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Collect documents confirming your nationality or citizenship. Medical records from a hospital, a certified birth certificate or school records can be used to verify your nationality. An expired or current passport is sufficient as well. Citizenship or naturalization certificates are acceptable if you are not a citizen of the United States. Passports and birth reports can also be submitted if you are from another country.

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Submitting an old passport book/card or driver’s license are acceptable ways to verify your identity. Military identification or government employee ID Cards are also permissible. Non-citizens can also show their certificates of citizenship or naturalization to confirm their identity. If you don’t have the necessary documents available to prove your identity, you can bring an identifying witness to the place that will process your application. The identifying witness must be someone who has known you for at least two years and have their own form of identification. The identifying witness will be asked to sign an affidavit.

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An applicant needs to get a color photograph of his face that was taken within the past six months. The photograph has to be a full view of the face. The picture should be 2 x 2 inches. There can be nothing in the picture that obscures the view of the face. If the picture does not meet the State Department’s regulations it cannot be used. Certain accessories can be included in the picture but only if they are worn on a regular basis due to medical or religious reasons.

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The amount of the fees for processing the application and creating the book or card vary. Both the book and card list your citizenship, identity and description and contain your photograph. Individuals choose to get a card when they only need to travel to and from Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. A book is needed if you plan on traveling to other countries. Payment can be issued to the Department of State with a certified check, personal check, or money order. Using a major credit card such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover is another way to provide payment.

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Ask Cool Daddy’s Fruit Stand

Dear Cool Daddy: A woman I work with says her first computer back in the 1980s was something called an Apricot. I think she’s mixing Apples and….well, you know. So is she fruity or what?  …from Dagwood, in Duluth

Dear Dag: It’s discouraging, isn’t it…when the “lady at the office” is always right and you’re always wrong. But in the early days of what was called “personal computing,” Apple was a major player from the get-go, and so a natural target to be taken down…what better way to attack than with other fruits?…or at least that was the reasoning at the time. Thus the Apricot, with this in-your-face anti-Apple advertising…

Didn’t pan out that way of course, but how could it? Earlier, the Pineapple was not just a competitor, but an out-and-out clone…within months, they were forced to ditch at least the “apple” part of their name. But look at the difference a year made…48 to 64 K..no longer a kit, but assembled…and for 6 less…

Another Apple clone was the…wait for it…Orange+…and the Poppy took aim at IBM, spoofing their iconic rose…

So what else botanical begins with A?…Acorn, of course. Even printers got fruity, with the Gorilla brand Banana model. And furniture from Pearr [sic]…BTW, that Commodore is a Series 4000, successor to the original PET from 1977…it came with its own monitor and 8, 16, or 32 K of memory. The game-changing Vic-20 was still 2 years away.

Don’t forget your surge protector…and a whole “basket” of choices..Lemon, Lime,    Orange, and Peach. So yeah, I guess that’s where the Blackberry came from, nez pah?

seedless plugfruits…

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Dear Cool Daddy: As a monster ABBA fan, imagine my glee to see this on the net: ABBA to Release First New Song in 18 Years…I didn’t even know they were back together! What’s the skinny, Minnie?  … from Yohan in Hootersburg

Dear Yohan: Hate to have to burst your bubble, my man, but they didn’t get back together, so technically there is no “new” song, despite the screaming yellow hype. Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad have resolutely declined to perform together, on stage or in the studio, since they last did so in 1982…even for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. (Yeah, I know, but it’s misnamed…think of it as the Baby Boomer Hall of Music and you’ll be OK, altho we’re not sure when…)

What you read about is the release of a remastered CD of their 8th and final album from 1981, The Visitors. It will include the requisite bonus tracks, and one will be “From a Twinkling Star to a Passing Angel.” Nobody knows exactly what this will amount to, altho the resemblance of the title to “Like an Angle Passing Through my Room,” a lackluster ballad on said LP, suggests it’s some sort of demo…or perhaps a medley of early stages of the song…was it originally about a “twinkling star”? We’ll just have to wait until April 23rd to find out.

But here’s how it all played out 30 years ago. After the release of The Visitors in November of 1981, the four assembled in the studio in May and June of 1982 to work on their next LP. They completed 3 tracks… “You Owe Me One”…“I Am the City”…and…”Just Like That”…but producers Benny & Björn weren’t happy with them, and they took a month’s break. In August, they recorded “The Day Before You Came”…“Cassandra”…and…“Under Attack”…but in their minds, the groove was gone, and they settled for a Christmas release of a double-LP The Singles: The First Ten Years. The group called it quits soon after, last performing on British TV in December of 1982.

Of these 6 final songs, 4 were put out as singles that fall…”The Day…” backed with “Cassandra”…and “Under Attack” paired with “You Owe Me One.” Neither charted in the US, and that was pretty much the writing on the wall. ABBA’s last top 10 US hit had been “The Winner Takes It  All” in 1980 at #8…their last Top 40 record was “When All Is Said and Done” in 1981 at #27. “The Visitors” then tanked at #63, their last US chart entry. But all 4 of these new songs were included in the double Singles album.

“I Am the City” would not see the light of day until 1993, on another compilation album, More ABBA Gold. That’s the “18 years”…well, 19 but who can count anymore?…that the news stories are referring to. The irony in my mind is that even at this late stage, and despite B&B’s misgivings, “I Am the City” and “Under Attack” are 2 of ABBA’s finest recordings ever… and “You Owe Me One” is also quite spiffy…and this isn’t just me saying it, but the consensus of the world-wide ABBAficionado community. Click on the titles and hear for yourself. But what happened to that 6th song, “Just Like That”?

It’s also a top fan favorite, available in several versions on bootlegs for decades…the story goes a cassette was stolen from somebody’s car…or something. Why have B&B refused to release it? Because in 1985, they produced an LP for a Swedish brother and sister team known as Gemini…and “Just Like That” was one of the songs they included. Most agree ABBA’s versions are infinitely better, but the boys insist the Gemini version is the definitive one, and it would be “confusing” to release ABBA’s. Huh? After all these years? And despite all the love? Well, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it.

And actually, a chorus of “Just Like That” has been officially released…in the 1994 box set Thank you For the Music…it’s part of a 22-minute medley titled “Undeleted”…in the fashion of the Beatles’ Anthology, this was composed of a whole bunch of demos, early versions, unreleased songs, out-takes, and other loose ends…but nothing in its entirety, only brief snippets.

Thus, when the news of this “new” song first hit, it was assumed the Holy Grail of ABBAdom was about to surface…but no such luck. On the bright side, the other 5 “last songs” are included on this new The Visitors CD…all in once place, for the convenience of latecomers. Anyway, you can check out 2 ABBA versions of “Just Like That”…the “na na na ” version…and the “sax” version…and if it sounds vaguely familiar, the melody of verse, altho not the chorus, was re-used in the musical Chess…which of course was a major post-ABBA project of Benny and Björn’s.

And what the heck, here’s this edition of DFHC‘s own “bonus track”…one of my favorite ABBA songs is “Does Your Mother Know?”…and here’s where the the break comes from…the unreleased “Dream World.”

Wicked Ballsy…

For the record, “Agnetha” is not pronounced AG-netha, like Agnes……but instead anh-YET-ah. And I’m sure you have no trouble remember which is which, but I always did…so several years ago I formalized this mnemonic device:  Everybody knows blondes come from Sweden. So the one who isn’t blonde can’t be Swedish…she must be Finnish!…and that’s F for Frida…done and done…

üppkaftig urtag…

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But how desperate is too desperate?

According to the Edmonton Journal, there may be some trade overtures afoot between the Kings and the Columbus Blue Jackets, potentially involving backup goaltender Jonathan Bernier and center Jeff Carter.

The Jackets signed Carter to an 11-year, million deal this past summer but have gotten only minimal production out of him thus far—17 points in 30 games, to be exact. This, after Carter posted no fewer than 61 points in each of his previous three seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers.

Carter’s careening production could well be the result of playing out of position in Columbus. The six-year veteran flourished as a hotshot winger in Philly, but now finds himself at center, where his attempts have practically dried up.

In L.A., he’d be reunited with fellow former Flyer Mike Richards, with whom he enjoyed the prior success that ultimately earned him his monster deal.

Of course, the cost at which Carter would come, in purely monetary terms, would be far too much for the Kings to bear, especially given what they’d be getting. The Kings already have more than million committed for next year and would be foolish to devote a big chunk of that to a player who, while presumably would see his production improve on the wing, would still be hard-pressed to make the expense well worth it.

And that’s without any mention of Bernier. The only reason the Kings are even in the playoff discussion right now is their goaltending, with All-Star Jonathan Quick dominating most of the time in net and Bernier providing stellar relief. Without Bernier, the pressure will fall even more heavily on Quick’s shoulders to play perfectly on a nightly basis.

Not that the Kings shouldn’t consider dangling Bernier as trade bait whatsoever, but if they do it then they must be sure to get a player in return whose production per dollar is much more amenable than Carter’s current rate.

Desperation be damned.

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