Armagh player Kernan also publicly called on the GAA disciplinary authorities not to hand out an eight-week ban.

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Comptroller John Liu, a Democratic mayoral candidate, demanded Ms. Quinn allow the vote, but, for the first time, he also publicly called on Council Member Gale Brewer, the lead sponsor, to force the bill to the floor by any means necessary.

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He also called on Lord Adonis to publicly pressure BA to "put back on the table" the settlement offer it made last week.

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There is also some debate over a technique called steganography, which involves embedding secret messages within publicly available files and images on the internet, but there is little evidence so that al-Qaeda has used this.

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