As one can see from the graph below, background checks have been strong over the last few years but have picked up steam in 2012.

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Large fluctuations from warm to cold winters have been the rule for the U.S., as one can see from records kept by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. For example, the winters of 1932 and 1934 were as warm as or warmer than the 2011-2012 one and the winter of 1936 was much colder.

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As you can see from the video we managed to get our hands on one of the new Wave 2 Lightcore Skylanders.

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One major new look for this demo was an NVIDIA PC running the 3DTV Play solution, as you can see from the pics even New York's finest enjoyed turning a lap or two of Need for Speed: Shift in 3D.

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