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From proboards support:

If she was already in a group, she'll need to go to her profile, click the Edit Profile button, go to the Settings tab and scroll down to the Display Group option and set it there. Unless you remove her from all groups then add her into the Global Moderator first, she'll have to do this as there's no other way for you to do it for her.

(and if you guys want to add a mod, that's also a good idea)

Yes, but the results aren't very interesting.  

Both Ellie and I can IP ban.  What she can do that I can't (likely due to my personal incompetence) is ban on a single board while allowing that user to access other boards (like we have done for some posters on CEP)

I've archived your report @stevia. It's up to Dick Move to decide what gets pinned or highlighted on ML.  

Our global moderation here tends to be very hands off, but some boards (like CEP) choose to have stricter rules and more active moderation and you're welcome to do that at a board level in this case if you'd like.  

We were the tenants in this situation and it was awful. The house was a weird layout and didn’t sell for well over two months with several showings a week. I work from home, we had a dog, and it was incredibly disruptive for us. The realtor had zero respect for me or my boundaries—to the point that we said a certain time wasn’t convenient because I was leading a conference call, and she just gave away the key box code and people barged in anyway.

Given my personal experience, I’d do whatever I could to not inflict this on a tenant. I’m still really bitter that they thought it was ok to simultaneously collect rent from us and use the property for their own purposes.

Whoa this is blowing my mind. I have no ability at all to imagine visually. If I picture like a family member, it's basically a series of words - brown short hair, bangs, hazel eyes, etc. - not any sort of visual image. I had no idea that wasn't normal.

The IP is not a good slow cooker by basically all accounts, so if you really like the all-day cook of a crockpot, you'll want to keep that.

That said, IP can make that same stewed/braised all day food in more like an hour vs. 10 hours.

For anyone else morbidly fascinated by this (which may just be me) - this piece from the NYT *from before the EA crash* does an incredible job of breaking down the MCAS system, why it was there, and what impact it likely had on the Lion Air flight based on the data (even more relevant now that regulators seem to be admitting that the EA data available so far looks awfully similar).

I just discovered it, and it would have saved me hours of reading pilot forums...

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/world/asia/lion-air-plane-crash-pilots.html

There are accounts like this, but all the ones I've seen come after the Lion Air crash, when people were thinking about this issue - unexplained nose down before Lion Air and the explanation would be most telling, I think.

Also my understanding is that the MCAS nose down specifically requires that Autopilot is OFF, not ON.  That's part of what makes this operation so strange and out of the norm for pilots.  As you mentioned, several of these reports happened when AP was on - which means they wouldn't have been the same issue as Lion Air... at least if everything is working the way it is designed to (which i guess is an if) and if the pilots making the reports are accurate in their descriptions.

You touch on this in your post, but basically the reason this happened is Boeing needed to make a fuel efficient competitor to Airbus, so they put a more efficient (and larger) engine on an existing approved 737 frame. What is nice about that, is you don't have to totally redesign the plane ($$$ for design, approvals, testing, etc.) and you can also sell it to airlines like Southwest as "you already have all your pilots certified on this plane - they can just go to a 2 hour training and be set, as opposed to going through a whole new certification like it's a new plane."

The problem is that bigger engine sits in a different spot on the wing, which creates a potential to tip up dangerously at certain parts of flight.  But instead of reworking the aerodynamics and having a new plane, new approvals, new training, etc. they just wrote some software to automatically correct the tip, thus saving all that money and time, and preserving the "this is an easy migration for your pilots" pitch.

Looks like Canada just grounded them too...

Southwest has something like 750+ planes, of which 34 are Max 8.  AA has over 1000 planes, about 25 of which are Max 8.  United has 800+ planes, of which 14 are Max 9 - so chances of being assigned one of these planes are very small at all of these airlines.  I count 40 or 50 of them in the air right now over the US - and they aren't just dropping out of the sky. 

What happened in Lion Air (and speculatively maybe EA too) is a single sensor went bad and gave false information that the plane was angled too high, which causes the MCAS system to (pretty aggressively) nose the plane down.  The planes actually have two of these sensors, but the system apparently just uses one of them (assigned at takeoff) to tie to this system (which seems like a terrible design to me and is probably what this required Boeing software fix will address)

From what I understand, AA and SWA (and possibly united too - I don't know) are now ordering planes with an upgrade that gives the pilots information about what both sensors are doing.  That means on these planes even if this were to happen, the pilots would be easily able to see that their sensors are in disagreement and quickly conclude what problem is happening and use the steps to overcome it.  I wish these airlines would come out and confirm that all their planes in operation allow for both AOA sensors to be read from the cockpit because that change alone goes a long way in giving pilots the information they need to quickly address the issue.

As of November, Southwest had a plan to modify the AOA sensors on their MAXs to give the pilots more information in these situations. Not sure how far they've gotten with retrofitting their fleet, but I'd feel better about flying SWA's planes than any others given they immediately took this action.