We welcome Oscar-nominated director Fidel Moreno for a special rough-cut screening of his work-in-progress documentary, "Gathering Our Hearts at Standing Rock." A collection will be taken to support the Standing Rock protesters and the completion of the documentary project.
Culled from 18 hours of interviews with 33 people at Standing Rock — including youth, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, First Nation people and non-Indian supporters — "Gathering Our Hearts at Standing Rock" is an ongoing documentary project, chronicling the story of the protesters at Standing Rock and their connection to the history of the American Indian Movement on their treaty-given lands of the American west. The portion shown will run approximately 60 minutes.
Following the screening there will be a panel discussion with people who have visited Standing Rock as well as an update on the CT pipeline in our own back yard and other water protection. All are welcome.
Fidel Moreno identifies as Huichol, Chichimeca and Mexican American. He is an Oscar nominee in the Best Short Documentary category as co-producer and co-director of "Wiping the Tears of 7 Generations," and a three-time Telly Award winner for "The Peyote Road" and "500 Nations." Raised in both old Mexico and the Midwest area of the United States, Moreno's work in documentary film and video since 1983 has focused on the struggle and dialogues of indigenous people and communities in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Central America. He has worked directly with many communities, aboriginal leaders, chiefs and elders in documenting environmental actions and issues, human rights violations and crisis relief services. Moreno is an activist passionate about working with youth and children through cultural literacy skill building, emotional development and purposeful life navigation.


Background Measuring patient satisfaction in mental health care potentially provides valuable information, but studies in acutely admitted psychosis patients are scarce. Aims The aims were to assess satisfaction among patients acutely admitted with psychosis, to compare satisfaction in voluntarily versus involuntarily admitted patients, and to assess the influence of symptom load and insight. Methods The UKU Consumer Satisfaction Rating Scale (UKU-ConSat) was used. A total of 104 patients completed the UKU-ConSat at discharge/follow-up (between 6-11 weeks after admittance if not discharged earlier) (mean duration of stay 4 weeks), thus corresponding to the end of the acute treatment phase. Results A total of 88.4% had total scores above zero (satisfied). Only three of the eight single items were statistically significantly different among patients admitted voluntarily versus involuntarily, and only the information item score remained significantly different in adjusted analyses. Insight level at admittance, and an increasing level of insight during the acute phase were positively associated with patient satisfaction, whereas levels and changes in positive and negative psychosis symptoms were indirectly related to satisfaction via this process of insight. Conclusions The vast majority of the acutely admitted patients were satisfied with treatment. There were few differences between the involuntarily and voluntarily admitted patient groups, except that the involuntary care group was clearly less satisfied with the information provided. Poor insight had a major negative impact on treatment satisfaction in psychosis. The provision of sufficient and adequate information is an important target for mental health care service improvement.


text:
package api

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"

	"github.com/Azure/acs-engine/pkg/api/v20160330"
	"github.com/Azure/acs-engine/pkg/api/v20160930"
	"github.com/Azure/acs-engine/pkg/api/v20170131"
	"github.com/Azure/acs-engine/pkg/api/vlabs"
)

// LoadContainerServiceFromFile loads an ACS Cluster API Model from a JSON file
func LoadContainerServiceFromFile(jsonFile string) (*ContainerService, string, error) {
	contents, e := ioutil.ReadFile(jsonFile)
	if e != nil {
		return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("error reading file %s: %s", jsonFile, e.Error())
	}
	return DeserializeContainerService(contents)
}

// DeserializeContainerService loads an ACS Cluster API Model, validates it, and returns the unversioned representation
func DeserializeContainerService(contents []byte) (*ContainerService, string, error) {
	m := &TypeMeta{}
	if err := json.Unmarshal(contents, &m); err != nil {
		return nil, "", err
	}
	version := m.APIVersion
	service, err := LoadContainerService(contents, version)

	return service, version, err
}

// LoadContainerService loads an ACS Cluster API Model, validates it, and returns the unversioned representation
func LoadContainerService(contents []byte, version string) (*ContainerService, error) {
	switch version {
	case v20160930.APIVersion:
		containerService := &v20160930.ContainerService{}
		if e := json.Unmarshal(contents, &containerService); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		if e := containerService.Properties.Validate(); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		return ConvertV20160930ContainerService(containerService), nil

	case v20160330.APIVersion:
		containerService := &v20160330.ContainerService{}
		if e := json.Unmarshal(contents, &containerService); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		if e := containerService.Properties.Validate(); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		return ConvertV20160330ContainerService(containerService), nil

	case v20170131.APIVersion:
		containerService := &v20170131.ContainerService{}
		if e := json.Unmarshal(contents, &containerService); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		if e := containerService.Properties.Validate(); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		return ConvertV20170131ContainerService(containerService), nil

	case vlabs.APIVersion:
		containerService := &vlabs.ContainerService{}
		if e := json.Unmarshal(contents, &containerService); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		if e := containerService.Properties.Validate(); e != nil {
			return nil, e
		}
		return ConvertVLabsContainerService(containerService), nil

	default:
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unrecognized APIVersion '%s'", version)
	}
}

// SerializeContainerService takes an unversioned container service and returns the bytes
func SerializeContainerService(containerService *ContainerService, version string) ([]byte, error) {
	switch version {
	case v20160930.APIVersion:
		v20160930ContainerService := ConvertContainerServiceToV20160930(containerService)
		armContainerService := &V20160930ARMContainerService{}
		armContainerService.ContainerService = v20160930ContainerService
		armContainerService.APIVersion = version
		b, err := json.MarshalIndent(armContainerService, "", "  ")
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return b, nil

	case v20160330.APIVersion:
		v20160330ContainerService := ConvertContainerServiceToV20160330(containerService)
		armContainerService := &V20160330ARMContainerService{}
		armContainerService.ContainerService = v20160330ContainerService
		armContainerService.APIVersion = version
		b, err := json.MarshalIndent(armContainerService, "", "  ")
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return b, nil

	case v20170131.APIVersion:
		v20170131ContainerService := ConvertContainerServiceToV20170131(containerService)
		armContainerService := &V20170131ARMContainerService{}
		armContainerService.ContainerService = v20170131ContainerService
		armContainerService.APIVersion = version
		b, err := json.MarshalIndent(armContainerService, "", "  ")
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return b, nil

	case vlabs.APIVersion:
		vlabsContainerService := ConvertContainerServiceToVLabs(containerService)
		armContainerService := &VlabsARMContainerService{}
		armContainerService.ContainerService = vlabsContainerService
		armContainerService.APIVersion = version
		b, err := json.MarshalIndent(armContainerService, "", "  ")
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return b, nil

	default:
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid version %s for conversion back from unversioned object", version)
	}
}

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You might be well known to Rick Yutaka Fowler aka Rickie Fowler. Rickie Fowler is an American professional golfer who was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 37 weeks in 2007 and 2008. He plays on the PGA Tour.
Besides Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer, Rickie Fowler can also be counted as a fantastic golfer from all over the world. With a successful professional career, Rickie Fowler's net worth is estimated to be high. Scroll down to know about Rickie Fowler's net worth, Cars Collection, Mansion, and more about him.
How much is Rickie Fowler's Net Worth?
For your information, Rickie Fowler is ranked in the seventh position in the list of Forbes's highest golfer from all over the world. Back in 2015, Rickie Fowler's net worth was around $18 million, and his salary was estimated to be around $7.3 million.
In the following year, 2016 came him as one of the amazing years for Fowler. He successfully climbed the list and reached in the 6th position on the Forbes list of highest-paid golfer. His net worth is 2016 was estimated to be around $19.2 million.
In the same year, he also grabbed $8.2 million as his prize money. You might know that Fowler performances and win number are increasing as day pass by and it seems like Rickie Fowler's net worth is rising.
For your information, 28 years old professional golfer lives in a waterside mansion in Jupiter, Florida. The home spreads up to 14,897 square feet and consists of nine bathrooms, six bedrooms, a six-car garage, an elevator and full golf hole in the front yard.
Speaking of the value of the asset, the price of the house is said to be around $14 million. Fowler's home is well decorated, and the interior is making it look super stylish. The house is full of antique pieces with elegant interior.
For your information, Rickie Fowler is a car lover and has an extravagant cars collection. Fowler owns a silver-colored Mercedes AMG GTS that costs around $133,395.
He also has a white colored Nissan GT-R, and the price of Nissan GT-R is around $175,000. He even included Porsche GT3 RS in his cars collection, and the cost of Porsche GT3 RS is about $175,900.
Rickie Fowler also owns 1966 Mini Cooper S that has a unique and vintage look. The Mini Cooper S price ranges above $52,000.
He also has included Mercedes Benz CLS 63 in his huge cars collection. Sources claim that Mercedes Benz CLS 63 costs around $108,900.
He owns a white stylish Mitsubishi Evo X that costs over $41, 295.
Observing the stylish house and huge expensive cars collection, we can assume that Rickie Fowler is living a lavish life and his net worth is high.


In tree form, Hard Maple Wood Lumber is usually referred to as Sugar Maple, and is the tree most often tapped for maple syrup. Hard Maple wood lumber ought to be considered the king of the Acer genus. Its wood is stronger, stiffer, harder, and denser than all of the other species of Maple wood commercially available in lumber form. Commonly used for Flooring (from basketball courts and dance-floors to bowling alleys and residential), veneer, musical instruments, cutting boards, butcher blocks, workbenches, baseball bats, and other turned objects and specialty wood items.


That is a very fair question; as always, I try to avoid lazy generalisations, but I think it must be a racing certainty (not said from personal betting experience, I hasten to add!) that at least a few of those people who ever come across the name of my publishing company must wonder on the origin of the name; so, dear reader (especially those aforementioned few): I will enlighten you.
Perhaps simply because of the uncommon nature of my family name (and without indulging in unnecessary self-analysis, although I knew it was a subject that had also intrigued my father), I became interested in family history about twenty-five years ago (note to self: it's just a number) and, to cut the proverbial long story mercifully short: in the course of my research, and thanks to a dear, previously unknown, but now sadly departed relative in Weston super Mare, I was made aware of his uncle, although by that time he was, sadly, deceased.
Wilfred Risdon, as seen in the photograph above, was my grandfather Charles Henry's youngest brother, born in 1896; hence, my grand uncle (no: not great uncle!). Len, his nephew, had known Wilfred (sometimes 'Bill', but NEVER Wilf!) quite well, and he was able to give a reasonably good synopsis of his life and career, the most 'interesting' (interpret that how you will, especially in view of forthcoming revelations) aspect of which was his involvement with a figure in twentieth century politics who has, subsequently, acquired almost the reputation of a pantomime villain (boo, hiss: oh yes he did!): Sir Oswald Mosley.
I was far enough removed from Mosley's time of influence (again: debatable, I know) in politics, even though I had been aware of his death and a certain amount of the backstory, to be sufficiently intrigued by the little I knew to find out more. Luckily for me, even though he was undoubtedly not a 'household name' (a sobriquet that seems to have fallen out of use: nowadays, we all seem to be either 'celebs' or 'plebs'), there was plenty of reference material to be found on Wilfred, and I was very lucky, from an expedient point of view, to make contact with people who had either known him personally (not enough though, unfortunately), or worked with him, or been very close to his legacy of work.
In his defence (not that I consider that he needs one, as the book details), parliamentary politics was not Wilfred's only sphere of influence: he was also a fervent anti-vivisectionist, and I think it is fair to say that I have come to support his sentiments in this area since encountering him, albeit at some remove. When Wilfred broke with Mosley just before the start of world war two (which didn't prevent him being interned without charge or trial under the notorious Defence Regulation 18B[1A] in May 1940), he started working for a London anti-vivisection organisation and, such was his professionalism and efficiency, by the end of 1956 he had engineered the amalgamation of the small organisation into the larger, but again London-based National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS), and he took over as Secretary at the beginning of 1957; he held that position until his death in 1967; ironically, by then, the organisation had moved into the heart of the medical establishment, which 'relied' on animal testing: Harley Street. The NAVS, now known as Animal Defenders International (ADI) has morphed into a global NGO.
Although I combined the research on Wilfred with more general research, over a period of a few years, it became obvious that his was a story worth telling; the crucial decision I had to make was how to go about it. Initially, I prevaricated because, although I knew that a biography was by far the best vehicle, I doubted my ability to complete the task satisfactorily and, in all honesty, I was more than a little bit daunted by the immensity of the task. Thankfully, a few very decent people persuaded me to do it, and all credit to them. Overall, including the writing of the book, which took about two years, I spent twelve years preparing it: an awful lot of research was required if I was going to do the job properly, which was the only result I could have countenanced.
I ended up with a book of 700 pages, including 7 appendices, a bibliography and index (the latter being essential, in my view); you might think, with some justification it has to be said, that that is a very long book for such an arguably insignificant figure in twentieth century affairs, but my view is: you don't have to read everything if you don't want to, but you can't read what isn't there, and you can always come back later to material you ignored initially. Also, I would have felt that I had given the buyer a poor deal if I had skimped purely for the sake of getting the book finished too quickly, simply for the sake of 'getting it to market'.
In a way, although the writing of the book had been something of a grind, I proceeded methodically and regularly, which I actually quite enjoy, as did I the writing aspect, as I always have; it was actually the easy part, because it was something over which I had complete control; whereas, the publishing part was an unknown quantity — an unknown country, as it were. I had no stomach (or confidence, come to that) for the orthodox, conventional publishing process: find an agent and/or editor, with ensuing criticism and recommendations for revision (looking at it the worst possible way, of course); then either with their help or alone, find a publisher, if that was even going to be a practicable possibility. No, I thought: I'll go it alone!
Would I do it again, knowing what I know now? Yes: of course. Would I use the services of a small publisher like I have set out to be, if such had been available to me at the time? Absolutely! I certainly don't regret the time I have spent learning about the publishing process, but it is also very possibly true that I could have used that time, confident that I was leaving the publication of my magnum opus in the hands of someone who knew what he was doing, to develop other projects which might have brought me similar satisfaction, intrinsically, leaving aside the matter of the filthy lucre.
I hope the foregoing has been of some interest, and potentially of use as well, so, with that, I thank you for reading this, and I hope to meet you as a new author soon!


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656 F. 2d 964 - United States v. Allen
656 F2d 964 United States v. Allen
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
Sidney ALLEN, Appellant.
Fourth Circuit.
Argued May 7, 1981.
Decided Aug. 20, 1981.
Donald H. Feige, Towson, Md., for appellant.
David Dart Queen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Russell T. Baker, Jr., U. S. Atty., Catherine C. Blake, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.
Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Sidney Allen and four others were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), (d). Allen, a bookmaker in Baltimore, had joined with one James Hooper, a former Baltimore City Policeman, and others to bribe officers on the Baltimore City Police Department. Hooper tried to bribe two officers in exchange for protection for the bookmaking operation. The officers reported Hooper's offer to their superiors who in turn contacted the FBI. The FBI, in consultation with the United States Attorney's office, conducted the investigation which resulted in this conviction.
The Government's evidence of the nexus between Allen's activities and interstate commerce consisted of showing that supplies used in the bookmaking operation had traveled in interstate commerce. Since Allen's racketeering activities were limited strictly to Baltimore City, he contends, therefore, that the Government failed to show a nexus between the enterprise, which he claims is the bribery scheme, and interstate commerce. Thus he claims he should not have been prosecuted under RICO, but rather under the Maryland bribery statute, Md.Ann.Code art. 27, § 23. This contention is without merit.
The RICO statute under which Allen was convicted provides:
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.
18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) (emphasis added). We have held that "(t)he Government need not demonstrate that the alleged acts of racketeering themselves directly involved interstate commerce." United States v. Altomare, 625 F.2d 5, 8 n. 8 (4th Cir. 1980). Thus the supplies used in Allen's bookmaking operations which originated outside of Maryland provided a sufficient nexus between the enterprise and interstate commerce to invoke RICO. Id. at 8.
The judgment of conviction is accordingly

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A crabby barefoot Irregular with a cat attends an annual "dinner"
Going to Zoom was probably a harder turn for the Baker Street Irregulars than most local Sherlock Holmes societies, I think. But the rituals were observed, and the evening took place, getting over at 6 PM local time for me.
I was still at work when the Baker Street Irregulars dinner started this year. Never good with time zones, I put 5 PM on my calendar early on, and then never went back and reconsidered that it was EST in subsequent invitations. Apparently I missed the toast to "the woman" and dropped in during what seemed like a bunch of commercials for books published by the organization.
The reading of the "Buy-laws" followed, a boring time even if you're in New York and present, but mandatory, I suppose.
The toast to Mrs. Hudson came next -- apparently Denny Dobry in drag as a drunken Cockney Mrs. Hudson? I haven't to admit, I was not expecting to go "WHAT THE HELL?" at this event, and it made me laugh to consider if this had actually happened in a NYC clubroom.
Regina Stinson followed that bit of crazy with a good, normal toast to Mycroft, which was very calming after that previous act.
Tim Greer's toast to Mrs. Watson went all historical on Watson's wives, citing past Sherlockians,
Monica Schmidt . . . now, is it just me, or did Sherlockian toasting used to be not all five minute papers? . . . anyway, she did a toast to Sherlock Holmes. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Monica's toast was actually only two minutes and change long and I wrote those words before it was complete. My apologies to Monica and all toasters under five minutes long.)
Coming in late has made me very crabby (well, life and age might be a part of that, too). But there's a cat on my lap now, so that's cool.
Ira Matesky toasts Jay Finely Christ for the toast to an Old Irregular. This is, as the BSI goes, a more recent addition to the program, coming along about the time that BSI history got to be a big part of the group. Another five minute paper.
Don Hobbs read "The Musgrave Ritual," and we were asked to respond appropriately in our own homes. Probably something that works better when everyone chants together in a room. Oh, wait, I'm not drinking. I should be drinking. I get faked out by Don's photo-library that reproduces his old library which has moved on to library care.
Bonnie MacBird gives the first talk, one on Mazarin Stone. Moving between windows to look at the program for the event, I accidentally start Battle.net. Bonnie's good, and her talk's segue into a film clip is one of the slickest transitions I've seen on a Zoom call all year. She gives a lively talk, probably better from her home and not on a microphone at podium. Bonnie ends with a sip of her tea, which is a lovely little bit of punctuation that wouldn't work in a normal setting.
Henry Boote played a musical interlude on piano, to the tune that I always associate with the musical "Hamlet" done on "Gilligan's Island." (Bugs Bunny and Gilligan twisted a lot of classical music for some of us Boomers.) There's just a visual of Holmes's dressing gown colors draped like a flag, with a BSI logo and "Musical Interlude, featuring Meyers, Toronto" on the screen, but then video comes back with a live vocal performance about the "Mazarin Stone" by Shara Boote, then Henry sings his own tribute to Mike Weland.
Steve Rothman, editor of The Baker Street Journal, gives a history of The Baker Street Journal.
That gets followed by Steve Doyle talking about Mike Whelan, the former leader of the club, whose term ended last year. Being a fellow Indiana Sherlockian, Steve is more than qualified to present the history of his fellow Illustrious Client.
Les Klinger follows to talk about the book he recently collected about Mike, and Mike comes on to express his appreciation for the book.
It's "Let Us Stand Upon the Terrace" time, and Marsha Pollak goes down the roll of Irregulars who passed this year. Of all the rituals of the night, this one is sombre no matter where you are, Zoom or banquet room. It lasts for quite a while this year, and if you had a pizza delivered halfway through it during the actual dinner, it might get you removed from the room. Not that anything like that happened during this year's event . . .
The "investitures" come next and Michael Kean says he will do it again in person for these folks. It's always interesting to see how many of the people you know, and there's a few good ones from my personal experience this year.
Sarah Montague delivers a very dignified reading of "221B," and it's done. An ad for the BSI website comes up and music plays.
And it's 6 PM, with a whole evening ahead of me. Usually, in New York, it would be ten or after, and there was still much socializing to be done, into the wee hours. This year, I'm going "I should go see if Kathy wants to watch 'The Flight Attendant,'" which is kind of like a year where I didn't just attend the Irregulars dinner. I don't think I've attended any other Zoom that didn't give as strong a sense of loss.
Because the annual dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars isn't really about what happens in that banquet room. Rituals like the Buy-laws and Musgrave Ritual kind of lay there on a Zoom webinar, without the silence of the room full of people to give them dignity. The awarding of different prizes isn't the same without crowd appreciation for those awarded. The lack of laughter from your fellow attendees in the webinar format needed for an event with a couple hundred people attending is sorely missed.
Hashtag #BSIWeekend was active on Twitter, but not as heavily trafficked as what I'm used to during 221B Con, where the populace is much more online-oriented, so there wasn't much entertainment to be had there. Probably a combo of non-Twitter-y Irregulars and the no-social-media strictures of past dinners.
It was a transitional year for the Baker Street Irregulars, in any case, so it was bound to be about celebrating their departing leader as the new one ran his first meeting. But, the BSI really does need to consider looking outward and not inward a little more in the future, as the constant references to its own publishing during the meeting were a bit much this time. There's a whole Sherlockian world outside BSI, Inc., and a whole year of that world going some amazing places.
As weird as it was, I think the highlight of the evening was that freaky Mrs. Hudson roleplay by Denny Dobry. In the midst of a burlesque show, it might not have had the impact it did, but during an event giving to ritual and the expected annual things, Mrs. Hudson's act was a wild extravagance. (But despite anything Rob Nunn says, it was not better than Will Ferrell's Sherlock Holmes. Sorry, Denny.)
More thoughts to come on this evening, but for now I think I'm going to go watch "The Flight Attendent."
Howard Ostrom January 8, 2021 at 10:24 PM
It seemed like one long commercial for the Baker Street Journal. The obits and toasts were so much longer than live ones, and felt over prepared, pre-taped even. It did not work for me. I guess I was expecting to see others, and converse like scion Zoom sessions, but had to settle, as usual for a BSI event, to listen to the chosen few praise each other's accomplishments. Kean bragged that a great selection of the wide world of Sherlockians was watching, but we couldn't visualize this? I thought I went through the outgoing Wiggins ceremony live last year live, was this a repeat? Yet I paid $35 and put on a tux for this, why?
Scott Monty January 10, 2021 at 11:03 AM
When I spotted the Elf on a Shelf in the background of Nina Singleton's acceptance video for "The Woman," the game was up. Everyone knows the Elf goes back to the North Pole on December 24th. So it was pre-recorded.
I thought the $35 was reasonable: they needed to pay for hosting costs for the Webinar version of Zoom, to accommodate people for the lecture and the dinner; the preparation of the digital dinner packet (and forthcoming physical dinner menu); and the remainder going toward the Watson Fund. I think that was perfectly reasonable, in that light.
Yes, it was disappointing that we couldn't mingle, but I'm sure the planners considered every angle. Given the limited technical knowledge of some Irregulars, they went the safe route. Herding 175 people from the cocktail reception to the dinner in person is bad enough; online would have been more raucous.
Howard Ostrom January 11, 2021 at 6:13 AM
Scott Monty did a wonderful job taking the reins of our breakout room at the Gillette Luncheon, which despite being too short was my highlight of the weekend, and gave me what I was missing the night before. For free! In my second Saturday event things did not go as well with a few attempting to dominate the room, and people popping in just to say hi to one person and talking over those speaking, as if they where the only ones in the room. Needed Scott there too apparently, but it still was quite interesting meeting one Simon LePage for the first time. Loved that guy!
Monica Schmidt, ASH, BSI January 9, 2021 at 3:00 AM
Hey now... My toast clocked in at exactly 2:59. ;)
Sherlock Peoria January 9, 2021 at 6:53 PM
Apologies, Monica! A correction has been made.
With the exception of Monica's toast... (who edited that out of my comment Brad?) :-)
Monica Schmidt, ASH, BSI January 10, 2021 at 7:27 PM
Thanks, Brad. :)
The Buy-laws thing
A "Curious" book beef
Elementary revisited 2021
Here's to the editors! Which isn't me!
One more Sherlockian thing before I go
Riding where Basil and Nigel rode
The puzzle after the puzzle
Ex-President Don Murillo
The economics and uses of Sherlockian scholarship
The height of Sherlockian scholarship
Puzzles and gentlemen thieves
The Adventure of the Disappearing Sherlock Holmes ...
Bad jokes or Sherlockian chronology, you decide!
The mechanism of the BSI
Next year's Sherlock Holmes Day weekend
Calling all Sherlockian chronologists!
Back to the Gaslight Gala!
Sherlock Holmes Day weekend continues!
A crabby barefoot Irregular with a cat attends an ...
The 2021 BSI dinner change
Ah, poor Brother Morris!
Happy Sherlock Holmes Day!
BBC Sherlock's greatest mistake
Toxically masculine Sherlock
Irregulars having a little fun
Once more into the breech
Sherlockian Camelot
The work of our avocation goes on


Rome, a civilization founded upon bloodshed and lust. Looking upon the west you would find the traces of Rome everywhere.
So, why are the elite so fascinated by this fallen nation? We exclusively reveal the return of one of the most condemned men in history.


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Q: Restricting size of child control in a panel to visible area I can never seem to wrap my head around the differences between the DockPanel, StackPanel and Grid in terms of restricting their children content.  This XAML:
   <DockPanel>
        <Menu/>
        <ToolBarTray/>
        <ScrollViewer>
        <Grid>
          <Grid.RowDefinitions>
              <RowDefinition/>
              <RowDefinition/>
          </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <TabControl>
         <TabItem Header="Data" Name="tabData">
                <DockPanel>
                    <Border Name="extraDataBorder" DockPanel.Dock="Top"
                            Style="{StaticResource ConsistentBorder}" Margin="10">
                    </Border>
                    <igDP:XamDataGrid Grid.Row="1"
                            Margin="10,10,10,0"
                            ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
                            ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"  >

                    </igDP:XamDataGrid>
                </DockPanel>
            </TabItem>
        </TabControl>
         </Grid>

      </ScrollViewer>

    </DockPanel>

Produces a grid that is not constrained within the visible area of the screen as shown in the figure below:

I do not want the grid to extent beyond the visible area of the screen.  Instead, I want it clipped so that users can see the horizontal scroll bar and not have to scroll down to see the horizontal scroll bar.  I have tried using a Stack and DockPanel in place of the grid but get the exact same effect.  How do I fix this?
TIA.
EDIT:
I am editing the original XAML to include the additional elements that caused this issue.

A: You can bind it to its parent's width and height as one of the many solutions.

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Ford / By Fisherley
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← THE HEROES AND VILLAINS OF OUR INDEPENDENCE HISTORY
THE LOST HISTORY OF ONE OF OUR LOWEST MOMENTS →
NO SINGLE ORGANIZATION CAN CLAIM WAR CREDIT
Posted on January 4, 2015	by Ehsan Abdullah
The Awami League does not need to distort the history of independence. If the Awami league did anything to the history of independence, it did that for the need of the history and its continuity. It is the BNP and the Jamaat party that are responsible for all kinds of distortion of the history of independence, Rashed Khan Menon — president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh who along with other left and democratic parties formed the Coordination Committee for the Liberation of Bangladesh in June 1971
— tells Mahamudul Hasan in an interview with New Age
New Age: The competing political parties of the ruling class, the Bangladesh Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in particular, accuse each other of distorting the history of our Liberation War. What is your view about the alleged distortion of the history?
Rashed Khan Menon: People of Bangladesh and also the international community know it well that the military rulers, including Ziaur Rahman, had completely distorted the liberation war history during their tenure in state power spanning one decade and a half after 1975. Later the BNP-Jamaat alliance government accelerated the process of distorting the history.
During his lifetime, Zia never claimed that he had proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh. But when the BNP came to power along with the Jamaat-e-Islami in 1991, it started claiming that Ziaur Rahman had proclaimed the independence. The BNP's efforts to establish Zia as the proclaimer of independence are still on.
Here the Awami League does not need to distort the history of independence. If the Awami league did anything to the history of independence, it did that for the need of the history and its continuity. It is the BNP and the Jamaat that are responsible for all kinds of distortion of the history of independence.
New Age: There is no doubt that the Awami League, under the active leadership of Tajuddin Ahmad, politically presided over the nine-month liberation war against Pakistan, and that the Tajuddin government conducted the liberation war in the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But the Awami League often claims to be the sole champion of the country's war of liberation. What role did you party, or other political parties for that matter, play in the liberation war?
Rashed Khan Menon: We had started our fight against the then West Pakistani rule and repression on the people of East Pakistan long before 1971 under the leadership of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani. We formed a coordination committee named Sarbadaliya Chhatra Sangram Parishad in 1969. We, the leftist force, had the preeminent role in organising and consolidating the mass uprising of 1969 under the leadership of Maulana Bhashani. Actually, at a grand rally of our coordination committee on February 22, 1969, we declared the independence and sovereignty of our country. We also secretly started making preparations for an armed struggle for the independence from that day.
New Age: At what point of political development in Dhaka, did you or your party resolve to start the liberation war against the occupation forces of Pakistan?
Rashed Khan Menon: It became evident that there was no option left for the nation but to go for an armed struggle against the Pakistani occupation force for our independence as the political situation plunged into a deep crisis after the 1970 general elections. In 1970, we, the left-leaning student organisations, intensified our preparations for an armed struggle aiming to drive out the Pakistan occupation forces from our soil. Later, all these events led to the armed struggle and finally we earned our independence and sovereignty.
We could start the war against the Pakistani occupation forces after they had launched a brutal assault on innocent people at midnight on March 25 as we had made the preparations beforehand.
If you want to know whether there had been any reasons for the midnight attack on unarmed innocent people by the Pakistani forces, I will tell you that there were no reasons for the Pakistani forces to carry out such a massacre that night. The only reason they had was to establish their dominance over the people of the erstwhile East Pakistan and not to hand over state power to elected representatives of 1970 general elections.
They carried out the attack on the unarmed people in a planned way. There was no remarkable development on the Bangladesh side that had forced the Pakistani forces to carry out the attack. The Pakistani authorities even did not say it anywhere in its history.
New Age: There are allegations that the government-in-exile of Tajuddin Ahmad and the Indian authorities refused to provide training and weapons to leftwing political activists? Why? How was the issue eventually resolved?
Rashed Khan Menon: This is true that the government-in-exile and the Indian authorities expressed their reluctance at giving arms to leaders and activists of left-leaning organisations. They had reasons for their reluctance. There was a perception that the war of liberation might have merged with the Naxal movement going on that time in West Bengal if left organisations were supplied with arms. It was also believed that they could lose their control over the war of liberation if arms were given to the leftists as the Bangladeshi leftists were mostly loyal to China that time.
We think that no single political organisation can claim the credit of the liberation war. In the circumstances, we informed the government-in-exile of Tajuddin Ahmad about our Communist Party's decision to extend allout cooperation to the government-in-exile. Besides, we did not wait for the nod of the government-in-exile. We started taking part in battlefields where the sector commanders were fighting. Our activists also took part in the front war on their own in different parts of the country, including Bagerhat, Pirojpur, Barisal, Chauddagram in Comilla and Sylhet.
New Age: It is common knowledge that Awami League leader Khondaker Mushtaque Ahmed wanted to compromise with the Pakistani authorities during our liberation war. Was any other leader or faction of the Awami League supporting Mushtaque's move? How was the suicidal move thwarted?
Rashed Khan Menon: The government-in-exile of Tajuddin Ahmad foiled the conspiracy of Khondaker Mushtaque Ahmed by removing him from the charge of the foreign ministry. Besides, the all-party advisory council that was formed for the war of liberation had played a significant role in thwarting the move of Mushtaque for a confederation. The contribution of Maulana Bhashani here was very significant as he had boldly said that in no way the people of Bangladesh would go for a compromise with the Pakistani authorities.
I do not know whether any other Awami League leaders were involved in the conspiracy hatched by Mushtaque. Some bureaucrats, including Mahbubul Alam Chashi, were, however, involved in the conspiracy. Some Awami League leaders were later became involved in Mushtaque's conspiracy after 1971.
New Age: There are allegations that youth leaders of the Mujib Bahini, formed and specially trained by the Indian authorities, did not properly cooperate with the the government of Tajuddin Ahmad during the liberation war. Why was, in your view, the Mujib Bahini formed in the first place and how did it affect the process of our liberation war?
Rashed Khan Menon: It is true that there was a conflicting relationship between the government-in-exile and the Mujib Bahini, which was formed with young supporters of the Awami League. The Indian authorities had especially given training to the Mujib Bahini aiming to establish a political dominance over the war of liberation as the Mukti Bahini was highly dominated by the army personnel. Later, we could see a hostile relationship between the Mujib Bahini and the Mukti Bahini for this reason.
New Age: Allegations also have it that in order to take control of the war, the Mujib Bahini often engaged itself in the clashes with the Mukti Bahini. Did such clashes upset the morale of the freedom fighters on the ground?
Rashed Khan Menon: Obviously, it hinders progress when a group start suspecting another group. Similarly, the division and suspicion between the Mujib Bahini and the Mukti Bahini hindered the progress of our liberation war but could not affect the whole war as the Mujib Bahini was formed during the concluding part of the war. The Mujib Bahini could have established its influence over the liberation war if it had lingered. Actually, the Mujib Bahini could not play any role during the Liberation War. I do not have any information that the Mujib Bahini had directly participated in the war of independence.
New Age: Different sections of people of Bangladesh took part in the liberation war. Did all sections of people had the same expectations from an independent Bangladesh? What were the aspirations of the poor masses who had made the greatest sacrifice?
Rashed Khan Menon: Ordinary people joined the liberation war for political and economic emancipation while the upper-class people joined the armed struggle during the liberation war for power and in their interest. As for the country's independence, interests of all quarters flowed in the same direction — the country's independence.
First, I want to talk about the aspiration of ours. We joined the war with a specific political programme. But after the liberation, we could not implement our programme. The main reason is that left politicians became divided during and after the liberation war.
The leftists had acceptance among the people before the liberation war but they lost it because of divisions among the leftist groups and anti-liberation activities by some leftists. This also created a negative impression on the people about us.
On the other hand, after the 1975, the mainstream of the liberation war took a U-turn and fell into the grip of the defeated force. As a result, the dream that led us into the war of liberation could not be materialised till date.
I, therefore, cannot not say that aspirations and expectations of ordinary people were fulfilled. But I can say that after a long interval, we are back on track. Bangladesh is progressing fast.
New Age: What are the impediments towards meeting aspirations of people at large that were generated out of a successful war of liberation in 1971?
Rashed Khan Menon: I have already said that all the achievements of the liberation war had fallen into the grips of the defeated force and it hindered the process of fulfilling aspirations of the people. Now the pro-liberation force is in power and it is sincerely working to meet people's aspirations.
New Age: There is some documentation, inadequate though, about the sacrifice of women in the liberation war but their sacrifice is not yet discussed in public forums. How should the problem be addressed?
Rashed Khan Menon: I agree that contributions of women to our war of liberation were not focused much after 1971. We could not highlight women's contributions because of our social realities. But now contributions of women are being brought into focus.
There is no doubt that women had played a significant role in our war of liberation behind-the-scenes. They served a lot during the time through various means. They cooked food for freedom fighters and gave them shelters risking their own life. I can tell about my wife who carried grenades, supplied food and gave treatment to freedom fighters. But women's contributions of this sort was not focused in history. This is a big weakness of the history of our liberation war. We have taken initiatives to honour the women who had lost their dignity during the liberation war.
New Age: There is still controversy at home and abroad over the actual number of martyrs in our liberation war. What is the scientific way to put an end to the controversy?
Rashed Khan Menon: It is a Dhaka-based British journalist, David Bergman, who first raised the question about the three million figure of the liberation war martyrs. Before him, none had raised the question about the figure. I think that there is an ill motive and purpose behind questioning the figure of martyrs. No controversy was created about the figure before.
It is an established fact that three million people sacrificed their lives in the liberation war. None could question it and hurt the sacrifice of the martyrs. Besides, it is not possible now to justify the figure. It was also not possible to count the martyrs shortly after the independence as the killing grounds are still being detected. It does not matter what the number is. But the most important thing is their sacrifice for the nation.
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Enayet Mowla says:
In my younger days I used to be a big game hunder. I had never been to Africa but I saw in a movie once that a horde of jackles and hyenas were following a limping sick lion hoping that it would fall down and die somewhere enabling them to eat him. When the lion reached a deep ditch he hesitated and being emboldened by seeing the lion to stop the whole group of jackles and hyenas attacked and ate the lion.
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Q: How to modify a set of Ansys Fluent variables with Scheme file i/o?

The Problem
My co-worker and I have been trying to get some Scheme code working that will take input from a TSV file and assign those values to variables already defined in the Ansys software.

The Files
The TSV file is organized as follows:
1   0.7  0.8  0.7  1.0  0.5  [...]
2   0.9  0.9  0.3  0.5  0.5  [...]
3   0.5  0.8  0.3  0.3  0.7  [...]
4   0.6  0.2  1.0  0.5  0.5  [...]
5   0.9  0.0  0.0  0.8  0.3  [...]
6   0.5  0.6  0.3  0.4  1.0  [...]

[ ... ]

1998  0.5  0.0  0.2  0.9  0.0  [...]
1999  0.8  0.2  0.2  0.7  0.2  [...]
2000  0.7  0.2  0.8  0.4  0.5  [...]

The first column is the flow-time at which that particular set of inputs needs to be assigned to the variables in the software; the other 96 columns represent the 96 variables that need to be set.

The Scheme code that I have so far is this:
;Set variables
(define (setFunc)
    (lambda(row-position outflow-number flow-wt-1)
        (let outflow-string ((string-append("def bc outflow " outflow-number " ~a")))
            (if (< row-position 180)
                (ti-menu-load-string (format #f (outflow-string) flow-wt-1))
                (ti-menu-load-string (format #f (outflow-string) 0.0))
            )
        )
    )
)

;Read a file to a list of chars
(define (file->char_list)
    (call-with-input-file "doorstates.txt"
        (lambda(input-port)
            (let loop ((x (read-char input-port)))
                (if (not (eof-object? x))
                    (#t (begin (cons x (loop (read-char input-port)))))
                )
            )
        )
    )
)

;Main
(begin
    (let inFile ((apply string (file->char_list)))
        (let inFileList ((string-split (inFile #\newline)))
            (let index ((0))
                ; Row position = flow-time - 1
                (define rowPosition ((- flow-time 1)))
                (let loop ((index))
                    (cond ((>= index (length inFileList))
                            '()
                        )
                        ((= (- index (* (/ index 97) 97)) 0)
                            (+ index 1)
                            (loop (index))
                        )
                        ((= (/ index 97) rowPosition)
                            ; Column position = index - (rowPosition * rowLength)
                            (define colPosition ((- index (* rowPosition 97))))
                            (setFunc (rowPosition colPosition list-ref inFileList index))
                            (+ index 1)
                            (loop (index))
                        )
                        (else
                            (+ index 1)
                            (loop (index))
                        )
                    )
                )
            )
        )
    )
)

When the above code is run with the Ansys software it produces the following error:
Error: eval: unbound variable

Error Object: string

All the sources I've read have said that the most likely cause of an unbound variable is that extra parentheses were put around parameters that aren't functions (like literals); but everything I've seen has also had double parentheses around let arguments.

The Point
I had never worked with Scheme or any other LISP variation before being put on this project so if there are any errors or common practices I'm missing please let me know. Also if the above Scheme code is total crap and not doing what I need it to do please let me know and suggest next steps!

A: You are misinterpreting the error message. Your begin is missing a closing parenthesis. Thus, the end of file is encountered within the "list" starting with (begin .... Furthermore, you are using let incorrectly. You need to enclose the code that uses the variables, e.g.:
(let ((a 1))
  (+ a 7))

I suggest using an editor that understand s-expressions.


So...we've gotten through the first week of work.
It involved lots of driving. I went down to Oak Creek at least three times last week, which is not an insignificant distance...it's about 68 miles, round trip. I also went down to the East Side, just blocks away from the restaurant I used to work at. Then again, I also went to assist at a birthday party that was just about 12 blocks away. Things seem to be going ok...I'll be assisting at two after-school presentations this week, and then I'll be actually giving one (with assistance) on Thursday. A little intimidating...next week, I've got a second one all by myself, and then I'll be in charge of two four-week sessions at two different schools. I'll also be deep into rehearsal, as we open this show on the 16th. Seems like a short rehearsal period, but happily I'm only onstage for about 15-20 pages all told, so it's not too bad for me.
Still...things are getting cuckoo-bananas in a hurry. Great googly moogly.
Oh, and since I never posted the resolution on the iPod situation...the Genius Bar dude, who was awesome, tried restoring the firmware with a soopa-sekrit Apple Store technique, which also failed and froze on the Apple logo, so they replaced my iPod. It works better than the old one ever did...syncs faster, holds a charge better...I'm very happy, and I called the Apple Store that night and left a message with my name and my case number, telling them that the Genius who helped me was awesome and that he should be made president or something. Ok, I didn't go that far, but I did say I was extremely happy with the help I received and that the credit should go to the Genius.
That was my experience with the Genius Bar too.
"Nope, it doesn't work... so here's a new one!" I was actually kind of annoyed with my Genius at first, but who's going to complain about a whole new iPhone? Nope, not me! If only the whole world could be that simple.


See how interventions for differentiated instructions introduce a new learning strategy for children struggling through new concepts and ultimately improve their self-esteem.
As a teacher, have you ever wanted to 'hit your head against a wall' because you felt tapped out and weren't able to find another new strategy to try with a student? As a parent, have you ever been at your wit's end and are at the point that you're willing to try just about anything to regain a happy household? One strategy to consider is interventions for differentiated instructions.
Differentiated instruction puts the students first. This instruction method is not about what is best for a teacher or what fits with a state's agenda; instead it focuses on what is best for the students' learning. The students' needs and preferences are addressed before anything else is considered. The intervention goals are all student centered. Whether they are academic, behavioral, or social goals, the focus is on the student work. When students are able to raise their academic achievement or achieve new behaviors or social skills, they will feel better about themselves.
All three of these areas are covered within this article.
Differentiated instruction allows for tailored materials and instruction, which includes pacing, assignment structuring, and delivery of material within a structured environment with high expectations. This level of customization will make students feel as though a huge weight has been lifted off their shoulders. While a teacher or parent has been ready to 'bang his/her head against a wall', most likely the student has been feeling the same way. This fresh start with materials and instructions will allow for an initial self-esteem boost.
It is equally important to consider what intervention for differentiated instructions does not include so that further frustration from all parties can be avoided as much as possible. One of the key aspects of the instruction is that it does not focus on student weaknesses or peer comparisons. In many circumstances, students are already well aware of their discrepancies with their peers and do not need further evidence to lower their self-esteem.
Pre-Assessment: Don't Skip this Step!
Before you begin the process of intervention, it is easy to assume that you know your students' present achievement levels. Even if you have some initial data, it's important to do your own assessment. The act of completing the assessment provides a clear illustration for students about your level of commitment, which may provide an initial self-esteem boost.
Your current group of students and their preferences and learning styles will dictate the level of structure in your classroom. Keep an open mind as you are planning. Your willingness to change for your students is really important for them and their self-esteem because it provides a clear illustration of how highly you value their needs and preferences.
As you are planning, consider using direct teaching, inquiry-based learning, cooperative learning, and information processing strategies in your lessons that incorporate Bloom's Taxonomy. As you become comfortable with multiple teaching strategies, it will become easier to determine the time and place for using each teaching strategy and differentiating to fit the taxonomy. Providing this variation of styles throughout each week will keep student motivation and interest high and will increase success rates, which will equal higher self-esteem.
An added component of instructional variation will also keep up your students' interest and motivation. As your knowledge base about your students grows, you will be able to add more instructional activities that appeal to them. For example, if a number of your students frequently seek computer work, consider online games that provide academic reinforcement. Look for activities that cover different academic areas and consider games that provide tailoring to students' specific levels. Again, this tailoring will lead to a higher rate of success, creating a greater chance of increasing self-esteem.
Your students will go out with a bang if they are able to complete assessments and evaluations that are differentiated for their needs. Consider offering multiple options for assessments so that students can choose methods that will provide personal success. Strategies to consider include written work, illustrations, oral presentations, other performance-based assessment, portfolios, rubrics, and knowledge mapping. Give your students every chance possible for success. The extra effort required for this process will be rewarded when students proudly display their work for their classmates and parents.
Would Differentiated Instruction and Intervention Help with your Student/Child?
What Teaching Strategies or Activities do you use that Raise Students' Self-Esteem?
We've all had many teachers & mentors-some good, some not so much. There's always that one teacher that really shaped you and inspired you to learn...was it on the subject of math?
Response to Intervention is a process used in schools to identify and assist students who need extra help in mastering the skills necessary for academic progress.


We have monthly newsletters to keep parents and carers informed of everything that is happening at Caldecote Day Nursery and information is also regularly updated on our website. Our team keep a regular record of the progress of each child in their very own 'Learning Journal' which is online and therefore available for you to look at whenever you wish. In the Learning Journal you will find examples of your child's learning and photographs detailing key points in their development. More information about this can be found in the 'ParentZone' section of the website.
We hold regular parents evenings in which parents are able to go through their child's achievements and discuss their learning journey with their Key Worker in more detail.
We pride ourselves on our face-to-face contact with parents and encourage working as a strong partnership.


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Santa Barbara's Neighborhoods
by Riskin Partners
Village Properties as put together a brief overview of Santa Barbara neighborhoods. Riskin Associates' supplements these areas with a few luxury locations as well. Santa Barbara has a diversity of residential areas. Made up of many neighborhoods and areas you will find information provided on several below.
The Mesa is located on the bluffs just beyond the harbor and extends from the ocean up to the top of the hill. There are both tract and custom homes, many with ocean and/or city views.
The Wilcox Property, now known as the as the Douglas Family Preserve, at southwestern tip of the Mesa was a commercial nursery, currently preserved for public use. The neighborhood between Mesa Lane and Oliver Road, while originally plotted as early as 1920, did not develop until after World War II when many veterans built homes with the help of GI loans.City weather records show that the Mesa's winter temperatures are 10 to 12 degrees warmer than downtown, and 10 to 12 degrees cooler in the summer.
The "Westside Story" of Santa Barbara is laid in our city's first suburb to be initiated by Anglos rather than Hispanics; the Spanish genesis of the city was located on the Eastside. In 1850, when the United States annexed California to the Union, the Westside was open grazing range and farmland, turning marshy near the beach. Today this area is solidly overlaid with urban development extending inland to the Goleta Valley, making it the most densely populated neighborhood in Santa Barbara. The earliest historical reference to the Westside came in 1793 when Captain George Vancouver, a British explorer-scientist, who was circumnavigating the globe, anchored the Discovery off West Beach and received permission for his seacook to chop stovewood from the Mesa oak groves and refill his water tanks from a steep at the base of the Mesa bluffs near Pershing Park.
Mission Canyon, which with the Old Mission complex and the area bounded on the south by Mission Street, making up Santa Barbara's "Mission District," is unique. No residential neighborhood in the city boasts a richer historical background, or offers more relics and landmarks of Old Spanish Days.Fr. Junipero Serra, when he helped found the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara in 1782, intended Santa Barbara's Franciscan mission to be built in El Montecito near the present site of Our Lady of Mount Carmel church on East Valley Road. But four years later, when his successor, Fr. Fermin Lasuen OFM, arrived to establish our mission, he decided that Montecito was too infested with grizzly bears and renegade Indians to risk building a mission so far removed from the protection of the presidio soldiers, so he looked elsewhere.
Few residential neighborhoods of Santa Barbara can boast the rich historical background of the San Roque and Rutherford Park areas. San Roque is a charming area with smaller, individual homes in a quiet, yet convenient in-town location. Ten thousand years ago the area, bounded by Ontare Road, Foothill Road, Alamar Avenue and State Street, was an open expanse of treeless grassland, sloping up to the knees of the foothills and bisected by the jungled course of San Roque Canyon. Now a built-up, economically stabilized suburb, it is admired for its sweeping curved streets, its luxuriant landscaping, and its harmonious blend of many architectural themes - Spanish Colonial, English Tudor, French Normandy, California Redwood, Italian and American Colonial, mostly built since 1925. San Roque features older, custom homes with charm.
Samarkand meant "the land of heart's desire" in the archaic Persian tongue. It identified the fabulous Asian city where a mythical Queen Scheherazade spent her 1001 Arabian nights. In Santa Barbara, the melodic oriental name was first applied in 1920 to a deluxe Persian style hotel, formerly a boy's school. As the dominating landmark of a hilly, elevated neighborhood, the Samarkand gave its name to an area bounded on the east by Oak Park, on the north by Hollister Avenue (now De La Vina Street), on the west by a ranch boundary fence centered on modern Las Positas Road, and on the south by the old Coast Highway and the railroad. Samarkand is a delightful area of homes full of charm.
The Spaniards who founded Santa Barbara in 1782 were soldiers and priests, not seafaring men. Perhaps that is why no provision was made for a seaport. The waterfront, extending 3.6 miles from Shoreline Park to the Bird Refuge, offers no natural headlands to create a safe anchorage. Early-day mariners dreaded Santa Barbara's exposed roadstead so much they used to drop anchor a mile offshore, ready to slip their cables and head for the open sea if foul weather threatened. As recently as 70 years ago the ocean used to cover what today is the City College football field, dashing its surf against cliffs now paneled by La Playa Stadium. Leadbetter Beach did not exist. But just around the corner, east of Castle Rock (a long-vanished promontory), semi-sheltered West Beach became the traditional landing place for visitors. It is thus overlaid with history covering two centuries.
The Santa Barbara Waterfront stretches from the Harbor across from Santa Barbara City College along Cabrillo Boulevard past Stearns Wharf to East Beach, which is near the Santa Barbara Zoo and Bird Refuge. There are Hotels and Motels located along the Waterfront, but behind them are charming homes, duplexes, triplexes and apartment buildings.
By Village Properties
The Riviera
Bridging the two mile span which separates Mission and Sycamore Canyons, the sylvan uplift which the padres knew as the "mission ridge" has for the past 65 years been known as "the Riviera" due to its resemblance to slopes along the Mediterranean coasts of France and Italy. Santa Barbarans lucky enough to live on this ridge attach premium value to their homes because of their unsurpassed views of the city, mountains, sea and islands.
This chic modern residence sits at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac on the Riviera.
Surrounding Santa Barbara are a number of luxury enclaves: Montecito, Hope Ranch, Carpinteria and Summerland.
Hope Ranch is a place like no other in the Santa Barbara area. As you pass under the filigreed sign suspended across Las Palmas Drive, you feel as if you're entering a world all your own. Towering palms line the main drive, and a feeling of serenity is ever present throughout the community. It is situated in the southeastern portion of Santa Barbara County between Highway 101 and the ocean, and emcompasses 1,863 acres. The broad, flat mesa and low rolling knolls are punctuated by a magnificent valley of live oak trees, which makes it an ideal location for equestrian-minded residents.
Hope Ranch real estate includes elegant french country homes, Mediterranean villas, equestrian estates and everything in between. Homes sites were developed to enjoy a variety of views from the landward purple mountains of the Santa Ynez range to the seaward views of the Pacific Ocean and Channel Islands. Governed by homeowners since the 1920s, Hope Ranch prospers from a heartfelt sense of community and concern for the quality of life of every resident. A golf course and country club, small lake, private beach and bridle paths are just some of the benefits of living in this elite residential area.
A property new on the Hope Ranch market, this exquisite estate encompasses 8 magnificent acres.
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Just south of Montecito you'll discover the peaceful seaside city of Carpinteria. Home to a world-renowned surfing area off Rincon Point, it is easy to get caught up in the laidback feel of the community and the naturally beautiful surroundings. Luxury Carpinteria real estate includes everything from beachfront estates to sprawling ranches and elegant hillside villas with remarkable ocean views. Carpinteria notably harbors the historic Santa Barbara Polo Club, one of the oldest in the United States. The deluxe Club with its four elegantly groomed polo fields and clubhouses, offers weekly polo games throughout most of the year.
Carpinteria State Beach encompasses over 4,000 feet of ocean frontage and secluded wooded groves, offering overnight camping in addition to esteemed surging and fishing. Just a few blocks from the ocean you'll find wide, tree-lined streets with charming shops are restaurants creating an idyllic downtown atmosphere. Carpinteria often showcases parades. Craft shows and other events that evoke a gentle way of life.
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Rustic ocean-view home in Carpinteria
With unsurpassed Pacific Ocean and Channel Island views, Summerland is a tiny beachside community with less than 2,000 residents. Snuggled on the coast between Montecito and Carpinteria, its homes, businesses, beaches and parks beautifully reflect its relaxed nature and small-town sensibility.
There are a number of charming markets, antique stores, clothing shops and restaurants to enjoy, as well as a range of real estate options suitable for all tastes and budgets from luxury estates to small homes, contemporary condominiums and sprawling ranches.
For more information about real estate in Santa Barbara and the surrounding areas, please contact Riskin Associates.


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Web Design's First Step: Wireframes and Mockups
When it comes to web design and development, our approach always starts with custom wireframes or mockups. With an understanding of your users' needs and your business goals in tow, we create a preliminary visual design before your website is fully realized and brought into the digital space.
What Are Wireframes?
Simply put, website wireframes illustrate the layout of your site. We like to think of it as a website blueprint that outlines the visual elements of your site — copy areas, images, call-to-action-buttons, navigation bars, forms, and more. In many cases, these mockups will include branded colors, typography, and other more specific visual details to closer represent the final vision for your website design.
We believe that beautiful, conversion-optimized websites hinge on successfully defining the most optimal and attractive layout from the jump. The wireframing phase streamlines communication from start to finish. This allows you to provide feedback early in the process. Ultimately, making for a more seamless and transparent web design experience.
Wireframes also allow us to:
Visualize how website content will fill out each page.
A website that combines the best of copy and design maximizes user experience. From a design standpoint, wireframes set the stage for how content will flow down each page. In turn, this phase helps inform copywriting decisions when it comes to voice and tone, paragraph length, and more.
Elements such as lists, call-to-actions, headers, and subheaders are all necessary considerations to be made by both a designer and content writer. With a wireframe, it's easy to adjust these elements around on a page to arrive at a layout that will maximize the site user's comprehension of page content.
Refine the navigational experience.
The wireframing process exposes how the website will flow from page to page in execution. In this phase, it's easy to add additional pages and navigational elements before an entire website is built out, at which point it can be difficult to change direction.
Determine web development features and requirements.
Wireframing specific features — such as pop-ups, forms, eCommerce shops, map integrations, and more — provide a clear idea of how they will function, where they will live on the page, and how useful they will be. Doing this upfront helps keep the web developer on the same page as the wireframe designer when it comes time to tackle the execution of these elements.
At Cosmitto, we feel it's important to give our clients a clear understanding of our development process and keep you informed on our plan before we execute anything. Wireframes allow us to do exactly that. For more insight on how we create custom websites that work, check out this blog post.
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New research from The University of Manchester and the Institute of Zoology has shed light on the complex challenge facing scientists battling one of the world's most devastating animal diseases.
Chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) is thought to be behind the decline or extinction of at least 200 species of frogs. It is also one of the reasons why 31% of amphibian species are currently listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
This latest study used bacteria from frogs in Belize to test the limitations of probiotic treatments. This form of treatment aims to introduce bacteria cultivated from amphibians that aren't affected by the disease to those at risk of infection to boost their immunity.
Dr Rachael Antwis who carried out the study whilst completing her PhD at Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences explains: "Using beneficial bacteria to act as 'probiotics' for disease mitigation is already common in agriculture and human health. In fact, many bacteria that reside on amphibian skin have been shown to inhibit the growth and survival of B. dendrobatidis. However, the reliability of the potential probiotics hasn't been tested against the shifting targets the disease presents."
To assess the effectiveness of probiotic treatments, the team used bacteria taken from frogs in Belize, where the species has shown resilience despite the long term presence of the disease in the area. 56 strains of bacteria were isolated and stored for use in the laboratory.
The team challenged the bacteria against different genetic strains of the disease, and then looked at whether the bacteria had inhibited the growth of the disease in its various forms. They found the bacteria performed in a variety of ways with only a small number inhibiting all forms of the disease. The bacteria that had an impact on one strain of the disease didn't have the same impact on the other genetic variations.
Dr Trenton Garner from The Zoological Society of London's Institute of Zoology explains the results: "Because only a small proportion of the bacteria that could be used as candidate probiotics showed broad-spectrum inhibition against the global pandemic B. dendrobatidis lineage, we believe probiotic treatments are unlikely to be consistently successful when confronting a variety of fungal genotypes. Because of the enormous genetic variability of the disease and its ability to rapidly evolve, it's vital that any treatment takes this into account."
He continues: "We suggest that a variety of bacteria be used when creating probiotic treatments as this is likely to offer more comprehensive protection of hosts from B. dendrobatidis and other threatening amphibian pathogens."
Moving forwards the scientists say that further research is needed to fully understand how bacteria inhibit B. dendrobatidis growth and the ability to infect hosts. Looking at the B. dendrobatidis genome for virulence factors will be fraught with difficulty but this study demonstrates some hope for finding effective probiotic treatments from within the amphibian community.
Dr Antwis concludes: "A lot more work is definitely needed before we can identify an effective cure for this devastating disease. But as a scientist I believe we not only have a moral obligation to keep searching, but an ecological one too. Amphibians inhabit the middle of food chain, making up a vital part of our ecosystem. If they go then that could spell disaster for many more species."


Initially focused on London's SMEs but with advice & support tools for SMEs around the country, the LDSC is seeking partners to improve the ability of small businesses to operate safely online, vital for them and your supply chain.
The event was very much a call for cooperation with LDSC – ranging from the input of industry, academia, the police – and the public, to become members, to provide resources – from financial to time and expertise - as well as report cyber-crime so that it can be accurately monitored and responded to.
"We will not be able to police our way out of this, but policing has a role," said Lawrence, adding, "This is volume crime that you can't investigate your way out of. " Against this background, and a huge willingness to help, there was not a single structure, hence the formation of LDSC by Mopac, the Met Police and City of London Police, described by Lawrence as a concept with more players joining that can create model for this city (London) and beyond, and it is currently seeking more partners. Currently the LDSC is just 12 staff, henc e the emphasis on working with others.
Argrawal has a Fintech background and started out in the UK as an IT manager, hence has an understanding of the importance of cyber-security. He explained that there are more than a million SMEs in London, employing about half the London workforce, and both staff and customer data and money can be stolen by cyber-crime. "We need to explain why they are at risk, and how they can protect against attacks, and what measures they can take," said Argrawal. [later it was pointed out that there are 5.4 million across the country].
Argrawal added that the Mayor's manifesto included plans to develop a cyber-security policy, and as a result its first chief digital officer has now been appointed (Theo Blackwell who later addressed the meeting). "London is currently ranked the number one place to do business and we need to replicate that in digital business," concluded Argrawal.
John Unsworth, chief executive for the LDSC then took to the stage with an appeal for help, including any critiques on how his organisation, working through partnerships, could better deliver on its remit of keeping businesses and particularly SMEs, safe online.
Three priority areas were identified – in the community (taking digital security to the high street) as well as digital security clinics and affordable and appropriate products for an SME.
Because small businesses may lack information and not want to look foolish, it needs to be made easier for people to ask questions and get them answered, and digital consultation clinics help.
But the LDSC is also promoting its membership scheme to develop a continuous relationship with business, not a none-off, one action, but a series of actions which can be monitored to develop a body of evidence of the problems and what works. Assistance includes helping small businesses know what products are available to help and what they cost, and helping them to triage their needs, so they are told: "based on your needs, this is what you should have. Sometimes they don't need to spend more, just put in more time and effort," says Unsworth.
The LDSC's preferred method of working is to avoid, 'reinventing the wheel', but to add value to existing networks, taking guidance from the NCSC, National Police Chiefs Council, the Cyber Protect Prrogramme etc.
It also wants to help ensure there is a coordinated and consistent service delivered via the Met Police service, from the various Boroughs' cyber teams, and those at the city of London police, and by engaging with business, get a true picture of the level of problem faced. The role of business is particularly important as only O.1 percent of all police resources are dedicated to cyber protection, though it equals all other crime.
Of businesses engaged with by the LDSC, 79 percent have less than 49 staff, most have no dedicated IT, and security is an add-on, but they often don't know what to ask if they commission and external company, often opting for the cheapest option. And when say a website goes down and it's too late, you have situations such as a charity which lost everything due to a lack of back up.
A lot of businesses doing a lot unsafely, and its our fault for not showing them how to do it safely and assuming they'll all teach themselves.
Some 77 percent of businesses do not have DMAC, so the LDSC provides a free toolkits to implement DMAC – there is time and effort to set up but no cost, and LDSC helps by showing people how to do it, where to get information. If a company can't afford to run the latest operating systems, they will be encouraged to prioritise machines for things that hold the most sensitive information.
For all that the organisation is action oriented, it appreciates the value of data and is building a digital security index – by borough. How do they differ. And update it to see if it changes – including taking action to encourage that change. That approach applies to members too.
For companies that become members, there are various products and services provided, plus they are enrolled in a programme to see 'Where we are now.' First their security posture is assessed to evaluate current risk. Then an acction plan – MAP – is put together. Then there is a review of where they up to. They get a security score card with external look at their security, and assess how close they are to Cyber Essentials. There are gradings for people, platform and processes – and every member is given an action plan including key recommendations of what they can do for free and then talk them thorough the process.
Advice is given from other advisors, they get a fee training package and they see how ready they are for Cyber Essentials.
Then they are tested to see how well they have learnt, including phishing exercises, smishing exercises, social engineering, and recovery rehearsals.
Then they are reviewed again later, and their score should change.
Unsworth concluded, If your organisation would like to help make a difference, the LDSC would welcome your input.
6. 76.58 percent do not use DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, an email authentication, policy and reporting protocol).
10. Deploy DMARC and SPF (Sender Policy Framework, validates a message's email domain).


Hoping someone can help me with a small issue.
I have a laptop that I use at work and carry home with me every night.
When I am at my office (where my public network is comcast) I have no problems logging in to the forum.
I get the "Logging you in, click here if it takes too long" screen" which goes away on it's own like normal.
I see my username at the bottom where the usernames are listed.
However, I can't access the usercp or post a message.
Usercp just does not show up.
Attempting to reply to a post gives me the "too many redirects" error.
I googled and found where other people have resolved "too many redirects" by clearing cookies. Tried that several times, no success.
I have tried Chrome, Windows 10's browser (Edge?), and Firefox.
I access the forum on my phone using tapatalk.
Any ideas? Using the phone is great when the War Department has me at the mall shopping or something but I'd really like to use my laptop when I'm home.