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Friday 5th April 2019 - Egg factor entries.
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Thursday 28th March 2019 - Imagine That trip - the children explored different scientific activities, including circuits, magnets and the light tunnel, completed some crafts activities, including painting a car and painting fridge magnets, and played in imagination village where they became hairdressers, shopkeepers and vets.
Thursday 21st March 2019 - identifying what our school is made out of and why those materials have been used.
Tuesday 12th March - We visited our local church to find out what is inside a church and what it symbolises.
Monday 11th March 2019 - Classify materials of toys.
Thursday 7th March 2019 - World Book Day
Friday 1st March 2019 - We made a book for World Book Day!
Thursday 28th February 2019 - Lowry paintings.
Thursday 14th February 2019 - Valentine's Day
Friday 8th February 2019 - building 3D pictograms.
Tuesday 5th February 2019 - Internet Safety Day - we learnt a song to help us remember how to use the internet safely.
Friday 1st February 2019 - Chinese New Year - Dragon dance
Friday 1st February 2019 - DT - building 3D dinosaur worlds.
Wednesday 30th January 2019 - Snowman building.
Friday 25th January 2019 - Y2's class assembly
Wednesday 16th January 2019 - building bar models to solve problems.
Thursday 10th January 2019 - a visit from a tortoise and a bearded dragon.
Festive Photos! Year 2 would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy new year!
Monday 17th and Wednesday 19th December 2018 - The Little Angel Finds Her Wings! What a fabulous performance from our Y2 and Y6 classes!
Tuesday 18th December 2018 - KS1 Christmas party and a visit from Santa!
Monday 10th December 2018 - Library trip - today we used our library cards, explored the library and read some new books.
Thursday 6th December 2018 - estimating, measuring and comparing metres.
Monday 3rd December 2018 - decorating the Christmas tree assembly
22nd November 2018 - making a picnic for an explorer.
15th November 2018 - the children have been using resources to share and group. They've been challenging themselves to make fact families too.
8th November 2018 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo fruit faces.
18th Oct 2018 - Kittywake Trip - Learning about things in our local area and what it was like 100 years ago.
2nd Oct 2018 - What do plants need to grow? The children have been growing cress seeds, finding out if they can grow without light, soil or water.
24th Sep 2018 - Let's Go Fly A Kite! The children practised flying their kites to get hands on experience to help them with their instructional writing.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It's that time of year again: time for two consecutive weeks of award watch-list unveilings, reminding us all that the start of the college football season is mercifully growing closer.
Kicking off a series of days of watch-list announcements for college football's top awards, the Maxwell and Bednarik Awards both officially revealed their own early candidates Monday. And while Florida State didn't have a player named to the Maxwell Award Watch List, there are three 'Noles featured among the student-athletes listed for the Bednarik.
Senior defensive back Lamarcus Joyner, senior linebacker Christian Jones and junior defensive tackle Timmy Jernigan are each on the watch list for a Bednarik Award given annually to college football's top defensive player.
Monday's announcement marks the second year in a row that Joyner's name is on this particular watch list. On the 2012 list of players, Joyner was grouped with former Seminoles standouts Brandon Jenkins and Xavier Rhodes, who both later became 2013 NFL Draft selections.
After considering an early exit to the NFL where he would have likely been selected like his former teammates, Joyner chose to return for his final season where he will be making a switch from safety to cornerback. In three seasons, Joyner has played in 41 games, racking up 128 tackles and six interceptions. He is also a stellar kick returner, with 1,150 career kick-return yards to his credit.
Jones enters his final year as one of the top outside linebackers in the entire country. The Winter Park, Fla. native is coming off a breakout junior year when he led the entire team in tackles with 95 total stops. For his career, Jones has played in 41 games with 169 total tackles and six sacks.
Jernigan is the only one of the 'Noles trio that isn't a returning full-time starter but that doesn't mean he didn't play starter's snaps in 2012. Playing on a deep and talented defensive line as a sophomore, Jernigan still registered eight tackles for loss and 46 total tackles. Jernigan is widely considered one of the top returning defensive tackles in the nation.
The watch-list countdown continues Tuesday with announcements for the Rimington Trophy and Mackey Award.

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DA STARK Interiors, a Seattle-based interior design firm, is assembling buildings from reused cargo containers in the heart of the Seattle Design District, according to a June 18 press release.
The containers represent the entire exterior structure of the firm's buildings, which were prefabricated off-site. The interiors and other prefab materials will be installed on site in preparation for the grand opening this fall.
Cargo containers are stacked by the thousands in international ports all around the country. With the rising cost of transportation, it is no longer cost effective to ship empty containers back to the country of origin.
"This new, one-of-a-kind project demonstrates that building green does not have to cost more than standard construction, a common issue in today's commercial and residential building industries where 'built-green' is the latest buzzword," said Dixie Stark, principal of DA STARK Interiors.
This unique building is being referred to as "The Greenest Building in Seattle" for its use of both reclaimed material and "green-factor" amenities. Much of the previous structures on the site were re-used by second-use building suppliers for other, low cost green-builds. The new building will incorporate low-V paint, carpet from high-content recycled material, high-efficiency windows, a planted green roof, a 'rain garden' for catching run-off, and other new finish-out building materials.
"We hope the buildings will become a destination for other designers, builders, and city planners as a model for new design and construction. In fact, almost all of the unique design and re-use techniques are also transferable to the residential market," said Stark.


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Hancock Shaker Village, in Massachusetts, is one
example of America's many Utopian communities.
by Polly M. Rettig, Landmark Review Project, 1974
The Shakers were one of many groups establishing utopian
colonies on American soil during the 18th and 19th centuries.
There were hundreds of communal utopian experiments in
the early United States, and the Shakers alone founded
around 20 settlements. While great differences existed
between the various utopian communities or colonies, each
society shared a common bond in a vision of communal living
in a utopian society. The definition of a utopian colony,
according to Robert V. Hine, author of California's
Utopian Colonies, "consists of a group of people who
are attempting to establish a new social pattern based
upon a vision of the ideal society and who have withdrawn
themselves from the community at large to embody that
vision in experimental form." These colonies can, by definition,
be composed of either religious or secular members, the
former stressing (in the western tradition) a community
life inspired by religion while the latter may express
the idealism of a utilitarian creed expedient to establishing
human happiness, with a belief in the co-operative way
of life. The more familiar non-monastic religious communal
movements typical in Western society have generally originated
from a deliberate attempt among various Christian sects
to revive the structure of the primitive Christian community
of first-century Jerusalem, which "held all things in
common" (Acts 2.44; 4.32). This essay explores the origins
and development of the Utopian idea and its arrival in
the United States before giving examples of 19th-century
utopian colonies and some organizations on their ultimate
demise. The Shaker, Rappite and Amana experiments, as
well as the Oneida community and Brook Farm, find their
origins in the European Protestant Reformation and the
later Enlightenment.
The Greek philosopher
Plato (427?-347 BC) wrote the dialogue The Republic,
which involved the search for justice in construction
of an ideal state.
Plato (resembling
Leonardo da Vinci) is a detail from Raffaello Sanzio's
painting, "The School of Athens" painted
in 1510-11. Vatican Collection.
The 19th-century utopian sects can trace their roots
back to the Protestant Reformation. Following the early
Christian communities, communal living developed largely
within a monastic context, which was created by Saint
Benedict of Nursia (480?-543?AD), who founded the Benedictine
order. During the Middle Ages a communal life was led
by several lay religious groups such as the Beghards and
Brothers and Sisters of the Free Spirit. In allowing the
sexes to live in the same community these societies differed
from the earlier Catholic and Orthodox monasteries. The
Protestant Reformation, which originated with the teachings
of Martin Luther (1483-1546) and John Calvin (1509-1564),
changed western European societal attitudes about the
nature of religion and work. One of Luther's beliefs broke
with the medieval conception of labor, which involved
a hierarchy of professions, by stressing that all work
was of equal spiritual dignity. Calvin's doctrines stressed
predestination, which stated that a person could not know
for certain if they were among God's Elect or the damned.
Outwardly a person's life and deeds, including hard work
and success in worldly endeavors, was a sign of possible
inclusion as one of the Elect. These theological ideals
about work were stressed in the various American religious
utopian societies. The Shakers, for example, believed
in productive labor as a religious calling, and the Amana
Inspirationists saw labor as productive and good, part
of God's plan of contributing to the community.
In the wars and general disorder following the establishment
of Protestant sects in northern Europe, many peasants
joined Anabaptist and millenarian groups, some of which,
like the Hutterian Brethren, practiced communal ownership
of property. To avoid persecution several of these groups
immigrated to America, where the idea of communal living
developed and expanded. The first significant group was
the Ephrata Community (now a National Historic Landmark),
established in 1732 in Pennsylvania. Much of this community
was destroyed when Ephrata's members cared for the injured
soldiers following the battle of Brandywine in 1777. Typhus
set in, killing both soldiers and residents. By the end
of the century the cloister's vitality was gone. It was
not until the first half of the 19th century that a great
expansion of communitarian experiments took place on American
soil. Inexpensive and expansive land, unhampered by government
regulations in a time when progress and optimism shaped
people's beliefs, created a fertile milieu for the establishment
of utopian societies. Europe, in the early 19th century,
was emerging from a long history of religious and dynastic
wars, and America, in contrast, became a location where
people could start over, the "New Eden" that beckoned
colonists across the Atlantic Ocean.
Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry
VIII and author of "Utopia"
by Hans Holbein theYounger (1497?-1543): Sir Thomas
More, Copyright Frick Collection, New York
Brook Farm: Some of the secular utopian communities
in the United States found inspiration from ideas and
philosophies originating in Europe. Transcendentalism
began as a term developed by the German philosopher Immanuel
Kant (1724-1804) embodying those aspects of man's nature
transcending, or independent of, experience. Taking root
in America, Transcendentalism created a cultural renaissance
in New England during 1830-45 and received its chief American
expression in Ralph Waldo Emerson's individualistic doctrine
of self-reliance. Some Transcendentalists decided to put
their theories about "plain living" into practice. This
experiment in communal living was established at West
Roxbury, Massachusetts, on some 200 acres of land from
1841 to 1847. The Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture
and Education became better known than many other communal
experiments due to the distinguished
Oneida Community Mansion
House, Madison County, New York
Photograph courtesy
of Oneida Ltd.
The Demise of the 19th-Century Utopian Colonies: Numerous
religious and social communal groups developed in the
19th century. By the end of the century even Theosophical
colonies, based off Madame Blavatasky's merging of eastern
and western mysticism, had cropped up in such places as
Point Loma and Temple Home, near San Diego, California.
Other groups included the Zoarites in Ohio, the Moravians
of North Carolina, and the followers of German-born Wilhelm
Keil, a Methodist minister heavily influenced by the pietist
movement, who founded colonies in Bethel, Missouri, and
Aurora, Oregon. Yet of all these utopian groups only the
Amana Inspirationists developed and built a network of
seven villages set in an agricultural region. They managed
to survive by modifying their system into two distinct
organizations, one secular and one spiritual. The Inspirationists
of Amana founded their communities with an agricultural
basis as did other communal groups in the United States.
Both men and women labored, although in Amana women's
work did not include trades and the ministry as it did
in the Shaker communities. Among the Shaker communities,
the only one to survive and remain active beyond the 20th-century
is the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community, in New Gloucester,
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Data Suggests This Fun Console Had the Best Launch Titles
A new study done on the aggregate review scores for launch games of the last ten consoles reveals some startling statistics about which device had the most quality titles available.
With nearly a month passed since the launch of the Wii U, Gamasutra took it upon themselves to take a harder look at how the very first titles to grace a console have performed since 2005's PlayStation launch. Using a host of review scores from sites like Metacritic and Game Rankings, Gamasutra compared the launch windows of each of the past ten consoles to discover which performed the best.
Sifting through all the compiled data was no easy task, but the numbers provided revealed some interesting facts about games over the last seventeen years. Based on the stats, the Nintendo Gamecube had the best average reviews for its launch games, with the Xbox 360 following close behind. The PlayStation had the worst average scores, with the Wii barely escaping the bottom rung.
Interestingly enough, the numbers also showed the Wii U had the largest spread amongst its early reviews, with even more still being recorded. The PlayStation 3 and Wii also had large sample sizes, which dwarfed those of the PlayStation and the Nintendo 64. That discrepancy could be attributed to the number of outlets creating reviews increasing in recent years.
While the study didn't presume to draw any particular conclusion from the statistics, it certainly provided a new perspective on the history of consoles.


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Weird AF: Kanye West Subliminal Messages In The Song "Mercy"?
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Darko Bodnaruk needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 405 designs submitted by 80 freelance designers.
We are a startup in the telecommunications industry. Our main product is a PBX (i.e. a call server / telephony solution) for small and medium enterprises. The main selling points for the IT department is that it's easy to install & maintain. To the end users it brings unification of communication channels and a web-based interface greatly simplifies use of voice communication, messaging, conferencing and coworker presence awareness.
In the near future we will be launching a very innovative phone with a tangible user inteface, which will greatly simplify use of (landline) telephony. It is somewhat aimed at the elderly and the disabled but we anticipate interest among the general population as well.
We plan to sell our products mainly via system integrators, telcos and small businesses, not directly to end users. Therefore the logo needs to be serious to a certain extent.
The logo will be used both on the web and on business cards, so keep it simple: nothing too intricate, don't use too many colors. We like minimalism.
We have no color preference, but the logo should look good on both white and black.
The logo should project
- telecommunications (connecting people)
- simplicity / usability (main selling point of our products)
- we're dynamic & innovative (our strength as a startup)
- professionalism & reliability (very important in selling telecommunications equipment)
You can use an obelisk in the logo but it is not required, use whatever you think projects the above values.
I will gladly give feedback what I like about your creations.
Vector format is required!
Please no stock clipart, no gradients, no web2.0-style water reflections.
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text: A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad, and moving novel is about religion, sex, and the fight between good and evil. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,7


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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander delivered a second sample of Martian dirt to its onboard wet chemistry laboratory, NASA officials said Monday.
Data beamed back to Earth on Sunday night confirmed that Phoenix's robotic arm had successfully delivered the sample to the instrument, which tests the composition of the dirt by mixing it with water in one of four teacup-sized beakers.
Results from testing this sample will be compared to results from the first sample analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory two weeks ago. That laboratory is part of Phoenix's Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer.
The results for the first wet chemistry test suggested that the Martian regolith contained several soluble minerals necessary for life, including potassium, magnesium and chloride.
The main activity on the lander's schedule for Monday was testing a method for scraping up a sample of icy material and getting it into the scoop at the end of the robotic arm. On June 26, Phoenix scraped down to the subsurface icy layer in the "Wonderland" digging area and used a rasp to shave off some samples for later testing, but no material was actually in the scoop.
A short circuit last month in one of TEGA's ovens could happen again when the instrument is turned back on, so Phoenix mission scientists will treat the next TEGA sample delivery as if it will be the last.
The $420 million mission landed on May 25 and is expected to operate for about three months (90 Martian days).
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SAN JOSE — San Jose State's leading scorer James Kinney and starting forward Louis Garrett did not travel with the Spartans on their current road trip as they serve indefinite suspensions for violating team rules.
The pair were not in the lineup for Thursday's 73-37 loss to Denver. They will not play in Saturday's game at New Mexico State and also did not make the trip when San Jose State lost to Utah State on Jan. 11.
After the Utah State game, Nessman said the players "were left behind this trip for failure to meet team policies," according to a San Jose State release.
Reached Friday night, Kinney declined to discuss the suspension but said: "It's something that me and the coaching staff are working on together to get resolved and it will be handled soon."
"They had something they need to do at home," Nessman also said in the release. "They will be unavailable to us, by our choice, until they get these situations rectified. It is unfortunate, but it happens. They are young men and are going to make mistakes."
The Spartans traveled back home to San Jose after the Utah State game before hitting the road again. After losing at Denver on Thursday, SJSU headed to Las Cruces, N.M., to face New Mexico State.
It's the second suspension this season for Kinney, who did not play in a Dec. 22 loss to James Madison in Las Vegas. That was also due to a violation of team rules.
Kinney is averaging 20.6 points per game, which leads the Western Athletic Conference. The Spartans are 9-5 with Kinney in the lineup and 0-3 without him.
Garrett, in his first year at SJSU after transferring from Salt Lake Community College, has started seven games, including the last six before his suspension. He had a season-high of 21 points in a win over Seattle on Jan. 5 and backed that up with 14 points in a win over New Orleans on Jan. 8. He hasn't played since.
The 37 points scored in the blowout loss to Denver was the fewest since scoring 36 in a loss to Cal in 2011 and the second-lowest point total in Nessman's eight years as coach.
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Les impressions magiques
Les impressions magiques
Offset print, lithographic mark-making techniques, 25.5 x 16.5 cm, 28 pages
We started working on offset printing experiments while we were designing with Körner union and Tatiana Rihs a pedagogic booklet, called Acid Test.
During our stay in the atelier of the Federal Office of Culture in New York, we designed directly in the print shop a booklet called "Les impressions magiques" using the quadrichromic system (cmyk) and other colors. The interventions were made directly on the offset plate using several tools and chemical processes, based on the ancient lithography techniques and advanced technology of offset printing. All the process was analogical and irreversible, from crop marks to overprinting. The design process became almost a part of the production.


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It's a rare sighting — a plant pathologist at a Georgia corn meeting. But it may become more common as diseases continue to cause problems for the state's corn growers.
"There's a perception out there, and it may or may not be true, that it's just not economical to control diseases of corn with fungicides," says Bob Kemerait, University of Georgia Extension plant pathologist. "But growers are concerned about diseases in corn production, and some diseases have become more important in recent years."
Corn fields in Georgia rarely are decimated by disease," he adds.
"But that doesn't mean there aren't losses. Any time there are diseases in a field, there are losses. Severe losses might be restricted to specific fields, varieties or poor soil types."
Disease losses can be minimized significantly by efficient management decisions, notes Kemerait. "Anything you can do to grow healthier corn will mean fewer disease problems. Using fungicides generally isn't considered an economic practice in Georgia corn, but we'll continue to look at this option in the coming years," he says.
Even though diseases are considered less of a threat in corn than in peanuts, Georgia corn growers still are losing more than $10 million annually to diseases, says Kemerait.
The primary leaf or foliar diseases of Georgia corn are Southern leaf blight and rust, accounting for more than $3 million in losses, he says. Growers need to find economical ways of managing these diseases, says Kemerait.
Plant pathologists, he says, talk about a "disease triangle" composed of three parts - the host, which would be the type of corn variety; the pathogen, which would be the fungi or nematode causing the disease; and the environment.
"Environmental conditions are extremely important in the development of diseases. If you have the correct pathogen and the wrong host, you'll still have the disease if environmental conditions are favorable. If environmental conditions aren't favorable, you won't have the disease," says Kemerait.
The most common causes of seedling diseases on corn in Georgia are rhizoctonia and pythium, he says. "One of the primary reasons for seedling disease is when we plant into conditions that don't favor rapid germination and growth of the seed. Anything that slows down germination and slows down vigorous plant growth will cause problems. Warmer soils are more favorable for promoting rapid germination and less seedling diseases."
The first thing growers can do to prevent seedling disease is to plant quality seed, he advises. Most corn seed planted in Georgia already is treated with at least one fungicide, he adds.
"Rotation with non-grass crops is another step we can take to prevent seedling diseases. The rhizoctonia species that attack corn aren't the same ones that give us problems in cotton and peanuts. Rotating corn with a non-grass crop will give us fewer problems with seedling diseases."
Many of the fungi and pathogens that cause diseases in corn survive between seasons, says Kemerait, so it's imperative that growers practice good field sanitation after a crop is harvested, including removing old crop debris.
Stalk rot, he says, is caused by several pathogens, with bacterial stalk rot being more common on Georgia corn. "It's very environmentally sensitive, and we see it more often in wet weather. It's common after tasseling, particularly when you've received excessive rainfall. Rainfall predisposes the stalk to rapid colonization by the pathogens that cause stalk rot."
Stalk rot is managed primarily by IPM rather than by fungicides, says Kemerait, with crop rotation and proper fertility offering the best defense against the disease.
"You're less likely to have lodging if you have a good fertility program. Good fertility insures that plants will be strong and less susceptible to stalk rot. Anything that might cause a wound in the stalk, including insects and other pathogens, can lead to stalk rot. Also, nematodes can weaken the plant, making it more susceptible to stalk rot.
"Minimizing moisture stress also will help prevent stalk rot. In addition, timely harvest is beneficial. The more quickly you can harvest, and the less time corn spends in the field, the less likely you'll have lodging problems. There's evidence from other states that Bt corn may offer limited benefits because it may reduce the amount of insect feeding damage."
Moisture is a necessary requirement, says Kemerait, for the development of foliar diseases in corn. Moisture is important for spore germination, he says.
"The most important factor — in addition to moisture — both for bacterial and fungal infection is warm temperatures. The warmer the temperature, the more likely you'll have good growing conditions for bacteria and fungi."
Common rust, he says, generally is found on plants relatively early in the season and grows best in cooler temperatures. Southern rust is favored by the hot, humid temperatures that occur later in the season. There's a perception among growers, he says, that common rust now is more widespread in Georgia.
"Common rust and Southern rust both have been related to substantial disease losses, especially in the southwest region of the state. Growers are losing yields from these diseases, and that's one reason we're taking a closer look at using fungicides."
Corn growers have seen more Southern leaf blight in recent years, says Kemerait. Southern leaf blight reduced yields this past year in the southwestern portion of the state.
"We saw a lot more Southern leaf blight in 2001 than in 2000, and this was repeated last year. There wasn't much difference in the temperature ranges in 2000 and 2001, but rainfall amounts were different. With a wetter and cooler spring predicted for this year, we can expect to see more seedling and foliar diseases early in the season."
Southern leaf blight, he says, probably is the most important disease of corn in Georgia, with the exception of mycotoxins. "The best way to manage this disease in Georgia is with variety selection. There isn't complete variety resistance, but there is some. Crop rotation and field sanitation are very important in controlling this disease."
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HURON, S.D. (AP) - A 45-year-old man who escaped from the Beadle County Jail by using a makeshift weapon to hold a guard hostage is returning to prison.
KOKK radio reports that Charles Beeney was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in the South Dakota Penitentiary on an aggravated eluding charge from December. In that case, he was accused of stealing fuel from a Jerauld County farm and leading authorities on a chase that ended with him crashing a pickup near Alpena.
Beeney escaped from the Beadle County Jail Tuesday but was captured that night in Sioux Falls. He has a criminal history in Kansas and North Dakota, including a jail escape in North Dakota seven years ago.
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The gynaecological disease affecting over 176 million women and girls world-wide!
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Endometriosis is a disease that affects women and girls, mainly in their reproductive years.
It is a gynaecological condition that causes painful periods and heavy bleeding as the main symptoms. It is caused by the abnormal growth of cells (endometrial cells) around the pelvic cavity. These cells are similar to those found in the lining of the womb called endometrial cells.
Endometriosis develops when the endometrial cells become implanted around the pelvic cavity and on the surface of other organs in the pelvic cavity and continue to grow. These stray cells behave the same way as the cells in the lining of the womb and respond to the hormones of your monthly cycle.
In response to hormones and the menstrual cycle these cells thicken, then break down with your period. However, as there is nowhere for these cells to go, they become trapped. This process is then repeated every month and these cells become larger and then develop into endometriosis, causing cysts, adhesions and scar tissue.
The most common symptoms are pelvic pain, and heavier periods. The number of days that pain occurs can also increase and some women have reported being in pain most of the month. It is also common to have pain with urination, pain with bowel movements, and pain with intercourse.
The common early signs and symptoms of the disease include:
There are various tests used to diagnose endometriosis. However, the only way to get a confirmed diagnosis is by surgery with a procedure called Laparoscopy, where the surgeon can visible see the implants or cysts of endometriosis in the pelvic cavity.
In the early stages of presenting your symptoms to a health care provider, a physical exam including a pelvic exam will be performed. There can be many problems obtaining a true diagnosis, as this disease has similar symptoms to various other health problems including Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and IBS being the most common.
There are various surgical and drug treatments for endometriosis, and the choice of treatment is usually determined by the severity of the disease.
The most common treatments offered include:
Using natural treatments is gradually gaining more interest and in many cases can provide long term success. This successes can include total reduction in symptoms, being able to achieve full term pregnancy, and returning to normal activities in life.
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If you suspect you have endometriosis you need to get diagnosed as soon as possible, because the longer this disease is left unchecked, the more damage it will do. If your symptoms are not being taken seriously by your health care provider, then you need to seek a second opinion.
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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, to wealthy German-Jewish immigrants. At the age of three, her family moved first to Vienna and then to Paris. They returned to America in 1878 and settled in Oakland, California. Her mother, Amelia, died of cancer in 1888 and her father, Daniel, died in 1891.
Stein attended Radcliffe College from 1893 to 1897, where she specialized in Psychology under noted psychologist William James. After leaving Radcliffe, she enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied medicine for four years, leaving in 1901. Stein did not receive a formal degree from either institution.
In 1903, Stein moved to Paris with Alice B. Toklas, a younger friend from San Francisco who would remain her partner and secretary throughout her life. The couple did not return to the United States for over thirty years. During World War I, they volunteered together, driving supplies to hospitals in France.
Together with Toklas and her brother Leo, an art critic and painter, Stein took an apartment on the Left Bank. Their home, 27 rue de Fleurus, soon became gathering spot for many young artists and writers including Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire.
She was a passionate advocate for the "new" in art, her literary friendships grew to include writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, Djuana Barnes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. It was to Hemingway that Stein coined the phrase "the lost generation" to describe the expatriate writers living abroad between the wars.
By 1913, Stein's support of cubist painters and her increasingly avant-garde writing caused a split with her brother Leo, who moved to Florence. Her first book, Three Lives, was published in 1909. She followed it with Tender Buttons (Claire Marie) in 1914.Tender Buttons clearly showed the profound effect modern painting had on her writing. In these small prose poems, images and phrases come together in often surprising ways—similar in manner to cubist painting. Her writing, characterized by its use of words for their associations and sounds rather than their meanings, received considerable interest from other artists and writers, but did not find a wide audience.
Among Stein's most influential works are The Making of Americans (1925); How to Write (1931); The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), which was a best-seller; and Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems [1929-1933] (1956). Sherwood Anderson in the introduction to Geography and Plays (1922) wrote that her writing "consists in a rebuilding, and entire new recasting of life, in the city of words."
Stein died at the American Hospital at Neuilly on July 27, 1946, of inoperable cancer.
Selected Bibliography
Three Lives (1909)
Tender Buttons (Claire Marie, 1914)
Geography and Plays (1922)
The Making of Americans (written 1906-1908, published 1925)
Four Saints in Three Acts (libretto, 1929; music by Virgil Thomson, 1934)
How to Write (1931)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
Lectures in America (1935)
The Geographical History of America: or, The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (1936)
Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
Picasso (1938)
Paris France (1940)
Ida; a novel (1941)
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)
Brewsie and Willie (1946)
The Mother of Us All (libretto, published 1949; music by Virgil Thompson 1947)
Last Operas and Plays (1949)
The Things as They Are (written as Q.E.D. in 1903, published 1950)
Patriarchal Poetry (1953)
Alphabets and Birthdays (1957)


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Sun Microsystems, a company that has been making noise lately in the Linux desktop market with StarOffice 7 and Java Desktop, is currently working on an experimental 3D successor to Java Desktop that they believe will change the way we interact with computers, and in the end elevate the popularity of Linux in general.
Looking Glass is still very much in the planning stage, but a demonstration on the Sun Web site offers a glimpse of what it could be capable of.
In the demonstration, Jonathan Schwartz, vice president of Sun's software group, increases the transparency of a window so that you can see through it, turns a window on its side so that it sits at the edge of a screen like a book on a book shelf, turns a window completely around and leaves a note on the back, and takes a database of CDs presented as physical CDs, that you flip through, reading the labels, just as you would with real CDs, until you locate the one you want.
Juan Carlos Soto, the head of Project Looking Glass says one of the company's motivations for this operating system is that most windowing environments were developed in the 70s and 80s and were designed for the limitations of the hardware at the time including computational, graphics system and memory limitations.
"One of the things we wanted to do was revisit the paradigm that's been around for a long time and unlock some of this [updated] capability of the hardware and create a more compelling and more useable experience for the desktop users. We believe the Linux desktop is a compelling desktop and there's no reason it should be standing still or following any other platform for features for the user, so we embarked on Looking Glass and we are rapidly working to formalize the implementation," Soto says.
Sun saw great potential in Looking Glass from its beginnings as an experimental proof of concept. "When we saw the prototype and saw a great opportunity, we built an engineering team around the idea. What we are doing is dissecting the original concept and rebuilding it using traditional desktop graphics technologies," Soto says.
While it certainly sounds like an attractive approach to an operating system, analysts say it's too early to say what impact (if any) Looking Glass could have on Linux or the general operating system market. Tom Murphy, senior program director at Meta Group, wants to know what they will do with it.
"I think in and of itself, it has a big wow effect. It's cute to see these things like 3D animations of stuff moving around and think of collaborative space, but how does it make my business more productive?" Murphy wonders. He believes, they need to tie the product to business productivity to make it successful. "As it's shown (in the demonstration), if it's not going to make me more productive, then who cares?"
Steve O'Grady, an analyst at Red Monk, agrees to some extent, but he thinks it could give the current crop of operating systems a run for its money. "Its eye 'candiness' certainly rivals Apple and what I've seen of Longhorn. In relation to the current Linux interfaces, Gnome or KDE, the overall quality of the display is a significant improvement. In terms of what it means to Linux, it depends on how it's released, and on what form it takes," O'Grady says.
O'Grady believes that an operating system like Looking Glass could give Linux an edge on the desktop. "Much of the current crop of Linux offering are certainly competitive and solid in their own right, but don't have the same wow factor. With Looking Glass that would change and people would say with that UI, it is one of the best in the game," O'Grady says.
Sun has always had an odd relationship with the open source community in the past with some not happy about Java licensing requirements and other complaints about their approach to Linux, and although distribution terms are still unclear, Sun is clearly making overtures to the Linux community regarding Looking Glass.
Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata thinks the licensing decision will be a key to the success or failure of Looking Glass. "They would have to make a compelling case not to be open. There is a lot of controversy around Java not being open source, and they have good arguments, but it would be a more difficult argument to make around a user interface. I would fear if they did that, it would significantly undermine its adoption," Haff says.
Sun's Soto says it's too soon to say how they'll deal with licensing and distribution issues, but they are having internal discussions about it and all options are on the table. Sun has made it clear they want Looking Glass to be a part of the open source community and to get open source community buy-in on the project. He says, they are just beginning to engage third parties in discussions, so they can build Looking Glass without undermining core Linux elements.
"We are reviewing the upcoming expert meetings around this technology and trying to get on the agenda for the relevant ones and include larger segments of the community," Soto says.
To that end, Sun will be traveling to meetings to discuss Looking Glass developments with members of the Linux community beginning at the end of April at the X Windows Systems Developer's Meeting to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 28-30.
As an organization, Sun appears to be taking the project very seriously bringing in resources from around the company to participate in Looking Glass development including operating system experts, graphics experts and Java experts among others. Given their recent financial issues such as having their bond rating lowered to junk status by Standard and Poors earlier this month, it's important for them to have a high-profile desktop project like Looking Glass to show that they are on the cutting edge of Linux development.
"The company sees [this project] as fairly important. We view ourselves as innovators. We want to push the desktop to be as compelling and innovative as possible and Looking Glass is one example of that," Soto says.


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Keynes is best known for suggesting fiscal stimulus policies and programs to increase aggregate demand to get out of a deep recession. Since the marginal propensity to consume is positive and less than one; the bigger it is, the larger the fiscal multipliers will be and the faster we will get out of a recession. Conventional Keynesian multipliers are meant for closed economies (no leakages from demand through imports and the effect of the fiscal expansion on the exchange rate further reduced multiplier) and do not consider the total debt position of the country. More generally, the fiscal multipliers of an expansionary fiscal policy will be bigger if the leakages are minimized, an accommodative monetary policy is implemented, and the fiscal position of the country is sustainable after the initial change in fiscal policy. Historically, multipliers on government spending are estimated to be in the range of 1.5 to 2, while tax-cut multipliers can be much smaller, say 0.5 to 1.
But the world is a drastically changed place, particularly during this global crisis, ant the various multipliers are likely to be much smaller because of leakages in a globalized world in the form of higher imports from rest of the world. Also, the various multipliers may work at cross purposes and the cumulative effect may be much smaller as shown in Vegh et al. (2009). The full effect of fiscal policy multipliers in the first round is smaller in models that incorporate a sensitivity of the private investment to the interest rate. Public investment might crowd-out private investment in implementation of fiscal stimulus packages. The crowding-out is the result of an expansionary fiscal policy causing the interest rates to increase and thereby reducing the private investment as financing becomes expensive.
The main challenges in estimating the size of multipliers relate to identification and attribution problems as well as the structure of the model used in the estimation process. Fiscal policy is usually deployed with other policies and many factors come into play at the same time. Moreover, the impact of fiscal policy can be felt over many years by which time other policies and factors may have changed as well. There is a long literature on the empirics of multipliers, particularly for advanced economies. Focusing on recent studies, one could summarize that:
- In recessions, government spending rather than tax-cuts has to do "the heavy lifting"1 as historically, multipliers on government spending are estimated to be in the range of 1.5 to 2, while multipliers for tax cuts can be much smaller, say 0.5 to 1. However, Taylor (2008) points out that the 2008 May tax rebates of $300-600 per person by the Bush administration did not avert an economic recession in the fourth quarters of 2008. The small and insignificant effect of tax rebates in 2001 and 2008 conforms to the permanent income and life-cycle theories of consumption in which temporary increases in income are predicted to lead to small increases in consumption.
- In contrast, Moody's Economy.com model indicated that multiplier for low-income and liquidity-constrained consumers is 1.73 for unemployment benefits, and 1.64 for food stamps, and 1.36 when money is transferred to the states.
- Fiscal multipliers vary widely across countries and decreased over time and spending multipliers are estimated to be in the range of zero to two (Bryant and others 1988). In Vegh et al. (2009) fiscal multipliers tend to be lower for advanced or high income countries than emerging or developing ones; they are bigger for countries following fixed exchange rate regimes than for those adopting flexible regimes and they tend to be bigger for closed economies than open-economies. The main reason is that the more open an economy the higher likelihood of leakages from the domestic economy in the form of spending on imports.
- When credit markets are impaired, tax cuts as well as income earned from government spending on goods and services, will not be leveraged by the financial system to nearly the same extent, resulting in (much) smaller multipliers. The conventional IS-MP model fails to deal with 'dysfunctional financial markets' or the liquidity trap, a condition that is currently prevalent in many advanced and emerging economies, in which banks are willing to lend only to the 'safest' of the borrowers.
As a matter of fact, while the structure of the economy and dynamics behind the multiplier is more complicated than the standard text books indicate, it is crucial to really understand important factors such as the role of housing and stock in households' wealth and in firms' balance sheets. Also, understanding credit frictions or lending rates is very important as those rates affect not only firms' investments but also the optimal monetary policy of any central bank.
The estimates of Vegh et al (2009) shown above explain the so far weak impact of the large US fiscal stimulus package of over $757 billion during 2009, and also explain why the tax-refunds of $150 billion in mid-2008 by the Bush administration did not prevent a US recession in later half of 2008.
1. Feldstein, Martin (January 2009) estimates that the marginal propensity to consume out of disposable income is 0.7, while the marginal propensity to consume out of reduction in taxes and tax rebates is only 0.13.


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Jeremy began his career as an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley. He left the Intel Corporation in 1985 to start Seagull Scientific, back in the early days of barcodes and before Windows even existed. Along the way, Jeremy has worn many hats, from writing Seagull's first code to taping closed its first boxes. As Seagull began to take off, he was fortunate to recruit elite technical and business talent and take advantage of a number of extraordinary opportunities as they unfolded. Jeremy is especially proud that Seagull has paid for its growth using company profits alone and been debt free for the entirety of its more than 30 years in business.
Harold joined Seagull as a software developer in 1988, just as the company was getting off the ground. He leveraged his strong technical background to lead the Engineering teams, eventually becoming Seagull's first Chief Technology Officer. In 2006, Harold assumed additional responsibilities as President/CTO, before becoming Seagull's President in 2012, and President and CEO in 2016.
Ian is responsible for all product design and development activities worldwide. He joined Seagull in 1997 as a developer of Windows printer drivers, and led the printer driver team for 10 years before taking over the applications team. Prior to joining Seagull, he was an independent shareware developer with experience on multiple platforms dating back to the early 80's.
Steve leads the Marketing team worldwide, and joined Seagull in 2013. He brings 25 years of experience in international marketing and communications for business technology users and channel sales partners, including 12 years as a Marketing Director at Kofax, a global, channel-based software manufacturer.
Wayne is responsible for all accounting, finance, human resources and legal activities worldwide. He joined Seagull in 2013, bringing with him 25 years of diverse business and accounting experience. As a CPA, Wayne has held positions with local and international accounting firms, and he also worked at a software company which he helped nurture from the early startup stage through acquisition by an international media company.
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Actress Jennifer Aniston has dismissed rumors she has been forced to postpone her nuptials to fiance Justin Theroux on numerous occasions, insisting they have yet to decide on a wedding date.
The star became engaged to Theroux last summer, and reports have suggested the couple has repeatedly had to cancel plans to tie the knot due to work commitments, trouble in the relationship and delays in the renovations of its new Bel Air, Calif., mansion, where the actors are said to have wanted to hold the ceremony.
However, the bride-to-be is adamant the claims are all false because they are happy to simply enjoy their engagement period as they already feel like husband and wife.
Aniston tells the Associated Press, "We have yet to set any dates. There have been no cancelled weddings. There have been no postponed weddings. There have been no arguments about where to get married. Just clearing all that up…
"We just want to do it when it's perfect, and we're not rushed, and no one is rushing from a job or rushing to a job. And, you know, we already feel married."


text: Has neuroscience been on the wrong track for centuries? Justin Pickard/Flickr March 16, 2017 The brain: a radical rethink is needed to understand it Henrik Jörntell, Lund University There's both money and prestige invested in the simple idea that different brain areas are responsible for certain functions. But that doesn't make it true.


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Set in the year 2048 in a world where Governments have outsourced military operations to Private Military Corporations (PMC), you play a newly enlisted soldier seeking fulfillment and thrills by fighting for a good cause. As the leading PMC, Mantel Global Industries offers a high-tech arsenal of vehicles, deadly weaponry, and on top of that a performance enhancing bio-medical support known as Nectar. As a result, Mantel troopers are the most feared by terrorists, dictators, and the corporation's political enemies. Your conflict begins in a war-torn country where you have been sent to fight a vicious rebel faction, the Promise Hand. At first glance, all is well, but things quickly begin to look a little strange...
NOTE: This game was originally announced as a multiplatform title, but plans moved towards Haze being a PS3-exclusive in mid-development. It is no longer planned for release on this platform.
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text: On 13/06/12 12:21, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > On 06/13/12 10:59, Peter wrote: >> On 12/06/12 18:56, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: >>> On 06/08/12 20:06, Bill Broadley wrote: >>>> A new user on one of my GigE clusters submits batches of 500 jobs that >>>> need to randomly read a 30-60GB dataset. They aren't the only user of >>>> said cluster so each job will be waiting in the queue with a mix of others. >>> With a 160TB cluster and only a 30-60GB dataset, is there any reason why >>> the user isn't simply storing their dataset in HDFS? Does the data >>> change frequently via a non-MapReduce framework such that it needs to be >>> pulled from NFS before every job? If the dataset is in a few dozen >>> files and in HDFS in the cluster, there is no reason why MapReduce >>> shouldn't spawn it's tasks directly "on" the data, without need (most of >>> the time) for moving all of the data to every node as you mention. >> From experience this can have varied results and still requires careful >> management/thought. With HDFS if the replicate number is 3 (often the >> default case) and the 30 node cluster has 500 jobs then either an > > initial step is required to replicate the data to all other cluster > > nodes and then perform the analysis (this imposes the expected network / > > disk IO impact and job start up latency already in place). > > > > It really shouldn't require much management, nor initial data movement > at all. BTW, I understood 500 jobs to be totally agnostic about each > other, as if they were calculating different things using the same > dataset. If these are 500 tasks within the same job, well, that's an > entirely different matter. If they are just jobs, it really doesn't > matter if there are 5 or 500, as by default with Hadoop 0.20 at least > jobs are executed in FIFO order. Further, if the user programmed his or > her application to be configurable for number of mappers and reducers, > it is trivial to match the number of mappers to the slots in the system > and reducers similarly (though often reducers is something much lower, > like 1 per node). > > Assuming the 30GB dataset is in 30 1GB files, which shouldn't be hard to > guarantee or achieve, each node will get 1 of these files. Therefore > the user simply specifies that he or she wants (let's assume 2 map slots > per node) 60 map tasks, and Hadoop will silently try to make sure each > task ends up on one of the three nodes (assuming default triplication) > that have a local data copy. > >> Alternatively keep the replication at 3 (or a.n.other defined number) >> and limit the number of jobs to the available resources where the data >> replicates pre-exist. The challenge is finding the sweet spot for the >> work in progress and as always nothing is ever free. > With only 30 nodes and 30 to 60GB of data, I think it is safe to assume > the data exists /everywhere/ in the cluster. Even if Hadoop was stupid > and randomly selected a node there would be a 1/10 chance the data was > already there, and it's not stupid, so it will check all three of the > nodes with replicas before spawning the task elsewhere. Now if there > are 1000 nodes and just 30GB of data, then Hadoop will make sure your > tasks are prioritized on the nodes that have your data or at least, in > the same rack as the nodes that have it. > >> So HDFS does not remove the replication process although it helps to >> hide the processes involved. > As I've said, if you set things up properly, there shouldn't be much, if > any, replication, and Hadoop doesn't help to hide the replication -- it > totally obscures the process. You have no hand in doing so. > >> The other joy encountered with HDFS is that we found it can be less than >> stable in a multi user environment, this has been confirmed by various >> others so as always care is required during testing. > I'll concede that original configuration can be tough, but I've assisted > with management of an HDFS instance that stored ~60TB of data and over > 10 million files, both as scratch and for users home dirs. It is > certainly stable enough for day to day use. > >> There are alternatives to HDFS which can be used in conjunction with >> Hadoop but I'm afraid I'm not able to recommend any in particular as >> it's been a while since I last kicked the tyres. Is this something that >> others have more recent experience with and can recommend an alternative ? > I'm working on an alternative to HDFS as we speak, which bypasses HDFS > entirely and allows people using MapReduce to run directly against > multiple NAS boxes as if they were a single federated storage system. > I'll be sending something out to this list about the source when I > release it. > > Best, > Many thanks for your comments Ellis, I read the initial Q that the full data set may be required by any job so an upgrade to my personal filters may be required :). If this were the case then post job submission it becomes a wait until a node with the data becomes available or alternatively a copy to a.n.other node needs to take place before it can be used for the task at hand. At this point it's sort of a balance between how many nodes are available immediately for the task and how long do you wish to wait, either for the FIFO tasks to complete on a subset of available nodes or the copy to take place. Given that 30-60Gb is small enough copy everywhere, that sort of takes things full circle to the initial rsync options (and variants) previously discussed to local disk. Although I apologise if I'm miss-interpreting the above. The comment regarding the obscuring the replication process was directed more towards the user experience, they don't need to know it automagically happens BUT behind the scenes the copies are happening all the same, with the expected impact incurred on IO etc. So HDFS doesn't make the process impact free. If you are able to send more to the list regarding HDFS plan B that would be great and certainly something I'd be interested in hearing more about. Do you have a blog or similar with references regarding any of the above ? If so that would be much appreciated. Thanks again and good luck with the multiple NAS option. Pete -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.


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How Do We Love Linux? Counting the Many Ways
Feb 14, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Well, it's been a tempestuous few weeks here in the Linux blogosphere, and our favorite operating system has been buffeted about by the fickle winds even more than usual.
Among the highlights, of course, was HP's debut last week of multiple devices running webOS and -- even more importantly -- its announcement that it would be shipping the Linux-based operating system in printers and PCs as well. That's Linux 1, Windows 0 -- not that we're keeping track or anything.
Lest anyone begin cheering HP, however, word came out just a few days later that HP recently told a customer that installing Linux on his HP Mini 110-3110NR netbook had voided the device's warranty.
Sound familiar? That's because it is. As alert readers may recall, Best Buy's Geek Squad pulled the same maneuver almost exactly a year ago. So, more of a blow to Linux on that one.
More good news came to Linux users, however, with Canonical's release to the public of its database of 1,300 or so certified Linux-friendly components. It won't be long before we can kiss compatibility issues goodbye once and for all!
'Oil-Soaked Waters'
Speaking of goodbye kisses, though, last week also saw the news that reportedly caused "thousands" of Nokia employees to walk out of their employer's offices: the phone giant's newly announced partnership with Microsoft and Windows Phone 7.
Nokia could have gone with Linux-based Android and joined it on its meteoric rise, but instead it jumped "from burning platform into oil-soaked waters," as Androinica's Andrew Kameka so nicely put it.
You just gotta wonder: What *were* they thinking?
'Falling in Love With Debian'
Anyhoo, Linux bloggers have had plenty of other happy thoughts to think, fortunately, particularly now that it's Valentine's Day. In fact, even weeks ahead of time, many had already turned their thoughts toward matters of Linuxy love.
On the release of Debian 6.0, for instance, at least one blogger admitted to "falling in love with Debian, again."
Elsewhere on the blogs, geeks were also proclaiming their passion.
"God, I love Linux" was recently heard on Neowin, for example. Similarly, "I love Linux" was the title of a recent post over on TechRepublic.
It's been nothing short of a Linuxy love-fest, in other words, so Linux Girl was inspired to seek out even more amorous proclamations down at the blogosphere's Punchy Penguin watering hole.
'My Love Has Only Increased'
"As an OS designed from the ground up to work for the user and not some irrelevant other interests (DRM, phoning home, WGdisA, malware, etc.), GNU/Linux is lovable," blogger Robert Pogson began.
"It is so flexible it will run on almost anything and do a great job," Pogson enthused. "Because it has only features that deliver performance, GNU/Linux is also more reliable than that other OS."
In fact, "in a dozen years of use, my love for GNU/Linux has only increased," Pogson added. "At first I was happy that GNU/Linux just worked. Now my love deepens with every discovery of long-existing features and new ones."
GNU/Linux is also "not high-maintenance -- unlike some ladies I have known," Pogson went so far as to point out. "I put in a minimum of effort to install and configure, and I get years of loyal performance.
"I trust GNU/Linux with my desktops, portable devices and servers," he concluded. "Sure, it's not perfect, but no other OS delivers so much for so little."
No 'Walk of Shame' Here
Consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack was equally appreciative.
"I love having an OS that I got to learn on for free, became a hobby and then managed to turn into a full time job," Mack offered.
"I love linux because it was my route to being exposed to the whole open source ecosystem," began Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"Throw in the GPL (only its 'give-back' provisions, but having been upheld in court), and you've got a formula for encouraging the sort of win-win situations that we'd all like to be in for Valentine's Day," Hudson said.
"Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration," she added. "For Valentine's I prefer chocolate and and dinner with a few drinks, but my COMPUTER sure loves linux, and not just on Valentine's Day. And unlike humans, it will never have to do the 'walk of shame' the next morning."
'It Helps the Overall Market'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet may be a Windows fan, but he still saw plenty of virtues in Linux.
First, for example, "it allows machines that simply wouldn't run modern versions of Windows to be saved from the trash heap and repurposed into a multitude of roles," he explained.
Linux is also valuable for the competition it affords, hairyfeet added.
"Even a Windows guy can appreciate the fact that as long as Linux is perceived by MSFT to be a competitor, it helps the overall market," hairyfeet said. "Just look at the price of Windows: An OEM of Windows hasn't changed since XP was released a decade ago, and it is in fact cheaper than Windows 1.0, which was (US)$99 at release!"
'Linux Is Just Better Supported'
Linux "is flexible, supports a wide range of hardware, and is stable in a way no other operating system to date is," opined Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project.
On Linux, for example, "I can have a web application call standard print commands and it will just work," Travers explained. "On Windows, that has historically been a nightmare and required registry hacks. While this doesn't seem like a big deal, it does mean that small-scale web apps cannot be deployed reasonably to a standalone workstation without a great deal of grief."
On the LedgerSMB project, "we've had no trouble with LedgerSMB running on Linux, but on Mac OSX there have been some issues" while "on Windows, we have had large numbers of problems."
In short, Travers concluded, "from this developer's perspective, Linux is just better supported in most ways that matter."


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American Idol: The Top 13 Perform
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The 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize was just awarded to Stanton Williams' BREEAM Excellent Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge! The winning project was a surprising choice – it's neither the fan favorite nor one of the top guesses among industry professionals – but the incredibly thoughtful and sustainable approach to a type of building that is often simply utilitarian demanded a second look.
Designed by Stanton Williams, the Sainsbury Laboratory is a plant research center in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Not only did the building need to be functional, with meeting rooms, research areas and a cafeteria – it also needed to live up to the illustrious history of the Botanic Garden, which was originally laid out by Charles Darwin's mentor John Henslow.
Stanton Williams stepped up to the challenge by creating a space as beautiful as it is functional. The Laboratory is centered on what is called "the thinking path," which is a play off of the route that Charles Darwin walked each day as he contemplated his work. This path creates a continuous route that links together the different spaces within the Laboratory. According to Ian Stanton, the garden and the building were carefully integrated, with the garden reflecting "the past of plant science and the building the future." The ecologically sensitive location and nature of the work happening in the laboratory required a special building.
Although laboratories usually demand a great deal of power, the Sainsbury Laboratory achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating – the highest rating possible – with the help of over 3,000 square feet of photovoltaic panels and plenty of natural light. Every laboratory room receives natural daylight, which is very uncommon. A quick look at the stunning layers of stone and concrete, the stage-like drama of the laboratory research rooms, and the intelligent space layout (which encourages both reflection and interaction), and it is easy to see why the Sainsbury Laboratory took the prize.
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Have Broth Will Celebrate: Manischewitz Launches All-Natural Vegetable Broth
Secaucus, N.J.-based Manischewitz launches All-Natural Vegetable Broth. With no MSG and fat-free, this broth joins the other Manischewitz broths, which include: Chicken, Beef and Low-Sodium Chicken, ideal for your Chanukkah cooking.
Manischewitz also expands its line of All-Natural Ready-to-Serve Soups. The 14-oz soups are available in five flavors, including Matzo Ball & Chicken Soup, Matzo Ball & Chicken Soup Reduced Sodium, Chicken Noodle Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup Reduced Sodium and Chicken Soup & Rice.
Suggested retail price for a 14-oz can of All-Natural Vegetable Broth is $1.79, and Manischewitz soups retail for $2.79.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina State basketball coach Sidney Lowe has been charged with failing to file his state income taxes for three years.
The state Department of Revenue said that Lowe didn't file returns in 2009, 2010 or 2011. He was booked at the Wake County jail Monday and released on a $10,000 unsecured bond.
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Lowe was a player for North Carolina State in the early 1980s and coached the Wolfpack for five seasons before resigning in 2011. He never made the NCAA tournament as a coach.
Lowe is currently an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz. A spokesman says the team was aware of reports about Lowe's arrest but had no comment. Lowe also couldn't be reached for comment, and it wasn't known if he had an attorney.
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