Democrats like this shift in demographics because, according to The Voter Participation Center (VPC), a Democratic-leaning nonprofit focused on increasing the voting participation of unmarried women, 61 percent of unmarried women who voted in 2010 cast ballots for Democrats.

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Although the NRA is ostensibly an organisation seeking to protect the civil rights of its 4m members, critics such as the Violence Policy Centre (VPC), a gun-control group, contend that the level of funding from firearms manufacturers makes it, in effect, just a trade association for the gun industry.

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Main Features: VPC-FH1A and VPC-HD2000A These highly advanced cameras not only offer a standard 1080i (interlaced) format (recording at 60 fields per second), but with the SANYO proprietary CMOS engine, recording is also available in an impressive 1080p (progressive) format, offering ultra-smooth, professional-looking 60 frames per second.

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This will allow VPC customers to build highly-available applications using multiple Availability Zones just as EC2 customers not using a VPC do today.

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