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Posted: 05/14/2010 - Hamid Karzai's visit comes before the soldiers deploy to Afghanistan for an upcoming offensive.
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Joe Root, a debutant, believed his team was in a "good" position. Piyush Chawla, meanwhile, backed his team to come back strongly on the third day of the final Test between India and England here.
Root, who compiled a disciplined 73 in his first Test, said, "I am delighted to get the opportunity and score a few runs. We are in a very good position, so hopefully we can return tomorrow and do more damage in the morning."
On his experience in the middle, Root said, "I was very relaxed when I went in to bat. I got myself into a good frame of mind and tried to get myself ready. I concentrated on keeping my footwork precise, work very hard. It was a very defensive field and I just tried to keep things simple, adapting, evaluating conditions."
Root lavished praise on James Anderson. "Jimmy bowled fantastically great stuff. It will be a big day tomorrow morning and hopefully we can keep bowling. He has bowled fantastically well throughout the series." He refused to pick any particular Indian bowler as being the most difficult. "That's a bit unfair. All bowled very well. It would be unfair to pick any one out."
For Chawla, it was a welcome change from the domestic circuit. "If you consider the type of wickets on which we played the Ranji Trophy matches this season I would say I did well. We were playing mostly on seaming tracks so I would say my performance was good in that sense."
The pitch, contended Chawla, "played a little better today, it was coming on to the bat when we were bowling in the morning. Let's see how it plays on the next three days, maybe tomorrow onwards it (the ball) will start turning a bit more."
The leg-spinner was optimistic.
"We still have two quality batsmen at the crease and they are having a good partnership and seeing the ball really well. Let's hope for the best because the way they are middling the ball we can have a good session tomorrow. If we manage to play around 30-45 minutes without losing a wicket then we will be in a good position."
Chawla called the batting failures a passing phase. "It is not that our batting has flopped big time as we have managed to get around 300-350 in every match. It has not affected the bowlers because as a bowling unit we have done well."
Chawla gave credit to the English batting too.
"In the morning we aimed to get them under the 300-run mark, but Root and (Matt) Prior batted really well. When we broke that partnership we recovered really well. Root looked mature and the way he batted and the amount of time he spent at the crease he never looked uncomfortable there."
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Global consulting firm Accenture PLC has ended its relationship with Tiger Woods, marking the first major sponsor to cut ties altogether with the golfer since his alleged infidelities surfaced and he announced an indefinite leave from the sport to work on his marriage.
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Last Wednesday, Director Kerlikowske visited Phoenix Multisport, a nonprofit "sober active community" for individuals in recovery from substance abuse who are seeking to make a transformation and choose a healthy, active lifestyle. Scott Strode is the Founder and Executive Director of Phoenix who, as an avid athlete, outdoorsman, and recovering alcoholic, understands firsthand the impact and the benefit Phoenix can have for individuals in recovery.
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Noodle TrailPosted: January 14, 2014 in Allahabad, Canada, China, Food Trail, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Oman, Travel
Tags: Allahabad, Canada, China, food, Hiroshima, HongKong, Hung Hom, Lebanese Shawarma, Mughlai, Okonomiyaki, Poutine, Tai Po, wet markets
The surprising part is that I am not a food person but gastronomic interjections have always been lurking in the background. In the 1970s while in the midst of understanding the nuances of the Romantic poets P B Shelly, Keats and William Wordsworth ( for Bachelors at Allahabad University) I would willingly miss lectures to gormandize on Sweet & Sour soup followed by Chicken noodles twirled in Chicken sweet 'n' sour.
Indian-Chinese food, especially the three mentioned dishes, was the ultimate in food luxury, McDonald's and Pizza Hut were nowhere near Allahabad's ambit, with restaurants and roadside food stalls were in business, forget the authenticity. Even our helper dreamt of returning to his native village in Bihar to open a noodle shop,even Maggie noodles would do and worked hard to invest in woks, ladles and packets of Maggi noodles. The 'Genuine Fake', as a salesperson on Nathan Road (Kowloon) would say, was gaining popularity.
Marriage and travels did not lessen the craving for Chinese food, in all its avatars, and my first choice in whichever part of India or world I would be in, would be noodles and Chilli Chicken or Sweet & Sour and second choice Indian Mughlai preparations. Our five-year stay (1995-2000) in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman was a diversion with Middle Eastern cuisine, especially Lebanese shawarma*, taking precedence.
In July 2008 I found my self winding down from Hong Kong International Airport to Kowloon. The lights and traffic could not wrap away the distinct aroma that trailed us on our walks in the malls, lanes and markets of the Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. My initiation into the wet markets, discovered by chance, was lamentable and urbane in turns. Initially, the raw meat smell forced me to walk away from the forked hanging pigs, the bloated ducks, the flowing tanks of unknown fish, prawns, scallops, colored crabs, clams, oysters and carts of dried sea food and chicken claws. My curiosity over rode my olfactory senses, guiding me to the markets and lanes of Sai Kung, North Point ferry station, Peng Chau and Cheng Chau islands, Tai Po, to Hung Hom lanes and Yau Ma Tai food streets and food vendors.
On occasions food masqueraded as outings on the stony trails of Ng Tung Chai waterfalls scrunched between bare rocks and tropical vegetation on the northern slopes of the cone-shaped Tai Mo Shan in Kowloon; on tram rides to the Peak and its surrounding attractions; ferried us to Discovery Bay, Lamma, Lantau, Peng Chau and Cheng Chau, Tung Lung Chau (off Clearwater Bay) and Tap Mun the Grass Island on the northern part of Sai Kung ( would be asked whether I had tried "iceless" cold milk tea, sun-dried fish and boiled squid and shrimp); on the Buddhist path to Diamond Hill and the Nunnery, the Monastery of Ten Thousand Buddhas (Man Fat Sze); the Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant in Aberdeen; Tai Ho, where I had gone to watch the Dragon Boat Race, famous for its gourmet delicacies the Loh Mai chee glutinous handmade rice balls stuffed with sesame and peanut paste or Cha Gwoh rice dumplings stuffed with mixture of Chinese herbs; Po Lin Monastery for its popular vegetarian fare and the concrete jungles of Central, Causeway Bay, Shueng Wan, Kowloon, Wan Chai for their pubs, cafeterias, fast evolving eateries and Michelin starred restaurants.
The Chin-India cuisine was replaced by Cantonese, Anhui, Fujian, Hunan, Szechuan, Jiangsu, Shandong and Zhejiang cuisine originating from different regions of China. The closest to Indian-Chinese is Szechuan, spicy and oily, though by now I was developing a taste for soup noodles and dim sums. In Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shanghai I stuck to McDonald's and KFC. The one time I tried traditional Chinese cuisine was a post wedding lunch at a village near Taizho situated south of Ningbo on the eastern coast of Zhejiang province, Mainland China. We had accompanied the groom's friends and family to bring his wife from her parental home and were treated to a lavish wedding feast prepared by village cooks in the backyard. I had never tasted or seen so much exotic fish and would ask my friend the names every time a new dish was served.
My one grouse is that I can never walk into a Chinese food place on my own as the menu is mostly in Cantonese. Somehow learning languages has never been my forte and in six-years stay could manage 'wai' or Hello and that too because it is the most frequently used word. The goof up happened in Shanghai where I tried all possible actions, flapping wings, quacking, doodling to get across the 'chicken' word to the waitress. The girl, probably in a rush, as it was nearing closing time, came with our order that looked and smelled beefy. Our doubts confirmed by a young man had to be content with side veggies. Another impossible venture is using chopsticks as my fingers seem stuck in the 'two left feet' syndrome no matter what the encouragement or admonishment, 'See…it is so simple..place it between thumb and fingers and voila the grain is in your mouth'. I wish it was so easy.
In between there were trips to USA, Canada, Japan and I preferred to try local temptations than the five-star presentations. In Hiroshima it was the 'Japanese Pizza' the 'Okonomiyaki' a thin layer of batter and a generous amount of cabbage on top of yakisoba noodles. One can opt for toppings of oysters, squid and cheese with bonito flakes, green laver and okonomiyaki sauce and optional extras, mayonnaise, pickled ginger, and seaweed. We were seated at a counter facing the chef preparing the okonomiyaki on a large griddle and could see other eaters drooling as he speed-chopped, layered, topped and presented the precursor of a snack called 'issen yōshoku' or "one-cent Western meal".
'Poutine' was another luck-in was in Calgary, Canada, on a cold, snowy day. 'Poutine' or simply piping hot crispy fries and cheese curd cut into pieces dunked in gravy of choice, to meld in a unique flavor. Initially, I was hesitant in trying it out but then the first few bites had me scrapping till last bite.
Every city has its own aroma, sometimes familiar, and six years down the line the 'Chinese Takeaway', in words of Betty Mullard* has become more than a city to explore, it has become a way of life via the gourmet trail.
* Kowloon Tong. A novel of Hong Kong by Paul Theroux
Beginning. Weekly Photo ChallengePosted: January 5, 2014 in China, Hong Kong, Travel, Weekly photo challege
Tags: Badaling, challenges, China, Dictionary.com, Great Wall of China
Beginning or Incunabula* (in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh) meaning "the earliest stages or first traces of anything." To me Beginning is the first ray of hope, of understanding, and this is what I experienced on a slope of the Great Wall of China somewhere on the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China, about 70 kilometres north of Beijing.
Whichever way you look at it…climbing up or going down, it is a step towards a new beginning to understand yourself in context of the universe in all its phenomena.
Captivating –ImagesPosted: March 4, 2013 in Travel
Tags: Asia, Banff, Canada, capitavating, China, Guangdong, Guangzhou, Jake, Jakesprinters Sunday Post, Mannequin, Sanya, Sunday Post
Jake's Sprinters Sunday Post – Captivating. http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/
Sanya—China live mannequins outside a bridal store.
Guangzhou – Shoe selling
Statue of Liberty? Guangzhou ( Guangzhou Martyrs' Memorial Garden)
Guangzhou – Bags all shapes, sizes and color in the wholesale market
Train Journeys- Past and PresentPosted: January 14, 2013 in Allahabad, China, Hong Kong, India, New Delhi, Train Journies, Train travels, Travel
Tags: Allahabad, Beijing, China, Hard Sleeper, Hong Kong, Indian Railways, New Delhi, Pearl River Delta, Prayagraj, Simla, Soft sleeper, the 1847 Indian Mutiny
The familiar bleak friable landscape interspersed with algae ponds, cattle and livestock in different stages of thinness grazing on non-existent grass, the sparsely cultivated fields, thatched hutments, semi naked children chasing mangy dogs, men huddled on charpoys or walking listlessly with the familiar 'lota' (metal mug) for their morning ablutions, women head covered engrossed in washing, cleaning. I was aboard the Prayagraj train, named after my home town Prayag and present Allahabad, after a gap of nearly 20 years and sat glued to the window not wanting to miss out the familiar sights.
The excitement was visible as on night of travel I arrived at New Delhi station two hours before departure time to a deserted platform and wondering if had got the day wrong. Maybe I had the Freudian fear of missing a train and arriving at railway stations two hours ahead of time though unlike Freud I did not associate train travel with death. For Freud 'Dying is replaced in dreams by departure, by a train journey'. (Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis').
My misgivings proved wrong and within minutes the rush started and deposited on my berth, second ac sleeper top berth near the entrance and the toilet. I was looking to swap my berth for a lower one, Second AC has two berths instead of three of Third AC sleeper, but my appearance, frail, nor my age softened male hearts. As one person I requested put it 'I have approached railway officialdom for lower berth of my choice months in advance'. The ticket collector too was elusive and for a moment was tempted to pass on some bucks but an unbeliever in bribery resigned myself to the continuous footsteps and the all-pervasive urine odor from the rusty, rickety toilets (one is western and other squat).
An overnighter, the Prayagraj, is ideal for business or work commute but not for viewing the dusty plains of North India. I was awake early morning, 4 a.m. to preempt toilet use and for the first glimpse of the Gangetic plain awakening to dawn. I had done this journey umpteen times but the gap of 21 years made me curious about the changes as we crossed obscure hamlets familiar not for their names but appearance, decrepit stations with platforms stacked with parcels and human bodies asleep or the in between naps, oblivious to the rattle of speeding trains. The familiar food carts, the tea stalls displaying the mud cups or kullars and their owners parroting 'chai chai' ( tea-tea). Station tea tastes best in earthen cups with aroma of leaves mingling with the mud smell. Fathepur beyond Kanpur had been my favored station to drink the special brew as the train arrived here early morning.
Around 5 a.m., the filtering sun exposed derrières along the tracks and at one place a group of boys ( four- six years) appeared to be playing a game sitting in a circle. Not a pleasant early morning expose. There are no major cities on this route, till we touch Kanpur or Cawnpore of British India history. The motley procession of spreading dry fields interspersed with green patches shaded by mango and neem trees and being a history buff visualized marauding mutineers and British soldiers galloping across the grayish brown terrain. The Mutiny of 1847* .
There was still an hour to reach Allahabad and as I gazed into the horizon I compared the passing scenery with another train journey in 2009 from Hong Kong to Beijing – Shanghai and back to Hong Kong. Then it was T 98 a superfast luxury train and the Soft Sleeper (four berths)compared with present situation had felt a luxury on wheels with clean crisp sheets, comforters, pillows, hangers, luggage compartment (at the top), hot water flask, step-on garbage-bin, mirrors, reading lights, air cons and new colored slippers for each occupant. The toilets were clean but towards end of journey, toilet hopping, it is a through train, appeared a better option.
The train had swaggered past the scenic Pearl River delta, a continuous drizzle and a disappearing sun cast a chimerical effect to the picturesque antiquated 'shark's teeth' mountains, leaving behind the pastoral countryside metamorphosing into a clinical landscape of barracks and factories, the occasional residential complexes with children frolicking in puddles and the elderly smoking, squatting or working in fields.
Next morning we got a glimpse of the grey skies, a continuous phenomenon of our 10 day journey, as we approached the enormousness of Beijing station mid afternoon. Few days in Beijing and another train ride to Shanghai and this time in the swanky D 301 Beijing/Shanghai express train, an immaculate all white, brand-new 200km/h sleeper train with staff in spiffy red uniforms and caps. Slightly intimidating and we slid in quietly so as not to disturb the other passengers in the upper bunks of the 4 bunk Soft sleeper. It was a twelve hour nigh journey and we missed out the country sights.
Shanghai station is a throwback of stations back home, except for its voluminous interiors, with escalators not working and no one to tell you where to go. The return journey to Hong Kong via T 99 in Hard Sleeper with 6 bunks was a journey closer to real China train experience. The upper, middle and lower bunks cushioned bunk stacks and I had spent my waking hours in the corridor, folding table and chairs placed in the corridor, observing passengers trussed amongst bales, packets and luggage, playing Mahjong. We had planned the train journeys for a view of the countryside and to interact with the locals but it was nowhere near the 'family' atmosphere of Prayagraj, of camaraderie with friends, foes, acquaintances and strangers.
My bonding with trains is probably a residual baggage of my mother's accounts of journeys aboard the British India Railways, the compulsory every six months winding up the hills to Simla and return to Delhi. Her stories were peppered with grandmother's verbal tags on the helpers and coolies, her vigil of the steel trunks carrying the family 'silver' …clothes, ration, and household stuff.
The steam engines wove their magic in my psyche and as a six-year-old I would dream of traveling the Indian countryside in the chuk-chuk trains. My elder brother, probably in line with family tradition, joined the Railways via Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE) Jamalpur, an institute started by the British to rope in the best brains to manage the railways. His first posting was in Bhusawal, Maharashtra and my mother, me and younger brother spent a summer in his cottage in the railway colony. At night we would be woken up by frantic calls from the linesmen about some derailment or another and often my brother had to rush to the scene. He had been assigned a carriage, with bunks, washroom and kitchenette, which was attached to a goods or passenger train, depending where he was traveling. We joined him once for a regal ride from Bhusawal to Mumbai and Pune. The carriage was coupled at the end of a goods train for most part of the journey and our mother spent the entire night worrying about being looted by robbers or being stranded in some vague station. It was an experience having the humongous railways at our service, the linesmen, station attendants waiting to welcome the Sahib and train travel took on another meaning.
New modes of transport did not lessen fascination of trains and they continued to be a metaphor connecting lives across the dusty plains whether in air-conditioned comfort or sweaty general compartments.
Here, I was two decades later re-living the romance of the philistine wheels not on an unknown journey but a journey to my past.
Photo taken from moving train with my iPhone on way to Allahabad.
THE SECRET GARDEN OF EMPEROR QIANLONGPosted: August 8, 2012 in China, Frizztext...Letter Challenge, Hong Kong
Tags: Beijing, China, Forbidden City, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Qianlong Emperor, Qing Dynasty, Tsim Sha Tsui
Story Challenge: Letter "E" Frizztext http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/
E is for Emperor Qianlong*, the Qing dynasty emperor who commissioned a secret garden, the Qianlong Garden, to immerse himself in art pursuits post his 60 years of rule. Emperor Qianlong was the sixth emperor (1711 – 1799) of the Manchu led Qing Dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China.
I joined the queue of tourists, art lovers, the curious and school trips for the interactive exhibition "A Lofty Retreat from the Red Dust: The Secret Garden of Emperor Qianlong" at The Hong Kong Museum of Art. The exhibition showcases Emperor Qianlong's love of scholarship and the arts by featuring 93 relics from Beijing's Palace Museum and 43 artifacts connected with the Garden that survived the intermediary years till the last emperor fled Beijing. Emperor Qianlong had issued an imperial edict reserving the garden on the western section of Ningshougong Palace (Tranquility and Longevity Palace) for use by 'super sovereigns' and the doors remained closed to outsiders. The Garden is now under renovation and will open for public viewing in a couple of years and till then the exhibition is our window to the enchanted Garden.
The Qianlong Garden, designed in the architectural style of Qing era had taken nearly ten years to be completed and looking at the murals one can understand why. The four sections of the Garden, the Leisurely Pursuits, Blessed Longevity, Enhancing Life for All and A Life of Art and Artistry showcase pavilions of Ancient Flower (Guhuaxuan), of Expecting Good Omen (Fuwangge), the Pavilion of Viewing Beautiful Scenery (Cuishanglou), the Hall of Wish Fulfillment (Suichutang), the Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service (Juanqinzhai), and the Well of Concubine Zhen along with a labyrinth of corridors connecting the courtyards and other structures. The Garden had housed some of the most extravagant interiors found in the imperial palace complex and some of the calligraphy, murals, furniture and paintings are on display illustrating the cultural significance of traditional Chinese royal gardens.
The multimedia presentations, the animation and computer programming offer an opportunity to understand and take part in the philosophical and religious beliefs of longevity and eternal bliss reflected in the design and artifacts of the Garden. Particularly fascinating are the Portraits of the Emperor while hunting deer, (the Emperor and the deer seem to be posing for the painter); the panel portraying the Emperor who 'wants to be immortal' by taking the place of the Buddha and the '18th century version of 3D-VR portrait of a royal family.
Few hours admiring the display and I agreed with the advice in Do's and Don'ts for the 'Garden' Tour….'Bring eye drops in case the animation is so exciting that you forget to blink'. The real Qianlong Garden in Beijing, once it opens to the public, will be a place to curl in your nook.
*The Hong Kong Museum of Art: 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong July 1st Celebrations. Travel theme-NightPosted: July 7, 2012 in China, Hong Kong, Travel
Tags: China, Hong Konger, HongKong, Victoria Harbor, Victoria Harbour
Hong Kong – July 1, 2012 Fireworks
I joined the crowds on Tsim Sha Shui promenade for the fireworks display from Victoria Harbor, capturing a few shots for my photo album.
July 1st is the hand over day when Hong Kong celebrates the transfer of power from Britain to China on July 1st. 1997.
2012 is extra special being the 15th year and what appears to be a dream run as a restless, vibrant and fabulous place to live, work and visit. Fears of communist rule, of tanks rolling down Queen's Road proved wrong and the people who had migrated to western countries, Australia and New Zealand have since returned to the 'Fragrant harbor' to participate in its future plans.


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The Semantic Web Foothill College Robert D. Cormia Preso Roadmap • We need a bigger brain • Knowing what we know • Semantic Web technologies • Developing machine intelligence • Building the "second generation Web" – Indexing the "pool of human knowledge" Three Eras of the Web • Content Web (1995 to 2005) – Designed for humans – HTML ruled the day • Process Web (2000 to 2010) – Designed for machines – XML ruled the day • Semantic Web (2005 to 2015) – Designed for networks – RDF and ontologies Semantic Web Activities • Index Web pages (or Web data objects) by the three descriptive dimensions – What it is – What it does – How it"s used • Follow the "user space" as information is searched and combined, how problems are solved, how information space is navigated • Map out the logical paths in "synaptic space" • These relationships form a "schema" called RDF Three Dimensions of Indexing What it is Web page Chart or graph Multimedia file How it"s used What it does Who uses this information? What specific information is conveyed? To answer what kinds of questions? Semantic Web Applied to Knots • What is a knot? – declarative description • How do you tie a knot? – procedural diagram of tying a knot • How is a particular knot used? – Who uses square knots (user space) – Applications of square knots (process space) Picture of a Square Knot square knot Definition - A common double knot in which the loose ends are parallel to the standing parts, most often used to join the ends of two cords or lines. How to Tie a Square Knot Procedure: Start by (insert steps to tie a square knot here) 1. Step one 2. Step 2 3. Step 3 Semantic View of a Square Knot Declarative Procedural Square Knot. Used for joining ropes of equal thickness. It is also the knot used for tying bandages, as it lies flat. This knot is also known as a "Reef Knot". The working end is tied over the standing end, "right over left, left over right." Cognitive The Four Building Blocks 1. XML 2. RDF 3. Ontologies 4. Agents XML "XML allows users to add arbitrary structure to their documents but says nothing about what the structures mean" RDF • Meaning encoded in sets of "triples" – Entities have Properties which have Values • Entities, properties and values all have distinct URIs (long-lived URL / namespace) • RDF schemas encode the concept of "edges" that connect related entities – Edges are the lattice of a 3 dimensional graph Ontologies • Database A and Database B may use different fields to contain "zipcode" • Ontologies (and schemas) sort this out • Ontology = "a document or file that formally defines the relations among terms" • Ontologies for the Web normally have – A taxonomy (words) – A set of inference rules Agents • Modern day "crawlers" – WebCrawler® – Spiders / robots – Rogue harvesters • Future Web agents – Determine relationships (context) – Harvest content / discern semantics – Create schema that "scaffold" the Web Semantic Web The Web was built for human consumption Although everything on it is machine-readable, this data is not machine-understandable Semantic Web -- a Web of data that can be processed directly or indirectly by machines. The solution proposed is to use metadata to describe the data contained on the Web. Meta Data • Information about information • In HTML, we used XML "meta tags" • <meta name="description" value="a description of the document in natural language that search engines display"/> • <meta name="keywords" value="a list of keywords that search engines digest"/> • In XML, we use RDF to create Meta data Resource Description Framework (RDF) • Part of the W3C XML activities • Creates a formal indexing markup • Most tags defined by two working groups – Dublin Core Meta Data Initiative – W3C Semantic Web activities • Think of it as "meta tags on steroids" – Author may define their own indexing schema RDF – Purpose and Scope • RDF infrastructure for – Encoding – Exchange – Reuse Of metadata (Meta data) • Human readable and machine processable vocabularies – "interchangeable semantics" • Reuse and extension of metadata semantics Why RDF (i.e., Why Logic)? • Separates simple statements of the facts conveyed by a resource from the representation structure • With extensions, provides formal foundations for reasoning, inference mechanisms, and high-level query and other languages (as in relational database model) • Allows reuse of years of work on knowledge representation, AI, techniques for object mapping • Proven an effective tool in dealing with heterogeneous database systems, create RDF for schema namespace • General confusion: "RDF is about metadata"; but it"s still data, and no reason to restrict to data (i.e. Web objects) • Instance level RDF can be generated automatically from RDF schema and XML schema or DTD (Perl scripting) RDF (Schema) Data Model • RDF provides a model for describing (Web) resources – or any resource • Formal RDF schema comprises "triples" – Resource – Property – Value • Resources have a "URI" (long-lived URL) • Property-types connect resources / values • Values can be text strings – or resources RDF Basics • Resources • Properties that have values • Statement: Resource A has property B with Value C B A C http://www.rdcormia.com/presentations/RDF Author Name Mail address Robert firstname.lastname@example.com Cormia RDF Schema • Not just an XML schema – an RDF schema! • rdf:RDF – rdf namespace • xmlns:rdf – namespace for rdf • xmlns:rdfs – namespace for rdfs • xmlns:dc namespace for dc (Dublin Core) • rdf:Description – description of (RDF) resource • rdf:about – about (RDF) resource • dc:creator – who created the (RDF) resource • dc:title – title of the (RDF) resource • dc:description – description of the (RDF) resource • dc:date date of the (RDF) resource Basic RDF Document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf- syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf- schema#"> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://doc" dc:creator="Joe Smith" dc:title="My document" dc:description="Joe's ramblings about his summer vacation." dc:date="1999-09- 10"/> </rdf:RDF> RDF Schematic Description Relatedness - Inheritance The application and use of the RDF data model can be illustrated by concrete examples. Consider the following statements: 1. "The author of Document 1 is John Smith" 2. "John Smith is the author of Document 1" RFC 2396: RDF Resource • A resource can be anything that has identity. Familiar examples include an electronic document, an image, a service (e.g., "today's weather report for Los Angeles"), and a collection of other resources. Not all resources are network "retrievable"; e.g., human beings, corporations, and bound books in a library can also be considered resources. The resource is the conceptual mapping to an entity or set of entities, not necessarily the entity which corresponds to that mapping at any particular instance in time. Thus, a resource can remain constant even when its content --- the entities to which it currently corresponds --- changes over time, provided that the conceptual mapping is not changed in the process. Machine Readable Code • To humans, these statements convey the same meaning (that is, John Smith is the author of a particular document). To a machine, however, these are completely different strings. Whereas humans are extremely adept at extracting meaning from differing syntactic constructs, machines remain grossly inept. Using a triadic model of resources, property-types and corresponding values, RDF attempts to provide an unambiguous method of expressing semantics in a machine-readable encoding. Relatedness - Inheritance Paths and "Edges" Resource Description Framework (RDF) • W3C"s model for representing resource metadata, "semantic assertions" • provides: – formal data model – syntax (XML) for (meta)data interchange – schema type system – syntax (XML) for machine understandable schemas • RDFS (Schema) allows definition of vocabulary and types for a particular RDF model RDF Model and Syntax English: Ora Lassila is the creator of the resource http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila Creator RDF model: http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila Ora Lassila logic: Creator ( http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila , Ora Lassila ) RDF syntax (XML encoding): <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:="http://description.org/schema/"> <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila"> <rdf:Creator>Ora Lassila</rdf:Creator> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> A Simple RDF Schema <rdf:RDF xml:lang="en" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Person"> <rdfs:comment>The class of people.</rdfs:comment> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/03/example/classes#Animal"/> </rdfs:Class> <rdf:Property ID="maritalStatus"> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#MaritalStatus"/> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Person"/> </rdf:Property> <rdf:Property ID="age"> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/03/example/classes#Integer"/> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Person"/> </rdf:Property> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="MaritalStatus"/> <MaritalStatus rdf:ID="Married"/> <MaritalStatus rdf:ID="Single"/> </rdf:RDF> Dublin Core Meta Data Model • Defined as Open Metadata • Usual "Library Catalog" Elements, like Creator, Title, Publisher, Date, Language • Extended by: Source, Relations,Type (what is it – text, image, software), Format • URI (Identifier) • Used for cataloging "Global Web Library" • Others: RSS (RDF Site Summary) – Netscape, • PRISM – publishing – Adobe, Quark, .. • <indecs> - e-business – EU companies • RDF mappings for P3P, PICS,… Dublin Core Schema <?xml:namespace ns = "http://www.w3.org/RDF/RDF/" prefix ="RDF" ?> <?xml:namespace ns = "http://purl.oclc.org/DC/" prefix = "DC" ?> <RDF:RDF> <RDF:Description RDF:HREF="http://uri-of-Document-1"> <DC:Creator>John Smith</DC:Creator> </RDF:Description> </RDF:RDF> Dublin Core Model Creating RDF Documents • Manually from HTML or "user domain XML" • With special assisting tools – like Protégé, Reggie, DC-dot, RDF for XML • Ideally – with some automated procedure from HTML/XML documents • Can we use XSLT there? • Web based tools: – http://swordfish.rdfweb.org:8085/rdfquery/genrss.html – http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ DC Version of RDF vCard <?xml:namespace ns = "http://www.w3.org/RDF/RDF/" prefix = "RDF" ?> <?xml:namespace ns = "http://purl.oclc.org/DC/" prefix = "DC" ?> <?xml:namespace ns = "http://mycampus.us/BusinessCard/" prefix = "CARD" ?> <RDF:RDF> <RDF:Description RDF:HREF="http://www.rdcormia.com/"> <DC:Creator RDF:HREF="#Creator_001"/> </RDF:Description> <RDF:Description ID="Creator_001"> <CARD:Name>Robert D. Cormia</CARD:Name> <CARD:Email>email@example.com</CARD:Email> <CARD:Affiliation>Foothill College</CARD:Affiliation> </RDF:Description> </RDF:RDF> rdcormia.rdf (RDF for website) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax- ns#"> <channel rdf:about="http://www.rdcormia.com/"> <title>RD Cormia website</title> <link>http://www.rdcormia.com/</link> <description>RD Cormia website for Foothill College courses</description> <items> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li resource="http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN78/"/> <rdf:li resource="http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN79/"/> <rdf:li resource="http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN81/"/> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> <item rdf:about="http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN78/"> <title>COIN78 Introduction to XML</title> <link>http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN78/</link> <description>Website for COIN78 Introduction to XML</description> </item> <item rdf:about="http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN79/"> <title>COIN79 Introduction to XML for Biologists for Biologists</title> <link>http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN79/</link> <description>Website for COIN79 Introduction to XML</description> </item> <item rdf:about="http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN81/"> <title>COIN81 Bioinformatics, Tools, Databases, and Methods</title> <link>http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN81/</link> <description>Website for COIN81 Intro to Bioinformatics</description> </item> </rdf:RDF> RDF Extensions • W3C expects RDF add-ons in several areas – More complete logic capabilities (negation, inferencing) – Conversion rules – Functions (computation) • Basis of "Semantic Web" ideas – Tim Berners-Lee – DARPA Agent Markup Language program • Other potential specifications of semantics exist – c.f. paper "Using UML to Define XML Document Types" at Extreme Markup Languages 2000 conference Advanced RDF • Using objects and edges • Containers: bags, sequences, alternatives • aboutEach, aboutEachPrefix • Reification (higher order statements) • Namespaces and Vocabularies • Maximizing ontologies WWW circa. 1989 RDF - Schema Captured Relationships • Create a tree map of relationships • Create "edges" for each relationship • Code those edges into RDF schema – Determine the "resource => property-value" path – This is how "non-Web" resources can be coded in RDF schema (reify a subject and describe as a URI) – http://www.rdcormia.com/ (website) – Robert D. Cormia (website owner) – email@example.com (website owner email) – 800.555.1212 (website owner contact information) Edge Space in RDF • Resources attach to other resources • Inheritance is one direction of a path • Associations are the other direction – Foothill College – CTIS Division – Robert D. Cormia – COIN78 XML – http://www.rdcormia.com/COIN78/ – firstname.lastname@example.com – 650.949.7456 Edge Space – Complex Resources California State CC System FHDA CC District De Anza College Foothill College CIS61 Informatics Classes COIN78 XML CTIS Division Faculty firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.rdcormia.com/ 650.949.7456 Robert D. Cormia Exploring an Information Space • Information space - information cubes • Lattices and edges - navigating a graph • Representing graphs as RDF schemas • Example systems – Finding (finished) scientific data on the Web – Representing a "student – class – outcome" • Information space in a Semantic web The Power of Ontologies Robert Cormia"s website, having been found by the Google search agent, links to an ontology which defines information about computer science, bioinformatics, and informatics departments. Areas of research are also described in the documents. The system can therefore locate information relating to current research projects. (Current method is for a human to sift through the content of pages turned up by a search engine.) This is how searches discover people, email addresses, and contact information to connect "non-web" resources with Web content. Agents "Agent based computing appears to be the appropriate paradigm to work in a complex world with multiple ontologies, fragments and multiple inferencing engines." Stork, Hans-Georg and Mastroddi, Franco, Semantic Web Technologies - a New Action Line in the European Commission's IST Programme, 2001 The Power of Agents "The real power of the Semantic Web will be realized when people create many programs that collect Web content from diverse sources, process the information and exchange the results with other programs. The effectiveness of such software agents will increase exponentially as more machine-readable Web content and automated services (including other agents) become available." Berners-Lee, T, Hendler, J & Lassila, O "The semantic web", Scientific American, May 2001 "Ambient Intelligence" "In the next step, the Semantic Web will break out of the virtual realm and extend into our physical world. URIs can point to anything, including physical entities, which means we can use the RDF language to describe devices such as cell phones and TVs." Berners-Lee, T, Hendler, J & Lassila, O "The semantic web", Scientific American, May 2001 Key Problems • Ontology learning • Ontology-based annotation of legacy content • Management of ontology repositories – Managing Meta-data and complex pointer space • Creating and testing algorithms – Until the network can learn by itself • Not least – getting publisher buy-in – XML and RDF add a great deal of overhead Agents and Metadata "given the sheer size and dynamics of the contents involved, it is a case in point for automating to the largest extent possible the production of metadata through algorithmic content analysis." Stork, Hans-Georg and Mastroddi, Franco, Semantic Web Technologies - a New Action Line in the European Commission's IST Programme, 2001 Need for Increased Semantic Content • General eBusiness operations on the Web require semantic interoperability • Web resources have no explicit, machine- interpretable semantics – Semantics typically implicit in minds of users or developers (e.g., meaning of displayed HTML) • Implicit semantics works where predefined shared semantic agreements exist, e.g. – Within a single system or data collection – Among a group of people (or an eBusiness domain) • Breaks when multiple systems must interoperate, different data sets must be merged, or programs not sharing those semantics must access the data Why doesn"t XML handle this? <PERSON> XML <NAME>John Doe</NAME> namespace <EXPERTISE>XML</EXPERTISE> ... </PERSON> • Multiple XML vocabularies may exist (for sources or consumer profiles): EXPERTISE vs. SUBJECT – attempts to address by tag standards / namespaces • Multiple XML structures can represent same "fact" even with same vocabulary) • Ontologies (W3C RDF) can provide more semantics – XML tags point to terms defined in ontologies – Allow, e.g., deduction that EMPLOYEE is a PERSON • Multiple ontologies may exist Multiple XML Structures for same "fact" RDF Purchase from Company Assertion: Order Encoding DTD Example XML instance data <PurchaseOrder id="X"> <!ELEMENT PurchaseOrder (from)> <from> <!ATTLIST PurchaseOrder id ID #REQUIRED> <Company id="Y"/> <!ELEMENT from (Company)> </from> <!ATTLIST Company id ID #IMPLIED> </PurchaseOrder> <!ELEMENT from (PurchaseOrder, Company)> <from> <!ELEMENT PurchaseOrder (#CDATA)> <PurchaseOrder>X</PurchaseOrder> <!ELEMENT Company (#CDATA)> <Company>Y</Company> </from> <!ELEMENT PurchaseOrderInfo (Company)> <PurchaseOrderInfo orderID="X"> <!ATTLIST PurchaseOrderInfo <Company>Y</Company> orderID ID #REQUIRED> </PurchaseOrderInfo> <!ELEMENT Company (#CDATA)> Solution: "The Semantic Web" • Approach: make semantics explicit – As additional machine-readable data • Vision by Tim Berners-Lee of Web future – white papers at http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/ • Web contains resources + machine-processable descriptions of their meanings or capabilities – additional semantics derived from Web of related things Semantic Web "Architecture" services, agents, etc. (e.g., Turing-complete logical language processing with inference and functions) Schemas describing data and metadata (e.g, XML Schema, RDF Schema) metadata Logical assertions about base data (e.g., RDF) data Structured data Structured data that Other data in XML languages can be interpreted as XML (e.g., images) Semantic Web - Metadata • Web has unprecedented access to globally distributed information • Finding and navigating that information is a tedious and labor intensive task • Metadata – structured "data about data" improves discovery and access (RDF) • Metadata needs conventions regarding semantics, syntax, and structure (RDF) Semantic Web Section Observations on the Semantic Web • Lots of agreement on general idea; lots of disagreements on details, e.g.: – levels in the "architecture" where various capabilities go – is RDF the right formalism? • The Semantic Web rests on logical foundations – shouldn"t be a put-off: so do relational database systems – provides formal foundations for more user-friendly languages and advanced reasoning capabilities required – users and developers will not necessarily deal directly with all the logical infrastructure Semantic Web Observations • Web technology is evolving to support more object-like ideas • Script components show how to build "real objects" in "real object models" using Web technology • Lots of development is under way; needs further integration, and "shake out" • So does CORBA / Web integration • Web emphasis on "loose binding" and ease of content creation an important consideration in merging Web and object concepts Searching in the Semantic Web • User tells search agent to find an XML expert ("where expertise = "xml") – Agent consults ontology, enhances query with synonyms for "expertise" ("subject", "topic") – Agent consults user context for rules (e.g. anyone teaching a course on XML has "expertise") to further enhance query • University course catalog page contains metadata ("subject = XML") describing course "Web202" • University Web page profiling Prof. Lila Smith has metadata listing "Web202" in courses she teaches • Agent returns Prof. Smith as potential XML expert OMG Activities • XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) – Interchange format for exchanging UML metadata • Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI) – Defines common metamodel for data warehousing using UML (based on OMG MOF specification) – Defines syntax and semantics for import, export, and other data warehousing operations using XML documents • XML "wiring" language for CORBA components • CORBA/SOAP Interworking RFP • Shows increasing integration of object and Web technologies based on industry requirements How will Object / Web Merger Go? • "Why do we need more than XML and HTTP?" • How this will work out is not totally clear, but: – You need much more than the current "Web duct tape" to build really complex systems • Still need architecture concepts like services • Still need worked-out domain models – You still need to define an object model • It"s just going to be more flexible – You need a unified object space that allows flexible tradeoff between Web flexibility and service efficiencies – More work on improved object concepts for composability The Ultimate Neural Network Machine Learning Networks "Front-endedness" "Most of the Web's content today is designed for humans to read, not for computer programs to manipulate meaningfully." Berners-Lee, T, Hendler, J & Lassila, O "The Semantic web", Scientific American, May 2001 Semantic Processing We want to be able to say to our search agent, for example: "What aspects of digital libraries has Bill Arms most recently been funded to research?" How Can the System "Know"? Massive artificial intelligence not required. Web pages will be endowed with semantic awareness using off-the- shelf software. How Can Machines Understand? Content is machine-understandable if it is bound to some formal description of itself (i.e. metadata). Can Machines Learn? Can Machines Remember? Can Networks Become Intelligent? Ontologies & Inference Engines "For the semantic web to function, computers must have access to structured collections of information and sets of inference rules that they can use to conduct automated reasoning." Berners-Lee, T, Hendler, J & Lassila, O "The Semantic web", Scientific American, May 2001 How it May Work query Knowledge web rules representation agent page scheme User Index data- browser base Knowledge rules representation scheme Unstructured Text • There is a wealth of information in "unstructured text", including: – Email (archive and index) – Voice (capture and meta tag) – Radio (capture, meta tag, and publish as XML) • From speech to text and then to indexed Web documents, searchable through RDF space. • Navigate a larger pool of human knowledge Some References • F. Manola, "Towards a Web Object Model" – http://www.objs.com/OSA/wom.htm • F. Manola, "Some Web Object Model Construction Technologies", http://www.objs.com/OSA/wom-II.htm • OMG-DARPA Workshop on Compositional Architectures, Monterey, January 6-8, 1998, http://www.objs.com/workshops/ws9801/ • World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org/ • Microsoft Developer Network site: http://msdn.microsoft.com • Biztalk: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/ • UDDI: http://www.uddi.org • SemanticWeb.org: http://www.SemanticWeb.org/ • The XML Cover Pages: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ • XML.COM: http://www.xml.com/xml/pub • OMG XML activities: http://www.omg.org/technology/xml/index.htm • DARPA Agent Markup Language: http://www.daml.org/
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The Pettis County Historical Society will host �The Titanic Remembered� at 3 p.m. Oct. 28 at Nostalgia Vintage Apparel, 219 S. Ohio Ave.
The event will include an exhibit of Titanic memorabilia, period clothing, a program by Byron Matson, music by Darrin Hartman, a Titanic souvenir and a selection of sweets that were served on the Titanic.
The cost is $10 and a limited number of tickets are available.
For reservations, call Rhonda Chalfant at 826-5592 or purchase tickets at Chelsea�s Antiques, the Fig Leaf or Furnell Insurance.


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Located on a ridge 300 ft. above town, the newly built Outrigger House affords views of the mesmerizing Charlotte Amalie harbor with cruise ships, yachts, marine ports, downtown and the neighboring Water & Hassel islands' vistas.
Construction of Outrigger House began in 2012. A lot of thought and planning took place in the building process. Renowned Caribbean Architect, Michael Helm, & Interior Design Specialist, Twila Wilson, teamed up in this project to ensure that your stay is a pleasant & memorable one. Caribbean breezes will flow through the many open spaces throughout the property keeping the house at a comfortable cool temperature.
This property is replacing the former St. Thomas Archbishop's home which had a frail wood structure unable to withstand the passing of Hurricane Marilyn in 1995. Most of the stone walls located in the landscape remain untouched. The 1.05 acre property was bought by the current owners in 2008 & almost immediately native trees & flowers were planted in the perimeter where the main house used to be. Today, you will be able to enjoy some of the fruits from the old & new trees: seasonal mangoes (May through Sept), & all year round papayas, bananas & passion fruit among others.
The 4 post king size beds, night stands, kitchen cabinetry, tables, shelves, handrails, stairs, windows & door frames are made and crafted using local mahogany wood. Outdoor furniture is mostly teak, including a nicely cushioned Bali Bed with lots of pillows located in the Veranda.
There are 4 equal sized Master Bedrooms--1 of the Master Bedrooms is located on the ground floor with easy access (no steps) and the remaining 3 Master Bedrooms are located in the upper level. Everyone will have the best bedroom. There is also a studio apartment below with a queen size bed, mini kitchen and AC. There is also a powder room (toilet & wash bowl) conveniently located on the ground floor.
All 4 Master Bedrooms have wall mounted air conditioning units, have a King Size Bed, Wi-Fi, Wall mounted HDTV, In-suite bathroom (toilet & easy step in shower) with his & hers washbowls, spacious walk-in closets, private balcony with Harbor & Town vistas & i-Phone docking station with Digital Radio Alarm Clock.
The kitchen is fully equipped with a 6 burner Viking gas stove / oven, a French style refrigerator / freezer, dishwasher, espresso & regular coffee maker, microwave, toaster, blender & much more. It also has a breakfast nook with pool & harbor views as well as a wet bar (ice maker, wine cooler, wine rack & sink) which is also accessible from the outdoor Terrace & Pool areas.
Yes! There is an infinity edge solar heated pool from where you will enjoy Harbor and Town vistas as well as cruise ships' sunrise arrivals & sundown departures mimicking beautiful giant sized floating lit up birthday cakes. Wi-Fi is also available in the pool area.
The Family Room area is located in the upper level and equipped with a big screen HDTV with Satellite & Blu-Ray / DVD player.
The living room is a comfortable seating area with 25 ft. high ceilings good for lounging or leisure reading while listening to your favorite music playing on the Bose sound system with an i-Phone docking station to play your favorites and a CD player with a 50 page album stocked with a wide variety of music choices.
The dining room table accommodates 8 adults and there is also plenty of outside seating in the 75 ft. long veranda, including a picnic table. A list of private chefs and catering services are available from owners.
A big Terrace / Picnic area is perfect for weddings, birthdays & other celebrations & will lure those guests who enjoy Barbecuing. There is a Weber grill, a Picnic Table & several enchanting seating pockets......all nestled among the lush bamboo as well as the hibiscus and orchids' landscape. Wi-Fi is also available in the Terrace / Picnic area.
A 'M'Ocean' Studio is also available below the pool deck with its private bathroom (powder room) equipped with dumbbells, yoga mats & Pilates exercise balls, and, of course, with a large window facing the harbor.
And to ensure that you have uninterrupted electrical power, Outrigger House has its own Generator with an automatic transfer switch.
Outrigger House is located in an exclusive residential area and has its own private electronic gated entrance with a spacious parking area which can accommodate up to 6 cars.
Outrigger House's location provides easy & close access to historic downtown, waterfront, French Town, duty free shopping, beaches, golf course, sea aquarium, butterfly garden, water sports, Sky Ride, fine dining, ferry & seaplane docks & airport.
Come visit and be among the first guests to experience the comfortable, relaxing & luxurious ambiance at the Outrigger House!
Steve and Maria Lammens live in St. Thomas where Maria is a Dance & Fitness Instructor and Steve is President of a Construction Company. They have spent the last 1 1/2 years building the dream home in Paradise for the enjoyment of their guests.
Steve Lammens purchased this house in 2008
This property is special--the location has breathtaking vistas and it has a little history. Before the hurricanes of 1989 (Hugo) and 1995 (Marilyn), it was the Catholic Bishop's home. In 2008 Steve and Maria bought the property and it still has some of the old walkways through the lush trees on the 1+ acre property that were used for quiet moments.
You will enjoy the harbor, neighboring islands & town views from the seat in the corner of the pool and just about anywhere you are in the house. Also, watch for the parrots that fly around the property or walk through the fruit trees planted on the property to pick your limes, mangoes and 'carambolas' (star fruit). Or simply relax on one of several decks with terrific views and gentle breezes.
Outrigger House's proximity to all attractions (beaches, water sports, historic downtown, duty free shopping, fine dining, golf course, tree top canopy tours, sight seeing, ferry dock, airport & more) make it easy for guests to get around.
We have visited St Thomas almost every year for the last 15 years and often rent homes. Outrigger house is by far the best home we have rented. Quality of workmanship is apparent in every room. The owners supply every convenience from an expresso machine, flat screen TVS, ample/excellent cookware , games, tour advice,ice maker, gas grill, and even supply paper goods which make it so much easier . The linens are high quality and THE VIEW IS UNMATCHED. There is even an antique cannon on site! Our youngest son(age 17) has some physician disabilities and he was able to navigate the home with ease. Everyday we marveled at the view from the home and usually cooked dinner at the home to take advantage of this luxury. I just cannot say enough about this home and also, the owner was very easy to work with and very accommodating. The Outrigger house is PERFECT!
Just got back from the most amazing vacation in Saint Thomas. Words do not describe what a wonderful vacation destination this is. Our group was comprised of three couples, a baby and a nanny. This house was perfect on every front for our group. The views are to die for from every vantage point in the house. Every bedroom suite in the house is so comfortable, clean and spacious. With bathrooms, balconies and walk in closets in each. I cannot begin to explain how perfect this vacation was and how much the house attributed to our week long stay. We cooked/grilled out for almost every meal which helped keep relaxation up and cost down. The pool area is so comfortable - no reason to leave if you do not want to! Close driving distance away from everything on the island, nothing was more than 20 minute drive away. If you are looking for a perfect location in island paradise - Outrigger House is the place for you. Cannot wait for our trip back next year!
We thought it was a dream but it was reality! My husband and I had the most amazing wedding reception! The Outrigger house is more than just a house; it is a home, a living postcard, a beautiful piece of art, a land in paradise. It is specially for us a place that holds significance and that will forever live in our hearts. I remember telling my husband during dinner, "this is the best wedding I've been to...and it just happens to be ours". I don't mean this in a boastful way. We feel extremely blessed! We were surprised, in a good way, because our wedding experience was far beyond our expectations. We felt like royalty, like a Prince and Princess. The view is majestic, the wind blows perfectly up there and the space is just perfect! We had enough space to fit 10 tables, facing the beautiful harbor view while listening to classical guitar and had a dance floor by the pool,also with a view,with a steel pan player.The bar is perfectly placed by the dance floor which makes it flow great. Another plus is the magical entrance! Especially awesome for a Bride and Groom's entrance to be received by the guests.It is actually built like a path with beautiful flowers around it and it goes all the way to the main area, where we had the dance floor.The place itself is already decorated with nature everywhere you look.That's just outside! Inside is another incredible experience.Every single piece of furniture represents a unique piece of art, bringing to life local mahogany wood and handcrafted tables and mirrors by the owner, Steve. The work and detail he put into every single room in the house is definitely admirable. It was such a beautiful and unique experience to wake up every morning facing the sea and going to bed staring at the stars in my personal balcony.Definitely a place you want to wake up the day of your wedding. Also, the space for my bridesmaids and I to get ready was amazing. Like said,each room is super spacious and with AC.I was getting my makeup done while staring at the harbor view. Just amazing!The big piece of furniture with the big mirror in the room I was staying at was also a big plus. Also,the bathrooms!Best bathrooms!To take a shower there is like to take a shower under a cascade. I can go on & on. All in all,If you dream with an outside island wedding,if you want to dance under the stars with the man you love,if you want to jump in a paradise postcard,if you want to see God's manifestation at it's best,go visit Outrigger House in St. Thomas.
I cannot say enough positive things about the Outrigger house. Not only does this property have just about the best view you will ever have, the owners(Steve and Maria) are the nicest people to work with.
Half of the property is open air with balconies everywhere. Don't worry about battling over bedrooms-every bedroom is amazing! Each bedroom includes a full bathroom(double sink AND balcony!). At night you have a beautiful view overlooking the downtown area and bay. Birds chirping and lights twinkling in the distance which gives you something to look at when it is dark out.
The house has all updated appliances. From BBQ pit, blow dryers in each bathroom, laundry room with steamer (much nicer than mine at home!), linen napkins and placemats for entertaining. Seriously everything we needed!
Not only did we stay here with 3 other couples for the week-we had our wedding here!!!
I was a wedding planner in my past life and my husband owns and events company. I agonized over the smallest of details when planning this wedding and there was absolutely NO NEED! The house itself needs very little. Guests walk up and all you hear is gasping over the house and view. From the open air bar that is built in to the infinite pool that lights up and overlooks the bay to the enormous balcony (also over looking the bay and twinkling lights) that easily fit our 40 guests. It could not be laid out more perfectly for an event. There was so much thought put into this floor plan. Tons of great lighting elements that are built in (hanging lights over the indoor/outdoor bar are so cool!). We were worried about guests being hot but there was a light breeze blowing throughout the night. Following the wedding we had some guests that wanted to keep the party going. There is a small local bar down the street called "Sibs" that was PERFECT. Everyone there is so nice and welcoming. Great bar food too!
I would recommend this house to anyone. Although-I think the guests that attended the wedding will try to scoop this up on they're next visit! We will 100% be back to this house. It really made one of the most memorable weeks of our life.
Safe Travels!
This villa was perfect for our entire immediate family to stay in for our wedding week in St Thomas!
We had our wedding on the property (Total of 8 people) on the outside space by the pool. With the beautiful view and flowers/plants everywhere we didn't really use too many decorations as the natural beauty of this place was PERFECT.
We hired a private chef to cook us dinner the night of our wedding and he prepped and cooked everything at the house! He LOVED this home and has lived on the island for several years and mentioned that this was by far the most beautiful home that he has ever worked in!
I recommend having a car if you are staying here all week (we had 3 cars so that we could all do our own adventures.
The owner and his wife are very accommodating and were able to help us with anything that we needed.
I wouldn't stay anywhere else on this island and we all plan to come back for 5 and 10 year anniversary at the same spot!
thanks so much for this dream wedding at the outrigger house!
The pictures do not do it justice. The house was perfect in every manor and the layout was absolutely wonderful. The house is set up to feel as though you are outside even when you are inside with a constant mountain breeze blowing over your shoulder. The views overlooking Charlotte Amalie are pristine and it was incredible having that scenery at every turn of the house and even when waking up in your own room. We were a total of 4 couples (8 people), who stayed for a total of 5 nights and each of us had our own king size bed, full bath (bathrooms were all custom to match accordingly with the style of each bedroom) and awesome island view. The beds along with the majority of furniture, including the kitchen cabinetry and bathroom counters, is handcrafted mahogany.
There is so much detail in this house that even by day six, I was still noticing things that I haven't noticed in days prior. Other features to note; great infinite pool with solar heating, propane outdoor grill that we used extensively, viking appliances in kitchen with skillet to cook up some entertaining breakfasts, great bar with automatic cover, plenty comfortable/decorative seating throughout the house, wine refrigerator, ice maker etc. etc.
This house was perfect in every way and would not consider renting another in St. Tommy's if we ever go back. Location in my opinion was perfect. Keep in mind that you will need a car if renting this house and even though it may be overwhelming at first (learning the lay of the land and driving on the left), it was well worth it. There are several restaurants located nearby, I recommend Mafolie which has a great view of downtown and decent food. Magan's bay was less than 15 minutes away and the Cost-U-Less (equivalent to Costco/BJ's, no membership needed).
Aside from its privileged location seating on a ridge 300 ft above the Charlotte Amalie harbor offering magnificent vistas and cool Caribbean breeze, the Outrigger House's proximity to ALL attractions on island make it very easy for guests to get around.
You are 10 minutes away from Magen's Beach, 15 minutes away from Hull Bay, 5 minutes away from Historic Charlotte Amalie Downtown & duty free shops, 10 minutes away from French Town for fine dining, 5 minutes away from Waterfront shops, restaurants & ferry dock offering same day affordable round trip to the neighboring British Virgin Island of Tortola , 20 minutes away from the Sea Aquarium where you will soon be able to swim with the dolphins, 10 minutes away from the tree canopy zip line, 10 minutes away from Haven Sight Mall where you can sign up for para-sailing and other fun water sports, 15 minutes away from groceries stores, pharmacies, gas stations and airport and many more attractions.
|Rental Period
|Minimum Price
|Additional Nights
|Weekend Night
|Event Price
Summer 2
1 May 2015 - 30 Nov 2015
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
Winter 2
1 Dec 2015 - 30 Apr 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
My Standard Rate
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
|Refundable Damage Deposit
|Tax Rate
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