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When clients of the luxury travel agency Artisans of Leisure flock to Vietnam, they peruse the floating markets of the Mekong Delta or take in lotus flowers blooming around the ancient pagodas of Hue.
Recently, however, they are embracing an off-the-map concept known as philanthropic travel. They donate cows — or even a water buffalo — to impoverished villages. And they follow up by sponsoring a ceremony and a big party.
"Our clients are really looking for human connections," said founder Ashley Ganz, who is based in New York. "Not so much on a financial basis. It's more about the human exchange."
Like its competitors, New York-based Artisans is experiencing a boom in this ethically complicated niche, and larger, tony operators are quickly jumping on the bus.
Ritz Carlton Hotels and Resorts has just launched a 71-hotel program called Give Back Getaways, allowing guests to participate in music therapy programs for the disabled in Istanbul or home restoration in the ancient water town of Wuzhen, China. Guests will shell out somewhere between US$50-100 for the experience, part of which is forwarded to the local charity.
American Express Travel is set to launch its own package for its elite Platinum Card members, one of which will include an Orient-Express train trip through Botswana and South Africa that will offer visits to soup kitchens and basket-weaving projects en route. The cost: US$13,000 per person, and evidently, the company sees a future from this kind of demand. "Even in the past week we received many calls from travellers who want to go help out in Myanmar," said spokeswoman Mona Hamouly.
High-end sightseers these days want to break out of the tourist bubble of spas, vineyards and antiquing; instead they seek a deeper, emotional connection with locals in need of help. Known as realitybased, or experiential tourism, the trend at this level of affluence is a kind of luxury-vacation offsetting.
Operators and social theorists surmise that this jet set generosity could be the loud echo-effect of anti-poverty crusaders Bono, Bill Gates, and Brangelina. Others attribute the trend to niche positioning in a very competitive luxury market. Still, the contrast of Thurston and Lovey Howelltypes putting in face-time with disease-stricken villageiosie before retiring to a $500-anhour, his-and-hers massage can be jarring.
Arthur Brooks, a sociologist who studies the confluence of conservatism, wealth and charity, agrees with operators who say that a little generosity is better than lot of indifference.
"It's easy to ridicule people who dabble," he said. "But it's cynical to say that it's reprehensible to care about poor people while enjoying the finer things in life."
Ultimately, he believes, the concept challenges the soul. "It goes back to the Biblical teachings," said Mr. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness.
" It won't help the poor if we don't help the poor, but it also doesn't help the poor if we make ourselves poor."
Observers say that broadening one's portfolio of giving is a prime motivator. "Many of our guests are already actively involved in worthwhile causes in their own communities and now through this program they can continue this spirit of giving while on vacation," said Simon Cooper, the Canadianborn president of Ritz Carlton who led his company's recent initiative.
The concept springs from another recent trend called "poorism," otherwise known as "voluntourism." Pioneered by companies such as Toronto-based G.A.P. Adventures, programs dispatch travellers to towns ravaged by disease, poverty or disaster, where they offer their services, whether it be building houses, working in an HIV-AIDS hospice or soccer coaching.
Munificent as those gestures might sound, some proponents of philanthropic tourism take exception to voluntourism's approach, which they believe can be counterproductive.
"Most grassroots organizations can't manage when hundreds of people come for a morning or afternoon to build a nursery school or a latrine," said David Chamberlain, founder of San Francisco-based operation Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel Worldwide, whose company donates US$250 per traveller to the grassroots organizations with whom he has worked.
Mr. Chamberlain says that many of the towns his company supports have massive unemployment issues, and the can-do, Peace Corps model of voluntourism only takes jobs away from locals who need the money, no matter how paltry. "The philanthropy message of giving puts the community's needs first," he said, emphasizing that companies in his space who do not give something back to the local volunteer organizations have questionable intentions.
"We're trying to inspire not only travellers and hosts, but also the industry," he said. "We've been reaping rewards of world heritage sites without participating in helping the communities around them."
One of the company's big accomplishment is contributing for a school in Zambia, which cost US$10,0000 and was completed last year.
Founded in 2006, Exquisite has since booked 150 trips. "When we started our business, we asked ourselves, 'How can we create experience meaningful for travellers that would be different?' " recalled Mr. Chamberlain.


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Chris Rock , (born February 7, 1966, Georgetown, South Carolina, U.S.), American comedian whose popular stand-up routine—which often addressed racial matters—led to a successful film career.
Rock grew up in the impoverished Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. After dropping out of high school at 17 (he later received a high-school-equivalency diploma), Rock played small clubs in the New York area, where he was discovered by comedian-actor Eddie Murphy. After landing parts in Murphy's film Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and director Keenen Ivory Wayans's I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), Rock got his big break by earning a spot in 1990 as a cast member of Saturday Night Live. He left the show in 1993 to join the Fox network's In Living Color, which was taken off the air shortly thereafter. After starring in and writing the script for the film CB4 (1993), he covered the 1996 presidential campaign for ABC's Politically Incorrect. Rock then appeared in the first of his HBO comedy specials, Big Ass Jokes (1994), which won a CableACE Award. Soon after, however, Rock found his popularity as an actor and comedian beginning to fade.
In an effort to reignite his career, Rock went on the road in 1996, playing small clubs. There he honed his comedic repertoire, touching on subjects that were often considered taboo, such as race relations, drug addiction, and black poverty, all the while revealing the humorous aspects of some of the more serious, painful truths of the black experience. Bolstered by the positive reaction he received while touring, Rock once again appeared in an HBO special, Bring the Pain (1997), which won two Emmy Awards and brought Rock widespread fame and critical acclaim. Riding the crest of his newfound popularity, Rock went on to star in the television series The Chris Rock Show (1997–2000), write the best-selling book Rock This! (1997), costar in the film Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), and provide the voice for Rodney the guinea pig in another Murphy movie, Dr. Dolittle (1998).
In 1999 Rock starred in his third HBO comedy special, Bigger and Blacker, and then appeared in a series of films, including Nurse Betty (2000) and Down to Earth (2001). In 2001 he provided the voice of the title character in the animated movie Osmosis Jones. He later starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the thriller Bad Company (2002). In 2003 Rock made his directorial debut with Head of State, which centred on a presidential election. After the popular HBO comedy special Never Scared (2004), he cocreated a television series based on his childhood, Everybody Hates Chris (2005–09). The show was a critical and commercial success. Rock hosted the Academy Awards ceremony in 2005.
Rock's subsequent films included The Longest Yard (2005), in which he starred with Adam Sandler, and the animated Madagascar series (2005, 2008, and 2012), for which he provided the voice of a zebra. In 2007 he starred in I Think I Love My Wife, a remake of Eric Rohmer's L'Amour l'après-midi (1972; Chloe in the Afternoon) that he also cowrote and directed. Two years later Rock investigated the hairstyles of African American women in the documentary Good Hair. He next appeared in Death at a Funeral (2010), a comedy about a chaotic funeral, and Grown Ups (2010), in which he, Sandler, and several other comedians played high-school friends reuniting as adults; a sequel followed in 2013.
In 2011 Rock made his Broadway debut in The Motherfucker with the Hat, portraying an AA sponsor. The following year he had a role in the film What to Expect When You're Expecting, an ensemble comedy about parenting, and starred opposite actress and filmmaker Julie Delpy in her culture-clash comedy 2 Days in New York. Rock then wrote, directed, and starred in Top Five (2014), about a comedian struggling to transition to more serious fare. The film was lauded for successfully situating Rock's cutting humour in a moving and believable narrative. In 2018 he appeared in the comedies The Week Of, which also starred Sandler, and Nobody's Fool. That year the comedy special Chris Rock: Tamborine debuted on Netflix.
In 2016 Rock returned as host of the Oscar ceremony, which had drawn calls for a boycott when blacks failed to receive any nominations in the acting categories. Rock was widely praised for his handling of the controversy, which he addressed throughout the show, notably devoting his opening monologue to the issue of racism.
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YouTube artist on Turner Prize list
A video artist who uses YouTube clips, a print-maker and an artist who pairs spoken word with photography are among this year's Turner Prize nominees.
Duncan Campbell, James Richards, Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Michell are on the shortlist for the prestigious and provocative contemporary art prize.
Between them, they employ audio, video, craft and design - but there are no traditional painters or sculptors.
The winner, who will receive £25,000, will be named on 1 December.
Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis, who chairs the jury, admitted this year's Turner nominees were "less well known" than in previous years.
"They are serious works, they have quite a political or social commitment," she said at Thursday's shortlist announcement.
"It's perhaps less fun but I hope that we can do the job in communicating why these works are important and have caught the imagination of many people over the last 12 months."
Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Tate Britain's curator of contemporary art, said the shortlist was "more accessible" than in past years.
"It's not art about art, it's art about the world and other subjects everybody has experience of and can relate to."
Internet impact
The nomination announcement said the four artists' methods "suggest the impact of the internet, cinema, TV and mobile technologies on a new generation of artists".
Curtis said they shared "a strong international presence and an ability to adapt, restage and reinterpret their own and others' works, very often working in a collaborative social context".
BBC News arts editor Will Gompertz suggested that the four all "make work that is in some way shape or form, a collage".
He said: "This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Turner Prize, and true to its non-conformist nature, there are unlikely to be any oil paintings or figurative sculptures on display at the 2014 exhibition."
The nominees are:
Duncan Campbell
Dublin-born, Glasgow-based Duncan Campbell is nominated for a video that was part of Scotland's entry in last year's Venice Biennale.
His film, It for Others, is a reflection on a remarkable historical documentary about African art made by the French filmmakers Chris Marker and Alain Resnais in 1953.
It also includes a stunning dance sequence created with choreographer Michael Clark.
Campbell studied at the Glasgow School of Art. The city has produced four of the last nine Turner Prize winners.
Scotland takes on the Venice biennale
Ciara Phillips
Canada-born print-maker Ciara Phillips is another Glasgow-based nominee.
She has been shortlisted for a two-month project at The Showroom gallery in north-west London, where she set up a temporary print studio and invited artists, designers, and local women's groups to produce new screen prints.
She also set up The Poster Club, a collective of like-minded artists, in Glasgow in 2010, and creates screenprints, textiles, photographs and wall paintings.
The Scotsman wrote last year: "Phillips is a brilliant print maker who imbues the medium with a freshness that is remarkable, in posters, prints and textiles."
James Richards
James Richards pieces together apparently unrelated clips from a wide variety of sources - including YouTube, VHS tapes from charity shops, other artists' films and footage he has shot himself.
In one video, the Cardiff-born artist spliced together a clip of Heather Langenkamp in Nightmare on Elm Street with a girl drawing an eye in an instructional video and footage of space, all of which shared the same zoom speed.
He has been shortlisted for a 13-minute black-and-white video that was part of a group show at the Venice Biennale.
The Turner Prize citation said he created "poetic meditations on the pleasure, sensuality and the voyeurism that is within the act of looking".
Tris Vonna-Michell
Tris Vonna-Michell explores methods of storytelling, combining spoken word performances, recorded narration, slide-shows and printed photographs.
His nomination is for an installation at the Jan Mot gallery in Brussels that used two slide projections and an audio narration relating to his mother's childhood in Berlin.
Another graduate of Glasgow School of Art, his work was last seen in the UK at the Baltic gallery in Gateshead, with an installation inspired by the National Trust's nearby Gibside property.
His "fragments of information, detours and repetitions designed to confuse and enlighten in equal measure", the Turner nomination said.
The Turner Prize is open to British contemporary artists under the age of 50. The nominees will be on show at the Turner Prize Exhibition at Tate Britain from 30 September.
Last year's winner was Laure Prouvost, who created a video installation about the disappearance of her contemporary artist grandfather.


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MILWAUKEE — At the turn of the 20th century, Milwaukee was in its heyday. Its thriving breweries, tanneries and manufacturers provided good jobs, and its many tradespeople and craftsmen built quality housing.
Some of the houses were more distinctive than others. In fact, some were downright amazing and remain showpieces.
"We don't have that penchant for replacement that other cities have," explained H. Russell Zimmermann, a longtime architectural historian who wrote "Magnificent Milwaukee: Architectural Treasures, 1850-1920."
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"We have been doing nothing but restoring it since then," said Dawn Day Hourigan, executive director, who estimated that 80 percent of the furnishings were from the Pabst family.
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The mansion is open daily except for major holidays and Mondays from mid-January through February. Guided tours are available.
The Kneeland-Walker House in Wauwatosa is just a few minutes' drive west of downtown. The Queen Anne Victorian was built in 1890 for Norman Kneeland, a manufacturer and farmer. He and his wife lived there with four of their seven children.
In 1917 it was purchased by Emery Walker, vice president of the Kieckhefer Box Co., who also was an engineer and inventor. It remained in that family until 1987, when it was purchased as the headquarters for the Wauwatosa Historical Society. It now serves as a center for community events and is open for research.
"The restoration has been ongoing," said Janel Ruzicka, executive director, adding that starting this month the mansion will be open for tours on the third Saturday of each month.
The Schuster Mansion was built in 1891 for tobacco merchant George Schuster. Sometimes called the "Red Castle," the 23-room, 8,000-square-foot home is made of red sandstone, brick and terra cotta — "quite a stunning combination," Zimmermann said.
The house stayed in the Schuster family until 1924, when it was converted into luxury apartments. Now a bed-and-breakfast, the three-story home west of downtown is owned by Rick and Laura Sue Mosier, who bought it in 2008 and have restored and furnished it with Victorian antiques and wallpapers.
"The real saving grace of the home is that it had been put to good use as an apartment building for all those years, so it was saved from the wrecking ball," said Laura Sue Mosier.
Now as many as 26 people a night can stay in the B&B in the many rooms and suites, most with their own bathroom. The Mosiers live on the third floor and have done most of the renovation.
For those who would like to see the mansion but not necessarily stay as a guest, Mosier serves Victorian high tea on the first Thursday of the month. Reservations are required.
Charles Allis Art Museum was built as a residence in 1911 for the first president of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. and his wife, Sarah. They had no children but were avid art collectors and philanthropists.
The three-story Tudor-style mansion-turned-museum on Milwaukee's East Side now is owned by Milwaukee County. The public can view the Allises' collections of paintings, prints, sculptures, lapidary, pottery and more. With its marble staircase and mahogany paneling, the home remains as it was when the Allises lived there, right down to the Persian rugs, lincrusta wall coverings and Louis XIV chairs.
The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum perches on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan in one of Milwaukee's most impressive residential areas. It was built in 1923 for Lloyd Smith, president of A.O. Smith Co., and his family. Resembling an Italian Renaissance villa, the home is now a museum that features displays of decorative furniture and fine arts from the 15th through 18th centuries. It also is owned by Milwaukee County.
The house is lovely and features the ornamental ironwork of Cyril Colnik that also can be found in the Pabst and Allis mansions. But the recently restored gardens that re-create a 16th century Tuscan landscape are even more beautiful.
"People see the gardens from the lakefront below and assume they lead up to a private residence," said Maria Costello, executive director of Villa Terrace and the Charles Allis museums. "They are thrilled to find the house and the gardens are open to the public."
The Charles Allis and Villa Terrace museums are open Wednesdays through Sundays. While the museum contents are interesting, in both cases Costello admits the houses themselves often are the bigger draw.
"Touring a mansion provides a piece of history," she said. "It's a way that the past can come to life."
For more information
For information about hours, tours and admission prices, contact:
The Pabst Mansion, 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave.; 414-931-0808;
The Kneeland-Walker House, 7406 Hillcrest Drive, Wauwatosa; 414-774-8672;
The Schuster Mansion Bed & Breakfast, 3209 W. Wells St.; 414-342-3210;
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Charles Allis Art Museum, 1801 N. Prospect Ave.; 414-278-8295;
The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2220 N. Terrace Ave.; 414-271-3656;


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Razing and rebuilding Hillsdale Terrace is still a bad idea
The Mittleman Jewish Community Center is at the top right quadrant.
Last year I opposed the Housing Authority of Portland's application to receive federal money ($16.5 million) deemed essential to razing and replacing the deteriorating, 40-year-old Hillsdale Terrace project here in our community.
If you don't know where the Terrace is, it's because its 60 units are hidden away in a moldering, soggy, isolated gulch.
Now HAP is reapplying — this time for more federal money ($18 million).
The project is still a bad idea. The site remains isolated, residents would have to be displaced for up to three years and demolition and extensive site work drive up costs.
As I urged the first time around, HAP should pursue different approaches. Both involve getting rid of Hillsdale Terrace but keeping its residents in Hillsdale and Multnomah.
One idea would be to sell the Hillsdale Terrace project to a developer and buy a new, community-connected, easily build-able site. If HOPE VI funds can't be used to build on a new site, as HAP maintains, find different funding and scale back the project, which currently would double the current number of units from 60 to 122.
(UPDATE: I e-mailed HUD, which distributes the funds, about HAP's claim that HOPE VI can only be used to develop existing sites, not new ones. Late Friday, HUD spokesperson Donna White wrote back to say the HOPE VI money can be, and has been, used for off-site developments. I've asked HAP to respond. Stay tuned.)
The other would be to seek "Section 8" federal funding that would set folks up in local housing with rent subsidies. (The argument that property owners won't rent to the poor seems lame in light of HAP's relying on local rentals for residents displaced during the proposed reconstruction of Hillsdale Terrace.)
Math alert: I'm about to share some key numbers. Two points are worth noting.
We are talking about a total figure of $45.1 million poured into an grossly deficient site. How might that money, or even half that amount, be better spent to help the poor in our neighborhood?
2) HAP may quibble with my math, but I've tried my best to work with the agency's numbers. If they disagree with my calculations, I welcome their critique.
HAP's cost figures show that site-related expenses (demolition, relocation, site work) come to $7.27 million. Tack on to that $2.1 million in "HOPE VI administration costs" and, say, another $3 million for what HAP might get by selling the 6-acre Hillsdale Terrace property and you get more than $12 million in costs associated with the site alone.
That's before you figure in the actual cost of "hard" construction.
By the way, I have left out $3.1 million, the HAP budgeted amounts for support services for children and residents (who are generally undereducated, unskilled and steeped in poverty). That money will be needed whatever happens.
Now add in the actual cost of construction, $32.7 million, to the $12 million mentioned above.
Divide by 122 units and you come up with $370,000 per unit.
In this market, you could buy a handsome house (including land) or a South Waterfront condo for that amount. To say nothing of how much rent that would subsidize through the Section 8 program.
And remember, the figure still allows for $3.1 in social services for a population in desperate need for help.
A final point: the cost per unit figure doesn't factor in what HAP plans to spend to buy and demolish three duplexes on SW 26th — just so motorists on Capitol Highway can get a fleeting glimpse of a project that should never have been built in the first place.
Labels: Hillsdale, Hillsdale Terrace, HOPE VI, Housing Authority of Portland


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I get that often. I meet a lot of people who have some sort of troubles in their life and they show interest in reading the Bible to heal themselves.
However, the majority of these people just approach the Bible in the same way they approach an "ATM" machine, and they think that "if God exists" they should just "ask for a matter" and "God should provide in a button press".
How to explain to those friends that:
- Faith is a lifestyle; it requires a one on one relationship with God
- Faith is by giving your life to God and trust His way of guiding you even though you cannot always understand how God thinks, and His ways.
- Faith is not only by asking, but also by giving to others and not being selfish
- God WILL provide at the right time, the right moment IF what they are asking for is actually what God thinks is beneficial for them.
How to help people to get out of the materialistic ways of approaching something pure and divine like the Bible and understand there will be easy and hard days through faith?
Even though I do not agree on all (more details at the end of the update) that was mentioned in the accepted answer, but the solution David Stratton gave which is:
All we can do with those who have been taught the modern gospel is to take them to Scripture and tell them the truth.
Is in my opinion the correct way to do it. Show the scripture then explain it in a spiritual way so that they stop thinking with a materialistic brain.
What were the points in his answer that i had some comments about?
- I do believe God is love "God is love, come to Him and He will fix your broken marriage, drug problem, financial woes, etc.) " If you build a relationship with him and give him your life and all the steps you make. The Bible says:
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
God is happiness, religion should not be only a feeling of guilt that we are sinners who deserve hell. of course we are sinners, but that is why Jesus died on the cross to forgive all our sins, and thus we may live and be happy and prosper:
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. "
So God does want us to enjoy and help others enjoy life BUT we need a one on one relationship; i.e, every step that we do we must tell him "I put it between your hands and you decide what should happen"


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Registry for managing CSS and JS
Project description
A registry for linked Stylesheet and Javascript files.
This registry is mainly aimed at solving the following usecases:
- Enable product authors to register stylesheets with their product installers without having to resort to override either header.pt or ploneCustom.css creating potential conflicts with other products.
- Enable more componentialization of the stylesheets provided with Plone (and other products) without having to increase the number of http requests for a Plone page.
- Enable condition checking on stylesheets. Great for variable look-and-feel for groups/roles/folders/departments/content-types/etc
- Enable inline dynamic stylesheets. For those style rules that should vary for each request. Mainly used for things like header-bar- backgroundimages, department colors etc.
- Enable developers to activate/deactivate their styles in a simpler way
- Enable compression to safe bandwidth and download time
The CSSRegistry and JSRegistry are configured through the ZMI. They can be found in the ZMI of your plonesite as 'portal_css' and 'portal_javascript'.
Add links to stylesheets that exist in your skins paths, by ids; like 'plone.css', 'ploneCustom.css' etc.
Linked stylesheets take some parameters:
id – The id mentioned above. the Zope id of the stylesheet to be used.
expression – A CMF expression to be evaluated to check if the stylesheet should be included in output or not.
authenticated – Restrict the resource to authenticated users. If this is set, the expression is not evaluated.
conditionalcomment – A small string to be included in a conditional comment around the resource. For example, entering simply 'IE' in the field will result in a conditional comment of: <!–[if IE]>…<![endif]–> This behavior is currently only enabled for the CSS Registry. For more information see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx
media – The media for which the stylesheet should apply, normally empty or 'all'. other possible values are 'screen', 'print' etc.
rel – Link relation. defaults to 'stylesheet', and should almost always stay that way. For designating alternative stylesheets.
title – the title for alternate stylesheets
rendering – How to link the stylesheet from the html page:
- 'import' - the default. normal css import
- 'link' - works better for old browsers and is needed for alternate
- stylesheets
- 'inline' - render the stylesheet inline instead of linking it
- externally. Shouldn't be used at all! It isn't possible to create sites which validate if you do. For more information see: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Properly_Using_CSS_and_JavaScript_in_XHTML_Documents
compression – Whether and how much the resource should be compressed:
- 'none' - the original content will not be changed
- 'safe' - the content will be compressed in a way which should be safe
- for any workarounds for browser bugs. Conditional code for Internet Explorer is preserved since ResourceRegistries 1.2.3 and 1.3.1.
- 'full' - the content will be compressed with some additional rules.
- 'safe-encode' - only available for javascript
- 'full-encode' - only available for javascript
If several stylesheets listed directly after each other in the registry have the same parameters and expression, they will be concatenated into a larger, composite, stylesheet on rendering. - This can be useful for splitting stylesheets into smaller components for overrideing, while preserving cacheability and minimising the number of http-requests to Plone.
This tool was started at the excellent SnowSprint 2005 - Organised by Telesis in the Austrian Alps. Thanks, Jodok! :)
- Florian Schulze – Independent
- Laurence Rowe – Independent
- Geir Baekholt – Jarn AS
- Matt Hamilton – Netsight Internet Solutions
Jarn AS
Netsight Internet Solutions
2.0b2 - 2010-01-24
- Apply a marker interface ICookedFile to the files created on the fly for cooked/concatenated resources returned by ResourceRegistries. This makes it easier to detect these for caching purposes and treat them differently to in-ZODB files, which may also be instances of OFS.Image.File. [optilude]
2.0b1 - 2009-12-27
- Marked zope.component as a real dependency of this package. [hannosch]
2.0a2 - 2009-12-20
- Cleaned up some old charset related fallback code. [hannosch]
- Changed the development mode to be a non-persistent setting. By default it follows the Zope development mode (bin/instance fg vs. bin/instance console). The setting can be changed during process runtime. [hannosch]
2.0a1 - 2009-11-16
- Declare 'screen' to be the default for the media attribute instead of None. It is the most commonly used one in Plone's own themes. [hannosch]
- Fixed typo in update process of authenticated resources. Fixes #9599 [naro]
- Fixed JS packer to be a little less greedy about protecting regular expressions. This fixes #8790. [dunlapm]
- Changed the order of CSS/JS rendering, CSS now renders first to allow the browser to get it as soon as possible, to avoid the "flash of unstyled content" [limi]
- Removed some whitespace in the rendering templates for JS, CSS and KSS to make the source rendering more readable. These are very small and understandable templates, so we'd rather have some noise there than on the front end. [limi]
- Removed the autogroupingmode feature. In practice it turned out to work not so well and caused hard to debug problems. [hannosch]
- Automatically set the registries into development mode if Zope itself runs in development mode. [hannosch]
- Get the tests working again under Plone 5 and make sure we handle zope.app.publisher file resources correctly under repoze.zope2. [hannosch]
- Added missing InitializeClass call for BaseRegistryTool. [davisagli]
- Changed default values for resources to more sensible values. [hannosch]
- Restructured documentation files. [hannosch]
- Added authenticated as a new option to all resources. If a resource is marked this way, it will only be shown for authenticated users. This makes the most common use-case of restricting resources to logged-in users easier and allows to optimize the internal API for speed for this use-case. An expression on a resource is ignored if the authenticated flag is set. [hannosch]
- Removed BBB imports and code. We require Zope 2.12 now. [hannosch]
- Handle a missing portal_kss tool gracefully in the kineticstylesheets viewlet. [hannosch]
- Added BBB imports to make sure the InitializeClass can be imported in Zope versions before 2.12. [hannosch]
- Avoid dependency on the zope.app.zapi package. [hannosch]
- Declare package dependencies, fixed deprecation warnings for use of Globals and changed error raising to be forward compatible. [hannosch]
- Change the fix for #7522 made in 1.4.3. For inline resources we pass Unicode down into the page templates. The TAL machinery expects to get Unicode and not encoded strings. [hannosch]
1.5.3 - 2009-05-17
- Allow setting of debug mode in registries through Generic Setup profiles. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8712 [dunlapm]
- Fixed error with inline z3resources not being able to handle a POST request. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8998 [dunlapm]
1.5.2 - 2009-04-21
- Fixed error with the conditional comment being lost when adding a new Resource when adding a new entry to the JS or CSS registries. [dunlapm]
- Fixed error with GS Export/Import. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/9154 [dunlapm]
1.5.1 - 2009-04-14
- Put CDATA start and end markers in a javascript comment. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/9128 [wichert]
1.5.0 - 2009-03-01
- Removed the uppermost Save button from the ZMI pages for registries. Clicking this button before the registry page has finished loading could lead to data loss. [dunlapm, fschulze]
- Resources beginning with "http://" or "https://" are now valid and may be included as resources. Registries will automatically disable merging, caching, compression, and inline rendering of external resources. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8312 [dunlapm, fschulze]
- Added option to have a conditional comment attached to a given resource. Currently the UI only supports this behavior with the CSS and JavaScript Registries, but the underpinnings for the KSS registry is in place. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5521 [dunlapm, fschulze]
- Do not try to export the cooked_expression into the GenericSetup profiles. It is only an internal optimization and the value is reflected in the expression value. [hannosch]
- Store the cooked expressions as a real persistent expression object, instead of compiling the expression on every view. [hannosch]
- Added 'context' as an alias for 'object' in action expressions. [davisagli, hannosch]
- Fixed error where non-traversable resources could be registered. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8153 [dunlapm]
- Ensure that resources can be removed in xml. [maurits]
- Purge old zope2 Interface interfaces for Zope 2.12 compatibility. [elro]
- Encode inline resources using the site encoding. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7522 [wichert]
- Fixed potential Acquisition problems in viewlets. [hannosch]
- Properly encode the resource id. This fixes moving of resource without JS and removing recources which contain special chars like plus signs. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7482 [fschulze]
- Revert part of r7143: returning NotFound from a API call is never the right thing to do since it makes the publisher show a object-not-found page, hiding the real error. Restore the old behaviour and raise a ValueError instead. This fixes mysterious not-found errors from GenericSetup imports. [wichert]
- Support Z3 template resources (not just file and image resources). [mj]
- Added '/' to the strings that are filtered out in BaseRegistry.generateId(). This fixes #7048. [davconvent]
- Add support for automatic grouping mode to the GenericSetup export/import code. [wichert]
- Added a new automatic grouping mode feature. It is turned off by default. When enabled the resources will first be sorted into groups with the same merging-relevant settings and after that merged. In the groups the order of the resources in the registries will be preserved. [hannosch]
- Changed the exportimport handlers to only cook the resources once at the end and not after each new resource has been added. [hannosch]
- Fixed setting of cache headers when the registry is associated with a RAMCache. [fschulze]
- Switched back to getToolByName. [wichert]
- Added portal_kss as registry for kss files. [fschulze]
- Slightly optimized the viewlet manager templates. [hannosch]
- Replace usage of getToolByNames with getUtility. [wichert, hannosch]
- Reverted fix of tests, because Zope was wrong. [fschulze]
- Fixed test failures caused by changes in Zope 2.10. [fschulze]
- Ported bugfixes from 1.3 line. [fschulze]
- Started to use views and viewlet managers. [fschulze]
- Removed compatibility stuff for Plone version lower than 3.0. [fschulze]
- Cook resources after GS profile import. [fschulze]
- Added missing enabled property handling to updateScript. [fschulze]
- Fixed typo which prevented position-after/insert-after in GS profiles to work. [fschulze]
- For compatibility with GenericSetup conventions, the import steps now support 'insert-before' and 'insert-after' as aliases for 'position-before' and 'position-after', while 'insert-top' and 'insert-bottom' are aliases for 'position-top' and 'position-bottom', respectively. [mj]
- Invalidate cache when cooking resources if the registry is assigned to a RAMCache or similar cache manager.
- Fixed string replacement during packing when several resources got packed in different threads at once, which resulted in exchanged strings. [fschulze]
- Fixed string protection for strings which mix single and double quotes. [fschulze]
- Made packer.py usable as a standalone commandline tool. [fschulze]
- Fixed several issues in 'full' compression. [fschulze]
- Extended the GenericSetup import step to support positioning of resources: the 'position-before' and 'position-after' attributes cause the resource to be positioned before or after resource named in the attribute. 'position-top' and 'position-bottom' move a resource to the top or bottom. [mj]
- Improved IE conditional compilation protection, it now works in "full" compression. [fschulze]
- Improved regular expression for strings. [fschulze]
- Fixed order of oneline and multiline comment removal in javascript packer. [fschulze]
- Fixed validation warning about multiple comments when rendering resources inline. [fschulze]
- Made css "full" packing more aggressive. [fschulze]
- Cleaned up testing framework and made all tests run properly. [fschulze, hannosch]
- Don't wrap None in aquisition wrapper if resource is not found. [tesdal]
- Made GenericSetup importer not fail on repeated imports. [alecm]
- Made enabled checkbox work again. [fschulze]
- Enable use of z3 / Five resources. [ree]
- Mark missing or unaccessible ressources in management screens. [fschulze]
- Moved 'enabled' checkbox into legend before 'id' textbox. [fschulze]
- Don't remove conditional compile instructions for IE from javascripts. [fschulze]
- Fixed error when content is unicode. [rocky]
- No changes since rc1.
- Add patch from jenner to handle updating and removal of resources from GenericSetup profiles. [wichert]
- Included fixes from the 1.2 line. [fschulze]
- Do not install default CSS and JS on upgrade, only on initial installation. [wichert]
- Added GenericSetup import/export handlers (to support GS-based Plone 2.5 portal creation) [rafrombrc]
- Made enabled checkbox work again. [fschulze]
Backported several fixes from 1.3.1: [fschulze]
- Enable use of z3 / Five resources. [ree]
- Mark missing or unaccessible ressources in management screens. [fschulze]
- Moved 'enabled' checkbox into legend before 'id' textbox. [fschulze]
- Don't remove conditional compile instructions for IE from javascripts. [fschulze]
- Fixed error when content is unicode. [rocky]
- Added missing arguments in resource adding functions. [jenner, fschulze]
- Fixed traversal of security restricted resources. [jenner, alecm, fschulze]
- Added javascript "full" compression, which achieves higher compression ratios by doing variable name packing based on the rules from Dean Edwards packer: http://dean.edwards.name/packer/usage/ [fschulze]
- Added keyword encoding for javascript. This greatly reduces the file size of javascript files, but adds a small performance hit on the client for the decoding. [fschulze]
- Added compression for CSS and Javascript resources. [fschulze]
- Added better labels and a short explanation to the debugmode-checkbox in the forms. [elvix]
- Renamed 'TAL condition' to 'Condition' in the forms, as it has nothing to do with TAL at all (it is a CMF/TALES expression) It should include a link to CMF Expressions help [elvix]
- Fixed cooking of resources to ensure that uncookable resources are not merged. [elro]
- Fixed tests for unauthorized to accept a 401 as an unauthorized error. [elro]
- Fixed setDebugMode to recook resources after being changed. [elro]
- Added checkbox to configure cacheability of resources. [fschulze]
- Made registries cacheable. This is most useful with the RAMCacheManager. Just associate portal_css and portal_javascripts with the RAMCache. [fschulze]
- Apply magic id to all resources when not in debug mode, so invalidation works. [fschulze]
- Made skin aware. This now depends on getCurrentSkinName added in CMF 1.5.5. [elro]
- Fixed encoding of javascripts. [fschulze]
- Fixed reordering of resources with javascript. [fschulze]
- Fixed typo in the migration external method which lead to portal_javascripts not being migrated. [fschulze]
- Small fixes to UI. [limi]
- Fix for bug #4392, where merging FSfiles could mess up http-status headers and cause weird hanging in browsers. [plonista][fschulze][elvix]
- Don't filter resources in merged overview in ZMI. [fschulze]
- Improved management UI. [limi, fschulze]
- Fixed reinstall bug due to improper resource id lookup. [alecm]
- Moved directory with skin layer for Plone 2.0.5 compatibility to product root, so it doesn't interfere with Plone 2.1. The version check on install time didn't seem to be enough. [fschulze]
- getTitle and getMedia will return None now if they are empty, this removes empty title and media attributes from the generated HTML.
- Fixed submitting changes in ZMI for stylesheets on IE. [fschulze]
- Added getResource function. This allows to change properties of each resource. After that, a call to cookResources is needed. [fschulze]
- Added getResourceIds function. [fschulze]
- Added test for context dependancy to inline css rendering. [dom]
- Now uses restrictedTraverse() rather than getattr() for returning resources, to provide support for resources held within the ZODB. [dom]
- Added a "is merging allowed?" option ("cookable" property) to determine where a resource can be merged (default True). This was added because objects in the ZODB may have variable permissions but be merged together. Whilst the objects are checked at each REQUEST, a new REQUEST won't actually be made each time because of the cache headers set on merged resources. If this worries you, the simplest solution is not to merge such resources, hence this option. [dom]
- Added renameResource function with tests. [fschulze]
- In Plone 2.1 plone_javascripts.js was removed, fixed tests by using jstest.js from our own skin. [dom]
- Added migration script for old instances. Just create a external method with id 'migrate_resourceregistries', Module Name 'ResourceRegistries.migrate' and Function Name 'migrate' and click on the 'Test' tab. [fschulze]
- Cleaned up imports and whitespaces. Code standardization and small improvements. Fixed ZMI templates XHTML markup. [deo]
- Refactored the two registries to use one common base class. [fschulze]
- Refactored moving functions, so we have more possibilities. The API reflects the IOrderedContainer one. [fschulze]
- Fix order of javascripts, the topmost in the management screen also needs to be the topmost in the resulting source. [fschulze]
- Added debugmode where scripts are not concatenated. This will let things like the javascript console point to the right line-number. And makes it easier to develop, because there is no caching of the scripts. [fschulze]
- Fixed cooking of stylesheets so that composite stylesheets get correct media settings. Thanks a lot to Denis Mishunoff[spliter] for discovery, investigation and suggested fix [elvix]
- Fixed some security declarations. [fschulze]
- Moved 2.0.5 header.pt to skins/ResourceRegistries_20compatibility and remove ResourceRegistries_20compatibility when Plone != 2.0.x [fschulze]
- Check existance of stylesheets and javascripts before registering. This fixes reinstallation. [fschulze]
- Removed duplicate getScripts function definition in tools/JSRegistry.py [fschulze]
- Fixed JSRegistry for Plone < 2.1 where plone_utils.getSiteEncoding is not available. [fschulze]
- Renamed config.TOOLNAME to config.CSSTOOLNAME and config.TOOLTYPE to config.CSSTOOLTYPE [batlogg]
- Added tests for attributes on stylesheets. About time. [elvix]
- Added title for alternate stylesheets. [fschulze]
- Removing superflous skins directories. [elvix]
- Added new debugmode where stylesheets are not concatenated. This will let things like the DOM inspector in Mozilla point to the right line-number. [ldr] [elvix]
- Added bugfix for handling disabled items when cooking stylesheets. [fschulze]
- Renamed to ResourceRegistries instead of the historical and wrong CSSRegistry. [elvix]
- Upgraded JSRegistry to have a more proper ZMI form, now with reordering support. [elvix]
- Changed the order elements are added to the JSRegistry. [elvix]
- Added license/copyright notice to composite files (neccesary for including for third party stuff). [elvix]
- Bugfix fixing ZMI form for CSSRegistry. [fschulze]
- Added to Plone 2.1 migrations, added installation of the default Plone javascripts and stylesheets. [elvix]
- Make sure we intercept all requests for objects, even those already present in the acquisition chain. Override __bobo_traverse__. [elvix]
- Handle cache settings in http headers for served files. [elvix]
- Handle http headers for inline scripts and stylesheets. [elvix]
- Use explicit </script> tag since these pages are being served as text/html. Both IE and firefox will have problems otherwise. [bmh]
0.6 and earlier
- Added a simple readme with basic documentation. [elvix]
- Started HISTORY.txt (somewhat late perhaps, but better than never). [elvix]
- Cleaned up forms. Better alignment. [elvix]
- Separate JSRegistry and CSSRegistry to two tools. [elvix]
- Lots of changes, numerous fixes. [elvix]
Snowsprint 2005
- Designed and built first version of the CSSregistry. [HammerToe] [elvix]
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6 Night Surf & Yoga Retreat
- The Pineapple House, Bali
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Police: Man assaults pregnant woman at Tewksbury motel
Woman tries escaping, is throw up against wall
A Boston man is facing numerous charges after assaulting a pregnant woman in a Tewksbury motel room, police said.
Officers responded to a room at the Motel Caswell on Wednesday for a report of a disturbance in progress where they discovered Mark Silvia, 26, and a woman inside. Upon separating the pair, officers discovered that the woman, who has not been identified, had been assaulted and was injured.
She was transported to an area hospital for treatment.
Upon further investigation police learned that Silvia had allegedly held the victim against her will in the motel room for over two and a half hours. During that time, Silvia allegedly verbally and physically assaulted the victim, slapping her in the face.
Police said the victim attempted to use a cell phone to text a 911 message but was unsuccessful. When the victim tried to flee the room, authorities said Silvia grabbed her and threw her up against a wall where she struck her head on a table while falling.
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Delancey: Seattle's Great Pizza Hope
When it rains, it pours. Soon after getting a quick rundown on Seattle's new Delancey pizzeria, we received the following field report from Natalie Broulette (aka The Soho). Have at it! —The Mgmt.
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Words by Natalie Broulette | As an adopted New Yorker who moved to Seattle a little more than two years ago, I've learned that great pizza in Seattle is about as hard to come by as bad pizza in New York. I know Northwesterners are sick and tired of East Coasters coming in and knocking their cuisine, and I don't mean to say there isn't good pizza here. Tom Douglas's Serious Pie is a contender, Tutta Bella serves up noble Neapolitan, and even local chain Pagliacci has its charm. But for me, none possess the, let's call it "cravibility" of New York pizza.
Enter Delancey.
The much-buzzed-about restaurant became the Great Pizza Hope of Seattle long before its doors even opened. Why? Because the pair behind the operation is food-focused author and Orangette blogger Molly Wizenberg and her husband, Brandon Pettit, a composer turned chef, formerly of New York. Thanks to Wizenberg's blog entries tracking the restaurant's progress and Pettit's loyal Twitter following, Seattleites have long been rooting for this little venture/experiment to succeed. Fortunately, it does.
Named for Pettit's favorite subway stop in New York City, Delancey is tucked away in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood among residences, a bakery, and a yoga studio. The space manages to be both modern and homey in its minimalism. The light fixtures are refurbished and handmade, the chairs are mismatched, and the tables consist of concrete poured into metal frames. But the centerpiece of Delancey, or of any great pizza place for that matter, is the oven, which summons you in from the sidewalk.
After sampling the country's best pizza, including Di Fara in Brooklyn and Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix, Pettit went about formulating his own dough recipe and building the wood-fired oven. His research paid off. Delancey's crust is thin, chewy, and lumpy in all the right places with those telltale black bubbles around the edges.
I once shared a pizza with a Seattleite who refused to partake because the crust was "burnt." People like this probably won't care much for Delancey's Neapolitan-style pizza, and God help them. The rest of us can rejoice in the Napoli-meets–New York–meets-Northwest blend of influences and ingredients that really makes Delancey shine. Thankfully, this doesn't equate to salmon or geoduck pies on the menu, but rather locally grown, traditional ingredients—down to the Northwest-milled flour—prepared with old-school technique.
I sampled an extra-cheesy Margherita pizza called the Brooklyn that was a pleasing lesson in the basics. The tomato sauce possessed a certain sweetness, and the fresh herbs weren't tampered with. Each slice was rich and cheesy with its trifecta of grana padano and both fresh and aged mozzarella. I also tried the Padron, the same faultless building blocks topped with roasted padron chilies. Each pizza on the menu is intended to highlight a few key ingredients—thyme and crimini mushrooms in one case, zucchini and anchovies in another.
In similar fashion, the appetizers—cured meats and simple salads—are all about clean and basic flavors. One starter called Billy's tomatoes featured generous slices of the red pseudo-fruit piled with white corn and basil and perfectly dressed in a shallot vinaigrette. It was unfussy and delicious.
And dessert, typically a throwaway at a pizza joint, was an unexpected highlight. Unable to choose just one, I had a bittersweet chocolate chip cookie with gray salt and chilled peaches in wine. The cookie was crunchy on the outside and bursting with gooey chocolate on the inside. The white wine-soaked peaches were sophisticated and delicate, and the remnant alcohol was positively ambrosial. No chewy, toothache-inducing pizookies here.
There's not even a sign on the door yet, but Delancey has proven to be traditional yet inventive, modern yet unpretentious, and certainly worthy of the hype. It seems we've gotten the best of both coasts. I imagine the place will garner a loyal following, and two-hour weekend wait times will become the norm. I advise going early and often, or whenever the craving strikes.
1415 NW 70th Street, Seattle WA 98117 206-838-1960; delanceyseattle.com
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On a breezy, sunny day, the waters of the Chesapeake Bay are a beautiful, wild place. White-capped waves hide the teeming life below the surface as shifting winds keep boaters on their toes. Sailboats keel over with each gust of wind, and powerboats bounce through waves.
From the wheel of a world-class boat — like Bob and Phyllis Comeau's Sabre 456 — that view of the bay is even better.
Three years ago, when the Bethesda couple were ready to purchase a new boat, they teamed with Sabre Yachts, Annapolis Yacht Sales and the naval architect Jim Taylor to design a vessel that would sail beautifully, feel luxurious and be easy for just two people to operate.
The Comeaus' yacht, the Comocean, boasts electric winches for ease of operation and generously proportioned berths, to keep the couple comfortable. They spend their summers locally — this year they sailed to St. Mary's City and Smith Island — and will sail to Charleston, S.C., as the days grow chillier.
"Sailing is a release for us," says Bob Comeau. "When we designed the boat, we asked ourselves, 'How do you have a good life, entertain and enjoy your boat?' " The result was the Comocean.
Their enthusiasm is in keeping with a broader trend: an uptick in boat sales coupled with a continued interest in luxury fittings. In 2012, purchases of new sailboats increased by 29 percent and overall new boat sales rose 10 percent, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association, which values the economic impact of recreational boating at $121 billion annually.
In 2012, Maryland's 550 marinas boasted over 40,000 in-water slips.
"The market ebbs and flows," says Tim Wilbricht, president of Annapolis Yacht Sales. He says the market dipped in 2009, started to rebound in 2010 and saw a "strong uphill trend" starting in 2012. "2013 has been a very strong year," he says. "We sold as many new boats in the first half of 2013 as in all of 2012."
North Point Yachts broker David Malkin says that the higher end of the boating market is less susceptible to economic fluctuations. "Everyone had their incomes affected, but when you have a lot of income, it doesn't have the same impact. People were still buying at the high level."
Still, enthusiasts are quick to concede that boating is an expensive hobby. High-end boats range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars — and that doesn't include maintenance and fuel.
According to Joy McPeters, owner of Marinalife, a boater concierge service based in Federal Hill, some boat owners adapted to the economic downturn by limiting non-boat vacations or by cruising less but spending more time in port.
Though most people buy boats with grand aspirations, boat owners often don't use their vessels as frequently as they'd like. Doug MacMillan, who recently bought an MJM 40z from North Point, estimates that only about one-quarter of the boats at his marina are used once a week or more; he says another quarter "never seem to go anywhere."
Wilbricht notes that despite boat buyers' dreams of long cruises, they often stick close to home. "About 20 percent of buyers aspire to go cruising offshore," he says. "But only about 20 percent of those actually go off-cruising." Flohr confirms that at Harbor East, most boats coming into port are local to the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
Even if they never leave the dock, new boats provide moneyed owners with sweet surroundings.
Over the past several decades, comfortable cabin arrangements have become a priority. "Boaters are more about the interior space now," says William Flohr, the general manager at Harbor East Marina in Baltimore. "There's more bang for the buck. Sometimes there will be three heads [bathrooms] and staterooms on a 45-foot boat."
Paul Jacobs, general manager the annual Annapolis boat shows, agrees that en suite heads and fine finishes have become more popular in recent years. "People are looking for opulent finishes," he says. "They have to have all the amenities of home, including a refrigerator, air conditioning and ice ... makers."
Recent advances in boating technology — like Bob and Phyllis Comeau's electric winches — also amp up the luxury level on watercraft.
"Features like joystick controls for easier docking and gyro stabilizers for a smoother ride are becoming commonplace now on high-end boats," says Chuck Meyers of Bluewater Yacht Sales in Baltimore.
MacMillan's new MJM 40z is a powerboat built for speed and comfort. The joystick controls and Sky Hook system, which simplifies docking, helped persuade him to buy a new boat instead of one that was slightly used, he says.
The MJM is the eighth boat MacMillan has owned; prior boats include a large trawler and six sailboats. When he purchased the MJM, MacMillan was downsizing in scale — he wanted something easier to transport than the trawler and quicker to operate than a sailboat. The MJM, with its focus on high-end finishes and state-of-the-art technology, "fit the bill of everything I wanted."
But boating isn't all about high-tech gadgets and posh staterooms. It's often about satisfying emotional needs for community and, conversely, privacy, boaters say.
"The best part about boating is the relationships," says Betsy Schreitmueller, an avid sailboat racer who has developed a core group of female friends during her years racing on the bay. "Doing something competitive together in all kinds of weather conditions — there's a lot of bonding that goes on."
Bluewaters' Meyers sees the opposite appeal.
"When you untie the lines and start your cruise, you become your own island. There's a real sense of freedom, privacy and relaxation."
What's new in boating
Some of the latest trends captivating upscale seafarers' hearts — and wallets:
Going big: First-time boat buyers are opting for bigger boats these days, reports Annapolis Yacht Sales' Tim Wilbricht. "We used to sell a lot of smaller sailboats," he says. "But now people are jumping to larger boats for their first boating experience." He says the new "sweet spot" for sales is in the 37- to 41-foot range.
Get catty: In the sailing world, catamarans have grown in popularity, says Annapolis Boat Shows GM Paul Jacobs. "They are wide and long and very comfortable. They don't tip. You can sleep four couples easily, and they don't have a big draft [the depth of the bottom of the boat]. so you can go shallow places."
Five-star marinas: Joy McPeters of Marinalife says that as the boating industry has grown, marinas have stepped up their games in terms of services and amenities. "Marinas need to go to the next level to keep boaters coming back," she says. "It's just like a hotel."


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My First Cardigan is in the Works
May 14, 2011
I frogged Morgat for the yarn but I'm not too bummed about it. I know I'll get more use out of a cardigan.
It's working up rather quickly which is really exciting, I'm thinking it'll be the perfect thing to wear next week for the Strawberry Festival!
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TNT will air another season of "Southland," the Los Angeles-based police drama that the cable network picked up when it was dumped by NBC.
The network said Monday it has ordered 10 new episodes of the series, to air starting next January. It's produced by John Wells, who has "ER" and "The West Wing" on his resume.
NBC dropped the series just before it was to begin a second season in what appeared to be a cost-cutting move. But TNT resurrected it, making six new episodes that have aired this spring.
"Southland" is working on a model common to cable television, where a "season" of new episodes is shorter than that made by broadcast networks. It focuses on the life of police officers and gang members, often shot on location in Los Angeles.
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Apple's Remote app updated to 2.0
Apple has just updated their massively popular Remote app to version 2.0. Among the changes, the app now supports the Retina display of the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4, as well as the larger screen of the iPad. Shared libraries on iTunes and support for the new Apple TV is also part of the update. For those not familiar with Remote, the app basically allows you to control iTunes and Apple TV from anywhere in your home via Wifi. Here are some of its features:
- Pause, rewind, fast forward, shuffle, and adjust the volume from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad
- View album, movie, and TV show artwork
- Create and update Genius playlists
- Create and edit playlists in iTunes
- Search your entire iTunes library
- Control iTunes to send music to AirPlay speakers
- Control the volume on each speaker independently
- Control Apple TV with simple finger gestures
I've installed the update on my iPad and it looks fab; the interface has a very iTunes feel to it and all the essential controls are at your fingertips. Listening to music in my living room with the iPad in hand has just become that much more fun. If you rely on Remote for your music/videos, be sure to grab the update now.
Apple Inc., Remote, 14.8 MB – Free


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What do we represent?
Playfizz.com is a gaming website that can lead you to a world of more than 3000 flash games. These games are free and offer you a diversity of fields that might attract your attention. Do you find yourself interested in, for example, Puzzles, Sports, Action, Adventure, Shooting or something similar? Well, playfizz.com gives you the opportunity to enjoy playing these games.
In addition, we give you the chance to download games and play it for as much time as you like through our exclusive Platinum games. Do not hesitate to click that bookmark option. Do not miss the fun, and certainly, show it to others as well.
We also make it possible for you to send us your suggestions or ideas for creating games. If you decide to do so, go to the page under the mark "Contact". There could be a possibility that if your idea turns out to be interesting, we may contact you.


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I thought an Elven mistrel would make an excellent roleplay character, and after a bit of adventuring found they're pretty good for that, too. Below is an image of Curulinde ("Skilled singer").
When he's not poking annoying creatures or evil-doers with a pointy stick, singing and playing his harp (badly), or gazing at the stars (usually at night), Curulinde can be found gazing towards the West and wondering what the folks in Tol Eressëa are having for supper.
"I betcha it's bacon and mushrooms!"


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Here's a quick and easy cranberry sauce recipe to whip up for Thanksgiving!
You'll need:
- One package of cranberries
- 1 ½ cups of orange juice
- ¼ cup REAL maple syrup (Not the stuff in the plastic bottle made from corn syrup!)
- ½ cup of sugar
- Cinnamon
- Optional: orange zest!
Follow these steps:
- Put all ingredients in a pot
- Put the pot on the stove and turn it on medium high
- Bring ingredients to a boil
- Turn down to medium
- Stir constantly
- Use the back of a wooden spoon to smash the cranberries.
- Cook for 10-15 minutes until the mixture thickens.
- Refrigerate


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We are happy to visit homes and commercial properties within Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds.
Our customers come from all surrounding areas including Banbury, Bourton on the Water, Burford, Chipping Norton, Lechlade, Oxford, Stow, Witney and Woodstock.
If you are a landlord, hotel, pub, school, college or office we can supply all your contract needs for curtains, blinds and soft furnishings.
We have an extensive range of attractive fire retardant fabrics which comply with the regulations around commercial properties, and we would be happy to share our expertise in this area and advise you on the current requirements.
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Grades 3 – 5 Learning Standards
The Common Core College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies/, Science, and Technical Subjects for Grades K – 5 cover Speaking and Listening, Reading Literature and Informational Texts, Language, Writing, and Foundational Skills (Foundational Skills are for grades K – 2 only.) All of the standards within the ELA categories may be addressed using the content provided in Stories of the Sea: Women's Roles depending on the activities implemented by the teacher. Some suggested activities are provided online, but many more are possible, especially using the books listed in the Resource Section. Therefore, it is not possible to closely align CCSI ELA standards with the Web chapters, as any or all of the standards may well apply.
Where to Find More Detailed Maritime History/CCSI ELA Alignment
In contrast to Penobscot Bay History Online, Penobscot Marine Museum's Maritime History and Literacy Curriculum uses the online maritime history content as the jumping-off point for an actual curriculum. The Curriculum is available as museum-taught units or in the form of "History Kits" that may be rented by classrooms. Each Curriculum unit offers six weeks' worth of lesson plans including literacy activities, games, and projects designed to help students learn about a topic and practice literacy skills at the same time. In contrast to the chapters of Penobscot Bay History Online, which are intended to provide an overview of a topic, the Curriculum is sequential, detailed, and activity-based, and includes essential questions and suggested assessments. It is directed at elementary age students. Each unit of the Curriculum includes a listing of specific CCSI ELA and Math objectives that correspond with the activities within that unit. Each unit also includes the relevant Maine Learning Results for other content areas. The online chapters, on the other hand, constitute a resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in history.
The History Kit/Curriculum Unit that most closely aligns with Stories of the Sea: Women's Roles is called Life at Sea.Life at Sea is also another chapter on this educational website.
Common Core: MATH
Grade 3:
Number and Operations in Base Ten
· Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
Measurement and Data
· Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects
· Represent and interpret data
Grade 4:
Number and Operations in Base Ten
· Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers
· Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
Measurement and Data
· Represent and interpret data
Grade 5:
Measurement and Data
· Represent and interpret data
2007 Learning Results
Science and Technology
A1. Systems
A2. Models
C3. Science, Technology, and Society
D2. Earth
D4. Force and Motion
Social Studies
C1. Economic Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns
C2. Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in Economics
D1. Geographic Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns
D2. Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in Geography
E1. Historical Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns
E2. Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in History
Visual and Performing Arts
Visual Arts
B1. Media Skills
B2. Composition Skills
B3. Making Meaning
E1. The Arts and History and World Cultures
E2. The Arts and Other Disciplines


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Archive for the 'Politics' Category
Good Reads
Posted July 17, 2008on:
You all should be on goodreads ya know. I mean, if you read. And if you don't, why not? I always feel better about life when I'm reading more. When I was in grad school I read so freaking much it that, for the first time in my life, reading was not really something I did for fun. Don't get me wrong, I liked a great deal of my assigned readings. Freshman year I even tore through textbooks and devoured anything my Deviant Behavior professor could throw at me, and I was absorbed by Anne Moody's Coming of Age. But the fact that I was fenced in by someone else's "to-read" list and had no time for my own created a stifling feeling in me that kept me from fully enjoying anything.
I went through a bunch of school papers today. I found so many notes in margins, scrawled to friends beside me. Doodles upon doodles, some of the professor in front of me. A letter to Michael when we lived apart, that of course I never mailed. But I was actually very relieved to not be in school for a little while. I feel I'll go back, but not right now, that's for sure.
Right now I'm enjoying really delving into my own to-read list. Life has been hectic recently, but I've been squeezing in reading time here and there. Jeremy's been reading with me (Neil Gaiman's Coraline). I have a stack of books I have been picking at but I'm mostly reading Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father. Sometimes I have to just stop and reflect. I'm so moved by Senator Obama. I'm not taken with him because of the trendiness of it all, the Barackafied slang, and not even because I'm so fed the fuck up with this administration and its supporters.
I'm moved by him as a person. I'm inspired by him and I genuinely like the man and respect him. Reading Dreams has caused that inspiration to flourish into what I can only describe as complete awe. I'm not only fascinated by him, I'm captivated. I don't think McCain stands a dog's chance against him. I have moved from a cautious optimism to an all-out certainty. Call it overconfidence if you choose, but I just do not believe there are enough Americans that are dumb enough and inspired enough to put Granpappy McCain and his heiress mistress in the White House. Not when they have a choice.
I'm not the only person who feels this way. Poking around the net I found this blog:
He inspires me in a way I can't really truly explain in this short profile text… But, know this:
I'm not American, and he's made me literally ''loved'' this foreign country;
I'm not a news addict, and he, he alone, has made me addicted to the Situation Room on CNN, with this Blitzer guy (lol);
I'm not a U.S citizen, don't even live on the continent, just another black 22 y.o European guy, with his head as high in the sky as humanly possible, and yet, he's managed to bring me even higher ! – Stephen Kebess, Belgium
So anyway, enough gushing. I'm going to continue reading. I honestly only stopped to google pictures of him throughout his life, just to get a visual of some of the people and places I've been reading about. This is not the sort of book one rushes, ya know?
Get on goodreads and tell me what else I should be reading – here's my profile, and I'd welcome any friend requests!


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Astounding Possibilities
Scripture References: Matthew 5:3-12


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Scottish authorities say that five passengers from a New York-bound EgyptAir flight that was diverted to Britain over an apparent threat to destroy the aircraft are now seeking asylum in Britain.
Flight 985 was forced to make an emergency landing in Scotland on Saturday after a threatening note was found in the plane's lavatory.
The BBC said one of its producers, Nada Tawfik, had discovered the note, written in pencil on a napkin, with the words "I'll set this plane on fire." She said that after discovering the note by the bathroom sink, she alerted cabin crew, who then locked the toilet.
British Typhoon fighter jets escorted the plane to Glasgow's Prestwick Airport, where the flight was met by a heavy police presence, but no arrests were made and the flight was eventually cleared to carry on its journey to the U.S.
The plane landed at JFK airport in New York Sunday morning.
A spokeswoman for police in Scotland said that five people out of the flight's roughly 300 passengers were now claiming asylum.
Speaking from Cairo, EgyptAir CEO Tawfeek Asi identified the passengers as Syrians, although the Scottish police spokeswoman said she could not provide any information about their nationality.
Britain's Home Office, which is responsible for matters of immigration and asylum, declined to comment Sunday.
Passengers who had been on the flight said airplane crew told them they were making an emergency landing because of a technical problem and that the plane was surrounded by snipers in Scotland.
"We descended fairly quickly and made a smooth landing and then, as we got on the ground, we realized police were surrounding the airplane," said Carol Gable.
Police kept passengers in the Glasgow airport for about three hours, conducting interviews with all of them and taking DNA samples.