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Switzerland. WYRF talks with Annemarie Meyer, co-head Sports Sponsorship, UBS

Compared with other sports, the rights in sailing are generally less expensive, but they can also deliver less media coverage. Therefore, the value really depends a great deal on the activation in brand and in business.

Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source

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?Grave Of The Fireflies? At Washington Museum

Anime Masterpieces, a new series highlighting the best in Japanese animated feature films, presents “Grave of the Fireflies,” Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., in the Freer Gallery of Art’s Meyer Auditorium. The film is followed by a panel discussion with leading authorities on the subject of Japanese animation, or anime.

The Love That Dare Not Bare Its Fangs

It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set. Based on the foundational book in Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling multivolume series, “The Twilight Saga” (four doorstops and counting), this carefully faithful adaptation traces the sighs and whispers, the shy glances and furious glares of two unlikely teenage lovers who fall into each other’s pale, pale arms amid swirling hormones, raging instincts, high school dramas and oh-so-confusing feelings, like, OMG he’s SO HOT!! Does he like ME?? Will he KILL me??? I don’t CARE!!! :)

Let the Right One In

A heavily favored selection at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In announces the most promising talents to emerge from Sweden since Lukas Moodysson debuted Show Me Love almost a decade ago. While fanatics and interested parties alike are frothing at the possibilities of Catherine Hardwicke's upcoming adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's ludicrously popular novel Twilight, this fang-brandishing masterpiece is Hollywood's garlic clove and cross: restraint and consistency.

IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent

theodp writes "In an Onion-worthy move, the USPTO has decided that IBM inventors deserve a patent for splitting a restaurant bill. Ending an 8+ year battle with the USPTO, self-anointed patent system savior IBM got a less-than-impressed USPTO Examiner's final rejection overruled in June and snagged US Patent No. 7,457,767 Tuesday for its Pay at the Table System. From the patent: 'Though US Pat. No. 5,933,812 to Meyer, et al. discussed previously provides for an entire table of patrons to pay the total bill using a credit card, including the gratuity, it does not provide an ability for the check to be split among the various patrons, and for those individual patrons to then pay their desired portion of the bill. This deficiency is addressed by the present invention.

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