Goal: Set a distance, time or calorie goal and see progress toward that goal with simple, full-screen graphics and alerts.
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Most of the new collection has racing-friendly complications: chronographs and tachymeters that measure speed over a set distance.
Between the blind-spot monitoring system, the active lane-keeping, the adaptive cruise control (maintaining a set distance to the vehicle ahead), and the "precollision" system, which uses internal cameras to monitor drivers' faces for signs of inattention, the GS350 is about as close to an automated auto as you'll find on the market.
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The 2012 Audi A7 also offers an adaptive radar-based cruise control system that not only maintains a set speed and distance from the traffic ahead on the highway, it can operate as efficiently in stop and go traffic.
This is about opening up a whole new set of tools and a whole new set of opportunities in the range between the classroom and the distance learning experience.
It was like witnessing, from a distance, somebody you know being set upon by thieves in the street.
It is thought the record Tommy Godwin set in 1939 for the longest distance cycled in a single year - 75, 065 miles - has never been broken.
The third set went the distance, with Czink fighting back from a break down before saving two match points at 4-5 and then forcing a tie-break.
This October evening, before the sun had entirely set, a pair of headlights turned in to the driveway, some distance away by the road.
The University of Phoenix, set up in 1989 to teach adults through a combination of old-fashioned distance learning and evening classes, is incorporating more and more e-learning into its courses, which are mostly taken by people with full-time jobs.
Simply create an account, set a weekly objective for number of workout days and an associated goal for calories, distance or duration.
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The District on Apache, a 1, 200-bed student-housing community set to open within walking distance of Arizona State next year, will feature an oversize outdoor movie screen, steam rooms and a 300-foot-long "lazy river" water feature, according to architect Mark Humphreys, whose firm designed University House.
Because of the distance that low-frequency sound waves can travel under water, a set of four ships emitting sound at 235 decibels could monitor 80% of the world's oceans for submarines.
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Today's facial-recognition systems use a camera to zoom in on an individual's eyes, mouth and nose, and extract a "feature vector, " a set of numbers that describes key aspects of the image, such as the precise distance between the eyes. (Remember, in the end, digital images are just numbers.) Those numbers can be fed back into a large database of faces in search of a match.
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Leading 1-0 and with a place in the semifinals of the Champions League within touching distance, PSG looked set to produce one of the most remarkable results of the competition.
The Democratic leadership in Washington has kept its distance from Sheehan's message, saying that to bring troops home from Iraq or set a timetable to do so could embolden insurgents there and make matters worse.
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