The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has met to issue a draft international standard of a new video-compression format that is twice as efficient as current standards.
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The meeting, held in Stockholm July 16-20, gathered almost 450 people from 26 countries representing the telecoms, computer, TV and consumer electronics industries to approve and issue a draft standard for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
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Hardy said he believed the draft became an issue when a media consultant or a political operative dropped the buzzword in a focus group and saw a big reaction.
The Lib Dem superlawyer was all but purring as he read the government's response to the work of a joint parliamentary committee, which has been scrutinising a draft bill on the issue.
In fact, the agency has yet to issue draft regulations for comment, despite many in the industry asserting that the staff completed a draft last fall.
All of the services have their own ways of determining qualifications and skill and what is the difference between physical strength and ability, but the gentleman raised a very important issue, and that is the draft, because one of the unintended consequences of this kind of legislation could be to take a problem in recruiting women into support positions and then precipitate a crisis.
Ministers are promising a draft Pensions Bill once a commission on the issue reports.
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The biggest issue is political: should Afghanistan have a parliamentary or, as the draft now has it, a centralised presidential system?
So it is with extreme reluctance that Charlemagne has concluded that, when it comes to the most divisive issue left in the draft European Union constitution, both sides have a point.
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"The draft law it is really trying to tackle the issue in a proactive way, trying to tackle the pollution at its source, " said Ma Jun, a prominent environmentalist in Beijing and author of China's Water Crisis.
Mr Dabbagh said the draft also addressed the issue of immunity for US forces serving - until now a major sticking point in the agreement.
While the issue has been divisive, some students say they don't believe the draft will become a reality.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, recently ignited a debate on the issue of shared sacrifice when he promised to introduce legislation that would reinstate the draft.
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