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The cameras were revealed along with a slew of new products that Leica's showing during Germany's Photokina convention, including a range of new accessories (the Leica R-Adapter M, the Leica EVF2 electronic viewfinder, the multifunctional handgrip-M with optional finger loops, and the Leica Microphone adapter set).
ENGADGET: Leica launching new Leica M in early 2013, stripped-down M-E available this month
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The official name is MRSA, M-R-S-A - a highly drug-resistant staph infection that's challenged researchers for most of this decade.
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Only the academia has followed the M-R system with any degree of consistency.
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Part of the reason the M-R system has never caught on with the general public is that it liberally uses two diacritic marks: the apostrophe and the breve.
CNN: From Our Correspondent: You Say Bulgogee, I Say Pulgogi
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For place names, a less traumatic solution would have been to simply push for wider public awareness and acceptance of the current spellings, which broadly follow the M-R system.
CNN: From Our Correspondent: You Say Bulgogee, I Say Pulgogi
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First step in this exercise: Be sure what you write down is SMART--that is, S pecific, M easurable, A ssignable, R ealistic and T ime-bound.
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Shannon would also contribute to the further development of pulse-code modulation (along with Bell alumni Bernard M Oliver and John R Pierce) at around the same time, using technology that eliminated some of the issues (such as complex circuitry) from the earlier, but conceptually similar, implementation from Briton Alec Reeves in 1938.
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The M rating of games is far more of a suggestion than the R rating of films these days. 10, 11, 12 year olds and even younger routinely play M-rated titles like Call of Duty or Halo, and it would be curious if such a new store overlooked that reality.
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So we see boring names like CTS, EXT, LS, XLR and 3.2TL. It's an effort to copy Mercedes with its C and CLK and SLK. Letters are also big for super high-powered jobs, like M (on BMWs) or V (on the Cadillac CTS) or R (on Volvo).
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