This is perhaps our most important milestone to date: some of the largest, most sophisticated capital markets participants are using our technology to manage some of the most complex derivatives portfolios in the world.

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It remains to be seen whether the passing of Mary Lou Forbes will mark not only the loss of America's greatest newspaperwoman but a milestone in the demise of the conservative newspaper the nation's capital so badly needs and has - in no small measure, thanks to Mary Lou - been improved by over the past 26 years.

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Similar to the recent difficulty of identifying the seven billionth human born on earth (that prize went to Danica May Camacho, a girl born in the Philippine capital of Manila, symbolically chosen by the UN to mark the global population milestone), it is understandable if Apple used location as an important factor in calculating their tiebreaks.

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