Smart Alarm Clock: sleep cycles & noise recording - Plus Sports

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Over 7,500,000 people around the world, fall asleep easily and wake up refreshed with our Smart Alarm Clock!

Our ergonomic algorithm has been designed to optimise your sleep and help you achieve full rest. Our technology tracks your sleep cycles and chooses the optimum time to wake you gently. Revitalize as you wake up every day feeling well-rested and full of energy with the one-of-a-kind Smart Alarm Clock.

* Tracks your sleep cycles to determine the best time your body is ready to wake up, feeling totally refreshed ?
* More than 100 soothing tracks to help you doze off
* Choose a soothing tune from our collection to coax you into swift, sweet slumber
* A unique ergonomic algorithm, designed to wake you gently, feeling refreshed

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OVER 100 GREAT TRACKS FOR GOING TO SLEEP AND WAKING UP!

• Fall asleep to the gentle sound of rain or wake up to the crashing of waves on the seashore. The sounds of nature soothe the nervous system, and help you relax or kick-start a new day!
• More than 100 special recordings for a restful sleep and pleasant wake-up;
• Additional tracks: binaural waves and guided meditation for relaxation;

WAKE UP FRESH

• Smart Alarm Clock monitors your sleep phases and uses a special algorithm STrack 2.0©! to determine the best time to wake you up comfortably!

RECORDS SNORING AND OTHER NOISES DURING YOUR SLEEP

• While you sleep, Smart Alarm Clock automatically starts recording the sounds in your bedroom!
• After listening to the recordings made ??by the app, you’ll finally figure out who snores and what wakes you up at night.

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OTHER USEFUL FEATURES

• Weather forecast: information about temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, and precipitation almost anywhere in the world!
• Possibility to use podcasts, audio books and other audio formats from your iPod's playlist as tracks for falling asleep and waking up.
• Share your stats through Facebook, Twitter, and email!
• Screen dims almost immediately to save battery life and protect your display!

FULL FUNCTIONALITY IN BACKGROUND MODE

• So it doesn’t skip a beat!

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by DisneyFanDML Quit adding additional non-sleep related programming. App was great without adding weather and sports. Now crashes all the time.

by Gmlisanrn This is a fantastic app, really opens ones eyes as to what goes on during sleep! Only problem I found us when it converted to the new platform the Christmas music I had dud not follow. Hoping that gets fixed soon.

by Another Deployed Soldier Too many pop up adds for a paid app.

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Smart growth bill capitalizes on Maryland transit

The Maryland General Assembly may soon make a really smart move toward achieving really smart growth: It could adopt proposed land-use legislation enabling "State Rail Station Overlay Districts."

House Bill 948 would empower local jurisdictions and the state to plan for and permit increased density and more diverse uses within designated areas around rail stations throughout Maryland.

If enacted, the Maryland Department of Planning, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, would collaborate with counties and municipalities to delineate rail-station overlay districts and to make new master plans, design guidelines and development regulations for them. The new plans and regulations would supersede existing zoning, replacing out-of-date concepts and regulations that obstruct desirable, sustainable development.

The SRSOD bill's most basic goal is to foster vibrant, pedestrian-oriented, energy-efficient communities centered on transit. Overlay district development, at appropriately higher densities with mixed uses, would be located within reasonable walking distance of Maryland's rail stations. Of course, what constitutes reasonable walking distance will depend on the agreeability of the walk.

Another laudable goal articulated in the bill is to improve public services and the aesthetic quality of the public realm - streetscapes, open space, civic amenities, architecture - within overlay districts. The bill sets forth urban design aspirations and outlines strategies for financing them. It envisions establishment of dedicated county or municipal amenity funds with revenues derived from state and local allocation of density rights; from taxing private transfers of density rights, and from special SRSOD taxing districts and bonds that would be paid off by new sales tax revenue.

A jurisdiction's amenity fund could pay for improving storm water management infrastructure, street landscaping and lighting, underground utilities, parks, plazas and playgrounds. Funds also could be used for preserving unique structures or protecting valuable natural features.

The SRSOD bill wisely recognizes that each rail station site is unique and that a statewide "one size fits all" planning approach would not work. Sites vary in historic and cultural character, surrounding physical and demographic conditions, vehicle access, topography, climate and economic potential, so planning and regulatory flexibility is essential. The legislation contains no prescriptive standards or quantitative criteria, only the requirement that jurisdictions establish them for each designated SRSOD site.

The legislation anticipates that jurisdictions will implement an efficient design review and development entitlement process. Qualified planning officials and design professionals would evaluate the functional, technical and, equally important, aesthetic quality of proposed projects.

Rational analysis and informed value judgments about urban design, architecture and engineering would guide development - instead of conventional zoning regulations that typically are mute about aesthetics. In fact, a rigorous- but fair and expeditious - review and permitting process motivates project sponsors and architects to strive harder to achieve design excellence.

It seems fitting - and long overdue - for Maryland to enact this smart-growth legislation. After all, the term "smart growth" was first coined in Maryland. Neither a fad nor a political ideology, smart growth is simply shorthand for prudent, sustainable land use and transportation planning guided by principles that planners today universally embrace:

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