<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2>MSNBC is sponsoring a contest called Film Your Issue … you can vote for your favorite at the MSNBC voting page. The contestants make a commercial that tries to drve home an issue that is important to them. So why am I telling you about this? Because my niece and my sister are both in this commerical :) </FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2>My niece Danielle (16 yrs old) is becoming quite the entertainer … she sings (and has won some regional contests) … is doing radio and television commericals and now she learned to play the guitar, too. OK, so we’re all a bit proud :)</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2>Anyway, if you like her video, please vote for my niece’s commercial (titled STRIKE IT UP). Click the link below and check the circle next to the STRIKE IT UP video. Then click the VOTE button at the bottom of the screen.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2> </FONT><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><A title=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12721177 href=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12721177”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12721177</A>  </FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2>My sister Debbie is the first woman who appears in the commercial (behind the main actor who was the angel in the popular MSN commercial). My niece is the blond teenage girl who is using her cell phone towards the middle of the commercial.</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2>Thanks for voting!</FONT></P>