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Submit an Announcement

Please read carefully before filling out birth announcement form

The Portland Press Herald will publish birth announcements submitted by parents.

We will publish complete names of parents and LIVING grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents. First and last names must be used. Example: Mr. and Mrs. John Smith; John Smith and Jane Doe.

We will not publish the announcement if towns are not listed for parents. The newspaper will not publish the names of deceased grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents.

We will not publish the name of the father or paternal grandparents in cases where the mother and father/domestic partner are not married and/or have different last names unless both mother and father/domestic partner have signed our birth announcement form.

Download the birth announcement form.

Completed forms can be mailed to Community News, Birth Announcements, Portland Press Herald, P.O. Box 1460, Portland, ME. 04104

For more information, please call 791-6300

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/readerservices/submitbirthannounce.html

Announcements
Share your special day with Morris County and the world!

December 17, 2009

ENGAGEMENTS

WEDDINGS

BIRTHS

ANNIVERSARIES

Your engagement, wedding, *** birth ***

and anniversary announcements appear in the Daily Record and on dailyrecord.com. Announcements are published every Sunday in the Morris Life section. All announcements are published in the Daily Record and on this Web site at no charge. Complete details are on the form.

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/99999999/ANNOUNCE/70702018

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How to Write a Birth Announcement
Contributor
By eHow Contributing Writer

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As a new parent, you’re probably eager to share all the details
about your new baby with your family and friends.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
Things You’ll Need:

* Birth Announcements
* Baby Scrapbooks
* Photo Frames
* Photographers
* Postage Stamps

1.
Step 1

Write down all the information you want to include. Remember to list the baby’s full name, date and time of birth, and length and weight. Include both parents’ names, and mention the grandparents’ names if you like.

2.
Step 2

Select the type of birth-announcement card you will use. Check with card or stationery stores to see the wide range of choices.

3.
Step 3

Consider purchasing packs of ready-made announcements. Prices begin at about $50 to $75 for 50 cards and envelopes; the price goes up for more expensive paper stock and added embellishments such as stickers or bows.

4.
Step 4

Splurge for custom-printed announcements if you prefer. These can cost about $200 to $250 for 50 cards and envelopes. You can purchase these through copy and print shops and some specialty card stores.

5.
Step 5

Consider shopping online to save time. You can e-mail your information to an online stationer and have the cards printed and shipped to your home. Do a keyword search for ‘birth announcements’ on your favorite search engine to find Internet vendors.

6.
Step 6

Consider having the envelopes shipped to you before the baby is born. This way you can have them preaddressed and ready to go as soon as you provide the information on the cards.

7.
Step 7

Include a photo of the baby with the announcement.

8.
Step 8

*** Type up the announcement information and send it to your local newspaper office.

9.
Step 9

*** Find out if the newspaper will run a photo with the announcement. If you provide one, write the baby’s name and address on the back so it doesn’t get confused with the photo for another baby’s announcement.

http://www.ehow.com/how_7197_write-birth-announcement.html

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FACT CHECK: Yes, Obama was born in the United States
FACT: All the evidence points to his being born in Honolulu.

* By Carole Fader
* Story updated at 1:48 AM on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009

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http://jacksonville.com/news/national/2009-11-29/story/fact_check_yes_obama_was_born_in_the_united_states

*snip*

Original has been studied

On its Web site, FactCheck. org says its representatives saw the original birth certificate and “we can attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional ...

We can assure readers that the certificate does bear a raised seal, and that it’s stamped on the back by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka [who uses a signature stamp rather than signing individual birth certificates].”

FactCheck.org is an independent nonpartisan, (hahaha) nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players.

Snopes.com states that the certificate “is consistent with others issued in the same time and place and the embossed seal and signature don’t show through very well on the scanned front image made available on the Internet because they were applied to the back of the original document, not the front.” Snopes.com is a well-respected Web site devoted to confirming or debunking urban legends.

PolitiFact.com reports that it had a staff member bring in her own Hawaii birth certificate and it was identical in form to Obama’s. PolitiFact is an independent, nonpartisan project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly.

The “certification of birth,” also known as a short-form birth certificate, is printed by the state and has enough information to be acceptable to the State Department, FactCheck.org states.

The scan released by the campaign shows halos around the black text, making some think the text might have been pasted on top of some other image. But FactCheck.org reports that the document itself - and the close-up photos it took - have no such halos.

FactCheck.org asked the Obama campaign about the date stamp and the blacked-out certificate number. Here is that it reported on its Web site:

“The certificate is stamped June 2007, because that’s when Hawaii officials produced it for the campaign ..., according to [Obama campaign] spokesperson Shauna Daly. The campaign didn’t release its copy until 2008, after speculation began to appear on the Internet questioning Obama’s citizenship.

The campaign then rushed to release the document, and the rush is responsible for the blacked-out certificate number. Says Shauna: ‘[We] couldn’t get someone on the phone in Hawaii to tell us whether the number represented some secret information, and we erred on the side of blacking it out. Since then we’ve found out it’s pretty irrelevant for the outside world.’

The document we looked at did have a certificate number; it is 151 1961 - 010641.”

Newspaper announcements

In addition, snopes.com and FactCheck.org found, the two major newspapers in Honolulu, The Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, printed birth announcements in August 1961: “Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4.”

It would have been extremely difficult to plant such an item. To guard against false reports and mischief, newspapers - including the Hawaiian papers, according to the Advertiser - use these vital statistics only from official sources, such as the Department of Health.

So, if Obama was born in Hawaii two years after it became a state, he would automatically be a U.S. citizen - a natural-born U.S. citizen. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States (except children of diplomats or foreign heads of state).

It is true that the Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952, stated that “a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States, who prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years” is a citizen of the United States.

His Kenyan citizenship

As a child, Obama held both U.S. and Kenyan citizenship because of his American mother and his Kenyan father. Kenya recognizes dual citizenship for children, but its constitution specifies that by age 23, “Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country automatically lose their Kenyan citizenship unless they formally renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya,” FactCheck.org reports.

Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, so his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4, 1984, FactCheck.org states.

FactCheck.org was taken to task by attorney Leo Donofrio because it initially said that Obama’s Kenyan citizenship expired in 1982, on his 21st birthday. In reality, it expired in 1984 because Kenya allows a two-year window to decide and, if no declaration has been made by age 23, the citizenship automatically ends.

FactCheck.org apologized for the error on its Web site, and also noted that that two-year error makes no difference in the basic birth certificate authenticity argument.

As PolitiFact.com states, “there is not one shred of evidence to support allegations that the birth certificate that Obama released isn’t authentic.”

The lack of proof ... now, that’s a fact.

carole.fader@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4635

“Oh yes, Uncle Maowie, could have had people go to the state of Hawaii, make false statements, documents, and with a really sad face, could have convinced the people at the Hawaii office for birth certificates that I even I, uncle Maowie was born in Hawaii”

ohhh yes, it’s so easy that a cave man could do it....

Uncle Maowie, a Natural Born Citizen of the United States.

GO YANKIES !!!

Eat apple pie and rice !!!”

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ROTFLMAO!!!

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