Amazon.com: Books: Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox : How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean (#)
„With evangelical fervor, Gelernter's book-length essay paints a future where software technology, now isolating people, brings them into impersonal proximity through "mirror worlds." These computer models of reality let users descend to greater depths of detail at will, meet other explorers, and generally get the "big picture" of what's going on. However, Gelernter's own appraisal of the value of computers seems inconsistent and extreme: he claims they are valuable just sitting unused on the coffee table but then insists that the uninitiated will be forced to "sink or swim" (i.e., learn to use computers) in the information sea computers create. His casual style gives the book the feel of a lecture transcript, and his metaphors (e.g., "jettisoned floating landscapes in tuple space") demand considerable hardware and software knowledge to link them with reality. For collections emphasizing computer science.- Doug Kranch, Ambassador Coll.“
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Amazon.com: Books: Cocoa Programming for Dummies
„And the exercises are very practical and clearly explained. Rather than build a book-length, professional quality application, the author builds small, toy applications to demonstrate Cocoa patterns that you can actually use to build your own software. For example, the chapters on text handing, window management, and file and folder management, are clear and concise, allowing the reader to work through them quickly and without complication. This fast and dirty approach, at least for me, had the added benefit of allowing me to get through the book in less than a week, take a step back, and appreciate how all I learned could be used to start building my own, more complex project.“
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ 0764526138
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„Bad taste of regular coffee and impersonal nature of big coffee brands fuelled specialty coffee growth. Peet's Coffee and Tea is the country's first specialty coffee chain which offered quality dark roasted coffee through its roaster-retail bar structure in 1966. Specialty coffee culture took roots from there. As a result of the spread of specialty coffee chains, the essence of gourmet coffee in US soon become synonymous with the dark roast style.“
http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2003/april/ cover_story.html
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BSCA - Brazil Specialty Coffee Association
„The dry winters of the savannah highlands of Bahia and Northern Minas Gerais and their proximity to the Ecuator line yield highly aromatic coffees. The Cerrado highlands of Western Minas Gerais benefit from well defined seasons, uniform maturation and plenty of sunshine in the harvesting season to produce a round cup with perfect balance between body and acidity. The South Minas and Mogiana mountains are well known for coffees with very good body and aroma and a degree of natural sweetness not found elsewhere in the world.“
http://www.bsca.com.br/about.php?lang=en
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„had a similar trajectory. Study and word of mouth led him to Terry Davis of Ambex in nearby Clearwater, and this in turn took him to Monin Syrups, also in Clearwater. For Schorr, a newcomer, proximity to these sources of information and service was reassuring.“
http://www.freshcup.com/2005_jan/gear_up.htm
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Global Exchange : There's a new cause brewing on campuses
„Coffee is brewing social and economic change on US campuses, fair-trade specialists say, and the Boston area is playing a key role, thanks to the region's wealth of colleges and universities and the proximity of two crucial players. Equal Exchange -- the country's first and largest 100 percent fair-trade coffee company -- is in Canton and employs student interns in its Fair Trade Summer program. Boston's Oxfam advises USFT and has a summer fair-trade program, too.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 1736.html
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