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|Meeting Title:
|Architecture Council meeting on Architectural Foundations for E4
|Date & Time:
| Thursday May 15, 2008 at 1500 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin
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- 1 Attendees
- 2 Agenda
- 2.1 Meeting Goals
- 2.2 Review and Sort Agenda Items
- 2.3 Architectural Foundations
- 2.3.1 Dependency Injection
- 2.3.2 Too Many Listeners
- 2.3.3 Becoming More Asynchronous
- 2.3.4 Jobs and Scheduling Rules
- 2.3.5 Verboten: Spinning the event loop
- 2.3.6 Getting rid of singletons
- 2.3.7 Role-based Access and Security
- 2.3.8 Macro Recording and Playback
- 2.3.9 Workspace, Resources, Content Types
- 2.3.10 Preference Leveling
- 2.3.11 Non-UI Scripting
- 2.3.12 Launch / Debug Enhancements
- 2.4 Eclipse Application Model
- 3 Next Meeting
- Invited attendees are all EAC members as well as interested architects who know Eclipse well and want to shape its future foundations
- Signed-up:
- Martin Oberhuber
- Boris Bokowski
- Kevin McGuire
- Dave Orme
- Attendees are welcome to edit the agenda on the Wiki. Place a +1 / -1 next to an item that you would like / would not like to discuss.
- While the meeting is ongoing and one hour after, the Wiki should not be edited except by a notes-taker to be designated during the meeting
- After initial notes have been posted, everybody is free to edit the Wiki for corrections
Meeting Goals
- The primary goal of this meeting is to collect topics for the upcoming E4/Summit, and gather initial opinions.
Review and Sort Agenda Items
Architectural Foundations
Dependency Injection
- +1: BorisB
Too Many Listeners
- +1: MartinO, BorisB, KevinM, DaveO
Becoming More Asynchronous
- +1: MartinO, BorisB
- What parts of Eclipse are Thread-safe? Is thread-safety documented everywhere?
- Related to Jobs and Scheduling Rules issues, see below
- Modal Context Dialog; SWT Dispatch Thread; WorkspaceRunnables; Executor pattern
- Should there be other patterns for Concurrency than we know now (Jobs, Runnables, ISchedulingRule) Have a look at data binding's Realm class - it's a generalization of the 'UI thread' pattern: to have access to a resource belonging to a realm, you have to call it from within the realm, and the only way to get into the realm is by posting a runnable using Realm.asyncExec. This makes access to resources safe while avoiding deadlocks altogether, at the cost of more complex code if your operation needs to access resources from more than one realm. --BorisB
Jobs and Scheduling Rules
- +1: MartinO
- Many calls into (workspace, or other contributed) API require downstream locks via ISchedulingRule
- It's often not documented what rules / locks a call requires
- If the "master Job" that's responsible for an operation requires an ISchedulingRule itself (e.g. for guaranteed sequential execution), it cannot call API functions that require other ISchedulingRule locks (because it cannot acquire them while it runs -- locks must be known before the Job runs, but it's often not known what locks will be required)
Verboten: Spinning the event loop
- +1: BorisB
- I regularly see hard-to reproduce bugs that are caused because client code spins the event loop (e.g. by opening a blocking dialog). It would be good to have a set of rules that govern when it is ok to spin the event loop.
Getting rid of singletons
- +1: BorisB, KevinM
- Title says it all. Singletons are bad.
Role-based Access and Security
- +1: MartinO, KevinM
- Role-based Access: Hide unavailable functionality for a user who has access to certain roles only, rather than just denying access
- Capabilities are a relatively coarse-granular means of access control, need something more fine granular
- Related to Preference Levelling, see below
Macro Recording and Playback
- +1: MartinO, BorisB, DaveO
- Pervasive macro recording, see bug 8519 vs. Editor macro recording vs. Debugger macro recording
- Should everything be a command / handler / workspace operation?
- Or do we need a different kind of coupling / bus?
- This problem is intimately related to several others: --DaveO
- Too many listeners. A richer command bus makes it possible to have everybody listen to the command bus rather than having a hodgepodge of listener types.
- Non-UI scripting: If everything is a Command, then the set of Commands that mutate state (or some subset of them that can be made API) can become the set of verbs available in the scripting API. This scripting API can be made available trivially in many scripting languages (ie: using methodNotFound in JRuby). What remains is exposing a DOM for the scripting language to manipulate.
Workspace, Resources, Content Types
- +1: MartinO, KevinM, DaveO
- Content Types:
- Pattern Matching for content types rather than just file extensions + stream evaluation
- Case sensitive patterns for content types
- Project-specific content types
- Eclipse Projects
- Plumbing or user artifact? For many RCP apps, the notion of the project at the user level is itself a problem. We need to separate our need for them as a mechanism for hanging off builders etc, vs. when to surface as a first class user notion. -- KevinM
- Project type/nature, adding/removing -- KevinM
- bug 35973 Physically nested projects
- Namespace Resolution for projects with same name in a single workspace
- Inclusion of files from anywhere (liked linked resource), plus exclusion of elements by pattern (exclude from resource tree rather than just hide) Maybe we should stop assuming that the files are in the same directory tree. Most people think of projects as "the set of things I am working on" not as a physical space on the drive. Linked resources should be the design norm. -- KevinM
- Full native support for symbolic links (better algorithms for detecting link cycles and avoiding OutOfMemoryError)
- Multiple projects in the same folder?
- Logical Project Hierarchy Preference Levelling (like Apache Maven) - inherit settings from parent project?
- Plug-in loading and listeners: how to participate dynamically without forcing plug-in loading --KevinM
Preference Leveling
- We currently have (installation, instance, project) levels, what about user level / role-level Preferences? What about multiple levels of nested projects (see below)?
I'd like to see this topic be the wider subject of preference management as they are already almost unmanageable for a user. For leveling we have user level ones stored outside the workspace, team based ones shared somehow, skinning level ones likely in a CSS style sheet. To reduce clutter we need a better policy on essential preferences v.s. "it's prudent that there is a key that can be set" level ones which perhaps should go elsewhere such as advanved name/value table. Finally if we're interested in role based then it needs to be a topic onto itself since it spans not just preferences but activities etc. -- KevinM.
Non-UI Scripting
- +1 DaveO (see keyboard macros above)
- Loading a file into an Editor from the Commandline; other macros executed from commandline
Launch / Debug Enhancements
- Need a Launch Stepper to execute fine-grained operations, rather than monolithic Launches
- Need extendable / modifiable Launches
- Multicore Debug Workflow (Pin&Clone, Colored Contexts)
Eclipse Application Model
- +1 MartinO, BorisB, KevinM
- See E4/Eclipse Application Model
- Why are Workbench / PlatformUI / Platform not part of the initial Application Model? Because they are not services in the sense that there could be alternative implementations --BorisB
- What about SWT, Views, Widgets, Trees, Labels, ... JFace Dialogs, Fonts, Text, Editors... Perspectives... Databinding SWT is a library, not a service that could have a different implementation. The same is true (mostly) for JFace and data binding. --BorisB
- Capabilities
- Content Types, Associations
- Markers
- Workspace, Resources (related to Team Support)
- Launching Framework
- Core Variables / Launch String Substitution
- What about EFS (core.filesystem)
- What about Extension Registry (IExtensionRegistry), IExtensionTracker is not everything?
- What about Secure Preferences
- What about the rest of OSGi (NLS, Services, Bundle States / Activator / Classloader; Log; State Location)
- What about standard bundle layout (related to Provisioning / Update / Plugins, Products, Features)
The other services listed above seem relevant, I will try to add them to E4/Eclipse Application Model before the call. --BorisB
Next Meeting
- E4/Summit in Ottawa May 22-23

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- Consider free designs.They're simpler to clear and preserve as well as make life easier for the elderly, expectant mothers as well as kids who might frequent your home.
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Midsize Kitchens - many houses possess the medium sized kitchen in 94521, Contra Costa County in California. These prepared and could be created to become just as practical and remarkable as large-sized kitchens and can cost not as too. Here's another time that starting up your kitchen to an adjacent room can provide the impact of the bigger space.
Additional design methods can increase this feeling of continuous space. Making an unbroken type of workspace is an example. For example, you are able to find the integral array atone end of the table rather than the center as it would be placed by conference.
By benefiting from every space-saving concept included in small kitchens you are able to boost one's mid sized kitchen's perceived size significantly. Don't your investment in/cabinet space-saving storage room that may certainly hold in the roof, high units and options. By making use of every one of these areas preserving options, you'll have the ability to contain many "big-kitchen" style choices including perhaps a second drain or a table space, if ideal -- the ideas are endless.
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All of the extra large kitchens we observe have been in new homes today. Older houses have experienced improvements created to home their home areas that were additional. All of this additional space implies that several larger kitchens are showcasing much more progressive arrangements for them and a quantity of table space. This could contain unique marble surfaces to make unique marble for looks, pastries as well as built-in for cutting butcher blocks.
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Estimated costs usually fall short of the final numbers when remodeling your kitchen in 94521, Contra Costa County in California which is particularly true. You'll wish to determine if big, moderate or little changes have been in your budget. The one thing worse than needing to move slow and consider the project one-step at the same time discovering that that you don't have the assets to accomplish a project and is rushing into one.
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Construction began on the California Academy of Sciences green building in Golden Gate State Park in San Francisco on September 12, 2005. The design architect for the museum replacement project was Renzo Piano. The green building includes a remarkable array of environmentally friendly features that include: Produces 50 percent less wastewater than previously; Recycles rainwater for irrigation; Uses 60,000 photovoltaic cells; Supports a green roof with an area of 2.5 acres (1.0 ha); Uses natural lighting in 90 percent of occupied spaces; Was constructed of more than 20,000 cubic yards (15,000 m3) of recycled concrete; Construction includes 11 million pounds (5,000 t) of recycled steel; Wall insulation is made from scraps of recycled denim. The design was given the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Award for Excellence:The Americas in 2008, considered the land use industry's most prestigious recognition program, and won the Holcim Award Silver for sustainable construction projects for region North America in 2005. One critic praised the building as a "blazingly uncynical embrace of the Enlightenment values of truth and reason" and a "comforting reminder of the civilizing function of great art in a barbaric age." The new green building is at the forefront of environmentally-friendly design, in keeping with the Academy's focus on ecological concerns and environmental sustainability. It received Platinum certification under the LEED program. As a result of its environmentally-friendly design and other unique features, this project was featured on the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering series in 2006 and on the National Geographic Channel's Man-Made series in July 2008.
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Architect Renzo Piano achieved innovative, imaginative energy savings in his design for the Living Roof. Not only does the green rooftop canopy visually connect the building to the park landscape, but it also provides significant gains in heating and cooling efficiency. The six inches of soil substrate on the roof act as natural insulation, and every year will keep approximately 3.6 million gallons of rainwater from becoming stormwater. The steep slopes of the roof also act as a natural ventilation system, funneling cool air into the open-air plaza on sunny days. The skylights perform as both ambient light sources and a cooling system, automatically opening on warm days to vent hot air from the building.
Assembling a 197,000-square-foot rooftop to accommodate a living tapestry of native plant species is challenging enough. Add to that the technical problems posed by the roof's extreme dips and slopes. How to keep the plants and soil from sliding off? Rana Creek, who worked with Piano to design the roof, developed and patented a solution called the BioTray®. They used 50,000 porous, biodegradable trays made from tree sap and coconut husks as containers for the vegetation. These trays line the rooftop like tile, yet enable the roots to grow and interlock, binding the trays together like patchwork.
An open-air observation terrace enables visitors to get a close-up look at the roof's lush canopy of plants. The view encompasses the densest concentration of native wildflowers in San Francisco. The expansive vista is also an ideal location for watching Northern California's birds, butterflies and insects. Skylights above the larger domes open and close throughout the day, enabling sunlight to reach the exhibits below. The steep slopes of the rooftop's hills draw cool air into the open piazza at the center of the building. Weather stations on the roof monitor wind, rain, and changes in temperature to help inform the automated passive ventilation systems.
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Surrounding the Living Roof is a large glass canopy with a decorative band of 60,000 photovoltaic cells. These solar panels will generate approximately 213,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year and provide up to 10% of the Academy's electricity need. The use of solar power will prevent the release of 405,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emission into the air.
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The expansive, floor-to-ceiling walls of glass will enable 90% of the building's interior offices to use lighting from natural sources.
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Triple amputee Ret. United State Marine Corps Cpl. Mark Litynski and his wife Heather, were given the keys to their new Smart Home on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Litinski, who lost both legs and his left arm in Afghanistan after he stepped on an improvised explosive devise, feels overwhelmed by the gift, saying "I don't know what somebody would have to do to deserve a gift like this, but I know I didn't do it."
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Gadsden County is again ranked near the bottom of the state regarding the health of its residents.
But the county's health rankings have improved over 2011.
A 2012 survey measuring the overall health of every county in the nation puts Gadsden County at 62nd place and 65th place out of all of Florida's 67 counties.
Still, for the second straight year Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $200,000 in funding for a mobile health unit that would have served the entire county.
Gadsden County came in at 62nd place for health outcomes and 65th place for health factors. The county's overall ranking is 62nd.
Health outcomes are based equally on long people live and how healthy people feel.
Researchers used five measures to assess the level of overall health or "health outcomes" by county: the rate of people dying before age 75; the percentage of people who reported being in fair or poor health; the number of days in poor mental health; and the rate of low birth weight infants.
Health factors' rankings are based on the weighted scores of four types of factors. The survey considered health behaviors (30 percent), clinical care (20 percent), social and economic factors (40 percent) and physical environment (10 percent).
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Gadsden County was in the top half of Florida counties – 31st – for access to clinical care, but ranked 67th regarding its physical environmental, which includes access to healthy foods.
But Gadsden County's 2012 scores were a slight improvement over 2011 when county was ranked 64th overall in the state, coming in at 65th place for health factors and 64th place for health outcomes.
This year's Rankings include several new measures, such as how many fast food restaurants are in a county and levels of physical inactivity among residents.
By comparison to Gadsden County for 2012, adjacent Leon County was ranked 7th in Florida's health outcomes and 9th in health factors. Jackson County was 36th in health factors and 45th in health outcomes.
Neighboring Decatur County, just across the Georgia state line, ranked 89th in health outcomes and 148th in health factors, out of 156 Georgia counties.
St. Johns County on Florida's northeast coast ranked number one in Florida's health outcomes and was number one in health factors.
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published the 2012 County Health Rankings, now in its third year.
"The County Health Rankings show us that much of what influences our health happens outside of the doctor's office," said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of RWJF. "In fact, where we live, learn, work and play has a big role in determining how healthy we are and how long we live."
"After three years, we've learned that people across the entire nation want to know how the health of their county compares to others in their state. This annual check-up helps bring county leaders together to see where they need to improve," said Patrick Remington, M.D., M.P.H., professor and associate dean at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
"It's really exciting to see that the Rankings continue to serve as a call to action to take steps to improve the health of communities."
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Chicken Tamale Bake
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." It turns out that not all my Facebook fans would agree with Juliet! I was hesitant as to whether to title this dish a "casserole" because I've heard a lot of people shun that entire category of recipes. This confused me, because to me a casserole is just any combination of ingredients layered or mixed together and baked in a 9×13 baking dish. I decided to pose the question to my core group of readers on Facebook and though the majority were casserole lovers, several people mentioned that the word has a negative connotation either to them or someone in their immediate family. Something to do with cream of (chicken/mushroom/etc) soups, it seems. Since you won't find any of those in this recipe, I decided to call it a bake so that all you casserole haters out there will try it! A special shout out goes out to all you Minnesota readers who suggested I call is a "hotdish" – I've never heard people call casseroles that before!
Let me get this out of the way by saying I've never had a traditional tamale, so I have no idea if this recipe mimics authentic Latin American tamale flavors. What I do know is that it's delicious, and that's all that really matters, right? I absolutely loved the combination of the slightly sweet corn cake and a little bit of heat from the chiles, cayenne pepper and enchilada sauce. I know a lot of you are Bubble Up Enchilada fans, but I personally liked this dish even better and it's just as easy to make. I think it had something to do with the corn cake smothered in enchilada sauce and covered with chicken and cheese. Yum.
Whether bake, casserole or hotdish, however you'd like to refer to this recipe, I know it will not disappoint. You may even want to call it a casserole. Try it. It may just change your mind about them!
Bake again and eat!
Chicken Tamale Bake
Yield: 8 servings
1 cup shredded reduced fat Mexican cheese blend, divided (I used Weight Watchers brand)
1/3 cup skim milk
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1 (14.75 oz) can of cream-style corn
1 (8.5 oz) box of corn muffin mix
1 (4 oz) can diced green chiles, drained
1 (10 oz) can enchilada sauce
2 cups cooked shredded chicken breast
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly mist a 9 x 13 baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together ¼ cup of the Mexican cheese, the milk, egg, cumin, pepper, corn, muffin mix and green chiles in a bowl until combined. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish and bake for 15-20 minutes until the layer is set (an inserted toothpick should come out clean).
- Using a fork, liberally poke holes all over the surface of the corn cake layer. Pour the enchilada sauce over the top and spread across the surface of the corn cake. Sprinkle the shredded chicken evenly across the top and follow with the remaining ¾ cup shredded cheese. Return the dish to the oven and bake for another 15 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes before cutting into servings.
Weight Watchers Freestyle SmartPoints:
8 per serving (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com), a serving was 9 SP on the previous program
Weight Watchers Points Plus:
7 per serving (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Nutrition Information:
254 calories, 29 g carbs, 8 g sugars, 8 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 17 g protein, 1 g fiber (from myfitnesspal.com)
very slightly adapted from Cooking Light


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Bouclair Home Wall Art
Bouclair Home Wall Art
Bouclair Home Wall Art – It needs efforts to bring your empty walls into to life. Here are home decor tricks to follow.
The first trick to Bouclair Home Wall Art your walls is applying large – scale art. A photograph or painting that comes with large size will make people's eyes to focus on it and make it the center of attention in your small home. It is also useful to create tone to the room. You can pick up a large photograph with black and white color to added to your tiny room. Another trick is placing a painting with vibrant abstract colors to be hang on the wall.
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Early in 1990, KPL received a grant from the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation to transform the Children's Room. With that gift, the library commissioned several artists to spark our imaginations with original artwork. Author/illustrator David Small painted a pillar with nursery rhyme characters. Artist Dee Durkee sculpted Jack and his beanstalk. Architect Michael Dunn designed the castle entrance to the Story Room. Jamie Rife created three vibrant stained glass windows. Storybook characters surround the pillar painted by Barbara Thiery Buysee. Framed artwork hangs throughout the room, from the newest paper painting by Denise Fleming in 2005 to the "picture-letter" created in 1881 by a young Lucy Fitch who later wrote and illustrated 24 very popular books about twins.
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Awesome take-aways to look at for your school library.
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Great to see actual examples from teachers doing great things in their classrooms.
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Teachers connect with students everyday. We can choose the quality of those connections and look for those incidental teaching " moments" to build positive relationships with students.
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10 regole per migliorare l'uso di Twitter in biblioteca
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after years of avoiding ebooks I am finally avoiding print books.
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Docs Teach sponsored by National Archives remains my favorite, but the LIFE photos are fantastic and searchable by decade. All provide valuable links to support Common Core standards.
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I think the way we physically 'do education' will shift once libraries like these catch on and in turn so wil lthe old pedagogical views that are being held on to (I hope)!
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Note the primary need for librarians as educators, educational leaders, developers of curriculum, and information managers continue.
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My favourite quote - it sums up 21st Century Learning - and what it should be all about.
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Discusses important considerations when designing the learning environment for modern, 21st Century school libraries.
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Many Libraries already have these things...which suggests we need to do a better marketing job.


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Introduction to Blue Harbor Blue Harbor as if a European air transport from the town, commercial civilization and the natural landscape of perfect fusion, is full of innovation and surprises. Beijing such a water shortage in the international metropolis of the the SOLANA blue harbor has three hydrophilic surface of the superior environment, its southern and eastern Chaoyang Park's vast lake, the north after the renovation of the Landmark. If not in person, hard to believe that such a beautiful environment in the city center. Even more rare, SOLANA Blue Harbour 130,000 precious land only luxury building of 150,000 square meters of building volume, by 19 2-3 layers, filled with rich European-style small building in such The landscape around the building. The gorgeous building of color as the jumping notes, various formats have been carefully assigned to each region. These different building with a colorful colors, as if by the Chaoyang Park's land-based natural born. Uncompromising attention to detail, transparent blocks of the dome, the roof garden of flowers ...... Compared to traditional shopping center, instead of the blue sky and white clouds in SOLANA SOLANA ceilings, natural breeze instead of a new wind of the air conditioning ducts, authentic European architecture, width, suitable for street, no forced sense of a crowded, for the consumer to create a comfortable, attractive, rich affinity open shopping environment, consumers as if in a few minutes from the crowded Beijing came to the romantic and elegant European. SOLANA SOLANA before the world's only Life the style Shopping Center. Life style Shopping Center originated in the United States, and to flourish in the eighties and nineties. It provides to consumers is not only innovative and diverse shopping and leisure experience of more traditional business can not match the beautiful landscape perspective and open environment for consumption. The definition of the International Council of Shopping Centers LifestyleShoppingCenter: "is located in higher density residential area, to meet the consumption in this district customer demand for retail and leisure pursuit, with the characteristics of the open-air open and a good environment, mainly high-end national sexual chain of stores, or fashion-oriented department store main shop, multi-format collection purposes, including catering, entertainment, bookstores, theaters and other facilities, leisure, environmental, architectural and decorative style to create a chic casual consumer sites . " SOLANA SOLANA developer Beijing Blue Harbor Limited to get the project land use rights, to fight this cause of Beijing's most distinctive commercial projects. SOLANA Blue Harbour developers footprints all over the world-renowned commercial projects, and explore the trends of today's generation commercial development. The LifestyleShoppingCenter wave sweeping the world all left a deep impression, Life style Shopping Center and the retail industry pay more attention to this trend is consistent consumer experience, to release consumers from the big box giant, in an open consumption environment. SOLANA SOLANA peripheral has developed restaurants, bars and entertainment features, it has become a label of the region, with the continuous development of the surrounding upscale communities of Chaoyang Park and the CBD, this trend will become more apparent. Therefore, SOLANA will certainly further increase its charm in the above areas. Located in Chaoyang Park, the same the SOLANA one of the unique advantages, has become the term of a people yearning for in the increasingly internationalized Beijing, Chaoyang Park, representing the city in harmony with nature. Do together in the business concept and geographic location a new LifestyleShoppingPark of already available SOLANA Shopping Park Life, the style not only retained only to retain the many advantages of Life, the style Shopping Center, but also on the basis of further The more fit the needs of the consumers in the level of material and spiritual, to provide consumers with a dream of consumer paradise.
Overview and HistoryIn the Stone Age, "Peking Man" lived near Beijing -- as many as 500,000 years ago. The earliest relics in China are stone tools dating to this time period. Between four and five thousand years ago there were agricultural settlements southwest of Beijing. They were the beginning of a city that would go through several name changes over the millenia.The legendary Yellow Emperor Huang Di battled Chiyou "in the wilderness of the Zhou prefecture." Zhoulu is a town to the west of modern Beijing. The Yellow Emperor's successor, Emperor Yao, established a capital city called Youdo. Youdo became a place called Ji, and Ji was taken over by the Marquis of Yan during the period of the Warring States (475 B.C.)Ji remained an important city for ten centuries. From China's first feudal empire through to the end of the Tang Dynasty, Ji was a strategic military center in the campaign to unite all of China.By the end of the Tang Dynasty in 907 A.D., the Qidan army came from the north and occupied Ji. They called it Nanjing, which meant "southern capital." During this time the Liao Dynasty ruled and carried out many reconstruction projects in the city, fortifying it for greater military use.The Nuzhen army conquered the Liao and established the Jin dynasty as of 1115 A.D., moving the city of Ji and renaming it "Zhongdu" which means "Central Capital." This meant more expansion and construction of palaces until the city spanned five kilometers across and contained an estimated one million people.Mongolian raiders invaded Zhongdu in 1215 A.D. and renamed it Dadu. Under Kublai Khan the Yuan Dynasty took Dadu as its capital and unified China!Since Zhongdu had been destroyed by fire in the change from Jin to Yuan dynasties, Kublai Khan took on a reconstruction project that was to expand the city into rectangular shape. It became the political center of the country with three main areas -- imperial palaces, the city walls, and the canal.By the coming of the thirteenth century, Dadu was a world famous city which astounded Marco Polo when he arrived. In his record he writes, "You must know that it is the greatest palace that ever was..."In 1368 Ming soldiers captured Dadu and renamed it Beiping or "Northern Peace." It went through another period of reconstruction which saw walls twelve meters high built around its perimeter, walls ten meters thick which took fifteen years to build. When they were done, Beiping became the official capital of the Ming Dynasty. With the completion of the palaces and gardens in 1420, Emperor Yongle renamed the city Beijing, "Northern Capital."Beijing grew once more and took on a rectangular shape with two distinct sections, the Inner City (Tartar) and the Outer City (Chinese). Its city planners gave it an organized arrangement that still felt relaxed.The Qing Dynasty came along circa 1644 A.D. and the Manchus built extended suburban gardens. These took more than a whole century to make, but when they were finished the open-air pavilions and palaces stood as a masterpiece of Chinese architecture. This was proper to show the power and refinement of traditional China, a fitting design for the capital of the empire.The Qing Dynasty lasted until 1911 but collapsed into chaos at the hands of the Northern Warlords. Beijing suffered a lack of leadership until 1949, when the People's Liberation Army entered the city. From Tian'anmen Square in the center of the city, Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China, with Beijing as its capital.Since then it has continued to expand, surpassing the nine gates of the inner city wall, beyond the seven outer gates, and into the suburbs. Beijing now takes up 750 square kilometers! The city retains its old symmetry with a central axis that runs north-south, and the Imperial Palace Museum at the center. This palace was once called the "Forbidden City" but it is now a museum open to the public.Getting ThereThe Beijing Capital International Airport is located 25km northeast of the city. It is the center of China's civil aviation network and it connects to 69 cities worldwide. The airport is linked to the city by bus, taxi and Beijing Subway Airport Line.The city government operates one bus line and private buses go and come from several hotels. The taxi stand is outside the terminal, as always, so don't ride with the drivers who harass you inside the terminal. A ride to the city center should cost about 70 RMB plus 15 RMB highway toll. You should also know that there's an airport tax of 90 RMB for international travelers. Keep your receipt!TransportationWithin the city you can choose from 67,000 GPS-equipped taxis, the bus or the metro. Half of their buses are running on natural gas now, which is a good move considering the city is adding fifty new bus routes per year. Whoa!The metro has two routes, the Loop Line and Line One. The Loop has sixteen stations and it runs parallel to where the city wall stood in the Ming era. Line One has twenty-one stops going from the suburbs on one side all the way across to the other side. It is safe to assume that there will be more metro lines to follow as Beijing grows.People and CultureOne of the unique sights in Beijing is a park filled with retired people doing their exercises early in the morning. Tai ch'i, QiGong, sword dancing and shadow boxing are forms of exercise and relaxation which have existed for more than two thousand years and are still popular today.Drinking tea in a teahouse and enjoying a folk opera in an old-style theater are both popular activities in Beijing culture. Beijing has more bars and pubs than any other Chinese city (more than 400), and it's also full of antique shops, silk markets and museums.Things to do, RecommendationsBeijing is massive and filled with interesting things to explore. For just a few examples, take a look at these:The National Stadium (bird's nest), the Water Cube, and ruins of the Yuan Dynasty city wall.If you like art, you have to check out the 798 Art District. It's named for Factory #798 and the district contains hundreds of galleries, bookstores and restaurants. Have fun!Text by Steve Smith.


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Between Fishers Island's mansions, beauty lies
Fishers Island, N.Y. - On a raw, damp day last week, Justine Kibbe made her way across the lawn of former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean's summer house, through a gated path to a deserted beach called Hungry Point.
"Last week, I counted 13 seals here, but I've counted over 100 at this point," Kibbe said, binoculars up to scan the choppy waters and a cluster of rocks where harbor seals often in comical poses resembling oversized bananas. "This is the most diverse area for wildlife on the island."
On this quiet, overcast October morning, she spots just one seal pop its head out of the water, five eider ducks, two great black-backed gulls and a herring gull, then walks the beach, noting coyote tracks in the sand. On a tally sheet attached to a small clipboard, she records each wildlife sighting, along with signs of the human element. Today it's a tug towing a barge, but other days there would be lobster boats, ferries and sailboats, as well as trash, dog walkers or fishermen.
With its location in the populous Northeast, Fishers Island for much of the year possesses a paradoxical flavor of both remoteness and nearness to the wider world, with the developed shores of southeastern Connecticut clearly visible from streets and beaches where private access gates and security signs seem to outnumber people, and the marine, forest and field landscapes between the handsome summer homes invite appreciation of solitude and natural beauty.
Kibbe, who is 52, a year ago became the naturalist-in-residence for this small, exclusive summer resort just a 45-minute ferry ride from New London. The island is home to a population of about 260 year-round residents that multiplies manyfold between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Employed through a Fishers Island Conservancy grant, Kibbe is spending her days circumnavigating the island, often by bicycle, to monitor 12 shoreline and interior sites.
"I'm learning the rhythms of the wildlife, the rhythms of the island," said Kibbe, who lives in a small cottage on Darby's Cove. "It's exciting. I feel like this is kind of like a neighborhood wildlife watch."
She is a regular visitor of the kingfisher that hangs out at the oyster farm, the oystercatcher pairs that nested at South Beach, the dolphin pod that interruped the ferry's departure last winter, and the buffleheads and surf scoters at Isabella Beach, and the red, green and white seaweeds that collect on the sandy shores.
She observes how storms are reshaping the coast - a reality made immediately poignant when Superstorm Sandy struck just one week after she began her work -and ponders a project to restore a brackish pond, once a haven for shorebirds but now polluted with mats of brown muck blown in by Sandy.
"We wanted to understand what we have out there, and to use that to be able to educate our population about this special and delicate environment," said Tom Sargent, part-time island resident and president of the conservancy, a nonprofit group with several hundred members.
Through Kibbe, the first naturalist employed by his group, islanders can learn about the impacts of climate change, the warblers and raptors that migrate through, the river otters that live around Middle Farms Pond, and the birds returning to a recently restored 50-acre grassland, he said. Despite the island's reputation for loving privacy above all else - one Sargent says is exaggerated - the conservancy is eager to connect through Kibbe with other conservation groups in the region, he said, and island property owners have been cooperative in giving her regular access.
"We certainly want to be tied to everyone from an environmental point of view," Sargent said.
After moving to Fishers Island two years ago, Kibbe started volunteering her time as a wildlife monitor, employing skills she learned over six years tracking fur seal populations on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea, 750 miles from the Alaskan mainland. She then proposed working for the conservancy, collecting data, sharing her observations in a blog on the group's website and working with students at the island school.
"We've always tried to have a link with the conservancy, to give the students authentic learning experiences that are so important," Karen Loiselle Goodwin, principal of the Fishers Island School, said. "Justine has helped bring that to the next level."
Among projects with the K-12 school, which educates tuition-paying Connecticut students alongside island children, Kibbe has organized beach cleanups, started the Island Sentinels program that puts students to work doing field monitoring, and shared her experiences doing seal research in Alaska. Her work thus far with island youth - whether through the school or at the beach, tennis and golf clubs where their families gather in the summer - is just beginning, Kibbe said.
"Why not the country clubs?" Kibbe asked, as she walked past the now-covered swimming pool at the Hay Harbor Club to its waterfront, another of her monitoring spots. "It's all about bridging."
"Bridging" is a word Kibbe often uses to describe her outlook on her work and her life. Another is "chapters," used to describe the unique places and endeavors that fill her resume, from Head Start teacher's aide to radio station news director and fur seal research assistant among the Aleut community in Alaska, to Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan.
The current chapter, she said, brings her story full circle. Growing up, she spent summers on Fishers Island at a once run-down home her parents bought and restored. It was here that her love of island life and being outdoors took root. And while she loves the island for the unique beauty she is eager to help preserve, she also hopes her work will enable the island to reach out to other communities, contributing knowledge and appreciation for the natural world and the human impact on it. Lessons she learned on St. Paul Island, home to just 420 native people, serve as her guide.
There, she said, "you bridged out of necessity, because the environment and the culture are endangered." The fur seal population that first brought settlers to the island is declining, and rising sea levels from climate change are threatening human life on the island in profound ways. When she decided to end her time there and start her "East Coast chapter," Kibbe said, she at first thought her experiences in Alaska would make for a more seamless transition.
"The biggest culture shock for me coming back to Fishers Island was its tradition of exclusivity and privacy. That was a whole new facet of culture I had to learn to navigate," she said. "I want to break the tradition of Fishers Island always looking inward, and start looking outward, or it will implode."
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To learn more about the conservancy and to read Kibbe's blog, "Field Notes," visit www.fishersislandconservancy.org.
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