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Romantic city breaks more popular than ever for Valentine’s Day according to Holidays direct.co.uk
Valentine city breaks are becoming more popular every year, and new romantic city break destinations are beginning to emerge, online travel agency Holidays-direct.co.uk reports. The old time favourite romantic city breaks in Paris, Rome and Venice are still the most popular choice for Valentine city breaks, but new trendy destinations are emerging. City breaks in Reykjavik, Monaco and Barcelona have become much more popular in recent years, without taking travellers away from the beloved city breaks in Paris, Rome and Venice. This shows that Valentine city breaks have become much more popular among couples. Part of the reason is that new flight routes have provided people with new cheap romantic city break opportunities. Flights to Iceland have become more affordable recently, which is one of the reasons city breaks in Reykjavik have become a popular choice for Valentine's Day holiday. More>>
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Coffee, Tea, or C++?
After sitting in Beijing traffic, I can tell you that this is one useful application.
Developed by a team of four programmers, Live Traffic uses Floating Car Data (also referred to as "Floating Cellular Data") technology to acquire road traffic information anywhere anytime, then publishes mapped traffic information to cell phones via GPRS or EDGE connections. While the total application consists of 8500 lines of code, Pu Zhihua's team ported 2500 lines via Open C in a couple of weeks. The result is an application that identifies traffic patterns by displaying all backed-up routes in red, medium back-ups in yellow, and pedal-to-the-metal throughfares in greenall on your cell phone's display.
TongRen's application is a virtual multimedia courseware application called "MobiClass." TongRen, who is a researcher in the E-Learning Lab at Shanghai Jiaotong University, ported 16,000 lines of code to build MobiClass. More>>
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Study Shatters 'Bisexual Until Graduation' Myth
A new study may shatter the notion that women who identify as bisexual are "sexually confused" or simply in a "transitional phase" between homosexuality and heterosexuality. So says lead study author Lisa Diamond, associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah. In the small study, which began in 1995, Diamond interviewed 79 women in New York state between the ages of 18 and 25 who identified themselves as lesbian, bisexual or "unlabeled."
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