Mr. Gaffigan, whose act plays in colleges and downtown clubs as well as it does in Middle America, has mixed feelings.

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Take Ian Keith Rogers, who plays in an Australian noise punk act called No Anchor, a band that released one of my favorite free albums of 2011, Real Pain Supernova.

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The False Claims Act not only promotes integrity but marketplace policing in which the government often plays a supporting role, rather than the lead.

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Network connected external storage devices in the home will act as caches for internet content as local cloud storage plays a more coordinated role with remote clouds.

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It certainly won't replace the iPod in your pocket, but it plays music, games, DVDs, can act as a mobile phone, connects to the Internet via wi-fi and has Bluetooth etc etc.

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When it moved off-Broadway, the hourlong work was augmented by a cabaret act performed by Durang and Weaver, "Das Lusitania Songspiel, " which parodied plays and movies in the style of Bertolt Brecht.

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