It is critical to have the ability to monitor the usage of social media from within the network, including the ability to identify which users are accessing which social media services, determine the volume and pattern of usage, and inspect and alert on the content being transmitted to those services.

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Liverpool children's author Alan Gibbons, a rigorous campaigner against reductions in library services, said there was a pattern of expenditure on large libraries while smaller branches closed.

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Ms. FISHER: Congressman Ney and his co-conspirators engaged in a long-term pattern to defraud the public of the unbiased and honest services of an elected official.

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More recently Syria has fobbed off Washington by having its intelligence services occasionally provide useful pieces of information to the CIA. But this long-standing pattern of appeasement must end.

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