These can involve closing down takeaways near schools (a shove) or a ban on smoking near playgrounds (a smack).
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Each sock comes with its own RFID chip, which can be "read" by a NFC (near field communication) device known as a sock sorter, which in turn communicates via Bluetooth with an iPhone.
At Louve Anar(ph), a traditional brasserie near the Rue de Rivulie(ph), patrons sit at the zinc bar discussing the news of the day.
Seismologists said the quake struck at 16:22 (11:52 GMT) at a depth of 10km (6.2 miles) near the town of Kaki, south of Bushehr - a Gulf port city that is home to Iran's first and only nuclear power plant.
We gave special honors to Philweb of the Philippines (top profitability, based on operating income as a share of sales), to Royal Ceramics Lanka of Sri Lanka (return on investment, a near quintupling) and to E-House (China), the real-estate brokerage, for overall best composite score.
He used the same (fake) numbers for different experiments, gave those to his various PhD students to analyze, who then in disbelief slaving away in their adjacent cubicles discovered that their very different experiments led to exactly the same statistical values (a near impossibility).
One is Harriet O'Day(ph), who I photographed in Ghana, which is on a page right near Theresa Garbett(ph), who I photographed in Atlanta.
In the village of Kasia(ph), near the border with Zimbabwe, Judith Kayaba(ph) is weeding a vegetable patch with three of her sons.
Ultimately, the real danger is whether Google becomes described as either a utility or a (near) monopoly.
Mr. Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario in 1954 and received his elementary and high school education in Chippewa (a village near Niagara Falls) and later at Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls.
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The driver of a coach that plunged 30ft (9m) from a viaduct near Bath is to be charged with dangerous driving.
The driver of a coach that plunged 30ft (9m) from a viaduct near Bath will "never" attend court to face charges against him, his lawyer has said.
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Also, we'd recommend repurposing an old Android or iPhone handset to use as a dedicated monitoring device with access to power (preferably in a cradle) near the bed.
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Housing will also prove less attractive amid a rising dollar (particularly in the near term), and banks still exposed will take a hit.
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They had given warning that after the Gaza withdrawal, the missiles that often fall on Sderot (a small town near Gaza) would start falling on Ashkelon.
This question is being taken increasingly seriously by scientists as more is learnt about the impact a near earth object (NEO) would have on the future of civilization.
For that, you'll have to wait another few years for Photon which will finally unify the Pocket PC and Smartphone divisions -- it's the former (a near-RTM development version) under review.
Last November 50 children died when a train hit their school bus near Manfalut, 350km (230 miles) south of Cairo, after a signal operator fell asleep.
Requena is a very small city in the Upper Amazon region of Peru (population 25, 000), near a tri-border area with Colombia and Brazil.
Bigger Trees Near Warter, which measures 40ft by 15ft (12m by 5m), depicts a landscape scene near the East Yorkshire village of Warter.
The action, loosely based on a true story and filmed on location at and near a Utah university (and, briefly, in China), concerns Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a brilliant young astrophysicist from Beijing who travels to the United States for graduate study under Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), a scientist whose work he admires but whose best years and ideas are behind him.
Only one pupil I spoke to at St Mary's High School near Belleek had a smartphone (which was broken).
He said NFC (Near-Field Communication), a kind of short-range wireless connectivity being built into smartphones, is probably not the answer.
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Conflicting reports have surfaced on whether the iPhone 5 will include a near-field communication (NFC) chip for electronic mobile payments.
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BlackBerry Bold 9930 also offers Near Field Communications (NFC) support for a secure exchange of information between NFC-enabled devices over a very short distance.
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For the second, NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker trained its lens on the saddle, a part of Eros that exhibits few impact craters.
Lament the lost art of letter writing at this shop, which sells gorgeous handmade stationery, diaries, and wrapping papers embellished with a (previously) near-extinct 17th-century marbleizing technique.
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Second, Mr Cameron needs to follow up on his intention of making his party, once a club of (near-) dead white males, look as though it represents modern Britain.
As you've probably already heard, the main selling point here is that said "smart camera" is powered by a slick (and near-vanilla) Android 2.3.3 with Google services, so with the built-in WiFi, you can upload your 16-megapixel images or 1080p videos straight to your various social networks or other cloud services.
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Steve Harris, a principal at ZEDfactory, an architectural firm based near London that designs green residences (pictured), prefers to use a special heat-exchanging wind cowl his company has developed.
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