...influenced by specific local factors, such as climate and soil. Under the TRIPS Agreement, countries are under no obligation to extend protection to a particular geographical indication unless that geographical indication is protected in the country of its origin. Prior to 2003, India did not protect geographical indications of Indian origin. In order to comply with India's obligations in the TRIPS Agreement, it enacted the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999, which came into force with effect from 15th September 2003. The present geographical indications regime in India is governed by the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999 and the Geographical Indication of Goods (Regulation and Protection) Rules, 2002. By registering a geographical indication in India, the rights holder can prevent unauthorized use of the registered geographical indication by others and promote economic prosperity of producers of goods produced in a particular region. Registration of the geographical indication in...
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...provide voter registration forms to residents seeking public assistance, like food stamps and Medicaid. The suit claims Georgia has been engaging in statewide noncompliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) Section 7. It contends the state has deprived thousands of low-income Georgia citizens the opportunity to vote. In 2007-2008, Georgia public assistance offices received 21,762 voter registration applications a 79 percent drop since 1995-96 (Fleishman, 2004). Section 7 of the NVRA requires that all public assistance offices, in states subject to the NVRA, distribute a voter registration application with each application for public assistance, and each recertification, renewal, or change of address relating to an individual’s receipt of public assistance. It further mandates that all public assistance offices in a covered state assist clients in completing a voter registration application (unless a client declines such assistance), provide a form that asks clients whether they wish to register to vote and includes certain specified information concerning the voter registration process, and accept completed voter registration forms for delivery to the appropriate elections authority. Defendant Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State and “chief elections official,” is responsible for ensuring Georgia’s compliance with the NVRA, including Section 7, and did not fulfilled his responsibilities for ensuring that Georgia provides the voter registration services...
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...limited space of the application form is to focus on leadership. But before you can do this, you first need to make a list of all your extracurricular activities, summer activities, and jobs. List everything big and small. Significant and insignificant. Don't forget that extracurricular activities include experiences like teaching all those hyper kids at Sunday School, whacking the ball around on the ping pong team, playing the triangle in band, leading a sit-in against animal fur, or volunteering as a candy striper at the hospital. For every activity, job, and sport you should try to list as much of the following as possible: • Name of the organization, program, or business. • A short one to two sentence description of the group, program, or business. • Any leadership positions you held and your responsibilities. • Any special...
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...AP Government Final Review 1. What is a political party? -a group of people joined together by common philosophies and common approaches with the aim of getting candidates elected in order to develop and implement public policy. It is characterized by an organization that is responsible to the electorate and has a role in government. 2. What are the characteristics of politics? -who gets what, when, how, and why. Politics deal with individuals and their needs, values, and attitudes will band together to form political parties. 3. What are linkage institutions? -the means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy. Some examples: political parties, special interest groups, and the media. 4. Political parties looked like? -can be viewed as an organization, the relationship with the electorate, and a role in government. 5.What is party realignment? -the shift of party loyalty, occurred in 1932 after the country experienced the Great Depression. 6. What are the basic characteristics of political parties since 1990? -era of divided government. ? 7. How do most Americans participate in the political process? - discussing politics, registering to vote, voting in local/state/national elections, joining a specific political party, making contact with politicians, attending political meetings, contributing to political campaigns, working in a campaign, soliciting funds, and running for office. 8. What does someone running...
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...lesser known candidate running for mayor to pick up this strategy. Unlike the presidential elections, there isn’t really an accurate depiction of who has a certain number of voters supporting them. The purpose for Angelique’s phone banking operation was to get in touch with the community and notify them that she is a mayoral candidate. Also she wanted us to tally up how many citizens were confirming that they were going to vote for her, in an attempt to get an estimated number of supporters backing her during the election. The phone banking operation took place in a meeting room with a capacity of about a dozen people that was located in a living complex in Natomas, California. The campaign provided three to four prepaid phones, a voter registration list providing names and numbers of registered voters in our area, a script that also had information about Ashby’s key achievements and goals, a tally sheet, writing utensils and snacks. The room was filled with student volunteers from our government class as well as a supervisor. There were two...
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...Taketa Thomas State Research Paper Pol/215 Donald Kelly University Of Phoenix July 8, 2010 State Research Paper In the following paper the writer will provide a brief description of two interest groups in Georgia: the fraternal order of the police and the girls and boys club, identify the different sources of funding for the state of Georgia, and also provide information on the effects the girls and boys club and the fraternal order of the police has on the local and state government. To sum up the paper the writer will discuss the importance of the relationships between the local and state governments and also summarize the election process in Georgia. Two interest groups that operate in the state of Georgia are the boys and girls club and the fraternal order of the police. The girls and boys club is an organization founded to give girls and boys across the world a place to go during the school year and during the summer and eliminate the problem of latchkey kids. The girls and boys club provides the kids with snacks and meals during the summer and also organizes activities and gives the kids a chance to experience different life lessons. According to GEORGIA STATE LODGE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE (2010), “The Fraternal Order of Police is one of the largest organizations of sworn law enforcement officers, with more than 325,000 members in more than 2,100 lodges. The Fraternal Order of Police is comprised of over 325,000 regularly...
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...IMPORTANT VOTER INFORMATION VOTER REGISTRATION • WHEN TO RE-REGISTER: If you have moved since you last registered to vote, wish to change your party registration, or have changed your name, you need to re-register as soon as possible. You must register by October 22, 2012 to be able to vote in the November 6, 2012 Presidential General Election. WHERE TO OBTAIN A VOTER REGISTRATION FORM: Anyone who is eligible to register to vote in California can use the new California Online Voter Registration system. You can find the online process at the Registrar of Voters website at www.sdvote.com. Click on Register to Vote and follow the instructions. Voter registration cards are also available and can be found at Post Offices, Department of Motor Vehicles offices, Library buildings, various City Clerk offices, and the Registrar of Voters office. NOTE: You can check the status of your registration by visiting www.sdvote.com. Follow the prompts to verify your voter registration. VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT • • PERMANENT VOTE BY MAIL VOTER: If you are currently a vote by mail voter, you will automatically receive your mail ballot. To confirm your voting status and see your polling location, review the colored mailing label on the back cover of this pamphlet. If the label indicates you are a permanent mail ballot voter, please do not reapply --- we begin mailing the vote by mail ballots on October 9, 2012. If you do not receive th your ballot by October 18 , please call the Registrar...
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...My first gut response to the song “Strange Fruit” was disturbing I couldn’t tell if a man or a woman was singing the song. The singer had a very low toned voice and the instrumentals in the song gave me a hard time trying to understand what they singer was saying. Not knowing whom the singer was made it hard for me to try and paint a picture of the story they were trying to tell. Taking my focus away from the lyrics. When I first heard the song in my kitchen I was confused I didn’t understand what was the singer was trying to sing, all I remember was the sound in their voice. The singer had a very smooth, slow paced tone. The voice was vary relaxed and gave me a sense of calmness. After, hearing the song over and over again and taking a look at the lyrics my first thought was about all the police brutality happening all around the United States. How the main victims are blacks. The subject in this song was about the racism happening in America. To describe the subject was hard. I had a very hard time with this song trying to understand all the metaphors and have a good understanding of what she was talking about. I think about this subject all the time. We live in a world where racism still exists some people experience more often than others and some will never experience it all. I would consider myself one of the lucky ones to have never been in a situation where I have felt discriminated or felt looked down on. But we hear about it on the news everyday for example, presidential...
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...their time, paid their fines, and stood in voter registration lines only to be denied. These American citizens, who are also felons, are being denied the right to vote due to disenfranchisement laws. In the United States, “Two states, Vermont and Maine, allow convicted felons to vote while in prison. Nine states permanently restrict certain felons from voting (until and if granted the state governor's pardon) even if those people have served their prison sentence, parole, probation, and paid all fines. The remaining 36 states fall somewhere in between,” (ProCon.org, 2009). Felons should have the right to vote, as they have paid or are paying their debt to society, and the millions of missing felony votes impact all of us. How many times have you voted in a close race and your candidate did not win? Imagine if just a fraction of the felons that share your views were allowed to vote just like they are allowed to pay taxes. Millions of Americans in our republic are not represented at every election due to non-felony voting, which can be said to be undemocratic, and as such, felons should be allowed to vote in all states. “The legislature has sent a clear message that voting is a fundamental right that should not be stripped away from people who are working, paying taxes and contributing to their communities, “said Steven Brown, Executive Director of the ACLU of Rhode Island. According to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the right of citizens of the United...
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...MUNICIPAL PROFILE Profile Year: 2012 MUNICIPALITY PROVINCE : SULTAN NAGA DIMAPORO : LANAO DEL NORTE Number of barangays 37 Population 52, 430 (2010 census) GENERAL PROFILE Income Class 3rd Population Growth (%) b Land Area (sq. Km) 250.6 sq km Number of households 10, 321 STATE OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE REPORT RATING ADJECTIVAL EQUIVALENT LGPMS 3.78 Fair Fiscal Admin Performance 4.04 High SEAL OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING RECIPIENT CY 2011 CY 2012 NONE NONE STRATEGIC VALUE OF LGU HIGH Economic Potential Performance Poverty Incidence Social Services Education: School Achievement Health: Access to Services Peace & Order: Conflict Situation MED LOW FINANCIAL PROFILE Income IRA share Locally-sourced Revenue Other Revenues Total Income Expenditure 61,030,942.00 Governance Administration 736,242.47 318,493.22 Social Services 62,085,677.69 Environmental Management Total Expenditure PEACE AND ORDER PROFILE Number of Infiltrated Barangays Number of Influenced Barangays 0 0 Number of Threatened Barangays Crime Rate 0 6.05% POLITICAL PROFILE Number of Registered Voters Number of Precincts (2010) (2010) 30,455 52 (clustered) Voters Turnout in the last Election 30,144 Name Ulwan M. Dimaporo Motalib M. Dimaporo Ronda S. Maruhom Achmad B. Taha Raminito T. Lumayaga Rascala B. Odin Camaloden S. Abdul Andam M. Maruhom Malcalbe T. Macatindog Hadji Ali M. Macalpang LIST OF ELECTED...
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...It’s Election Day! (Does Anyone Really Care?) John F. Kennedy once said that “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” When I ran across this quote I realized that today is Election Day in Massachusetts and many local voters were heading to the polls to select new leadership. Now it’s a known fact that local voter turnout is never very high. We see more middle-aged citizens and the elderly turning out for these elections which, based on the information presented in our discussion question, is about 20-30% of registered voters. But how does this tie-in to the quote. I am in agreement that a low voter turn-out is not necessarily a bad thing. These voters usually represent those voters who are knowledgeable about the issues at hand and want to see the best person for the job get elected. But does this continuous process yield a better outcome as a whole. The populace needs to be educated about the issues and understand what they are voting for. If people tend to vote on blind faith or, worse, emotion, it is an ignorant and potentially costly move for us all. In order for communities as a whole to bind together and elect the right people for the job, they must take the time and energy to get involved and to become educated on the important issues that are affecting them and their families. The question was asked in our discussion as to what kind of a program we could devise to not only increase voter turn-out but to educate the...
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...Hagaman Memorial Library Library Card Application Any resident of East Haven, as defined by GS11-31a.(e) may obtain a Hagaman Memorial Library card. Adults (18 and older) must present a photo id and proof of current address. The following in order of preference, are acceptable: CT driver’s license, CT State photo ID, CT car registration, voter registration card, current telephone or utility bill, lease agreement or rent receipt, property deed, current tax receipt, checkbook with name and address imprint, student report, school schedule or school ID. If a person has no photo ID or the address on photo ID is not current, a second proof of residency will be required. Students (age 14-17) must present one form of identification and proof of current address or be accompanied by a parent or guardian with proper id. The following in the order of preference are acceptable forms of identification: CT driver’s license, school ID, student report card or school schedule. Minors under age 14 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian with proper id who will sign the application at the time of registration. The borrower assumes full responsibility for all use made of the card. By signing the application forms, the borrower agrees to comply with all library rules and regulations; to pay all fines; to be responsible for any loss or damage to materials; to provide immediate notice of any change of address; and to provide immediate notice if the card is stolen. Cards are valid for...
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...Synopsis This case talks about Binetti’s decision to pivot the Votizen model. Votizen was unable to make political communications more fluid so Binetti thought of using the popular message platform Twitter for this purpose instead. This idea gave rise to @2gov. @2gov was the first Twitter application that reached numerous public officials through a single address. Binetti also revised his Customer Development and Pirate Models to reflect the pivot so as to provide easy to use solution to his customers. After evaluating the models he found that the users were easily acquired, activated and were willing to refer. Despite increase in the percentage of acquired activation, retention and referral, Votizen was just getting a 1 percentage of revenue. So the dilemma still continues whether Binetti should pivot again or preserve with @2gov? What they did? When Binetti revised the Customer Development Model, changes in the categories of product, problem, channels and market type were made. * Product: Shifted from a social network for registered voters to simple messaging tool from citizens who were interested in being politically active. * Problem: Initially individuals wanted a stronger voice but later Binetti realized that the main problem was difficulty for a typical citizen to be involved politically. * Channels: Initially internet was the primary source to get voters information. Now he has switched to a specific social network Twitter to connect to various individuals...
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...“Arizona County gives wrong election date in Spanish voter cards” The Arizona Democratic Party is calling for a meeting with the Maricopa County Recorder following an error in relationship with the approaching election, the Maricopa County’s elections office says that they mailed out just about 2 million new voter registration cards, and that only about 50 of the cards, apparently handed out at the receptions of their offices had an error. The mistake in the voter cards was that the incorrect election date was printed on the mailer that comes with your voter ID that you punch out. The error was only made in the Spanish voter cards (and supposedly in only 50 of those cards), but of course some people is concerned it will cause voters to show up on the incorrect day, the county still alleging that this will only affect and involve a few dozen cards, but the people calling for the meeting aren’t convinced that this issue is not more widespread. This issue is likely to further complicate tense relations between local authorities and Latino residents References Article Ed Payne, M. M. (2012, October 18). Cable news network. [0]. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/us/arizona-spanish-election-ballot/index.html Other Espino, R. (2012, October 10). The Impact of SB1070 on the 2012 Latino Vote in Arizona | Latino Decisions. Latino Decisions :: Home. Retrieved October 23, 2012, from...
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...Enter the Age of Internet Voting Voting has changed drastically since the beginning of humanity. Some of these changes have been for the better, and others have been fraudulent. The first form of voting originated in Ancient Athens where Greeks would use small balls to vote. A white ball would be cast in favor of a candidate or a topic and a black ball would be cast to vote against someone or something. This is where the term black balled came from (Glenco). Then a couple thousand or so years later came paper ballots, lever machines, punch cards, optical scans, and touch screens. The three most well known ways of voting are by optical scanners, punch cards, and touch screens. In which touch-screens are the most dominant in America Today. There have been major incidents with all of these machines that have caused doubt about whether the results are truly accurate or a miscalculation. The best way to solve this problem is to no longer use any by optical scanners, punch cards, or touch screens and make voting possible online. Internet voting seems like the most logical answer to the current problems faced by these machines and punch cards. It is also possible to have internet voting while ensuring that the votes are accurate. New voting technologies tend to emerge out of crises of confidence as seen prominently in the 2000 presidential election. We only rarely change systems and in response to a public anxiety that electoral results can no longer be trusted. There have...
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