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NORCROSS -- Parkview started three drives on Norcross' side of the field.
In the three combined, the Panthers managed 27 total yards, zero points, a missed field goal and two failed fourth-down conversions. They only crossed the 50 once on their own and all that added up to a 20-0 Thursday night win for Norcross.
"The whole time we are thinking it's 0-0," said Norcross linebacker Tommy Tate, who was all over the field against Parkview. "We're not giving up a score in our minds.
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And Thursday they only gave up seven first downs and one of those came on a 15-yard penalty.
"The defense played great all night, from kickoff to whistle," Norcross head coach Keith Maloof said. "Our defense is just getting better and better and that's what we're expecting."
Norcross allowed just 102 yards of offense to the Panthers, Jordan Noil picked off a pass and Parkview's quarterback Rob Youngblood completed just 4 of 12 passes for 46 yards and was sacked three times for a loss of 2 yards in the game.
"When the defense is hot like that you just let them take over," Maloof said.
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The Blue Devils bookended the opening half with 80-yard scoring drives, rolling over the Parkview defense.
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"Our opening drive is about as pretty and you can have," Maloof said.
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Parkview had just two first downs in the half, one the Blue Devils' penalty.
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"We knew they were a good run defense, we knew it," Maloof said. "That is why the pass was there early.
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"After Myles returned that punt it's on us not to do anything stupid," Maloof said. "We managed it, our defense kept them off the scoreboard and our offense did enough to win it."
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- Kamara's three TDs lead No. 9 Norcross past Hawks ( September 23, 2011 )
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Distance running events the world over are major platforms for raising charity and the same has proved true for the four international running events promoted by Procam International Pvt Ltd. After the resounding success of the charity drive associated with the Mumbai Marathon 2013, it's the turn of Bangalore city to showcase their giving side and they have done so in champion fashion!
The commitment and confidence of Charity Partner Bangalore cares and event promoters Procam International Pvt Ltd in reaping optimum benefits for charity from the unique platform provided by the Tata Consultancy Services World 10K Bangalore 2013 was vindicated, with the amounts raised for charity through the event crossing the Rs 3.70 crore mark.
While the charity drive associated with the World 10K Bangalore has always maintained a healthy upward growth, the sixth edition of the TCS World 10K Bangalore, which was run on May 19, 2013 has helped generate in excess of a whopping Rs 3.70 crores for charity, featuring an increase of around Rs 65 lakhs over last year.
In a healthy indication that Bangalore has a strong giving side, the amounts raised for charity through the World's Premier 10K Run had increased from Rs 41.35 lacs in the first year, to Rs 1.31 crores in the second year, Rs 1.41 crores in 2010, Rs 1.83 crores in 2011 and Rs 3.06 crores in 2012. According to the latest figures received Bangalore cares, the figure for 2013 stands at Rs 3.71 crores in clearly tracked figures.
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"The key word for success in this sixth edition of the World 10K is 'Partnership' – be it the partnership of Bangalore cares with Procam International Pvt Ltd or that of the NGOs with us. As a result of our working together we have raised Rs 3.71 crore, a 21% growth in the funds donated by individuals and companies from the Rs 3.06 crore raised in 2012.
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From the first figures of Rs 40 lakh and 623 donors in 2008, to Rs 3.71 crore from 9,052 donors and 34 companies this year, it has been a great partnership to help those in need within our community… by running or walking!
Thank you TCS and all sponsors. Thank you to all Government authorities. Thank you all," said Murray Culshaw.
"A distance running event is an incredible sporting platform with a huge social dimension. As with the other events we conduct, the TCS World 10K Bangalore has the potential to quickly become the country's largest charity generator and the driving force for a healthier and fitter India," said Vivek B. Singh, Joint Managing Director of Procam International Pvt Ltd, the promoters of the event.
The NGO Reaching Hand benefited the most from its well wishers, with all the individuals who emerged the highest collectors of money for charity, affiliated to it.
Mr. G Manohar Row, emerged the highest pledge raiser among men from the Care Champions, raising Rs 12.99 lacs, in support of "AKK"-Anga Karunya Kendra, while Devikala M. L. was the top pledge raiser among Care Champion women, collecting Rs 18.28 lacs, in support of The Association of People with Disability. Durgesh J. emerged the highest pledge raiser in the iCare category, raising Rs 3.70 lacs for The Association of People with Disability.
KPMG led the way among corporates, raising Rs 7.25 lacs to emerge the highest pledge raising company, while among the NGOs it was the Reaching Hand with Rs 43.37 lacs, followed by The Association for People with Disability at Rs 41.84 lacs and Pro Vision Asia at Rs 35.08 lacs.
The increase in the amounts raised for charity through the TCS World 10K Bangalore 2013 as compared to the last edition can be put in perspective with a comparison between some of the key figures.
9052 people pledged money this year as compared to 6902 in 2012, benefiting 81 NGOs as compared to 66. The total amount generated was in excess of Rs 3.70 crores as compared to Rs 3.06 crores in 2012. The highest individual pledge raiser from among Care Champions raised Rs 18.28 lacs this year as compared to Rs 15.82 lacs in 2012. Mr. Amarnath Kamath remained the highest fund raising iCare runner, raising Rs 11.55 lacs as compare to Rs 7.85 lacs in the last edition. Reaching Hand improved on their performance this year, raising whopping Rs 43.37 lacs as compared to Rs 3 lacs in 2012.
With Ten editions of the Mumbai Marathon, Eight editions of the Delhi Half Marathon, Six editions of the World 10K Bangalore and one edition of the Hyderabad 10K Run conducted successfully, distance running as a movement is generating momentum at an astronomical rate. Besides propagating the ideals of helping develop a sports culture, health, fitness, and a clean life, these events also promote positive social attributes.
It's been a momentous Six-year journey for the Bangalore World 10K since its inception in 2008, with the event setting benchmarks in terms of elite athlete participation, the involvement of the city and the amount of money raised for charity. However, there is much ground to cover and we all await the day when every single participant trains hard, sets personal goals and feels personal pride in raising money for charity.
About Bangalore cares
Bangalore cares strengthens civil society initiatives within the state of Karnataka, India; improving and expanding civic, caring and developmental services to the people of Karnataka, with the help of the people of Karnataka and well-wishers wherever they live in India and indeed around the world. This requires making known the important services provided by the voluntary sector and assisting organisations to raise resources.
Bangalore cares also publishes Directories of various types; promotes the work of the sector through different forms of media; organises meetings of the voluntary sector bringing organisations together, citizens, corporates and the government; provides advisory services; and promotes transparency and accountability. For more information about Bangalore cares, please visit www.bangalorecares.in.
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In 1988, with a vision to provide a more holistic spend to the advertising rupee and a burning desire to ameliorate the prevailing professional standards for sportsmen, Anil and Vivek B. Singh created Procam International Pvt Ltd.
At a time when sports was considered the private domain of federations, who ran it as their personal fiefdoms, two people dared to dream large dreams and stand up for what they believed in.
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Procam International Pvt Ltd has based its corporate philosophy on an open culture, with an emphasis on values and integrity. Procam International Pvt Ltd has promoted and conducted over 45 world events, which have elicited player participation of the highest caliber, as well as huge public interest.
The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon and the TCS World 10K in Bangalore are three of the most prestigious distance running events in the world. They are accredited by the Association of International Marathons (AIMS) and certified by the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) as Gold Label events.
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the man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes. Thank God Lauren listened to her parents! She was shaken up, but fine.
I never knew that bit of advice, but especially for a woman alone in a car, you should NEVER pull over for an unmarked car in a secluded area. In fact, even a marked car after dark should follow you to a populated area. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going to a "safe" place. You obviously need to make some signals that you acknowledge them (i.e. put on your hazard lights) or call #77 like Lauren did.
I am so thankful that my friend was sitting at our book club meeting telling us this scary story, rather than us at her house consoling her had something tragic occurred!
Be safe and pass this on to your friends. Awareness is everything!
[Collected via e-mail, March 2006]
A bit of useful advice - verified by the Dorset Police.
The number does work from a mobile.
This actually happened to someone's daughter. Lauren was
19 yrs
old and in college.
This story takes place over the Christmas/New Year's holiday break. It was the Saturday before New Year and it was about 1.00pm in the afternoon, and Lauren was driving to visit a friend, when an UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put its lights on.
Lauren's parents have 4 children (of various ages) and have always told them never to pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather wait until they get to a service station, etc. So Lauren remembered her parents' advice, and telephoned 112 from her mobile phone. This connected her to the police dispatcher she told the dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing blue light on his rooftop behind her and that she would not pull over right away but wait until she was in a service station or busy area.
The dispatcher checked to see if there was a police car where she was and there wasn't and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had
already on the way.
Ten minutes later 4 police cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground..... the man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes.
I never knew that bit of advice, but especially for a woman alone in a car, you do not have to pull over for an UNMARKED car. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going to a 'safe' place. You obviously need to make some signals that you acknowledge them I.e., put on your hazard lights) or call 112 like Lauren did.
Too bad the mobile phone companies don't give you this little bit of wonderful information. So now it's your turn to let your friends know about 112 (112 is an emergency number on your mobile that takes you straight to the police because 999 does not work if you have no signal).
This is good information that I did not know!
Please pass on to all your friends, especially any females. As far as I am aware, 112 uses a system called triangulation so they can also pinpoint exactly where you are phoning from.
Whether the above-quoted account was really an "actual true story and not one of those Internet stories that are passed on and on" is unknown: The details given in the account aren't sufficient to allow for confirmation of
the tale, and searches of news databases based on what little was included (that the incident happened in Virginia in the last week of
December 2001)
don't fetch any articles about an arrest made or charges laid in such a case. And some of the details in the story gave us pause: Why didn't the fleeing woman speed up, flash her lights, or honk her horn to attract the attention of the police car in front of her? And how did the
police car fail to notice the warning lights of the phony, unmarked police car?
Whether this particular tale is true or not, women driving alone have been sexually assaulted by rapists pretending to be patrolmen (and in certain rare cases by actual police officers), so the advice it gives about not pulling over in deserted areas when signaled to do so by unmarked police vehicles is well worth heeding. Turn on your flashers, slow down, and keep driving until you get to a
area where there are other people about — though you might subsequently be cited for failing to heed a police officer's commands, you will avoid the potential for harm. If necessary, call 911 to tell them what's happening and ask them to relay to the officer in pursuit your intent to continue traveling until a populated area has been reached. Although in a few states calling
on a cell phone will immediately connect you to that state's highway patrol, that code is far from universal. Some states use #77, but others use *55, *47, *77 or *HP, and some don't have any special code at all. Rather than frantically try to figure out which one will work in the area you're in, police generally recommend that the best approach is to get around the problem by trying 911 first:
"Just call 9-1-1," said Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste. "There's no reason to use another number.
is always the best way to reach the police when you need our assistance."
(The phone number
is used as a global emergency phone number in a number of countries, primarily in the European Union. In some parts of the United States a call to 112 will roll over to the local 911 system, but since 112 is not implemented as a universal emergency number in the U.S., calling 911 directly is the better option.)
Police advise motorists to immediately pull over when signaled to do so, suggesting those concerned about their safety keep their doors locked and crack their windows to speak with those presenting themselves as officers of the law. They suggest sidelined drivers who are suspicious of their detainers' demands should request to examine the officers'
photo IDs
and ask them where they work, then place calls to 911 to verify their identities. While this would certainly be the right way to handle genuine police officers making bona fide traffic stops, this method fails to protect motorists from the ill-intentioned. The real bad guys carry guns, so locked car doors and cracked windows would avail little by way of protection.
The instance of rapists and murderers pretending to be police officers is not of epidemic proportions, but enough incidents of this nature have occurred that precautions are warranted. In 1948 in
Los Angeles,
Caryl Chessman successfully robbed couples and sexually assaulted a number of women in California after first
fooling them into believing he was a police officer by flashing a red light at their vehicles. (Though often he approached parked cars this way, in at least one case he managed to pull over a car that was driving on Pacific Coast Highway.) His method of approach earned him the nickname of "The Red Light Bandit." Chessman was executed on a kidnapping charge in 1960, but only after gaining fame for writing three books while in prison (most notably
Cell 2455 Death Row
) and becoming the focus of the then nascent movement to abolish the death penalty.
Since then others have used similar ruses to isolate their victims. More recently, in 1997 Arkansas was plagued by its "blue light rapist" who assaulted three women after first luring them to the side of the road with the help of a police-style blue light mounted on his car. Robert Todd Burmingham was sentenced in 1998 to
80 years
in prison for rape, kidnapping, and aggravated robbery.
In 2000, a Tampa woman was sexually assaulted by a man who had put a flashing blue and red light atop his car and motioned her off the road as if he was a police officer. After she admitted she had been drinking, he offered to drive her home; she got into his car, and he took her to an isolated location where he raped her. That case is still open.
Someone who has taken to impersonating a police officer for nefarious purposes is counting upon his intended victim's unquestioning cooperation. Because he appears in the guise of a trusted authority figure whose commands must be obeyed, he expects automatic reaction to kick in even if it overrides common sense. That could prove a fatal error to make.
In 1996 Governor Pataki of New York issued an executive order to prevent unmarked state police cars from stopping motorists for routine traffic violations, citing "a growing number of cases around the country in which criminals trap their victims by posing as police officers."
Barbara "worry thwart" Mikkelson
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YIELD: 12 servings
Ingredients1 package fresh basil, about 1/2 cup
1/3 cup pine nuts
2 cloves garlic
1/3 cup olive oil
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese -- grated
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese -- grated
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1 cup ricotta cheese
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese -- grated
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
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JAYTON, TEXAS. Jayton, the county seat of Kent County, is on State Highway 70 and Farm roads 1228 and 1083, twenty-three miles west of Aspermont and fourteen miles northeast of Clairemont in the northeastern part of the county. It was originally named Jay Flat and was two miles northwest of the present site. The name honored a Jay family, early ranchers in the area. Daniel M. Jay was granted a post office in the community in 1886. In 1907 the settlement was moved to a location on the new Stamford and Northwestern Railway and renamed Jayton. Within a short time many businesses had opened, and the town was incorporated on February 11, 1910. The first newspaper was the Jayton Herald, founded about 1908 by a man named Morris. An early recreation site was Putoff Canyon, three miles north of Jayton. The canyon, named for a Mr. Putoff, had a large freshwater spring that attracted writers and artists from 1900 to about 1914. One visitor was Zane Grey, who used the setting for his novel The Thundering Herd (1925).
Numerous fires in the early 1900s destroyed or damaged a large number of Jayton's early businesses before an adequate water system was constructed in 1925. Until its decline in the 1930s, cotton was the major economic factor for the community. In the late 1930s oil was discovered in the county. In 1954, after a lengthy court battle, Jayton replaced Clairemont as county seat. Loss of the railroad by the early 1960s and a limited local economy kept the population at a modest level; it varied from a high of 750 in the mid-1920s to about 638 during the 1980s. In 1980 Jayton had a post office, a bank, and ten businesses. With its chief economy based on farming and oil-related services, the town was the only incorporated town in the county. Jayton had a population of 608 in 1990. The population dropped to 513 in 2000.
Jim W. Corder, Chronicle of a Small Town (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989). Claude W. Dooley, comp., Why Stop? (Odessa: Lone Star Legends, 1978; 2d ed., with Betty Dooley and the Texas Historical Commission, Houston: Lone Star, 1985). Jewell G. Pritchett and Erma B. Black, Kent County and Its People (Rotan, Texas: Rotan Advance, 1983).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Charles G. Davis, "JAYTON, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HLJ02), accessed October 13, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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B.A. PASS is an erotic-thriller film based on one of the stories, THE RAILWAY AUNTY, from the book DELHI NOIR. Written by Mohan Sikka, The Railway Aunty is an anthology (collections of short stories) based mainly in and around Delhi-NCR. It was published by HarperCollins India and edited by Hirsh Sawhney in 2010.
B.A. PASS is not just another bold-erotic film that en-cashes and emphasizes on sex without any need, or showcases sensuality to titillate. In spite of its dark subject and being an erotic drama at heart, B.A. PASS showcases erotica in its truest sense. The movie raises the bar of showcasing love-making scenes like nobody had ever done before in the surroundings of Indian Cinema.
A young small town boy Mukesh (Shadab Kamal) moves to Delhi to stay with his aunt and finish his college. Soon he is seduced by a mysterious married woman known to him as Sarika 'Aunty' (Shilpa Shukla), who is living next to his house. Set in the middle of the neon-lit by lanes of Delhi's Paharganj, the movie unfolds an erotic human drama between the two sexes.
Soon a relationship which is based on lust, lies and deceit is forged. As the young boy gets more and more rooted into his surroundings, he discovers a city that succeeds on corrupting even the most youthful and innocent beings.
The film is being shot by director-cinematographer, Ajay Bahl, in the bylanes of Paharganj, Barakhamba Road and Sarai Rohilla area of Delhi. The shooting started from July 2011 in Delhi, and completed in January 2012.
At the 2012 Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, the film had won the Best Film Award in 'Indian competition' section, whereas debutant Shadab Kamal won the Best Actor award. Also at the 2012 Montreal World Film Festival, the film was part of the 'First Films World Competition', where it was nominated for the Golden Zenith for the Best First Fiction Feature Film.
Apart from Shilpa Shukla and Shadab Kamal, the movie also stars Rajesh Sharma as Khanna, Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Johnny, Vijay Kaushik as Phupha ji, Anula Navlekar as Chotti, Happy Ranjit as Phd, Amit Sharma as Amit, Geeta Aggarwal Sharma as Bua Ji, Raveena Singh as Sonu, and others in their respective roles.
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How to Get Maximum Link ROI with Guest Posting
Guest post by Ken Lyons of Measured SEM.
In my last post, I talked about how you can use Ontolo for finding some sick guest posting prospects. In this post, I'm going to go over some ways to evaluate and qualify those guest posting prospects to find sites that are worth publishing content on.
Now, just because a site accepts article submissions doesn't mean you should post there. When qualifying a guest posting prospect, my priorities are:
- Links: If you hadn't heard, inbound links are pretty important. More, quality links help you rank higher and climb the TrustRank ladder.
- Traffic: Is the site well-trafficked? Nothing lights up a client's eyes like a nice spike in referred visits.
- Brand Awareness: It's a hard metric to measure accurately (a rise in branded queries is one signal), but a well-placed post can be a big brand boost for your client.
I put links first on the list because that's where I place the most value. I mean, let's get real: guest posting IS trading content for links. Generating traffic from a post and getting it in front of as many eyes as possible are important components of guest posting too, but for me it's all about the links.
So for the purposes of this post, I'm going to talk about some ways to qualify guest posting prospects to make sure you're maximizing your link building potential.
Evaluating the Link Potential of a Blog Prospect
When qualifying guest posting opportunities, I highly recommend you visit the site of each blog prospect. If you're simply compiling huge spreadsheets prospects and never actually visiting the website, you're doing yourself a disservice because you're unable to effectively evaluate and gauge its link potential.
So when appraising a guest posting prospect, I like to look at a basket of link data points which include:
1) Do they link? Okay, let's start with the basics. If they don't link, then what's the point? Many sites accept guest submissions and don't link because it's part of some lame "editorial policy," which often means that they've hired a dopey and misguided in-house SEO who's worried that if they link out they'll "lose all their link equity!!"
2) Do they nofollow links? Careful here. Make sure you have your nofollow detector on when evaluating these sites because more and more sites are slapping a nofollow tag on author bio links. And I'm not talking about scraper sites or article directories here either. I'm talking legit publishers.
NOTE: The Ontolo tool filters out nofollow sites for you and allows you to search prospects by "followed links," which is real time-saver.
3) Do they permit anchor text? There are plenty of blogs that will ONLY allow a hyperlinked URL. In my experience, the more authority a Web publication has the stingier they are with links. Often times, the "no anchor text" policy only becomes evident after your guest post runs. So make sure you inspect author bios to see what you can and can't do with links.
4) How liberal are they with links? So the standard policy for most guest posts is giving one to two links in the author bio. I've found sites that allow three or four or even five links in the bio (spammy-looking, perhaps...but I'm not concerned with aesthetics when I'm building links). On rare occasions, some sites even allow links to your site or blog within the post (so long as they're relevant), which is like winning the link lottery.
Now if a published DOES permit links within the body content of post, but DOES NOT permit links to your site in the content, there are a couple of sneaky ways to get around this:
- Sorta' sneaky: Link to posts or guest posts you've already written and published on other sites that link back to your target site
- Super-duper sneaky: Create a shell site (or use an existing Web property you own other than the site you're linking to in the author bio), throw up a piece of relevant content on it, link to that shell content from the guest post then link to your target site from the shell site...oh, kinda like this.
Sure, these are indirect links to your target site, but, hey...indirect links are better than no links.
5) Are older, archived posts still indexed? So your links aren't going to pass much "SEO value" if the archived pages disappear from Google's index. To uncover any indexation issues, run some queries on a handful of the older, paginated guest posts? Do the URLs still display in the index? If not, think twice about dropping a guest post on the site.
What's Next? Score Your Prospects
When evaluating the link potential of guest posting prospects, I would highly recommend keeping notes in your guest posting spreadsheet and scoring prospects on a scale of 1 to 3 or 1 to 5, based on their link potential. Scoring sites is really helpful when you need to prioritize your efforts. For example, if you're on a limited budget, you'll want to target sites that score higher than others.
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By Dr. Jeff Mirus (bio - articles - email) | Jul 05, 2007
Malaysia has become a case study illustrating why government should deliberately provide neither incentives nor disincentives to join a particular religious group.
Conversion away from Islam in that country is punished with five years in prison and a $3,000 fine. But a Muslim who marries a non-Muslim and converts his spouse to Islam gets an apartment, an automobile, and a windfall of $2,700 plus ongoing payments of $270 per month.
Next to the cries of those who suffer out of conviction, one can almost hear the mental calculators spinning, as people group together to figure out how they can use the conversion racket to better their financial situation. The smart money may well be on polygamy.
Not only does any such policy unreasonably restrict non-favored religions, but it both denigrates and undermines the religion it is designed to favor. In this case, the Malaysian government, which has just strengthened these legal provisions, shows a profound disrespect for Islam by proffering material benefits in return for outward religious submission.
Mutatis mutandis, this would be an insult to Christ. It is certainly an insult to Allah. And it holds Islam up to universal mockery. Can one be a true Muslim in his heart and support such laws?
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If ever a job warranted having the Mission Impossible theme tune as a backing track, it was this one.
The initial branding of the project was our first brief of 2010, and after exploring a few directions a simple, logo based direction was chosen. All good. Then, come the end of the year, the images from Artists far and wide starting filtering in, and the ambitious idea of a 130 page, embossed hardback book was agreed. Cue rushed visits to our ever reliable friends at Shanleys the printers and Deanprint the bookbinders, amends over breakfast, test embossings, and the first load were hand delivered to Belgium in time for Xmas. A lovely way to top and tail the year...
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Governor O'Malley Signs New Laws To Protect Maryalnd's Fisheries and Encourage Aquaculture
05/19/2011 | Posted by jdavidsburgTags: Shellfish, Aquaculture, Recreational, Commercial
Governor Martin OMalley today signed into law legislation to protect Marylands fisheries and encourage shellfish aquaculture. The legislation, supported by scientists, watermen, fishing and environmental organizations, is designed to deter harmful fishing activity by increasing penalties for oyster, blue crab, and striped bass poachers; authorizing Natural Resources Police (NRP) officers to inspect commercial fishing businesss storage areas; and streamlining penalty imposition processes.
Through this legislation, we are sending a strong message in the fight to protect some of our most valued natural resources, said Governor OMalley. By expanding aquaculture opportunities we are taking an innovative approach towards reviving our native oyster population, while at the same time, protecting oysters and our other fragile resources by punishing those who would wantonly disregard the law.


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Internet-connected in-dash entertainment systems are quickly multiplying as manufacturers try to keep with the smartphone explosion.
Honda and Subaru, along with aftermarket radio makers such as Kenwood and Pioneer, have decided to give a company called Aha, owned by stereo maker Harmon, a try.
The just-introduced Subaru BRZ sports coupe has Aha, and Honda will be bringing it to the Accord this summer in its revamped HondaLink infotainment system. Honda's Acura division also showed off Aha in its RLX concept.
Unlike Ford's Sync, Cadillac's CUE or Toyota's Entune, Aha isn't a completeoperating system but rather a conduit to certain Web-based services.
Like Pandora, Aha serves as an in-dash app that requires driver to have a supported smartphone. Unlike Pandora, Aha brings many Web service providers into the automobile.
I've been using it for about a week on my Android smartphone. Current services include Internet radio stations, podcasts from the likes of NPR, Fox News and others. One of its neatest tricks is reading Facebook and Twitter posts out loud.
For Aha-equipped cars, it's all controlled by the touchscreen of the infotainment system. In my case, I used it the old fashioned way; connecting my smartphone to my car's stereo with an aux-in cable. I had the audio but none of the visuals or touchscreen commands that drivers with Aha Radio-ready receivers would experience.
While Aha is a neat idea, I ran into issues. I was running the Android version of the app on a Motorola Bionic, which has a dual core processor and 4G. The app froze at least four times.
However, there's a lot of potential, depending what deals Aha can strike with content providers. Other partners include Slacker, CBS Radio and MOG. With 4G coverage getting better every day, you have to wonder how much longer it will be until Internet radio starts making a real dent in satellite radio's audience.
Aha also makes a lot of sense for auto manufacturers because new content can be continually added without the user needing to upgrade his head unit, just as users continually add new apps to their smartphones over the course of several years.
While it remains to be seen whether Aha really marks an 'Aha' moment in the auto industry as Netflix was for the streaming video industry, it does offer a glimpse at how the Internet will be changing our in-car experience over the next few years.


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Sinclair Street Publishing is proud to present Douglas Sabin's masterful work on the battles of Lexington and Concord, "April 19, 1775: A Historiographical Study". Described by noted historian David Hackett Fischer ("Paul Revere's Ride") as "indispensable", Sabin's work reconstructs each phase of the opening battle of the American Revolution, drawing from a rich variety of primary and secondary sources.
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"…[Sabin's work is] a major study, historical as well as historiographical, of the battles…For many aspects of its subject, this is the most full and careful investigation. It is an indispensable work for serious students of the battles [of Lexington and Concord]."
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Live Tiles in Windows 8 are exclusive to Metro apps, with desktop applications being stuck with the good old icons, and this is the way that Microsoft wants it.
Windows Developer Preview is the first taste of the next major iteration of Windows which offers early adopters the possibility of testing Metro apps and desktop programs running on top of the platform that will become Windows 7's successor.
The reason behind associating live tiles with Metro apps and keeping icons for desktop programs is related to making it very simple for end users to discern just what kind of program they'll be launching, and how to access additional options for it.
"Desktop apps will not have live metro-style tiles. There are many differences between desktop and Metro apps and when the tiles looked the same, we found people were confused," said Microsoft's Marina Dukhon.
"For example, if you right click on a Metro app, you can choose to resize the tile, uninstall it or unpin it from Start. With a desktop tile, you have a desktop focused set of options: run, run as administrator, open file location, pin/unpin from the taskbar, and pin/unpin from start."
There's a gap between metro apps and desktop applications in Windows 8, and frankly, having Live Tiles for both would have done little or nothing to narrow it.
According to the software giant, in test scenarios in which live tiles were used for all Windows 8 apps, regardless of whether they used the new Metro platform or not, early adopters found themselves confused over the nature of the programs they were launching.
"But, it isn't just about the options on the tiles themselves. People were also confused once the app launched. For example: Was this a desktop application that covered the taskbar (like a fullscreen game)?" Dukhon said.
"Or, is it a metro app? Will the charms work with this app? Will the app automatically suspend when I switch away, or will it continue to use CPU cycles on my laptop? Thus, we designed the desktop tiles to make it clear that from the moment you launch the app that this app will run in the desktop and behave like a desktop app."
Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) is available for download here.


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Watch 'Kid President' Take Over the White House for April Fool's Day
Even the White House managed to get into the spirit of things on this April Fool's Day.
Even the White House managed to get into the spirit of things on this April Fool's Day.
For such a solemn event, yesterday's presidential inauguration sure did span a lot of cute GIFs. It helps that the Obama family has two young daughters to keep things entertaining. They laugh. They yawn. They ruin pictures. They're just like us! Here are a few of our favorite moments from yesterday's ceremony.
Barack Obama took the oath of office just before noon in Washington on Monday to begin his second term as president of the United States.
Fine. Time magazine was right -- Barack Obama is the Person of the Year. We can't argue with this photo, which was taken back in October.
You can love the president or hate him, but you've got to admit this is one cute First Dog. Here's Bo Obama being a very good dog and not knocking over any of the one zillion Christmas trees in the White House as he "inspects" the decorations before it opens to the public and 90,000 people stroll through...
After a neck and neck online competition, President Obama today granted pardon to two turkeys, Cobbler and Gobbler. Cobbler, who likes eating cranberries and listening to Carly Simon, narrowly beat out Gobbler, the corn-eating turkey who loves bluegrass...
The funniest memes of the week are back, and boy do we have some of the funniest memes that ever meme'd for you. Between 'Intellectual Baby' and a late Halloween meme, this week is bound to get you laughing.
You know how we love our reaction GIFs -- those tiny moving pictures that always seem to best capture how we feel. Here, we have a special lineup of reaction GIFs for the election. No matter if you're an Obama supporter, a fan of Obama, or the rest of the world, we have a reaction GIF here just for you.
Even if you weren't hoping for Obama to win reelection this week, you have to admit that he seems very grateful he did. We can tell because he started crying in front of a bunch of people.
Hey, did you hear there was an election yesterday? It was kind of a big deal, you know, presidents and what not. With Obama being reelected, people were pretty quick to start poking fun of the losers, as well as the ultra-conservatives who said they'd be moving abroad. Oh, and gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana passed in several states. Of course, memes are a great way to do this. Here are our favorites.
As you've no doubt heard, Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term last night. We have a feeling he's feeling like this right now:
Regardless of how you feel about the election, funny is funny, and 'Key & Peele' is one of the funniest sketch shows on television right now. One of their signature sketches is Jordan Peele playing President Obama, with Keegan Michael Key as his anger translator Luther. Tonight they've provided their reaction to the election.


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Kimberly McCarthy's execution in Texas, scheduled for today, has been rescheduled, sources say. Her death by lethal injection would have marked the 13th female execution in Texas in 40 years.
As I detailed yesterday, McCarthy was convicted of murdering her next-door neighbor in 2010. She also cut off the senior's finger and tried to pawn the ring it had on.
All her actions were motivated by drug use, her lawyers explained, as they told the court she drove the victim's car to a crack house, the same day.
A few hours before she was scheduled for the final injection, news came in that she was awarded a postponement. HLNTV writes that a state district judge decided to reschedule the execution for April 3.
McCarthy was awarded extra time for an appeal, which will be centered around jury selection in her previous trial. Apparently, it included a majority of white jurors, and now Mrs. McCarthy, pictured above, claims she was being discriminated against.
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Issue 114 of Whispering Gallery, our quarterly magazine, is now on its way to all members of the Dorothy Dunnett Society and it's a fabulous issue. You can see a preview of the cover and contents here and if you'd like your own copy, join the Society!
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Hi everyone,
I am looking into buying a new harness for driving. Well, my budget is extremely limited so I've been searching around everywhere looking for something I can afford.
I didn't find much :(
The harness I was originally going to get sold out today :( it was black with chrome hardware.
All they have left is Russet color. Also I found another harness that is 'Russet' color.
I personally think that Russet is a pretty color harness but would it look horrible on a 'bay colored horse'?
PLEASE, tell me your opinions!
Here is the link to one of the harnesses on Ebay:


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Listening by Choice
By Kathy Balmer
I am well past the age of hoping to get pregnant. In fact, if that actually happened at this point I would probably go off the deep end into insanity. However, I'm still somewhat scarred by my experiences of infertility and even to this day I find myself becoming a little bitter when women talk about when they will choose to conceive as though it is like taking a vacation and as simple as calling the travel agent to make the arrangements. True, that's how I had hoped to start out some twenty years ago, when trying to have a baby. It didn't quite go that way.
After the years of pain, anger and frustration that couples suffering infertility know, my husband Dan and I, were thrilled to hear that I was finally pregnant. Our beautiful daughter, Jenna, was born but the feeling of relief that we had this perfect, healthy baby was quickly overshadowed the next day, when we discovered she failed her newborn hearing screening. "It could just be fluid in her ears," is what we were told at first. After months of difficult testing we were given the news that she was moderately to severely hearing impaired meaning she could hear loud noises, but not most speech sounds. She would need hearing aids in order to acquire speech and language.
When you find out your baby has special needs, the emotions are overwhelming and very similar to those of infertility. Why me? Now, why my baby?? I remember the folder given to me at the hospital when she was diagnosed, which contained all of the information about how we were to proceed in finding services for Jenna. I just let it sit neatly on the table for days after I set it there, staring at it in disgust. I hated that folder and all it represented. But when I worked up the courage to open it, I found something that has stuck with me and really did help me in some small, but significant way. There was a poem written by Emily Perl Kingsley entitled, "Welcome to Holland" about raising children with disabilities. I highly encourage all parents to read this poem, but especially parents with special needs children.
So this was my lot in life…God doesn't give you more than you can handle…it could always be worse…and so on and so on. All true and you carry on the best you can and decide that this will in fact build character and you realize you can still live a "normal" life and be happy. Naturally, this means trying for baby number two. "Now your body knows what to do…" was among my favorite comments as I faced infertility the second time. It just wasn't going to happen even via the method we used to conceive Jenna. But we were consumed by her needs and life in general just like everyone else so we accepted it and decided to move on.
I still remember when the switch inside me flipped while watching the horrible events of the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. We had just moved into a new house and things were finally going smoothly. Jenna had been through lots of ups and downs and had received her first cochlear implant after going progressively deaf from age 2.5 – 4 years old and she was catching up and doing well. Why couldn't I just be settled and happy?! I believe God intervened and wouldn't let me give up on the idea that I needed to help and I needed to adopt a child in need. As I started researching the internet I quickly realized that there were already plenty of families ready and waiting to adopt the children in Haiti who were in need before the earthquake. It didn't seem as though I was really going to be able to help those children. However, in the process of my investigation I found that there was a desperate need for children in the foster system in my own country. I was pretty clueless up to this point because I had never wanted to adopt. But something inside me or God Himself kept driving me towards it. We knew we wanted to adopt a child younger than Jenna and were repeatedly told we were not needed. Only families willing to adopt children 10 years or older were preferred. Nevertheless, I pursued it and we went through the classes, home study and piles of paperwork and became licensed to adopt.
We had received just a couple of profiles for children during our first week of waiting, but after that it was quiet…too quiet for months. I knew in my heart it wasn't going to happen so that is when I decided to start searching for a child where we would have the advantage – a child who was deaf. Once that search started it was a matter of days and then there he was. We saw him and there was something about that face. I knew then that we would name him Jack.
I was just sure we didn't have a chance at getting this child since we hadn't even started the process for international adoption and he would be long gone by the time we were up to speed. I can still remember the disbelief as though I had found the easy button when the social worker told me we could pursue him since we were already home-studied. Really?? And then after submitting the home study and writing a letter to his case worker, it was only a matter of days when we received the emails notifying us that we had been matched as his family! Well, the feeling of easy didn't last long.
I was frenzied trying to make it through the process at light speed so I could get Jack home and get him in for cochlear implants. Time was ticking away as was his optimum time for learning speech and language. There were times when I was so consumed with anger at the roadblocks and red tape yet knowing all along that I would be writing a story about the whole experience in no time. Just 10 months after finding Jack on the internet, we were flying to China to bring him home.
On one hand, we didn't have to overcome the obstacle of a child who was learning to speak Chinese. On the other hand, we were now caring for our son who had NO language for the 3.5 years of his life! We knew we had to act fast. Jack came home on Thanksgiving Day of 2011 and he was enrolled in his deaf/hard of hearing preschool by the first day back to school in January. His cochlear implant surgery was performed at the end of February and the activation was at the beginning of March. He was fully hearing and ready to learn to listen and talk! Simple as that, right? Well, not exactly…
Jack is one of the smartest kids I've ever known and this can be verified by anyone who spends just 5 minutes with him. But learning speech and language takes time. This was going to be harder than it was for Jenna, who was extremely benefitted by early intervention. Teaching Jack just the concept of language and that it was going to take more than crying, whining or pointing to get what he wanted was one of the biggest challenges. Compound that with the multitude of hurdles in international toddler adoption and there are days where you question your survival. It's hard. It's really hard and you have to be prepared to sacrifice a lot and have your world turned completely upside down. But then it happens…you start to watch the transformation of a little boy who was lost in his world of silence and is suddenly submerged in this new world of hearing, listening and language. He starts to respond to the calling of his name and at four years of age he says his first word. You can see him understanding that things have a name and everyone knows the same meaning for it. He hears music and smiles and shares his sister's mp3 player to listen to her songs. He dances in place of standing still in a room full of moving people. Sure, it's nothing different than what every parent experiences with their child except you know that you made this extraordinary decision for someone else's life and that they will someday be able to tell you that you made the right choice.
Kathy Balmer is a working mother of two and has been happily married to her husband, Dan for over 12 years. She grew up as an only child and first learned about the pain of infertility through the experiences of her parents who were unable to conceive after she was born. This grief transitioned to Kathy's adulthood as she went on to face her own issues with infertility. Determination, persistence and a sense of humor guided Kathy toward her vision of a family over a course of many years. With a deaf daughter born to her and a deaf son who was adopted from China, it is an entirely different picture than what she imagined at the beginning. But her journey was worth it all.


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accidentally checked off a task
My problem is i have a lot of nested tasks under a main task (around 30 total) and I accidentally checked off the main task. Now all my nested tasks are gone and I can't get them back because viewing the completed tasks is a pro feature. That sucks. There should be a delay before they go away, or I should be allowed to view completed tasks for the day so I can un-do any accidental mistakes. I just lost my entire task list under an important project because of 1 wrong mouse click.
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Hello Cel,
Viewing completed tasks is only a Premium feature if you want to see all of them at once with options to filter them and visualize your productivity.
The regular free option of viewing completed tasks can be accessed by entering the project in which you've completed the task and clicking on the circular icon in the bottom-right corner.
Once you'll see all your completed tasks there, simply click on the checked box of the parent task and it, along with all its sub-tasks, will be restored.
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Hi, I just installed Todoist today on my iPhone to compare it with Things. Trying out various aspects, same thing happened to me: touched an entry and boom, it's gone! So how do I get the task back on iPhone when no computer is at hand (say I'm on on the road)?
How can I see my checked tasks anyway? They seem to disappear which is kind of weird because I lose any indication of what I've done today ...
Hello Reinhard,
Please scroll to the bottom of your list in the project in which this task was completed and tap on the "Completed tasks" link. Here you can see all completed tasks from this project and also uncomplete them.
Ah, yes, I see.
Well, I am really missing an option to leave completed tasks displayed in lists, like greyed out or crossed out. To me its much more satisfying to see what tasks are completed than to search for them. Maybe its just because I'm used to it, but it's kind of a no-go criteria for me ... :/
To be a bit more precise: I am primarily thinking of of today view, which in my case is by far the most used view. Ah yes, and on all platforms alike. :)
Thank you for your feedback, we will consider changing this in the future :-) For now, you can see completed tasks crossed out within projects, but only if they're sub-task as these stay on the list until you complete the whole parent task.


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Posted: 22 DEC 2004
Second of Two New Expansions for IL-2 Sturmovik from X1 Software are now available! Matrix Games and X1 Software (www.x1software.com) announced today that announced today that The Last Days, the second of two expansions due to release this week for IL-2 Forgotten Battles, is now available for sale from the Matrix Games website. The Last Days is compatible with the ACE Expansion Pack as well as Pacific Fighters and can be purchased online from the Matrix Games Online Store.
Release Date: 22 DEC 2004
Platform: PC
Genre: Simulation
Turns: Real-Time
Complexity: Intermediate
Period: World War II
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Voters Pass Mt. SAC Bond Measure Resoundingly by 70%
WALNUT, Calif.—East San Gabriel Valley voters resoundingly approved a $353-million bond extension yesterday to continue campus improvements at Mt. San Antonio College. Of the 194,780 ballots cast, 136,253 (69.95%) were in support of Measure RR.
"We are thrilled that the community has shown its solid support of our mission to educate and train the region's workforce for decades to come," said Dr. John S. Nixon, president of the state's largest single-campus community college district. "Given the tough economic conditions of the region, the significance of this resounding support reflects the positive reputation that Mt. SAC has within the community. The funding we receive from this bond extension will allow us to relieve overcrowding with new and renovated facilities that will help foster innovative instruction and learning for our 65,000 students."
Nixon noted that Measure RR's passage was largely attributed to broad-based community support, including the valley's chambers of commerce, city, county and state leaders, and Mt. SAC's various partners in education.
"We particularly thank our student coalition and the dedicated volunteers who made the compelling case for Measure RR through presentations and grassroots efforts," said Nixon. "Mt. SAC can now continue building for the future, creating opportunities for tomorrow's students and promoting economic growth in our communities."
Measure RR is an extension of Measure R, a $221-million bond that was passed by local voters in 2001. It merely extends the Measure R assessments of property owners for nine years, without an increase in the tax rate. The passage of Measure RR qualifies Mt. SAC to receive state matching funds totaling as much as $132 million to complete the planned projects.
Among these projects, Measure RR will finance the renovation and modernization of aging facilities, improvement of handicap accessibility across campus, and completion of earthquake retrofits. New construction will add needed classrooms and labs, establish a new fire training academy, and add a much-needed parking structure, as well as a new business and computer technology complex, library and learning resources center, a gymnasium, a student union/campus center and a child development center.
"These essential projects will address the concerns that students have long expressed about parking capacity, traffic safety, sufficient places to study, and the lack of a campus center," Nixon noted. "Many of our current classroom buildings—constructed over 60 years ago—were old wards and barracks, originally built when the campus site was a naval facility. Students and faculty were ecstatic over the news of Measure RR's passage and the prospect of teaching and learning in cutting-edge classrooms and lab facilities."
The need to accommodate surging enrollment and replace aging buildings has been another key concern of college officials for some time, Nixon said. This fall's enrollment numbers set a new record—a nearly 7% increase. Enrollment of full-time students in credit courses swelled from 28,359 in 2007-08 to 30,129 in 2008-09. This number is expected to grow at a rate of 1,000 students a year.
"The passage of Measure RR will enable us to more effectively perform our key role as the region's job training engine for a wide range of professions, including public safety, business, manufacturing, and health and human services," Nixon said.
10/08/15 Mt. SAC Theater Opens the Season with 'Boening Boeing' Oct. 16-18
9/22/15 Mt. SAC Takes On British Debate Team Over Gun Control
9/10/15 Mt. SAC Art Gallery Opens Season with "Color"
7/08/15 Mt. SAC Fall Registration Begins July 15
7/02/15 Mt. SAC Health Career Students Win 8 Medals at Nationals
7/02/15 Mt. SAC Electronics Student Wins Silver at Nationals
6/03/15 Economist, Academic to Address Mt. SAC Grads June 12
5/29/15 Mt. SAC Theater to Stage 'Big Love' June 4-7
5/07/15 Mt. SAC Sets Spring Dance Concert May 15-17
5/06/15 Mt. SAC to Exhibit 67th Student Art Show


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Voter pledge cards are a great way for organizations to connect with potential voters and gain a commitment for action on Election Day. These two part pledge cards are designed to include a portion for voters to keep, with key election information and space for them to indicate why they are voting. The other portion allows your organization to get contact information to reach back out to those voters with Election Day reminders if you choose.
This pledge card template prints three two-part cards per 8.5 x 11" page.
"I will vote" Pledge Cards (pdf)
When you are conducting a voter registration drive, make sure you understand the eligibility requirements for voter registration listed in the oath at the bottom of the application. Read the information and notices on both the front and back of the application, including the Confidentiality Notice.
All shaded areas of the MN Voter Registration Application must be completed by the voter.
Do not fill out any portion of the application for the voter unless assistance is required.
Voters who are already registered should re-register if they have:
Please use an ink pen and print clearly.
Minnesota law (M.S. 201.061 subd.1) requires completed Voter Registration Applications be submitted to election officials within 10 days after the voter dated the application.
Pre-registration deadlines are at 5:00 PM, 20 days prior to each election. Check with Election Officials for the pre-registration deadlines for special elections.
Drop off Applications: Completed applications can be delivered in person to county service centers, city hall offices, or to:
Minnesota Office of the Secretary of State
Election Services Counter
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St. Paul, MN 55155
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Mail in Applications: If you mail in the applications collected at a voter drive, please include a copy of your business card or contact information with the applications. Applicants who submit their applications by mail, either through the United States Post Office or a commercial delivery service, may be required to show identification at the polls the first time they vote in a federal election.
As part of our preparations for the 2013 Municipal Election, we asked you to help us get the word out about the importance of voting and participating in elections with our first ever video contest. Thank you to all who entered! Our winning video entry was submitted by Rebecca McDonald in collaboration with the Native American Community Development Institute.
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