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Colin Farrell's heart melts for children with rare skin disease ---- Tough guy actor shows soft side at Dublin fundraiser
Although Colin Farrell had returned home to Dublin for Christmas with his family he took time out to meet with Debra Ireland, an organization that provides support to 'butterfly children', whose skin blisters at the slightest touch.
Farrell felt he could identify with the parents of these children as his own son suffers from health problems. The disease in question is epidermolysis bullosa (EB) and he spent two hours talking to families before he whisked eight lucky ladies off for dinner at the famous Irish American steak house, Shanahan's on St Stephen's Green.
His own son, James, aged 7, was wrongly diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of one-and-a-half. The doctors later found that he was suffering from a condition called Angelman Syndrome. He said that he can sympathize with parents whose children suffer with health problems.
Speaking to the Herald he said "Everyone's journey is specific to them. So I can't say I understand how the parents feel -- the confusion and fear, concern for the future of their children, nor can I understand the pain they are going through…But at the same time I have my own version of the experience."
Farrell was particularly touched by Emma Fogarty's story. The 26-year-old is the patient ambassador with Debra Ireland and has had EB since birth. Emma's fingers have fused together and she finds it difficult to walk. She has spent months in hospital.
He said that he could not imagine the suffering that people with EB go through.
"With James's condition -- there is not really that much pain involved…But with EB there is so much pain and discomfort on a daily basis and just being incredibly cautious not to knock things."
"It's just astonishing what some people deal with on a daily basis - how it's just the simple things we take for granted, that we are so fortunate."
He said "I think this will be a completely enriching experience for me.
"I'm really grateful that I can be here, have a laugh and hopefully we can have a lovely dinner and that in itself is reason enough for me to come home."
Farrell has to travel by boat to get home for Christmas as planes in London and Dublin had been grounded by snow storms.


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On this day Floyd Mayweather beat Ricky Hatton
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In an exclusive interview Ricky Hatton recalls when Floyd Mayweather threw $100 bills on his table
TODAY (December 8) marks the 10th anniversary of when Ricky Hatton fought Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas. In this week's issue of Boxing News magazine Declan Warrington speaks to Floyd Mayweather, Ricky Hatton and all the key players involved in that event. Here is an exclusive extract:
"He was a superstar very few people liked," Hatton, then 29, told Boxing News.
"He was very cocky; very brash. But it was made to be the success it was [despite being at 5am it sold a then-record 1.2million Pay-Per-Views in the UK]. It was perfect. I thought Floyd lost his first fight to Castillo, so when I knocked him out in four: I knew it was always going to be big, but I don't think we'd seen anything like it, and I don't think we've seen anything like it since.
"It was the 24/7, and going to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Michigan, London, Manchester. You're flying there on your own private jet. I don't know if it was for the camera: every press conference he was in my face. By the end of the press tour it was getting tedious and I was thinking 'Will you just p**s off?'. I'd be in restaurants and he'd come in and throw $100 bills on the table, 'I'll pay for your meal, man'. He was a f*****g pest."
To read the full inside story from Floyd Mayweather's famous 10 round victory at the MGM Grand, including Mayweather's exclusive take on the event, don't miss this week's issue of Boxing News magazine.
Tagsfloyd mayweather Mayweather-Hatton ricky hatton
Feature • Issue
Editor's Pick – The highs and lows of being a reporter at a Las Vegas Fight Week
Editor's Pick: Behind the scenes of Floyd Mayweather vs Ricky Hatton
Editor's Pick: 'Fighting Ricky Hatton cost me my dreams'
Issue • Premium • Q and A
Shane Mosley: 'For a moment Floyd Mayweather thought I was going to knock him out'

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Q: console.log prints undefined When I try to print a simple string with console.log(), it does not print the string out but rather it returns undefined:
> console.log("Hello")
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What is wrong?

A: Check your console log levels configuration. Chances are you unchecked info :

A: just place your javascript.min.js file within the body tag of html and test

A: because when you write in console it will print the return value of the function, when the function you called have no explicit return javascript implicitly call return undefined.
so when you write console.log("hello") it will return undefined so console print undefined for you

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SRINAGAR: In Occupied Kashmir, a three-day shutdown is being observed to register protest against the killings of eleven Kashmiri youth in Pulwama.
Call for the shutdown has been given by Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.
The leadership has also called a march towards Badami Bagh cantonment in Srinagar on Monday to register protest against the killings.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a tweet asked India to stop genocide in the territory. Hurriyat leaders and organizations strongly denouncing the Pulwama carnage appealed to the international community to take cognizance of Indian brutalities against the people of the occupied territory.


Please see our Petition to ban canal estate developments in WA , to be returned by Monday 13th of October 2014.
See Development Control Policy 1.8 Canal Estates and Artificial Waterway Developments page 45 (as at 19th September, 2014).
Clearing of protective coastal foreshore reserves that absorb the impact of storms and flooding. After Super Storm Sandy, New York in spending $350m to build a vegetation buffer around Manhattan to shields the city against floods and stormwater. In WA we are clearing coastal vegetation and building vulnerable housing estates in its place.
Privatisation and commercialisation of reserved public land for exclusive housing and a pleasure craft marina for the benefit of a few. This is not fitting with the traditional cultural and heritage values of the site, which has been for generations an affordable sea side location for family picnics, day trips and holidays. Not for the champagne set.
Loss of public green space in a rapidly growing region.
Safety issues, if dredging and maintenance of the marina are not carried out properly, as seen recently at the Ocean Reef Marina, where poor maintenance cause a yachting accident. Resulting in members of one of the clubs calling for the marina to be closed, until dredged properly.
Perth is one of the windiest cities in the world. The windiest point on the Perth metropolitan coastline is Ocean Reef. This may be great for Yachts, but it is not suitable for housing (see image below).
Inevitable damage from more extreme weather events, such as cyclones and storm surges going forward, with potentially massive costs to tax payers and uninsured or underinsured property owners. The floor heights of canal houses are set to accommodate sea level rise and small storms, but are not adequate to protect from the major storms that are being predicted with climate change along our coast. See the recently released report by the Climate Institute and Choice – Buyer Beware.
In the event of a destructive cyclone with storm surges around Perth or any of our major towns, the damage would be extensive. The developers would get off scot free, because they follow planning regulations set by the State Government and therefore act within the law. Insurance companies do not cover for inundation from the ocean and very few cover for flooding from storm surges, especially in high risk coastal areas, so they will not suffer too greatly. If they were hit hard, premiums go up or disappear completely. The State Government may not be too concerned, because the Commonwealth Government typically fork out for natural disasters, often borrowing from banks to cover the costs. The big winners are the building and construction industry, because they go into over drive, charging premium rates to rebuild. This drives the cost of building and materials up for everyone.
Cyclones bring storm surges, that can do more damage than the wind and are rarely covered by insurance. A couple of insurance companies still cover for storm surge in WA, but only if there is damage from the cyclones wind as well. Very few people will find that they are covered for this type of "inundation from the ocean" or "action of the sea". Click on this image and go to the video.
Perth at risk of cyclone flood "Mr Baverstock said if Perth was affected by another cyclone that coincided with unusually high tides and forecast sea level rises upwards of 50cm, the city could be faced with a "wall of water effectively as high as a tsunami".
The Impact of Climate Change on Insurance against Catastrophes (Australia 2003).
Australian Government's Geoscience Australia – OzCoasts predictions for sea level rises (without storms or other extreme tidal events).
Do coastal shires have Storm tide evacuation maps ?
Cyclone over WA (image from the documentary Countdown to Catastrophe episode 3 – Storms). Click on the image to view the documentary.
Storm surge from hurricane Sandy pushing in to the harbor. This computer simulation demonstrates how properties in canal developments in estuaries can be affected by storm surge in extreme weather events. It is unclear if floods caused from a storm surge pushing up the Swan River from a storm off Fremantle would be deemed "flooding" or "storm surge" for insurance purposes here in Perth?
The Truth Is In The Flood Maps The Globe Mail, May 2012, article about home insurance after the Queensland floods (see part 1 and part 2).
Would Perth cope with a 100 year flood?
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This land was given to the people of WA. It is not the Council's to sell! Build the Marina on Rockingham foreshore, where plans are in place.
Not what the community wants, not what rich people need.
Canal developments pose a risk to existing infrastructure (housing, water supplies) that does not appear to be considered under the existing TPS they may make additional profits for developers but the government shouldn't be in the business of increasing developers profits at the expense of adjoining land owners or existing infrastructure. How many people actually use the boats they have parked outside their 'little Venice' in Mandurah and at what environmental impact?
Please learn by our mistakes!
We are sick of governments unfair developments just to canvas money for their parties!
Make the world more liveable for more people not just a few for a short time!
Healthy environments for healthy people!
Point Peron is too unique, too precious and too pristine to be lost forever to short-term profiteering. Let's keep the park that was given to the people of Western Australia for the people.
This land belongs to the public and the public doesn't want it sold to benefit a few. Government also needs to learn that canal developments don't work and there are too many environmental as well as physical risks such as increasing storms due to climate change.
Point Peron needs to be left in its natural state. That's what people want and also tourists want to see as well!
Why on earth does the government not look around instead of blindly copying the mistakes of others. Are they that stupid or are we for voting them in!
Get a life people, build heaps of canals I reckon. Theres bugger all else to do in Perth. Some of the most exciting places to visit in Perth are Fremantle, Hillarys and Mindarie Quay. Some people are never happy with any change. I bet you lot are all tree hugging hippes, go live out in the bush!!
Don't get confused between 'canal estates' and marinas. We are very supportive of the Port Rockingham marina proposal off the Rockingham foreshore/cafe strip. Marinas are built in the water not inland. See http://www.oneperth.com.au/2012/01/20/moment-of-truth-for-port-rockingham/ . This development does not have a residential estate. Though fully approved it is on hold because the developer ran into financial problems and they can't find investors (not even in China). Makes you wonder how Cedar Woods and Landcorp will find investors for all of the facilities they are promising?
It isn't about what you want or what a few cashed up boaties want, encase you have not noticed the boom is over. We desperately need to diversify and tourism is one of our best bets. Tourists don't want artificial inlets and marinas, they want nature, pristine unspoiled nature, according to the market research http://ow.ly/RinPu . What you are going to see here in Perth is a lot less disposable income and a hell of a lot of boats for sale. You might still think that marinas are a pretty neat idea, but a large number of Chinese tourists for example are now very sophisticated, highly educated and far more evolved that most of us, marina hopping and sipping crappy cappuccinos is not going to do it for them.


TIP! As you build an SEO page, try not to be fooled into thinking about advertising as a primary tool. Although advertising on other sites may drive traffic to your site and thereby increase income, it will not boost your rankings.
While some SEO tasks are best left to professionals, there are many things that you can do to optimize your site without additional help. This article will be helpful in making your next step.
TIP! Using a pay-per-click method can be one of the most effective affiliate marketing program systems. This service is easy to provide, but the pay can be modest.
TIP! Check out the competitions' HTML code. This will allow you a glimpse at what they are using for SEO and the keywords that are in use.
There are many different strategies to optimize your site for search engines. Your site will show up in results more frequently if you use SEO effectively. User experience will be greatly improved as a result of increased performance.
A domain name should be memorable and linked directly to the products or services you are marketing. These are great for your viewers that locate your content through YouTube.
TIP! Include your chosen key phrases in your page title and throughout your site. Spend some effort making your title good, since that's what shows up on search engine results pages.
TIP! A site map can help you bring more traffic to your website. This will make all of your pages accessible from each other.
Use a title tag that describes the page well so that search engines will comprehend your content. Search engines usually will not show content past 60 characters. Also, anything after sixty characters is given less consideration.
Consider using an article exchange service rather exchanging links. This technique will share articles on multiple sites. This works better than link exchanges and both websites get new content.
TIP! One good way to increase the ranking of your website is to use videos. Use videos for introducing yourself or to demonstrate products.
Keep your focus to just one subject per page. Avoid shoving too many things on one post or page. It confuses clients and prevents them from returning. By having a page for each item, your website will rank higher.
TIP! A page full of just links will never be looked at more than once. Blend them into the content.
Make a sitemap for your viewers, and include your keywords a few times. A site map is a navigational tool on your website that gives links to all the different pages so that viewers can easily find the specific page they're looking for. Search engines use the inclusion of a site map in their consideration of where your site should be ranked.
TIP! One vital tip in regards to SEO is to include current topics or events that you can and tying it to your service or product. This is important because you can draw in visitors who had been searching for something seemingly unrelated to your topic.
Don't duplicate any content on your pages. You might not even realize that you are using the same material over and over. You might feel like you are saving time by using the same exact product description across more than one page, but a search engine sees it as spammy.
TIP! Place yourself in your customer's shoes and try to think about what words or things they may search for in order to produce websites about eyeglasses. This will help you better select a variety of keywords.
Look into podcasts. A podcast can be either auditory or visual content that relates to your business and your customers. You can get a big boost from streaming content live as well. It is easy to enter the podcast world; you only need a tape recorder. This way, descriptions of the podcasts you have will appear in search results.
If you are ready to get a high ranking, be sure to give these tips your consideration as you get started and continue with SEO. It is not difficult to apply SEO practices, and they will help you see an improvement in your rank.


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Simple Supper: Cheesy Bacon-Leek Quiche—My Latest On Refinery29! / Hey, EEP!
Simple Supper: Cheesy Bacon-Leek Quiche—My Latest On Refinery29!
Growing up I thought quiche was a health food. Why not! It (for the most part) is a meat-less alternative to a steak dinner, right? Obviously I now realize that piecrust and gooey cheese will only pad my wiggly bits but I really don't care: I love quiche!
1. Bake the pie shell as the label directs. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool slightly.
2. Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a skillet on medium-high heat until crisp, about five minutes, flipping once. Transfer bacon to a paper-towel-lined plate and let cool; reserve drippings in skillet. Cut or crumble bacon into pieces.
3. Add leeks and one-fourth teaspoon salt to the skillet and cook, stirring and scraping up any brown bits in the pan, until leeks are soft, about five minutes. Remove from the heat; let cool slightly.
4. Whisk the eggs and milk in a large bowl until smooth. Stir in the Gruyère cheese, leek mixture, bacon, and one-fourth teaspoon each salt and pepper.
5. Pour filling into the prepared crust; transfer to a foil-lined baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit until the filling sets, about 35 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack, and cool slightly before serving.
Quiche- so, so good in the cold months. You really just can't go wrong with cheese.


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Q: React, how to modify the state of a parent component As you will see in the code below I have my main App component, which has 3 states, and a child component, SerchBar, which will render several buttons, I want to use those buttons to fill the championsFilter state with the ones that the champions state will have
class App extends React.Component {
  componentDidMount(){
    fetch("http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/12.20.1/data/en_US/champion.json")
    .then(data => data.json())
    .then(champs => {
      this.setState({
        champions : Object.values(champs.data),
      })
    })
  }

  constructor(props){
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      champions: [],
      championsFilter: [],
      championDetail : {}
    }
  }

  render(){
    return (

clone of League of legends champions, to practice React Js

        <NavBar/>
        <Switch>
          <Route exact path="/">
            <SearchBar rols={rols}/>
            <Champions champions={this.state.champions}/>
          </Route>
          <Route path="/form">
            <Form/>
          </Route>
          <Route path="/detail">
            <Detail/>
          </Route>
          <Route path="/about">
            <About/>
          </Route>
        </Switch>

    );
  }
}

A: To modify the state of parent component you can make use of callback function.
Try this :

*

*Create a function in parent component which is App and send this function as a props to SearchBar

Ex :
const getSearchValue = (championsFilter) => {

// In here championsFilter will have the value from child component

}

<SearchBar rols={rols} getSearchValue = {() => getSearchValue(championsFilter)}/>

*In SearchBar component, on the button click event handler, you can push all the button values i.e search values and store it in an array and then call the props function getSearchValue and pass this array as a parameter.

Ex :
const onClick = () => {
// write your logic to push the search field values to an array here, Example code

let filterArray = [];
filterArray.push("searchField");

this.props.getSearchValue(filterArray)
}


Sandra K Adomatis, SRA, LEED Green Associate, NAR Green Designee, is a national speaker on valuing high-performance features. Her background as an active real estate appraiser, REALTOR, instructor, and course developer brings insightful dialogue to share with builders, lenders, and real estate professionals. You might even say she wrote the book because she did author, Residential Green Valuation Tools. She spearheaded the "Appraisal Institute Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum" that is being used by builders, appraisers, and energy organizations around the country. Her passion for high-performance structures is powered by her desire to see people living in healthier buildings that cost them less.
Dane Anderson, MAI, CCIM serves Situs RERC as director of appraisal and consulting services. With more than 15 years of valuation and consulting experience, he is proficient across a wide range of services, including appraisal, appraisal review, independent fiduciary, portfolio analysis, and research. Mr. Anderson has a bachelor's degree in accounting, masters of science in business analytics, and an MBA, all from the University of Iowa.
J. Roger Ball, Jr., MAI, AI-GRS, SR/WA, began his appraisal career in 2004 after graduation from Birmingham-Southern College. From 2004 to 2007, he worked under the direct supervision of the late T. Julian Skinner, III, MAI, where he was exposed to all aspects of the appraisal profession, including significant experience in fee appraisals, condemnation cases, and complex litigation matters involving valuation experts.
Following Mr. Skinner's death, Roger joined Commercial Valuation Services, Inc. of Birmingham, where his practice has focused on right of way and condemnation appraisals as well as expert witness litigation support. Based in Birmingham, his projects regularly take him across the entire State of Alabama. Recent assignments include numerous electric transmission line projects, a natural gas transmission line easement, a leased lot portfolio on four of the largest lakes in Alabama, a state road widening project, deep-water port properties, an acquisition project related to the Airbus A-320 final assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, and numerous projects for The University of Alabama. He has been qualified numerous times as an expert witness in various courts across Alabama.
Roger obtained the MAI designation in 2012, and his AI-GRS designation in 2018. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Appraisal Institute's President's Award, becoming the youngest person in the 80-year history of the 19,000 Member Organization to receive this award. Roger currently serves on the Appraisal Institute's Education Committee and the ICVC Board of Directors.
Simone Beaty is the Director, Affordable Lending Product Development at Freddie Mac.
Benjamin Blair, Esq., is a partner in the Indianapolis office of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, where he advocates for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 corporations in cases involving state and local taxes. Ben combines substantial trial experience with deep knowledge of the tax laws in representing clients nationwide across numerous industries, including gaming and hospitality, real estate, energy and natural resources, high-tech and heavy manufacturing, retail, and logistics.
Ben represents property owners in ad valorem property tax litigation. He has extensive experience applying innovative appraisal and valuation techniques, and he collaborates with market participants – including developers, property managers, and appraisers – to understand trends in the real estate market and his clients' businesses. Ben also counsels clients through complex cases involving state and local tax agencies, including advocacy from administrative appeals to trial and appellate courts, on a variety of income, sales and use and unemployment tax matters.
A frequent speaker and author on tax and valuation issues, Ben is a columnist for The Appraisal Journal and serves as an adjunct professor of State and Local Taxation at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, his alma mater.
Richard L. (Rick) Borges II, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, AI-RRS, is the principal of Cross-Continent Real Estate Mediation and Arbitration, which focuses on alternative dispute resolution for valuation-related disagreements. Rick is also active in Rick Borges Real Estate Services, Inc., a full-service real estate firm established serving southern Indiana since 1977. Rick has a wide background in both residential and non-residential valuation, with many unique experiences and enlightening insights about the use of appraisal and review appraisal knowledge to solve non-traditional problems.
A graduate of Indiana University, life-long Hoosier, and seasonal resident of Treasure Island, Florida, Rick has been involved with AI since 1978, serving on numerous committees and project teams in addition to two terms on the AI Board of Directors and as AI president in 2013. An AI instructor since 1989, he has facilitated courses, seminars, or topic presentations in 48 of the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and seven foreign countries.
Zach Bowyer is Senior Managing Director for CBRE Valuation & Advisory Services and National Practice Leader for CBRE's Seniors Housing & Care specialty practice. Specializing in the seniors housing sector for over fifteen years, Zach has completed over $50 billion in aggregate valuation and consulting assignments throughout the U.S.
Services provided include third-party valuations, operational due diligence, asset management, market studies, and feasibility analyses of single-asset to large portfolio transactions. Clients served include a broad base of lenders, local and national investment firms, development and operating companies, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies and REITs. Zach has also worked with other asset classes including multifamily, office, and industrial.
Zach is a regular panel contributor at industry events such as NIC, NCREIF and ULI. He is the Vice Chair of ULI's Seniors Housing Council and on the Advisory Committee for the American Seniors Housing Association. He has published a number of articles and authors the CBRE Seniors Housing Investor Survey & Market Outlook.
Deandra Brooks joined the FAA's Office of Airports, Planning and Environmental Division as a Land Use and Real Property Specialist in November of 2017. In this role, Brooks supports real property transactions at federally assisted airports across the country with a focus on matters pertaining to airport land use and compatibility, relocation assistance, and complex valuation questions. Before turning her focus to land, Brooks served as an FAA Airport Compliance Specialist in the FAA's Southern Region and headquarters for nearly a decade and has adjudicated numerous formal and informal complaints related to grant assurances.
Brooks' political experience spans both federal and state levels; she worked for a Member of Congress for two years and was employed by the California State Legislature for four years. She served a Liaison in the FAA's Office of Government and Industry Affairs where she supported the Office of Airports and the Office of Commercial Space Transportation in their interactions with the Congress from 2002 through 2006. From 2006 to 2008, Brooks represented the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association as the Director of Legislative Affairs where her responsibilities included outreach and advocacy on Capitol Hill.
A graduate of the American University, Brooks holds bachelors degrees in International Relations and Economics. When she's not working, Brooks enjoys teaching Zumba Fitness classes, traveling with her husband, and spoiling her 7-year old nephew.
Peter Christensen is an attorney. He is the general counsel of LIA Administrators and Insurance Services in Santa Barbara. LIA provides professional liability insurance to appraisers and valuation businesses in all 50 states. Its E&O insurance program for appraisers is endorsed by the Appraisal Institute. As general counsel of LIA, Peter responds to the claims, lawsuits and disciplinary matters affecting LIA's insured appraisers and provides instruction to appraisers on liability prevention. Peter also maintains a separate legal practice oriented to providing legal, regulatory and risk management advice to appraisal firms, appraisal management companies and other valuation-related businesses. Prior to joining LIA in 2006, Peter was a litigation attorney with the firms of Latham & Watkins and Irell & Manella in Orange County, California.
Webster (Web) A. Collins, Executive Vice President, is a Co-Leader of CBRE's National Litigation Support & Dispute Analysis Practice. He is a member of The Appraisal Institute (MAI) and is a Past President of the New England Chapter. He has qualified and testified as an expert witness on real estate matters on over two hundred occasions before tribunals arbitrating disputes, courts, and federal jurisdictions. He has provided litigation support on hundreds of properties and provided expert witness testimony on the largest taking in the history of Massachusetts. His testimony has been upheld by the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Mr. Collins is a member of the Real Estate Counselors (CRE) and has served on their Board of Governors. He has served as Editor of The Counselor, published by The Society; is the author of a monograph: Office Rehabilitation: Key Ingredients for Successful Projects; and has published over 80 articles in such publications as The Appraisal Journal and Real Estate Issues.
Mark is a consulting software architect who guides enterprises in technology selection, architectural strategy and new development. He's the rare individual who can talk technology "in the weeds" with the best engineers as well as clearly explain complex technical concepts to business leaders.
Scott W. DiBiasio is the Manager of State & Industry Affairs for the nearly 18,000 member Appraisal Institute. Based in the real estate appraiser trade association's Washington, D.C. office, Scott is responsible for tracking state legislative and regulatory issues affecting the real estate appraisal profession across the country. Scott is also responsible for tracking and working to influence state legislative proposals regarding background checks, appraisal review licensing requirements, and alternate valuation standards. Scott also works with the leaders and members of the AI's chapters to assist them in developing and executing their state government affairs programs.
Peter Dittmar is a state certified general real estate appraiser in both Wyoming and Idaho specializing in the valuation of high amenity natural land and trophy ranches. Much of his work involves appraisal of conservation easements. His clients include not only ranch owners but also a variety of land trusts and state agencies including the Jackson Hole Land Trust, the Grand Teton National Parks Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Lands, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, the Wyoming Game & Fish Commission, the USDA Forest Service, and the Idaho Water Resource Board. Prior to forming his own appraisal company, Mr. Dittmar managed the Stewardship Program and Conservation Buyer Program of the Jackson Hole Land Trust where his duties included GIS related map production, site analysis, and development plan modeling. Peter has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies & German from Middlebury College in Vermont.
Lamar H. Ellis, III, is an approved instructor with the Appraisal Institute and holds both the appraisal designations of SRA and MAI. He is also a FAA Certified Remote Pilot. He is the president of Drone Education Services, formerly known as Drone NOIR. In 2014, he developed a seminar for the Appraisal Institute entitled "Drone Technology and Its Impact on the Appraisal Industry". The seminar has been presented in over 30 states to various real estate entities. He has just released his new seminar "Appraisal Aerial Inspection using a Drone" for 2019 and is currently on the road presenting this exciting new material across the United States. He designed the seminars to be interactive with the website and YouTube channel. He also has several books to aid appraisers in incorporating drone technology into their practices. Be sure to check out the website for more information www.droneeducationservices.com.
Rick Etter is a certified general appraiser in the State of Maryland and has over 40 years of experience with land acquisition and relocation assistance for federal and federally assisted programs and projects. Etter served as the FAA's national resource expert for airport land valuation and airport compatible development until November of 2018. Etter is now the Director of Aviation Land Acquisition for HDR.
William Farina, MAI, AI-GRS, is a staff Review Appraiser for the Midwest Region of USDA Rural Development, with an assigned duty station in Chicago, IL. He has appraised professionally since 1978 and had over 30 years of appraisal experience in the private sector before joining the U.S. federal government in 2009. His current responsibilities include regulatory oversight of real estate appraisers contracted by USDA for their extensive loan programs on all property types, but with an special emphasis on housing.
John B. Gustavson holds MS degrees in both geology and in engineering. After developing and managing his consulting company, Gustavson Associates for almost thirty years he now focuses in his semi-retirement on valuation of most mineral commodities, both locally and internationally. He has taught and published extensively on mineral valuation and served as expert witness in many courts. In 1991 he was the Founding President of the American Institute of Minerals Appraisers, now the IIMA for which he is still serving as Vice President and Chair of Continuing Education. John is also the Co-Chair of the Valuation Standards Committee of the Society of Mining Engineers and Chair of the Liaison Subcommittee of the International Mineral Valuation Committee, IMVAL.
Mark C. Haller, MAI, SRA, began his appraisal career in 2004 after graduating from the University of Alabama. Mark began his training under Mandell Tillman, MAI, AI-GRS, and was fortunate to gain extensive knowledge and experience early in his career dealing with a wide range of property types throughout the state of Alabama. Mark has worked on numerous right of way projects and has qualified as an expert witness in multiple counties in Alabama.
Mark obtained both the MAI and SRA designations in 2012-2013, attended LDAC from 2013 through 2015 and is actively involved in the Alabama Chapter of the Appraisal Institute. Mark's roles served with the Alabama Chapter of the Appraisal Institute include Board Member, Secretary, Treasurer and currently Vice President.
Tim Hansen, RPRA is the Chief Appraiser for the Appraisal and Valuation Services Office (AVSO), Office of the Secretary of the Interior, which provides valuation services for five Department of the Interior (DOI) agencies that collectively manage 500 million acres of surface estate: Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, and the US Fish and Widlife Service. and has been stationed in Lakewood, Colorado since 2009. Tim's responsibilities within the Department include quality assurance of internal and external programs, development and conduct of training, legislative review, and policy research and development. Tim currently serves as the Secretary of The Appraisal Foundation Advisory Council (TAFAC), and as the President of the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA).
Tim has a diverse work history that ranges from owning a truckstop/restaurant to being a forensic lab technician. He also served in the Army National Guard of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado at various times for over 12 years.
Tim holds a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation and Management and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Wyoming.
R. Scott Hartman, SRA currently serves Freddie Mac as a Subject Matter Expert, is the author of the Appraisal Institute / Freddie Mac co-branded Appraisal of Manufactured Housing released in 2019. Mr. Hartman is also an actively practicing residential appraiser in the south central Pennsylvania market area.
James Heaslet is serving as the Chief Appraiser for the Department of Veterans Affairs since August of 2018. He is responsible for establishing national policy for appraising and review as well as over 6,700 independent fee appraisers and 6,600 Staff Appraisal Reviewers (SARs) underwriters. James has oversight of the Appraisal Management Services (AMS) operation that provides a supporting platform, which aids staff appraisers to work from. James served 6 years on the Arizona State Board of Appraisal and held the positions of Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of Personal and application. He was also a member of the Association of Appraiser Regulator Official (AARO). In 2011, James was appointed to the VA Appraisal Fee Panel. James is also an associate member of the Certified Fraud Examiners and was a member of the state's Mortgage Fraud Task Force.
Mr. Hubbard is a Senior Appraiser at the Department of Defense, and coordinates the appraisal needs for the US Navy and Marine Corps throughout the southwestern region of the country. He works on special-use projects, such as military R&D facilities, bombing ranges, base repositioning, pipelines, and environmental protection. Mr. Hubbard is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Diego, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate valuation courses. He is also an approved AI instructor. Mr. Hubbard serves as Vice Chair for Region VII on the national Board of Directors for AI. Previously he served as Chair of LDAC, and President of the San Diego Chapter. Mr. Hubbard formerly worked at Jones, Roach & Caringella, Inc., where he performed appraisals involved in eminent domain actions, title defect cases, arbitrations, mediations, easement acquisitions / dispositions, diminution in value matters, hazardous contamination, IRS matters, estate matters, and ground leases. Mr. Hubbard earned his master degree in real estate from USD in 2005. Before that, he attended Southern Methodist University where he graduated in three years with a business degree in real estate.
As GSA's Chief Appraiser, Mr. Hufford manages and provides oversight for GSA's valuation programs housed in 11 Regions and in Central Office, as well as GSA's Site Acquisition and National Environmental Policy Act programs. With a portfolio of approximately 1,500 owned assets, GSA's Public Buildings Service (www.gsa.gov/pbs) is a premier governmental real estate organization. Valuation programs examine markets and appraise assets for individual asset and portfolio management purposes, establish the rent paid by Federal tenants in owned Federal buildings nationwide, provide valuation and market expertise in the processes encompassing asset utilization decisions, acquisition and disposition of assets, and address the valuation requirements of an exceptionally diverse portfolio. Mr. Hufford has a diverse appraisal background, encompassing numerous property types and varied markets, real estate assessments, fee work (commercial and residential) and eminent domain.
Siska S. Hutapea began her real estate research, valuation and consulting in 1992 in Jakarta, Indonesia. She holds a Structural Engineering degree and a Master Degree in Real Estate from University of New South Wales in Sydney. She grew up in her father's appraisal business. Guam has been home since May 1999 after honeymooning in Guam with husband Edward in 1998. Ms. Hutapea has nearly 20 years of experience in Guam real estate. In 2012, Ms. Hutapea formed Cornerstone Valuation Guam, Inc., a real estate valuation and advisory services company. The motto, We Value, reflects its services, but also the interactions between staff, clients, vendors, and the public. The company is a trusted source of Guam real estate market statistics. Ms. Hutapea keeps up to date with world-class knowledge of real estate valuation and is the only appraiser in Guam with prestigious triple designations from Appraisal Institute. Global knowledge, local expert is her concept to be the go-to company for real estate investors in Guam and Micronesia.
Paul R. Hyde is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Business Valuation, Real Property, and Machinery & Equipment, a Certified General Appraiser in Real Estate, and he holds the Designated Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) designation. He is the owner of Hyde Valuations, Inc., a business, machinery & equipment, and real estate appraisal company. He is also Enrolled to Practice Before the Internal Revenue Service (Enrolled Agent)—a tax professional. Previously, he worked as a commercial loan officer evaluating businesses and granting business loans. Paul Hyde later held the position of Chief Financial Officer and one-third owner of a twenty-seven unit restaurant company with a USDA meat processing plant for seven years. Paul has taught classes for a variety of organizations in business valuation, investments, tax planning, and small business management. Paul works full time in the business, machinery & equipment, and real estate appraisal field.
Shawn Hyde, CBA, CVA, CMEA, has over 20 years of business valuation experience in numerous industries. He currently serves as the executive director of the International Society of Business Appraisers (ISBA) www.intlBCA.com. He is a Certified Business Appraiser, Certified Valuation Analyst and a Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser. He has written and taught courses for the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA), the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA), and the International Society of Business Appraisers (ISBA). He has served on the IBA's Education Board, and the IBA's Board of Governors, and is a past Editor in Chief of the IBA's professional journal, Business Appraisal Practice.
Paula Konikoff holds a law degree and the MAI and AI-GRS designations. She is a real estate consultant providing clients with expert litigation/arbitration and other real estate consulting services nationwide. Her expert testimony includes damages claims, the bankruptcy of an international theater owner, SEC actions regarding bond funded developments, portfolios of securitized residential loans for plaintiffs and defendants, appraiser liability cases for plaintiffs and defendants, and she has qualified as an expert in pension real estate investments. Ms. Konikoff also serves as an arbitrator and is the author of "Appraisers in Arbitration." Paula is an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School, a Certified USPAP Instructor, an instructor for the Appraisal Institute and Chair of AI's Professional Standards and Guidance Committee; she was on the development team for the qualifying courses for the AI-GRS designation and is a reviewer for AI publications. Ms. Konikoff served on the ASB from 2003 - 2009.
Mark R. Linné, MAI, SRA, Al-GRS, CAE, CDEI, FRICS was selected as the 2012 winner of the Valuation Visionary award by the members of the Collateral Risk Network, made up of the nation's Chief Appraisers, GSE's and key national stakeholders, Mr. Linné is recognized as the nation's leading valuation futurist, as well as an author or co-author of four books, more than 50 articles, keynote speaker, presenter, expert witness, blogger, software developer/ inventor with two patents, columnist, instructor, course developer and serial entrepreneur and presently serves on the Editorial Review Panel of The Appraisal Journal, and numerous other committees and panels throughout multiple organizations. Mark is the CEO of ValueScape Analytics and can be reached at: MLinne@ValueScape.com. Mark's most recent article on Artificial Intelligence was published in Valuation Magazine in Q3 2018.
Doug Main, Executive Vice President, is a Co-Leader of CBRE's National Litigation Support & Dispute Analysis Practice. Mr. Main, also a certified environmental consultant (CEC), has 25+ years of advisory, appraisal, litigation support, and damage claim experience involving a wide variety of property and going-concern business matters. Mr. Main's expertise includes hundreds of expert consulting and witness projects that involving bankruptcy, damages, valuation, economic analysis and the impact of detrimental conditions and events. He has testified as an expert on over a hundred matters at tribunals, depositions, hearings, arbitration, local & state courts, and federal jurisdictions. His testimony has been upheld by the Supreme Courts of Illinois and New York. Mr. Main has presented various seminars and/or education sessions for the Appraisal Institute (AI), CRE, ULI, ASA, IRWA, CLE, and others. Mr. Main has also been engaged as an expert for Department of Energy and Department of Justice.
Mr. Nygard is Chief Appraiser for the U. S. Department of State, Overseas Building Operations. The Division is responsible for appraisal and evaluation of U.S. Embassy and Consulate facilities and other real estate worldwide. With over 17,000 properties in over 170 countries, the portfolio's replacement value is estimated at more than $80 billion. The Division supports real estate needs for all U.S. non-military agencies overseas. Before coming to State, Mr. Nygard's company NeuBridge LLC focused on German-American real estate transactions. Prior positions include New York City office manager of a national real estate due diligence firm, Chief Appraiser of The Bank of New York and team leader at Chase Manhattan Bank. He has taught extensively for The Appraisal Institute in the U.S and Germany, served New York University for over 25 years as an Adjunct Assistant Real Estate Professor, and for 10 years lectured for VÖB Services, Academy of Finance Bonn.
Richard L. Parli, MAI, is president of Parli Appraisal, Inc., a full service appraisal firm located in Fairfax, Virginia. He has been involved in the development of numerous Appraisal Institute courses and seminars and is a professional faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Carey Graduate School of Business. He has an MBA in finance from the Pennsylvania State University.
Douglas Potts MAI, AI-GRS, VP, is Chief Appraiser for Commerce Bank, with over $24 billion in assets and operations in 10 states. He actively manages appraisal review and environmental due diligence, representing over $3 billion in annual loans. Doug is the 2018-2019 Chair of the National GRC. Former service includes the 2017 National Nominating Committee and 2011-2016 as the Region 2 member of the GRC. He continues as a member of the Client Advisory Board. Doug attended the 2006 and 2007 LDAC and received the 2006 Anglyn Award. He also assisted in AI work groups, including the Body of Knowledge team for the AI-GRS designation, and the AI President's Diversity Panel. Doug is also an AI instructor for both certification- and designation-level courses, and presented on AI & ABA Webinars and at many AI Connects from 2010 through 2018. He served on the Missouri Real Estate Appraisers Commission, with the Missouri Risk Based Corrective Action Workgroup, and coordinates with the Missouri Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund.
Scott Reuter currently serves as the Chief Appraiser at Freddie Mac.
Stephen D. Roach, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS is a principal of Jones, Roach & Caringella, Inc. His practice includes appraisal, review, and consulting assignments on complex matters throughout the United States. He has extensive deposition and trial testimony experience. Mr. Roach has been published in The Appraisal Journal and is a contributing editor to 10 Appraisal Institute books and over 30 courses and seminars. He has taught over 200 courses and seminars across the United States and in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Mr. Roach Chairs the Appraisal Institute's Education Committee and serves on the General Comprehensive Examination Panel, the Editorial Board of the Appraisal Journal, the Body of Knowledge Committee, and the Appraisal Institute Education Trust. Mr. Roach is also a Principal Member of the Real Estate Counseling Group of America.
Scott Robinson, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, AI-RRS of Salisbury, North Carolina, was the organization's president in 2016. He is currently the Chair of the Appraisal Institute's Strategic Planning Committee. Robinson has been engaged in real property appraisal and consulting since 1987, when he joined Robinson Associates, a Salisbury firm his father started in the mid-1960s. Scott's current practice focus is commercial real property valuation, litigation support, and review appraisal. Robinson has been actively involved with the Appraisal Institute since joining as a candidate for the SRA designation in 1987, including a four-year term on the national Board of Directors and serving as chair of Region V. He served in all offices for the North Carolina Chapter and has been active at the regional and national levels since 1991. He received a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 from Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Richard Roddewig is a Managing Director and heads up the Complex Real Estate and Litigation Support team at JLL Valuation & Advisory Services, LLC, a part of Jones Lang LaSalle. He has more than 40 years experience as a real estate appraiser and works nationally and sometimes internationally on valuation assignments involving historic properties, scenic lands and conservation properties as well as on assignments involving determining the effect of contamination and environmental risks on property prices and values. He has authored, co-authored or contributed to 15 books and authored more than 65 articles in professional journals including more than 15 articles in The Appraisal Journal. He is a past winner of the Sanders A. Kahn Award for one of his Appraisal Journal articles and also is a past winner of the George L. Schmutz Award for his book Appraising Conservation and Historic Preservation Easements. He is one of the contributing authors to the forthcoming Appraisal Institute book on corridor valuation.
John is a Lecturer and member of the Marketing Department at the Williamson College of Business at Youngstown State University. In addition, he is the Director of The Professional Sales Center in the College of Business. He teaches Professional Selling, with an emphasis in developing marketing relationships, understanding business buyer motivation and behavior, and building selling strategies and sales program management. His practice background is in valuation, valuation review, and advisory services with a list of consulting engagements for commercial and industrial clients in California markets, as well as the Midwest, Eastern and Southeastern United States. As a general appraiser he has a geographic specialization in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Client services include acquisitions and divestitures, asset-based lending and workouts, investment and industrial enterprises, business reorganizations, litigation services, and underwriting valuation engagements.
Timothy P. Runde, MAI, LEED AP is a nationally recognized expert in green building valuation with a long-standing interest in the nexus between the built and natural environments. Tim is the co-author of the Appraisal Institute textbook, The Valuation of Green Commercial Real Estate, and the co-developer of the Appraisal Institute course based on that textbook. He has published numerous articles on the valuation of green buildings and is an approved instructor and course reviewer for the Appraisal Institute. Tim maintains an active general appraisal practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in special purpose properties, ad valorem tax assessment, and sports and entertainment venue valuation.
Dennis Scardilli's law practice includes representation of real estate appraisers before appraiser regulatory agencies in NJ & PA (admitted states), and by temporary admission in other states and in HUD Appraiser Roster removal actions. This has included: constitutional challenges to appraiser regulatory law; response to state agency written inquiries, from Work File submission to representation in agency hearings, to negotiations with prosecutors and trial. He has represented appraisers and AMCs in Repurchase Demands. He successfully represented NJ appraisal organizations on proposed changes in the NJ Appraiser Act and in his primarily-adopted mark-up of the NJ AMC Act. He is the author of a number of LexisNexis publications on the law of real estate appraisal, which address the appraiser regulatory process including federal and state law and regulation, USPAP as a legal standard of care, how lawyers should choose an appraiser, communications between the attorney and appraiser and creating a Scope of Work. He spoke at the 2010 and 2018 AI National Conferences, co-presented the AI Webinar on Repurchase Demand and presented to Appraisal Institute Chapters. He holds a BA from Wheaton College (IL), a Master of Urban Planning Degree from NYU and a JD from Widener University School of Law.
Benjamin R. Sellers, MAI is an Associate Appraiser with Sellers & Associates in Tennessee. Mr. Sellers specializes in providing market/marketability studies, both standalone and incorporated into appraisal reports, to corporations, governments, institutions, law firms and private clients. Prior to joining Sellers & Associates, he worked as a commercial mortgage underwriter in the CMBS lending industry. Mr. Sellers graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2003 with a BBA in Finance and then in 2006 graduated from Texas A&M University with a Master of Land Economics and Real Estate. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Appraisal Institute Education Committee.
Leslie P. Sellers MAI SRA is Principal Appraiser and Owner of Sellers & Associates Valuation & Advisory Services in Clinton, Tennessee and holds a B.S. degree in Real Estate and Urban Development from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. An active real estate appraiser, broker, and developer since 1973, Mr. Sellers' other work experience has been in the development of office complexes, multi-family residential, industrial and single-family subdivisions through another company, Sellers Land and Development Company LLC in Clinton, Tennessee.
Leslie is a long standing member of the Appraisal Institute education faculty and has taught real estate valuation courses and seminars for the Appraisal Institute, in 19 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, Kuwait and the People's Republic of China. He has served as chair of the Appraisal Institute Body of Knowledge Committee, the Professional Standards and Guidance Committee, the International Committee and serves on the International Valuation Standards Council Advisory Group. He is an author and co-author on many seminars and has acted as a reviewer on Appraisal Institute courses, seminars and publications. Leslie was an author-contributor to the 14th edition of The Appraisal of Real Estate textbook and was the recipient of the Appraisal Institute National Life Achievement Award in 2018.
Craig Steinley, SRA, AI-RRS, primarily provides litigation support services in his practice – typically involving review for Standards compliance, various regulatory matters, and in the appraisal of complex properties. Craig is the Vice Chair of Region II, serving on AI's National Board of Directors through 2020. He also serves on AI's Strategic Planning Committee and Governance Structure Project Team, is the Chair of its Audit Committee, and is an approved AI instructor and seminar developer. He was the 2018 President of the Association of Appraiser Regulatory Officials (AARO), and is an approved instructor for the AARO/TAF Investigator Training Course sequence. Craig twice served as the state-wide President of the Professional Appraisers Association of South Dakota (PAASD), and is now serving another 3-year term as its Secretary-Treasurer.
T. Mandell Tillman began his career in the real estate profession with The Furse Company, a homebuilding and real estate development company. Mandell subsequently entered the valuation and development sector with the firm of Southeastern Appraisal Company owned by Theo R. Brunson, MAI. Mandell obtained his MAI designation while with Southeastern Appraisal Company and continued to develop real estate throughout the 1980's and 1990's. He purchased Southeastern Appraisal Company in 1993. In 1995, Mandell, along with nine other parties, started a denovo bank known as Commerce Bank.
Between the years 2003 and 2007 Mandell became one of the largest real estate developers on the Tennessee River between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Guntersville, Alabama.
Mandell has also obtained the AI-GRS review designation with the Appraisal Institute. He is a former Appraisal Institute-approved USPAP instructor. Mandell has served as the National Candidate Guidance Chairman and as a member of the National Admissions Committee for the Appraisal Institute.
Mandell served for 6 years on the Alabama Real Estate Appraisers Board, two years of which he was Chairman of the Board.
Mandell currently owns and operates Tillman Consulting, LLC which provides consulting and appraisal review services for nine community banks. In addition to a commercial real estate sales division, Tillman Consulting also has a right-of-way acquisition division which provides a full range of acquisition services for governmental agencies.
Ben Tolles is an Analyst in the Chicago office of JLL Valuation & Advisory Services, LLC. Mr. Tolles works on litigation support and conservation easement valuation assignments across the United States. Ben has a B.S. in Environmental Science from Ithaca College and has extensive experience in real estate, urban planning, and environmental contamination related topics. At JLL he works extensively with ESRI's ArcGIS software modelling environmental related impacts to real estate, measuring and categorizing land characteristics of easement protected lands, and analyzing real estate markets.
John C. Vaughan, MAI, currently serves as a senior vice president in the Santa Rosa, California, office of Newmark Knight Frank Valuation & Advisory. Mr. Vaughan has appraised a wide variety of real estate throughout California and Hawaii. The intended use of these assignments has included corporate advisory, disposition, acquisition, rent arbitration, tax appeal and mortgage lending. Prior to Newmark Knight Frank, Mr. Vaughan was an executive director for Cushman & Wakefield's Valuation & Advisory group, with responsibility for complex appraisal assignments in California and Hawaii.
Joshua Walitt is a certified residential real estate appraiser, reviewer, and educator. In his role at Property Interlink, he oversees procedures, training, licensing, audit, operations, and review functions. His ongoing goal is to increase accuracy and efficiency through sound reasoning and communication skills, appropriate methodology and technology, and proper oversight. He writes for industry publications, speaks at national industry events and client conferences, and designs and presents education courses. Prior to joining Property Interlink, he provided fee appraisal and consultation services. He has also been recognized as an expert witness in local and federal court. Walitt is an SRA, AI-RRS, and instructor with the Appraisal Institute, is a Board Member of the National Association of Appraisers (MNAA), holds a Certified Distance Education Instructor (CDEI) certificate, is an AQB Certified USPAP Instructor, and currently serves on the Colorado Board of Real Estate Appraisers.
Ted Whitmer is an appraiser, attorney, instructor, author, investor, asset manager, and consultant. Mr. Whitmer holds the MAI and AI-GRS designations from the Appraisal Institute, is a member of the State Bar of Texas, is a CCIM & CRE, a broker and the author of The Comprehensive Appraisal Workshop, Staying Out of Trouble among others. His law practice is primarily in the defense of appraisers at the Texas Appraiser Licensing & Certification Board. Also, Ted consults in cases related to criminal and civil law related to appraisals. He teaches many courses and seminars including a graduate level course in Real Estate Appraisal at Texas A&M University. He received his BA from Stephen F. Austin State University, a MBA from Texas A&M University and a JD from the University of Houston. Ted recently taught two years in the Finance Department at Stephen F. Austin State University.
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Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Tyler Mahle throws in the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on Monday. His six shutout innings helped the Reds to a 1-0 win.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Four days into the season, the Reds finally got their opening-day parade — and a win, too.
The Cubs? Still trying to locate their offense.
Rookie Tyler Mahle pitched one-hit ball for six innings, Raisel Iglesias fanned Anthony Rizzo with the bases loaded to end the eighth, and the Reds edged Chicago 1-0 Monday for their first win of the season.
Cincinnati was swept at home by Washington, falling to 0-3 for the first time since 2003. It also trailed in all 27 innings — the Nationals scored in the first inning each time.
After their traditional opening parade, the Reds finally got a lead, too, when Eugenio Suarez tripled in the fourth and scored on Adam Duvall's groundout. Mahle (1-0) earned the victory in only his fifth major league start, outpitching Tyler Chatwood (0-1) in his Cubs debut.
The Cubs were coming off a 6-0 loss in Miami and managed only four baserunners against Mahle , who walked two, hit one and struck out a career-high seven.
Ian Happ singled in the eighth, but Iglesias came in later and got Rizzo to swing through a high fastball to escape. Iglesias got last four outs for the save.
Rizzo is 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position this season and batting .130 overall, a slump he figures won't last long.
Chicago has been blanked in back-to-back games for the first time since last May 26-27, when the Dodgers beat the Cubs 4-0 and 5-0. The Cubs also were held to one run during a 17-inning loss in Miami.
The Cubs stranded 42 runners while splitting the four-game series in Miami. They stranded four in scoring position on Monday. They're hitting .137 with runners in scoring position.
Chatwood signed a three-year deal with the Cubs after going 8-15 with the Rockies last season. He gave up four hits, walked six and threw only 49 strikes out of 92 pitches.
"Tyler's command was not as sharp as it can be, but he made pitches when he had to and the pitches he made were really alive," Maddon said.
It was essentially a Re-Opening Day in Cincinnati, which didn't get to hold its annual parade last week. The market association that organizes the parade was busy with Easter sales, so it was moved to Monday, with Sam LeCure and Danny Graves as the grand marshals . The game drew 18,963 fans on a cold afternoon, many of them wearing Cubs blue.
The Cubs are 40-18 against the Reds over the last four seasons, the best winning percentage by any Reds opponent. They've won 30 of the last 42 between the NL Central rivals.
Suarez's triple in the fourth inning was his first since June 6 against St. Louis. … The last time the Reds had a two-hit shutout against the Cubs was Aug. 14, 2013, at Wrigley Field — Bronson Arroyo, Alfredo Simon and Jonathan Broxton combined.
Rizzo was hit on the left foot by a pitch in the first inning.
Reds outfielder Scott Schebler was scratched because of a sore right elbow, which was hit by a pitch on Sunday. He's day to day.
Cubs left-hander Jon Lester (0-0), the starter today, gave up four runs — three earned — in only 3 1/3 innings of an opening 8-4 win at Miami. He's 5-1 with a 4.27 ERA in 13 career starts against the Reds.
Reds left-hander Cody Reed (0-0) will start in place of the injured Brandon Finnegan. Reed has lost each of his three career starts against the Cubs, giving up 22 runs and seven homers in 10 innings. Chicago is batting .360 against him.
https://www.limaohio.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2018/04/web1_Mahlie.jpgCincinnati Reds starting pitcher Tyler Mahle throws in the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on Monday. His six shutout innings helped the Reds to a 1-0 win.


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Q: Series uniform convergence on a set excluding sequence Suppose the series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty|a_n|^{-1}$ converges. Can it be shown that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty |x - a_n|^{-1}$ converges uniformly for $x$ in any bounded set that excludes all $a_n$?
Trying the obvious $||x| - |a_n|| \leq |x - a_n| \leq |x| + |a_n|$ doesn't seem to be much help.

A: The key is bounded set.
Suppose $X$ is a bounded set excluding all $a_n$s. Let $L= \sup_{x \in X} |x|$. Recall that necessarily $|a_n|^{-1} \to 0$, thus $|a_n| \to \infty$. This means that we can consider, for $n$ large enough,
$$|a_n|> 2L$$
Now,
$$|x-a_n| \ge |a_n| - |x| > |a_n|-L = |a_n| \cdot \left( 1- \frac{L}{|a_n|} \right) > \frac{1}{2}|a_n|$$
from this the result follows.


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The Big Heat (1953)
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The Big Heat (1953) is director Fritz Lang's landmark bleak, film noir crime classic and violent melodrama. Lang's characteristic expressionistic lighting, use of sets and decor, and costuming sharply reflected the personality traits of the film's major characters. The sparse screenplay of a potent story laced with revenge, murder, and hate was written by former crime reporter Sidney Boehm and based on a Saturday Evening Post serial and the hard-hitting, brutal 1952 novel by William P. McGivern. The film's title referred to the police enforcement crack-down on lawlessness and illegal activities.
Similar fast-paced, Hollywood exposé gangster films of the 50s, with shocking public revelations about corruption, attempted to raise the question of the control of organized syndicates of crime over American towns and cities:
Bretaigne Windust's The Enforcer (1951), a police noir
Robert Wise's The Captive City (1952)
Phil Karlson's Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Joseph Lewis' The Big Combo (1955)
Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story (1955)
Samuel Fuller's Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
One of the film's taglines on a poster revealed the compulsive and personal drive of the average Joe protagonist to vengefully retaliate against the forces of corruption:
Somebody's Going to Pay...because he forgot to kill me...
It emphasized the film's uncompromising and grim story of an iron-willed, driven, dedicated, honest, incorruptible homicide detective (Glenn Ford) within a crooked and perverted society and corrupt system at all levels (e.g., the mob, the commissioner, the police, and everyday citizens), and the enormous price that is paid to find justice. The crusading, vigilante rogue cop/hero must erode his idealistic, law-abiding principles when he resorts to the unlawful tactics of the hoodlums after the tragic murder of his young wife by sadistic, viperous gang members led by a big-time crime boss. He enlists the help of one of the gangs' molls, femme fatale (Gloria Grahame), in order to seek revenge.
The nihilistic film is best known for the shocking, misogynous scene of facial disfigurement, when a pretty gangster moll has a pot of scalding coffee callously tossed into her face by her abusive, enraged and disgruntled boyfriend (Lee Marvin). The message of the film is that only when courageous, moral individuals stand together is it possible to save the society (and home and family life) from being overtaken by sinister forces of evil. [A number of the film's most violent moments occur off-screen, e.g., the opening suicide, the bar-fly's torture and killing, the car explosion, the scalding with hot coffee, Larry Gordon's death, etc. but a second scalding occurs on-screen, and two women are shot to death in full view. There are other less violent crudities as well, e.g., an obscene phone call, and a cigarette burning a bar-fly's hand.] This film lacked Academy Award nominations.
All the major characters are economically introduced in a few minutes within the tightly condensed narrative. The gritty crime film opens appropriately with a much-celebrated, giant closeup of a .38 gun lying on a living room desk. The hand of a man seated at the desk reaches for the gun and removes the weapon from view. After a single gunshot to his temple - a sudden suicide - the man falls forward into camera view and slumps over the desk. Policeman Tom Duncan has put a bullet through his head with the revolver. At three a.m. (displayed on a giant grandfather clock), his "widow" Bertha Duncan (Jeanette Nolan) descends a staircase and discovers his body. Like a prototypical film noir femme fatale, she reacts coldly and unemotionally to the suicide. She notices his confession note in an envelope addressed to the District Attorney at the Hall of Justice in the pseudonymous town of Kenport. After quickly glancing through the contents of the pages, she reaches for the phone. [The manipulative widow ultimately uses the confessional letter to blackmail a big-time mob boss, because it links the city administration to the syndicate executive. Throughout the film, the chain of command within various hierarchies and their respective communication links are represented by the use of telephones.]
The gangster mob boss/crime lord Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby) [his silk pajamas are monogrammed with ML], resting in his well-furnished, luxurious bedroom, is wakened by one of his gang members (wearing a white terry-cloth robe) to take the private line phone call from "Tom Duncan's widow." Bertha informs him of the mishap, and then it is suggested that she "call the police immediately." Lagana has his male attendant George Rose (Chris Alcaide) dial Vince Stone - but the phone is answered by Vince's girlfriend Debby. She is wearing a white dress and lolling back on a sofa in a modern, posh, ostentatious penthouse suite.
The film's heroine, Debby Marsh (Gloria Grahame, who had won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award a year earlier for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)) is the beautiful moll and kept-woman of sadistic, reflexive, cold-blooded Vince Stone (Lee Marvin), Lagana's chief henchman. She is pleased that she must interrupt Vince's poker-playing with his boys to have him answer the call: "I always like to tell Vince you're calling. I like to see him jump." After passing the phone to her boyfriend and being crudely ordered to vacate the room, Debby pauses to vainly admire her reflection in the mirror [the first of many instances in the film].
The next scene, at the place of the murder, opens with the flash of a police photographer's camera bulb taking a picture of the corpse of the victim. Tie-less, half-dressed homicide Police Sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) investigates the suicide of fellow cop Tom Duncan (in charge of the Record Bureau) after being summoned: "When a cop kills himself, they want a full report." Although a suicide is determined to be the cause of death, Bannion remarks that oddly, there's "no note or anything." He decides to talk to Mrs. Duncan in her upstairs bedroom.
Bertha primps and rehearses how she looks before her own set of mirrors at her vanity table - before Bannion's interview. She sobs - pretending to be distressed and upset. The grieving widow explains that her husband was a good cop. She invents the story that he killed himself because of depression over ill health:
When a policeman kills himself, the department gets worried....There weren't any circumstances. Everything Tom ever did was clean and wholesome. That's the kind of man he was...It must have been his health. Several times in the past few months, he complained about a pain along his left side. When I suggested he see the police surgeon, he'd make excuses. I think he was afraid to.
The Kenport News reports the story, with Mrs. Duncan's credible explanation for the suicide:
VETERAN POLICE SERGEANT SUICIDE
Head of Record Bureau Was in Ill Health
Concealing the knowledge from his wife that he was in ill health, Police Sergeant Thomas Duncan, 41, of 659 Anderson Avenue, today shot and killed himself in his own home.
Mrs. Bertha Duncan told police that she was awakened by a single shot at 3:15 am. Rushing downstairs, she found her husband's lifeless body slumped over the living room desk, his right hand still clutching his service revolver.
In the next brightly-lit scene, transitioned by Bannion reading the newspaper, he is seen enjoying a peaceful home life - in a scene of domestic tranquility. His blonde, young and vivacious American wife Katherine 'Katie' (Jocelyn Brando, Marlon Brando's sister) is clad in a checkered apron in their simple yet respectable, wood-paneled home of the 1950s. Exhibiting an egalitarian marriage, he helps her set the table for a "medium-rare" steak dinner (a huge piece of meat that she cuts in half) with baked potatoes that she has prepared in their modest kitchen. They both share things - she sips from his drink and takes a drag off his cigarette. They have a pre-kindergarden daughter, a "holy terror" named Joyce (Linda Bennet), whose college education will mean the end to their extravagance "unless you become police commissioner in the meantime." In their warm banter with each other, they thoughtfully discuss their child-rearing philosophy that is similar to a baby care book that recommends "be patient but firm."
Katie: The book, the book. Very scientific and calm. The trouble is, the authors have never met our daughter.
David: Oh, it's very simple. She's madly in love with me, that's all. Hey, you know somethin', that's the, that's the conflict between the two of ya. You're both in love with the same wonderful guy. Right?
Katie: Wrong. We're just used to you.
They jokingly summarize their sense of togetherness and complementary sharing in their marriage:
David: It's a perfect marriage - we share the same Scotch, the same cigarette, the same can of beer.
Katie: Among other things.
David: Hey, you know somethin', I'm gonna drink mine and I'm gonna take a sip of yours. That'll be somethin' different for a change.
Their meal (and their loving home life) is interrupted when family man Bannion receives a phone call [the first of two such instances that disturb his peaceful life] from a police sergeant regarding the investigation - with the news that Duncan's death wasn't a suicide: "Duncan didn't kill himself." He is asked to question a woman who has contacted the police with a different story. The scene ends with a close-up of his notes on a pad: Lucy Chapman, The Retreat.
That dark evening at the local downtown club, The Retreat (lined with photos of pin-up girls), Duncan's girlfriend Lucy Chapman (Dorothy Green), who calls herself a "B-girl," tells Bannion that Duncan had no reason to kill himself. Hustling barfly Lucy explains that Duncan's widow is a liar and that Tom was not suffering from depression over health problems, as the newspapers and Bertha had both reported: "This story's all wrong, Mr. Bannion. Why, Tom wouldn't kill himself. He wasn't worried about his health, not for a single minute."
Lucy describes the unsavory details of how she had a thing for Tom ("he was a real wonderful guy...nice and gentle") and he was never happier, especially since Bertha had recently agreed to divorce him. She had first met Duncan "down in Lakeside - Tom owned a summer place there." [Was Tom on Lagana's payroll, thereby able to afford a second home? And did he kill himself out of guilt?] They would get together when his wife was away traveling: "We'd go swimming and then lie around in the sun." She explains the difference between Bertha and herself:
You've got to understand how things were with Tom, how he was caught between the two of us - between me and that leech he was married to...The only difference between me and Bertha Duncan is that I work at being a B-girl and she has a wedding ring and a marriage certificate.
But Bannion is confrontative, malevolent, and hostile toward the less-than-human, sexually-active bargirl. [He categorizes women as either pure saints or trashy whores.] Skeptical of her account and prejudiced against the no-good partygirl, he believes that she is using him "for a shakedown." She counter-accuses him, with a harsh tone, of "covering up for a cop's widow." Lucy vows that she will talk to reporters to tell the true story: "Tom had no reason to kill himself." Acting self-righteous and slanderous, Bannion is unaware of the implications of Lucy's information.
Bannion's suspicions are slightly aroused, however, and he returns to further question the widow Bertha Duncan, to check up on her story and to find out why her husband took his own life. Bertha confesses to their "dirty family linen" and Tom's affair with Lucy: "I suppose that woman told you about their relationship." Bertha denounces Lucy Chapman as a liar, when she denies that she had agreed to a divorce, and when she asserts that Tom had a terminal illness. She also explains that Tom was a frequent womanizer during the years of their marriage:
There were four Lucy Chapmans, four that I found out about. Tom was vain. He had to prove to himself that he was still attractive to women. Maybe he did boast to that woman that he was in good health. What else would you expect him to do?
Bannion asks how they could afford an expensive second house in Lakeside and insinuates that their second home was probably beyond their humble means on a typical cop's salary ("a wealthy policeman would be a novelty"):
There's a chance that Lucy Chapman might try a little blackmail. She knows that you own that house at Lakeside, probably thinks you're wealthy...Would you mind telling me about the house at Lakeside, when it was bought, the price that was paid, small details like that?
Bertha becomes haughty and furious. Resenting the question ("I resent the implications of your questions"), she refuses to answer any further, although Bannion defends his tact: "It's my job to have the material to offset any insinuations that she (Lucy) might make."
After Bannion leaves, the scene ends with Bertha pulling the curtain aside and looking out of her window. Her image dissolves into the sight of a teletype machine printing out a message [symbolically connecting her to the murder of Lucy Chapman]. Lucy's tortured (with cigarette burns) and beaten body is discovered by the side of the parkway, thrown from a car. The message is handed to Bannion to read (along with the film audience):
ATTENTION - HOMICIDE DIV. - KENPORT POLICE
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN FOUND DEAD 6.26 AM OFF COUNTY PARKWAY. THROWN FROM CAR AFTER BEATING AND TORTURE. DRESS AND SHOES LABELED LAKESIDE FASHION SHOP.
[This portion of the message catches Bannion's eye - it is cinematically highlighted by light.]
DESCRIPTION...WFA, ABOUT 28, 118 LBS., 5 FT. 5 IN., BROWN EYES AND HAIR, FAIR COMPLEXION.
CONTACT DR. T. S. KANE, HILLSIDE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER.
Bannion hurriedly leaves the police office, passing a poster that orders: "GIVE BLOOD NOW." At the office of the County Medical Examiner in the County Morgue, Dr. Kane crassly remarks after the victim has been identified:
Examiner: Trouble automatically catches up with girls like her. Looks like a sex crime to me...I'd say pretty definitely it was psychopathic. You saw those cigarette burns on her body.
Bannion: Yeah, I saw them. Every single one of them. (He extinguishes his own cigarette butt in disgust.)
Examiner: What's that name again, Sergeant?
Bannion: Miss Chapman, Lucy Chapman.
Upon his return to the office, Bannion is called in to speak to his superior, Lieutenant Wilks (Willis Bouchey). As the Lieutenant washes his hands, literally and figuratively, he mentions: "I had a call from upstairs." Bannion is reprimanded for his "bad judgment" in bothering Bertha Duncan ("a cop's widow") with sensitive questions, in his second visit, about the love life of her husband. Because "somebody" complained, and the Lieutenant doesn't wish to antagonize any higher-ups in the hierarchy of command, Bannion he is not only advised but then told to close the case due to "pressure calls from upstairs."
Wilks: I'm the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs. I'm the one that has to explain. You don't keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.
Bannion: Do you want me to go upstairs and explain?
Wilks: Not you. You're a corn-stepper by instinct.
"A corn-stepper by instinct," Bannion is not able to understand why he is ordered to lay off the case and "stop pestering the widow," since he now realizes that Lucy told the truth: "She talks to me just once - (he clicks his finger) - like that, she's dead." Like the County Medical Examiner, the Lieutenant devalues Lucy Chapman's life:
When barflys get killed, it's for any one of a dozen crummy reasons, you know that.
Bannion is motivated to pursue the forbidden investigation and mystery even further. The scene in the Lieutenant's office dissolves to a cocktail glass, held up in the air by The Retreat's bartender Tierney (Peter Whitney) as he checks and polishes it for cleanliness. Bannion has returned there to question the bartender about Lucy Chapman, but Tierney assumes a "don't ask" policy about any of the barfly's motivations and actions [she isn't worth caring about, because she represents the complete opposite of stable, settled suburban home life]:
All any of these dames owe me is a night's work, one night at a time. They come and go like flies...Outside of my place, some of these babes keep pretty shady company. It figures. They know nobody cares much what happens to 'em...They're floaters, not much more than a suitcase full of nothin' between them and the gutter.
Bannion is led around in circles by the "double-talk"ing bartender: "You ought to be doing radio commercials. How to talk alot and say nothing." When he leaves, he waits around to see that Tierney immediately makes an "important" phone call [to Lagana]. Confronted, he claims he called his "mother." When Bannion threatens to take the bartender downtown for more questioning, Tierney gloats that has already been informed that Bannion has been warned to not "butt into a county case" out of his jurisdiction and to "stop annoying people."
That evening, Bannion returns home in a tense and "let-down" mood ("an occupational disease with cops") that is sensed by his wife: "You look down in the dumps." He accidentally topples his daughter Joyce's (Linda Bennett) play castle of blocks (a police station) and upsets her. When his wife picks up the ringing phone [the second intrusive phone call], she hears four-letter obscene words directed at her. Enraged that his pure-minded wife has heard insulting language, Bannion takes the phone and is threatened [(by Larry Gordon (Adam Williams))] to stay out of the case because important people are involved:
Listen, slob. Stop minding other people's business if you want to stay alive. Some big people are getting annoyed.
Bannion is incensed by the scheming of ruthless crime bosses to put him down and threaten his home life: "It's just another part of the scheme to make me crawl back in my shell." Although not knowing who called, he immediately suspects Mike Lagana, a civic leader but also the untouchable crime lord who runs the town ("that's no secret") and is at the heart of all shady dealings in town.
Bannion leaves his wife (who has invited guests for dinner) and drives to Lagana's stately, palatial mansion. The property is protected by an extensive, round-the-clock detail of patrolling policeman ("ten cops (who) watch over Mike Lagana. 100 bucks a day of the taxpayers' money"). The cop on duty only follows orders:
Cop: I do what I'm told.
Bannion: That's what we're all supposed to do, isn't it? (The cop chuckles.)
The trenchcoated sergeant arrives in the midst of an upper-class American dance party for Lagana's teenaged daughter (who dates a football player). He undiplomatically pushes by the butler in his way through the front door and confronts Lagana in the lobby. Within the mansion's library-study, the immensely-wealthy, first-generation Italian immigrant (made-good) Lagana speaks about his overstated devotion to his sainted mother (typical for a gangster figure, e.g., in Public Enemy (1931), Little Caesar (1930) and White Heat (1949)) - prominently portrayed in an idealized painting above the fireplace:
My mother - a great old lady. They broke the mold when they made her. She died last May. She lived here with me. Had her own suite of rooms - her own bath - everything. Never got over being surprised about my success.
Rather than coming on a fund-raising errand (for a benefit dance or pension-fund drive), Bannion demands answers to Lucy Chapman's "old-fashioned," prohibition-style murder (the bar-girl that Lagana ordered killed). But hypocritically, the suave, refined Lagana doesn't want to talk about such matters in his home (especially a murder committed Prohibition-style), and threatens to remove Bannion from his position. The cop threatens Lagana to leave his own household and his wife alone:
Lagana: You came here to my home about a murder?...This is my home and I don't like dirt tracked into it.
Bannion: I see. And I've violated your immaculate home, is that it?
Lagana: That's exactly it. And tomorrow morning, I'll see you don't get the chance to do it again.
Bannion: What'll you do? Make another phone call? Or have somebody make it for ya?
Lagana: I've seen some dummies in my time, but you're in a class by yourself.
Bannion: I'm stupid, because I want some answers about a murder, is that it?
Lagana: Shut up and get out.
Bannion: We don't talk about those things in this house, do we? No, it's too elegant, too respectable. Nice kids - party - painting of Mama up there on the wall. No place for a stinkin' cop! It's only a place for a hoodlum who built this house out of twenty years of corruption and murder. I'm gonna tell you something. You know, you couldn't plant enough flowers around here to kill the smell...Cops have homes too, only sometimes there isn't enough money to pay the rent because a cop gets hounded off the force by your thievin' cockroaches for tryin' to do an honest job. What's the matter? Do you think I live under a rock or something? Your creeps have no compunction about phoning my house, giving me orders, talking to my wife like she was a ...
Bannion anger explodes - he beats up Lagana's handsome bodyguard George who tries to throw him out. He challenges Lagana to "pinch-hit" for his strong-arm protector - before suddenly leaving.
The next day, Bannion is reprimanded one more time by Lt. Wilks for walking into Lagana's house and slugging his bodyguard: "You're no rookie. You've been around long enough to know better...I'm the one getting the squeeze from upstairs." Bannion explains the rationale for what he did:
What am I supposed to do when some cop-hater phones my home and insults my wife? Sit home and like it?...I'm tryin' to tell you that nothin' dirty happens in this city without Lagana's OK.
Wilks warns that this is Bannion's second and final warning.
Returning to his own cramped and modest home that night, Bannion tells his wife that he almost tossed in his badge because he finds it more and more difficult to overlook corruption. She expresses confidence in his risky search for the truth and advises him to not back down. She would rather that he not consider the possible consequences for himself and his family - and then they share the film's most intimate moments:
Katie: Your big trouble, honey, is that you attack yourself from all sides like Jersey mosquitos. You don't want to quit the department, not for one minute.
Bannion: What am I supposed to do? Hold on to my job by just stringin' along, afraid to look to the left or to the right because I might see something that they don't want me to see?
Katie: You do, you're gonna have trouble from me. You just keep leading with your chin and don't you compromise!
Bannion: That's what I wanted to hear you say. (He kisses her lovingly, photographed in close-up.) Thanks, Inspector.
Katie: Honey?
Bannion: Hmm, hmm.
Katie: If I tell you something, you won't laugh.
Bannion: I won't laugh.
Katie: I love you.
Bannion: You see, I'm not laughing.
Katie prepares to leave the house [the only instance that she exits the house in the film proves disastrous] to drive over and get a babysitter for their daughter, because they are going out for the evening to the movies. While he is in the bedroom putting young Joyce to bed, Katie's opening and closing of the car door in the driveway are heard through the window behind them. When the ignition is turned on, a car bomb explodes in a bright flash and violently shakes the bedroom - it is Lagana's retaliation, meant for him. Although he is able to pull her from the burning vehicle, she is already dead from the vicious attack.


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Interceptors
------------

Interceptors are a very strong pattern that allows you to apply AOP like constructs. You can intercept method calls of
certain classes to do things that are not related to the core functionality of the class. They are similar to decorators
but more flexible and easier to apply.

They can be used for anything but will be exceptionally useful for cross cutting concerns like logging.

In ModuleInject you can use the interceptors that are part of the Unity container. Unity provides so called behaviours
that you can add to types. ModuleInject provides you with the possibility to add such behaviours to components
registered in your modules.

    public class LoggingBehaviour : IInterceptionBehaviour
    {
        //...
    }

    //...

    public void RegisterBehaviour()
    {
        RegisterPublicComponent(x => x.Component)
            .Construct<Component>()
            .AddBehaviour<LoggingBehaviour>();
    }

This registers your logging behaviour with a component. The behaviours work exactly as in the Unity container. The only
limitation is that you can only use interface interceptors in ModuleInject.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
#include "driverlib.h"

//*****************************************************************************
//!
//! This example shows how to configure the I2C module as a slave for
//! single byte transmission in interrupt driven mode. The address of the slave
//! module is set in this example.
//!
//! This example uses the following peripherals and I/O signals.  You must
//! review these and change as needed for your own board:
//! - I2C peripheral
//! - GPIO Port peripheral (for I2C pins)
//! - SCL2
//! - SDA
//!
//! This example uses the following interrupt handlers.  To use this example
//! in your own application you must add these interrupt handlers to your
//! vector table.
//! - USCI_B0_VECTOR.
//!
//*****************************************************************************
//*****************************************************************************
//
//Set the address for slave module. This is a 7-bit address sent in the
//following format:
//[A6:A5:A4:A3:A2:A1:A0:RS]
//
//A zero in the "RS" position of the first byte means that the master
//transmits (sends) data to the selected slave, and a one in this position
//means that the master receives data from the slave.
//
//*****************************************************************************
#define SLAVE_ADDRESS 0x48

uint8_t transmitData;

void main(void)
{
        //Stop WDT
        WDT_A_hold(WDT_A_BASE);

        //Assign I2C pins to USCI_B0
        GPIO_setAsPeripheralModuleFunctionInputPin(
                GPIO_PORT_P3,
                GPIO_PIN1 + GPIO_PIN2
                );

        //Initialize I2C as a slave device
        USCI_B_I2C_slaveInit(USCI_B0_BASE,
                             SLAVE_ADDRESS
                             );
        //Enable I2C Module to start operations
        USCI_B_I2C_enable(USCI_B0_BASE);

        //Set in transmit mode
        USCI_B_I2C_setMode(USCI_B0_BASE,
                           USCI_B_I2C_TRANSMIT_MODE
                           );
        //Initialize transmit data buffer
        transmitData = 0xAB;

        while (1) {

                // Poll for start
                while (0x00 == USCI_B_I2C_getInterruptStatus(USCI_B0_BASE, USCI_B_I2C_START_INTERRUPT)) ;

                // Poll for transmit flag
                while (0x00 == USCI_B_I2C_getInterruptStatus(USCI_B0_BASE, USCI_B_I2C_TRANSMIT_INTERRUPT)) ;

                //Transmit data
                USCI_B_I2C_slaveDataPut(USCI_B0_BASE,
                                        transmitData
                                        );
                // Increment TXData
                transmitData++;

                // Poll will STOP is received
                while (0x00 == USCI_B_I2C_getInterruptStatus(USCI_B0_BASE, USCI_B_I2C_STOP_INTERRUPT)) ;
        }
}


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HMC's Falls Prevention Clinic first of its kind in Qatar
In response to Qatar's growing elderly population, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has continued to expand its geriatric medicine services with the Geriatric and Long-Term Care Department now operating across multiple sites and hospitals.
Dr. Kawa Amin, Consultant Geriatrician, says HMC's Falls Prevention Clinic, which is located at Rumailah Hospital and is the first clinic of its type in the country, is an important element of HMC's elder care services.
"Our specialist consultant-led clinic receives around 24 referrals each month and mainly serves patients over the age of 65 who have experienced a fall or are at risk of falling. While individuals over the age of 65 are at a higher risk for falls, it isn't uncommon for people under the age of 65 to experience a fall as a result of balance problems or a chronic or acute illness," said Dr. Amin.
Dr. Amin said fall incidences are usually multi-factorial and are one of the earliest signs of frailty. He says falls are a major cause for admission to hospital and residential care facilities.
Dr. Kawa Amin (source: Peninsula Qatar)
"Falls Prevention Clinics can be used to screen older adult's wellbeing and frailty and to offer appropriate management at an earlier stage. A major component of what we do in our clinic is diagnosing the cause of imbalance and falls, and in some cases, we refer patients to other specialties for further consultation and management, such as cardiology or neurology. Medication reconciliation, which helps prevent medication errors such as omissions, duplications, dosing errors, or drug interactions, is also important as some medications can contribute to fall incidences. In some cases, we also prescribe medicine, depending on the patient's condition and bone health requirements," said Dr. Amin.
"The role of exercise and strength training is also discussed as part of the service we provide, as exercises that improve muscle strength in the legs and improve balance, posture, and stamina can be an effective way to reduce the risk of falling in some patients," added Dr. Amin.
Dr. Amin noted that falls can cause injury, pain, loss of movement and function, loss of independence, and even death, underscoring the importance of diagnosing their cause. He says the Falls Prevention Clinic receives referrals from HMC's Emergency Departments, inpatient care, and primary healthcare physicians and notes that they work in cooperation with other services across HMC to provide patients with a holistic, multi-disciplinary service.
"Many patients will require a multi-disciplinary care plan, particularly those who are experiencing recurrent falls, which can lead to serious health complications such as bone fractures and wounds," said Dr. Amin.
"In addition to treating any injuries sustained as a result of the fall, it is essential to determine the cause or causes, which can range from an unsafe environment, for example, a home that has tripping hazards, such as loose carpets or rugs, illness, inappropriate shoes, foot deformities, or use of the wrong assistive devices," said Dr. Amin.
Source: https://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/03/12/2019/HMC%E2%80%99s-Falls-Prevention-Clinic-first-of-its-kind-in-Qatar
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