Description: Decompressive left lumbar laminectomy C4-C5 and C5-C6 with neural foraminotomy. Posterior cervical fusion C4-C5. Songer wire. Right iliac bone graft.
1. Post anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4-C5 and C5-C6 with possible pseudoarthrosis at C4-C5.
2. Cervical radiculopathy involving the left arm.
3. Disc degeneration at C3-C4 and C6-C7.
1. Decompressive left lumbar laminectomy C4-C5 and C5-C6 with neural foraminotomy.
2. Posterior cervical fusion C4-C5.
4. Right iliac bone graft.
TECHNIQUE: The patient was brought to the operating room. Preoperative evaluations included previous cervical spine surgery. The patient initially had some relief; however, his left arm pain did recur and gradually got worse. Repeat studies including myelogram and postspinal CTs revealed some blunting of the nerve root at C4-C5 and C5-C6. There was also noted to be some annular bulges at C3-C4, and C6-C7. The CT scan in March revealed that the fusion was not fully solid. X-rays were done in November including flexion and extension views, it appeared that the fusion was solid.
The patient had been on pain medication. The patient had undergone several nonoperative treatments. He was given the option of surgical intervention. We discussed Botox, I discussed with the patient and posterior cervical decompression. I explained to the patient this will leave a larger scar on his neck, and that no guarantee would help, there would be more bleeding and more pain from the posterior surgery than it was from the anterior surgery. If at the time of surgery there was some motion of the C4-C5 level, I would recommend a fusion. The patient was a smoker and had been advised to quit smoking but has not quit smoking. I have therefore recommended that he use iliac bone graft. I explained to the patient that this would give him a scar over the back of the right pelvis and could be a source of chronic pain for the patient for the rest of his life. Even if this type of bone graft was used, there was no guarantee that it will fuse and he should stop smoking completely.
The patient also was advised that if I did a fusion, I would also use post instrumentation, which was a wire. The wire would be left permanently.
Even with all these procedures, there was no guarantee that his symptoms would improve. His numbness, tingling, and weakness could get worse rather than better, his neck pain and arm pain could persist. He still had some residual bursitis in his left shoulder and this would not be cured by this procedure. Other procedures may be necessary later. There is still with a danger of becoming quadriplegic or losing total control of bowel or bladder function. He could lose total control of his arms or legs and end up in the bed for the rest of his life. He could develop chronic regional pain syndromes. He could get difficulty swallowing or eating. He could have substantial weakness in the arm. He was advised that he should not undergo the surgery unless the pain is persistent, severe, and unremitting.
He was also offered his records if he would like any other pain medications or seek other treatments, he was advised that Dr. X would continue to prescribe pain medication if he did not wish to proceed with surgery.
He stated he understood all the risks. He did not wish to get any other treatments. He said the pain has reached the point that he wished to proceed with surgery.
PROCEDURE IN DETAIL: In the operating room, he was given general endotracheal anesthesia.
I then carefully rolled the patient on thoracic rolls. His head was controlled by a horseshoe holder. The anesthesiologist checked the eye positions to make sure there was no pressure on the orbits and the anesthesiologist continued to check them every 15 minutes. The arms, the right hip, and the neck was then prepped and draped. Care was taken to position both arms and both legs. Pulses were checked.
A midline incision was made through the skin and subcutaneous tissue on the cervical spine. A loupe magnification and headlamp illumination was used. Bleeding vessels were cauterized. Meticulous hemostasis was carried out throughout the procedure. Gradually and carefully I exposed the spinous process of the C6, C5, and C4. A lateral view was done after an instrument in place. This revealed the C6-C7 level. I therefore did a small laminotomy opening at C4-C5. I placed an instrument and x-rays confirmed C4-C5 level.
I stripped the muscles from the lamina and then moved them laterally and held with a self-retaining retractor.
Once I identified the level, I then used a bur to thin the lamina of C5. I used a 1-mm, followed by a 2-mm Kerrison rongeur to carefully remove the lamina off C5 on the left. I removed some of the superior lamina of C6 and some of the inferior lamina of C4. This allowed me to visualize the dura and the nerve roots and gradually do neural foraminotomies for both the C5 and C6 nerve roots. There was some bleeding from the epidural veins and a bipolar cautery was used. Absolutely no retractors were ever placed in the canal. There was no retraction. I was able to place a small probe underneath the nerve root and check the disc spaces to make sure there was no fragments of disc or herniation disc and none were found.
At the end of the procedure, the neuroforamen were widely patent. The nerve roots had been fully decompressed.
I then checked stability. There was micromotion at the C4-C5 level. I therefore elected to proceed with a fusion.
I debrided the interspinous ligament between C4 and C5. I used a bur to roughen up the surface of the superior portion of the spinous process of C5 and the inferior portion of C4. Using a small drill, I opened the facet at C4-C5. I then used a very small curette to clean up the articular cartilage. I used a bur then to roughen up the lamina at C4-C5.
Attention was turned to the right and left hip, which was also prepped. An incision made over the iliac crest. Bleeding vessels were cauterized. I exposed just the posterior aspect of the crest. I removed some of the bone and then used the curette to remove cancellous bone.
I placed the Songer wire through the base of the spinous process of C4 and C5. Drill holes made with a clip. I then packed cancellous bone between the decorticated spinous process. I then tightened the Songer wire to the appropriate tension and then cut off the excess wire.
Prior to tightening the wire, I also packed cancellous bone with facet at C4-C5. I then laid bone upon the decorticated lamina of C4 and C5.
The hip wound was irrigated with bacitracin and Kantrex. Deep structures were closed with #1 Vicryl, subcutaneous suture and subcuticular tissue was closed.
No drain was placed in the hip.
A drain was left in the posterior cervical spine. The deep tissues were closed with 0 Vicryl, subcutaneous tissue and skin were then closed. The patient was taken to the recovery room in good condition.


Does evolution violate the second law of thermodynamics?
The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.
For many readers, not schooled in the intricacies of thermodynamics and physics, this is an impressive-sounding argument. Is this indeed an effective refutation of evolution?
The second law of thermodynamics is an expression of the universal principle of entropy, namely that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value [Wikipedia2009]. At a fundamental level, this is really a statement about probability, because it is equivalent to saying that any system will, with very high probability, tend to a "disordered" state. For example, if billiard balls are placed on a billiard table in the triangle frame, and then scattered by a cue, it is overwhelmingly more likely that when they all stop moving they will be in a rather "random" configuration, rather than, say, in a highly ordered configuration such as all in one corner. The reason for this is pretty simple -- the number of "random" configurations of billiard balls on a billiard table are vastly more numerous than the number of highly ordered configurations.
Increasing entropy means increasing disorder. Living organisms maintain a high degree of internal order. Hence once might ask whether life processes violate the second law. ... The statement [that entropy cannot decrease] applies only to systems that are both closed and thermally isolated from their surroundings. Living organisms are open systems since they both take in and expel matter; further, they exchange heat with their surroundings. ... The organism takes in foodstuffs that contain highly ordered, low-entropy polymeric molecules such as proteins and starch and excretes waste products that contain smaller, less ordered molecules. Thus the entropy of the food intake is less than the entropy of the excretion products returned to the surroundings. ... The organism discards matter with a greater entropy content than the matter it takes in, thereby losing entropy to the environment to compensate for the entropy produced in internal irreversible processes.
In short, the "thermodynamics argument" against evolution is completely groundless. Some creationists have discontinued using this argument, but it is promoted at length in the 2000 printing of Morris' Scientific Creationism [Morris2000, pg. 38-46], and it is also featured prominently in the museum of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego, California.
One can certainly fault creationists for continuing to use an argument that they know (or should know) is fallacious. But, as John Patterson has observed, the scientific community is also at fault: "It is a sad testimonial to the community of professors, engineers, and scientists that so many have ignored their professional responsibilities in failing to expose the creationist thermodynamics apologetic." [Patterson1983].


"If you can walk briskly for 30 minutes, you can train for a 5K (3 mile) race in eight weeks", says John Honerkamp, the head of training for the New York Road Runners. He suggests doing the following workouts two or three times a week.
Week 1: Run 1 minute; walk 1 minute. Repeat for 20 minutes.
Week 2: Run 2 minutes; walk 2 minutes. Repeat for 20 min.
Week 3: Run 4 minutes; walk 2 minutes. Do 5 times.
Week 4: Run 8 minutes; walk 3 minutes. Do 3 times.
Week 5: Run 10 minutes; walk 3 minutes. Do 3 times.
Week 6: Run 1 mile; walk 2 minutes. Do 3 times.
Week 7: Run 1 1/2 miles; walk 2 minutes. Repeat once.
Week 8: Run 2 miles; walk 2 minutes. Repeat once.


Is there a way to schedule SilkTest Classic TestPlans?
The ability to run a smoke or regression test at a scheduled time can be a real asset to a development or IT organization. Tests can be triggered to run after a daily build is complete or after new content is pushed to a Web application each morning. With SilkTest"s test plan queries, its command line interface and a task scheduler such as NT"s "at" or the newer "Scheduled Tasks Wizard", it"s easy to do. Let"s take a closer look at each of the components.
SilkTest"s test planning module offers the ability to select tests based on an attribute query. Choose between one of the existing attributes (category, component, developer) or create your own. To define a new attribute, invoke the Define Attributes dialog by selecting the Main Menu->Testplan->Define Attributes menu item. In this example, a new attribute called Environment has been added. The values web1 through web5 were also added as possible values for the attribute.
Using the Testplan query feature, a query is created to select each Web environment. To create a new query, invoke the "Mark By Query" dialog by selecting the MainMenu->Testplan->Mark By Query menu item. Select the Attribute(s) and Value(s) from the "Test Attributes Tab" and name the query for later use.
To mark the tests based on this query, invoke the "Mark By Named Query" dialog by selecting the MainMenu->Testplan->Mark By Named Query menu item. This selection provides a means of running only those tests associated with the Attribute(s) specified by the query.
The power of queries is the manner in which they can be combined. Through unions and intersections of different queries, virtually any combination of tests could be selected for runtime. For example, additional queries can be created by combining the web1 through web5 queries so that the smoke test could be run against any combination of environments.
Now that there is a Testplan labelled with Attributes and queries to select upon them, the next step is to learn how to launch SilkTest from the command line. The SilkTest help provides a syntax guide with an explanation all of the configuration options. For this example the following would be required.
"%SEGUE_HOME%\partner.exe" -query web1 -r "%SCRIPTDIR%\ smoketests.pln"
This command line string will run successfully on any machine regardless of the location of the SilkTest executable or the Testplan to be run.
Type: at time /interactive /every:days "%SCRIPTDIR%mysilktestjob.bat"
at 06:00 /interactive /every:M,F,T,W,Th,F "%SCRIPTDIR%\mysilktestjob.bat"
To check on the status of your scheduled jobs, simply type at without any arguments.
There are some security issues that may be encountered along the way because the at scheduler uses the system account to launch jobs. For example, if the test attempts to delete browser cookies, there will likely not be adequate permissions. Another limitation is that it will not be able to copy files to other machines on the network because the network does not recognise the system account on the local machine. Although Microsoft" documentation suggests that you can configure the at scheduler to use an alternate account with adequate permissions, the facility appears to be disabled.
"%SEGUE_HOME%\partner.exe" -query web1 -r "scriptdir location on your machine\smoketests.pln"
The next time you get home and realize that you forgot to kick off the daily regression, consider this automatic scheduling alternative. It could save you a day on your schedule!


Q: Is indoor tanning the same as tanning outside in the sun?
A: When you tan at an indoor tanning facility, your skin produces a tan the same way it does when you lay out in the sun: through ultraviolet (UV) light. There is one important difference, though. When you are out in the sun, you cannot control the amount of UV light you are exposed to, because it is affected by changes in the atmosphere. Indoor tanning is one way to regulate the amount of UV light you are exposed to, because it is a controlled environment. You can gradually increase your exposure time to make sure you don't get a sunburn, which is harmful to the skin.


CAN THE BEYOND BE PAIRED TO AN APPLE TV?
No. The Apple TV cannot be paired directly to BEYOND devices.


IS IT EVER OK TO INITIATE FORCE? PRINCIPLES WHAT?
When I began this experiment [investigation?], I had no idea it would go so far or that it would bleed over into a discussion on principles.
"Would you force a person to love you, if you could? Can you come up with a justification for when it would ever be okay to do so?"
The answer was a resounding "No!" No justifications were presented. A common response was that the giving party would experience resentment and that forced love was not real love.
"I'm with you all on this and I'll admit the question was pretty much rhetorical, yet I want to explore how you all think and feel about this topic, partially because I believe we may take it for granted and I want to dig deeper, down to our motivations. So if we take it a bit further and talk about expressions of love, like touch, gifts, words, acts of service, etc., would it be okay to force any of those things to be given?"
Again, the answer was "No!" across the board.
"Is love a basic need? If it is, and a person is starving for love, is there then any justification or situation where it is okay to force another person to give expressions of love, like touch, gifts, words, acts of service, etc., to the "love starved" person?
If you can come up with a situation where you would force one person to show expressions of love to another, can you think of all the pros and cons of this being done?
Here again, people spoke eloquently of many reasons why even the forcing of expressions of love is not a good thing. I was glad to hear many people mention children and the often culturally acceptable situation where parents force children to kiss or hug certain adults, usually relatives, even when the child expresses a desire to not do so. That is a whole other topic.
And then, someone said this: "No. Because love comes after safety, and forcing expressions of love violates that - I'm not safe in my property (gifts) or resources (acts of service) if I'm forced to give expressions of love. Those are - if you believe Maslow - more basic needs than love."
"What if instead, the 'unloved' person is actually starving for food? Then is the person with food obliged to give food? Would Maslow's determination of the value of food be enough to justify forcing you to give food to a starving person? And if it did, why would that determination not apply as equally to you to protect you from food being taken from you?"
"Food is essential to survival, not just happiness, which changes the equation. Further, food's nourishment value isn't reliant on the sincerity of the person offering it. That changes the equation further."
So, let's talk about our reasons for answering as we did to the initial equation. Was it because we were looking at the need of the love starved compared to the price paid by the person forced to give? Or were we thinking more about the act of force and the consequences of force on both parties?
Do we see how one can take either a principled approach here, which would be to always reject coercion, no matter the professed, subjective values, or the case-by-case approach where before coercion was wrong but now it is ok, even if in both cases it is obviously unfair to the person being stolen from?
A devil's advocate might say, "You're trying to compare a commodity to a behavior and I think your analogy is suffering for it."
(B) Forced service or gifts --> goal for receiver to have greater physical health and/or higher standard of living.
Are they so different? In both cases we are forcing a person to do something against their will. In both cases the victim of the coercion has needs being violated; need for respect, autonomy, choice, privacy, and perhaps security. Why privacy? Because how else will some authority know the victim has "extra" stuff or time-for-service to take? Why security? Because when authority takes their stuff, to increase the security of another, then it decreases the security of the donor. Another interesting thing that happens is we also forget the reasons why - before, when it was love - we saw that the receipt of forced love had a reduced value and sometimes even a negative value to the recipient, but when it becomes something that many deem higher on the life priority list, we stop seeing the price paid by both sides, including the massive cost and eventual inevitable corruption that occurs when we create authority figures to do the "necessary" rule-making, monitoring, judging, collecting, catching, and punishing. An entire ruling class that has different rights - inequality because they monitor, judge, collect, catch, and punish in cases of their own guilt. Giving people power over others, no matter the cause, is a recipe for corruption. For evidence of this, one need only look around. Or merely look at human psychology. It is human to grow and to want more.
This is what happens when we use a system other than principles. It makes it easy to justify initiation of force and many other atrocities. If we used principles like "it is wrong to initiate force except for in self defense" then when someone speaks of forcing a person to do, say, and give things to another person so that the other person can feel loved or safe or healthy, we will say, "because initiation of force is wrong because, no matter the reason for its use, it still always exacts a price on all involved".
But instead, if you attempt to measure and compare everyone's needs, who can be accurate? Who can know everything about all parties involved? A cursory examination might show Jane has more food than Fred. But how much of Jane and Fred's past and future do we know? Did we know Jane has been robbed of her life savings and still often gives to charities and will be raped and have a baby in eleven months and the money/food/whatever that was forcibly taken from her to feed Fred would have made the difference in her not getting kicked out of her home so that her baby is born into a homeless situation? In order to be truly fair, we must investigate deep into Jane and Fred's past, into everything that formed them, everyone they have been in contact with, everyone they are now in contact with, and everyone they will be in contact with. Whose lives might Jane have enriched via choice? What valuable lessons might Fred have learned? How often do we consider the value of struggle? What lessons are learned when a problem is solved for us?
Can we know that Fred will be mugged four days after receiving the bounty given to him because that wad of food stamps, acquired more easily than through use of his brain or brawn, had a decreased value in his eyes so he wasn't as careful guarding it from prying eyes as he might otherwise have been? For every horror story propagated by the ruling class to scare the rest of us into believing we need them, there is an equal horror story about dependency, self respect, and the even worse poverty that comes from the ruling class making more rules every day.
- Finally, somehow find "perfect people" to be in the position to make rules, monitor, judge, collect, catch, and punish.
So yes, we can choose to see the ways the two kinds of coercion are different by ignoring that they are both coercion.
Or we can use principles, which vastly simplifies and shows us how the situations are the same.


BYOD disrupted how the IT department managed resources. Now, administrators face a management challenge presented by a new interloper -- Microsoft accounts.
is trying to entice users to log in to Windows 10 using a Microsoft account to access external Microsoft services, such as OneDrive and Outlook.com.
While Microsoft accounts and domain accounts may seem to be at odds, there is a way to use both simultaneously. It is also possible for administrators to restrict Microsoft accounts so users can only log in with domain accounts.
With Windows 10, Microsoft accounts serve two main purposes. Microsoft accounts allow users to download apps from the Microsoft Store. They also allow data to synchronize across devices and connect the user to external Microsoft services.
So why would an organization allow the use of both domain accounts and Microsoft accounts? It comes down to the degree of freedom administrators wish to give to users. The BYOD trend resulted from users insisting on accessing work-related messages and documents from their personal devices. Where IT once had tight reins on the infrastructure and only domain-joined PCs could get on the network, BYOD loosened these restrictions.
The ability to access personal resources from a domain-joined PC appears to be the next phase of this movement. Although many organizations prohibit Microsoft account use and personal data access from domain-joined PCs, some organizations allow the practice as the lines between personal and business resources blur more.
If an organization allows the simultaneous use of Microsoft accounts and domain accounts, then administrators do not need to do anything outside of the normal account setup procedure. Administrators can domain join the Windows 10 PCs, and users log in to domain accounts in the usual manner.
So why would an organization allow the use of both domain accounts and Microsoft accounts? It comes down to the degree of freedom administrators wish to give to the users.
There are no native Active Directory features that map domain accounts to Microsoft accounts. If there is no single sign-on option, the easiest thing an administrator can do is allow users who wish to use a Microsoft account to establish their own account mapping. A user logs in to a PC using her domain credentials, clicks Settings>Accounts >Your Email and Accounts and selects Add a Microsoft account. Then, the system will prompt the user to enter the credentials for the Microsoft account.
Administrators can disable Microsoft accounts at the group policy level to prevent users from connecting to a Microsoft account on their domain-joined PC. The setting is located at Computer Configuration>Windows Settings>Security Settings>Local Policies>Security Options. On Windows 10 machines, the policy setting is called Block Microsoft Accounts. As shown in Figure 1, this setting is not defined by default.
Figure 1. Administrators can block a Microsoft account at the group policy level.
Microsoft accounts have a variety of uses, and administrators can block certain functionality without restricting the entire account. For example, an administrator might wish to prevent users from installing apps from the Microsoft Store. This process is a little bit tricky. The group policy setting that existed in Windows 8 to block the Microsoft Store no longer exists. Instead, the administrator can disable store access through AppLocker, a feature that limits which users or groups can run particular applications.
Open the Group Policy Editor and locate AppLocker. Expand the AppLocker container and then right-click on the Packaged App Rules container and select the option to create a new rule. Click Next on the Before You Begin screen, and then choose the Deny option on the permissions screen. At the Publisher screen, choose the option to Use an installed app package as a reference then click Select. When the selection choices appear, choose the Store option, as shown in Figure 2, and then click Next. Now, complete the wizard to finish creating the rule.
Figure 2. Use AppLocker t to set limits on Microsoft accounts.
What are some concerns you have with using both domain accounts and Microsoft accounts in your environment?


2013-10-11 20:19:51 Brendan Clune (Logic Supply) description Lines 83-92 in stock_tracking.py: magento_picking_id = picking.magento_id if magento_picking_id is None: raise NoExternalId("No value found for the picking ID on " "Magento side, the job will be retried later.") self._validate(picking) self._check_allowed_carrier(picking, magento_picking_id) tracking_args = self._get_tracking_args(picking) self.backend_adapter.add_tracking_number(magento_picking_id, *tracking_args) The call to _check_allowed_carrier hits the getCarrier API endpoint in Magento, which expects the increment id of the magento sale, rather than the delivery object. The add_tracking_number call seems correct in this case. Lines 83-92 in stock_tracking.py: magento_picking_id = picking.magento_id if magento_picking_id is None: raise NoExternalId("No value found for the picking ID on " "Magento side, the job will be retried later.") self._validate(picking) self._check_allowed_carrier(picking, magento_picking_id) tracking_args = self._get_tracking_args(picking) self.backend_adapter.add_tracking_number(magento_picking_id, *tracking_args) The call to _check_allowed_carrier hits the getCarriers API endpoint in Magento, which expects the increment id of the magento sale, rather than the delivery object. The add_tracking_number call seems correct in this case.
2013-10-11 20:24:41 Brendan Clune (Logic Supply) description Lines 83-92 in stock_tracking.py: magento_picking_id = picking.magento_id if magento_picking_id is None: raise NoExternalId("No value found for the picking ID on " "Magento side, the job will be retried later.") self._validate(picking) self._check_allowed_carrier(picking, magento_picking_id) tracking_args = self._get_tracking_args(picking) self.backend_adapter.add_tracking_number(magento_picking_id, *tracking_args) The call to _check_allowed_carrier hits the getCarriers API endpoint in Magento, which expects the increment id of the magento sale, rather than the delivery object. The add_tracking_number call seems correct in this case. Lines 83-92 in stock_tracking.py: magento_picking_id = picking.magento_id if magento_picking_id is None: raise NoExternalId("No value found for the picking ID on " "Magento side, the job will be retried later.") self._validate(picking) self._check_allowed_carrier(picking, magento_picking_id) tracking_args = self._get_tracking_args(picking) self.backend_adapter.add_tracking_number(magento_picking_id, *tracking_args) The call to _check_allowed_carrier hits the getCarriers API endpoint in Magento, which expects the increment id of the magento sale, rather than the delivery object. The add_tracking_number call seems correct in this case.
2013-10-11 20:25:23 Brendan Clune (Logic Supply) description Lines 83-92 in stock_tracking.py: magento_picking_id = picking.magento_id if magento_picking_id is None: raise NoExternalId("No value found for the picking ID on " "Magento side, the job will be retried later.") self._validate(picking) self._check_allowed_carrier(picking, magento_picking_id) tracking_args = self._get_tracking_args(picking) self.backend_adapter.add_tracking_number(magento_picking_id, *tracking_args) The call to _check_allowed_carrier hits the getCarriers API endpoint in Magento, which expects the increment id of the magento sale, rather than the delivery object. The add_tracking_number call seems correct in this case. Lines 83-92 in stock_tracking.py: magento_picking_id = picking.magento_id if magento_picking_id is None: raise NoExternalId("No value found for the picking ID on " "Magento side, the job will be retried later.") self._validate(picking) self._check_allowed_carrier(picking, magento_picking_id) tracking_args = self._get_tracking_args(picking) self.backend_adapter.add_tracking_number(magento_picking_id, *tracking_args) The call to _check_allowed_carrier hits the getCarriers API endpoint in Magento, which expects the increment id of the magento sale, rather than the delivery object. The add_tracking_number call seems correct in this case.


The stabbing of three people - including a police officer - in Manchester is being treated as a terrorist investigation, police say.
A man, aged 25, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the attack on New Year's Eve at the city's Victoria railway station.
The BBC understands the security services are assisting police.
The three victims were taken to a nearby hospital with "serious" but not life-threatening injuries.
A woman, aged in her 50s, suffered injuries to her face and stomach, while a man - also in his 50s - has injuries to his stomach.
The officer, a police sergeant in his 30s, sustained knife wounds to his shoulder during the attack, but has since been released from hospital.
Manchester Victoria railway station has reopened after the stabbings.
Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), told reporters at a briefing at force HQ the suspect lived in the Cheetham Hill area of the city.
Media captionGMP Chief Constable Ian Hopkins says the incident is being treated as "a terrorist investigation"
Earlier, officers raided a newly built semi-detached house on Schoolside Close, a mile north of Manchester city centre.
Resident Nousha Babaakachel, 40, said a Somali family lived at the address, a mother and father of five, in their 40s, who came to live in the street about 12 years ago from the Netherlands.
She said two of the four sons were at university, one works at Manchester Airport and the youngest is back in Somalia. They also have a daughter.
Both parents attend the local Khiza Mosque.
At the briefing, Greater Manchester Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said: "I know that the events of last night will have affected many people and caused concern.
Mr Jackson added that "given how frenzied the attack was" officers were considering the mental health of the arrested suspect.
"There is wide reporting in the press about what the attacker allegedly said during the incident and because of this we want to be clear, we are treating this as a terrorism investigation," he said.
He explained officers were "retaining an open mind in relation to the motivation for this attack", and said there was no information "to suggest at this time others are involved".
Police recovered two knives at the scene but do not yet know if both were used in the attack.
Manchester Metrolink said services to the station were operating "to the normal pattern" but advised of "minor delays".
Officers said counter terrorism police were leading the inquiry.
Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both said the victims were in their thoughts, with Mrs May praising the "courageous response" of the emergency services, and Mr Corbyn highlighting their "bravery".
The Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he wished those injured a "full recovery".
ACC Sean O'Callaghan, from British Transport Police, said he was "incredibly proud" of the four officers who detained the suspect.
They were "fearless, running towards danger and preventing further harm coming to passengers," he said.
BBC 5 live producer Sam Clack, who had been at the station at the time, said he saw a man stabbed on a tram platform at the station "feet from me".
Mr Clack also said he heard the knifeman shouting "Allah" during the attack, along with a slogan criticising Western governments.
He added he was "close to jumping on the tracks" as the attacker had a "long kitchen knife".
Greater Manchester Police, which declared the attack a "critical incident", said it understood that people would be worried but there was "no intelligence to suggest that there is any wider threat at this time".
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said the attacks appeared to be an "isolated incident".
Media captionMayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham: Stabbings appear to be "an isolated incident"
Mr Clack said he first "heard this most blood-curdling scream and looked down the platform".
"It looked like they were having a fight, but the woman was screaming in this blood-curdling way. I saw police in high-vis come towards him. He came towards me.
"I looked down and saw he had a kitchen knife with a black handle with a good, 12in blade. It was just fear, pure fear."
Image caption Police said there was "no intelligence to suggest that there is any wider threat at this time"
He said police used pepper spray and a Taser on the detained man, who he said had been "resisting arrest".
He said he saw "six or seven" officers on top of the man, who he described as "very skittish".
"He was very aggressive and very intent on causing more harm than he actually did," he said.
Police said the woman had injuries to her face and abdomen and the man had injuries to his abdomen.
The New Year firework display in Albert Square went ahead.


In the south, is 'yw' also used to say 'yes'? Or would they use 'ydy' as an answer?
No, only 'ydy' is used for this.


Tom Titus The more things change, they say, the more they stay the same. Case in point: Back in 1980, South Coast Repertory was preparing to mount a new production of "A Christmas Carol" with John-David Keller directing and Hal Landon Jr. taking the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Well, 25 years later, Keller and Landon still are doing their respective things, as they've done for the past quarter century, and Charles Dickens' classic tale, adapted for the stage by South Coast Repertory's Jerry Patch, continues to entertain local audiences.
Tom Titus The only certainties in life may be death and taxes. But in Costa Mesa, there's a third -- the re-emergence of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" on the stage of South Coast Repertory with the arrival of December. For the 24th year, this holiday classic is bringing the spirit -- and spirits -- of Christmas to local audiences, with the same coterie of performers that started the whole tradition back in 1980. What began as a one-shot production has blossomed into an annual event that may outlive us all. And even though such early regulars as John Ellington, who created the role of Bob Cratchit, and Ron Michaelson, the original Spirit of Christmas -- who played those parts for many years -- have long since departed, the nucleus of the "Christmas Carol" company remains intact.
Fourteen-year-old Newport Harbor High School freshman Jasmine O’Hea has spent weekends and evenings for the past month in endless rehearsals for South Coast Repertory’s production of “A Christmas Carol.” “They go by very fast — but I was probably having so much fun I didn’t notice,” Jasmine said. The Newport Beach teen juggles several small parts in the production. Each year, South Coast Repertory’s annual staging of “A Christmas Carol” recruits area kids from its children and teen acting classes to become a part of the cast.
"It's the most wonderful time ..." Come on, everybody! "It's the most wonderful time of the year! With the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you, 'Be of good ... " Wait, wait, stop. That was awful. Forget the singing. But one thing we should never ever forget is our holiday traditions. Where would we be without them? In the middle of March, that's where. Two of the longest-running winter-solstice- slash-yuletide traditions in this corner of the universe -- the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade and South Coast Repertory's "A Christmas Carol" -- are upon us. Wednesday marks the 97th iteration of the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade, albeit with a tweaked name this year.
South Coast Repertory's 16th NewSCRipts season of staged play readings continues at 7:30 p.m. Monday with a new play by Steven Drukman titled "The Bullet Round." The commissioned work follows a gun as it changes hands among troubled characters. Drukman is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Nation, The International Herald Tribune and other publications. Neel Keller, associate artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse, will direct the piece.
Tom Titus My son Tim used to tell me he never really felt it was the Christmas season until he'd seen South Coast Repertory's annual production of "A Christmas Carol." He felt even more strongly about it after appearing in the show 19 years ago at the age of 11. Yes, it's that time of the year again, SCR's 24th annual visit to 18th-century London and Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from "Bah, humbug" to "Happy holidays." The show opens tonight and plays through Dec. 27 on the Segerstrom Stage.
1. THE BIG TIPPER Peet's Coffee & Tea will be holding a "Christmas Eve Tips" event to benefit local nonprofit organizations. The store will provide free brewed coffee to all customers who visit the store today, and will give all gratuities that are received over the course of the day to the Kids Cancer Connection. The store is at 894 Avocado Ave., Corona del Mar. For more information, call (949) 640-6377. 2. BACK TO BASICS Our Lady Queen of Angels will hold Mass at 7, 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. Christmas Day. The parish is at 2046 Mar Vista Drive, Newport Beach.
Trilogy Playhouse's 'Carol' audition date changed to Oct. 15 Trilogy Playhouse has announced its "Inspecting Carol" auditions will now be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 15. "Carol" is a comedy about a struggling theater company performing Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Performances will run Nov. 30 through Dec. 15. Auditions, previously announced for Oct. 7, will be for three women and one man between the ages of 30 and 40, one woman and one man between 40 and 60, three men between 40 and 50, two boys between 11 and 16 and one African-American man between 30 and 40. Actors should prepare a short comedic monologue and bring a picture and resume.
South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa will present its annual production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" until Dec. 26. Jerry Path's adaptation of one man's redemption and new lease on life stars Hal Landon Jr. as Ebenezer Scrooge for the 34th consecutive year. The 33-person cast, including 16 local child and teen actors, will regale audiences with a traditional holiday story while dressed in period costumes and framed by dazzling sets. "A Christmas Carol" will be hosted in the Folino Theater Center at 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa.
The 2012 Christmas Carol Ball benefiting Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian was exceptionally festive this season. The event has always had a warm, community-based feeling as citizen donors come together with hospital staff, nurses and physicians for a collective year-end hug. After all, what is more vital to any community than health? Chaired by Terry and Bob Callahan , the evening at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort also marked the Callahans' 20th anniversary of their first date, which coincidentally also took place at the Christmas Carol Ball in 1992.
After watching South Coast Repertory's "A Christmas Carol" usher in the holiday season for the past 32 years, it was singularly gratifying to see my (almost) 6-year-old granddaughter enraptured by her first visit to the local tradition. Little Riley Mills was literally on the edge of her seat during SCR's 33rd annual rendition of the beloved Charles Dickens story, adapted for the stage back in 1980 by former SCR member Jerry Patch for what originally was intended as a one-shot production.
After staging the same production for more than three decades, a theater company might be expected to "phone it in," to go through the well-established motions that have worked for longer than most of their actors have been on this planet. Not South Coast Repertory. Its 32nd annual production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is, if anything, stronger and more immediate, even more visceral than those which have gone before. The faces (except for Scrooge's) change over time, but the overall effect grows exponentially.
Hal Landon Jr.'s yearly portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge has become as constant and cozy a yuletide apparition in Orange County as re-runs of "It's a Wonderful Life" on TV. For the 32nd time since 1980, the veteran actor is incarnating the lead role in South Coast Repertory Theatre's annual holiday season run of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Regular performances open at 7:30 p.m. Friday and continue through Christmas Eve. Landon needs not worry anymore about having to audition for the part.
As guests arrived at Hoag Hospital’s 43rd annual Christmas Carol Ball at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Laguna Niguel, they were greeted by young girls ice skating on a rink in the Ritz Courtyard surrounded by palm trees. It was pure Christmas in California, sublime contrasts and fabulous winter décor to put revelers in the mood on a balmy 65-degree December evening by the Pacific Ocean. As the glamorous contingent arrived at the Ritz Carlton and paraded down the grand stairwell to the lower level ballroom, the gloved wait staff stood at the ready with silver trays brimming with Christmas canapés.
For local theatergoers, it’s time to trim the tree and break out the holly. Their Christmas season officially starts this weekend. That’s when three Costa Mesa theater groups bring up the lights on their holiday shows, highlighted by the 30th annual production of “A Christmas Carol” at South Coast Repertory. Two collegiate theater programs join the merriment as Orange Coast College stages its annual “Old-Fashioned Christmas Melodrama and Ice Cream Social” and Vanguard University mounts the comedic “Inspecting Carol.


Does Queensland strike more today than in the past?
Does Queensland strike more today than in the past? Regardless of perception the answer is a categorical 'no'. Latest data from the ABS confirms that the number days lost due to industrial action in Queensland in 2017 was 32,200. If that number sounds high, keep in mind there are 2.47 million Queenslanders in work. In addition this total is effectively half of the 25 year average (62,000) and our workforce over that period has grown significantly yet total days lost has declined.
In terms of Queensland’s percentage of total days lost in Australia, there was a concerning trend in both 2015 and 2016 where Queensland was accounting for a disproportionate amount of days lost. However this trend has now settled, back to approximately 22 per cent, which is close to the State’s percentage of the total Australian workforce.
Industrial action is taken by employees to settle a workplace dispute about working conditions and includes when employees don't come to work; fail or refuse to perform any work at all; delay or put a ban or limit on the work they do; and / or are locked out of a workplace by their employer.
Examples of industrial action in 2017 in Queensland ranged from BCC bus drivers, childcare workers, Centrelink staff through to the prominent Glencore strike action.
At present we have relatively low incidence but high economic cost of industrial action yet change is potentially on its way that could see both escalate substantially. The very prominent ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, believes and has stated publicly that onerous industrial relations laws needed to change because it is too hard to take industrial action.
The area of the Fair Work Act relating to this issue is complex but in short there are a series of actions that must be taken for industrial action to be 'protected' (ie allowed for under the Act).
If the industrial action is unprotected the Fair Work Commission can suspend or end the action on the basis that it can cause significant economic harm to the employers or cause significant damage to the Australian economy or important parts of it.
A key point for the employee is that if the industrial action is ‘protected’ then an employer must not threaten to dismiss or discriminate against the employee taking the action.
The reality is the level of industrial action in Queensland and Australia has fallen not because it is too difficult to take action but mainly as a result of secret ballots for industrial action being introduced ie individuals can no longer be coerced or feel pressured from ‘mates’ into voting to take strike action.
The case for change in this area is very weak by the ACTU and if anything laws could be tightened to take account of ‘industrial bastardry”.
What do I mean by this, well reasons for industrial action often appear admirable but the reality can be otherwise. For example action taken on the grounds of ‘health and safety’ are often inappropriately used as leverage to achieve other industrial purposes. Those purposes often relate to a union enterprise agreement or subcontractor needing a union enterprise agreement that specifies more generous employment conditions and remuneration.
My view is that the area within the Fair Work Act relating to industrial action is actually working reasonably well and should not be tampered with. The case for tightening the laws is equally as strong as the case for loosening them.
The problem however is that this issue is rapidly becoming one about ‘votes’ and not the relationship between employees and their employer. The business community should be very wary of politicians seeking to derive political mileage out of workplace relations as recent history holds that businesses come out second best.


Manufacturers constantly face pressure to continuously improve operational performance, avoid sudden breakdowns of machines on the shop floor, minimize production loss, and reduce operational costs. However, the biggest barrier to operational excellence is the non-uniform standards of machines and equipment which are being used on the shop floor.
How can a supervisor monitor machine performance remotely?
How to predict machine failure even before it breaks down?
Is it possible to have all the information on a single canvas which a floor manager can access from anywhere, anytime?
Our experts will also show how IoT can bring value to the shop floor and production line monitoring.
Question 1: How are you able to use a Deep Learning model to determine which of the inputs caused a change in the prediction? I've read that this is incredibly difficult to do, since there are too many layers between inputs and predictions.
Answer 1: It is not easy to track which inputs had an effect on the prediction in deep learning specifically because it has numerous non-linear layers between the input layer and output layer. However, by using other ML algorithms we can track the effect of a particular input on the output prediction.
Question 2: What are the specific protocols and communication standards, by name, that are used by the sensors to communicate to the IoT Gateway?
Answer 2: Sensors will not use any protocol. Sensors send analog/digital signal in the form of voltages. A PLC will read digital and analog inputs from various sensors, execute a user defined logic program, and write the resulting digital and analog output values to various output elements like hydraulic and pneumatic actuators, solenoid coils, indication lamps, etc.
A PLC supports protocols and communications standards.
Question 3: Modbus has been "customized" so much how do you handle this w/ all the different machines?
Answer 3: Configuration of Modbus on different Modbus supported machines: Modbus uses RS-485 or RS-232. Modbus TCP uses Ethernet. You will need to pick the model that matches the electrical interface of the equipment you want to connect. When using a gateway to interface, a Modbus device to a non-Modbus network, you need to get documentation from the equipment manufacturer that describes the available registers and how to address them. Modbus protocol does not provide a means for registers to automatically identify themselves. Control solutions cannot determine this information for you. You must consult the equipment manufacturer or online document of Modbus supported device.
Modbus requires you to know or define the baud rate, character format (8 bits no parity, etc.), and slave ID (slave address, unit number, unit ID). A mismatch in any of these will result in no communication.
Modbus TCP requires you to know or define IP addresses on the network.
Question 4: How much historical data is needed for these models to function? Put another way, how long from when I start capturing the data to when it will be useful?
Answer 4: Answer to this question may vary according to data scientist's views on the model so it can be said that there is no right answer to how much amount of data you will need. But you can take data approximately around 4-5 times more than the number of variable (feature) you have.
Question 5: What are the common input sensors used in the Industrial IoT? Is there application for Audio or Voice?
Temperature, thermistors, thermocouples, RTDs, vibration, gas, light, level, flow, current/voltage detector, rotary encoder, ultrasonic thickness gauge, and many more. There are many use cases of NLP and cognitive services that industries widely use. To know more about different types of sensors used in building a smart factory, click here.
Question 6: Can you explain how you are managing security?
Answer 6: We use the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework when communicating with third-party applications. On top of that, communications security is ensured by SSL and TLS protocols.
Question 7: As an interim solution, can data streams be split between local MES systems as well as to the cloud via a Gateway?
Answer 7: Yes, we can do it. But we would need to customize the SDK.
Question 8: Do we need to modernize old system/machines to new one to have such a solution?
Answer 8: You don’t need to update your machines as we can always work with legacy machines by adding smart connectors or smart I/O devices. Furthermore, if machines are too old to support any third-party connectors or I/O devices, then we can use external sensors to acquire data.
Question 9: Can I monitor important KPIs and have analytics on the existing system. I am using SAP.
Answer 9: Yes, our Smart Factory Solution provides external connectivity to popular enterprise applications, e.g., SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and so on. So you can always take the intelligence generated by Smart Factory solution and connect back to your existing ecosystem.
Question 10: I don’t want to take my machine data out of my infrastructure. Do you provide any in-house database option instead of the cloud?
Answer 10: Based on our experience, we see cloud is more stable and reliable option compare to on-premises database setup at the shop floor level. Also, there are many benefits such as the scalability, data security, performance, big data support, fast data processing, stream analytics and redundant data archiving when it comes to the cloud. Taking all these consideration, we provide our solution with the cloud option. However, we do support a smart gateway setup wherein we can have data stored in local gateways and then push to the cloud. So there is always an option to have local data backup if need be.
Question 11: Does this solution require making any changes in the production processes?
Answer 11: This solution is more in line with production line monitoring and does not require any changes in the existing production process. If you require any re-engineering of machine process, then it will be considered as a separate automation project and we can definitely provide you support for the same.
Question 12: We are not sure about IoT implementation in our organization and need more information. Can you arrange a small workshop to demonstrate the capability of a smart factory solution?
Answer 12: Yes. We can arrange a workshop and consult you further to get started with IoT. To know more about our consulting program, click here.


Captain Marvel is set in the 1990s, but what year exactly does Marvel's next movie take place in? Like Captain America and Wonder Woman before her, Brie Larson's Carol Danvers will be a superhero out of time, coming from the past to join her team in the future.
That past is a nostalgia-heavy take on the 1990s. This was confirmed by Kevin Feige at SDCC 2017 and a host of Captain Marvel set photos have shown off Carol's love for bands like Guns N' Roses and Nine Inch Nails, as well as Samuel L. Jackson looking more like Pulp Fiction's Jules than the modern-day Nick Fury. However, none of this has really helped us figure out the exact year. Thankfully, the trailer drops some more specific clues.
The Captain Marvel trailer opens with Carol falling from the sky into a Blockbuster Video store. While this may seem like effortless millennial pandering, it actually really helps place the film: Blockbuster Video stores were rebranded as just "Blockbuster" in 1996, meaning Captain Marvel must be set before that. Shortly after, we see Carol in the 7th Street/Metro Center LA subway station (evidenced by signs pointing towards the Blue and Red Lines, which only intersect there). The Red Line was opened at this station in 1993. Later (when she punches the old lady), she's on a train with a Green Line map, which opened in 1995. All of this means Captain Marvel has to be set in late 1995 or early 1996.
Before the Captain Marvel trailer, the range of potential years the film could be set in was much wider. Carol's bands of choice were actually from the 1980s, while the only clear reference to 90s pop-culture was Coulson's love of M.C. Hammer, who rose to fame in the year 1990. James Gunn did once hint at 1992 trend of backward jeans (although in a jokey sense) and photos allegedly showed campaign posters for Clinton/Gore of that same year, but these new details from the trailer would seem to override that.
Of course, it's worth noting that all of the details discussed are ephemera, rather than concrete parts of the narrative. It's entirely possible that Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's film is going for a more evocative sense of 90s nostalgia, and these details are done for feel over accuracy: using 7th Street station, for example, could supersede when it was actually open. Anachronisms like this aren't uncommon in period movies, especially those that tell otherwise fictional events. Only time will tell.


Madeline - Name Meaning, What does Madeline mean?
Madeline as a girls' name is pronounced MAD-a-linn. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Madeline is "woman from Magdala". Variant of Madeleine, which is the French version. Place name: Magdala was a town on the Sea of Galilee, the home of Saint Mary Magdalen, whom Jesus healed and who was at his crucifixion. Literary: Ludwig Bemelmann's children's books had a French schoolgirl character wearing a wide-brimmed hat named Madeline. Actresses Madeline Kahn, Madeleine Stowe.
Prominent alternative forms of Madeline (#91 A YEAR AGO) are Dale, Lena (#276), Lina (#846), Lynn, Mada, Madalene, Madalyn (#613), Madalynn (#798), Maddie (#1067), Madelaine, Madeleine (#350), Madelene, Madelon, Madelyn (#62), Madelyne, Madelynn (#472), Madge, Madilyn (#325), Madison (#15), Madlyn, Magda, Magdalen, Magdalena (#1014), Magdalene (#1582), Magdaline, Malena, Malina (#1599), Marleen, Marlen, Marlena, Marlene (#1227), Marline, Maud, Maude and Migdalia. Other variants, like Magdeline, are seldom used. These relations of Madeline reached the peak of their popularity in the year 2000 (AVERAGE #1387) and are somewhat less popular today (#1453, 31.2% LESS USAGE), with forms such as Madge becoming less in vogue. Madelyn, Madelynn and Madilyn are three of the more chic birth names in this compilation.
Recommended sound-alike names are Adaline▲, Adelice, Adelie, Adelina▲, Adelinde, Adeline▲, Angeline▼, Aveline, Cateline, Catelinn (see Caitlin), Cathline, Daline, Daryline, Deline, Earline▼, Edelie, Emmeline▲, Eveline, Fayline, Gayline, Jaline, Joceline, Joeline, Joseline, Kaelene, Karaline, Karline, Karoline, Katelin▼, Kayelin, Madeira, Maelee, Maelle, Maelynn, Magalie, Mahelia, Maillie, Mandaline, Mandelin, Mandolin, Mandoline, Marceline, Marcelline, Marelle, Marelyn, Marilene, Marilin, Marlie, Marlin, Marlinn, Marrlin, Martine, Marylin, Maxene, Maxine▼, Mazarine, Mazine, Melene, Melise, Melvine, Merline, Modestine, Nataline, Noeline, Pamelina, Pauline▼, Raedine, Raelene, Raelina, Raleine, Roeline, Roseline, Sadelle, Wendeline and Zeline. These names tend to be less commonly used than Madeline.


Did the Justice Department later find that Ferguson’s police force was a cesspool of racism, incompetence and corruption? Yes.
The emphasis on Cohen's 'if'' was my own, as I believe that the St. Louis county prosecutor Robert McCulloch sought to exonerate Officer Darren Wilson with a landslide of extraneous evidence and witnesses that were not qualified nor vetted by Mr. McCulloch, and was characterized by Cohen's colleagues at the Washington Post as being an unusual approach in the Darren Wilson grand jury process. McCulloch also heavily relied upon Witness #40 who he later admitted "clearly wasn't present when this occurred", the only witness that corroborated Officer Wilson's testimony based her entire testimony on media reports of what Darren Wilson claimed had occurred. Ferguson is the shorthand of the outrage left, while the Benghazi is the stand-in for those on the right? Except the rage targeted around Benghazi had the investigation carried out by exactly the people that wanted to claim some horrible calamity that would make President Obama (better yet Secretary of State Clinton) culpable, the Republican controlled House of Representatives concluded that all wished upon claims of malfeasance were unfounded. The targeted rage of the left that police routinely and criminally culpability treat unarmed people of color with a disproportionate level of force that goes unchecked because those responsible for prosecuting do not wish to punish law enforcement officers of any act of violence, resulting in McCulloch in St Louis and Donovan in Staten Island doing whatever was within their power to fail in getting an indictment from a grand jury. Grand juries not returning an indictment are rare, rarer still are those possibly being indicted testifying to the grand jury as if they are cooperating witnesses. If that sort of privilege was extended as matter a of common practice then we would never see anyone but those that confess to their crimes be indicted!
Cohen falls into the extremely lazy and prevalent practice of punditry and self-appointed intelligentsia claiming that both left and right are equally guilty in an attempt to be neutral. If sports reporters were ever to follow political "opinion makers" such as Washington Post columnists, we would never know who won football games or if basketball players beat the shot clock since we would have sports columnists interview both sides and declare that they both had a "great game" and that both sides "did the best they could" along with other pablum that fills locker room post game interviews. Neutrality isn't the goal and nor does it serve the reading audience and the general public; neutrality is not a synonym for objectivity. Objectivity is able to provide context to a narrative, neutrality is banal and is offensive in exactly how it tries not to challenge of offend the general public with new facts. New facts, are going to be offensive to those that have gotten cozy with their demonstratively wrong old "facts", and it is up to those employed by the news media to offend the people want to desperately hold onto their moldy old-erroneous-perspective regardless to how the world has changed or even if the world had never been congruent with their worldview.


I recently bought a low-cost XT30 balance board that I would share here given it does the job I would expect at a low price: the XT30 1S-3S Plug Parallel Charging Board For IMAX B6 Charger. Although advertised as working with the Imax B6 charger, it will work with any 1-3s capable lipo balance charger that uses banana plugs.
The balance board can be used with 1,2,3,4 or 6 batteries with a XT30 connector and standard balance plugs for 1-3s batteries which will cover most micro builds. Each XT30 discharge lead is protected by a fuse if there is a large voltage differential on connection.
I also purchased this lead that I will modify to with an XT30 male plug from this set for input so that I can also use this balance board for my batteries with JST discharge plugs.
Connection order: banana plug to charger, balance lead to charger, all of the XT30 discharge leads to the balance board and then all the balance leads to the balance board.
Set current as you standard charging current (I use 1c) multiplied by the number of batteries you are charging.


Vampire Owl: I told you that they had secrets, very dangerous ones.
Vampire Bat: Who are you talking about here?
Vampire Owl: The pets. The minions. The zombies. They all have such secret lives.
Vampire Bat: Actually, this movie is not about your theory of animals stealing your writings. It never really happened, and is just a vampire conspiracy theory.
Vampire Owl: What? No! I know that they are having evil plans against us.
Vampire Bat: How can you look forward to big evil plans in an animated movie?
Vampire Owl: Animated evil is still evil, and it can also be brutal.
Vampire Bat: This one even won 2017 Kids’ Choice Awards.
Vampire Owl: Then I will look for the same in another evil animated movie.
Vampire Bat: Okay, just leave this one as a simple animated movie for now.
[Gets three cups of masala tea with a blueberry cake piece].
What is the movie about? :: A Jack Russell Terrier named Max (Louis CK) is living happily with his owner Katie (Ellie Kemper) in an apartment in the city. He wishes to spend most of his time with her, but she has to go to work. After Katie leaves, he spends his time with other pets who also live in the same building: a fat, apathetic and proud cat Chloe (Lake Bell), a smart and always excited pug Mel (Bobby Moynihan), a happy and easy-going dachshund Buddy (Hannibal Buress), and also a parrot Sweetpea. There are also other two significant pets, Norman (Chris Renaud), a guinea pig who keeps losing his way in the apartment, and Gidget (Jenny Slate), a white Pomeranian dog on the opposite apartment having a desperate crush on Max, but haven’t been able to tell him that due to fear of rejection. All the pets socialise and lead a different life after their owners leave.
So, what happens next? :: As things go like this without anything new or special happening with their lives, Katie adopts Duke (Eric Stonestreet), a large mongrel from the dog pound. This leaves Max jealous about having to share his house and also his belongings with someone new. Despite Duke’s repeated attempts to make a deal to share things, Max doesn’t agree and claims everything for himself. He even attempts to make Max look bad in front of Katie even though she has decided to share her love between the two. Angry at Max’s attitude towards him, Duke tries to teach him a lesson outside, but they are both a group of stray cats who remove their collars and leave them on the streets to be caught by Animal Control. Max is desperate to get home again, while Duke is afraid that he will be put down if he goes back to the dog pound.
And then how do things go from there? :: But things don’t end there for them as help is on the way. There is Snowball (Kevin Hart), a white rabbit who leads a rebel group of pets who were mistreated and disowned by their owners. Max and Duke are saved, and they go with anti-domestication gang into the sewers, hoping to find their way back home one day. There are tales of cruelty from humans against the pets told by the members of the group, and hatred runs wild against the human species. As Max and Duke also pretend to hate humans, and even claim to have killed one, Snowball invites them to join the group. But their earlier enemies, the stray cats come in and tell the truth, and they escape, but not without Snowball on their trail vowing to kill them as they had ended up accidentally killing their holy viper. So, the question remains if they can save themselves, or even their old friends find them and save them before Snowball gets his hands on them?
The defence of The Secret Life of Pets :: The movie nicely takes on the other world, leading us through the imaginary space that our pets consider theirs. The voice cast is very much suitable, and there is lot of fun in store in this one. The kids are going to love this one, as already proven with Kids’ Choice Awards, and the people with pets will love it even more. This will appeal the most to the owners of dogs, but the rest also gets their due. There is the message of adjusting to the situations and also to consider the feelings of others, keeping family and friends close to each other. It also tells the owners of animals and birds to be nice to them, and to keep them close and provide the needed, as they are required to be. Well, we get to associate with more pets than we think we will have to; and The Secret Life of Pets will come into the mind more than once. The whole thing remain cute, even with the talks of murdering others.
The claws of flaw :: There are times when The Secret Life of Pets gives that feeling that we have known and seen this before; there are also moments of predictability and repetition, something that the animated movies have struggled so hard to avoid. There will no new level of animated awesomeness to be set here, and this one surely trails in front of the two big animated movies of the year, Moana and Zootopia or the earlier big one, Inside Out. The movie also focuses on the dog’s side, and it is no surprise with the number of people who have or feel the need to have the dog rather than any other. But a tale about pets like this one could have had more of the cats, and hopefully the sequel will have the same. It is a need, and with this stereotyping that has been going on and on with cats and dogs, maybe there will be a day on which all these things will turn the other way around – it is that day which will have the best of movies of this kind, and we hope that it is The Secret Life of Pets 2 that we can talk about like that.
How it finishes :: With the sequel coming up in the year 2019, what the makers need to realise is that a movie like The Secret Life of Pets doesn’t need to focus that much on making people laugh, because it is funny – maybe some divergence is what the second movie of this series should be having. There is no doubt about the box-office too with this one becoming the highest grossing original animated movie which is not produced by Disney or Pixar, and The Secret Life of Pets is also the the sixth highest grossing film of 2016. It is even above the much hyped movies like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Deadpool, Suicide Squad and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. So, the first movie is a winner in so many ways, and what we will need to have is something different and special in the second one, thus maybe even going on to win the Academy Awards for the Best Animated Feature Film – even that much can be done with this material.


The tourism sector in Malaysia is always the thriving industry in the country. The surge of tourist arrivals, especially the influx of tourists from big populations like China and India, as well as the high-income Middle Eastern market, has given the tourism sector a much-needed boost. The fast-growing tourism industry catalyses the economic growth in the nation, and many people started to see the hidden business opportunities within the tourism industry. Travel agency is one of the much-highlighted businesses that drive the growth of tourism in Malaysia.
As the name implies, travel agency offers a variety of services, which include purchasing airline tickets, making hotel reservations, creating itineraries for tour (or cruise packages) and providing information about specific destinations.
How to start a travel agency business in Malaysia?
Starting a travel agency business in Malaysia follows the general company incorporation procedure. However, there are certain laws and regulations that differentiate the travel agency business from other types of business available in Malaysia. To summarise, below are a few points that could help anyone interested to start a travel agency in Malaysia.
g) Tourism Vehicles (Licensing and Control of Tourism Vehicles) Regulations 2000.
Companies setup in the tourism industry in Malaysia is required to obtain several business permits before they start doing business. The ministry has issued several guidelines and checklists to ease the hassles and red tape involved in the application procedures.
a) Make sure you have all the travel agency related guidelines on your fingertips and try to go through the guidelines from cover to cover.
b) Secondly, you need to fill in Form 1 – Application for Licence to Carry on or Operate a Tour Operating Business and Travel Agency Business and submit it together with a processing fee of RM100.00. Several documents must be submitted as stated in the application checklist.
c) If you are applying for an excursion bus/hire and drive car licence, make sure you have completed Form 1 – New Application for Excursion Bus Licence or Form 2 – New Application for Hire and Drive Car Licence with a processing fee of RM50.00. You are also required to submit the documents as listed in the application checklist. You may refer to the guidelines to know more about the procedures and other documents needed for this application.
Running a travel agency business is like doing any other business in the country. Another important thing to do before you kick start any business plan is to get your company registered and incorporated. In addition to this, you will need a corporate account for your business transaction, a good accounting service as well as tax accounting service to make sure your business is running smoothly.
On a final note, starting a travel agency business from scratch is not easy. If you plan to start one and you are unsure of the procedures, be it the company incorporation, or licensing application, feel free to contact us today!


Many people believe that assault refers only to a violent physical attack. In fact, the word assault is used in law to describe a number of different actions with a wide range of seriousness.
Under the Criminal Code, an act can be considered an assault even if there is no actual physical contact. However, words alone cannot be an assault. There must also be a gesture or some other action that leads to harm or the threat of harm.
There must be a deliberate action or intention to either use force or threaten force against someone else. For example, accidentally bumping into someone may be applying force to that person but because there was no intention to harm or threaten harm, it is not considered an assault. Similarly, if force is applied because of a reflex action, such as a sudden movement when startled, there is no assault.
To prove an assault it is not necessary to show that there was actual force used or that the victim was physically harmed. There may be some cases where the use of force is so minor, that a court may find that no assault occurred. For example, in one Saskatchewan case, a person was charged with assault after he pushed someone aside in order to get out of his office. However, the court decided that even if an assault occurred, it was of such a minor, insignificant nature that it did not need to be dealt with in court. In this case, the accused person was acquitted.
In some circumstances, it is possible to consent to an action that otherwise might be considered an assault. Suppose that two people agreed to engage in a wrestling match with each other. Each will apply force to the other person. However, because they have agreed to the force that will be applied against them, no assault has occurred.
Another example might be where someone enters a sporting event, such as hockey or football. Even though a body-check or tackle involves the use of force against another person, people who participate in these sports agree to such contact as a recognized part of the game.
The force that is being consented to must be within reasonable limits, and not meant to cause serious injury. So, if someone purposefully tries to injure a sport opponent, they cannot claim that the other person consented to the risk.
Consent cannot be forced or coerced. It is not consent if an assault victim merely goes along with something - a fist-fight, for example - in which they feel there is no practical choice to "opt out." The consent must be given freely, with a full understanding of the risks involved.
Even if there has been a deliberate use of force against another person without their consent, some circumstances may excuse the action and provide a defence to a criminal charge of assault. Self-defence may be the most well-known of these.
A person who is assaulted may defend themselves by using some force against the person attacking them. However, there are two major limitations to the use of force. First, the amount of force used in self‑defence must be reasonable, and no more than necessary to deal with the perceived danger. Secondly, the person who claims they were acting in self-defence cannot have done anything to provoke the attack. In other words, they cannot "set up" an assault on themselves as an excuse to strike back at another person.
Similarly, reasonable force can be used to protect other people who are under your protection. This would include close family members or others that have a close relationship with you. Reasonable force can also be used to prevent a crime. This would allow an unrelated bystander to intervene to protect an assault victim or to prevent serious property damage or loss.
A property owner can use reasonable force to protect their property. For example, a homeowner is allowed to act in order to keep someone from breaking into their home, or to remove a trespasser. Generally, personal property also can be reasonably protected by its owner. However, when protecting property, a person cannot hit or cause bodily harm to the individual trying to take the property. If the person trying to take the property refuses to give the item up after the owner has laid hands on it, the thief is deemed to have committed an assault.
The Criminal Code provides protection for a teacher, parent or someone who acts in the place of a parent when they use physical force to correct a child under their care. This section of the Criminal Code has been the subject of much debate over the years and has been considered by the Supreme Court of Canada. In considering the section, the court placed limits on when and how force can be used. They decided that spanking teenagers or children under the age of two, hitting a child in the head, or using objects like belts or rulers are actions that go too far. They ruled that this Criminal Code section does not justify "outbursts of violence against a child motivated by anger or animated by frustration." But the court also recognized that the section was necessary to protect a parent or caregiver as they could otherwise be charged with assault for doing something like placing an unwilling child in a chair for a five-minute time-out.
Compulsion is not a defence to an assault charge. This means that someone accused of assault cannot claim that they were forced to commit the assault by a third person. Also, an accused cannot claim that they did not know what they were doing, and lacked the mental ability to commit the crime because they were drunk at the time.
The Criminal Code sets out different penalties for assault convictions, depending upon the circumstances. An assault, without any special circumstances, carries a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment.
Assaulting a peace officer could also bring a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment. The charge of assaulting a peace officer includes an assault against someone who is helping a peace officer in official duties, or someone who is trying to make a lawful seizure of goods, such as a sheriff or bailiff. Resisting a lawful arrest or detention is considered to be assault of a peace officer as well.
An assault carried out with a weapon, or one that results in bodily harm, has a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment.
Aggravated assault occurs if the victim suffers wounds, disfigurement or life-threatening injuries. This carries a maximum sentence of fourteen years imprisonment.
There are varying degrees of sexual assault, with corresponding punishments. For more information on sexual assault, see the PLEA publication After Sexual Assault, available at plea.org.
The first concern of an assault victim may be to seek medical treatment for any injuries. Then, the victim may choose to report the incident to the police. The police will gather evidence, and talk to any witnesses. A victim likely will have to sign a written statement about the incident.
If a suspect is arrested and charged they may be released, subject to certain conditions, such as reporting to the police at regular intervals. Or, the accused person may be held in jail until a trial if the victim is in danger or if there is a risk of the accused not appearing on future court dates.
If the accused person pleads not guilty, the victim may need to testify at a trial. The prosecutor will ask the victim questions about the assault. The lawyer for the accused then has the opportunity to ask questions. This is called cross-examination. The prosecutor can help prepare the victim for what to expect.
On the other hand, if the accused pleads guilty, a trial is not necessary. If the accused pleads or is found guilty, the judge can ask for a pre-sentence report, which gives background information about the offender. As well, the victim will have the opportunity to make a victim impact statement. A judge will consider all of this information, as well as the facts of the assault, in deciding what sentence to give the offender.
The victim may be able to sue the person who assaulted them. This is because assault is not just a crime. It is also a tort, which means a civil wrong. Suing in civil court may result in an award of money to the victim. A lawyer can help the victim decide if suing the offender is a practical option.
To find a lawyer, the victim can ask a friend or look through the yellow pages.
If the assault was part of a series of harassing conduct by the offender, a victim may be able to ask for a peace bond against the offender. This is a court procedure where the offender is restricted from having future contact with the victim. If the offender makes contact, they may be charged with a criminal offence. Further information can be found in the PLEA publication Peace Bonds, available at plea.org.
An assault may result in medical expenses, damage to clothing or personal accessories such as eyeglasses, lost wages or counselling costs. Victims may be able to get assistance from the government for such expenses. To get more information, call Victims Services toll-free at 1-888-286-6664. Victims Services also provides a number of programs throughout the province, to provide information and general support to victims of crimes. Further information can also be found in the PLEA publication Victims of Crime, available at plea.org.


Shooting in manual mode is made out to be something really, really BIG. It's as if you are not a true photographer until you shoot in manual mode. Nothing could be further from the truth. Each mode on the camera whether it is aperture priority, shutter priority, program mode or manual mode has got a specific use and a smart and good photographer knows when to use them.
The question that many people ask is - why shoot in manual mode at all when the average camera has such sophisticated technology built into it that it is almost guaranteed that you will get a perfect exposure every time? Shooting in manual mode has it's benefits. One very basic thought behind shooting in manual mode is that it really helps you understand the process of taking a photograph. In that sense, it makes you a better photographer.
Once you are familiar with the way a photograph is made and you understand the reason why a photograph turns out the way it does, it will be easier for you to shoot in other modes as well. Also, it has the benefit of being able to replicate the look and feel of the photographs that you like. A great example of this is people who shoot portfolios in the studio. Once they have figured out the look they want, they know exactly what settings to shoot on rather than mess with them each time a new client walks in.
I personally use the manual mode when I don't want the camera making too many decisions on my behalf. This usually happens when I come to a setting where I am happy with the exposure - both on my subject and the foreground (if any) and the background and I am not expecting the light to change too much. This might happen while shooting with flash or in natural light. In natural light though, you will have to keep checking the exposure at certain intervals to ensure that the moving sun has not caused any change in the desired exposure.
Usually the camera tries to act smart and changes the exposure value if you recompose - like move the subject to one side of the frame or zoom in etc. This is what I don't want happening. Once I am happy with the exposure, I am happy with it. That is why I use the manual mode to lock it down.
As you know, there are three values that create an exposure, the aperture, the shutter speed and the ISO. If not, please read this article on the Realtionship between Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO.
How to shoot in manual mode?
In manual mode, you take over all the controls from the camera, which is aperture, shutter speed and ISO. You do this my switching to the M mode on the camera.
You define your starting point by deciding what is more important to you - the aperture or shutter speed.
The ISO obviously is at the lowest setting when you start off and this will be the last thing that you increase.
Watch the video below to understand how to nail and lock down shooting in manual mode. It is no rocket science - I can definitely assure you of that. Subscribe to our channel if you feel like it by clicking here.


BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A federal judge's order for more environmental review of the already-operating Dakota Access oil pipeline has several potential outcomes, all of which could spark even more wrangling in a Washington, D.C., court room. The big question is whether the pipeline will be shut down while the case plays out — and if so, for how long.
WHAT IS THE PIPELINE AGAIN?
The $3.8 billion pipeline built by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners moves oil from western North Dakota to a distribution point in Illinois, where it can be shipped to the Gulf Coast and potentially lucrative markets abroad. It began operating June 1 and has the capacity to move half of North Dakota's daily oil production. American Indian tribes in the Dakotas fear environmental and cultural harm — which ETP disputes — and are trying to persuade a federal judge to shut down the line that they've been battling nearly a year.
WHY IS THE COURT CASE STILL UNRESOLVED?
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on June 14 ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers "largely complied" with environmental law when permitting the pipeline. But he also said they didn't adequately consider how an oil spill under the Missouri River might affect the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's fishing and hunting rights, or whether it might disproportionately affect the tribal community — a concept known as environmental justice. That aims to ensure development projects aren't built in areas where minority populations might not have the resources to defend their rights.
In its analysis of the Missouri River crossing, the Corps studied the mostly white demographics in a half-mile (0.8-kilometer) radius, which the agency maintains is standard. But if the agency had gone another 88 yards (80 meters) — about the length of a football field — the study would have included the Standing Rock Reservation. The tribe accuses the Corps of gerrymandering.
Boasberg has ordered the Corps to reconsider those areas of its environmental analysis.
The Standing Rock tribe and its supporters have hailed it as a major victory.
But ETP spokeswoman Lisa Dillinger said the company "believes the record supports the fact that the Corps properly evaluated both issues." And Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas Oxman said attorneys will "continue vigorously defending the government's actions."
The White House said the administration is confident the federal analysis of the pipeline's environmental impact is legally sound.
WILL THE ADDITIONAL REVIEW AFFECT PIPELINE OPERATIONS?
To shut down the pipeline, Boasberg would have to invalidate the Corps' permission for the project while the agency does its review. He appears hesitant to do that, saying it "would carry serious consequences that a court should not lightly impose."
The judge isn't rushing to a decision. His schedule has both sides submitting written arguments in July and August.
ETP has expressed confidence that he won't stop the pipeline in the meantime.
HOW WILL THE ADDITIONAL REVIEW PLAY OUT?
The tribes maintain that the "lawful" way to resolve it is through a full environmental study, which the Corps had planned to do before President Donald Trump took office and pushed through completion. If the Corps simply revises its analysis, expect another round of litigation, Standing Rock attorney Jan Hasselman said.
"In effect, it resets the clock to where we were last fall, when we were pushing for (a full study) and asking for consideration of route alternatives," he said. "We'll be doing that again."
The tribes also are pushing for a review that includes public and tribal input.
Corps and Justice Department officials declined to comment on what they will do, but they said they expect to propose a timeframe for the review in mid-July. The Corps has said a full environmental study could take up to two years.
ETP expects a limited process, with the Corps reaffirming its conclusions. Spokeswoman Lisa Dillinger said "it is important to note that while Judge Boasberg asked the Corps to provide greater substantiation for its conclusions, the Court did not find the prior determinations to be erroneous."
The company has a point, said Connie Rogers, a Denver attorney who specializes in federal permits, natural resources and Indian law. She compared the matter to a middle school math assignment in which students wouldn't get full credit for correct answers unless they showed their work.
"This could just be an issue that the Corps didn't explain itself," Rogers said. "They could do a supplemental (analysis) in a month or, if they actually did not analyze those things, it might take longer.
"I think it's going to come down to how confident is the Corps in its determination that there are no significant impacts," she said.


Review appraisers generally act as appraisal consultants, they develop and communicate usually in writting their opinions regarding the quality of another appraiser's work. As most appraisers know, a reviewer looks at the data, reasoning, analyses and conclusions of the appraisal, or other work, and they form an opinion as to the credibility of the conclusion that was reached and the adequacy of the evidence that was provided. Reviews often do not form their own opinion of value through their own independent analysis, it happens but it's not usual.
It's important to understand that many appraisal reviews have a limited scope. Many reviews are "desk" reviews, and the review appraiser never sees the subject property, the comparable sales, the neighborhood or the rent comparables. Thus most review appraisals are focused only on format, they seek to know whether the appraisal report being reviewed provided "adequate" and "appropriate" content to form a credible value opinion. Users of appraisal reviews need to understand that an appraisal that has been correctly completed and well supported can be criticized by a review appraiser because of their opinion that it is incomplete or confusing.
One of the most frustrating things about an appraisal review is that the reviewer, due to his or her limited scope, does not express a value opinion. They may talk about the shortcomings of a report that they know has concluded a value 50% higher or 50% lower than they think was appropriate but they can't talk about that in the review. So they pick out technical problems but never express an opinion. So what was the point of the review? Was it to be critical, often to the point of absurdity because even appraisal peers do not provide the detail that reviewers identify as being "inadequate" or to find the true value of the property?
The review process often runs off the rails when it gets into the litigation area. Attorneys are forever trying to criticize the opositions report and its appraiser and make their report and appraiser appear to be the only one that is credible, and you have some judges who buy into the maniupulations lock, stock and barrel. The problem with appraisals for litigation is that there are no perfect appraisal reports, there are always problems no matter what you do to minimize it. There are also so few appraisers who can withstand a vicious cross examination. Many attorneys pride themselves on being able to bring an appraiser, regardless of his education and experience, to the point where he is apologizing for his mistakes on the stand.
There are specific issues that are discussed in all of the review forms that I have seen which are true to USPAP standards, but that will cause difficulty for many an appraiser. Specifically the issue of an expense data. USPAP 2012-2013 Standard Rule 1-4 (ii) requires an appraiser to "analyze such comparable operating expense data as are available to estimate the operating expenses of the property." While some appraisers are coming around, few have address expenses in the past, and relatively little data on expenses exists in many markets, so this may not have been an area where you or your peers put a lot of attention.
Even more painful is the simple review issue regarding the adjustment of comparable sales. Every review I have ever seen notes "No" in response to the standard question "Are the appraisers adjustments supportable." Basically it is saying that you did not provide, in your short summary report that doesn't require specificity regarding such factors, a detailed paired-sales study, grouped sales study or statistical study that details how you made those location, size, construction quality and other adjustments that you thought were reasonable. The reviewer is basically saying that in order for your appraisal to be complete, to have supplied appropriate data, that you must now provide that background information.
Lets be honest, I have read hundreds and hundreds of self-contained appraisal reports, many of which I have scanned and are in my files and none of them provided the basis for every single adjustment that the appraiser made in his report. Some do a fair job of quantifying the market conditions (time) adjustment with paired sales. One or two of hundreds have provided the derivation of other adjustments, although the data generally deteriorates into a quagmire and it begins to lack credibility. The most defensible appraisals written for litigation purposes often simply make very few adjustments. While the after adjustment range is wider the appraiser doesn't have to worry about the defense of as many adjustments. There is also the use of qualitative adjustments, I think they make a lot of sense but you will take a lot of criticism as an appraiser for using qualitative adjustments, and the banks and government customers won't accept them.
As an aside, I think the term "forensic appraisal" is an oxymoron, since an appraisal is just an opinion not a fact and a "forensic appraisal" implies that since it was prepared for litigation, and provides precisely defined terms and a precisely defined problems, that it will provide more to its user than any other opinion.
Review appraisers use forms and a number of them are available for download on the Internet. Some review appraisers develop their own forms. Like the appraisal process itself there is nothing magical about the review process, it is usually just a step-by-step examination of each USPAP standard and then making comments about content. There are some examples of forms used for commercial reviews attached to this article that can be modified for your particular assignment. Good luck, and keep in mind that an appraisers work should be judged based on what their peers do every day, and not by an ideal that no other appraiser in the market meets. It may make great reading at the bank but I dare you to provide evidence that your review comments are consistent with what you find in peer reports.
For more appraisal information contact Glenn Rigdon a Las Vegas / Henderson Nevada appraiser via email or via his business website Horizon Village Appraisal (http://www.horizonvillageappraisal.com), or you can also click on “Contact Us” on the home page of this website.
What Happens When an Appraiser Can't Find Comparable Sales?


How does the Alteryx engine handle multiple multirow calculations?
I have a workflow that needs several multirow calculations to be performed (one per column).
How are these translated to the Alteryx engine? In the example below, are these calculations optimized or are table scans (or the Alteryx equivalent) performed several times (one for each node)?
I am thankful for any help on this issue.
For simplicity, I am going to assume you have calculation depending on last 3 rows for each column.
Each calculation will be performed separately but not as a table scan. The calculations are more like stream processors.
Each multi-row formula tool will keep a small collection of the number of rows it needs.
The upstream tool pushes a record into the first calculation.
Assuming it already has 3 rows in its internal cache it will drop the oldest and store the new one.
It will then do the computation and push the new record into the next MR formula.
The second multi-row tool will act in the same way acting on the new row and then pushing downstream tools.
If you have a grouping in the multi-row this will cause a sort to be applied before the tools. Alteryx is very smart and I think if both have the same grouping it recognises this and hence only does the sort once.


What good is a powerful flashlight if you can't track it down when the power goes out? Build this DIY bracket with glow-in-the-dark paint and your lamp will be easy to find whenever you need it.
I keep flashlights stored all over the house because we lose power often in our neighborhood, and at least half of the outages occur at night. What's the best way to store a flashlight so I can find it in the dark?
Yep, a flashlight will do you absolutely no good unless you can find it in the dark. The photo above shows the simple setup I use at home. The flashlight holder consists of nothing more than a 1-foot-long piece of 1 x 4 pine with a Maglite D-cell flashlight mounting bracket screwed to it. The brackets are sold by the pair; they have a sure grip, so one suffices for a wall attachment, but you might want to use two if, for instance, you're hitching a flashlight to the interior of your car, truck or boat. In lieu of the all-purpose screws packaged with the brackets, I used No. 8 3/4-inch round-head wood screws. I affixed the mounting block to the wall with two self-drilling No. 8 2½-inch wood screws. The rig might appear to be overkill, but it's merely built to last. Unless you fasten the bracket firmly to the block and the block tightly to the wall, you'll loosen the holder the first time you remove the flashlight.
I beveled the edge of the wood block, painted it the same color as the wall and applied a stripe of glow-in-the-dark paint on the ends. Two coats of the phosphorescent acrylic create a good beacon, but if I ever install another setup elsewhere in the house, I'd go with three coats for even greater brightnessand ease of finding my way in the dark.