ThingWorx itself is both a platform to implement an activity stream application and to synthesize external activity and event streams in a way that could help discover surprises in another application.

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Center to accomodate concerts, family shows, meetings and other special event activity.

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Built on the NationBuilder platform, a startup that has been catering to smaller organizations looking for less expensive "campaign in a box" tools, NewtHampshire has every bell and whistle you could ask for: user profiles, badges to reward volunteer activity, tracking links so users can monitor their own progress recruiting others, event hosting tools and a public leaderboard to spur activity.

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In the meantime, Australian rugby fans can take comfort from the fact that while their national team lost in the World Cup Final, the event as a whole generated "significant economic activity and revenue".

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Held in Pasto and neighboring areas, the August event was the first ever cultural activity involving the entire Andean region of South America, with ethnic groups from eight countries providing an exceptional and diverse array of music, theatre, spiritualism and handicrafts.

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But over and above this there is the point that the extra activity of the sporting event is just displacement of activity in either time or space.

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Another camp believes that there needs to be a government back-up that is activated only in the event of widespread distress in the financial markets and that would provide its insurance only to new mortgage and MBS activity at that time.

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And the machines can only test for one event at a time--say, monitoring one enzyme's activity or seeing if a compound binds to a target on a cell.

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