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CHATHAM, ON, June 14, 2012 /CNW/ - (TSX:L): Canadians got busy voting in the President's Choice BBQTown Contest in the hopes to bring a massive one of a kind BBQ party to their town! For their efforts Chatham is the lucky community that will host the President's Choice BBQTown Grand Prize Event on August 11!

Chatham will receive a BBQ party in their town for up to 5,000 people with fantastic food, hosted by Chef Tom Filippou, Executive Chef for President's Choice Cooking Schools and Bob Blumer , host of Food Network Canada's World's Weirdest Restaurants. There will be a performance by multi-platinum, JUNO Award winning recording group Hedley, and on behalf of the community, $25,000 will be donated to President's Choice Children's Charity to support a local nutrition program. To top it all off, Chatham residents will attempt to set a new Guinness World Records achievement for the most hamburgers assembled in one hour!

Nine other communities will win a secondary prize which includes a stop on the President's Choice BBQTown Tour:

Log on to http://www.pcbbqtown.ca on June 21st to find out where and when the BBQ party will be happening in each town!

These nine lucky communities will get a free BBQ party for up to 2,000 people in their town, complete with our best President's Choice BBQ grill items, a visit from the PC Ice Cream Shop truck, and free family entertainment such as a balloon animal artists and a fire juggler!

Have fun all summer long with President's Choice products and visit pc.ca for great recipes! Don't forget to 'Like' us on Facebook and 'Follow' us on Twitter! Twitter hash tag - #PCBBQTown.

About Loblaw Companies Limited TSX: L

Loblaw Companies Limited, a subsidiary of George Weston Limited, is Canada's largest food retailer and a leading provider of drugstore, general merchandise and financial products and services. Loblaw is one of the largest private sector employers in Canada . With more than 1,000 corporate and franchised stores from coast to coast, Loblaw and its franchisees employ more than 135 000 full-time and part-time employees. Through its portfolio of store formats, Loblaw is committed to providing Canadians with a wide, growing and successful range of products and services to meet the everyday household demands of Canadian consumers. Loblaw is known for the quality, innovation and value of its food offering. It offers Canada's strongest control (private) label program, including the unique President's Choice, no name and Joe Fresh brands. In addition, the Company makes available to consumers President's Choice Financial services and offers the PC points loyalty program.

About Hedley: Hedley's recent highlights include: near double platinum certification forStorms(2011); awarded 'Pop Album of the Year' at the 2012 JUNO Awards; double platinum certifications for every previous studio album; over 1,500,000 digital singles sold; 15 career JUNO nominations and two wins, twelve consecutive #1 videos at Much Music; multiple Top 10 singles; and listed as one of the top 100 touring artists in the world of 2010 (Pollstar, October 18 , 2010).

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The iOS update to the My Xbox Live app has made it possible to use an iPhone to control an Xbox 360. Here's how to set it up.

Microsoft's update to the My Xbox Live app 1.5 brought along support for controlling an Xbox 360 straight from an iPhone. (The update was rolled out across all iOS platforms, but for whatever reason, this feature only works with an iPhone.) Here's how to get it to work.

First, you'll want to make sure that your Xbox 360 and iPhone are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. You can check the Wi-Fi status by going to settings on the iPhone and network settings on the Xbox. Once you've confirmed that both devices are using the same Wi-Fi, head over to the settings area again on the Xbox and then enter Console Settings. From there, you'll want to navigate down to Xbox Companion. Click on Available, then return to the home screen. Your Xbox is now ready to interact with any kind of companion application.

If you haven't already done so, download the My Xbox Live app from the App Store, run it, and log in with your Xbox Live credentials. One connected, you can initiate a companion link-up by sliding over to the Quick Play menu. A green title in the middle should say "Connect to Xbox." Click on the button and a notification on the screen of your TV should flash indicating that you've made the connection. Now take a look at your iPhone's screen. If a layout of Xbox buttons hasn't automatically shown up, click the three dots in the corner to bring up the menu, and select Controller.

You should now be able to navigate through the Xbox menu using the onscreen buttons on your iPhone. Functionality really doesn't go beyond that, but it might be easier to scroll through the Xbox's various media apps and content delivery portals this way.

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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recently, the Senate of Pennsylvania unanimously approved Governor Tom Corbett's reappointment of PA Breast Cancer Coalition (PBCC) President and Founder Pat Halpin-Murphy to the State's Cancer Control, Prevention and Research Advisory Board (CAB). Pat has served as a member of this statewide board under five Governors, helping to develop the State's cancer plans, a cancer registry and offer input to the PA Department of Health (DOH) on cancer-related issues, including the Department's unprecedented partnership to create the first-ever Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan for the Commonwealth. As such, Pat Halpin-Murphy served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Advisory Board and the Pennsylvania Cancer Control Consortium, an organization with representatives from government, universities, cancer centers, hospitals, health coalitions and community organizations, formed by DOH. Pat also chairs the Refunds for Research for Breast and Cervical Cancer committee which has raised and awarded nearly $3 million in grants to outstanding researchers across the state.

In 1980, the Pennsylvania Cancer Control Prevention and Research Act (Act 224) established an 11-member Cancer Control, Prevention and Research Advisory Board (CAB) that meets quarterly and advises the Secretary of Health on cancer control and prevention-related issues. The law also requires the Pennsylvania Department of Health to develop a state cancer plan. The first Commonwealth Cancer Plan was issued in 1983; the plan called for establishment of a cancer registry, reduction of tobacco use, promotion of early detection for breast and cervical cancer and support of epidemiological and demographic studies. From 1983 to today, the CAB has convened to set direction for cancer control through review and recommendation for additional cancer plans, cancer control initiatives, annual budgets, unsolicited cancer proposals and evaluate new cancer programs.

"I am honored and delighted to continue my service to families and all Pennsylvania residents, under the leadership of Governor Corbett and the Secretary of Health," said Halpin-Murphy. "With 32 women being diagnosed with breast cancer each day in Pennsylvania, it is vital we collaborate, leverage and harness our resources, knowledge and expertise to tackle and reduce the incidence of cancer in in this state," she added.

Pat acts as an Advocate Member, representing breast cancer survivors, on the Board of Directors for the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP). In addition to her role as an Advocate Member, Pat chairs the NSABP Patient Advisory Board, which reviews new proposals and protocols for clinical trials. She serves as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Advocacy Board for the P2 trial, as well as participates in RTOG's consensus group on whether or not women who have four or fewer positive nodes should receive radiation. Additionally, Pat serves on the Patient Advocacy Committee of the Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups, Inc. and previously served on the corporate board for Highmark Blue Shield.

The Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, founded in 1993 by Pat Halpin-Murphy, is a statewide non-profit organization and the only statewide grassroots organization that speaks to and for breast cancer survivors. It was organized to extend public awareness of breast cancer, and to encourage increased public and private funding for research, legislative advocacy and high quality screening, diagnosis and treatment. Some of PBCC's accomplishments include: the annual statewide Conference, advocating and promoting Free Treatment for Breast Cancer, Friends Like Me Care Packages, Take a Swing Against Breast Cancer(R) home run derby events, Refunds for Breast Cancer Research, 67 Women, 67 Counties traveling photo exhibit, and more. Each year more than 12,000 Pennsylvania women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. More than 2,000 will lose their lives to the disease. The PBCC's mission is to find a cure for breast cancer and to improve the quality of breast cancer education, research, programming and outreach in the state.

"My goal has always been to provide hope of a brighter tomorrow by providing action and valuable information to women with breast cancer today," said Halpin-Murphy. "By working with other esteemed and outstanding colleagues on cancer issues and challenges, we can successfully continue our progress and advancements in this state." Pat was recently recognized by the National Governors Association as their Distinguished Service to State Government awardee and by the Pennsylvania Commission for Women with their Women Change America Award. As the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition's Founder and President, as well as a breast cancer survivor, Pat is totally committed to eradicating breast cancer now so our daughters won't have to. She is quoted as saying, "Pennsylvania has the fourth highest rate of breast cancer in the nation; we say enough is enough, it's time to end this devastating disease."

Pat is an avid political scholar and committed public servant. Pat grew up in Philadelphia, earning a Master of Science degree in Economics from Drexel University, a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from West Chester University. She lives in Montgomery County, PA. She has two daughters and four grandchildren.

Kevin Smith Communications Director 717-721-2580 x109 Kevin@PABreastCancer.org

The PBCC will kick off its 20th Anniversary Celebration later this year through Breast Cancer Awareness Month events throughout October and beyond.

The PBCC represents, supports and serves breast cancer survivors and their families in Pennsylvania through educational programming, legislative advocacy and breast cancer research grants. The PBCC is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure now...so our daughters won't have to. For more information, please call 800-377-8828 or visit http://www.PABreastCancer.org.

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CUPERTINO, CA--(Marketwire -06/13/12)- Over the course of even a day, a variety of users and devices will access your corporate network. To reduce security risks and the threat of malware, data leakage and intrusion, every one of these devices needs to comply with your endpoint security policy. These endpoints all need to have up-to-date patches; active security software; and can't use unsanctioned programs. If a device deviates from policy, can you quickly pinpoint the violation, segregate the device from the network and easily remediate the endpoint until it becomes compliant? What are the implications for automating endpoint compliance?

A new SANS webcast "Endpoint Visibility, Control and Remediation Leveraging Network Access Control (NAC)" will answer these questions and more. The expert/user session will examine the drivers, issues, trends and options for endpoint compliance, where NAC sits on the security tool landscape and functional success factors, and will explore real-world NAC applications that effectuate security policy, expedite incident response and optimize security.

The webcast will be led by Dr. Chenxi Wang, industry analyst at Forrester Research, who will be joined by Christian Ponce CISA-CRISC-CISSP, manager of information risk management at Vistaprint, as well as Jack Marsal, director of worldwide marketing at ForeScout Technologies.

This SANS webcast, sponsored by ForeScout, a leading provider of automated security control solutions, will take place on Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 1:00 PM EDT/10:00 AM PDT. ForeScout invites users and media to register for the webcast at: https://www.sans.org/webcasts/endpoint-visibility-control-remediation-leveraging-nac-95330.

The webcast presents proven process and technology considerations that InfoSec professionals can put to immediate use. Other topics that will be addressed include:

About ForeScout Technologies, Inc. ForeScout enables organizations to accelerate productivity and connectivity by allowing users to access corporate network resources where, how and when needed without compromising security. ForeScout's automated solutions for network access control, mobile security, endpoint compliance and threat prevention empower IT agility while preempting risks and eliminating remediation costs. Because the ForeScout CounterACT platform is easy to deploy, unobtrusive, intelligent and scalable, it has been chosen by more than 1,300 of the world's most secure enterprises and military installations for global deployments spanning 37 countries. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, ForeScout delivers its solutions through its network of authorized partners worldwide. Learn more at http://www.forescout.com.

ForeScout Technologies, Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation. ForeScout, the ForeScout logo, CounterACT and ActiveResponse are trademarks of ForeScout. Other names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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By DANIELLE LYNCH dlynch@delcotimes.com

MEDIA Plans to construct a new animal control facility for the countys stray animals have been put on hold indefinitely due to costs related to construction, officials said.

Delaware County Animal Protection Board Chairman Tom Judge Jr. explained that the board was unable to obtain funding for the construction of a new facility. As a result, the board had to find alternatives.

We had no other option, he said.

Judge said the Chester County SPCA agreed to a six-month extension of its current agreement to accept Delaware County strays. In addition, the board is hoping to work out a long-term agreement with the Chester County SPCA through Dec. 31, 2017.

Chester County SPCA spokesman Rich Britton confirmed an extension of the current contract is in place through the end of the year. We are also in negotiations to see if an agreement can be extended past that, he said.

The Chester County SPCA has been accepting animals from Delaware County since the beginning of the year at a monthly fee of $30,000. The Animal Protection Board has been recouping the money from the municipalities where the strays were located to repay the county.

The need for a new shelter began back in 2010 when the Delaware County SPCA changed its mission, stating its intentions to discontinue accepting stray animals and to become a no-kill shelter as of July 2012.

Delaware County Council stepped in last summer and formed the Animal Protection Board to oversee the construction of a new animal control facility located off Calcon Hook Road in Darby Township. A groundbreaking ceremony took place in October.

Council Vice Chairman Mario Civera recently confirmed that plans to build the new shelter are on hold due to the unanticipated increase in construction costs.

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Animal control plans on hold indefinitely