Interestingly, those with the same birth sign as the year sign invariably have bad years.

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The first sign is often when livestock give birth to deformed or dead young - which can be months after the infection has occurred.

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Some aspects of individual registration have been put in place for the next elections - people will have to write in and ask for a postal vote, sign for it and give their date of birth.

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It was particularly popular among the higher classes, and was seen as a sign of being well-off enough to afford a birth at hospital rather than at home.

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Emilia Handumbo, one of the HIV-positive women suing the government, told CNN last year that she was given documents to sign while she was in labor and about to give birth in a public hospital.

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He suggests more subtle lies: using an alias on Facebook, lying about your birth date when forced to enter it, using disposable email addresses to sign up for one-time account.

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Or one that asked for your date of birth in one place and your age in another, and then required you to sign your name over and over again (and also print it out each time)?

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These meetings, no matter how productive, gave birth to further meetings with more participants on each side, which can only be taken as a good sign for those fearing the worst for this NBA season.

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