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WASHINGTON -- Democratic activists in Riverside County, Calif., claim that a Republican voter outreach project may be illegally registering Democrats as Republicans to boost the GOP's registration advantage, according to CaliforniaWatch.org, an investigative journalism outfit.
The website reports, "In a complaint filed last week with the county registrar of voters, the Democrats presented affidavits from 133 Democratic voters who said they had been re-registered as Republicans without their consent after they encountered petition circulators outside welfare offices and stores."
A local Democratic Party spokesman told CaliforniaWatch.org that the registration project's efforts may aid GOP fundraising efforts (by making local races seem more winnable) and impede Democrats' ability to turn out their voters. A spokeswoman for the Golden State Voter Participation Project denied the allegations, saying, "Our canvassers are trained about the laws, the rules and how to conduct themselves."
Here are some other election-related mishaps in the news:
In Palm Beach County, Fla., election officials are red-faced about yet another printing error on absentee ballots. As HuffPost reported last week, the county must manually fill out copies of 27,000 absentee ballots that can't be digitally scanned because of a design error. On Monday, elections supervisor Susan Bucher told the Palm Beach Post that she had to send new absentee ballots to another 500 voters because the flawed ballots they received didn't contain one of 11 proposed amendments to the state's constitution. The ballots also allow people to vote twice on three of those amendments because one of the ballot pages appears twice.
In Lakeland, Fla., an editorial in The Ledger warns that strict rules for counting absentee ballots may prevent some ballots from being counted. It points to a provision of Florida law that states, "After an absentee ballot is received by the supervisor, the ballot is deemed to have been cast, and changes or additions may not be made to the voter's certificate." The concern is that voters who don't sign their absentee ballots before turning them in will have their ballots invalidated. In a swing state like Florida, every vote may make a difference: A mere 537 Florida votes separated George W. Bush from Al Gore 12 years ago.
In Oneida County, N.Y., officials say the cost of fixing a typo on 130,000 ballots will be about $75,000, according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch. The newspaper reports that the county had to print brand-new ballots because the "c" was missing from President Barack Obama's first name. "I called the printer [Albany-based Fort Orange Press]," County Executive Anthony Picente told the paper. "She can cry poor me [in] this election and that election. They did it wrong and this is an embarrassment."
In the neck-and-neck presidential contest in Ohio, provisional ballots could delay the final count for days after the election, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Provisional ballots are given to voters when their eligibility is in doubt. After Nov. 6, election boards will meet to determine whether these voters were indeed eligible and thus their ballots can be counted. Bloomberg News reports that 206,859 provisional ballots were cast in Ohio in 2008, and 81 percent of them proved to be valid and were counted. If this year's race is extremely close, provisional ballots could decide which candidate wins the state, and possibly the presidency.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Pfizer Inc.'s advanced kidney cancer treatment Inlyta missed its main late-stage study goal when compared to another drug in patients who had not been treated for the disease.
The New York drugmaker said Wednesday that patients taking Inlyta had a median progression-free survival that exceeded that of patients taking the drug sorafenib, but the difference was not statistically significant. Progression-free survival measures the time from the start of treatment until a patient's cancer begins advancing again or the patient dies.
A Pfizer official said in a statement the drug narrowly missed the goal, and the company would analyze the findings to figure out whether it should study Inlyta in subpopulations of so-called treatment-naive patients.
Inlyta, known chemically as axitinib, is a pill that's part of a promising new generation of targeted cancer drugs from Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker. It targets proteins that affect the growth and spread of tumors and the development of new blood vessels to feed those tumors.
It has already received approval in Europe, the United States and several other countries to treat adult patients with renal cell carcinoma who have been treated unsuccessfully with other drugs.
Renal cell carcinoma is the sixth-leading cause of cancer deaths. About a third of patients are not diagnosed until the cancer has spread to multiple body parts, limiting chances of survival.
Pfizer shares rose 5 cents to $25.85 in premarket trading Wednesday.
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama spar during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama spar during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, left, addresses President Barack Obama during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/Pool-Shannon Stapleton)
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama speak during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney listens as President Barack Obama speaks during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama spar over energy policy during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) ? Fresh off an intently combative debate, President Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney and their running mates are taking their tuned-up fight to the precious few battleground states where the election is still up for grabs with just 20 days to go.
In the sprint to the Nov. 6 Election Day, every aspect of the campaign seems to be taking on a fresh sense of urgency ? the ads, the fundraising, the grass-roots mobilizing and the outreach to key voting blocs, particularly women. Romney quietly began airing a new TV ad suggesting he believes abortion "should be an option" in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake.
The ad is an appeal to women voters, who polls show have favored Obama throughout the race although Romney has been making gains among them. Romney supported abortion rights as Massachusetts governor but now says he opposes abortion with limited exceptions. His campaign didn't announce the ad, but it began running on the debate night on stations that reach Virginia, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Romney was heading to Virginia and sending running mate Paul Ryan to Ohio ? two states that Obama won four years ago where the GOP ticket has been making its most aggressive run. Obama was headed to Iowa, while Vice President Joe Biden was westward bound for Colorado and Nevada.
Obama appears to have 237 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory comfortably in hand, and Romney is confident of 191. That leaves 110 electoral votes up for grabs in nine battleground states: Florida (29), Ohio (18), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13), Wisconsin (10), Colorado (9), Iowa (6), Nevada (6) and New Hampshire (4).
The two candidates debated Tuesday night as if their political lives depended on it, because they do. It was a re-energized Obama who showed up at Hofstra University, lifting the spirits of Democrats who felt let down by the president's limp performance in the candidates' first encounter two weeks ago.
But Romney knew what was coming and didn't give an inch, pressing his case even when the arguments deteriorated into did-not, did-too rejoinders that couldn't have done much to clarify the choice for undecided voters.
Tuesday's debate was the third installment in what amounts to a four-week-long reality TV series for Campaign 2012. Romney was the clear victor in the series debut, Biden aggressively counterpunched in the next-up vice presidential debate, and the latest faceoff featured two competitors determined to give no quarter.
It was a pushy, interruption-filled encounter filled with charges and countercharges that the other guy wasn't telling the truth. The two candidates were both verbally and physically at odds in the town hall-style format, at one point circling each other center stage like boxers in a prize fight.
"I thought it was a real moment," Biden told NBC's "Today" show in an interview that aired Wednesday morning. "When they were kind of circling each other, it was like, 'Hey, come on man, let's level with each other here.'"
One of the debate's tensest moments was when Romney suggested Obama's administration may have misled Americans over what caused the attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last month that killed four Americans. The issue is sure to continue to be debated next week, with the third and closing debate focused on foreign policy scheduled Monday at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
"As the facts come out about the Benghazi attack we learn more troubling facts by the day," Ryan told "This Morning" on CBS. "So that's why need to get to the bottom of this to get answers so that we can prevent something like this from ever happening again."
Romney, brimming with confidence, distilled the essence of his campaign message early in Tuesday's 90-minute debate and repeated it often.
"I know what it takes to get this economy going," he said over and over. And this: "We can do better." And this: "We don't have to settle for what we're going through."
Obama, with both the benefit and the burden of a record to run on, had a more nuanced message.
"The commitments I've made, I've kept," he said. "And those that I haven't been able to keep, it's not for lack of trying and we're going to get it done in a second term."
Obama also was relentless in dismissing the merits of Romney's policies and rejecting his characterizations of the president's record.
"Governor Romney doesn't have a five-point plan," the president argued. "He has a one-point plan. And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules."
The candidates were in each other's faces ? sometimes literally ? before an audience of 82 uncommitted voters from New York. It's a state that's already a sure bet for Obama, but the voters there stood as proxy for millions of Americans across the nation still settling on a candidate.
"They spent a lot of time cutting down the other person," said 22-year-old Joe Blizzard, who watched with a crowd of 500 students at the University of Cincinnati. "As someone who is undecided, it was a little disappointing."
Fellow student Karim Aladmi, 21, was more forgiving. "It goes without saying that the knives were out," he said. "I thought Obama had a strong performance, but Romney made him work for it. I was actually impressed by both sides."
With just 20 days left until the election, polls show an extremely tight race nationally. While Republicans have made clear gains in recent days, the president leads in several polls of Wisconsin and Ohio. No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio.
As the debates unfold, early voting is already under way in many states, and the push to bank as many early ballots as possible is in overdrive.
Democrats cheered when the Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Ohio voters to cast ballots on the three days before Election Day, rejecting a request by the state's Republican elections chief and attorney general to get involved in a rancorous battle over early voting. Obama's campaign and Ohio Democrats had sued state officials over changes in state law that took away the three days of voting for most people.
All of the political maneuvering was little more than noise for more than 1.3 million Americans: They've already voted.
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Pickler reported from Washington. AP writers Nancy Benac and Alicia Caldwell in Washington, James Fitzgerald and Steve Peoples in Hempstead, N.Y., Beth Fouhy in New York City and Dan Sewell in Cincinnati, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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Yesterday the Philippine Supreme Court issued a preliminary injunction against a recently passed anti-cybercrime law that had harsh penalties for violators of various statutes within the law. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said that the court issued the temporary restraining order to keep the government from enforcing it while the courts decide if it is legal on the country's constitution. Despite public protests and pressure to lawmakers who supported the bill, it managed to gain passage in the legislature and was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III last month. The law officially took effect last week but legal challenges from various rights groups put the kibosh on the law actually being enforced.
The court has suspended the law for 120 days and oral arguments for and against the law have been scheduled for January 15. The court also ordered the government to respond within 10 days to 15 petitions seeking to declare the law unconstitutional. The goal of the law was to fight Internet crimes such as hacking, identity theft, spamming, cybersex and online child pornography.
But critics like the country's journalists and rights groups opposed the law because it also makes online libel a crime, doubling the normal penalty. It also blocks access to websites deemed to violate the law. Many opponents of the law fear that that politicians could use it to effectively silence anyone online that they believe is a critic - including journalists. Critics also claim that the law violates basic freedom of expression rights and due process.
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Greek police have increased security and are preparing to close down large sections of the capital Athens to contain protests against Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is visiting the city Tuesday (local time) for talks with the country's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
Merkel's brief visit comes amid growing unrest in Greece over the planned new cutbacks. Greek authorities, who are struggling to talk bailout creditors into unfreezing a vital loan instalment, are determined to prevent riots while Merkel is in town on her first visit to the country in five years.
Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias appealed to protesters Monday to "protect the peace, and above all our country's prospects and our international image." Some 7,000 police will be on duty for the visit.
Police have banned public gatherings in much of the city centre from early Tuesday and in a 100-metre radius from the route Merkel's motorcade will follow.
A police spokesman said the ban will not affect two separate protests called by labour unions and opposition parties elsewhere in the city but will include the German embassy, where a populist right wing party has called an evening demonstration Tuesday.
Greece has depended on bailouts from fellow countries in the 17-country group that uses the euro and the International Monetary Fund since May 2010. To get the loans, it implemented a series of deep income cuts and tax hikes, while increasing retirement ages and facilitating private sector layoffs.
However, Athens must pass further cutbacks worth ?13.5 billion ($21b) over the next two years to qualify for its next rescue loan payment - without which the government will run out of cash next month.
Germany has contributed the most money to Greece's bailouts, compared to the other eurozone members, because the size of its economy means it pays the largest amount to the region's rescue funds. However it has also been Athens' strongest critic, insisting that Greeks take on more austerity measures and reforms to right their economy and remain solvent.
Samaras has strongly welcomed Merkel's visit, warning against violent protests. Meanwhile, Merkel said Monday that she would remind Greece of Europe's expectations for painful economic reforms during her visit.
Following a political meeting in Bonn, Merkel said Monday that she expects "constructive and friendly discussions in the light of expectations that we have of Greece" when she meets with Samaras and other officials on the one-day visit.
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said the chancellor appreciates steps Greece has taken but will make clear "what still has to happen."
But he insisted that "with her visit, the chancellor is in no way anticipating what the troika will deliver."
"I cannot speak of presents here - everything that has to be decided will have to be decided when we have the foundation of data that the troika report will deliver," he said.
The main Greek private sector GSEE union deplored the police protest ban as "unprecedented, undemocratic", saying much of central Athens has been designated "a forbidden city."
More than 300 pensioners marched on European Union offices in Athens Monday, where they burnt an EU flag in protest of the latest round of austerity measures.
GSEE later also organized a protest rally outside parliament to be followed by another march Tuesday. About 2,000 people attended the peaceful rally, including Christos Velios, member of a financial activist group called Plan B, that supports Greek unilaterally cancelling part of its national debt.
"(Merkel's) presence here is an insult to the Greek people's feeling of national sovereignty," he said. "I don't really have anything to say to Mrs. Merkel. She is very good at her job. The question is: What are the Greek people doing?"
- AP
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? President Hugo Chavez won re-election and a new endorsement of his socialist project Sunday, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign in which the opposition accused him of unfairly using Venezuela's oil wealth and his near total control of state institutions to his advantage.
A long wait for the results produced high tensions, including a Twitter hashtag called BitingNails that became the most popular in the country. Finally, fireworks exploded over downtown Caracas amid a cacophony of horn-honking by elated Chavez supporters waving flags and jumping for joy outside the presidential palace.
With 90 percent of votes counted, Chavez had more than 54 percent of the vote to 45 percent for challenger Henrique Capriles, an athletic 40-year-old former state governor who unified and energized the opposition while barnstorming across the oil-exporting nation.
But Capriles' promises to seriously address violent crime that has spun out of control, streamline a patronage-bloated bureaucracy and end rampant corruption proved inadequate against Chavez's charisma, well-oiled political machine and a legacy of putting Venezuela's poor first with generous social welfare programs.
Chavez rallied thousands of supporters from a balcony of the presidential palace, holding up a sword that once belonged to 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar.
"The revolution has triumphed!" Chavez told the crowd, saying his supporters "voted for socialism."
The crowd responded chanting "Chavez won't go!"
Chavez will now have a freer hand to push for an even bigger state role in the economy and continue populist programs. He pledged before the vote to make a stronger push for socialism in the next term. He's also likely to further limit dissent and deepen friendships with U.S. rivals.
A Capriles victory would have brought a radical foreign policy shift including a halt to preferential oil deals with allies such as Cuba, along with a loosening of state economic controls and an increase in private investment.
It was Chavez's third re-election in nearly 14 years in office. It was also his smallest victory margin. In 2006, he won by 27 percentage points.
"I can't describe the relief and happiness I feel right now," said Edgar Gonzalez, a 38-year-old construction worker.
He ran through crowds of Chavez supporters packing the streets around the presidential palace wearing a Venezuelan flag as a cape and yelling: "Oh, no! Chavez won't go!"
"The revolution will continue, thanks to God and the people of this great country," said Gonzalez.
Voter turnout was an impressive 81 percent, compared to 75 percent in 2006. Chavez paid close attention to his military-like get-out-the-vote organization at the grass roots, stressing its importance at campaign rallies. The opposition said he unfairly plowed millions in state funds into the effort.
Chavez spent heavily in the months before the vote, building public housing and bankrolling expanded social programs.
"I think he just cranked up the patronage machine and unleashed a spending orgy," said Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank.
But Shifter also didn't deny the affinity and gratefulness Venezuela's poor feel for Chavez. "Despite his illness, I still think he retains a large emotional connection with a lot of Venezuelans that I think were not prepared to vote against him."
Chavez spoke little during the campaign about his fight with cancer, which since June 2011 has included surgery to remove tumors from his pelvic region as well as chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He has said his most recent tests showed no sign of illness.
Capriles told supporters not to feel defeated.
"We have planted many seeds across Venezuela and I know that these seeds are going to produce many trees," he told a hall of supporters.
Despite winning a February primary that unified the opposition, Capriles proved no match for Chavez's electoral prowess.
David Valencia, a 20-year-old Capriles supporter, said he was disappointed but that he hadn't lost hope despite the loss.
"There is still a sense in our hearts of wanting a better country," he said.
One pro-Chavez voter, private bodyguard Carlos Julio Silva, said that whatever his faults, Chavez deserved to win for spreading the nation's oil wealth to the poor with free medical care, public housing and other government programs. The country has the world's largest proven oil reserves.
"There is corruption, there's plenty of bureaucracy, but the people have never had a leader who cared about this country," Silva said after voting for Chavez at a school in the Caracas slum of Petare.
At many polling places, voters began lining up hours before polls opened at dawn, some snaking for blocks in the baking Caribbean sun. Some shaded themselves with umbrellas. Vendors grilled meat and some people drank beer.
Chavez's critics say the president has inflamed divisions by labeling his opponents "fascists," ''Yankees" and "neo-Nazis," and it's likely hard for many of his opponents to stomach another six years of the loquacious and conflictive leader.
Some said before the vote that they'd consider leaving the country if Chavez won.
Gino Caso, an auto mechanic, said Chavez is power-hungry and out of touch with problems such as crime. He said his son had been robbed, as had neighboring shops.
"I don't know what planet he lives on," Caso said, gesturing with hands blackened with grease. "He wants to be like Fidel Castro ? end up with everything, take control of the country."
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Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez, Christopher Toothaker, Jorge Rueda and Vivian Sequera contributed to this report.
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ATLANTA (AP) ? From Georgia's last segregationist governor to the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction, Dick Pettys covered Georgia politics for The Associated Press for more than three decades. His reputation for fair and accurate reporting won him the respect of fellow journalists and the state's most prominent politicians.
Gov. Lester Maddox, nearing the end of his term when Pettys began working for The AP at the state Capitol in 1970, called him "the long-haired devil" but continued to keep in touch with Pettys by phone long after he left office. To the statehouse press corps, Pettys became known as "the dean," who over the course of 35 years developed a vast institutional memory and a knack for mentoring newcomers.
Pettys, 66, died Monday at his north Georgia home outside of Clarkesville. His son, Richard R. Pettys Jr., said he suffered a massive heart attack.
"He was an excellent reporter who got the facts right and wrote it well," former Sen. Zell Miller, who knew Pettys for decades, said Tuesday. "I'm really sorry he's gone because he had a lot of Georgia history in his head and I kept hoping he would write a book. I had tremendous respect for him."
When Jimmy Carter ran for the White House in 1976, The AP assigned Pettys to travel with his campaign. His news stories helped introduce Americans to the peanut farmer who would become president. Decades later, in November 2002, Pettys was breaking the news that Georgians had elected Sonny Perdue their first Republican governor in more than 130 years.
Pettys retired from The AP in 2005, but spent several more years writing on Georgia politics for the website InsiderAdvantage Georgia.
"For years, Dick was every Georgian's eyes and ears on the state budget and those who controlled it," said Maryann Mrowca, the AP's assistant bureau chief for the South Atlantic Region. "Even when politicians did not like what he reported, they knew he was fair, accurate and kept the same eagle eye on all in power to make sure they were held accountable for their actions and inactions."
An insider with a reputation for evenhanded reporting, Pettys had the ear of everyone from governors and House speakers to low-level clerks and was respected by Democrats and Republicans alike.
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., said Tuesday he admired Pettys for upholding "the highest standards of reporting and excellence."
Former Gov. Roy Barnes said he learned early in his political career to always shoot straight with Pettys, and to return his phone calls. Barnes recalled receiving a teasing message from the reporter who had become impatient waiting for a comment from the governor's press office.
"He sent me an email and says, 'I need to talk to you. Do you want me to just make up what you're going to say or do you want to talk to me?'" Barnes said. "I picked up the phone and said, 'I'd rather you hear it from me.' He would never do that. But he was just telling me how frustrated he was."
Bill Shipp, a longtime political columnist and a Georgia journalism institution in his own right, knew Pettys from the beginning of his career covering politics.
"Dick over the years set the standard for the rest of us as a down-the-middle reporter who knew how to bring the news to everyone in a clear, concise and unbiased manner," Shipp said. "He was the best there is."
Michael Giarrusso, AP bureau chief for Arizona and New Mexico, worked with Pettys at the statehouse in the early 1990s.
"He taught me so much in the time I spent covering the Georgia Legislature," Giarrusso said. "Never compromise your ethics or morals to get a story. ... Never back down to bullies, even if they are in high office. Don't dare show bias in anything you do. And it was OK to have fun."
Sonya Ross, the AP's Race and Ethnicity editor, covered the Georgia Legislature from 1989 to 1992 with Pettys.
"Dick was a golden person, and he was always just so respectful and so good," she said. "I'm just really shocked. I learned so much about politics just being around him."
Aaron Gould Sheinin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Capitol bureau recalled the Georgia Senate honoring Pettys upon his retirement from the AP. The chamber allowed him to speak from the rostrum.
"First time that had happened," Sheinin said of such treatment for a reporter. "We joked and called him 'The senator from the 57th,'" a play on how the senators ? who hail from 56 districts around the state ? address one another on the floor.
Over the years, Pettys butted heads with many of those he covered. His son recalled hearing of one instance when Pettys revealed and disrupted a legislative plan to carve out a sweetheart congressional district for then-state Rep. Sam Nunn.
"In the rotunda of the Capitol, Sam Nunn comes up to dad and sticks his finger out at dad and says, 'You have nullified me.'"
Yet Nunn and other leaders knew they would get fair treatment from Pettys, the son said.
"He prided himself on being fair and balanced before fair and balanced was cool," he said.
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Associated Press writers Russ Bynum in Savannah, Ga., and Bill Barrow in Atlanta, contributed to this report.
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From: Online Marketing Blog - 8:18am - October 8, 2012Building the case for content marketing is an ongoing battle and while a huge number of companies are not on board with ?brand as publisher? yet, many are. They ?get it? but are in search of more practical advice on the how. That?s what Michael Brenner,?Senior Director, Global Integrated Marketing and Content Strategy at SAP [...]
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As you sit in your office today, take a moment to ponder just where social media rests on your itinerary of important tasks each day.
For the small business owner who is utilizing sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to promote their brand, good for you. For the man or woman running a company who fails to see the importance of SM, there is still time to recover and let social media do wonders for you.
To anyone who may have doubted the power of social media, they need only look at the news this week from Facebook.
The social media giant reported that it had recently topped the one billion mark in users, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg noting, ?This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you?re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.?
The good news for Facebook was something to share, especially given the rocky year that Zuckerberg and Co. have had after the company?s infamous initial public offering (IPO). There have also been questions raised as to how legit all the Facebook user accounts are, given admissions from the company itself that approximately 8.7 percent of its user accounts could, in fact, be fake and/or abandoned.
As Facebook looks for more means to accrue revenue and perhaps pinpoint just exactly how many accounts are indeed credible, there is still no doubt who the leader in social networks is.
With that being said, is your small business taking advantage of all Facebook and the other prime social mediums have to offer?
If the answer is no, consider the following:
* Free advertising ? For the small business owner that is looking to save some money on advertising, social media is the perfect solution. Unlike traditional print or airwave advertising, talking about and promoting your brand on social media venues is essentially free. Yes, the time and effort necessary to do it correctly are required, but don?t you think the investment is worth it? You have the benefit of a large audience at your fingertips, many of whom could be your next customer;
* Real-time interaction ? Whereas much of small business dealings in the past revolved around visits from clients and phone calls, social media is a great means to connect with both current and potential customers in real-time. Numerous recent studies have shown that more and more consumers are using the Internet to both browse and purchase products and services. With that being the case, being active with business pages on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other key social media venues just makes sense;
* Know what people are saying ? Lastly, knowing what both consumers and competitors are saying about your business on social media helps you in several ways. First, you can respond in real-time to any inaccuracies or negative comments about your business. Second, you can help consumers with questions they have about your products or services in a quick and timely manner. Finally, you can be engaged with consumers 24/7/365, showing that you are an authority in your line of business, always there to assist customers.
Whether you are fully into social media, use it sparingly or have not tested the waters yet, your small business has nothing to lose with using it.
In fact, your small business might even come face-to-face with a whole bunch of new customers when you become more social.
Photo credit: smallbizdaily.com
Source: http://www.socialnomics.net/2012/10/07/is-your-small-business-facing-social-media-questions/
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Keith Reynolds, an archives specialist at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, poses Thursday Oct. 4, 2012, with a tribble from the Star Trek television series in Laramie, Wyo. The headless, legless tribbles first appeared on Star Trek in a 1967 episode. This tribble is part of a collection at the American Heritage Center, which is hosting a "Name the Tribble" contest in recognition of American Archives Month. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)
Keith Reynolds, an archives specialist at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, poses Thursday Oct. 4, 2012, with a tribble from the Star Trek television series in Laramie, Wyo. The headless, legless tribbles first appeared on Star Trek in a 1967 episode. This tribble is part of a collection at the American Heritage Center, which is hosting a "Name the Tribble" contest in recognition of American Archives Month. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ? Anybody who doesn't think this is the cutest little news story of the day must be a Klingon.
The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming is holding a "Name the Tribble" contest. The idea is to promote American Archives Month and show people that archives aren't just repositories of musty old documents ? they can be home to cool stuff, too.
Such as a tribble, a small creature from the Star Trek television series. The American Heritage Center houses items donated by several celebrities including the late Forrest J. Ackerman, a science fiction publisher credited with inventing the term "sci-fi."
Ackerman had no ties to Wyoming but years ago donated many boxes of manuscripts, photographs, movie stills, correspondence, books, movie posters and artifacts including a tribble from the Star Trek set.
"A tribble is a little furball-type thing. It looks like a hairy softball that is very soft and cushy," said Lander journalist Ernie Over, who was Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's personal assistant from 1985 to 1990.
Tribbles have no arms, legs, heads or even eyes. The idea was to mass-produce them as simply as possible, Over said.
In the famous 1967 Star Trek episode that first featured tribbles, the prolific creatures multiplied and overran the Enterprise until Montgomery "Scotty" Scott beamed them onto a Klingon ship.
Ha-ha: Klingons despise tribbles. And tribbles hiss when they encounter Star Trek's best-known bad guys.
Tribbles are sought-after Star Trek souvenirs nowadays. Archivist and Trekkie Keith Reynolds said he couldn't resist running around with the furball when he found it in the Ackerman collection.
"The people who had no idea what it was, they were completely grossed out. They thought it was a toupee," he said. "Or some dead animal."
He said the tribble isn't much to look at, just a tuft of fake fur.
A good tribble name should sum up "tribble-esque qualities," said his co-worker, Rachael Dreyer, organizer of the naming contest.
Entries can be emailed to ahc(at)uwyo.edu, with "Tribble Contest" and your name in the subject line. They also can be posted at the center's Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/UWAHC
The deadline for entries is Oct. 22.
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A bizarre dinosaur described as a cross between "a bird, a vampire and a porcupine" has been identified from fossils in South Africa.
The species, which was about the size of a domestic cat, lived between 100 and 200 million years ago.
It had a parrot-like beak with two stabbing canines at the front and tall teeth tucked behind for slicing plants.
Prof Paul Sereno, from the University of Chicago, has published the analysis in the journal Zookeys.
Making the animal seem even more bizarre is its covering of bristles, similar to a porcupine's.
It has been given the scientific name Pegomastax africanus, or "thick jaw from Africa". It is a member of the group of dinosaurs known as heterodontosaurs.
Prof Sereno said: "I describe it as a bird, a vampire and a porcupine." The dinosaur had the weight of a small house cat and stood less than a foot 30 cm (1ft) off of the ground.
He said it was "very rare" that a plant-eater would sport sharp-edged, enlarged canines. Some scientists have argued that consuming meat or at the least insects was a good part of the diet of heterodontosaurs.
But the University of Chicago palaeontologist argues in his paper that competitive sparring and self-defence were more likely roles for the fangs, based on a microscopic examination of teeth from Pegomastax and its kin.
He actually made the discovery of the small-bodied herbivore in 1983. Sereno came across the specimen as a graduate student while doing research in a Harvard University laboratory and intended to write about it immediately.
"I said, 'Whoa!' - I realised it was a new species from the moment I set eyes on it," Prof Sereno said. But he says he grew distracted by other things, and had in mind a more ambitious research project.
"There was always a danger that someone would discover it and write about it, and I would read about it," he said, but added it was all for the best: "Hey, I'm smarter than I was then."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19830486#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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"We need to be a multiplanetary species,"?that?s the ambitious way Elon Musk begins his talks. And it?s the kind of attitude that won Musk the 2012 PM Breakthrough Leadership Award. Today he came by PM?s home base to talk about his twin ventures, SpaceX and Tesla Motors.
In May, his company SpaceX successfully launched a 227-foot tall rocket from Cape Canaveral and berthed its Dragon capsule with the International Space Station.
Testing beforehand was extensive. "Something terrible could happen to the Space Station, people inside could be hurt, so we ran a million simulations, so did NASA." In the end the historic docking went off with only a small hitch. The onboard computer wasn?t sure the lock was secure, so Musk and the SpaceX team on the ground ran diagnostics and fixed the glitch.
How would the Dragon capsules translate to manned space flight? "It?s an autonomous vehicle," Musk says. "It pauses at intervals to ask permission to continue, but it?s doing everything itself." If the Dragon were adapted to carry astronauts, little would need to change, other than the increased payload and an added emergency escape system with higher safety margins.
He?s also planned upgrades to the landing system. Version 1, which is on the Dragon capsules now, uses parachutes to achieve a water landing. Version 1.5, which he hopes to achieve by next year, would use parachutes to bring down the Dragon for a soft touchdown on land. Version 2 will use the escape thrusters to decelerate towards the earth, like a moon landing.
While SpaceX gets plenty of publicity for its attempt to take over the mission of carrying NASA astronauts, Musk was quick to emphasize the company?s business beyond those governments contracts. Of the 46 missions SpaceX has contracted, only 12 are for NASA. The rest are commercial. "I don?t think people realize that," Musk says.
However, he says, SpaceX isn?t just in it to make money on those contracts. Ultimately, Musk envisions a self-sustaining civilization on Mars?thus his remark about becoming an interplanetary species. That way, in case the worst happens and Earth is obliterated or used up, "the light of consciousness is not extinguished." But his vision requires tens of thousands or even millions of people on the red planet. "We?d need really big rockets launching a lot," he says
Musk?s other big current venture, Tesla Motors, isn?t quite making money yet. But Musk said today that its newest vehicle, the Model S sedan, will be making money within a month or so. PM already awarded the first model of Tesla, the Roadster, a Breakthrough award. Musk brought a Model S sedan and one of the new Model X SUV prototypes to the awards today.
Why did he start Tesla? "People were operating under the illusion that an electric car needs to be aesthetically challenged, low performance, low range, but these things don?t have to be true," Musk says. When people still didn?t believe him, he went ahead and did it himself. "So we decided to just make a car?that?s harder to ignore."
Musk?s newest innovation on the car front is the supercharger?he wants to build a nationwide network of ultra-fast chargers. The supercharger is free when you buy a Model S. "You can charge your car with the same level of convenience as putting gas in it. Charge for an hour, drive for 6 hours," he says. "The tagline is: Drive anywhere for free on pure sunlight forever."
One thing we learned today: While Musk loves electric cars and spaceflight, there?s one thing he hates: space solar power. "You?d have to convert photon to electron to photon back to electron. What?s the conversion rate?" he says, getting riled up for the first time during his talk. "Stab that bloody thing in the heart!"
He doesn?t react well to bad ideas. Hey, everyone?s got a pet peeve.
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Bruce Davis. Davis, convicted with Charles Manson and another man in two murders unrelated to the infamous Sharon Tate murders, is set for an appearance before a parole board panel on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, the eve of his 70th birthday. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Bruce Davis. Davis, convicted with Charles Manson and another man in two murders unrelated to the infamous Sharon Tate murders, is set for an appearance before a parole board panel on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, the eve of his 70th birthday. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Bruce Davis, a former member of the Manson Family, waits moments before the start of his parole hearing at the California Mens Colony Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Davis, imprisoned for 40 years in a double murder engineered by Charles Manson, won a recommendation of parole Thursday in his 27th appearance before a parole board panel. (AP Photo/The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo), Joe Johnston) MAGS OUT
Barbara Hoyt, left, a former member of the Manson Family, and Debra Tate, sister of Manson Family murder victim Sharon Tate, pose for photos moments before the start of Bruce Davis' parole hearing at the California Mens Colony Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Davis, imprisoned for 40 years in a double murder engineered by Charles Manson, won a recommendation of parole Thursday in his 27th appearance before a parole board panel. (AP Photo/The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo), Joe Johnston) MAGS OUT
Bruce Davis, right, a former member of the Manson Family, meets with his lawyer Michael Beckman moments before the start of his parole hearing at the California Mens Colony Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Davis, imprisoned for 40 years in a double murder engineered by Charles Manson, won a recommendation of parole Thursday in his 27th appearance before a parole board panel. (AP Photo/The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo), Joe Johnston) MAGS OUT
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A former Charles Manson follower imprisoned for 40 years in a double murder engineered by Manson won a recommendation of parole Thursday in his 27th appearance before a parole board panel.
Bruce Davis, convicted with Manson and another man in the killings of a musician and a stuntman, was not involved in the infamous Sharon Tate murders in 1969.
The answer to his plea for freedom came on the eve of his 70th birthday. He was a young man of 30 when he was sentenced to life in prison in 1972 in a case that was a postscript to Manson's notorious reign as leader of the murderous communal cult known as the Manson family.
"While your behavior was atrocious, your crimes did occur 43 years ago," parole board member Jeff Ferguson told Davis, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Davis long maintained he was a bystander in the killings of the two men, but in recent years he has acknowledged his shared responsibility, and said Thursday he has "made remarkable progress in coming to terms with what I did."
"I want to try to make up for some of the pain and destruction I've caused," Davis said, according to the Tribune.
The hearing was held at the California Men's Colony at San Luis Obispo, where Davis is imprisoned.
His release was opposed by a Los Angeles prosecutor and by a former Manson family member, Barbara Hoyt, as well as Sharon Tate's sister, Debra Tate, who attended the hearing.
The recommendation is not the last hurdle in Davis' quest for freedom. The parole grant is subject to a 120-day review period by the entire parole board. If it is upheld, Gov. Jerry Brown then has 30 days to review the decision.
Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said: "We certainly disagree with the board's decision. We will evaluate how we plan to proceed as the matter goes to Gov. Brown."
She noted that District Attorney Steve Cooley helped persuade then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to stop Davis' release on his prior parole date in 2010.
A parole board determined then that Davis was ready for release, saying he had no recent disciplinary problems and had completed education and self-help programs.
However, Schwarzenegger reversed the decision, citing the heinous nature of the crimes and saying Davis was still a danger.
Brown's spokesman Gil Duran declined comment after Thursday's hearing, saying the issue had not yet reached the governor's desk.
Davis has been in prison since being convicted with Manson and another follower, Steve Grogan, in the murders of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea.
"I'm pleased and relieved and I hope Bruce's ordeal will be over," said attorney Michael Beckman, who has been fighting for years for the release of Davis.
He said an emotional Davis spoke to the panel at length and took responsibility for his role in the killings. Davis also said he tried to do good for other inmates and would continue ministering for troubled souls on the outside, the lawyer said.
If eventually freed, Davis will go to transitional housing associated with religious groups in Los Angeles County.
Davis became a born-again Christian in prison and ministered to other inmates, married a woman he met through the prison ministry, and has a grown daughter. The couple recently divorced.
Beckman said Davis also earned a master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy of religion.
Beckman said his client is totally rehabilitated and meets state requirements for parole. Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Sequeira opposed his release.
Few followers of the infamous Manson cult have been released from prison. Grogan was freed in 1985 after he led police to Shea's buried body.
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was released from federal prison in 2009 after serving time for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
Manson and two of his followers, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel, remain in prison for life in the Tate killings. Their co-defendant, Susan Atkins, died of cancer behind bars in 2009. Another of the Tate killers, Charles "Tex" Watson, remains in prison.
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Associated Press writer Don Thompson in Sacramento contributed to this report.
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YouTube today announced that it is making some important changes to its appeals process for users who think their videos were falsely flagged for copyright infringements by YouTube?s Content ID system. Previously, when users filed an appeal and the copyright owner rejected this appeal, the user was generally left without any recourse for certain types of Content ID claims. Starting today, copyright holders will get two options to handle appeals after a rejected dispute: release the claim or file a formal DMCA notification.
YouTube says it made these changes based on feedback from its community.
Content ID is YouTube?s automated system for detecting copyrighted audio and video in its users? videos. The copyright owners get a choice to block these videos, track them, or to monetize them. They could, of course, also sue the user, but it?s generally easier and cheaper for them to just send a DMCA takedown notice.
Here is how Google describes the new process:
If an uploader appeals a rejected dispute, the claimant will be required to either:
- release the claim on the video
- OR send a legal copyright notification. In this event, the video will be taken down and the uploader will receive a copyright strike. If they receive additional copyright strikes, this may suspend their YouTube account. You can learn more on our page about copyright strikes.
As YouTube notes in its update today, more than 3,000 content owners have supplied about 500,000 hours of reference files for Content ID so far. The company, however, also admits that mistakes happen and while it continues to improve its algorithms to stop invalid claims, it also manually reviews all of the videos that were flagged because of potentially invalid claims.
?There is still a lot of work ahead of us,? wrote YouTube?s rights management production manager Thabet Alfishawi earlier today. ?But we believe that these are significant steps forward in our efforts to keep YouTube a vibrant place where the rights of both content owners and users are protected and everyone can control their original content and make money from it ? money which can be put towards the production of more great content.?
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/03/youtube-changes-its-content-id-appeals-process/
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