The app uses top-notch technology from Google Maps and Street View as well as geocoding APIs to make it seem as though Carole is really there, at the door, clad in fur and surrounded by snowflakes.

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The roof is connected by an elongated bicycle chain to a garage-door motor that rolls it back at the flick of a switch.

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It is not the first time the Hemings charge has been laid at Jefferson's door.

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It is possible that the first indication of a criminal prosecution might be a knock at the front door during breakfast.

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Lastly, the actual doorbell button is wrapped with an LED light, and, as you'd expect, it alerts you via the app when pressed to see and speak with whomever is at the door.

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Rather than laying blame at door of the foodmakers, these studies emphasize lifestyles in which it is just as easy to avoid expending calories as it is to take them in (see: Judge to Fat Plaintiffs: Where's The Beef).

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But human (or android) nature being what it is, many have evidently believed they can be the last out the door and so have kept borrowing at the low-interest window.

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Now, they want to give him a freer hand, which is welcome, though it comes with a sting: if he now fails, all the fault can be laid at his door.

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"In coal bed technology, they kept at it until they found the key that unlocked the door and things started happening, which is likely the way methane hydrates will develop, " says Rose.

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