"As a new immigrant and a new citizen to this country, I feel very blessed to be here, " he said.
And the November 5th Coalition is working to raise awareness of local democracy and promote a new generation of citizen-centered work.
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You've honored me with this award, but if you really want to honor me, honor the sacrifices made by this new caste of citizen soldiers.
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The Administration has supported this approach as part of its all-hands-on-deck approach to stimulating innovation, and under COMPETES we can expect a further blossoming of new ideas from citizen solvers across the land.
The first picture of the crash was posted to TwitPic, and was picked up by more traditional media outlets - sparking the widely-quoted notion that Twitter is the poster child for a new era of citizen journalism.
William Cronon, an American history professor at the University of Wisconsin, launched his new Scholar as Citizen blog with a lengthy post about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservatively funded and fairly secretive group which is drafting reams of legislation for states across the country and has been since 1973.
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Also killed were Marra's mother, Harriet Nicholson, who was also British but lived in Portugal, and domestic partner, Helen Tamaki, who was a citizen of New Zealand but lived in Sydney.
Citizen Action of New York, the Alliance for Quality Education and Campaign for Fiscal Equity were among backers of the legal challenge.
Karen Scharff of Citizen Action of New York says many legislators first get elected intending to work for their communities then learn they are in a system where money determines outcomes.
Citizen journalism is nothing new.
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According to whispers at the institution, its new chief economist will be a Chinese citizen.
Even a game like Star Citizen, which is quite new in many ways still appealed to the old-school gamer in all of us.
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This will include an initiative to build the capacity of women leaders, such as new members of Parliament, and facilitate citizen participation at the community level.
Noting that the Online Citizen appears to meet the new licensing criteria, the editors also said the government should clarify whether their site could be licensed in the future.
The games are a way of engaging a new, younger audience, and gathering broad citizen support.
New media and new opportunities have raised new issues around the safety of journalists and citizen reporters.
Another case outlined is of Lucy Rogers, a naturalized U.S. citizen who works with farmworkers in New York.
From then on New York Life behaved like a model corporate citizen.
It added that it will take in between 15, 000 and 25, 000 new citizens each year to "stop our citizen population from shrinking".
He remained a model citizen throughout his frustrating year in New York and answered the constant barrage of questions about his role and mindset all season.
The new bond will allow local governments or even citizen groups to submit proposals for purchases that would be eligible for matching private and federal funds.
Art sold in Geneva or New York, even if made by an EU citizen, is not subject to the levy.
Governor Aoshima Yukio has pushed for improved financial disclosure and is inviting citizen activists to sit on committees studying new development plans.
During the 1996 New Hampshire GOP primary, Romney, a private citizen at the time, paid for an advertisement criticizing Steve Forbes' signature flat tax on the grounds that it was a giveaway to the ultra-rich.
Lydia, my wife, was born in Hong Kong and became a U.S. citizen a few years after we moved to New Jersey.
Behind Global Citizen Year is a mission of creating a new generation of leaders for addressing global development challenges, an idea that Falik markets to graduating seniors, their parents, and college admissions officers.
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It requires federal agencies to make key services available to mobile users and to release important government data in ways that will allow citizen developers and entrepreneurs to turn them into new products, services, and jobs.
Officers also detained a naturalized citizen who had been working with farmworkers in New York, kept women in cold detention cells in Texas and lied on an arrest report that led to an illegal immigrant's detention in Washington state, the advocacy groups said.
"We'll probably stay out of France, " says Laurent, who married a New Mexican and sounds more like the U.S. citizen he expects to become.
Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen, an American watchdog group, even argues that these new recommendations do not go far enough.
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