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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez
Live in a bookish home
When I was six years old, a young woman with a briefcase came into my home and spoke to my parents over a cup of coffee. And from her briefcase, she laid out on our small kitchen table, glossy brochures. As she spoke, my parents nodded, enthusiastic, calling whatever they were about to do, an "investment." My father wrote out a cheque and a week later the woman came back with boxes. These boxes changed my life.
My father opened up the packages and in sequential order, placed the beautifully binded encyclopedias on our bookcase. There was a set from A to Z, two separate dictionaries, and an index. My father read each volume from cover to cover until he completed the set.
The other set, the Childcraft Encyclopedia, was dedicated to me and I was encouraged to read as my father did, each volume to my liking.
So I did.
It was with awe that I sat in my room discovering the secrets within the pages of the book I had opened. It was with each word that I grew powerful. I could finally translate what the letters meant. I could pronounce with a little hesitation, new words that were heavy, but playful in my mouth. Slowly, the sentences became verses. The verses soon became paragraphs. And the paragraphs into chapters. And at the end of each story, I was filled with a knowledge of something fantastic—so imaginative, yet real, it comforted me more than the world I lived in. Books had become my playground, my solace, my secret friends.
While other children complained when prompted to read in school, I secretly looked forward to it. I did my homework because I had to. I read my books because I loved to.
My school librarian was my heroine. And when the annual Scholastic Book Fair came around, I was ready and eager in the front of the line with my pencil in hand. My family couldn't really afford books, so I knew my choices were limited. I would have to be frugal, but wise. As I searched the tables, I found a book with a picture of a girl, a spider, and a pig.
At home my mother asked me how the Book Fair went and if I found anything that I liked. I was shy about my choice, eager to own it, unsure if my mother or father would agree to buy it, guilty that it might cost them more than they could really afford.
I pulled my Scholastic order form out of my hand-sewn knapsack and thrust it out to my mother in hope my urgency would be expressed in that one act.
"'Charlotte's Web' by E.B. White…that looks like a good one. Let's go and see what your father thinks."
My encyclopedia-reading father who routinely and adamantly sat me down at the dining table to write out my ABC's everyday would surely be my ally. (Until this day, I am frequently complimented on my "graceful" and "elegant" penmanship—so much so, I have been asked if I could turn it into a font!)
My father looked at my one-item list, pulled cash from his wallet and said, "Remember to always spend this wisely. There will be things you will want to buy, but a book will always be something you need. Remember, a book will always be better than a toy."
I had no complaints. I had toys and I played with them. But, what my father didn't know at the time of his advice was that books were already my secret treasure. I didn't read books because I had to, I read them because there were stories in them that needed telling, that needed reading. So, as a child, I read voraciously. My appetite grew with each finished novel, each new, explored genre.
My second home would be the local library. I was eight when my father helped me apply for my very first library card. It was the most valuable thing in my wallet. It grew creases with age as my book lists grew and my tote bags lugged with weight.
Years later, my library has grown, but I still own the Childcraft Encyclopedia set that my parents bought for me, I still have the original copy of the "Charlotte's Web" book that I bought from the school Book Fair.
If anything, I am proud to say I'm an avid reader. It isn't a go-to line as much as it is a short biography. I am an avid reader and have been so since I was a child.
I'm an avid reader. I'm a book borrower.
I'm a bibliotaphe.
I'm one of those people who puts books on hold at the library two months in advance so that I can be one of the privileged few to get my hands on new releases before they come off press.
I'm one of those people who will sit in an aisle at a book store and forget I am there because I'm enthralled with what I'm reading. (I finished reading the poems in "The Blizzard of One" by Mark Strand in one sitting.)
I'm one of those people who will ignore my telephone so that I can finish reading the end of a line or the end of a chapter.
I'm one of those people who organizes my books by author, genre, or emotional attachment.
I'm one of those people who miss literary characters once a book has ended.
I'm one of those people who has piles of books in each and every room of my house.
I am also one of those people who will shrug off a date in order to go to a book signing, a poetry reading, a wine and cheese party, or literary gala.
And I am also one of those people whose awe in meeting an author in person is equivalent to the hysteria found in others for famous rock stars and starlets found in Hollywood.
I'm one of those people who knows the different names, literary genres, and styles of publishers who print and distribute the books that I love.
I'm one of those people who collects bookmarks and isn't ashamed about it.
I'm one of those people who loves the feel and smell of a new book.
I'm one of those people who will stay up late into the wee hours of the night in order to finish reading a book, finish writing a review, and post it onto my book blog.
My love of books has not only inspired me to write this blog entry, but to imagine what it would it be like if I could transform my actual living space into bookish delight.
I'd like to live in a book house.
On Paper Avenue.
With pens as my picket fence.
My book house would have book stairs:
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I'd read under a book chandalier:
Take a shower behind a written page:
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I'd "unscramble" my pillows:
Keep myself "literally" warm with this scarf:
I'd jot my thoughts about books into these:
And when I'm done, carry them all in this typewriter tote bag.
Sure, I want books under the tree at Christmas time. But, I love books so much, I'd want to make my Christmas tree out of books as well.
And instead of giving my daughter a Barbie, I'd buy her, her very own Margaret Atwood doll:
And when I travel, I much prefer to pack these in my luggage instead of clothes:
Forget the old lady who lived in a Shoe.
I'm the dame who wants to live in a Book!


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We've had a tremendous response for the first 48 Hour Feature Script Project. We are no longer taking new submissions.
We are in the process of evaluating all of the entrties and expect to announce the finalists in mid-July.
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When it was reported back in July that Ron Howard would not be directing The Lost Symbol, the third film adapted from Dan Brown's Robert Langdon trilogy, I'm sure that agents around the world began pressing numbers and trying to get their director clients involved. While Angels & Demons only made $133 million domestically on a $150 million budget, the movie was still an overseas hit and ended up making nearly $500 million worldwide by the end of its run. As a result the director's chair for the third movie is likely a spot any filmmaker would at least have a passing interest in and now the frontrunner has been revealed.
According to Deadline, Mark Romanek is apparently the number one choice to replace Howard as the helmer of The Last Symbol. The follow up to both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, the movie once again follows symbologist Robert Langdon (plaeyed Tom Hanks, who is expected to return) as he investigates a mystery involving the Freemasons. Howard and partner Brian Grazer are still attached as producers on the project. Brown's book was on the top of the New York Times' best seller list for six weeks after its release and holds the record for the fastest selling adult novel in history. The script was written by Brown (who is making his screenwriting debut) and Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things). Romanek is not yet in negotiations, but is expected to enter them soon.
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Captain Roy Bringus wrote:Sorry to VCX this thread.
Anyone have any insight as to what Anthony DeAngelo did to get suspended twice in a season?
Racial slurs against a teammate was one. Not sure about the first one.
Captain Roy Bringus wrote:Sorry to VCX this thread.
Anyone have any insight as to what Anthony DeAngelo did to get suspended twice in a season?
No Ring No King wrote:DeAngelo was fucked over by a shitty fucking teammate. He didn't even say anything remotely racist.
No Ring No King wrote:They didn't have a choice, Branch, the Sting, the league. They were all put in a shitty place by an absolutely awful family/player.
The Ontario court judge who imposed a publication ban in the sex assault trial of Windsor Spitfire Ben Johnson is to decide Thursday whether the ban will continue.
Justice Micheline Rawlins imposed the ban Monday after the first witness in the trial began testifying. The witness, according to the Crown, was called to tender what's referred to as similar fact evidence related to Johnson's alleged conduct.
Johnson, 20, is charged with sexually assaulting a young woman on Jan. 13, 2013 at the Krooked Kilt, a bar on Wyandotte Street West.
Johnson was arrested in March 2013 after a second alleged sexual assault in the washroom of downtown bar Mynt...
The Sarnia Sting have taken forward Pavel Zacha (6'3, 203-pounds) with the first overall pick in the CHL Import draft.
Sarnia was advised that Pavel Zacha has a professional contract in Czech Republic for 2 more years and has no interest in playing for them.
No Ring No King wrote:Love Oshawa's pick. Hope he comes over.
Thomas Malthus wrote:I know that many teams do this but I thought that it would be nice to share this and appreciate the things these kids do off the ice: http://www.mykawartha.com/sports-story/5210663-peterborough-petes-deliver-messages-of-encouragement-for-students-in-omemee/
CharlieGirl wrote:That stuff happens a lot but we don't hear it. It's nice to see something positive about junior hockey players for a change. Thanks!
According to local lore, Christ didn't commit any miracles while residing in Japan, but instead was just an extremely pleasant fellow to be around.
CharlieGirl wrote:Wow, don't check a thread in a few days and you find out things you may not have wanted to know! LOL
Lots of silly trades going on - not so much the trades, but the returns. I really hope Hiebert gets in on it (he got a ton in return for Pederson) - Bailey would bring a king's ransom and I suspect Iafrate would as well.
Maurice Moss wrote:Probably many 2nd and 3rd round picks.
VLoo wrote:Like... Flint, Michigan? Isn't that place poor and dilapidated? How are they gonna support a team?
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Democratic Assemblyman Isadore Hall said he'll try to revive his bill that would require condoms be used in adult films, after a judge ruled a similar law in Los Angeles County is constitutional. The adult film industry had challenged LA County's law saying it infringed on the first amendment.
Hall said adult film workers are employees just like actors on any other movie set.
"You can't have an individual in a gun scene shoot a real gun and call it a first amendment right to do so," he said. "We're required to give them a certain level of protections."
Hall said his bill had stalled because of questions over its constitutionality, which he says the Los Angeles court ruling resolves.
But the adult film industry will continue to fight. Lobbyist Diane Duke said the business is already overregulated and actors are tested multiple times.
"We're the professionals that understand what happens on a set," she said. "Isadore Hall has never even been on a set."
Hall said 90 percent of the adult film industry is located in California, which generates thousands of jobs and millions of dollars for the state.


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In writing The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has produced not just a book but a historical treatise. The strength of this work comes from its basis in fact--primarily, Louis Pasteur's own laboratory notebooks only recently available through the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Using Pasteur's notes, together with accounts given by Pasteur and his contemporaries, Geison has been able to document both the accomplishments and the foibles of this remarkable scientist. He paints a detailed picture of Pasteur, illuminating a great yet imperfect man who was both a strong, diligent, and driven researcher and teacher and a sometimes secretive and deceptive brute.
Pasteur was far from perfect, and Geison does much to debunk the myth surrounding him. Pasteur had difficulty sharing credit, and sometimes was downright deceptive. These weaknesses are well documented by Geison by closely comparing Pasteur's public statements with his private notes.
A good example was Pasteur's famous experiment at Puilly-le-Fort, a highly publicized display to show how a vaccine could prevent anthrax in sheep. Although other Europeans, most notably Jacob Henle, John Snow, and Robert Koch, promoted the germ theory in the early-to-mid 1800s, Pasteur led the way in France. At the time Robert Koch had already given credit for developing the first anthrax vaccine to another Frenchman, Jean-Joseph Henri Toussaint, who used chemical inactivation of infectious material to develop a protective vaccine. In private correspondence Pasteur wrote that Toussaint's result "overturns all the ideas I had..." and caused him to change his procedures and use chemical inactivation (potassium dichromate) to produce his vaccine. Yet he never credits Toussaint for the discovery, and in describing the details of his experiment never lets on that he used chemical inactivation. Scientists at the time believed, from Pasteur's previous statements, that the vaccine he used was "attenuated by atmospheric oxygen" (not by chemicals). Geison concludes that the fear of second place drove Pasteur to violate some of the most cherished tenets of scientific ethics.
An even more interesting reflection on Pasteur the person emanates from a description of his experiment to prevent rabies in a young boy, Joseph Meister, who had been extensively bitten by a rabid dog. At the time, Pasteur had been reporting animal experiments using an "attenuated" rabies vaccine produced by repeated passage of infectious nervous tissue though dogs or monkeys. At the same time, Emile Roux, Pasteur's able physician colleague, had been working with a killed vaccine produced by desiccating the spinal cords of infected rabbits. It appears that Pasteur appropriated Roux's idea and used this vaccine on young Joseph Meister.
Meister never developed rabies. But Pasteur concealed the process he used to make the vaccine. He allowed the scientific community to believe that the vaccine injected into Joseph Meister was an "attenuated" one; his lab notes, however, reveal that he used Roux's desiccated spinal cord process.
Geison also questions Pasteur's appreciation of the ethics of human experimentation. The safety (eg, infectiousness) of the desiccated spinal-cord vaccine had only been superficially evaluated when Joseph Meister came to Pasteur. Roux apparently decided the risk of causing rabies by possible inadequate inactivation of the infectious spinal cord tissue was too high. Pasteur decided otherwise. Although the vaccine had only been tested in 11 dogs, he injected Joseph Meister.
Fortunately, Meister never got rabies from the dog bite or the vaccine, and Pasteur was launched into a higher orbit of fame. Was his decision to inject the boy based on wisdom and courage, or was it reckless? Whatever the case, it was not Pasteur's vaccine. It was Emile Roux's. And no credit was given until Pasteur's laboratory notebooks were reviewed a century later.
Many of Pasteur's difficulties and disagreements with colleagues were a result of his training. Pasteur was a chemist and not a doctor. His lack of appreciation for the vagaries of biologic systems, and the potential danger caused by them, was well described by Joseph Meister's physician, who several years after the experiment stated, "Pasteur lacked prudence in medical matters. He had made no reservations as to the possibility of partial failures [of rabies vaccine]. Had he been a doctor, he would have instinctively taken some precautions by foreseeing the possibility of [occasional] failures."
Some of the most revealing information about Pasteur comes from Geison's vignettes of the scientist's personal life: Pasteur's childhood recollection of the screams of villagers having their wolf bites cauterized by the local blacksmith's hot iron to prevent rabies, his strong religious beliefs, his rather conservative politics, and his 12-hour day, seven-day work week.
The weakness of Geison's book comes from the same source as its strength: its detail. Often the author fails to back away from the minutiae to give the reader a larger perspective. For those who know the field of infectious disease, the parts of the book dedicated to anthrax and rabies are challenging reading, but understandable. At the same time, the first 60 pages devoted to Pasteur's work with the refraction of light by tartrate crystals was hard going. Seldom does the author assist the reader to understand the big picture.
But overall, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur is a piece of historical research indispensable for the student of medical history. With its 25 pages of appendices, including the important translations of Pasteur's laboratory notebook, and 56 pages of references, it will serve as an indispensable resource. Even for those of us with more superficial historical interests, it is most interesting reading.
Donald P. Francis, MD, DSc, is currently doing research at Genentech in San Francisco, California, to develop a vaccine against HIV. He previously directed AIDS laboratory activities at the Centers for Disease Control, where he worked with France's Institut Pasteur to prove that HIV caused AIDS. Before working on AIDS, he was involved in control of global epidemics such as smallpox, cholera, and Ebola.


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There is no doubt that drinking large amounts of alcohol is bad for your health. However, there is some evidence that some alcohol consumption may have benefits. Given that, the American Heart Association recommends that adults who drink do so in moderation.
Here are some considerations if you plan on continuing to drink alcohol:
- Consult your physician to discuss its benefits and risks given your family history. Certain people should not consume any alcohol, such as pregnant women, people with liver disease, or those who are on certain medications.
- Moderate intake is considered to be 1 drink per day if you are a woman and 1 to 2 drinks per day if you are a man.
- Periodically review your use of alcohol with your doctor. You may need to change your drinking behavior if you begin to consume too much or experience harmful consequences as a result of drinking alcohol.
- Never drink alcohol if you are going to be driving or operating machinery.
Here's Why:
Researchers believe some alcohol may help protect the heart. People who drink moderately have heart disease less often than nondrinkers. Alcohol appears to increase HDL, the good form of cholesterol. Some other benefits may include:
- The alcohol or some other substance in alcoholic drinks may prevent platelets in the blood from sticking together. This, in turn, will reduce clot formation and the risk for heart attack or stroke.
- Flavonoids and other antioxidants in red wine may protect the heart and arteries.
However, there are many negative health effects associated with alcohol intake, as well. This is especially true with heavy alcohol consumption. These include:
- Alcoholism
- Increased levels of fats in the blood called triglycerides; high blood triglyceride levels are associated with coronary artery disease
- Accidents
- Liver disease, such as cirrhosis
- High blood pressure
- Heart failure
- Obesity
- Stroke
- Breast cancer
- Suicide
- Early death
Here's How:
Moderation is essential with alcohol because many chronic health problems can develop or worsen due to alcohol abuse. 1 drink equals no more than 1/2 ounce of pure alcohol. For example:
- 12 ounces of beer
- 4 ounces of wine—It is important to note that a glass of wine usually means 8-12 ounces for most people. However the official size of a glass of wine is 4 ounces or 1/2 of a cup. Measure it once, into your wine glass to see what that amount actually looks like.
- 1½ ounces of 80-proof spirits
- 1 ounce of 100-proof spirits
However, if you choose not to drink, you are not missing out. In fact, you should consider alternatives before picking up the bottle. You can get antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, and the flavonoids in red wine are also in red grapes and grape juice. Regular exercise also increases HDL levels. If blood clotting is a concern for you, talk to your doctor about taking aspirin on a regular basis.
- Reviewer: Michael Woods, MD
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At Duke we take a holistic approach to career counseling, encouraging students to include public interest work in both their long-term and short-term plans. In addition to resume preparation and interview training, students are exposed to public interest programming, informative career panels, speakers, and workshops throughout the year, designed to educate on all aspects of public interest legal practice.
Whether you are interested in summer public interest work, careers in the public sector, or private firms offering pro bono opportunities, the public interest and pro bono dean will be happy to talk with you about your background, your future aspirations, and your immediate career needs. Students may sign up for the public interest listserv to receive news on selected job openings, fellowships, events, pro bono opportunities, etc.
The Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono also works closely with the Career & Professional Development Center to offer students and alumni the support they need in making decisions about their careers. The Career Center offers career counseling in all sectors - firms, non-profit, government, international, and less traditional legal positions. It has an extremely high record of placement and boasts one of the most comprehensive on-campus interviewing programs in the country. Each year a wide variety of public interest and government employers participate in the on-campus program.
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- Administering several summer fellowship programs that are available exclusively for Duke Law students. For more, see Summer Fellowships.
- Hosting a "Table Talk" session on Summer Public Interest Employment Recognition Day. Here, students who have worked in the public sector the last two summers sit at tables organized by subject (legal aid, US Attorney, environment, international, civil rights, etc.) so that first-year students can receive peer counseling and networking assistance.
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Hail, the bane of a Colorado gardener's summer
We had to know it would happen, sooner or later, somewhere — or somewhere else. It almost always does.
This time the freakish weather hit DIA, Boulder, and where I live in NoCo (Northern Colorado). I wasn't there for the storm, and I didn't even see these hailstones until I was walking a friend's dog at their property. Being a friend, I snapped some photos in case they'd sustained any hail damage.
But their garden was pretty much fine, just fine, which tells me the hail was spotty and, though sometimes huge, not incredibly sustained. Then again, there were no squash, no melons, no cukes in their gardens. They have mainly xeric perennials, herbs, shrubs and snack veggies with smallish leaves — peas and the like — which tend to shrug off such storms. I haven't yet had a chance to check on my own beets, beans and tomatoes in the backyard, or the beets, beans, tomatoes and peppers in a community plot I rent.
Hail doesn't have to be the endgame.
As Grow designer Jacqueline Feldman wrote in 2009, veggie gardens can have amazing resilience. A few weeks after her square-foot garden was shredded that year, lettuce was re-germinating and she was back to harvesting — maybe not a feast, but something. In 2010, Grow contributor Jodi Torpey offered great tips for planting a hail-resistant garden — and replanting if you get hit.
Hail or not, I've learned the wisdom of low expectations. It's a miracle if I can get anything out of a raised bed that I've been planning to tear out every year (and that my concrete contractor dumped his readymix into a couple of years back). I'll have to wait until I'm done dog-sitting for my hail-hit friends to even find out what the storm's wrath has wrought at my house. But … I suspect I'll survive it. A few years of gardening teaches you to think in the long term. While spraining a shoulder in April meant that I whined and groused about being unable to get plants in the ground until early June, well, the chill rains meant that I wasn't actually playing that much catch-up to smug early-bird gardeners. My few snap-pea plants grew tall and just finished bearing. My containers of coleus are singing "Feed me, Seymour." And while my lettuce bed was an epic fail, the seeds I gave another friend went crazy, and they've pressed me into service to help them devour the salad-mix crop. For most gardeners and most locations, hail isn't a disaster. It's sure as heck no reason to give up. It's not bindweed, or squash bugs, for cryin' out loud.
Books in Bloom: If the idea of concocting your own fertilizer and soil tonic from stuff you have around the house — and using the recipe of a Colorado gardener who founded Beauty Beyond Belief and Bounty Beyond Belief seed companies — turns your crank, check out Don Eversoll's book Secrets From My Grandma's Garden. The little self-published book is full of gardener wisdom, practical tips and tricks and will tell you how to use Epsom salts and Coca-cola to grow killer tomatoes.
Don's son is a chemistry teacher, and he's been around the garden patch for decades, growing up in Nebraska, where they know from ag, becoming a PR and publications exec for years. Eversoll swears by a dash of Epsom salts to prevent blossom-end rot in tomatoes, and the Coca-cola in his formulas adds phosphorus. Eversoll had 2,500 of the books printed and is down to his last 500. His site has a list of the local garden centers that carry it, but if it's on your list, you might call to make sure it's not sold out. He said he'll print more before winter.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Junior shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) of the No. 15 Georgia College baseball team (35-15) was chosen Bobcat Athlete of the Week for the Week ending May 1. This marks the first such honor for Funk and the third for Bobcat baseball this season.
Funk went 9-for-15 (.600) over the four games this week, powering GC to a sweep of No. 14 Armstrong Atlantic. He drove in four runs and scored six. His best contest was the doubleheader opener against AASU Saturday, going 4-for-4 with two RBI and two runs, including a home run.
The Bobcats are back in action Sunday, May 8 at 9 a.m., beginning the 2011 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament against East No. 3 seed UNC Pembroke.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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I have worked at this for many hours yesterday and this morning, I save my Windows new Setup in a partition when I first
installed it so that if I run into a problem I just have to format the faulty windows and replace with the good version of it.
I am running W7 x64, up to now I have not had a problem.
So I formated my C partition and installed the W7 build with my Macrium Reflect program.
All was well except for Pocomail. Everything in it works except for the "Mail" folder,
at this moment the emails are not showing though I see the Mail folder in the list of folders.
All the other folders are OK, its only this one.
I cannot get the emails to show in the Mail folder, I have un-installed and re-installed Poco about 3 times with no success.
I have 4 partitions and I tried installing it in different combinations of the partitions.
I tried installing my emails etc in a different partition and also in the same partition as the main Pocomail.
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'Coolness through association' is an excellent strategy for a talentless group to quickly acquire bloated column inches. Be it via a convenient genetic connection, a friend of a friend, or sleeping with the editor/lead-singer of a prominent magazine/band, it provides a sure-fire foot in the door, bypassing the usual toll booths.
Chicago's Smith Westerns are making waves in the UK through association. The mouthy trio recently supported our latest great white hope, The Vaccines, on tour. On first impressions you might anticipate another run of the mill band of rip-off merchants. And to an extent they are. Influences are mined from a rich seam of classic Rock and Roll (a combination of early Bowie and Sixtes garage) routinely ravaged and betrayed for decades. The difference is that Smith Westerns do it very well.
Dye It Blonde is instantly familiar. 'Weekend' starts with a primitive guitar riff reminiscent of The Libertines that will win, and retain, your attention. Vocals with the nonchalance of Zaphod Beeblebrox, drowned in reverb, evoking MGMT, with a mumbling delivery that results in you regularly mishearing lyrics.
With choruses like "All die young", tongue in cheek or not, you can't help but admire the confidence on show. "Everybody wants to be a star on a Saturday night…It's the end of the night, are you gonna go home?", from 'End of the Night', highlight the spirit and simplicity of the album's lyrics. It's predominantly content that your average early twenty-something would sing about: going out, getting laid (at least trying to). Simple, yes, but sometimes less is more.
This being their second record, Smith Westerns have already proven to have a life expectancy longer than many of their peers. The trio have distanced themselves from the bratty punk of their lo-fi debut, altering the formula that initially got them noticed. To quote forehead enthusiast Zinedine Zidane, "Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you are losing the entire engine?"
They haven't turned into a group of bed-wetters. There is still bite here and the engine is intact. It is controlled chaos in a shiny package. Dye It Blonde is evidence of evolution. Seemingly a lot can change in two years, such as learning how to play their instruments and finding someone to bankroll an experienced producer to steer the ship.
Dye It Blonde has unexpectedly crept into contention for being my favourite record of 2011 so far. On paper I would have assumed that this album would be another sonic parasite, but there's a strange magnetism. It doesn't feel like compromise, or hitchhiking on any bandwagon. No doubt like 99/100 new bands who garner anything even approaching critical success, they'll eventually be hung out to dry, by either the tides of fashion or their own tongues. So enjoy it while you can.
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Awesome early season conditions making for an inspiring backcountry report by Pete Webster!
A few photos from the 8th July 2012. Thanks to Pete Webster!
The Sentinal and Watsons Craggs behind. Really filled in, looks like a great ski descent (below).
Northcoate in the centre frame , such a perfect open curtain of snow all on the windward side ready for turns
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News | February 3, 1999
Stardust Mission Set to Bring Back a Piece of a Comet
NASA's Stardust mission, scheduled for launch Saturday, February 6, from Cape Canaveral, FL, will send a spacecraft flying through the cloud of dust that surrounds the nucleus of a comet - and, for the first time ever, bring cometary material back to Earth.
Launch is scheduled at 4:06 p.m. Eastern time, with live coverage on NASA Television beginning at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. A post-launch briefing is planned to be broadcast on NASA Television at 6 p.m. Eastern.
Comets, which periodically grace our sky like celestial bottle rockets, are thought to hold many of the original ingredients of the recipe that created the planets and brought plentiful water to Earth. They are also rich in organic material, which provided our planet with many of the ready-to-mix molecules that could give rise to life. They may be the oldest, most primitive bodies in the solar system, a preserved record of the original nebula that formed the Sun and the planets.
"Scientists have long sought a sample directly from a known comet because of the unique chemical and physical information these bodies contain about the earliest history of the solar system," said Dr. Edward Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for space science. "Locked within comet molecules and atoms could be the record of the formation of the planets and the materials from which they were made."
Stardust is the first U.S. mission dedicated solely to a comet and will be the first to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon. Stardust's main objective is to capture a sample from a well-preserved comet called Wild-2 (pronounced "Vilt-2").
The spacecraft will also collect interstellar dust from a recently discovered flow of particles that passes through our solar system from interstellar space. As in the proverbial "from dust to dust," this interstellar dust represents the ultimate in recycled material; it is the stuff from which all solid objects in the universe are made, and the state to which everything eventually returns. Scientists want to discover the composition of this "stardust" to determine the history, chemistry, physics and mineralogy of nature's most fundamental building blocks.
Because it would be virtually impossible to equip a spacecraft with the most sophisticated lab instrumentation needed to analyze such material in space, the Stardust spacecraft is more of a robotic lab assistant whose job it is pick up and deliver a sample to scientists back on Earth. The spacecraft will, however, radio some on-the-spot analytical observations of the comet and interstellar dust.
"The samples we will collect are extremely small, less than a micron, or 1/25,000th of an inch, in size, and can only be adequately studied in laboratories with sophisticated analytical instruments," said Dr. Donald C. Brownlee of the University of Washington, principal investigator for the Stardust mission.
"Even if a ton of sample were returned, the main information in the solids would still be recorded at the micron level, and the analyses would still be done a single grain at a time."
Stardust will meet up with Comet Wild-2 on January 2, 2004. A gravity assist flyby of Earth will put Stardust on a trajectory that will allow it to capture cometary dust intact at a low relative speed of 6.1 kilometers per second (about 13,600 miles per hour). An onboard camera will aid in navigating the spacecraft as close as about 150 kilometers (100 miles) from the comet's nucleus, permitting the capture of the freshest samples from the heart of the comet.
Dressed for survival behind armored shields, Stardust will document its 10-hour passage through the hailstorm of comet debris with scientific instruments and the navigation camera. On approach to the dust cloud, or "coma," the spacecraft will flip open a tennis-racket-shaped particle catcher filled with a smoke- colored glass foam called aerogel to capture the comet particles. Aerogel, the lowest-density material in the world, has enough "give" in it to slow and stop particles without altering them too much. After the sample has been collected, the aerogel capturing device will fold down into a return capsule, which closes like a clamshell to enclose the sample for its safe delivery to Earth.
In addition, a particle impact mass spectrometer will obtain in-flight data on the composition of both cometary and interstellar dust, especially very fine particles. The optical navigation camera should provide excellent images of the dark mass of the comet's nucleus. Other equipment will reveal the distribution in both time and space of coma dust, and could give an estimate of the comet's mass.
On January 15, 2006, a parachute will set the capsule gently onto the salt flats of the Utah desert for retrieval. The scientifically precious samples can be studied for decades into the future with ever-improving techniques and analysis technologies, limited only by the number of atoms and molecules of the sample material available. Many types of analyses now performed on lunar samples, for example, were not even conceived at the time of the Apollo missions to the Moon.
Comets are small, irregularly shaped bodies composed of a mixture of grains of rock, organic molecules and frozen gases. Most comets are about 50 percent water ice. Typically ranging in size up to about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter, comets have highly elliptical orbits that bring them close to the Sun and then swing them back out into deep space. They spend most of their existences in a deep freeze beyond the orbit of Pluto - far beyond the Sun's dwindling influence, which is why so much of their original material is well-preserved.
When a comet approaches within about 700 million kilometers (half billion miles) of the Sun, the surface of the nucleus begins to warm, and material on the comet's nucleus heats and begins to vaporize. This process, along with the loss of rocky debris or other particles that fly off the surface, creates the cloud around the nucleus called the coma. It is the glowing, fuzzy coma that appears as the head of a comet when one is observed from Earth. A tail of luminous debris and another, less apparent, tail of gases flow millions of miles beyond the head in the direction away from the Sun.
Comet Wild-2 is considered an ideal target for study because, until recently, it was a long-period comet that rarely ventured close to the Sun. A fateful pass near Jupiter and its enormous gravity field in 1974 pulled Comet Wild-2 off-course, diverting it onto a tighter orbit that brings it past the Sun more frequently and also closer to Earth's neighborhood. Because Wild-2 has only recently changed its orbit, it has lost little of its original material when compared with other short-period comets, so it offers some of the best-preserved comet samples that can be obtained.
Stardust was competitively selected in the fall of 1995 under NASA's Discovery Program of low-cost, highly focused science missions. As a Discovery mission, Stardust has met a fast development schedule, uses a small Delta launch vehicle, is cost-capped at less than $200 million, and is the product of a partnership involving NASA, academia and industry.
Principal investigator Brownlee is well-known for his discovery of cosmic particles in Earth's stratosphere known as Brownlee particles. Dr. Peter Tsou of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, an innovator in aerogel technology and maker of aerogel, serves as deputy investigator. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the Stardust mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. Dr. Kenneth L. Atkins of JPL is project manager. The spacecraft is designed, built and operated by Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO. JPL provided the spacecraft's optical navigation camera, and the Max Planck Institute of Germany provided the real-time dust composition analyzer.
NASA Television is broadcast on the satellite GE-2, transponder 9C, C band, 85 degrees west longitude, frequency 3880.0 MHz, vertical polarization, audio monaural at 6.8 MHz.
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No workshops are being planned for the immediate future, but we'll update this site if/when that changes. Our apologies.
In the meantime, Toronto WordSmiths is starting up. It's free, on Thursday nights at the Parkdale Library, and led by several long-time TSW participants. More information is available on Facebook.
On Monday, July 1, at 7 pm, the Toronto Street Writers present a mind-blowing evening of performances, readings, music and art. We're also launching our new zine, What We Didn't Know Existed, bursting with stories, poetry and art by this year's street writers. Plus delicious food, cake, and way too much inspiration and fun to be contained in one space!
Monday, July 1, 2013 (Canada Day)
Location: Academy of the Impossible
231 Wallace Avenue (Lansdowne and Bloor, Toronto)
For more info email email@example.com or call 416-779-1448
Sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation and Canadian Heritage through the Celebrate Canada Fund.
A couple weeks ago, we worked together to make a zine about writing -- why we write, what it means to us, the pain/joy/love associated with the process. We scanned it in and uploaded it. Check it out for yourself and drop us a line if it moves you: info(at)torontostreetwriters.ca
Toronto Street Writers has a new sister program, Impossible Words. The twice-monthly literary salon runs out of the Academy of the Impossible. It pairs up culturally, stylistically and geographically diverse Canadian authors with young writers on stage for a raucous conversation and a lot of fun.
Registration for the new year of Toronto Street Writer is almost at capacity! But drop us a line at info(at)torontostreetwriters.ca if you're dying to sign up. We've got a full calendar of guest authors, writing prompts, and discussions lined up. See y'all very soon!
Our yearly Canada Day final event was a phenomenal success! Check out some of the media attention:
Here are a few choice shots of the Street Writers party and launch of our new anthology of writing, West of What We Know. All photos credited to Ryan Singh.
Once again, we especially want to thank our sponsors: Canadian Heritage though the Celebrate Canada Fund, the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Lakeview Lunch, Chapters-Indigo Eaton Centre and Penguin Books.
The Toronto Street Writers launched their new anthology of writing and art by inner-city, West of What We Know, on Sunday July 1st, 2012 at the Academy of the Impossible in Toronto's west-end.
The event featured readings by young poets, hip hop lyricists, playwrights, and short story writers whose work appears in the anthology. In celebration of the Queen's 60th Jubilee, there was an impromptu crown-making workshop where audience members will be encouraged to express what the monarchy means to them.
The Street Writers are a celebrated group of young writers from many different cultures and walks of life across the city. The group meets weekly, ten months out of the year, and is coordinated by award-winning local author Emily Pohl-Weary. Young writers work with professional authors, musicians, artists and screenwriters to generate the skills and confidence needed to express their realities, process difficult experiences, and pursue careers and professional opportunities in the arts.
West of What We Know is the fifth annual anthology of youth writing that the Street Writers have published.
To order your own copy, please send $10 (includes postage) to: Toronto Street Writers, c/o Academy of the Impossible, 231 Wallace Avenue, Toronto, Ontario (Canada), M6H 3G1
We've got a Facebook page, where we post news, updates, curiousities and calls for submission.
It's a great way to find out what we're up to from week to week.
Launch of new work by the Parkdale Street Writers!
Performances by amazing contributors!
Plus: Special guests Rose and Nic from LAL and Abstract Random!
Canada Day - Friday, July 1, 2011
7 pm at Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor
1214 Queen Street W, Toronto
FREE! fun! SNACKS! cake!
books! DJ! art! READINGS!
PERFORMANCES! nice people!
Do you want to MAKE YOUR OWN FILM? Do you love MOVIES, TELLING STORIES and PERFORMING?
Acting for the Camera was a FREE weekly workshop led by professional film director Dominic Desjardins. Participants learned how to:
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Maroon 5 Set to Perform at 2014 VMAsby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Maroon 5 will join 5 Seconds of Summer, Ariana Grande and Usher on the performance roster for the 2014 Video Music Awards.
MTV announced the exciting news today, Aug. 6, and revealed that the 'Maps' band will be performing a track from their upcoming album 'V' when they take the VMA stage on Sunday, Aug. 24.
Though the band has never performed at the VMAs, they've won big in the past, taking home moonmen for Best New Artist and Best Group Video in 2004, Best Group in 2007 and Best Pop Video for 'Payphone' in 2007. Not too shabby!
And of course, it just adds even more excitement for frontman Adam Levine, who's having a pretty good year himself: getting married, starring in his first movie and releasing his fifth album with the band.
Want to catch Maroon 5's performance? Be sure to tune into the 2014 VMAs at 9PM ET/PT on MTV on Sunday, Aug. 24.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Negotiators for Iran and the West met for the first in three months seeking to revive stalled talks over Iran's nuclear enrichment policies, officials said.
The meeting, held Tuesday in Istanbul, Turkey, was not considered a formal negotiation, The New York Times reported.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's top foreign policy official, and Saeed Jalili, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, last met June 20 in Moscow.
Ashton described the talks as "an important opportunity to stress once again to Iran the urgent need to make progress."
The International Atomic Energy Agency last week slammed Iran for denying inspectors full access to sites where Iran may be enriching nuclear fuel beyond levels needed to generate electrical power.
Iran responded by charging that "terrorists and saboteurs" had compromised IAEA. A senior atomic energy official said power lines to two main enrichment sites had been hit by explosions.
In a signal to Iran, a 30-nation, 12-day, mine-clearing exercise began Monday in the Persian Gulf. It is being led by the United States.
A private U.S.-based advocacy group said Tuesday it had launched an effort to force the organizations that assign international Internet addresses to block access to the Web by Iranian entities and persons.
United Against Nuclear Iran charged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Reseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) may be in violation of Iran sanctions by allowing Iran to pursue "its illegal and amoral activities."


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Rotary Club of Truckee announces Resource Fair for high school juniors
TAHOE/TRCKEE, Calif. – For the fourth year in a row, businesses and schools in cooperation with service clubs have partnered with the Rotary Club of Truckee to answer an unmet need in the community: Connecting high school students with a broad range of local and regional resources for life after high school.
On March 22, the North Tahoe Conference Center at Kings Beach will host 340 high school juniors for a day long Resource Fair. Students will again hear Isabel Rodriguez Wilson speak and visit 10 stations with valuable information students need as they enter their senior year.
Topics will focus on popular themes such as job trends, vocational opportunities, financial aid and career assessment. Sierra College and Sierra Nevada College representatives will be present to answer questions about career training and educational degree options.
Tahoe Truckee Unified School District Superintendent Chief Learning Officer Dr. Robert Leri praised this collaborative community effort on behalf of the students: "TTUSD and neighboring schools are fortunate to have a cadre of community organizations and volunteers coordinate a program to further prepare our students for college and careers. I was fortunate to participate in the event last year and was impressed with the variety and quality of information and activities provided to our scholars. Thank you to all who make this possible."
Truckee, Tahoe City, Sunshine, and Incline Village Rotary groups as well as Soroptimist, Excellence in Education, East-West Partners, and Optimist clubs are sponsoring the event on Friday, March 22 at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach. The clubs have provided event funds and the school district will provide bus transportation for students.
The Rotary Club of Truckee founded this event in 2010 with the help of TTUSD and local businesses. The Resource Fair committee is headed by Greg McDougall, Donna Landeros, and Pat Gibbons-Johnson. To donate time or financial assistance please contact any of the local service organizations for Resource Fair committee members.


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Here are some interaction design principles I learnt from architecture and game design that you can use in your next projects.
An interface should always be thought of as a living environment. A house's exterior don't usually change over time, but its interior shifts freely—both aesthetically and functionally—depending on its occupants.
Users feel more comfortable the more tangible a space is. Note how you'd probably never see a game that doesn't have some sort of a horizon. Players should spend their time playing, not acclimating themselves to how a space works differently inside the game than it does outside.
Game designers have used a technique whereby players would be dropped into a new area, and somehow are able to figure out where she needs to go. How did they do it? It turns out that it isn't so much about scattering telltale hints (arrows, tooltips, snippets, etc.) as it is about providing visibility of what's to come.
Players like to feel clever. Games are designed in such ways so that players get to figure their own way out of a situation through their knowledge of the space (ie. The wall is brighter on that path, so an exit likely lies at the end of it). Yet we're often told that, in experience design, clearer labeling is always better ("Click here to confirm your purchase!"). Have we dumbed down our users too much?
Design tutorial areas, not FAQs. Users don't read manuals. Here's why: a manual fails because studying a subject isn't the same as feeling or grasping that subject. So spend more time creating good sample files and hands on tutorial environments, rather than writing extensive manual—not that that's not important.
Acknowledge co-presence. Co-presence says that there is always more than one user interacting with your interface at any moment in time. Making them aware of each other's presence is important. It feels good to know that you're not the only one braving this wild graphical frontier and dealing with its bugs. And when problems do happen, it feels even better to know that somebody somewhere could be having it too, and she may have the answer to it even when the support team is taking an office-wide vacation to Antigua.
Use co-presence to foster co-ownership of and collaboration on the space. People have been putting message boards up on community-owned space, because it engages individual occupant/passerby/user in something potentially bigger than themselves. A proof of co-presence's digital success? Chatroulette.
All of these points lead to two simple principles:
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Cre8Camp, the world's first ever unconference for creative professionals
Refresh Portland, a monthly meetup on web design and usability
brashCreative, the Art Institute of Portland's student-run ad agency
A former anthropologer and design strategist at Wieden+Kennedy, Bram Pitoyo now dabbles in the intersection of user experience, architecture, game design and most other subjects, and strives to be a dissident against materialist reductionism.
Despite his long-time affection for typography, he still cannot figure out if this a disease or a vocation.
CyborgCamp, an unconference on human–technology relationship
Portland Tech Twitter, a wiki database that helps you find interesting and relevant technology professionals on Twitter
Open Source Bridge, a platform-inclusive conference for developers who work with, and people who are interested in open source technologies
Research Projects
Legibility and usability of digital typefaces in low-resolution displays
Digital preservation and revival of endangered, indigenous scripts
From Commons To City Hall,
a manual for community managers and organizers to make citywide impact by planning, managing and measuring their events
Social Intelligence Dashboard
Circa 2008, an RSS-powered monitoring tools hacked together from a combination of open source technologies, that helps community managers listen to their users, competitors, opinion leaders and industry trends—shortening the time it takes to manage brands online
With Nielsen Norman Group, January 2012 – Present
Conducted tree testing, card sorting and paper prototype user research sessions and built new information architecture, user experience and visual style for Mozilla Support. Currently designing Mozilla Support on mobile and Firefox Marketplace Developer Hub.
August 2009 – October 2011
Planned, designed, prototyped and developed web experiences for national and global clients like Nokia, Nike and Target, as well as internal use. Managed an online community of viewers, influencers and journalists for Wieden+Kennedy's media lab, WKE.
Air New Zealand
With Small Society and tenfour, February – April 2009
Planned an integrated digital experience to promote the airline's LA – London route utilizing Adobe AIR, Facebook applications, microblogs and an iPhone application. Collaborated with Small Society to research and build an RSS filter for the app's implementation using Yahoo!Pipes and Yahoo! Query Language.
With End Point Corporation, May – June 2009
Developed a MediaWiki theme for Bucardo, a set of PostgreSQL database maintenance tools, that 1) encourages editing, 2) provides access to helpful, commonly overlooked features, & 3) improves readability of code-intensive documentations.
Q2 2008 and February 2009
Designed wireframes and UI pattern library for a web application that facilitates direct democracy. The result was later developed into an application by Pinpoint Logic.
September 2006 – January 2009
Developed brand strategy and researched cultural insights for local and national brands in the creative, health and hospitality industries.
Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program
With CoatesKokes — February 2008
Conducted ethnographic research to serve a yearlong advertising & PR campaign that built public momentum around Oregon's initiative to ban smoking on bars, pubs & restaurants.
On Alchemists
I believe that that sparks, insights and idea cannot be generated in the separate spheres of any field of knowledge. They can only happen in the overlap between those fields of knowledge.
This calls for a type of people that I would call 'Alchemists.' Alchemists are people who, by their diversity of knowledge, are able to build better things.
For example, in the field of User Experience, Alchemists are those who knew not only Ethnography, Usability, Design and Programming, but also Baseball, Viniculture, the art of writing great Emails, and all sorts of human endeavors—that are able to engineer products with not only sound logic (Fitts' Law et al.) and beautiful architecture (code), but also social instinctiveness (graceful gestures.)
On Mashups
Most people think that geeks, designers, and generally all the citizens of the Creative class are just interested in, well, geekery, design, and other creative things. This notion is partly true. Most geeks are in tune with their gadgetry, and most designer worships [insert a mid-century designer / architect / typographer here.]
But to truly succeed, we need to diversify. We must immerse themselves in things that other 'normal people' do. It helps when these 'things' are closely interrelated—my examples above are Ethnography, Usability, Design and Programming—but it needn't always be that way; because in diversification, almost anything and everything helps to add to your success.
The point is, if we are to succeed, we need to:
"Without Bram, I would have been lost about why using Arial is an unforgivable sin."
– Victoria Hartke, copy pundit & frequent partner in crime.
"Keeping things on the down low has proven to be his greatest asset and in my opinion, has secured his position as the back end driver of information discovery."
– Kristin Wall, SEO & SEM maven; also, a grunge photographer in her own right.
"I'm sure if you gave him a Swiss Army knife, duct tape, and let him go to town within 72 hours he"d come back having created the newest update to Adobe Creative Suite...I assume that for Bram to do all this he must either be inhuman or seeking the help of some recreational substitute."
– Cory Brubaker, Creative Director of brashCreative & source of brews, micro or otherwise.
"Type-fanatic..."Elevator-music" enthusiast...Happy guy...Extremely resourceful. He's always a step ahead of everyone."
– Hermicar Gaxiola, best friend & design queen.
"Bram is the epitome of reliable, enthusiastic & knowledgable."
– China Z. Hamilton, fellow researcher & Jill-of-all-creative-trade.
"Show him a design piece and he'll critique the hell out of the typography...in a nice way of course."
– Christine Vo, a visual designer often known for having surprisingly high work ethic & low turnaround time.
– Average success rate of finding materials that a creative person will find highly informative and/or amusing.
Ellinor Maria Rapp's typeface design methodologies, which perfectly summed up how I view typography.
Architectural music video of the moment.
Geek editorial site currently on bookmark.
Song & spoken word of the moment.
Current favorite bedtime reading matter.
Thank you, and good night.


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Ports: Izmir Cruise Port
Once the ancient city of Smyrna, Izmir stands as Turkey's third largest city and one of its most important ports. It has transformed into a modern and bustling commercial centre, with its sweeping Kordon esplanade the perfect place to soak up the Aegean coastal views and a nightlife that is second to none. In addition to exploring its famous Kemeralti Bazaar, Izmir is also on the doorstep of some of Turkey's most impressive ancient sites, including the World Heritage listed city of Ephesus, the Temple of Artemis, the House of the Virgin Mary and the Basilica of St John.
Izmir's Archaeological Museum is a good first port of call, overflowing with exhibits and artefacts that reveal the city's ancient history. You can then see first hand the ruins of Smyrna at the Agora marketplace, now an important excavation site, which dates as far back as 3000 BC.
Most visitors docking in Izmir don't miss the chance to visit the Ancient City of Ephesus, considered one of the most impressive and well-preserved ancient sites in the world. Tour its fascinating ruins, including the Great Theatre, Library of Celsius and Temple of Hadrian, and witness its famed Terrace Houses, before continuing on to the House of the Virgin Mary.
For those with more time, the ancient cities of Pergamon, Miletos, Priene and Didyma all boast impressive ruins and intriguing histories, which can be easily explored on shore excursions from Izmir. Or take the picturesque drive to the "cotton cliffs†of Pamukkale that cascade down a hillside below the ancient ruins of Hierapolis.
Not only is Izmir a vibrant destination in itself, but its proximity to some of Turkey's most impressive ancient wonders make it a deservedly popular destination. Our selection of Izmir shore excursions will enable you to see as much as possible during your stay and have you back at the port well in time for your cruise ship's departure.
Shore Excursions
Ephesus & House of Virgin Mary
Ephesus, House of Virgin Mary
5 hours
60 USD per person
from 53 USD to 237 USD
Pamukkale (UNESCO World Heritage) & Hierapolis
Pamukkale, Hierapolis
11 hours
63 USD per person
from 50 USD to 305 USD
Ephesus & Temple of Artemis
Ancient city of Ephesus, Temple of Artemis
5 hours
52 USD per person
from 45 USD to 206 USD
Priene, Miletos and Didyma
3 Ancient cities of Priene, Miletos and Didyma
8 hours
74 USD per person
from 62 USD to 328 USD
Pergamon & Asclepion
Pergamon, Asclepion, Acropolis
8 hours
60 USD per person
from 48 USD to 252 USD
Ephesus & Sirince Greek Village
Temple of Artemis, Ephesus Ancient City, Sirince Greek Village
5 hours
55 USD per person
from 46 USD to 244 USD
Izmir Highlights
Kemeralti, Kadifekale, Kordon, Elevator, Agora
5 hours
49 USD per person
from 56 USD to 183 USD
Biblical Ephesus Tour
Temple of Artemis, Ephesus, House of Virgin Mary, Basilica of St. John
7 hours
67 USD per person
from 57 USD to 235 USD
Ephesus Exclusive
Temple of Artemis, Ephesus, Terrace Houses, Virgin Mary House, St. John Basilica, Selcuk Ottman Castle Panaroma, Pigeon Castle Panaroma
9 hours
71 USD per person
from 63 USD to 242 USD
Sardes Ancient City
Sardis Ancient City, Temple of Artemis in Sardis
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53 USD per person
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He has been called a race pimp, a racist, a charlatan and a money grubber. Sad for the people following him all the appellations are deserved. His persona when he used to wear his too tight or overstuffed running suits reminded us of Boss Hogg. Now he has shed pounds like a stripper sheds lingerie and he looks like a burlesque of his former self.
It is said he lied about Tawana Brawley. It is said he lied about Yankel Rosenbaum and the connective Crown Heights tragedy and now in these times and in between Crown Heights and today, he has set out to work his alchemy in the most vile way. See the beginning of the new story by Katy Pavlich below, then follow the story to its conclusion.
It's becoming clearer every year that the only thing keeping Al Sharpton relevant is Al Sharpton making up bogus claims of racism. Despite George Zimmerman being acquitted on murder and manslaughter charges by a jury of his peers and despite zero evidence in his trial showing racial bias, Sharpton is planning protests in 100 cities this weekend.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for a "Justice for Trayvon National Day of Action" on Saturday and say demonstrations are planned in more than 100 cities nationwide.
Saying there would not have been a trial in Florida without pressure from activists, Sharpton was confident that continued pressure would result in a federal civil rights case.
"When they're telling you today, 'I don't know if they're going to get a civil rights trial:' We will. And we will get a civil trial," Sharpton said on the "Tom Joyner Morning Show" on Monday morning. "What we've watched the last several weeks was not the system correcting itself, it was the people correcting the system. Now we've got to finish the job."
National Action Network is organizing the protests at federal court buildings to press the Justice Department to bring a civil rights case against George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin by a Florida jury on Saturday.
Sharpton said his National Action Network intends to keep the pressure on until a civil rights case is brought, insisting the protests will show the national anger over the verdict is not a "two- or three-day" thing.


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Web application vulnerability scanner / security auditor
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Wapiti allows to audit the security of web applications in an easy way. It performs a "black-box" scans acting like a fuzzer, injecting payloads to see if an application is vulnerable. It has two principal parts, a crawler that explores the pages of the application and the attack module that injects the payloads and evaluates their responses. Wapiti is easy to use and it can detect the most common vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL Injection, File Handler Errors...). It provides to the user a complete report (html format) with the found vulnerabilities.
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