These are pretty patterns of colour, but no more: they merely confirm that things like mountains and lakes are where the map has already told us they are.

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Falkirk weaved pretty patterns during an opening period they dominated.

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Against Villa, Arsenal's performance encapsulated their season to date as they quickly got into the groove of producing their pretty patterns of eye-catching football but then relinquished control of the game.

BBC: Sport - Football - Aston Villa 2-4 Arsenal

And, in forming these pretty sporting patterns, they say a great deal about their own country's art, history and geography.

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The financial crisis trumped seasonal market forces from October 2007 through August 2009, but stocks have been tracking historical patterns pretty closely since the fall of 2009, Mr. Hirsch says.

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We see every indication thus far that married voters will turn out and we see pretty much the same patterns as in 2008 in our 2012 polling.

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On that we could see what appeared to be pretty variable and informative patterns of DNA. Purely by chance, we had a family group on there, one of my technicians and a mother and father.

NPR: Pioneering DNA Forensics

And for all Arsenal's pretty passing and intricate patterns in the second half, it was Chelsea who applied the killer blow five minutes from time when Alex concluded a fast bowler's run-up with a true touch of Brazil as he lashed a long-range free-kick high beyond Lukasz Fabianski.

BBC: Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal

Like the iOS version it's free, and can be used to log daily meals, as well as view pretty charts illustrating your various sleep and activity patterns.

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