Eviction Defense for Poor Tenants: Costly Compassion or Justice Served?

Eviction defense, one of the principal areas of housing advocacy in legal services offices throughout the country, strives to help poor tenants vindicate their rights and avoid the trauma and disruption, and possible descent into homelessness, which eviction can cause. Legal services attorneys are often able to defeat their clients\u27 evictions or, if that is not possible, to delay their clients\u27 evictions long enough to allow their clients to save money for, and move safely into, new housing. Some argue, however, that by vigorously defending poor tenants, legal services attorneys may significantly burden private landlords by delaying evictions and enabling the tenants to live rent-free during the pendency of their evictions

Grading and Pricing Practices of North Dakota Country Elevators For Durum and Hard Red Spring Wheat

Demand and Price Analysis, Marketing, Agribusiness,

The Influence of Technological Change on Grain Elevator Pricing Efficiency

The introduction of unit train technology is found to increase the pricing efficiency of a case study elevator. Daily prices are found to be more correlated with destination market prices and nearby futures contract prices after the subterminal was introduced. The increased ability to physically arbitrage between markets integrated the elevator into the regional and national grain market. The subterminal technology altered the price behavior of the elevator beyond simply changing the level of prices received by producers

Firearms accidents in sixteenth-century England

Source material for the use of firearms in sixteenth-century England outside military contexts is sparse. This article uses coroners’ inquest reports to examine who used guns of what types, for what purposes, in different parts of England and at different phases of their diffusion. Artisans were prominent among early adopters, but by the end of the century yeomen were the most frequent gun owners. It shows what hazards guns with different firing mechanisms such as matchlocks and snaphances presented, the steps users took to mitigate such risks, and the severity of gunshot wounds, which caused two-thirds of victims of fatal firearms accidents to die instantly