Third Thursday Submissions
Calling all artists! You can still send your submissions to the Quinte Arts Council for the monthly Third Thursday Arts and Culture Jam. Click here to find out more information on monthly themes and how to get involved in this exciting and unique program!
Word of the Week:
lethologica: the inability to remember a word or to put your finger on the right word
(www.dictionary.com)
etymology:
The word ‘Lethologica’ is derived from the Greek language – letho (forgetfulness) and logos (word). ‘Letho’ originates from Greek mythology, in that the Lethe (pronounced ‘LEETH-ee’) was one of the rivers that flowed through the realm of Hades. Called the River of Oblivion, the shades of the dead were forced to drink from this river in order to forget their past lives on earth. (http://wikipedia.org/)
Third Thursday Arts & Culture Jam
Come to the library for another great night of wacky fun! This month’s theme is Spin and promises some very interesting performances involving words, paint and actual spinning objects! Admission is free and you can drop in any time between 7 and 9pm.
Municipal Election Results
Neil Ellis takes the cake in his bid for mayor during the 2006 municipal elections. In fact, there will be many changes to city council after voters had their say on Monday. Click here for full election results.
Scotiabank Giller Award Winner!
Last night CTV hosted the Scotiabank Giller Awards Ceremony. The winner of this prize, the largest annual literary prize for fiction in Canada, is Vincent Lam for his debut novel Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures.
We do have one copy at the library and you can put your name on the hold list today! Just visit the library catalogue.
Farewell!
The ladies in Information Services would like to say a final farewell to one of our recently departed comrades. We wish her the best of luck in her new workplace and remind her that she will be greatly missed!
Online Photo Sharing Sites
Looking for an easy way to organize and make backups of your digital photographs? Tired of emailing huge files in order to share your photos with your family and friends? You might want to investigate some of these free photo hosting websites.
Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo! is one of the most popular photo sharing sites right now. You can organize your images into sets (like albums), tag them with subjects, and set varying levels of permission – ie. certain images may be visible only to friends, only to family, or made public. You can easily share your photos by adding contacts, joining communities and can easily send your loved ones a simple link so they can view your photos online. It’s free for a certain amount of uploading each month and for a certain number of photos overall, or you can pay $24.95 a year for extra benefits.
Photobucket is another popular photo sharing site which also allows you to share video. It also works easily with MySpace. It’s also free, and like Flickr, you can pay $25 a year for the extra features.
Shutterfly is one of the other major players on the photo sharing scene. Once again, it’s free, though they do sell prints, cards, calendars, etc. and will try to entice you to buy them.
Other companies, such as Kodak, Black’s and Future Shop, and will allow you to upload and share photos, but will delete after a certain period if you don’t order any prints from them.
Read this Wikipedia article to find out about other photo sharing options and the differences between them.
All Candidates Meeting at Empire Theatre Tonight!
Join the candidates for Belleville City Council as they debate the issues this evening at the Empire Theatre on Front Street in Downtown Belleville. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. and all are welcome!
