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Microsoft has long profited from proprietary formats, occasionally at its competitors' expense. However, with open standards coming into vogue, Microsoft adopted an "if you can't beat them, join them" approach, creating its own
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However, its new format was not warmly received. Microsoft hoped its Office Open XML (OOXML) format would become the office file format of choice for the industry. The OpenDoc Society, a long term opponent of Microsoft, did not believe in Microsoft's sudden change of heart. It sought to
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James Love, director of Knowledge Economy International, an organization campaigning for more open access to knowledge critical of OOXML, stated, "We are disappointed. Microsoft's control over document formats has destroyed competition on the desktop, and the fight over OOXML is really a fight over the future of competition and innovation."
Microsoft lost an initial first vote, putting the format's future in jeopardy. The format was allowed a second balloting, though, and this time it passed. Of those voting, 86 percent of voting national bodies and 75 percent of the voting members -- known as P-members -- moved to approve the format. A two-thirds approval among P-members was sufficient to ratify the format. Voting for Microsoft's OOXML were the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan. Voting against it were China, India and Russia.
The committee had a tough job just reaching the vote, having to deal with the 6,000 pages of code that define OOXML and with over 1,000 points of order, topics to be discussed before the vote. Critics of OOXML point out that ODF is only 860 pages of code, making it difficult to guarantee true interoperability between the formats. Microsoft continues to insist that
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Michiel Leenaars, OpenDoc Society boardmember and ISO voting member, stated that the standard should not have been ratified and the ratification process was too hasty. He states, "It was mission impossible. The process wasn't meant for this type of thing."
Nonetheless, Microsoft has secured ratification and fulfilled its critics worse fears by moving one step closer to domination of the next generation industry standard for office documents.
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Agreed they played great and got like five games more then I guessed.I am far from counting you out.My point is Minnesota is a much better team at Home then on the road.I predicted Minn to win 6 or 7,Maybe 8 if things broke right and you won 10,so yes,you did a nice job.
Now, Tell me more then a hand full of you guys over in Viking land,picked Minnesota to make the playoffs?
Ive given much credit to Minn for a job well done,When you beat GB,i congratulated you first thing and job well done,i just dont think Minn will beat GB again.Ponder did an exceptional job last weekend,but, can he repeat that again? AP got his 200 yard game twice so he will get his ( ok he hit 199 instead) yards,but, again keep him from huge runs all game and GB should be alright.Im also hoping Randall Cobb being back after missing last weekends game,also Alex Green coming back will help as well.We will see soon enough though
I will say this, if Harvin was here for that game I would take the power running game over GB because they have shown that they can't stop our running
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Kamaal kar diya hai
Two thumbs up!!! I am gonna cry when I read this few years from now.
Dialogues of the trip. (Worth focusing Bitch.....)
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1. "Are bhai Jaldi karo, Bus nikal jayegi............... Are bhai jaldi karo"
The while he was half asleep he thought that somebody is after his blanket too so he heard somebody yell again,
2. "Ab kambal se bhi koi zidd hai"
Little did he know that it was a dialogue from a CD in the Car's CD player.
HAHAHAHA...... Then as you all know rest is history
I don't know the exact story behind this so please somebody elaborate on it. All I know is that this was Geet's nick name during the trip.... hahaha....
It was Geet's nick name but it came from the porn movies that realeses in india as karan told everyone that there are movies like Ghaghre mein dhum dham and hasina ki gand mein pasina, geet spoke from no where that there is also a movie called pyasa lund..and since then it was his nick name for the trip.
3. "Pyasa lund"
Next dialogue I don't know how it came into play exactly, but I'll try my best to explain it.
I think somebody was saying something for too long. All I could hear was blah blah blah....... Suddenly Audi said something like .....Chup.... kya...... lele...... I thought he replied to that guy as,
4. "Abe Chup hone ka kya lega...." and explained, what I heard, to Audi and then we couldn't stop laughing.................. priceless moment.
One Dialogue that we all had to listen to, but none of us invented it, but perfected it........it is....
5. "Apni ISB dot com......." And then the song starts........
Next moment I remembered because I saw it on the video. Here We were about to jump in to the cold outdoor swimming pool right after sitting in the hot Jacuzzi. So before jumping I asked Diptesh that,
6. "Take a video because this is a 'momentous moment'"
This line doesn't make sense at all, but I gues this is what Brain freeze means.
Now comes one of the finales of the dialogues.
In this situation Geet is partly hanging from the car and suddenly Diptesh starts driving the car
at this Geet shouts,
7. "BhenChod!!!! kya kar raha hai.......... Main Majaoongaa.... (Aye haye....)"
Then we all know how we used that dialogue for rest of our trip. By the way this took place when we were leaving out of that Indian Restaurant in Vegas.
At this I remembered the dialogue used by my friend back in india. My friend was about to have sex with his girlfriend, but she is trying to stop him and said,
"mat karo dard hota hai, main mar jaoongi" at this my friend replied,
"Are agar tu nahin dagi to main mar jaaoonga"
.....hahahahaha.... crazy shit.
Now comes the hit dialogue of the trip. It was inspired by the anchor in the famous Vegas Cirque du Soliel Show 'Zumanity'. Anchor was talking to this old lady from the Audience, but she wasn't paying much attention at the time so at this anchor told this old lady something that became infamous in our trip.
Heres how that "something" was used in our trip for the first time.
So situation is Karan is in the Driving seat doing something of his own. We are at the back talking about something (not important ..as usual), BUT someone is not paying attention, I am not gonna say who, but somebody.....somebody is not paying attention.............at this juncture Karan turns around and looks at that somebody and emphasizes the same thing that Anchor told that old lady at the show Zumanity, which is...............
And as we all know that dialogue has become a LEGEND now.
no need to cry its for laughing
dude no need to cry this blog is created so that when ever we are in pain or abt to cry we can come back to view this blog and get back to mood. great work..i believe kunal.


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Doug Steele has seen and done some crazy things during his two decades as one of the kingpins of Russia's wild nightclub scene. For years, he ran the most notorious bar in Eastern Europe. He was vilified by name in the Russian parliament and nearly abducted by armed gangsters.
But Mr. Steele says even he is not adventurous enough to get involved with the Sochi Olympics.
The 62-year-old native of Timmins, Ont., famous in Russia as the man behind Moscow's legendary Hungry Duck nightclub during the 1990s, says he and a partner were offered a chance to open a bar in the Rosa Khutor mountain resort that will host the skiing and sliding events during the Winter Games that begin Feb. 7.
It sounded like a lucrative opportunity, but Mr. Steele said he decided to walk away after being advised that anything built in Sochi could be targeted for investigation once the Olympics are over. While Russian President Vladimir Putin is anxious to have the Games seen as a success, he is also believed to be furious at massive overspending and corruption, and is expected to order police to find out why the cost of the Olympics soared from a planned $12-billion (U.S.) to the current price tag of $51-billion and counting.
"We had a great site, great rent, [scenery] right out of a movie. We had the money lined up," Mr. Steele explains. And then, he says he received a warning from a Russian who lives in Sochi and has contacts in the security services. "He said 'Tell Doug not to invest one kopek down here, because it's all going to go right to hell in a handbasket in six months. They're going to start taking properties back.' There's been so much money squandered there. Right now, everything's nice and pretty, but everybody's expecting major, major fallout."
Economists say it will be difficult for Mr. Putin to crack down too hard in Sochi, since the root problem is the political system he created. The Kremlin has tightened its control over the media and courts, while systematically pushing legitimate political opposition out of parliament over the past 15 years. That's left the country with few checks on the behaviour of corrupt officials.
"Russia has an extremely serious problem with corruption and the government has no mechanisms to control it," said Dmitry Travin, a professor of economics at the European University in St. Petersburg. "Corruption enters almost any project that's built."
The swirling scandal in Sochi is at odds with what Mr. Steele says is otherwise a stabilizing business environment in Russia – something for which he largely credits Mr. Putin.
While palm-greasing in the bureaucracy cripples government projects – especially when it's one as big as Rosa Khutor, an all-new resort built specially for the Olympics – Mr. Steele says it is far easier to run a small enterprise in today's Russia than it was when he first arrived in the country in 1993, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union.
"Russia, to me, is 22 years old. That's all it is. Everybody gets on about Putin and stuff like that. I don't get into politics, but I know that these people are infinitely better off today than they were 15 years ago. … At least there's a structure, there's order. It's a better place now."
That sense of progress has helped maintain Mr. Putin's popularity even as he has been accused of taking the country down an authoritarian road. Economic growth during the 15 years Mr. Putin has been president or prime minister can be partially attributed to high oil prices, but there's also a sense that Russia has become more stable and predictable under his rule.
Mr. Steele says the Hungry Duck nightclub could only have existed in the Russia of the 1990s, when Boris Yeltsin was president and lawlessness reigned. The club became famous because of a simple gimmick: Women drank for free and were encouraged to do whatever they wanted – especially if it involved dancing on top of the bar and removing articles of clothing. The club became an over-the-top symbol of how Russians were embracing their new freedom after the collapse of the USSR.
"It was wild. It was absolutely the wildest place I've seen in my life," Mr. Steele says, still shaking his head at the memory. "Communism was dead and we were the only bar that let people dance on furniture. It became this symbol of the times. We could never have sustained that."
The club's fame eventually started working against Mr. Steele. A group of Duma deputies visited the Hungry Duck – they were particularly shocked by a male strip show to the tune of the Soviet national anthem – and afterward Mr. Steele was criticized by name in the Russian parliament.
Police raided the club, followed by fire inspectors and tax inspectors. According to Mr. Steele, all of them were looking for bribes, rather than investigating violations. It got worse. "A couple of Chechens tried to … drag me into the car where there were two guys in the back seat," Mr. Steele recalled. With the help of Hungry Duck staff, he escaped, but the pressure continued to escalate. "There were death threats, my translator quit. It was a different time."
Mr. Steele believes the encounters with gangsters and police were all part of a co-ordinated effort to force him to close the Hungry Duck. Eventually, he did, in 1999, only to see it reopen six months later under Russian owners he says had links to the Federal Security Bureau, or FSB.
Mr. Steele says none of that could happen in today's Russia. "Now we do everything legally. There's a process to getting licences, to getting permits. Back [in the 1990s], we were paying people to do things – we didn't know if we had to pay them, they just said we did."
Mr. Steele's latest projects – a Cheers-themed bar called The Standard and a dance club called Papa's, hidden down an alley a short walk from Red Square – are tame by Hungry Duck standards. A busy Saturday night at Papa's still involves plenty of alcohol and dancing, but no one jumps on the bar to disrobe while a live band plays covers of Bob Marley and The Police.
Both clubs are successful, but Mr. Steele nonetheless bemoans the lost chance to open a Papa's-style bar in Sochi. "We would have done business," he said, sighing. "But once Putin went down there and saw the sheer level of the corruption, that was it."
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Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - June 7, 1962, Abilene, Texas "WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT r if I JE 898 B96T 01 H98VH j 8VX3i svTivo 3AV 3103 9908 xa 03 eaivs 81ST YEAR, NO. 355 ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, SECTIONS Attocitttd fmt PAGE ONE Katharyn Duff j Some time ago two EJdgemont Drive neighbors. Buddy Wroleo and Don'Hutcheson, decided to provide their families with a thelter against that time when word comes' that a tornado is close by. It was a do-it-youtscU cellar and the two worked long and hard and alone, as they hand- dug, hand-poured, hand-laid and hand fashioned the under ground structure. the cellar was finished and then; aloiig came a cloud. The alert was sounded and it was a proper time to consider use the stbrmhouse. They would at least open the door, let in some fresh air, have it ready. Wroten pulled up the door as the Hutchesons were en route. They looked in. Looking out at them from the dark depths were one, two, five, eight pairs of big anxious eyes. The cellar was full. So the Wrotens and the Hutchesons went back to their respective homes, sat on their respective porches and Watched the clouds drift harmlessly away. The Amarillo newspaper cites a case of confusion over the two-party political system new- ly developing in Texas. At last Saturday's Democratic primary an AmariUo voter pre- sented .his poll tax receipt. It was plainly stamped "Republi- can." He couldn't vote, election workers told him, because he had taken part in the GOP first primary. But the voter ex- plained, he had gone to the Re- publican polls only because they were closer. No matter, he still couldn't Vote Dernpcratic because he had voted Republican in May, the election said. "But' ifdidn't vole Republi- can in the fellow has- tened toiexplain. "I. scratched out all the Re- publican! candidates and wrote in Democrats." R..L. McMtllon, president of the National Association of Lite Underwriters, spoke al a meet- ing of local insurance men and told of a banquet recently in Austin. There were, in fact, two ban- quets on the same floor of the same hotel at the same lime. One was for insurance folk, Ihe other for a Baptisl gathering. For dessert the Baptists were to have pie, the insurance men melon balls soaked in rum. Waiters got mixed up. They delivered the final course, pie to the insurance men, melon balls to the Bap- tists. He packed in at the church- men, McMillon said. "They were eating melon balls With one hand. "And with Ihe other hand they were sticking the seeds in their pockets." Frank Sitchler, son of weath- erman and Mrs. C. E. Sitchler, notes that travelers, and there are many of them this time of year, have trouble remember- ing whether to set watches ahead or back when changing time zones. "Well a friend of mine came up with a solution which works like young Sitchler says. "Remembering that Germany Is in an easterly direction, all a person has to do when he crosses into a zone going east Is to Adenauer." Some Progress Seen In Joint Ventures WASHINGTON Unit- ed States and the Soviet Union have made progress in technical talks on joint space ventures but have not yet reached final agree- ment. Further discussions likely Will -be held in Moscow. This was reported by the State Department Wednesday in an- nouncing conclusion of pre- llmlncry conversations in Geneva between Hugh Dryden, deputy di- rector of the National Aeronautics ind Space Administration, and Mi Soviet opposite, Anatoly Blag- of (he talki was to compare technical notes on like ami teaUwr satellites to see where prtcttat cooperation might be ffMMtf Wind, Lightning Strike in Abilene WEATHER (Weather Map, Pace 17.A) ABILENE AND VICINITY (Radius cloudy and warm with scattered late afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms Friday and Saturday. High both days 95. Low Thursday nisht fi-5-70, NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST Texas: Partly cloudy with scattered thun- derstorms Thursday and Friday. High Thursday 86-94. NORTHWEST TEXAS: Partly Thursday and Friday with scatu afternoon and nighttime thundE Hifih Thursday 84-94. SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy and warm Thursday and Friday cloudy a few isol rm .1 lated .afternoon and even- _________ thuiidershowers. SOUTHWEST Clear to partly cloudy and warm Thursday aiwt Friday vtth a few isolated afternoon and early th. Wed. a.m thunderstorms mainly extreme TEMPERATURES DAMAGED WORKSHED Damage to the workshed at the Key City Iron and Metal Co. at 3951 Pine St. is inspected by, from left, Ray Blohm, Henry Williams and Jim Kibble. The roof was blown off and one wall (shown on the ground) fell down during a rain and hail storm Wednesday night. A witness described the storm which damaged the building as a twister. Other photos Pg. 8-A. (Staff Photo by Jimmy Parsons) Senate Votes Tight Ban On Foreiqn Aid to Reds WASHINGTON The Sen-lwtien it- became .apparent the ate rebelled against a long-stand-amendment would be adopted. ing policy Wednesday by voting! They included Paul H. Douglas to withhold U.S. aid to any coun- of Illinois, Carl Hayden of Ari- try "known to be dominated by communism or Marxism." The action jolted the Kennedy administration and brought a sharp protest from Secretary of State Dean Husk, who said it "will live the impression abroad that we are permanently writing off to Soviet domination the millions of people who still yearn for free- dom." The amendment, aimed direct- ly at Yugoslavia and Poland, was adopted by a vote of 57-24 as the Senate moved through its second day of debate on the administra- zona, Edward V Long of Missouri, 3. Magnuson of Washing- ton, George A. Smathers of Flori- da, Stuart Symington of Missouri, Ralph W. Yarborough of Texas and Stephen M. Young of Ohio. Before the roll was called Dem- ocratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana read to the Senate a let- ter from McGeorge Bundy, spe- cial assistant to President Kenne- dy, saying the amendment would "play into the hands of those who are most hostile to the United States." Bundy said limited assistance to Yugoslavia in the past had ena- tion's foreign Marshal Tito to "maintain aulhcrization bill. some freedom of maneuver Thirty-four Democrats joined the Kremlin." Republicans in favor of the re- striction despite a White House plea against it. Voting with the administration were 18 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Eight Democrats who Voted with the administration during the call switched to the other side before the result was announced, Indicating belief that the amendment would lend to drive Tito back into the Sino-Soviet bloc, Bundy said: "Nothing is more helpful to the position of the Unit- ed States and the whole of the free world than the maintenance of some range of choice within the bloc. Nothing could be more OAS Said Ready To Renew Attacks By ANDREW BOROWIEC ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) A clandestine' Secret Army Or- ganization broadcast reported a leadlock Wednesday night in talks with Moslems and threatened to ireak a self-imposed truce with a scorched-earth campaign in Al- geria. "We are again taking up it said. A similar broadcast last Mon- day announced a reopening of the European campaign of terror but I was followed by a 48-hour ex :eiision of the trncc in which secret army terrorists drastically reduced their Moslem slaughter. The new broadcast came on the heels of an appeal for peace from condemned secret army leader Edmond Jouhaud in Paris. The broadcast said teams of secret army terrorists were given orders to renew their war im tiediately, "particularly in the economic field." The broadcast advised women, children and elderly Europeans to eavc Algeria to "free the men NEWS INDEX SECTION A Okltviriti............. 11 Spfrtt 12-14 Ollmwi...............IS r9ttf HCTION 2, I U 14 It Rrilt-TV for the campaign of scorched earth." "Since no one will listen to us, we are again taking up it said. "Despite the hopes of some, there will be no divisions between Ihe leaders of the secret army The civilian and military leaders will be united for the same aim- to save their compatriots." However, the broadcast said there was still n possibility to re- new the talks with the Moslem nationalists. The nationalists have denied they are taking part in any such talks for a compromise with the European settlers.' European settlers are leaving in increasing to 8.000 a day. In Algiers, it is virtually im possible to buy a suitcase be- cause of the heavy demand for them over the past few days. The Europeans appeared to be viewing Jouhaud's appeal with resignation. "It's nil repeated men and women lining up at banks and police stations to wind up their affairs: "They've sold us out again." But most apparently hoped that the underground Secret Army Or- ganization would not revive its campaign of terror In Algiers, the capital. "At least we could then leave In one said. The organized slaughter o( Mos- lems here halted last woek, along wilh the killing 6! Europeans (he secret army Ill Im dangerous lhan the achievement of monolithic unity under the So- viet leadership, such as Stalin ex- ercised in the immediate postwar period." There was no immediate White House reaction. Press secretary Pierre Salinger told reporters the Bundy letter spoke for itself. Sen. Frank Lausche, D-Ohio, sponsor of the amendment, said that if it is accepted by (he House it not only would block a programmed million in devel- opment loans to Yugoslavia next year but also would prevent the sale or gift of surplus foods to both Yugoslavia and Poland. He said it would not bar the sale for dollars of machinery or arms at the discretion of the Pres- ident. The House has yet to act on its vei'sion of the foreign aid bill. Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., hailed the Senate action as "a vote of no confidence in our no- win foreign policy in the cold'. HiKli and low for 24-hors ending 9 ).m.; 97 and 65. Histi and low same date last vear: 17 and 63. Sunset last nigJit: sunrise today: sunset tonight: Barometer reading at noon: 28.08. Humidity at noon: 73 per cent. Wide Areas Of Texas Threatened By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Millions ,of Texans spent an- other uneasy night Wednesday as twisters skittered over West Tex- as areas and the Weather Bureau posted repeated tornado alerts. Hot, humid weather tha caused tornado-spawning thunder- storms was expected to continue at least another day. Tornadoes were sighted 12 miles northwest of Spearman, high in the Panhandle; at Gru- ver, in the northern Panhandle; 22 miles north of Abilerfe and another 15 miles southwest of Abilene. Only the Gruver tornado was reported to have caused damage it consisted of knocking ivn power and telephone lines. The tornadoes injured no one, but gusty winds in San Antonio, toppled a large crate and crushed I to death a Kelly Air Force Base employe. He was Conrado Mar-' tinez, 49. An alert posted for large sec- tions of the Panhandle-Plains country expired at 9 p.m. But another alert for a great section of the 120-mile wide strip from 40 miles southeast of Abi- lene. Tex., to 61) miles southeast of Enid, under alert until midnight. Texas cities included in the se- vere weather alert posted until midnight included Abilene, Dallas, (Fort Worth, Vernon, Wichita Falls, Stamford, Merkel, Hamil-i ton, Cleburne and the Sherman-j Denison area, including Texoma. The weather bureau said large hail and damaging surface winds could be expected in severe thun- derstorms over the alerted areas. Conditions eased in the western portions of the Panhandle Plains country shortly before dusk. The Hansford County sheriff's office reported the tornado in the Spearman area at p.m. About the same time, Ihe Depart- ment of Public Safety said golf ball size hail struck an area about 10 miles north of Abilene, j waived on this by Dist. Atty. Tom Funnels Sighted In Local Area What was described as a small twister Wednesday night ripped down one wall and knocked off the roof of a building on the north- east edge of Abilene, Lightning also struck a church here during the violent hail and rain storm. The damaged building was a workshed at 3951 Pine SI. owned by the Key City Iron and Metal Co. The roof sailed through utility lines, hit a .chain link fence and damaged a car. The roof landed in the yard of Melvin Huddleston at 3957 Pine St. One side of the sheet iron building was blown down and a piece o[ timber buried up in the ground in the yard of Jack Hutchins, just south of the Hud- dlestons. Mrs. Hutchins said the twister struck about 7 p.m., tearing down Mrs. Young Gets Two-Year Term to hear the full testimony of Mrs. Young played back. Questions were presented Judge Owen Tho- mas on two other occasions and ended here Wednesday night withjthe jury reported late Wednes- By WILBERT WIGGS Reporter-News Staff Writer ANSON A marathon 104fh District Court jury deliberation jurors recommending that Billie Barlow Young. 40, of Abilene be sentenced to two years in the peni- minimum for the Oct. 21. 1961, murder of Price Allen (Buddy) Boyce, 37, also of Abilene. The seven-man, five-woman panel deliberated nearly 10 hours before returning the verdict. The principle question the jury was called upon to decide was wheth- er Mrs. Young would be granted a suspended sentence. The maximum sentence is five years. Mrs. Young pleaded guilly Tuesday morning In murder with- out malice. She had been indict- ed on a 104th District Court grand jury here on a murder wilh ma- lice charge, but prosecution was The tornado warnings for the _ haf Panhandle-Plains section covered 120-mile wide strip from 50 miles northeast of Amarillo to Wink, near New Mexico's south- a running battle, with Slate and Defense department leaders he accuses of toning down anti-Corn- ..........._. mnnist speeches by military offi- corner, cers. Lausche's amendment was a substitute for a less restrictive proposal by Sen. William Prox- mire, D-Wis., bar Yugoslavia from the aid program. Proxmirc said Tito is developing closer ties with Moscow anc! is spreading revolutionary communism. Republican Sens. George D. Ai- ken of Vermont, John .Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and Lcverctt Sahonslall of Massachusetts joined administration spokesmen in urging the Senate not to tiei1'- Todd after she pleaded guilty to the lesser charge. Jurors returned to the courl- JUturs I etui lieu tu tut i-uui i room four times during the time day afternoon that it was dead locked. The jury panel came into the courtroom about 6 p.m. Wednes- day saying they wanted to hear Mrs. Young's testimony. The play ing back of the testimony required about an hour and a half. Questions presented Judge Tho- mas by jurors dealt with what ac- tion the court might lake in the event Mrs. Young was granted a five-year suspended sentence and failed to comply with provi- sions of the sentence. The second question asked for a definition of a suspended sentence. The jury came in late Wednes- day afternoon and told Judge Tho- mas it was deadlocked. The fore- man said jurors stood at 10-2 on Iheir verdict without indicating the sentiment of the jurors. After learning the 10-2 position had prevailed "about 30 min- they were pondering the verdict. One trip ON HOUSE FLOOR Solon Protests Link With Estes back for further deliberation about p.m. after declining offers of the court to take a break to eat supper. Mrs. Young and several merp- Ders of her family who have been present throughout Ihe trial be- came distraught after the verdict was reaci. Mrs. Young's two daughters comforted, their mother while openly sobbing, Formal sentencing of Mrs on the conviction is pend WASHINGTON (AP) Rep, Andersen, R-Minn., at- the President's hands. lacked columnist Drew Pearson Sen. Norris Cotton, R-N H lnc House floor Wednesday for spoke out against Lausche's' detailing Andersen's connection with the Billie Sol pro- posal to shut off foodstuffs from Communist areas, although he voted for the amendment. "The time has Cotton told the Senate, "to 'bomb' Red China with bundles of American food with the American flag on it. H would make these Communist dictators squirm." Sen. Clifford P. Case, R-N..T., proposed that the foreign aid bill inrlude a warning to Arab slates to stop discriminating againsl Estes case. Andersen referred to the news- paper column as "the spcwings of a degenerate and said Pearson is motivated by "insane hatred for decent men and wom- en with whom he cannot asso- ''jciatc." He referred to the colum- nist in such terms as 'liar" and "skunk." Pearson, whom former Presi- dent Harry Truman once called American Jews. Case's ment would not cut off any money to Arabs, but would leave that lo the President's discretion. cuslnmcd to am ac- called names Polish Housewives Mob Supermarket WARSAW, Poland (AP) War- saw housewives staged a mob scene and battered down the door Wednesday at the opening of Po- land's first supermarket. Fifty police restored order after shoving women Iwisted the words to him. doorway of the elegant new store I "I hope my friends won't dc- and shattered Its plate glass- In-jscrt Andersen said. by Presidents. I don't comment on vituperation from those of lesser rank." Taking the floor on n point of personal privilege, Andersen said his Republican friends have been avoiding him since dclnils came out two months ago (hat Estes purchased worth of stock in a family coal mine from Andersen. He mentioned Rep. Ben Jensen, R-Iowa, national party chairman William Miller, R-N.Y., and mi- nority leader Charles Hnllvck, IMiid., as having spoken only a juriM wen minor, Jonscn Interrupftd Mf ke has been working almost con- stantly wilh the appropriations committee recently and hadn't seen Andersen. The Pearson article covered the Estes coal mine stock deal, svhich was disclosed two months ago by a Texas court of inquiry. Andersen, who previously has denied any wrongdoing in the stock sale, repeated that he has asked the FBI to investigate and that he has offered lo testify before the Senate investigations subcommittee after it opens hear- ings June 27. Pilot Is Killed In Temple (rash TEMPLE pilot of a small plane, apparently attempt- ing to attract his mother's at- tention at her rural home near here, crashed the aircraft and was killed late Wednesday. The p'lot was E, C. Lewis Jr., 39, of San Antonio. The twin engine Becchcraft was licensed to the Field Drilling Co. of San Antonio. The plane crashed 10 miles west of here near the Helton reservoir. Wreckage was spread over R I.SOO-fom Lewis' mother, Mm, H, D, Youn; me. Davis Scarborough, Abilene at- torney, who along with his son, Frank, represented Mrs. Young, saitf late Wednesday that he dirt not know if a new trkl will be re- quested. Filing of a new trial mo- tion is required before the case can be appealed. Scarborough told the Reporter- News that he has not conferred with Mrs. Young to determine if any new trial motion or appeal will be made to the jury verdict. Trial of the case began here Monday with selection of a jury. Scarborough sought lo gain a Sec VERDICT, Pg. 3-A, Col. Photos Pg. 8-A a power line and telephone wire. She said the winds were "ter- rific" and "seemed to be twist- tag around." "I was standing at the back door fixing to go to the base- she said. "I hollered at my husband to go get his coat and. come on. Just about then, the roof blew off. During the storm, lightning struck the Northside Church ol Christ at 903 Cypress. The light- ning bolt shattered a 2 by six rafter and broke some lathes across the attic. It also knocked two big holes in the ceiling of a second floor classroom. Howard Key, assistant minister, said the lightning struck about p.m., tearing a hole Ato 8 inches wide by IS inches long- and another about 8 inches long in the classroom, He could give no estimate of the cost of repairs; Funnels Sighted The U.S. Weather Bureau had several reports of tornado funnel sightings in the area. These in- eluded funnels six miles south of Wylie, one in the vicinity, of Lueders .and east of Tuscbla. There were no reports that these funnels touched down or of any damage. A power failure caused by the storm put KRBC-TV off the air at p.m. and the 'Station was still off at midnight- Among the Businesses where neon signs were broken were Thorps at N. 3rd and Cypress and Better Burger'at 1233 Treadaway. Firemen were called to the Bet- ter Burger about 8 p.m., but there was no property damage. Hail at the airport was mostly quarter inch to'a half-inch in diameter with some an inch thick. 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FIRST , i am asking everyone to please forgive my grahmer as i didnt have much schoolin and not real handy with this computer stuff but learnin.and am disabled/challenged with osteo arthritis,degenerative disc disease and maybe lupus and take a lot of pain meds, so my typing wont allways be very good, clumsilly typing with one finger and slow going,
am aproaching my 4th season beekeeping. i know that i have several dead hive again this year. yesterrday it was sunny and 41 degrees out and the russian bees was out flying in the snow, looked pretty neat, i imagine they were cleaning out the dead bees but, a vigorous hive, i noticed last year, when it was realy hot in the evenings that the italians were all resting on the porch while the russians were still hard at it, just seams like they work more and handle the weather better.
i have 16 hives, and guessing at least half are dead, some of the dead colonies were pretty week and low population,light weifgt, i tried feeding them but it just wasnt enough, i have a 5/8ths hole drilled in the tops super for ventalation just above the handle, inner covers, i had no mentors , other trhan helping a cripple beekeeper when i was a kid, but was to young to realy learn much, so, with a little luck, and some friends like ya,ll, am hoping to get all 16 back into production this year, i bought a book about queen rearing and a cloak board and misc stuff, am going to try my hand at grafting but thinking id still be better off purchasing queens again this year untill i know i can successfully graft them, just cannot afford to gamble. so the goal is to get some population going before the honey flow.
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I invested a lot of my time, effort and expertise into this research, but of the entire thesis,
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MSU puts finishing touches on commencement preparations
BOZEMAN, Mont. - At Montana State University's Brick Breeden Field House, workers were doing last minute checks ahead of graduation ceremonies.
When we were there this morning, workers had already laid out the stage and seating. And were busy testing the lights and sound system.
Some 2,000 people will receive degrees.
University spokesman Tracy Ellig tells us this is one of the most important times of the year on campus, "This is the day that everybody at the university loves the most. It's the day that the students graduate, when they complete their 4 to 6 years of work here at the university and launch themselves into the world. So it's a really special day on campus."
The first ceremony will celebrate students from Arts and Architecture, Education and Health & Human Development, Nursing, and Gallatin College. The processional begins at 8:40 a.m. The ceremony starts at 9.
Afternoon ceremonies celebrate students from Agriculture, Business, Letters & Science, and Engineering. The processional begins at 1:10 p.m. The ceremony starts at 1:30.
Both ceremonies are at the Brick Breeden Field House.


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During pregnancy with my 1st child, I had Tail of Spence swelling. After delivery, it was downright painful - the worst part of pregnancy/delivery. With my 2nd child, the same was true. I am now 16 weeks pregnant with my 3rd, and already experiencing severe pain in my armpit where the swelling has stayed since my 1st pregnancy. I can't touch it or put any sort of pressure on it without pain. Is this something that can be fixed with surgery? If it is for reasons of pain, will insurance cover it?
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Breast swelling is common during pregnancy and for some reason I guess the part that bothers you most is close to your axilla. This can not be treated during pregnancy, and if you plan on having more children, perhaps an evaluation after pregnancy would be helpful.
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Breast pain with pregnancy
The problem is no one will operate on you while you are pregnant and it sounds like the problem resolves when you are not pregnant (the time when you could undergo surgery). You could do the surgery between pregnancies if you plan on having more children but then I am not sure anyone would be willing to operate in the absence of symptoms. You are in a catch-22.
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I have a samsung laptop with windows 7 home premium installed on it. last night it had to update and i was still doing something so i postponed the restart for 4 hours. i left/went away from my computer for about a couple minutes maybe 3 or 4 hours later and i came back to see there was a black screen. the mouse was there but the whole screen was black and the mouse was the loading symbol with the light blue circle that shows when a program is loading. it was like that for about 20 minutes so i shut down my computer by holding the power button . when i turned it back on it said windows didn't shut down correctly, start windows normally or start up in safe mode, i went to start up normally and it went to the windows start up screen but stayed there. for about two hours before i gave up and reboot. same thing happened. so booting from/using a usb i opened up the system recovery options and did start up repair . start up repair said something about it not being able to fix the problem automatically. so i tried it again and it restart but when it did all i was getting was a black screen with a cursor. it wasn't even loading windows 7 anymore. so i went to my system recovery options and when and the part after you select a keyboard layout/language then have to select an os with the load drivers page windows 7 wasn't showing up. normally the os that shows up is windows 7 or at least that's how it was before. on the page where you can choose to load drivers etc. i really don't know what to do now. please help?
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I would suggest to post the model of your computer. Also, read over your post. A couple of minutes is not 3-4 hours. What update were you trying? Read over your post and make sure what you are saying is right.
It was a windows update, not sure which exactly but it checks for/install updates like at 2 or 3 in the morning and when i said for about a couple of minutes maybe 3 or 4 hours later i meant i left my computer 3 or 4 hours later for a couple of minutes. sorry if i phrased that weird. but my laptop is a Samsung Series 3 NP305E5A-A03US
i just restored my laptop to factory settings. it's all cool that fixed the problem. thanks anyway though.
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From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Jacob Blum hangs a voter registration sign on the front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, prior to a mass meeting during Freedom Summer, 1964. The sign reads "Help Make Mississippi Part of the U.S.A."
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|Blum, Jacob | Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Mississippi Freedom Project | Voter registration--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Hattiesburg, Miss.) | Hattiesburg (Miss.) | Forrest County (Miss.)
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AT just 17 years of age, Raheem Sterling is a revelation.
The money that Liverpool paid to QPR for him will seem like small change (even if they are paid the entire £5 million in the end) compared to the player we may well have on our hands – thanks again Rafa, for that.
However, running almost parallel to everything good that he's done this season has been a story related to his off-field behaviour as well.
Beginning with news that young Sterling was demanding a move away last season because he wasn't getting the first-team football he deserved. It's one thing if you're signed with the promise of first-team football, but it's another if you're a (then) 16 year old telling club legend Kenny Dalglish that you deserve to be in the team ahead of the likes of Kuyt, Rodriguez and so on.
Raheem also already has two children, with a possible third on the way. Now, I'm not suggesting that having children is a bad thing, but having two at an age when you're barely an adult yourself kind of suggests that you haven't quite been given the life lessons you should've.
Then there were the pictures on Twitter and in other social media of him looking a little worse-for-wear in a cheap-looking takeaway whilst out on the town. Which, while not something you'd be overly concerned about in a footballer usually (more so because it's something we've come to expect), it is when that footballer is 17 and the legal drinking age is 18 and, in most pubs and bars (as in many supermarkets), you're expected to look at least 25 or you'll be hassled for ID – it's a bit of a worry that he's started the typical footballers off-field nonsense so young.
So when I woke up to further stories this morning about the young winger having been interviewed in connection with the alleged assault of a young woman in Toxteth earlier this week, things seemed to be taking a slightly more worrying turn.
At this stage, what happened and what actually happened is the knowledge of the police and those involved and I'll reserve judgement until we actually know for sure. However, it does suggest that Sterling is clearly running in the wrong circles outside of football and is in dire need of a guiding hand to steer him down the right road.
He seems a decent – if misguided – lad and his immense talent deserves to have every possible chance of flourishing at the highest level. The only worry is that his life off the pitch may overtake his life on it in the ways of Joey Barton, George Best, Duncan Ferguson (incidentally, those comparisons have nothing to do with talent), and so on.
It is very early days yet though, and many readers might accuse me of being a bit over-zealous in expressing concerns over Sterling's personal life. He's a young lad, after all, and young lads do dumb things. But in this day and age, with the 24/7 coverage of every aspect of top footballer's lives utterly dominating the back (and front) page of every tabloid and numerous sycophants out there looking to take advantage of talented, affluent and naïve young men like Raheem, I really think that it is up to the club to step in and offer him support.
As an icon, legend and a superb role model at both club and international level, I can't think of anybody better than Steven Gerrard to take Sterling under their wing. Newcastle tried something similar when Andy Carroll went to live with Kevin Nolan (however questionable!) but in Gerrard I think we've got the readymade man to ensure that Sterling develops properly.
Gerrard himself has had on and off-field problems of his own growing up but he matured with the right guidance from his manager's; first Gerard Houllier and then Rafa Benitez, and there are few pundits or fans that would deny that he is the most suitable man to have as the face of English football, as England captain.
And if there is anybody to whom Sterling can look to for how to achieve everything in the game and do it with class and modesty, then I can't think of anybody better to point our little maestro in the correct direction over the coming months.
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Arsenal will face Shakhtar Donetsk, Braga and Partizan Belgrade in Group H of the Champions League this season.
Throughout Arsenal's European campaign, our weekly Euro Watch feature will check on the progress of the Gunners' rivals in their domestic leagues.
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Saturday, October 30
Shakhtar Donetsk warmed up for Wednesday's Champions League visit of Arsenal with a 1-0 win against FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on Saturday. Luiz Adriano scored the only goal of the game after 27 minutes when he tapped in Willian's cross at the back post. The win keeps Mircea Lucescu's eight points clear at the top of the Ukrainian Premier League after 15 games of the season. Arsenal travel to the Donbass Arena to face the Ukrainian champions with the Gunners knowing a win will guarantee qualification to the knockout stages.
FK Partizan 3-0 FK Jagodina
Saturday, October 30
Partizan Belgrade continued their good league form with a 3-0 win against FK Jagodina on Saturday. Almami Samori da Silva Moreira gave Arsenal's Group H rivals the lead six minutes after the break when he slotted home from close range after good build-up play. Ivica Illiev made it two after 86 minutes when he finished well from the edge of the area and Radoslav Petrovic sealed the win from the penalty spot in injury time. Partizan remain two points clear at the top of the Serbian Super Liga. They face Braga at home on Wednesday after three defeats from their opening three Champions League matches.
Rio Ave 2-0 Sporting Braga
Saturday, October 30
Sporting Braga suffered a shock 2-0 defeat against the Portuguese Liga's bottom side Rio Ave on Saturday. In adverse weather conditions Domingos Paciência's side went behind 19 minutes from time when José Manuel Gomes da Silva's shot found the bottom corner from a tight angle. The win was confirmed ten minutes later when João Henrique Pataco Tomás volleyed home from inside the area. The defeat means Braga are now 11 points adrift of league leaders Porto though they do remain fourth in the table. They travel to Serbia on Wednesday needing to avoid defeat if they are to have a realistic chance of qualification.


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Upon the completion of an iteration of infrastructure work, it is useful for the infrastructure team to apply retrospectives so that the project team can review the infrastructure changes particularly when certain tools are installed. A hands-on review with the project team can highlight the need for adjustments or improvements to the configuration of the tools.
The challenge is to balance the need for speed while establishing the infrastructure we need. If we build too much up front, it may not be what we need and constrain the team in the future. If we build too little it may result in a decrease in velocity.
The benefit of infrastructure envisioning is that in a short timeframe, it provides a high-level framework of the infrastructure for the new product that is aligned with both the high-level requirements and architecture. The benefit of an incremental approach is that it both utilizes the important aspects of minimizing risk and considering value for prioritization while at the same time spreading out the effort of establishing an infrastructure over time based on the JIT needs of the project team.
1. http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/amdd.htm - Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD): The Key to Scaling Agile Software Development by Scott Ambler
2. "Infrastructure Architecture" by Daniel Jumelet, March 2007
3. http://agilemanifesto.org/ - Agile Manifesto
4. "Voluntary Technical Debt", by James Shore, Sept 2006
5. Heterarchy is a term that Panos Konstantinidis suggests as an antonym for "hierarchy".


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M27 Widening J3-4
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Scheme Outline
Scheme details
- Timescale
- 2008-2009
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Upgrade to existing road under motorway restrictions
- Cost
- £ 78m
- Authority
- Highways England
- Region: South East
- Finance
- Central Government
- Length
- 9 km
- 5.6 miles
On-line widening of the M27 between junctions 3 and 4 (M271 to M3) to dual-four lane standard. It actually comes with a sister scheme, to add climbing lanes in both directions between J11 and J12, which was started in January 2008 and opened in September of that year.
Information recently released shows that the widening will involve narrowing the central reservation and will not involve the replacement of existing bridges.
A last-minute change to the scheme means that the road will not carry VSL (variable speed limits, as seen on the M25), something which had been part of the scheme since it was first proposed.
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|Contracts are now being awarded for this scheme. Costain have accepted work to construct the new bridges required on the route.
|14 March 2008
|Widening work is now in progress, with land clearance already under way.
|2 November 2008
|Although the works were planned to run until April/May 2009, it's estimated that the new lanes could be open before Christmas with landscaping continuing until March.
|3 December 2008
|The Highways Agency have said that the three lanes will return to full width on the 6th December (eastbound) and the 13th (westbound). The 50mph speed limit will remain until the new lane opens in 2009.
|22 December 2008
|On the 20th December the Highways Agency surprised everyone by opening the new lane in time for the Christmas rush. A 50mph SPECs-enforced speed limit still applies for communications work which will run in to the new year.
|30 January 2009
|The roadworks were officially opened today, with the unveiling of a new plaque near J3 and the removal of the 50mph speed limit. Landscaping work will continue for a few months with irregular hard shoulder closures.
More information
- Official website
- highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/5655.aspx
It's over!
This scheme has been completed, so it's no longer possible to edit any of the information on this page.
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Article, 2009 Season - Ohlone College Renegades Women's Softball
March Madness softball wraps up
By Matt Schwab, Tri-Valley Herald.
Sunday, March 15, 2009—Reprinted from Contra Costa Times.
IT'S A MAD softball world at Central Park in Fremont this weekend.
Led by ace pitcher Kelly Colker, a Newark Memorial High graduate, the powerful Ohlone College softball team is hosting its 17th annual March Madness tournament. The 16-team event began Saturday with pool play and wraps up today.
Other local teams participating are Diablo Valley College, guided by new coach Angie Goularte, and Chabot, piloted by coach Chelsea Spencer.
Silver Bracket (Consolation) quarterfinals are at 9 a.m. today, and Gold Bracket (Championship) quarterfinals are at 11 a.m. Semifinals are at 1 p.m., with the finals at 3 p.m.
Guided by Donna Runyon, Ohlone (14-6, 7-0 Coast Conference), ranked sixth in Northern California, entered the tourney with some nice momentum. The Renegades beat Cabrillo 5-2 in conference play on Thursday behind Colker's strong pitching. She went the distance, walking none and striking out six. Kim Cawley, Ashley Nahale, Paulina Gentry and Ashtyn Mullin each had doubles for the Renegades.
Ohlone freshman Kendall Beerman (Granada), a right-handed pitcher who bats left, has a 3-3 pitching mark against tough competition. Speedy leadoff Jamie Miller (Granada) is hitting close to .400 and leads the conference in stolen bases with about 17, ranking near the top in Northern California.
"She's always dirty at the end of the game … headfirst slides, whatever," Runyon said.
Tall first baseman Shelby Tomasello (California HS) leads Ohlone in extra-base hits. She also played goalkeeper on the Ohlone soccer team.
The Renegades also beat Chabot 9-4 on March 5 in conference play. Nahale was 4-for-4 with a two-run homer. Chabot catcher Nikki Freiburg slugged a three-run homer, and teammate Brittany Wright also homered.
Admission for March Madness is $6 (adults), $4 (minors, seniors), and under 5 is free. High school students (or youth players) wearing their softball uniforms get in free.
This web page is part of the official Ohlone College website. Any Ohlone College Athletics-related information that may appear on other websites is not official and may not be accurate.


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Lancaster Motor Speedway will host the Heintz Brothers Performance Late Model Shootout on Saturday night.
Some of the area's top NDRA GM Performance Late Model drivers are expected at LMS on Saturday night when the green flag falls.
On A.J. Williams' final day at Lancaster High School, the Bruins' star linebacker did something for his future.
COLUMBIA – Indian Land's sterling soccer season ended in a day of disappointment.
Jesse Carson posted an exciting win to capture the Champion Race Helmets Pure Street special on Saturday night at Lancaster Motor Speedway.
A fitting fond farewell and a job well done highlighted the annual Lancaster High School spring sports awards Friday, May 11 at the Lancaster High School auditorium.
University of South Carolina Lancaster soccer coach Randy Jordan has tapped into each county high school for talented players to build his first Lancers' squad.
The Lancaster Post 31 senior team will be led this season by head coach Quinton Rodgers and he will be assisted by Todd Ellis, Jeff Segee and Brant Barnes.
The team has nine junior players moving up to the senior level and will be anchored this season with eight returning senior players.
Central shot a 625 (312-313) to capture the Region IV-AA golf championship and a bid to the state championship.
The Palmetto Lightning has struck gold again.
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OTTAWA, June 17, 2015 - Today, the Honourable Steven Blaney, Canada's Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, made the following statement on a cyber-attack targeting the Government of Canada.
"Earlier today, I was briefed by my advisors on a cyber-attack targeting the federal government.
While I cannot comment on operational matters relating to national security, I want to thank our security agencies who worked to contain the attack. At no point was any personal information compromised.
Our Government takes cyber security very seriously.
We have made significant investments in a Cyber Security Strategy designed to defend against electronic threats, hacking, and cyber espionage. Furthermore, Budget 2015 reconfirmed our government's commitment to cyber security and ensuring our security agencies have the tools they need to address the evolving threat of cyber-attacks."
Jeremy Laurin
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Office of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
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