Shipping containers are the first line of defence against shipping hazards. An appropriate container and an effective cushioning system work together as a system for preventing physical damage to fragile objects during shipment.
Wooden containers continue to be a popular choice for many museum shipments. They are strong, and can be fabricated to high performance standards by museum preparators with readily available materials and power tools.
The strength and durability requirements of a shipping container depend on the nature of the contents to be shipped and the hazards that are likely to be encountered in a particular distribution system. As an extreme example, marine shipment of heavy items requires very durable containers to resist compressive forces resulting from the high stacking heights in ship cargo holds, and to resist damage during handling by equipment such as grab hooks and slings. On the other hand, source-to-destination transport of relatively light items by museum staff or qualified art handlers places much lower demands on a shipping container.
In certain situations, especially those involving transport by museum staff and art handlers, it may be possible to reduce crating costs by seeking alternatives to conventional wooden cases. An example of such an alternative is the triwall container developed by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Parks Canada, Heritage Presentation and Public Education Branch, Collections Management Unit. The container is inexpensive, easy to build and surprisingly strong, and it can be quickly fabricated without the use of power tools. The assembly and fabrication procedures developed by the Collections Management staff of Parks Canada have been reproduced here to expand the range of crating options available to museum staff.
Determine the inside dimensions of your container.
Figure 1: Cut 2 pieces of triwall material to the required inside height (A) and inside depth (B). These pieces will form the container end cap panels. Tape all edges of the two panels with reinforced Kraft paper tape to strengthen the open corrugated edges and to seal them against moisture and insects. Two frames, made from 50 mm x 50 mm (2"; x 2";) cedar, will be used to secure the end cap panels and to provide structural reinforcement for the container. Assemble the cedar frames using white resin glue and 75 mm long (3";) box nails. Attach the assembled frames to each end cap with white glue and reinforce with 25 mm long (1";) staples using a pneumatic or electric stapler. For maximum strength, the staples should be set at a slight angle to span several corrugations.
Note: If a power stapler is not available, use 25 mm long (1";) #8 wood screws with 12 mm (1/2";) washers. To determine the width of triwall material required for the container, add the thickness of the two end cap panels, including the cedar frames, to the desired internal width to arrive at the outside width (C).
Figure 2: Ensure that the corrugations will run across the width of the container.
Important: Before cutting the triwall material, ensure that the corrugations will run across the width of the container. This orientation enables the material to be properly folded to form the corners. To determine the length of triwall material necessary to cover the entire container, use the following calculation: (2 x A) + (2 x B) + (the desired flap length) + (a 50 mm (2";) allowance for folding).
Note: The fastening flap should be at least 2/3 of the internal height (A) of the container. Use Kraft paper tape to seal all edges of the triwall material in the same manner described for the end caps.
Figure 3: Choose the desired location for the container opening. From one side of this opening, begin to attach the triwall material onto the cedar end cap frames using glue and 25 mm (1";) staples. Attach the triwall material onto the cedar end cap frames using glue and staples. After the triwall material has been attached to one side of the container, it is necessary to fold the material 90°. To produce a crisp and straight fold, a crimping block must be used. A crimping block can be made from a 1 m to 2 m (4' to 6') piece of 25 mm x 75 mm (1"; x 3"; nominal) hardwood (preferably birch or maple), shaped with a pointed edge.
Figure 4: Fold the material 90 degrees after the triwall has been attached. Create a crisp and straight fold by using a crimping block made from hardwood, shaped with a pointed edge.
Figure 5: Align the pointed edge of the crimping block over the area to be crimped by placing the edge of the crimping block against the cedar frame. To fold the triwall material, invert the partly assembled container such that the triwall is flat on the floor or workstation. Align the pointed edge of the crimping block over the area to be crimped by placing the edge of the crimping block against the cedar frame. With the crimping block in position, strike it with a heavy rubber mallet, moving from one end to the other. This procedure indents the triwall and allows it to bend easily and precisely around the cedar end cap frames. Continue to assemble the container by securing the triwall to the next two sides of the cedar frames with glue and staples as described above, crimping at each corner.
Note: Be sure to identify which sides of the triwall material will form the lid and fastening flap and remember that these sections are not stapled or screwed to the end cap frames.
Figure 6: Apply the hook part of the Velcro tape to the inside face of the fastening flap and the loop part of the tape to the main body of the container. To secure the lid and fastening flap during transport, a length of 19 mm or 25 mm wide (3/4"; or 1";) self-adhesive Velcro is used. Apply the hook part of the Velcro tape to the inside face of the fastening flap and the loop part of the tape to the main body of the container. The tape should run the entire width of the fastening flap. For added strength and an improved seal, Velcro may also be used along the top side of the end cap frame.
Figure 7: Handles can be fabricated for the triwall container by spanning the frame members with a short length of wood. Handles can improve the ease of moving large containers. Choosing appropriate handle locations can also help reduce the height from which a container might be dropped in the event of an accident. Handles can be easily fabricated for the triwall container by spanning the frame members with a short length of wood.
If desired, the stretch and security of the closure can be increased by using hardware such as T-nuts or draw latches to secure the lid and fastening flap during transport.
If a water-resistant barrier is desired, one or two coats of lacquer may be applied to the exterior of the container.
Rub strips on the base of large containers allow easy movement and help avoid contact between the triwall material and wet floor. Rub strips can be attached to the base of the container with nails or bolts. The rub strips can be oriented along the length or width of the container.
P. Marcon (Canadian Conservation Institute).


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Manta Ray By Richard Harvey - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1005742
Vermont for Wildlife
The Bills
Manta birostris By jon hanson from london, UK - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=665502
Over the last decade, populations of manta and other rays are being threatened by the trade in their gill plates—which are made out of cartilage and used to filter plankton from seawater—as a modern-day cure-all.
Historically, manta and devil rays have not been considered good to eat—so escaped large-scale commercial fishing. Even so, populations dropped as they were caught by fishermen who targeted tuna, swordfish and other species.
More recently, however, new markets have opened up, and rays are now sought after for their gill plates, which are used in Asian medicine.
RAYS LINKS:
China Weighs Ban on Manta Ray Gills, Sold in Traditional Market as Modern Panacea
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/world/asia/china-manta-ray-conservation.html
Manta Rays Endangered by Sudden Demand from Chinese Medicine
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/manta-rays-endangered-by-sudden-demand-from-chinese-medicine/
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Q: Multiple entry points in SeedStack application When I try to launch my SeedStack application, I get the following error:
org.seedstack.seed.SeedException: [CORE] Multiple seedstack launchers

Description
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There are multiple SeedStack entry points in the classpath.

Fix
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Exactly one class implementing 'org.seedstack.seed.spi.SeedLauncher' should be present in the classpath and registered in
META-INF/services. Remove all but one launcher.

What is the cause of this and how can I fix it ?

A: A SeedLauncher is used to launch a particular kind of application (Web app, CLI app, ...). A SeedStack module can only be of one kind at a time.
The error above occurs when you have multiple active implementation of the SeedLauncher interface in your classpath. By active I mean present and registered as a service in META-INF/service.
The most common cause is when you have the seed-web-undertow and the seed-cli dependencies in the classpath at the same time, as both provide their own implementation of SeedLauncher.
You have to choose if your module should be a CLI application or a Web application and remove the useless dependency. If you want to build both kinds, you'll have to separate them in different modules.
Some add-ons can also provide launcher which can interfere in the same way. If the quick solution above doesn't resolve your problem, use your IDE to find all implementations of the SeedLauncher interface and re-organize your modules to have only one launcher per module.

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//  NSCachedURLResponse+Aeris.h
//  Aeris
//
//  Created by Nicholas Shipes on 3/20/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 HAMweather, LLC. All rights reserved.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface NSCachedURLResponse (Aeris)

/**
 *  Returns a new `NSCachedURLResponse` instance whose cached headers have been updated with the specified expiration time interval.
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 *  @param interval The time interval after which the request should be expired.
 *
 *  @return The new modified `NSCachedURLResponse` instance.
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- (NSCachedURLResponse *)awf_responseWithExpirationInterval:(NSTimeInterval)interval;

@end

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FOUNDATION: Indeed He Shall Be Blessed
Indeed He Shall Be Blessed
Today's Text: Genesis 27:30-33
The Bible is the FOUNDATION for life.
Esau lacked discernment, was indifferent to spiritual principles, had a blatant disregard for his birthright and had married two Canaanite wives in defiance of his parent's wishes. God had not chosen him as the covenantal heir. Esau's character confirmed he was an unsuitable candidate.
Yet, Isaac determined to bestow the covenantal blessing upon his firstborn twin. The timely intervention by his wife Rebekah prevented him from making a grave mistake.
Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. He also had made savory food, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that your soul may bless me."
And his father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?"
So he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, "Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—and indeed he shall be blessed."
Esau's arrival soon after Isaac had blessed Jacob underscores the urgency demonstrated by Rebekah as she quickly acted to thwart her husband's misguided plan. The redundant Hebrew syntax emphasizes how closely Esau's arrival followed Isaac's blessing of Jacob. Literally: Jacob left the presence of Isaac and even as he was exiting, Esau arrived with the wild game meal requested by his father. If Esau had arrived only minutes earlier, the plan would have failed.
Isaac and Esau grasped the situation immediately. Their responses, however, were quite different.
Isaac trembled uncontrollably realizing the gravity of the error he had nearly committed. He visibly shook with terror (Heb. Hasad). (1) Isaac knew God's prophecy to Rebekah; yet, he had determined to bless Esau contrary to it.
Had Rebekah and Jacob not intervened, Isaac would have bestowed the covenantal blessing on the wrong son. Isaac was terrified that God had overruled his attempt to bestow the covenantal blessing on Esau and caused him to bless Jacob as prophesied.
Since the blessing was conveyed by God and not a product of Isaac's subjective affection, it was irrevocable. When Isaac realized what had happened, he declared, "I have blessed him [Jacob]—and indeed he shall be blessed" (Gen. 27:33).
Esau seeks a blessing from Isaac
Esau's response was a combination of fury and extreme disappointment. The text reveals, "he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, 'Bless me—me also, O my father!'"(v. 34). The repetition, "bless me—me also" underscores the desperate nature of Esau's plea.
Isaac had already conveyed the covenantal blessing; he could not bestow it on another. God, however, composed the words Isaac subsequently pronounced over Esau:
"Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth,
And of the dew of heaven from above.
By your sword you shall live,
And you shall serve your brother;
And it shall come to pass, when you become restless,
That you shall break his yoke from your neck." (vv. 39-40)
The blessing pronounced over Esau although similar in some respects was weighted with significance. Isaac's blessing promised Jacob the dew of heaven and fatness of the earth in reference to the land of Canaan.
Rather than imparting the fatness of the earth and the dew of heaven as promised to Jacob, Isaac's words actually communicated the opposite using a play on words. Employing a privative rather than a partitive form of the Hebrew preposition mish (מַנֵּ֤י) that conveys the idea "away from," the context of Isaac's words suggest that Esau and his descendants would be separated from the fatness of the earth and the dew of heaven associated with blessing in the land of Canaan. Indeed, Esau's dwelling (the land of Edom) in the Sinai desert south east of the Dead Sea was mountainous and characteristically barren.
The blessing ordered by God and pronounced by Isaac captured the essential elements of Esau's character and his progeny. Esau and his descendants would not only live by the sword as a way of life, but would engage in a continual and unsuccessful struggle with the descendants of Jacob (v. 40).
Then, emphasizing a negative connotation of his brother's name, Esau claimed Jacob was a deceiver who had stolen both his birthright and his blessing. He chided his father for not taking proper precautions to prevent such an outcome.
Conveniently forgetting that he had relinquished his birthright to Jacob in exchange for an expedient meal of red lentil stew, Esau went on a rampage and vowed to murder his brother. Esau declared his intention to kill Jacob as soon as the days of mourning for his father were completed believing Isaac's death was imminent.
In the end, Esau demonstrated his unsuitability to lead the family from which God's chosen nation would emerge.
God would have undoubtedly used another method to keep Isaac from conferring the covenantal blessing on Esau had Rebekah and Jacob not intervened. The outcome was crucial to the future of human history.
Rebekah and Jacob were committed to the unfolding of God's covenantal promises and acted decisively when Isaac's actions jeopardized the plan.
Charles E. McCracken is an international Bible teacher, long-time friend of Israel and advocate for the Jewish people. Known for authenticity in communicating biblical truth, Rev. McCracken's presentations are relevant for those seeking to understand the significance of Israel and the church in Bible prophecy. He staunchly supports the nation of Israel and the Jewish people's right to exist and live in peace.
© Charles E. McCracken 2016, devotional comments only. Repost/Reprint with permission from the author via Contact Form under ABOUT. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Emphasis added.)
1) Bible opened to Isaiah. By, Ken Horn, [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons – Enhancement: MKM Portfolios
2) Esau seeks a blessing from Isaac, c. 1383. By Bertram of Minden (1345 – 1415), [PD-US, PD-Art], via Wikimedia Commons – Enhancement: MKM Portfolios
Categories: FOUNDATION, ISRAEL'S HISTORY: ANCIENT, Life of Isaac
Tagged as: Biblically Authentic, Friend of Israel, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Esau, Standing with Israel
FOUNDATION: Make Me Savory Food, Such As I Love


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Dubai Raises $675mn For Tram Project
The proceeds from the dual-currency loan will be used to fund the first phase of the Al-Sufouh project.
Aarti Nagraj
Dubai's department of finance raised $675 million from a dual-currency loan to complete the first phase of the Al-Sufouh tram project in the emirate, the media office of the Dubai government said in a statement on Wednesday. The first phase of the project includes the construction of a 10km-long track starting from Dubai Marina and running up to Knowledge Village.
The facility comprises a 13-year $401 million loan which will amortize over 10 years starting 2015, and is guaranteed by the official government export credit agencies of Belgium (ONDD) and France (COFACE).
The second portion of the transaction is a six-year $274 million Islamic Ijara facility, split equally in dollars and dirhams, and amortizing over three years, also starting 2015.
"We have seen a very encouraging response to this financing," the statement quoted Abdulrahman Al-Saleh, director general of the Dubai Department of Finance as saying.
He also said that that the Dubai Government was also examining ways to optimize its funding strategy.
"Through export credit agencies financing (ECA), we have been able to achieve long-term financing at competitive rates while continuing to efficiently manage the Emirate's finances," he added.
Citibank, Deutsche Bank, and HSBC were mandated as the lead arrangers and underwriters for the financing, the statement said.
Dar al-Arkan To Repay $990mn
Dhs2.1bn Surplus For Dubai Municipality
Dolphin Raises $1bn From Bond Sale
DP World Eyeing $1bn Loan: Sources
Emirates Eyes $517mn Loan
Japan's Trade Deficit Raises Concerns
SMEs Fight for Funding
UAE, Qatar Stop Trade Finance To Iran
UNB's Q4 Net Profit Drops


From the above first version of that lamp (dating back one year ago), I took general concept and ideas, and part of the mobile app code.
For this project, I have changed the microcontroller (it's now a Wemos D1 R1 instead of an Arduino Uno + ESP8266), I have added some animations (some make sense only on the stairs), and I have added the motion detection plus alarm feature.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-based-Gree... which is made with a Wemos D1 R2, has different animations, and has the improved version of the mobile app.
1) it must be useful: many projects we can find on Internet are scientifically challenging, and many times they are cool&fun. But they may miss the long-term usefulness, or large audience impact. I wanted to build something me and my family would use everyday, so that readers would find it useful too.
2) it must look cool: I didn't want to end up with something which looks patchy, ugly, that nobody would like to show in his/her own house. Something as close as possible to a real product.
3) it must be fun: this is really for the builder :) something which you'd enjoy replicating and playing with, while meeting the criteria above.
I tried to fulfill the above as much as possible, you're the judges, your views, favorites, and votes will be my measure of success! :) enjoy!
I like the idea of walking through the house without having to press a button to switch on the lights. I wanted to have something like this on our staircase, also having in mind you may walk the stairs with your hands busy with something (or someone :) ). I wanted to make my own automatic switch to enable animations and effects (hence a micro-controlled solution) and I like LEDs in principle but the dots are too geeky (hence a LED strip in an aluminum profile with a glossy diffuser). Plus, I wanted to have an extra motion-detection alarm for our house (hence a wifi-enabled micro-controller, the IFTTT integration, so finally an IoT solution).
get the non waterproof version, with 60 leds/m. Also, I found a cheaper 5m version and just cut 1m from the end of both the strips. Note you can do this with ws2812 and ws2812b LEDs as well, the light will be exactly the same and these are cheaper. The ws2813 are just more reliable, as they have a redundant data connection, so if you break one LED, the rest of the strip will keep working.
These were roughly 27$ / 25€ each.
These were 20€ each, roughly 22$. I have also bought the terminal caps and the fitting screws. The screws couldn't be installed on the side I needed them, they are supposed to be installed on the side opposite to the diffuser, so they were of no use for me. Instead, thanks to the slope of the stairs and some friction provided by the skirting board, some pieces of bi-adhesive scotch tape was enough to fit the profiles over the skirting boards.
I have no idea which length was used here, I guess around 2m, the electrician and the carpenter installed the cables under the floor, going from the skirting boards of the stairs, to the room with the hotpress. Note that too long cables will reduce the current and you'll need some more sophisticated setup to provide the correct current and to avoid breaking the data connection.
For future readers, if you don't find it, version R2 of the Wemos D1 should work as well.
This was 21.5£, roughly 25€ or 27$. You probably need less than 40A, but this was cheaper than a 20A, and with the amperes, it's always better to oversize, so the power supply will run cool and live longer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable) installed under the floor between the skirting boards of the staricase and the hot press by the carpenter and the electrician before the carpenter installed the wooden floor. One cable per side of the staircase, popping out from the tip of the skirting board on one end, and from a hole in the wall of the hot press on the other end. A cat 5 cable has 8 small cables in it, divided into 4 twisted pairs using 4 different color bases and 2 color patterns (solid color, or dashed line). Remove 8-10 cm of rubber from each end of each of the cat 5 cables, so to access the 4 twister pairs. Un-twist each pair, so to end up with 8 indipendent tiny cables. Remove about 1cm of plastic only from each tip of each tiny cable, at both ends of each of the two cat 5 cables. This step is quite time consuming and I recommend using a proper cable peeler to do it quickly. I used scissors.
For the connection listed as 1), I picked the 4-way connector (plus the two extra power cables) from the LED strip, and connected the green cable from the LED (the data cable) to one of the 8 tiny cables from the cat 5 cable. I chose the white-orange pins of the cat 5 cable for this.
For the connection listed as 3), I connected the "out" pin of the PIR sensor to one of the tiny cables from the cat 5 cable (I chose the orange pin of the cat 5 cable for this).
For the connection listed as 4), I connected the "vcc" pin of the PIR sensor to the white-brown tiny cable of the cat 5 cable which was already connected to the red cable from the LED strip, and the "ground" pin of the PIR sensor to the white-green tiny cable of the cat 5 cable which was already connected to the white cable from the LED strip.
All the above connections could be made more tidy by using heat-shrinkable tubes. I'm not using them, as I plan to cover everything with a white MDF board placed on top of the aluminum profile, so to embed the profile into the skirting board. This will hide all the cables and will leave me access in case repairs or further developments are needed.
These first 4 connections were replicated exactly on the other side of the staircase, where the other PIR sensor is.
Note also that the blue cable from the LED connector is left without a connection, as that's the redundant data from the ws2813 strip.
a) twisted back together the blue, white-blue, and white-brown pins of the cat 5 cables and I have inserted the result into one of the three "+V" ports of the power supply.
b) twisted back together the green, white-green, and brown pins of the cat 5 cables and I have inserted the result into one of the three "COM" ports of the puwer supply.
a) and b) were replicated for the other cat 5 cable corresponding to the other side of the staircase. I have used another "+V" and "COM" port(s) of the power supply.
d) the two white-orange pins of the two cat 5 cables were twisted back together and inserted into pin 1 of the Wemos D1. Now, if I had used a regular Arduino Uno with a wifi shield or external esp8266 module, I could have left the two strips independent, not twisting the two cables, and connecting the two pins to pins 1 and 2 of the Arduino. This way, I could have controlled the animation of the two sides of the stairs separately. I decided to simplify, though, and kept them joined. This is a limitation of the Wemos D1 R1, that can drive a Neopixel-compatible LED strip only from pin 1. I'm not sure if they fixed this into R2, that's possible, if you end up trying with an R2 let me know if this works.
For the connection listed as 5), I had many possible options (like using a spare usb power supply for a phone and using directly the microusb port in the Wemos D1), but, since I had the last (third) pair of +V and COM ports from my 40A power supply unused, I decided to connect the 5v pin of the Wemos to the +V port of the power supply, and the GND pin of the Wemos to the COM port of the power supply. Please note this bypasses the internal voltage regulator of the Wemos and will only work if the power supply has a pretty constant voltage, which was my case. If not, you risk to burn the Wemos D1. Note that in the picture you'll see a microusb cable connected to the Wemos D1. Well, it's not connected to anything on the other side, I just left it there for when I have to plug the Wemos to the laptop to program it. As you'll discover in the later step, I am programming the Wemos wirelessly OTA (Over The Air) now, so that cable can be removed for good.
For the connection listed as 6), the electrictian left a white cable plugged to a fused switch, carrying 220v, popping out from the wall. So all I had to do was to take some of the rubber out at the end of the white cable, remove about 1 cm of rubber from each of the three contacts, then connect the brown into the "L" port of the power supply, the blue into the "N" port, and the yellow-green into the "earth" port.
This was by far the most time consuming step, also because I didn't use the proper tools for peeling off the cable rubber, I just used some kitchen scissors. I have always done it that way so my error rate was only 3/35 (where 35 is 8 pins from each cat 5 cable and each end of them, plus the 3 pins from the house network cable), i.e. I only had to re-cut 3 pins in total out of 35 connections. However, you can do it probably faster with a proper cable stripper.
1) with the help of another person, take both the profiles to install on one side, put them over the skirting board with the diffuser pointing towards the other side of the stairs, decide which area of the stairs you want to cover (our stairs were 4.4m long and we only had 4m of aluminum profiles) and mark it with a pencil.
2) place 3 or 4 chunks of bi-adhesive scotch tape along the length of each of the two aluminum profiles (or on the skirting board directly). Ok, I lied, I didn't have bi-adhesive scotch tape so I just ended up using regular scotch tape roled over itself to form a bi-adhesive patch. It works.
4) place the profiles onto the skirting board (i.e. onto the scotch tape), making sure the scotch tape is hidden between the profile and the skirting board. Make also sure that the diffuser is pointing towards the other side of the stairs, not pointing up, otherwise you won't get the desired effect. In other words, the attached picture here is just for reference, don't follow the image with the measurements as that installs the diffuser pointing up.
5) unroll the LED strip, place it next (but outside) of the aluminum profile and make sureall the LEDs will properyl end up inside the U-line. at the top end of the strip, you have the connector, which is thicker than the aluminum profile. Take note of where that will end up once the strip will be inside the U-line.
6) remove the cover of the bi-adhesive tape that you find behind the LED reel (if you don't have a bi-adhesive tape here, get one and fit it along the whole length of the reel. No sporadic patches, you need the full lenght covered by tape). I had 3M quality bi-adhesive so there was very little room for error. If you don't pay enough attention, the tape will stick to either the profile, or the skirting board, or to another piece of the strip itself, or to the steps, and it's not too easy to remove it.
8) now have the person with the smaller fingers gently press each pixel against the end of the U-line. Take your time while doing this.
https://www.wemos.cc/tutorial/get-started-arduino.... and upload the sketch.
note that the sketch is not really optimized, as the various blocks are copy-paste from other projects I had in my library.
1) I have chosen the 60 led / m version of the strip. With 30 led / m it wouldn't have been the same, as you would have seen the dots of the LEDs.
3) I have chosen the opal diffuser. With a frosted or semi-transparent diffuser, the effect wouldn't have been the same.
4) I hope it's visible in the video, the effect when the lights turn on or off is that of a glowing light switching on, rather then a mere, raw, switch on altogether.
5) the other colors I have embedded as other possible choices to light the stairs are all "pop-electric" colors that give a modern look to the stairs.
2) specified a simple protocol to send commands: via web, you can send the "c" parameter from 1 to 13, will set the lights to 13 different colors (13 will set them off), according to their RGB values specified in the sketch.
0xFF00FF, i.e. purple. The mobile app does exactly this, just with a nicer interface than a web url.
The embedded video here shows the result so far (without IFTTT).
All you have to do is to specify the "This" and "That" in what's called a "recipe".
In order to create a custom recipe, you need to create a "Maker" account and get a maker key.
then sign up, and get a maker key, which is a long alphanumerical string.
Place that string in the sketch from the step before, in place of "YOUR_IFTTT_MAKER_KEY_HERE".
Then create a "trigger", for simplicity create two triggers, one called "downstairs", one called "upstairs", they are already setup in the sketch for the Wemos. If you prefer to have only one trigger, just scroll the sketch and change "upstairs" and "downstairs" with something like "stairs" only.
Make sure you oriented the two PIR sensors one pointing downstairs, one pointing upstairs, and to match their pins so you trigger the "downstairs" event when someone is downstairs and climbing upstairs, and the other way around.
As "That", choose your preferred action. I chose Anroid notification. In this way, I get my IFTTT app installed on Android to notify me of the events. You can setup a notification string, I chose "OCCHIO SOTTO!" (it means: "watch downstairs!" in Italian) and "OCCHIO SOPRA!" ("watch upstairs!").
As a final touch, if you have a 24/7 connected linux system, install a cron job that forces the triggers to be checked every minute. In this way you will get notified within a minute when somebody walks the stairs. Otherwise, it's left up to the IFTTT timeout for that specific trigger. Usually this is 15 mins.
See this embedded video for the final result (there was a small delay before the downstairs sensor got me this time).
When I first wrote this Instructable, I had a series of next steps which I planned do implement.
http://openweathermap.org/ making the stairs even more IoT.
I had fun building this project, hope you'll have too if you're going to replicate it.
Final line: all of this is only possible thanks to the versatility of the genuine Arduino (originally started by Italian designer and enterpreneur Massimo Banzi, co-founder), Arduino clones, Arduino-based boards, and ESP8266-based Arduino-based boards. They really enable tons of applications and their limits is just your creativity!
Im trying to do my driveway what equipment would i need.
Is there a way to turn on the light at lets says 7 pm and turn off the ligths at lets say 6 am. I am trying to do this outdoor. I have wemos, i dont believe i will need PIR sensor since its time based not presence based. Also i do want remote functionality and physical switch capability.
I struggle with ifttt, I cant find how to configure trigger as per your instructions. Is somewhere describet in more detail?
What service should I choose for trigger, how to configure. Where to get your app for color changing....?
Is it safe using the cat. 5 cable for power?
So have you had any problems with overheating or anything like that?
Hi thanks for you comment and interest!
The brighest color I use (255,221,170) needs 50.7mA per led.
50.7*240 (leds in 4m) = 12180mA.
Then you see that in the code the maximum brightness for the fixed light mode is set to 60 (out of 255).
I'm using 3 pairs of wires per side, so 2865/3=955mA, or, 0.96A per wire.
Besides the fact that I have seen 2 different figures around for cat 5 cables (one is 0.557A as you said, one is 0.729), I'm still over the specs.
But I never turn on the lights for 2 hours, and, so far, I have never experienced overheating (I did worry about it at the beginning and I was constantly monitoring the wires for it).
I guess they either need more time to overheat, or they have large tolerance, or they are rated for more than 0.729.
If in doubt, you can take that color out. The other ones (a part for one more) should be below 0.729 per wire.
You can even keep the colors and reduce the max brightness even more.
Does that answer your question? What do you think?
Thank you for the quick response! This answers my question very well. I missed the maximum brightness in the code.
I do have one more question. The link for the LEDs isn't working for me. So I looked through AliExpress for similar lights. The ends of the ones I see have R,B,G,+. I'm a little confused about how those work. What would the data input be and what would the ground be?
Please share the link to the strip you are talking about, otherwise I'm not able to help.
Hi, look at the code in the I'ble, it handles your situation already.
Thank you, good to see you appreciate the usefulness.
Basement, huh? I wonder if that opens new challenges, or opens the room for new addition. Let me know what's your setup (what kind of stairs you have, what's on the landing in the basement, etc, so we may work together on some ideas to implement in your case!
Thanks! Keep in mind the difference between the mini U-line and the U-line. You need the U-line for a better diffusion of the light. With the mini one, you'll most likely see the dots of the LEDs.
Another option is to find thicker diffuser, but I was happy enough with this solution.
Lights definitely add some class. Lovely project!


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How to overcome survivorship bias
A few months ago I shared a story and post on Facebook about survivorship bias and was amazed how often it was liked and shared. It also highlights the risk of survivorship bias in the gaming and gambling space. The image and blurb told the story how the navy analyzed aircraft that had been damaged and based future armament decisions on where they had received battle damage, thus they were going to increase the armor on the wingtips, central body and elevators. These were the areas that showed the most bullet holes.
One statistician, Abraham Wald, the founder of statistical sequential analysis, however fortuitously stopped this misguided effort. According to Wikipedia, " Wald made the assumption that damage must be more uniformly distributed and that the aircraft that did return or show up in the samples were hit in the less vulnerable parts. Wald noted that the study only considered the aircraft that had survived their missions—the bombers that had been shot down were not present for the damage assessment. The holes in the returning aircraft, then, represented areas where a bomber could take damage and still return home safely. Wald proposed that the Navy instead reinforce the areas where the returning aircraft were unscathed, since those were the areas that, if hit, would cause the plane to be lost."
Survivorship bias is universal
Survivorship bias occurs everywhere. If you are a poker player, you may have a hand of three of clubs, eight of clubs, eight of diamonds, queen of hearts and ace of spades. The odds of that particular configuration are about three million to one, but as economist Gary Smith writes in Standard Deviations, "after I look at the cards, the probability of having these five cards is 1, not 1 in 3 million."
Another example would be professional basketball. If you look at the best professional basketball players, a high percentage never went to university for more than one year. From this information, you (or your teen son) may infer the best path to the NBA is going to university for one year or less. The reality is that there are millions (if not billions) of people who went to university for less than a year and never played in the NBA (or even the G League). The LeBron Jameses and DeAndre Aytons are likely in the NBA despite playing less than a year in college due to their great skill, not because they did not go to university for more than a year.
As an investor, survivorship bias is the tendency to view the fund performance of existing funds in the market as a representative comprehensive sample. Survivorship bias can result in the overestimation of historical performance and general attributes of a fund.
In the business world, you may go to a Crossfit gym that is packed with the owner making a great living. You decide to leave your day job and replicate his success. What you did not see is the hundreds of Crossfit gyms that are not profitable and have closed.
The problem exists in gaming
You often see survivorship bias in the gaming and gambling space. People will look at a successful product and select a couple of features or mechanics they believe have driven the success. They then try to replicate it and fail miserably, only to then wonder why the strategy did not work for them. What they fail to analyze is the many failed games (for every success there are at least 8-10 failures) because they do not even know they exist. The failed games may have had more of the feature you are replicating. Getting a star like Kim Kardashian is a great idea if you only look at Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, but if you look at the hundreds of other IPs that have failed your course of action might be very different.
Survivorship bias can also lend its ugly head when building a VIP program. You talk to your VIPs and analyze their behavior, thus building a program that reinforces what they like about the game. What you neglect, however, is that other non-existent features might have created even more VIPs.
In the gambling space, you may look at a new blackjack variant that is doing great and build a strategy around creating new variants of classic games. What you did not see is all the games based on new variants that have failed.
Avoiding survivorship bias
Looking simply at successes, or even failures, leads to bad decision making. When looking at examples in your industry or other industries, you need to seek out both the successes and failures. With the failures, you need to make sure they are the failures (not the airplanes that returned shot up but the ones that were destroyed). You also should not use others successes or failures as a short cut to robust strategy decisions. You need to analyze the market, understand your strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT) and do a blue ocean analysis. Only then will you build a strategy that optimizes your likelihood for success.
In WW2, by analyzing surviving aircraft the US navy almost made a critical mistake in adding armor to future airplanes. The planes that returned were actually survivors, while it was the planes that were destroyed that showed where on the plane was the greatest need for new armor. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias.
This bias extends into the gaming and gambling space, as companies analyze what has worked in successful games but do not know if it also failed (perhaps to a greater degree) in products that no longer exist.
Rather than just looking at survivors or winners to drive your strategy, you should do a full SWOT and Blue Ocean analysis, that is the strongest long-term recipe to optimize your odds of success.
Author Lloyd MelnickPosted on May 14, 2019 March 4, 2019 Categories Analytics, General Social Games Business, General Tech Business, Social CasinoTags analytics, bias, survivor bias, Survivorship biasLeave a comment on How to overcome survivorship bias
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Why Are Affluent Black Families Living In Segregated & Poor Neighborhoods?
"One important thing to understand is that these housing policies that kept Blacks and Whites separate for so long, not only is it a social thing, but it's also an economic thing."
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Conventional wisdom would lead you to believe that as African Americans gain more wealth, they generally move to affluent neighborhoods, but a new report has found this may not be the case.
Among African-Americans and Whites across the United States who earn $100,000 a year or more, 37 percent of Blacks live in poorer areas, while just 9 percent of Whites do.
In Milwaukee, the numbers are skewed even further than the national average. According to the New York Times, 59 percent of African-Americans making $100,000 or more live in poorer areas, compared to just 6 percent of Whites.
On NewsOne Now, John Eligon, one of the authors of the NY Times report, explains there are a number of key factors fueling this trend: "For generations, this country intentionally and purposely segregated people by race.
"What you have created is this dynamic where today a lot of these communities where White people grew up only around White people and Black people only grew up around Black people."
Eligon said that when professional African-American families "make it" and move into White communities, they "feel a sense of otherness."
In his research, Eligon talked to one Black family who lived in a predominantly White neighborhood and the father talked about being pulled over by police officers several times, not knowing their neighbors, and neighbors in the community bringing their children inside when the Black family was outside "just pushing his daughter around on a bicycle.
"One important thing to understand is that these housing policies that kept Blacks and Whites separate for so long, not only is it a social thing, but it's also an economic thing."
Eligon continued, "While you may have Black families to make high incomes nowadays, what Black families do not have access to over these generations was wealth – wealth that they could pass down through housing to their following generations.
"Without that generational wealth, it makes it hard to buy into some of these high-income affluent areas."
Roland Martin asked if affluent Black families shun the idea of moving into privileged White neighborhoods "because they might feel uncomfortable" living in those communities or not feeling welcomed there.
"There is definitely this sense of discomfort when you grow up around people who you identify with, who you have these deep cultural connections with," Eligon replied.
Martin looked at the broader picture of the study that exposes how neighborhoods in this day and age are still largely segregated among racial lines: "The reality is, housing is used in America to separate races. Folks want to act as if that's not true, but that has been American history and it continues today.
"Is it as overt as before? No, but it still continues today."
Watch Roland Martin, John Eligon, and the NewsOne Now panel discuss the NY Times report on affluent Black families living in segregated, poor neighborhoods in the video clip above.
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module MuckInvites
  module Models #:nodoc:
    module MuckInviter #:nodoc:
      extend ActiveSupport::Concern

      included do
        has_many :invites, :as => :inviter
        has_many :invitees, :through => :invites
        scope :by_newest, :order => "created_at DESC"
        scope :by_oldest, :order => "created_at ASC"
        scope :newer_than, lambda { |*args| where("inviters.created_at > ?", args.first || 1.week.ago) }
      end

      module ClassMethods
        def get_contacts(email, password)
          return Contacts::Gmail.new(email, password).contacts if email.include?('@gmail.com')
          return Contacts::Yahoo.new(email, password).contacts if email.include?('@yahoo.com')
          return Contacts::Hotmail.new(email, password).contacts if email.include?('@hotmail.com')
          return Contacts::Aol.new(email, password).contacts if email.include?('@aol.com')
          return Contacts::Plaxo.new(email, password).contacts if email.include?('@plaxo.com')
          return Contacts.guess(email, password).contacts
        end
      end

      # Gets all emails have been invited
      def invitee_emails
        invitees.map(&:email)
      end

      # Sends out notification email and adds an activity to each of the inviters activity feeds
      def notify_inviters(invite_id = nil)
        inviters = Invitee.who_invited?(self.email, invite_id)
        if inviters.size > 0
          content = I18n.t('muck.activities.joined_status', :name => self.full_name, :application_name => MuckEngine.configuration.application_name)
          inviters.each do |inviter|
            add_activity(self, self, self, 'status_update', '', content) if MuckInvites.configuration.create_activities_when_invited_joins
            send_invited_joined_emails(inviters) if MuckInvites.configuration.email_inviters_when_invited_joins
          end
        end
      end

      def send_invited_joined_emails(inviters)

      end

      def invite(emails, message, user)
        emails = emails.split(/[, ]/) if !emails.is_a?(Array)
        emails = emails.find_all { |email| !email.blank? }
        emails = emails.flatten.collect { |email| email.strip }

        raise MuckInvites::Exceptions::NoEmails.new(I18n.t('muck.invites.no_email_error')) if emails.blank?
        check_emails = invitee_emails
        emails.each do |email|
          if !check_emails.include?(email)
            check_emails << email
            invitee = Invitee.find_by_email(email) || Invitee.create!(:email => email)
            Invite.create!(:inviter => self, :invitee => invitee, :user => user)
            response = InviteMailer.invite_notification(user, message, email).deliver
          end
        end
      end

      def inviters
        Invite.who_invited?(self.email)
      end
    end
  end
end


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The district is served by Anderston railway station.

Foundation of Anderston

The land on which the present day district of Anderston stands was once known as the Bishop's Forest. These lands, situated to the west of medieval Glasgow, were granted to the Bishop of Glasgow by King James II of Scotland in 1450. The lands of Stobcross, which occupied part of this area, were the property of the Anderson family from the mid-16th century, and here they built their mansion, Stobcross House. Tradition has it that the name came from a wooden cross or 'stob' which marked the spot. Stobcross House was demolished in 1875 to make way for Queen's Dock.

Anderston was originally an unproductive section of the Stobcross Estate which was feued out for weavers' cottages in 1725 by James Anderson of Stobcross House. It was named Anderson Town in his honour, later becoming Anderston. The fledgling village of Anderston began close to Gushet Farm, which became Anderston Cross and today is the site of the Kingston Bridge which carries the M8 motorway over the River Clyde. Ownership of the village changed in 1735 when it was taken over by John Orr. In those days Anderston had bleachfields down by the river and Main Street consisted of weavers' cottages along both sides. As business and trade increased so did the size of Anderston. Finnieston, a nearby village was established in 1768 by Matthew Orr, named for the Rev. John Finnie, the Orr family tutor and Finnieston weavers were allowed to become members of Anderston's weavers society from 1774. From its origins as a weavers' village, the area became an industrial centre with the growth of Glasgow's cotton industry and other industries including glassmaking and pottery.

By 1794, the population of the village of Anderston was around 3,900. In the countryside surrounding the village there were many country estates such as Hydepark and Lancefield. These would later be commemorated in the street names of Anderston as the area expanded and became urbanised in the 19th century. The eastern boundary of Anderston was for many years marked by Royalty Stones number 208 and 209, on the north and south sides of the present Argyle Street. The Blythswood Burn had originally flowed through the site, and had marked the eastern boundary of the Stobcross lands. The Royalty Stones stood on the site from around 1782 until they were removed during the comprehensive development which took place in the area in the 1960s and 1970s.

By the late 18th century, Anderston was a thriving community, with its population employed mostly in weaving and related industries such as bleaching, dyeing and printing. Other industries were also thriving by this period, such as the Delftfield Pottery (established 1748), the Anderston Brewery (1760s) and the Verreville Glassworks (1776). The area's first church, the Anderston Relief Church in Heddle Place, was erected in 1770.

The area of Anderston now known as Cranstonhill was known in ancient times as Drumother Hill. It became corrupted to Drumover Hill, the reason for this being a myth that it was the place where vagabonds were escorted to, to the tune of the "Rogues' March", when they were drummed out of town. Alexander Peden prophesied in the 17th century that this hill would one day be the site of the 'Cross of Glasgow.' At that time, the hill stood in open countryside a few miles from the Burgh of Glasgow.

19th century

In the early 19th century, Henry Houldsworth, a cotton mill owner, established a spinning mill on Cheapside Street which was steam powered. In 1809, the Cranstonhill reservoir was built which supplied the village with a direct source of water from the River Clyde. The town was made a Burgh of Barony in 1824 when Anderston's population stood at around 10,000, The first Town Council was elected, with Henry Houldsworth being chosen as the first Provost of Anderston. The council also included three Bailies, eleven councillors and a Treasurer. The Burgh motto was the Latin Alter Alterius Auxilio Veget, which roughly translates as 'the one flourishes by the help of the other.' However, Anderston's status as an independent Burgh would not last long. In 1846 it was incorporated into the City of Glasgow. The last Provost of Anderston was Henry Houldsworth's son, John.

During the rest of the 19th century, the area continued to grow and new industries developed, such as shipbuilding, iron-founding, tool manufacturing and engineering. The close proximity to the docks on the River Clyde meant that Anderston also became an ideal place for the establishment of whisky bonds, grain stores and timber yards. This period also saw the establishment of the famous Cranstonhill (established 1865) and Bilsland Bakeries (1882). Thomas Lipton opened his first shop in Stobcross Street in 1871.

The increase of industry in the area brought a large number of people from the Scottish Lowlands. There was also a large Irish immigrant population moving to the area and by 1831 about a quarter of Anderston's population were Irish. The rapid development of industry in the area also led to a demand for working class housing, and most of the Anderston area was built in the late 19th century, comprising the solid stone tenement buildings which are synonymous with Glasgow. This was also the period when many of Anderston's churches were built to serve the growing community. These included St Mark's Lancefield (1850), St Patrick's RC Church (1850) Anderston Parish Church (1865).

By the close of the 19th century shipping and associated industries had taken over the area and spread to fill the parkland beside the Clyde and the area was densely populated and characterised by back-street workshops and closely packed tenements.

20th century

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, even though it had been a part of Glasgow since 1846, Anderston remained in many respects like a large village within a city. There was a strong sense of local identity (which still survives to this day), with the area being well-served and self-contained in regard to shops, cinemas and places of employment. Like many other similar areas of Glasgow, relatives and friends tended to live locally (often in the same building), and everyone knew everyone else in the area, to a large extent. But this situation would change in the post-war era.

Several buildings in Anderston on Finnieston Street, Hill Street, Hydepark Street and Lancefield Street were destroyed during air raids in May 1941.

After the Second World War, there was a determination by national and local government that something had to be done about the bad housing and overcrowding of the inner city areas which existed in most of the major cities in Britain. The Bruce Report of 1945 led to the concept of 'Comprehensive Development' which meant the total demolition of areas of sub standard housing and slums in the city, so that new, planned communities could be built on the cleared ground. In total, 20 Comprehensive Development Areas were designated in Glasgow, with one of them comprising a large part of Anderston.

Although Anderston's housing problems were no worse than many other areas of Glasgow, Anderston was made an area for priority treatment as the need to improve Glasgow's road network had led to the plans for building a motorway through the city. The route of this motorway was to go through Anderston Cross, the traditional heart of the community, and the plan for the comprehensive development of the area was approved in 1961. The new Anderston would therefore be divided into three zones; a Commercial Zone devoted to office space and commerce on the eastern fringe of the city centre, and bordered on the west by the new ring road, a Residential Zone consisting of new housing estates to the immediate east and an Industrial Zone to the south east.

The work on the road network and the demolition of housing progressed throughout the 1960s. By the following decade, the new Anderston bore little resemblance to the old area. The high density housing and streets full of tenements had been swept away, and most of the residents had been rehoused in places such as Knightswood, Easterhouse, Cumbernauld, Drumchapel and East Kilbride. In 1951, the population had stood at 31,902; by 1971, it had dropped to 9,265 as a result of redevelopment.

There were two major fires in Anderston in the 1960s. The first occurred in March 1960 on Cheapside Street when a whisky bond caught fire and exploded. The explosion occurred over an hour after the initial fire and caused part of the building to collapse on top of three fire engines and trapped firemen beneath rubble. Fourteen firemen and five salvage corps workers were killed. The second fire occurred in November 1968 in a factory on James Watt Street. The fire trapped twenty-two workers who could not get through the windows which were barred.

Many of the tenement blocks in the area were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the M8 motorway and Kingston Bridge and Anderston Cross was replaced by the Anderston Centre. The idea was not a success, and by the 1980s the centre's many covered underpasses and service roads had become a notorious red light district, with prostitution a major activity in both Anderston and neighbouring Blythswood Hill in the evening.

21st century

However, with the exponential growth of Glasgow's flourishing new financial district, by the turn of the 21st century, Anderston's fortunes seemed to be improving. New ultra-modern office developments, international hotels and new residential buildings have sprung up, which have improved the look and reputation of the area markedly. After original plans to demolish them, the three tower blocks of the Anderston Centre were saved in favour of refurbishment, after they transferred to the Glasgow West Housing Association.

As of 2010 the blocks were being externally reclad to match the design of private developments going up adjacent. In 2011, work began on demolishing much of the original 1960s housing estate to the east of the motorway, including the Shaftesbury tower, and restoring portions of the original street plan including Argyle Street. The development, by Sanctuary Scotland, received multiple awards and also features a statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (designed by Andy Scott) as its centrepiece.

Education
Anderston Primary School (1973), a non-denominational state school, is located on Port Street in Anderston.

St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School (1962) is situated on Perth Street in Anderston. It opened in 1962.

Sports teams
The area is home to football team Anderston Athletic who play in the Glasgow Colleges FA - Division 2.

List of the Provosts of Anderston
 Henry Houldsworth 1824–32
 Angus McAlpine 1832–33
 Patrick McNaught 1833–35
 James Turnbull 1835–37
 Henry Houldsworth 1837–39
 James Jarvie 1839–42
 John Miller 1842–43
 John Houldsworth 1843–46

Notable people
 Sir Billy Connolly  (born 1942) – comedian, musician and actor
 Daniel Cottier (1838–1891) – artist and designer
 Arthur Henderson (1863–1935) – former Leader of the Labour Party, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
 Peter Keenan (1928–2000) – British, European and British Empire boxing champion
 Johann Lamont (born 1957) – former leader of the Scottish Labour Party and Member of the Scottish Parliament
 Sir Thomas Lipton, Bt KCVO (1848-1931) – businessman, entrepreneur and yachtsman
 Roddy McMillan OBE (1923-1979) – actor and playwright
 Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn  (1945–2018) – former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and Speaker of the House of Commons
 Alex Mosson – former Labour councillor and Lord Provost of Glasgow
 Tony Roper (born 1941) – actor, comedian, playwright and writer
 Eddi Reader MBE (born 1959) – singer/songwriter

See also
 Glasgow tower blocks

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Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan 293 U.S. 388, 55 S. Ct. 241, 79 L. Ed. 446 (1935)
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CitationWithrow v. Larkin, 421 U.S. 35, 95 S. Ct. 1456, 43 L. Ed. 2d 712, 1975 U.S. LEXIS 56 (U.S. Apr. 16, 1975)
Brief Fact Summary. A physician in the State of Wisconsin, Withrow (Appellee), challenged the Wisconsin statutes which authorized the State's Examining Board (Board) to investigate physicians and temporarily suspend their license.
Synopsis of Rule of Law. Vesting the authority to investigate and adjudicate in the same agency does not violate due process.
The risk of bias or prejudgment in this sequence of functions has not been considered to be intolerably high or to raise a sufficiently great possibility that the adjudicators would be so psychologically wedded to their complaints that they would consciously or unconsciously avoid the appearance of having erred or changed position.
Facts. The State of Wisconsin authorized its Examining Board (Board) to investigate individuals suspecting of practicing medicine without a license or performing other acts of professional misconduct, and to temporarily suspend a physician's license if there was probable cause to suspect wrongdoing. The Board sent a notice to a physician (Appellee) that a contested hearing would be held to determine whether he had engaged in the prohibit act of performing abortions at his practice in Milwaukee, and to decide whether his license would be temporarily suspended. Appellee moved for a restraining order against the contested hearing, the District Court granted the motion, and the Board (Appellants) appealed.
Issue. Did the authority given to Appellants to investigate physicians, present charges, rule on those charges and present punishment (to the extent of reprimanding or temporarily suspending) violate Appellee's due process rights?
Held. No. Reversed and remanded. The Board stayed within the accepted bounds of due process. Having investigated, it issued findings and conclusions asserting the commission of certain acts and ultimately concluding there was probable cause to believe the Appellee had violated the statutes. The risk of bias and prejudgment was not intolerably high. The initial determination of probably cause and the ultimate adjudication have different purposes; and the fact that same agency makes them in tandem and they relate to the same issues does not result in a procedural due process violation. Dissent. None. Concurrence. None.
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Panasonic's first 3D-capable LED edge-lit LCD TVs will be offered in the DT30 series, including the 32- and 37-inch screen sizes. Models will employ Panasonic's In Plane Switching (IPS) LED panel technology, for FullHD resolution, and the Viera Connect package.
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Steve has always had a passion for music. His Uncle Ricco, was a professional jazz musician in San Francisco who played all the clubs from the 1940's into the 60's. Steve was only 10 when Ricco stopped playing, and his Uncle gave him his Gibson guitar. That gift launched Steve's passion for collecting guitars and his desire to recreate the sound that he'd heard growing up. Steve is self taught and has been fortunate to see some of the greatest rock and blues guitar players from whom he has learned licks and some tricks that he has incorporated into his playing. The Remedies is a vehicle for delivering Steve's passion for music.
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