St Austell in Cornwall marked Armed Forces Day with a special service and parade involving members of all three armed forces in the county.

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The NFL, as it now does in all Super Bowl cities, has set aside Saturday as a day of service, in which volunteers will take part in the renovation of five local playgrounds and their surrounding communities.

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Additionally, with its analytics service in more than 20% of all applications downloaded on a given day from the App Store and Android Market, Flurry can reliably estimate total iOS and Android downloads.

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And the lesson she would want us to leave with today -- a lesson she lived out each and every day -- is that we can all be first in service.

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This year, MLK Day commemorations will coincide with the Presidential Inauguration, so the President is asking all citizens to join him in participating in a National Day of Service on Saturday, January 19.

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We had a wonderful day of service today, and hundreds of thousands of people come from all 50 states to join in the celebration.

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