This was a TV show about sheepdog trials: you know the sort of thing, can a dog round up the sheep and get them into the pen, as in that movie, Babe.

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"I told them, 'Look, by the time it gets in the pen to get weighed, it loses a lot of weight', " Mr. Gaede says.

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So how does LinkedIn get the biggest names in business and elsewhere to pen original content?

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Not only is Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front likely to get the 12.5% of votes needed to make it into the run-off in nearly a fifth of the 577 constituencies, but a leadership battle has broken out within the UMP.

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There is a way to get the best of both electronic and paper worlds, though, which is to use a Livescribe pen and notebook.

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Motorola also boast that it's now 100g lighter than the original Xoom, but we still get an HDMI port, microUSB connectivity and 16GB of storage, not to mention stylus functionality, though the capacitive pen is sold separately.

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