprint, the need for nuclear power is great. But much work remains to accelerate nuclear's development and deployment. As such, Breakthrough is seeking support to continue playing a lead role in researching how nuclear is a critical energy and conservation tool. Our strategy is to demonstrate how, due to its small footprint, nuclear has the ability to meet energy needs while sparing more land for wildlife and habitats. We also propose to survey historical costs for nuclear, with the goal of challenging the consensus that nuclear is intrinsically expensive and justifying the expansion of advanced nuclear.
In the past several years, Breakthrough has helped establish why nuclear is key to meeting the twin challenges of climate change and energy access. But energy analysts, conservationists, and the broader public have yet to fully embrace nuclear's central role in not only mitigating global warming and energy poverty, but also ensuring that there are wild spaces for future generations. Going forward, nuclear will need to be situated as a comprehensively pro-environment technology – in terms of cost, reliability, emissions, and land footprint – to support and justify its development and deployment.
Meeting the Need
Through our reports and analyses, communications work, and events and conferences, Breakthrough will establish nuclear as such a comprehensively pro-environment technology and situate its benefits in a much more inspiring context: how humans save nature. The soon-to-be-released "ecomodernist manifesto" will provide a broad overview of the global need for nuclear and how to understand its role in an ecologically vibrant future. The report Nature Unbound will offer an empirical basis of this vision through the concept of decoupling. Other research will thoroughly examine the historical costs of nuclear builds, with the goal of understanding the claim that nuclear is intrinsically expensive. A symposium featuring women in nuclear, co-hosted with Japanese partners, will signal a new era for nuclear, highlighting the next-generation technologies that are being developed and deployed across the globe.
Nature Unbound: Decoupling for Conservation
In September 2015 we published Nature Unbound: Decoupling for Conservation. This report, three years in the making, details a conservation strategy for using less nature through substitution and intensification – two primary drivers of decoupling. Historically, decoupling has not been possible without greater inputs of energy. The report details how sources of scalable, cheap clean energy can decouple human prosperity from carbon emissions, along with other decoupling strategies in food, materials consumption, and other environmental indicators. The report was debuted at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, and its coauthors toured it to many European universities over three weeks in the fall. Bloomberg's Justin Fox said the report "may be the most important news of our time.
A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism
An Ecomodernist Manifesto, published in April 2015, earned more attention than feedback than we could have hoped for. Dozens of responses are available on the manifesto website, including plaudits from the New York Times, Slate, Nature, the National Review, USA Today, Bloomberg, New Scientist, and other leading outlets. The manifesto has been featured for two years in a row at the annual gathering of the American Association of Geographers, is already being taught in university environmental studies courses, and has kicked off a budding movement of grassroots ecomodernists, including Ecomodernists Moms and Dads and the Ecomodernist Society of Finland. Translated in 11 languages, the manifesto has significantly accelerated the growth of Breakthrough's community and network, and has attracted new enthusiastic appeal to our ideas about innovation, human development, and environmental protection.
The Land Footprint of Energy Sources
The difference between a planet using nuclear energy and a planet using renewable energy is a land area the size of Russia. That is the uncomfortable reality lurking behind many soft-energy-only scenarios that exclude nuclear. Breakthrough's research program is now finalizing research that will enable policy makers and the public to understand the land use requirements of various energy sources, including wind, solar, nuclear, fossil fuels, and bioenergy. The study includes a thorough analysis of the methodology behind 20 studies estimating the land use intensity of energy, as well as empirical work completed by Breakthrough staff and Breakthrough Generation fellows in the summer of 2015. Breakthrough will continue to finalize the text for submission into an academic journal this year.
The Economics of Nuclear
In spring 2016, the academic journal Energy Policy published Breakthrough's groundbreaking review of nuclear plant cost trends in seven different countries. One of the most trenchant arguments against nuclear centers on cost and the technology's supposed "negative learning curve," where capital costs inherently keep rising. What is less known is that such statements are based on costs from the early pioneer countries in nuclear power: the United States and France. The conclusion shifts if one considers the later adopters of nuclear – Korea, Japan, and India – whose historical data is commonly excluded from the literature. The paper was covered by Vox and CityLabs and has already changed the way the nuclear industry talks about cost and innovation.
Our database covers more than 370 reactors culled from a broad range of sources. Given the difficulty of obtaining data and the uncertainty of reported numbers, Breakthrough enlisted help from the World Nuclear Association, and also reached out to the International Energy Agency and leading nuclear engineers and policy experts to collaborate on the project. The the need is great: as long as policy makers continue to think that nuclear is intrinsically expensive, nations will be less likely to deploy it.
The Day-to-Day Work of Advancing Nuclear
Beyond the reports, speaking engagements, and manifestos, Breakthrough will do the hard day-to-day work of showing why nuclear is needed for climate change and the protection of nature. This is the type of work you cannot predict in advance: when Mike Grunwald writes a TIME piece citing the exorbitant costs of nuclear, for example, energy analyst Alex Trembath does the math and finds that the Vogtle reactors will generate a kilowatt of power at half the cost of solar thermal from Cresent Dunes. When an environmental organization says that we don't need nuclear because we have energy efficiency and renewables, energy analyst Jessica Lovering makes a slide deck on future energy demand and how much renewables can meet it. These analyses are then picked up by outlets like the New York Times's Dot Earth blog and circulated on Twitter and Facebook. If Breakthrough encounters pushback, our research staff follows up by writing new blog posts, engaging in Twitter debates, and answering questions from journalists. By staying informed with what is happening in nuclear around the globe, and continually interacting with other energy analysts, Breakthrough demonstrates why nuclear is an indispensable part of our future energy mix.
Programs, Events, and Publications
The Case for Nuclear in Japan
Having suffered one of the biggest disasters in recent history, Japan is undoubtedly the most important country influencing the fate of nuclear, and it's essential that the world gets the facts straight about what is happening there. Two of the Japan's leading energy experts, Masakazu Toyoda, Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Energy Economics Japan and Nobuo Tanaka, former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, are making the case for safer nuclear technologies, including the integral fast reactor. In May 2015, Breakthrough worked with the Institute for Energy Economics in Japan to organize a day-long seminar on the future of nuclear. We brought female nuclear experts from around the world to participate in the seminar and a series of meeting and site visits that we organized. We also brought leading climate scientists to these meetings which included: visiting the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site, an operating nuclear power plant, and several energy and climate think tanks in Japan. The trip allowed our staff and allies to gain critical on-the-ground understanding of energy issues in Japan, as well as help us build new partnerships with policymakers and intellectual energy leaders in Japan.
Breakthrough Dialogue 2015: The Good Anthropocene
Breakthrough Dialogue is the research institute's signature annual event, where staff, senior fellows, and Breakthrough Generation Fellows convene with other leading thinkers to explore and further develop the ecomodernist agenda and to form collaborations with new allies. Breakthrough Dialogue 2015, themed "The Good Anthropocene," was our most ambitious event yet, with approximately 170 participants from across the globe.
The 2015 Dialogue included leading ecomodernist thought leaders such as Stewart Brand, Mark Lynas, Ruth DeFries, and others. We also hosted critics of our framework, including Australian ethicist Clive Hamilton and French sociologist Bruno Latour. Leading environmental journalists were also in attendance, including the New York Times' Andrew Revkin, Meera Subramanian, Charles Mann, Grist's Nate Johnson, the Economist's Oliver Morton, and the New Scientist's Fred Pearce, several of whom covered the Dialogue for their respective outlets. Finally, the Dialogue allowed Breakthrough to continue to internationalize our work, with contributions from India's Joyashree Roy, Kenya's Margaret Karembu, China's Zhongmin Wang, Ghana's Kwaw Andam, and other leading international scholars.
Breakthrough Generation
Breakthrough's summer program trains a new generation of scholars and policy experts to do groundbreaking research with a social impact. In 2015, we hosted five fellows to work on the land footprint of energy, case studies in agricultural and energy technology complexity, and World Bank funding of energy projects in emerging economies. Much of this work has already been incorporated into drafts of research papers that will be published in 2016, including a framing paper on energy for human development and our peer-reviewed study on the land use impacts of energy technologies. In August 2015, Generation Fellows presented their findings to a group of Breakthrough funders, friends, and allies. Fellows Jack Shaked and Shaiyra Devi were hired following the fellowship as analysts.
Breakthrough Journal
Breakthrough Journal is the institute's annual publication of long-form essays that shape the contours of, and offer the critical thinking required for a robust ecomodernist movement. Issue 5, themed "The Good Anthropocene," was published and released at Breakthrough Dialogue 2015. Collectively, the essays explore different ways that scientists, scholars, activists, and environmentalists are working to translate positive visions of the Anthropocene, the human-dominated geological epoch, into a reality. Key essays include "The Return of Nature" by Jesse H. Ausubel, which gives evidence of the ways that humans are treading lighter on the planet and leaving more room for nature; "Rewilding Pragmatism," by Martin Lewis, which examines how Kruger National Park in South Africa is a pragmatic model for future conservation and wildlife management efforts; and "A Theology for Ecomodernism," by Mark Sagoff, which offers a more nuanced view of how decoupling can allow humans to enjoy nature more for spiritual and aesthetic reasons.
The Breakthrough Institute reports to the Walker Foundation the key goals that have been met on a yearly basis through our annual report and on as through our newsletter. We will update the narrative sections on the website as we progress through the project, and intend to share published papers, reports, and articles, as well as media coverage of our work, as they are released.
Four years after Fukushima, nuclear energy is gearing up for a global renaissance. From India to Russia to China, nations are driven to innovate for clean, cheap, and reliable energy. But the nuclear renaissance still faces significant technological hurdles as well as infrastructure, regulatory, and economic obstacles. Following the release of our report How to Make Nuclear Cheap, Breakthrough began research to understand the historical costs of nuclear, including the late adopters – Korea, India, and Japan – which are commonly left out of the literature when energy analysts claim that nuclear is intrinsically expensive. This key research will provide a more complete picture for nuclear's cost, which shapes our ambitions and challenges for the next generation of nuclear.
This proposal is international in scope, focused on researching and developing policy reforms to advance next generation nuclear energy in the United States, China, and throughout the world.
The Breakthrough Institute disseminates our research through targeted communications to journalists, policymakers, and academics. Over the years we have built strong personal relationships with expert journalists in environmental policy, politics, energy systems, and economics. We also broadcast our research through an extensive email list and through social media. With partners at other think tanks in Washington, DC, and elsewhere, we share our findings with policymaking staff at the US federal and other levels. Through our Generation and Senior Fellows programs, our research reaches the broader community of scholars and researchers studying environmental economics, politics, and policy. We also tour our findings through events including our own Breakthrough Dialogue, workshops, and speaking engagements at universities, think tanks, and popular gatherings.
$30,000.00 on 6/5/2015 (Check sent: 7/13/2015)
In 2015, Breakthrough published our flagship conservation report "Nature Unbound: Decoupling for Conservation." The report describes how innovation, intensification, and substitution can lead to environmental benefits.
Nature Unbound
Grace Choi
Operations Director, The Breakthrough Institute
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Bad Iburg, város Németországban Alsó-Szászországban, a Teutoburgi erdő déli lejtőjén fekvő, gyógyfürdőjéről híres üdülőhely.

Fekvése
Osnabrücktől 18 km-re délre és Münstertől 40 km-re északkeletre terül el.

Története

A település nevét 753-ban említette először oklevél.

772-ben már várát is említették, egy feljegyzés szerint ekkor Charlemagne hódította meg az Iburg-i királyi várat, majd a második alkalommal 783-ban frank katonák hódíttták meg Iburgot. A régió határain túl Iburg a tizenegyedik században kapott jelentőséget. 1052-1068 között Benno, Osnabrück püspöke épített itt várat, majd bencés kolostort.

1100 körül Iburg lett az Osnabrücki püspökök állandó lakhelye.

1254-ben pedig a püspöktől városi jogokat is kapott a település, melyeket a püspök meg is erőített. 1293-ban ugyancsak említették Iburg néven "oppidum"-ként, mint városi jellegű települést. 1349-ben a kastély és kolostor egy villám által a tűz martalékává vált. 1359-ben kapta meg Iburg a Wigbold privilegiumot.

1455-1482 között III. Conrad püspök három kapuval ellátott fallal vette körül a várost.

1585-ben nagy tűzvész pusztított a településen, melyben a lakóépületek mintegy fele leégett. 1633-ban Gustav Gustavson svéd csapatai foglalták el a várost és a várat is.

1650-ben Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg püspök Iburgba helyezte vissza székhelyét, mely püspöki székhely maradt 1672-ig, amikor a püspöki székhelyet az új osnabrüvki várba helyezték át.

1750 és 1755 között a várhegyen barokk kolostor épült a vesztfáliai barokk építész Johann Conrad Schlaun tervei alapján. A kolostor 1803-ig létezett.
1920-ban Iburg már mint gyógyüdülő volt említve.

Iburg 1959-ben kapott újra városi jogokat. 1967-ben már elismert Kneipp fürdőhely, és ez időtől viseli a mai Bad Iburg nevét.

1964-ben katolikus anyák-szanatóriuma nyílt a városban, mely 1998-ig létezett.

Nevezetességek
 Püspöki kastély (Bischöfliches Schloss) - a 17-18. században épült. A kastély lovagterme (Rittersaal); A. Aloisi olasz festő Németalföld perspektívikus mennyezetképeinek egyikét alkotta meg benne.

Források
 Panoráma (1980) Német Szövetségi Köztársaság

Galéria

Alsó-Szászország települései

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I was at the Oxford Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop yesterday.
One of the many facts and updates that caught my eye was a reference in Natasha Balac's presentation to the IDC's Expanding Digital Universe forecasts of worldwide information growth (which seem to have been inspired by earlier work on How Much Information done at Berkeley in 2000 and 2003).
A bit of further research today located the first forecast to 2010 (published in 2007) and the latest updated forecast taking this to 2011 (published this year).
There is a lot for anyone interested in information management in these forecasts: I was particularly taken by the fact that 2007 was the "crossover year" when for the first time information generated worldwide exceeded available data storage (think of all those digital camera or mobile images or experimental research and observational data). From now on it is projected we will never have enough storage space for the digital information we produce. Of course no-one should want to keep everything but from now on selection of what we keep digitally will be a necessity.
There is also some thoughtful information on your "digital shadow" – the information on you generated everyday by Web and financial transaction, CCTV, etc as well as on personal information management (stuff generated directly by individuals).
It is best to read both forecasts in sequence as the first report is the most extensive: there is even discussion of digital preservation in the first forecast to 2010. Enjoy.


1. Gather evidence and document the illegal behavior.
If you believe you have been discriminated against in the workplace, there are several things you should do. You should keep records of what happened, take notes when you get home from work, and save emails or other documents; be careful not to steal, copy, or take confidential or employer-owned documents that you don't have a right to take.
You should preserve as much evidence as you can. Keep as complete of a record as you can about meetings you've had. You should record things people said to you, communications, and relevant documents that might show discrimination. Again, you should not take things you don't have a right to.
Never go into the company's private, confidential document system and take things you're not entitled to, because it would be grounds for termination later on. However, there may be some exceptions to this, such as, if the documents you are taking are actually proof of some kind of illegal activity by the employer. You should consult an attorney before you take documents of this nature.
2. Report it to a supervisor or HR.
3. Contact an employment lawyer.
Finally, if you suspect you've been discriminated against, you should contact an employment lawyer. If and when you contact an employment lawyer, he or she may advise you to bring it to the attention of the appropriate person before you do anything else, if you haven't already. This is why it may be wise to go ahead and take the time to contact the appropriate person ahead of time to speed up the process.
In the unfortunate situation where a claim needs to be made, do not delay the process. In some cases, there is a time limit, called a statute of limitations, for you to file your claim. Depending on the claim, the statute of limitations can be as short as three months. This means that if you wait to file your claim after the three months is up, the courts may not consider your case at all. If you find yourself with an employment dispute, be sure to act quickly.


West Bengal Poetry Academy, the first of its kind in the country, begins a lecture series on poets.
The first lecture, scheduled on 28 th JULY at Nandan3, 6 pm, is on poet Manindra Gupta ,an icon of underground poetry of Bengal. Poet Ranajit Das to deliver the lecture.


The Gothic style, Grade II Listed archway, which forms the grand entrance into the church yard, was built in 1859 for Archdeacon Stonehouse of Owston Ferry, North Lincolnshire and his sister-in-law Frances Sanders who were both notable local benefactors. The limestone ashlar features a crenellated, stepped tripartite gateway with central carriage arch, flanked by lower pedestrian arches and short lower wing walls. The east and west sides both have a chamfered plinth, buttresses with offsets flanking pointed chamfered arches with hood moulds and head stops. To the east side are worn dedication inscriptions in Gothic lettering and a pair of armorial relief tablets depicting the arms of the benefactors Stonehouse and Sanders. The pedestrian entrances have ornate Gothic-style cast-iron gates with dog-bars, decorative panels and finials.
The archway was severely damaged in November 2012 after a lorry collision and was left in a dangerous and unstable condition, just days before a funding application was submitted to Lincolnshire Council for the restoration works.
Aura Conservation carried out a survey to assess the emergency works required to stabilise the unsafe structure and compiled a full scope of works to address the restoration and repair involved.
Much of the archway was rebuilt using new stone with all of the crenellations, buttresses and arch detailing being replaced with new. The arch has a random rubble infill which was retained and the whole structure was re-pointed and cleaned where necessary.


Instant text messaging chat is a handy tool for client communications. Below we will see how it's used by the technician and by the client.
Click IM chat icon on the left.
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Giusy Naitana was born and raised in the Netherlands near Amsterdam. Born to a Dutch-Italian family she started her creative career in dance and music at the Scapino Ballet Academy. Subsequently Giusy worked as a performer in a street theatre group. Giusy was drawn early on towards photography and from there came her infinite fascination for the moving image and film editing.
In 2005 Giusy graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy with a BA degree in film editing at the in 2005. Her final projects included one short fiction, Lena, the children television series "Docklands"episode 1. Nina and Jelle which received theGolden Cinekid Award in 2006, and one interactive cross media installation, Nightwatcher in collaboration with the New Media department.
In 2006, Giusy moved to Athens working both as a co-editor and first-assistant editor for a Greek television drama series "Exo ena Mystiko" and three Greek feature films. The last film she worked on, as first assistant for Yannis Chalkiadakis , "Knifer" received 7 Hellenic Academy awards including the one for "best editing".
Since moving to Copenhagen in summer 2009 Giusy has been working as freelance TV and Film editor on both documentary, fiction, entertainment, music videos and art films. The first short film she edited in Denmark was Liv directed by Rasmus Kloster Bro. Giusy was the first lead editor on the TV series Klassen and worked on the original Dutch concept from the development fase. Klassen became the most popular TV series for children in Denmark and has won several European and Nordic prices for best TV-series. Giusy has since been editing 5 episodes of the TV drama series Kolonien and most recently finished the edit of 9 episodes for the new season of TV drama series Baseboys II for DR Ultra. Besides working as an editor Giusy is doing research about the future of film editing and keeps up to date with for example 360 degree editing and workflows.
Giusy has been group chairman and active member of The Society of Danish Film Editors since 2014 and has focus on the development and the future of the Art of Film editing through organising and participating in masterclasses and social events for Editors, aspiring Editors and Editing students and also to actively play a roll in awareness of the role of the editor in an ever shifting media landscape.


Vera Wang ball room dress, with lace detail all over. This dress definitely makes you feel like a princess, with a long train.
Slight change of colour on a small bit of the lace (on skirt) you can see this in one of the photographs, hardly noticeable.
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Is cannabis and acupuncture a good combination therapy? The system that acupuncture manipulates is, in fact, the endocannabinoid system.
*Electroacupuncture is the application of a pulsating electrical current to acupuncture needles as a means of stimulating the acupoints. It was developed in China as an extension of hand manipulation of acupuncture needles around 1934.
There is a diverse range of acupuncture theories based on different philosophies, and techniques vary depending on the country. The method used in TCM is likely the most widespread in the United States. It is most often used for pain relief, though it is also used for a wide range of other conditions. Acupuncture is generally used only in combination with other forms of treatment.
also see PAIN and Cannabis Studies.
2017 - News ~ Cannabis and Acupuncture, the Yin and Yang of Healing Pain (an ancient connection revealed). Uwe Blesching Ph.D.
2013 - Study ~ CB1 and CB2 contribute to antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects of electroacupuncture on experimental arthritis of the rat temporomandibular joint. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology.
2013 - Study ~ Electroacupuncture inhibition of hyperalgesia in rats with adjuvant arthritis: involvement of cannabinoid receptor 1 and dopamine receptor subtypes in striatum. eCAM.
2013 - Study ~ On the g-protein-coupled receptor heteromers and their allosteric receptor-receptor interactions in the central nervous system: focus on their role in pain modulation. eCAM.
2012 - Study ~ Electroacupuncture reduces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines in inflamed skin tissues through activation of cannabinoid CB2 receptors. European Journal of Pain.
2012 - Study ~ Electroacupuncture inhibits CB1 upregulation induced by ethanol withdrawal in mice. Neurochemistry International.
2011 - Study ~ Effects of repeated electroacupuncture on gene expression of cannabinoid receptor-1 and dopamine 1 receptor in nucleus accumbens-caudate nucleus region in inflammatory-pain rats. Zhen Ci Yan Jiu = Acupuncture Research.
2011 - Study ~ Electroacupuncture reduces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines in inflamed skin tissues through activation of cannabinoid CB2 receptors. European Journal of Pain.
2010 - Study ~ Involvement of ERK 1/2 activation in electroacupuncture pretreatment via cannabinoid CB1 receptor in rats. Brain Research.
2009 - Study ~ Pretreatment With Electroacupuncture Induces Rapid Tolerance to Focal Cerebral Ischemia Through Regulation of Endocannabinoid System. Qiang Wang, MD, PhD*.
2009 - Study ~ Endogenous anandamide and cannabinoid receptor-2 contribute to electroacupuncture analgesia in rats. America Pain Society.


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Mapio Lleisiau'r Tir / Mapping Land Voices – August 2021
Stories of the forest sound archives: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/collections/1102166
Who knew that there were crofts hidden in the hills of my next-door village in Wales? I didn't until very recently, when we started listening to the British Library/National Library of Wales sound archives collection.
Dai Morgan, the Horse-Boy
I mean sure, Dai Morgan used to lean on the garden fence between our houses and tell me stories about running away with the mountain ponies when he was a young horse-boy. So near-by and yet, in another village. Dai used to point over towards the north side of the Ystwyth Valley and, conspiratorially, quietly say, 'they're different, those people. North Wales, you see. They think differently'. Less than a mile away.
Dai also told me a story once, about when he had been a Gwas (households had several of these 'farm servants') as a lad. He was a horse-boy, and was fascinated with the personalities and breeds of the mountain ponies, which, he said, were four types, which never interbred. He was convinced of this, saying that the original Cardiganshire ponies were russet, yellow and grey, all with white flashes on head and hoof. One day, he was in a far field of the farm in Bont, when the wild horses came down to the fenceline. Dai managed to coax one close and jump on. It bolted and he clung to its bare back, as the whole group of them ran back into the mountains. On and on they ran throught the night, until they came to a small upland stand of trees by a deserted stream and suddenly stopped.
'It was their home', Dai explained. 'I was able to jump off, but it took me hours to walk back, through the night, and I just arrived in time to dodge trouble and do the milking at 5am.'
The sound of 'Aelwydd'
I can see it now in these crofts. They had a local perspective. And even though hill-people were mobile – many even lived away for a few years and worked in London – that was most certainly a foreign migration, reminding me of the London Kurds or Portuguese.
When they were back on their lands, it was exotic, too, for Nant Stallwen to marry into 'Llew Goch' (meaning: the family running the pub in Bont). It was 10 miles away, if that. Such households were known as communities in their own right, and would turn up to events as an geographical entity – Nantrwch (stream of the sow), Maesglas (blue field).
Sketch of a Daydream
We're listening to these interviews whilst we sit and draw. Mountain voices. Some coughing, laughing, straying from the question. It's a very wild but intimate feeling as the rain speckles your face and you imagine similar tactile experiences in this space 60 years ago.
Interpretation of Tom Morgan's description of life in the Crofftau (Rupert Allan – YouTube)
When Peggy Maesglas from (Soar y Mynydd) was diagnosed with Hiraeth as a boarding school pupil in Tregaron, her family left the farm-hands running the farm 'household' and moved down to town to give her the support she needed. These were close communities, and Peggy also remembers that Nant Stalwen farm would have two or three thousand sheep shearing, and over 100 horses would be gathered, as all the shearers from the hill farms around – men and boys – would muck-in.
When chapel was on, and the preacher visiting for the weekend, again there were horses. Hundreds of them, grazing the near bog. As well as a chapel which was taken to Bala on the back of a lorry,Tom Bronant tells of breaking the ponies in record time by doing on the deep bog, where they would tire much quicker than back in the lowlands.
Tom's recollections of Caio Evans leading the Free Wales Army on horseback manouevres up on the Devils Staircase and around Llyn Brianne are coupled with tales of all the 'bois' grabbing a lorry in the middle of the night in Tregaron, and coming up to sing outside Nant Llwyd, to see off a bride-to be. They turned up some time after midnight, and even the dogs were scared by the noise! The lights at the farm went on, the doors opened, and they were welcomed in to party forester-style into the small hours.
And 'Nant Llwyd', as a household, were legendary, with family and gwasau (farm-hands) comprising a formidable force when it came to horsemanship and community events. But it was Peggy Maesglas who features as the 'man vs horse' competition champion, and known for the finest horsemanship in the area, she could get back from Tregaron to Soar in less than an hour, if she hurried.
The reputation of Caio, and his character, are easily forgotten these days, As is the very comprehensive threat which the FWA implied for Westminster. Caio's leadership and physical presence comes across in different accounts, though, and he was clearly universally admired – almost like (and contemporaneous with) Che Guevara. Organised and agile, his well-put-together group seems revered as a not inconsiderable guerilla force. And the hills, unroaded but easily-navigated by skilled horsemanship, must have presented an important dilemma for the antiquated machinery of a threadbare post-war english task force.
One of the independent flags of Wales, at Castell y Bere (CC BY 4.0)
These landscapes are boggy and hard to navigate. But roads – even tracks – were less important when you consider that everybody had a horse which could graze the mountain grass. Free fast transport for everybody. And Peggy Maesglas says that the roads that the forestry brought in destroyed the communities. The sound archive research continues next month, with Stories of the Forest from Soar y Mynydd and Nant Doethie.
This entry was posted in Uncategorised on 1st September 2021 by Rupert Allan.
This entry was posted in Uncategorised on 15th July 2021 by Rupert Allan.
Blog – Unlocking our Sound Archive
The Unlocking our Sound Archive project took us today to Nant Flur and Bryneithinog. The light was nickel-silver, and the lichen on the massive rocks of the old dwellings was stunning. And we sat on a couple of them looking at a short rainbow on the hilltop above the forest and listened to the recording.
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'Ty'n 'nabod Dai Crofftau?' (do you know Dai the crofter?). Tom Bryneithinog is hard to pin down as an old man, if you want him to talk about the forestry. He'll tell you about hiding the sapling trees between your legs to get more money from the forestry commission, and how one farmer went to complain in Tregaron and came back paid-off with a better price, and happy to leave the hill with his family.
Dai Morgan used to tell me stories about running away with the mountain ponies when he was a young horse-boy. So near-by and yet, in another village. Dai used to point over towards the north side of the Ystwyth Valley and, conspiratorially, quietly say, 'they're different, those people'. North Wales, you see. They think differently. I can see it now in these crofts. They had a local perspective. And even though they were mobile – many lived away for a few years and worked in London – that was most certainly a foreign migration, reminding me of the London Kurds or Portuguese, and when they were back on their lands, it was exotic to for Nant Stallwen to marry into Llew Goch (family running the pub in Bont). 10 miles away, if that.
Another fascinating and evocative weekend was spent listening to the myths of the mountain folk of Ffair Rhos on Coflein – this is opening up a whole trail of links and research! Corpse candles and highwaymen. I never knew there were 6 fairs at Ffair Rhos through the years. Peggy Maesglas from Soar y Mynydd, over 100 horses, she had Hiraeth, boarding for school in Tregaron, so her family came.
And now, as we walk around the ancient croft ruins (yes, there were crofters in Wales, not five mile from where I live), we see trees planted – birch and beech, by the looks, at least, which are again changing the landscape and how people interat with it. 'We carried the body of one massive man into the cemetary on our shoulders', he recalls, 'he was huge'. Everything is meted out in practical terms with Tom Bryneithinog. Values and prices litter his accounts of working life. 'Ronnie John from Bont has bought the best land' in the re-allotment after the forestry changed everything. To used to go up for the shearing to Nant Stalwen. 100 shearers, 5000 sheep (although the farmers never told us excatly how many. Someone with the flu in Nant Stallwen died of the flu because he drank cold water in the night. I was the only person to go out in the snow with the horseman postie. The brother of Dai Croftau cut his hand shearing and died from poisoning. (the doctor didn't get there in time – Dad used to help him get there over the hill. He'd catch a horse and go up). The chapel-goers would die more than the chapel-goers. They were tricking the big king. The ones who went to chapel were hypoctrites. You shouldn't go to chapel if you don't live that way during the week.
Map of the Walk:
The landscape is boggy and hard to navigate. But roads – even tracks – were less important when you consider that everybody had a horse which could graze the mountain grass. Free fast transport for everybody. And Peggy Maesglas says that the roads that the forestry brought in destroyed the communities.
The baptists sold the chapel, and the buyers came with a lorry and took it Bala!
It was a badger, it was just the Beast of Bont. But there is a big cat that lives here. Down at Capel Dewi. With a hole in it's throat. They do say that that big cat has been round here. Only once though. They saw it down in …. They travel so fast (although not as fast as a dog). With a fox, you'll get it with one shot. And hares. I was a big shooter. The dog-hunters are the ones to blame, pulling creatures to bits. Even farmers feel for the fox. They should ban it.
This entry was posted in Uncategorised on 9th June 2021 by Rupert Allan.
Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London/Chicago Press, Human Rights Consortium) Editor: Doug Specht.
Who knew that a book about personal data ethics, track and trace, government handling of life-saving disaster mapping data would become so topical?
Deo coaching new OSM members taken from surrounding neighbourhoods
My contribution is the final chapter, 'Modalities of United Statelessness': about bottom-up, 'hyper-local', community-owned motorcycle-mapping data in Uganda's ongoing refugee crisis. Local Ugandans and international refugees together 'wiki-mapped' disease outbreak and social protection data, in the Congolese/South Sudanese refugee settlement areas.
As members of the Ugandan Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, they adopted OpenStreetMap usernames. Then, using their own android phones, created a trailblazing resource of life-saving health, food, and water map data, now broadly used by UN, NGO, and Government emergency and development coordinators.
Humanitarians being part of 'the solution', rather than part of 'the problem'.
Live Map Data (Credit: Kobo Toolbox/Kobo Collect)
I argue this valuable 'Data Preparedness' to be a solution to many pandemic issues, and this view seems borne out by Uganda's excellent COVID-19 record to date.
Chapter Abstract Here: Modalities of United Statelessness
I'd love if it got way beyond just academic community, as scholarship on the politics of representation and contemporary humanitarian ethics is scant, but really really important.
I liked this bit of the blurb, finding it particularly topical for the current times:
'….Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them.'
Book also available through Open Access.
This entry was posted in Academic, Mapping, MSF Work on 10th September 2020 by Rupert Allan.


As an Atlanta Car Accident Lawyer, I understand that automobile accidents are one of the leading causes of lower back pain. Common back injuries resulting from auto accidents include a herniated disc, lumbar or lower back strain, and spinal cord injuries. These injuries can cause serious and debilitating pain in the lower back, making everyday activities – like working, caring for your family, or engaging in leisure activities – difficult. In fact, about 10% of these auto accident back injuries lead to long-term disability for Atlanta car accident victims who we have represented over the years.
Spinal cord injuries, in particular, can cause serious nerve damage, resulting in paralysis, loss of feeling in certain areas of the body, and loss of reflex functions. Spinal cord injuries can also lead to secondary medical problems including infection, sexual dysfunction, muscle spasms, loss of bladder control, and centralized hypersensitivity or pain in certain areas of the body.
Treatments for lower back pain include orthopaedic care, physical therapy, chiropractic care, prescription medication and surgery. However, for people suffering from spinal cord injuries whose chronic pain has proved unresponsive to prior treatments, doctors have begun using Spinal Cord Stimulators.
Spinal Cord Stimulators are prescribed for the treatment of chronic pain (lasting 3 months or more) and work to manage chronic lower back pain by intercepting and altering the perception of pain signals from the nerve pathways along the spine to the brain. Spinal Cord Stimulators are devices with internal and external components. A battery-powered stimulator is placed inside the abdomen, upper buttocks or collar-bone area, while wires called leads are implanted along the spinal cord and attached to the stimulator. A hand-held remote control helps the patient moderate his own pain.
Although a Spinal Cord Stimulator has recently provided good pain relief for one of my clients who was severely injured in an Atlanta auto accident, these devices also come with many risks, including, but not limited to, infection, allergic reaction, scarring, loss of blood and need for blood transfusion, loss of function of any limb or any organ, paralysis, brain damage, need for repeat surgery, persistent pain, cardiac arrest or death. In addition, the implanted battery inside the stimulator will wear out over time and additional surgeries will be required to replace the battery. Current batteries can be expected to last between three and five years, and the cost of a single surgery to replace a dead battery may be as much as $30,000.
If you have been in an auto accident and are experiencing lower back pain which seems to be getting worse or which persists for more than 3 months after the accident, it is important to see a medical specialist to determine a course of treatment. Specialists can determine the nature and extent of car accident back injuries through X-rays, CT and CAT scans, MRIs, discograms, and bone scans.
If you are suffering from auto accident back injuries resulting from an accident caused by another party, you may be able to seek damages from the responsible party. Liable parties may be required to compensate victims for medical expenses, loss of income or earning potential, and pain and suffering. To find out if someone else might be liable for your injury and to ensure that they pay damages, contact an experienced auto accident attorney.


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Cincinnati Bearcats baseball makes NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1974
Congratulations to the University of Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team for securing its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1974. The Bearcats won the American Athletic Conference championship in grand fashion with a 22-5 victory over UConn Sunday night, guaranteeing them a spot in the tournament. Three cheers for UC second-year head coach Scott Googins and his players for a strong finish to the regular season, winning eight out of their final 12 games. The Bearcats (30-29) were picked to finish near the bottom of the AAC and exceeded everyone's expectations, except their own. Here's hoping the Bearcats can make a tournament run and keep the excitement going.
Forest Park Morehouse grad freed up by billionaire's gift
Kudos to Cameron Cunningham, of Forest Park, who was one of the 396 lucky students at Morehouse College who are recipients of billionaire Robert Smith's pledge to pay off their student loans. Cunningham borrowed more than $100,000 to earn a bachelor's degree in religious studies at Morehouse. He told Enquirer columnist Byron McCauley that being free of student loan debt will give him the flexibility to not be concerned as much about an income as he seeks to become a pastoral leader. "It's a new lease on life because you are a student taking on student loan debt as a risk and a challenge to yourself," Cunningham said. He is seeking a master's degree at Emory University's Candler School of Theology this fall.
P&G's Gillette ad features transgender man's first shave
Procter & Gamble isn't shying away from tackling social and cultural issues through its product advertising that other companies would have deemed too risky 20 years ago. P&G has taken on racial bias and toxic masculinity with ads such as "The Talk" and "We Believe." The consumer goods provider's latest Gillette ad features a transgender man learning to shave from his father. The spot concludes with the message: "Whenever, wherever, however it happens – your first shave is special." Hats off to P&G officials for their courage and sense of social responsibility. Company executives clearly recognize the role their brands play in shaping culture and the importance of inclusive messaging. Not everyone will celebrate P&G's bold messaging, but we can appreciate the world's second-largest advertiser trying to engage its customers beyond catchy slogans and jingles.
Weatherman right to blast "Bachelorette" fans mad about tornado interruption
Accurately predicting the weather can be hit or miss, but Fox 45 meteorologist Jamie Simpson was spot on when he tore into viewers who were complaining about Monday night's episode of "The Bachelorette" being interrupted by a severe weather update informing the Dayton, Ohio, area that a tornado was headed its way. Simpson admonished Bachelor Nation for worrying more about a reality TV show than the safety of those in the path of a deadly storm. While technology has provided multiple electronic platforms to receive news alerts, some people still rely heavily on TV to keep them informed. Repeated news cut-ins to our favorite shows can be irritating, but some minor inconvenience in the face of a life-threatening tornado should be understandable. Perhaps Simpson could have handled himself better in the moment, but his message was valid.
Hamilton County commissioner objects to moving meeting to hospital
Hamilton County Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas looked petty and small last week when she refused to change the location of Thursday's commission meeting from the county administration building in Downtown to Drake Center in Hartwell to accommodate fellow commissioner Todd Portune, who is recovering from neck injuries. Why object to moving the meeting? Many across Hamilton County are still trying to figure that out. Dumas' reasoning makes sense only in her own head. In a bizarre exchange at a meeting where Commissioner Denise Driehaus first introduced the idea, Dumas insinuated the request was part of some sinister plot to keep her from voting on an issue or trying to outvote her on an issue. She later amended her reasoning, saying that moving the meeting would violate a resolution commissioners had passed previously concerning meeting dates and locations. Never mind commissioners have done this before and that state law gives them the ability to change meeting times and places so long as at least 24 hours notice is given to the public. In the end, the meeting wasn't moved, and Portune – partially paralyzed on the right side of his body and a year removed from having his left leg amputated – ended up making it Downtown for the meeting. Seeing Portune wheeling himself into chambers wasn't a good look for Dumas. Her refusal was not only head-scratching, but it came off as mean-spirited. Now some are even questioning her ability to govern and lead. The entire episode was a senseless distraction of her own making. Let's hope Dumas picks her battles more wisely in the future.
Kentucky's proposed ban of tattoos over scars is extreme
The Kentucky Department of Health's proposed ban on tattoos over scars might be well meaning, but it's a prime example of government overreach. While the health department wouldn't divulge its reason for considering the ban, there are probably some good medical reasons to not cover up a scar with a tattoo. Some doctors stress that it's important some scars, such as cancer scars related to melanoma, remain visible for continued monitoring. But the decision to get a tattoo, particularly over a scar, is a personal one as Bonnie Jean Feldkamp, who suffers from psoriasis, shared in a recent guest column in The Enquirer. The government has no business telling citizens what to do with their own skin. Kentucky health officials indicated on Friday that they might change course on the regulation because the proposed language "had some unintended consequences and will be addressed," the Louisville Courier Journal newspaper said. Providing information and recommendations to help people make the best decision in consultation with a doctor makes sense. But it's rarely, if ever, a good idea for government to dictate what a person can do with or to their bodies.


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Q: Header Requirements to Put MathJax in d3-tips I have been hacking away at javascript library d3.js with some help from more seasoned characters at school. I am sort of copy and pasting the bl.ocks.org examples together to create a visualization for my network growth model.  I am using d3-tips to have different node characteristics shown upon visualization.
Including this in the header allows me to use the standard MathJax formatting in the html body, but it doesn't work with d3-tips:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
MathJax.Hub.Config({
  tex2jax: {
    inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']],
    processEscapes: true
  }
});
</script>

I have been googling around and looking at the examples of one blogger in particular, but his examples are way too cryptic for my limited background.  Here are said examples from the blogger:
Resource 1
Resource 2
THANK YOU!

A: Couple things:
1.) When you add MathJax content on the fly, it needs to be re-queued to process it.
2.) The d3.tip.js seems to be eating the \ escape character used in LaTeX so you'll need to double escape it.
Putting this together:
var tip = d3.tip()
  .attr('class', 'd3-tip')
  .offset([-10, 0])
  .html(function(d) {
    setTimeout(function(){MathJax.Hub.Queue(["Typeset",MathJax.Hub]);}, 10);
    return "$ax^2 + bx + " + d.frequency + " = 0$" + "<br/>" + "\\(x_1 = 132\\)";
})

Example here.

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A ConnectionDecorator that creates logging connections and ReportingSQLExceptions.
Whether to track parameters for the purposes of reporting exceptions.
What to do with SQL warnings.
If set to true, pretty-print SQL by running it through SQLFormatter.prettyPrint(java.lang.Object).
The number of characters to print per line when pretty-printing of SQL is enabled.
If set to true, pretty-print SQL by running it through SQLFormatter.prettyPrint(java.lang.Object). If false, don't pretty-print, and output SQL logs in a single line. Pretty-printed SQL can be easier for a human to read, but is harder to parse with tools like grep.
The number of characters to print per line when pretty-printing of SQL is enabled. Defaults to 60 to provide some space for any ant-related characters on the left of a standard 80-character display.


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Rainbow Lorikeet
The Rainbow Lorikeet was abundant around Sydney until the late 19th century, but was rare in Sydney between then and 1950. It is now highly abundant again across Sydney.
Frequent screeching and chattering.
Copyright © Fred Van Gessel
Research Species:
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June to January
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Associated Plants
Plants associated with this species
Banksia integrifolia; Eucalyptus
What colour is the bird?:
What size is the bird?:
Small (15 cm to 30 cm e.g. common myna)
Medium (30 cm to 45 cm e.g. pigeon)
What shape is the bird?:
Trichoglossus haematodus
Featured bird groups:
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What does it look like?
The Rainbow Lorikeet is unmistakable with its bright red beak and colourful plumage. Both sexes look alike, with a blue (mauve) head and belly, green wings, tail and back, and an orange/yellow breast. They are often seen in loud and fast-moving flocks, or in communal roosts at dusk.
Rainbow Lorikeets are such colourful parrots that it is hard to mistake them for other species. The related Scaly-breasted Lorikeet is similar in size and shape, but can be distinguished by its all-green head and body.
Where does it live?
The Rainbow Lorikeet occurs in coastal regions across northern and eastern Australia, with a local population in Perth (Western Australia), initiated from aviary releases.
The Rainbow Lorikeet is found in a wide range of treed habitats including rainforest and woodlands, as well as in well-treed urban areas.
Seasonal movements:
Largely sedentary with some nomadic movements in response to seasonal flowering or fruiting of plants.
The Rainbow Lorikeet mostly forages on the flowers of shrubs or trees to harvest nectar and pollen, but also eats fruits, seeds and some insects.
The eggs of the Rainbow Lorikeet are laid on chewed, decayed wood, usually in a hollow limb of a eucalypt tree. Both sexes prepare the nest cavity and feed the young, but only the female incubates the eggs.
The Rainbow Lorikeet appears to have benefited from artificial feeding stations and prolific-fruiting and flowering trees and shrubs.
Field guide to Australian Birds.
Field guide to the birds of Australia, 6th Edition
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia.
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, Volume 4 {(Parrots} to Dollarbird)


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Professor Layton Wiki talk
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Message Wall Greeting
Board Thread
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Professor Layton and the Curious Village/List of puzzles
This is the Puzzle Index for Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It lists all puzzles that are in the game. You can also browse the puzzles by category.
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Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy/List of puzzles
This is the Puzzle Index for Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy. It lists all puzzles that are in the game. You can also browse the puzzles by category.
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Welcome to the Professor Layton Wiki This is a wiki about the Professor Layton games, a series of puzzle/adventure games developed by LEVEL-5. Feel free to help us out by editing any of
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Professor Layton redirects here; for the series, see Professor Layton series. Professor Hershel Layton is the eponymous protagonist of the Professor Layton series. He is an archaeology professor at Gressenheller University in London, world renowned
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Katrielle "Kat" Layton is the protagonist of Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy and Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Kat's Mystery-Solving Files, and the adopted daughter of Professor Hershel Layton. A
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Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box/List of puzzles
This is the Puzzle Index for Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. It lists all puzzles that are in the game. You can also browse the puzzles by category.
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The Tea Set is an item and minigame in the second installment of the Professor Layton saga. During the course of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, Professor Layton and Luke meet a kind elderly
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Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy
Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy is the seventh mainline game in the Professor Layton series. It follows Katrielle Layton, the daughter of Professor Layton. With the help of her friend Ernest
Luke Triton is the deuteragonist of the Professor Layton series. He is the son of Professor Layton's friend Clark Triton, and is the professor's self-proclaimed apprentice. Luke has peach skin, rosy cheeks
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Luke_Triton
Flora Reinhold is the tritagonist of the first trilogy of the Professor Layton series. She is the only child of the late Baron Augustus Reinhold and the late Lady Violet Reinhold, as well as the
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Flora_Reinhold
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future/List of puzzles
This is the Puzzle Index for Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. It lists all puzzles that are in the game. You can also browse the puzzles by category.
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Unwound_Future/List_of_puzzles
Inspector Alfendi Layton
Inspector Alfendi Layton is the title protagonist of the spin-off game, Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. He is Professor Layton's son, and works as an inspector for New Scotland Yard's Mystery Room department
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Inspector_Alfendi_Layton
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy/List of puzzles
This is the Puzzle Index for Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy. It lists all puzzles that are in the game. You can also browse the puzzles by category.
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Azran_Legacy/List_of_puzzles
Puzzle:Failing Scales
Failing Scales is a puzzle in Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy. Here are two sets of digital scales. Their displays are both broken in the same place, so the bottom-left
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Puzzle:Failing_Scales
Puzzle:The Hands of Time
The Hands of Time is a puzzle in Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy. The puzzle must be solved in order to progress the story. The clock is currently showing the time
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Puzzle:The_Hands_of_Time
Professor Layton and the Curious Village is the first game in the Professor Layton series. It follows Professor Layton and Luke on their quest to find the Golden Apple, a mysterious inheritance hidden somewhere in
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Curious_Village
Jean Descole* is the primary antagonist of the prequel trilogy in the Professor Layton series, set before Curious Village. He wears a black hat similar to a tricorn hat but with a higher crown, a
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Jean_Descole
Professor Layton and the Last Specter/List of puzzles
This is the Puzzle Index for Professor Layton and the Last Specter. It lists all puzzles that are in the game. You can also browse the puzzles by category.
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Last_Specter/List_of_puzzles
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask/List of puzzles
This is the Puzzle Index for Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. It lists all puzzles that are in the game. You can also browse the puzzles by category.
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Miracle_Mask/List_of_puzzles
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is a Professor Layton series game for the Nintendo 3DS. The game was confirmed in a Japanese Nintendo Direct presentation on August 29, 2012. According to LEVEL-5 CEO
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Azran_Legacy
Emmeline "Emmy" Altava (Remi Altava in Japan) is the tritagonist of the prequel trilogy in the Professor Layton series. She was the assistant of Professor Layton during three years before Curious Village. Emmy is tall
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Emmy_Altava
Clive (Klaus Albatross in Japan) is the true primary antagonist of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. He initially takes the name of Future Luke to hide his real identity. Clive, posing as Future Luke
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Clive
Paul, who went under the alias Don Paolo, is the primary antagonist of the first trilogy of the Professor Layton series. He's an "evil genius" and a master of disguise who sees himself as
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Paolo
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, first known as Professor Layton: The First Movie, is the first film of the Professor Layton series. It was released in Japan on December 19, 2009. It was produced
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Eternal_Diva
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, known as Professor Layton and Pandora's Box in Europe and Australia, is the second game in the Professor Layton series. It is preceded by Professor Layton and the
https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Diabolical_Box
The Official Terraria Wiki is a comprehensive resource containing information about all versions of Re-Logic's action-adventure sandbox game, Terraria.


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