NRA Facebook page goes dark, Twitter quiet

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The National Rifle Association's?main?Facebook page isn't accessible, and its Twitter account is quiet three days after the?shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Only?a Facebook page for the NRA?blog remains posted. The last item shared?at 6:30 a.m. Friday (before the school?shootings)?was?about the "Friends of NRA" TV show that will start a third season soon.

The blog is described as being an "official?inside look at the NRA's Programs including Shooting Championships, National Firearms Museum, Law Enforcement Division, Education & Training and more." (The NRA's Web blog is here.)

On Twitter, Friday was also the last day the NRA tweeted, at 6:36 a.m.: "10 Days of NRA Giveaways???Enter today for a chance to win an auto emergency tool!"

The day before, Dec. 13, on Twitter, the NRA said: "Did you hear? Our #facebook page reached 1.7 million 'likes'?today! Thanks for being a friend!" and this photo was posted by the organization:

But those 1.7 million likes, tied to the NRA's main Facebook page, could not be?seen as of Monday.

NBC News contacted the NRA for comment about its Facebook page removal, and will update this post if we hear back.

It it does not appear that?Facebook?itself took any action, one way or another, regarding the NRA page. When asked, a?Facebook spokesperson told NBC News the social network had no?comment.?

Online, the NRA's?news?site?continues to be viewable???but without any news of Friday's horror. On the site, among the "top stories"?viewers will find "Homefront Hugs USA Urges Volunteers to Make a Difference in a Soldier's Life," "Fast & Furious Gun Buyer Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison" and "Illinois Concealed Carry Ban Ruled Unconstitutional." All were apparently posted before the shootings.

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Cops: Ind. gun collector threatened school shooting

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Von. I. Meyer, 60, of Cedar Lake, Ind., seen in an undated photo provided by the Lake County Sheriff's Department, allegedly made threats to shoot people at the school where his wife worked during an argument.

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A man was arrested after allegedly threatening to "kill as many people as he could" at a school during a heated argument with his wife, police in Indiana said Sunday.

Interim Cedar Lake Police Chief Jerry Smith said he believed Von I. Meyer, 60, was just bluffing when he made the ominous remark early Friday, NBCChicago.com reported.

Meyer, who was arrested Saturday on seven felony charges, initially threatened to set his wife on fire, then said he would kill her "at the school" where she worked and "would kill as many people as he could before police could stop him police," Smith said.

Meyer's wife works at the cafeteria at Jane Ball Elementary School, less than 1,000 feet from the couple's home in Cedar Lake, about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.

Smith said Meyer's wife stayed away from that school Friday and police boosted security at the elementary school and three other area schools as a precaution, taking those steps before 26 people, including 20 students, were shot and killed at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

"We just didn't want to take any chances," he said of the extra security at the schools.

47 guns hidden in house
Although police found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout Meyer's two-story home after they arrested him, Smith said most of those weapons were antique collector guns and he believes Meyer was not serious about his school threat.

He said Meyer's wife told officers their relationship was turbulent and he had often threatened her.

"If people followed through on all the threats they've ever made ? things said in anger that they don't really mean and regret ? our population in this country would be half of what it is," he said. "This was something he said in the heat of an argument. He hadn't been plotting this."

School safety expert Kenneth Trump and criminologist James Fox speak with TODAY's Erica Hill about the importance of not turning our schools into fortresses and remind viewers of how rare school shootings are.

Meyer fled his home early Friday after his wife reported the alleged threats to police, and he may have gone into hiding in a densely wooded area around his home, Smith said.

Police watched the house, but Meyer apparently slipped back into his home at some point. He was arrested there without incident Saturday on felony intimidation, resisting law enforcement and domestic battery charges.

Meyer remained jailed Sunday without bond at the Lake County Jail, pending an initial hearing on the charges. It wasn't clear Sunday whether he had an attorney yet.

Police initially said Meyer was "a known member of the Invaders Motorcycle Gang," but Smith said Sunday evening Meyer is not an active member of that group, although he was affiliated with it in his youth.

Smith said security would remain high at the area's school in the coming days, mostly because of the heightened concerns nationwide in the wake of the deadly shooting rampage in Connecticut.

"One of your greatest fears is that someone might try to be a copycat," he said.

Hoax threat in Conn., Texas rumors
Separately, police in Bristol, Conn., took a person into custody Sunday night after a false online threat was made against a school there, NBCConnecticut.com reported.

According to police, a juvenile made threats against Bristol Central High School ? about 25 miles away from the scene of Friday?s elementary school massacre.

Upon further investigation, the threat was found to be a hoax.

Meanwhile, extra police will be on duty at a school campus in Texas Monday morning after rumors of an alleged security threat there started spreading over the weekend, NBCDFW.com reported.

Leaders at Granbury High School, south-west of Forth Worth, issued a statement to concerned parents stating the district is actively investigating the threat and the threat rumor has not?been confirmed.

NBCChicago.com?s Rick Callahan, NBCDFW.com and NBCConnecticut.com contributed to this report.?

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UK and US block Internet Regulation | E RADAR | Smarter business ...

The United Kingdom and other member states have blocked an attempt to put the United Nations in control of the Internet at a conference in Dubai this week.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ? the UN?s agency for information and communications technology ? brought together representatives from around the world to try and agree on updating telecoms regulations that hadn?t been touched since 1988.

But representatives from the UK and US, as well as from Chile, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal and Sweden said they wouldn?t be able to sign up without discussing it first with their domestic governments.

Critics claim that giving equal rights to each state of the UN and putting one vote in each of their hands could lead to Internet censorship. High profile figures such as?Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the internet, and Sir Tim-Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, even said such regulations would be a threat to a free internet and standards should be left to the private sector organisations building the technology.

However, countries such as Russia, China and Saudi Arabia have said the current Internet governance framework allows the US to hold the rights to the naming and registration of addresses on the internet and puts control into select hands. They believe new regulations are now needed.

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Bunnie Huang building an open, ARM-based laptop, might even sell you one if you ask nicely

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How do you follow-up creating Chumby, exposing illicit microSD card production and building an open-source radiation detector? If you answered "go to Disneyland," then you aren't Andrew "Bunnie" Huang -- who is now designing and building his very own laptop. Powered by an ARM Cortex A9 and running Linux, the hardware is NDA-free and as open as he can make it, with documents already online for you to study. He's expecting to finish validation and testing in the next few months, and may even offer a few for sale on Kickstarter -- although he does warn that it won't come cheap, so if you're looking for a machine to noodle around on, just get an EeePC.

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US Cellular delivering Jelly Bean update to Samsung Galaxy S III on December 21st

US Cellular delivering Jelly Bean update to Samsung Galaxy S III on December 21st

Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T all have already done it, and now it's US Cellular's turn to start distributing the Android 4.1 batch to its own variant of Samsung's Galaxy S III. According to the carrier, said Jelly Bean update is set to hit the flagship, TouchWiz-loaded handset this Friday, December 21st, carrying now-accustomed features such as Project Butter, Google Now and a slew of other enhancements to the camera app, notifications, widgets and, naturally, the overall user interface. US Cellular didn't give us a specific time as to when we can expect the goods, but it did say the update will be available over-the-air and via USB -- either way, you may want to bookmark that source link below, as more in-depth installation details are expected to show up there come Friday.

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Facebook Gets Into Local Search With "Facebook Nearby" For iOS ...

Facebook Mobile Web and App IconAs of today, you can count Facebook as a potentially significant new competitor in local search ? on mobile devices. The company is updating the ?Nearby? feature in its iOS and Android apps

Nearby Becomes Local Search Tool

Previously Nearby was about finding where your friends had checked-in. After the app update Nearby will still show you where your friends have checked-in. But now, more importantly, it will also show you nearby businesses and other places ranked by various criteria. It becomes a local search and discovery tool.

You?ll be able to search or browse in the new UI to find local businesses by name or by category. This change is designed to make the Facebook app a go-to source for local information (at least in selected categories).

Results will be ranked according to a number of criteria: star ratings, check-ins, Likes and recommendations. Your network will act as a filter. But where there is no feedback from your network the larger Facebook community?s engagement with that business or place will determine the ordering of the results presented to you.

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Ratings will be on a five-point scale (image above). Only people who?ve checked-in to a business (legitimately) may rate it. Facebook said that you may rate a business any time after a check-in. It won?t be limited to the time you?re physically present in the location.

If You Don?t Have a Page, You Won?t Show Up

Facebook is only relying on its own data and only showing places where there are associated Pages (with locations) in its database. Businesses that don?t already have a presence on Facebook will need to set one up to be found. Accordingly Facebook will see Pages penetration grow especially among small businesses that don?t already have Pages.

Here?s Facebook?s ?SEO? advice to make Pages more discoverable in the new Nearby feature (from its blog post):

  • Update your Page to include all of your basic information, including your address, store hours, phone number, and details?about your business in the About section
  • Update your category to make sure you appear when people are looking for your specific type of business
  • Encourage your consumers to like, check into, rate, and recommend your place

Facebook Nearby thus becomes a new front in the expanding battle over local business reputations. Local SEO practitioners will now have to focus on helping their clients get ratings/reviews on Google, Yelp and Facebook, among any others.

I haven?t used the new Nearby yet. I?ve only talked to Facebook and seen these screens. I can?t attest to how ?good? Nearby is or how easy it is to use. One question, however, is how prominent Facebook will make the new Nearby?

Right now you access Nearby through the left-hand apps sidebar menu. That qualifies as ?buried? for most Facebook mobile users.

However ?Check In? is one of three tabs above the newsfeed. That Check-in tab will likely lead into the new Nearby experience and/or could be transitioned over time. If that?s the case then Facebook could see considerable usage of the new feature.

Give the company?s massive mobile user base everyone should take this move seriously from a marketing and competitive standpoint. At last count Facebook said it had 600 million monthly active mobile users.

Local Data Coverage and Ads

The Nearby database won?t be as comprehensive as Google?s or Yelp?s. However Facebook will have the potential advantage of business owners providing all the data themselves (or through trusted surrogates). Thus it probably won?t suffer the kinds of inaccuracy or staleness problems that plague some of the other local search data and platforms in the market.

As you might expect, Facebook told me there will be no ads. The company didn?t suggest by implication there would be any ads in the future. But the opportunity is too obvious for the company to ignore. You can expect that at some point within the next year or so (my speculation) there will probably be an advertising opportunity in local results.

My guess is that if Facebook delivers on the promise of Nearby the most vulnerable direct competitor will be Foursquare, which will be forced to further innovate and add bells and whistles to differentiate from Facebook?s new capability. The ?behavioral? dimension of Facebook?s reputation/ratings scheme reminded most of what Foursquare is doing with local search.

Only on Mobile ? for Now

Facebook Nearby local search will only be available on Facebook?s mobile apps. The company didn?t indicate to me whether the feature would also be coming to the desktop. However if all goes well I suspect that it will.

I would also guess that this is a first significant step in a more comprehensive search strategy that could make Facebook a much more utilitarian destination and true rival to more familiar search engines.

No doubt you?ll see plenty of sensational ?X-killer? headlines today about how Facebook is gunning for this or that company. The truth is that the Nearby update is a natural and logical evolution of Facebook?s mobile app and its capabilities. Its logic is driven by Facebook?s internal needs and evolution in mobile.

Facebook wants to better serve its users, wants to engage more deeply with SMBs and get more Pages created. It wants to further monetize mobile and it believes it can offer ?word of mouth at scale.? All of these things at least conceptually come together in the new Nearby functionality.

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Alt-week 12.15.12: rivers on Titan, electric handcuffs and crashing into the moon

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

Altweek 121512 rivers on Titan, electric handcuffs and crashing into the moon

Space, it's the final frontier, where no-one can hear you scream in frustration at not knowing who the villain of Star Trek: Into Darkness is, as well as where 50 percent of our stories take place this week. NASA's planning to crash satellites into the moon, someone's patented an electo-shock handcuff and there's a river on Titan that you wouldn't want to canoe-down. This is alt-week.

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Relationship Coaching | Relationship Blog

December 16, 2012

Human relationship is one of the very important aspects of society and human life. It can be seen in almost all areas of life-in the family, in the workplace and even in the streets. It is important to maintain relationship with all the people surrounding you, either personal life friends or professional life colleagues or business clients.

In the realm of business transactions, it is very important to establish relationship with the new client right at the start of the business relationship. A swift human relationship between the client and server (service provider) is a necessity and this relationship should grow in time in order to expand the business as well as to provide the best services possible.

In order to learn all these values, one should always go for a relationship coaching where a person can learn the values of human relationship. This kind of specialized coaching might teach the basic values of being a good human being to establish a good relationship. Such basic values are being a good listener, being less of a speaker and to be even less temperament loser.

In addition to such basic fundamental relationship coaching, they might teach you certain different relationship values like communication skills and smart thinking that is very important to establish a very good relationship. Giving is also important, instead of just focusing on taking. Here is a brief detail about these three aspects teach of relationship coaching.

Communication Skills:

An excellent communication skill is the most important factor for a client-server relationship and especially while starting the business when you can explain your products or projects to the client in a language that can convince the client. It is important to make sure that you are delivering the exact words what you want to explain to the client. You need to be open up and should improve the discussions. This will create the required trust and intimacy in the client to start a business and to keep it going if it has already been established.

Smart Thinking:

Smart thinking doesn?t need to be an excellent that can think like an astronaut but it is to be you and give some time alone to yourself. You should give some time to yourself and should assess your human relationship with your clients and what is the action you can take to improve the relationship that can give you more opportunities.

Giving and Taking:

Good relationships exhibit healthy giving and taking. You speak, I listen. I speak, you listen. And we share insights and blessings and we deal with problems together. There are times that I bow down to your stand and convictions. There will also be times that you give in to what I want. That way, your relationship becomes reciprocal, mutual and even life-changing.

Relationships might seem very basic but a lot of people need to be reminded of the value of relationships and the skills needed to deal with relationships. Relationship coaching might just be the extra boost you need in your career and your life.

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Waka Waka Power solar charger seeks Kickstarter funding, charge your iPhone with just the power of the sun

Waka Waka Power solar charger seeks Kickstarter funding, charge your iPhone with just the power of the sunThe Waka Waka personal solar power station is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. The Waka Waka Power is a personal solar power station which can power your iPhone and iPad using just the power of the sun. The Waka Waka Power has been created on the back of a previously successful Kickstarter campaign for the original Waka Waka which was a solar powered LED light. This new product encompasses both an LED light and a charging station in one.

The WakaWaka Power is a pocket size mini power station with super-efficient solar cells and a power management system which ensures efficiencies which are up to 200% better than any other product in the market. Apart from charging your smart phone, WakaWaka Power is also a light source which can provide you with more than 40 hours of excellent reading light (on a single day solar charge!).

Place WakaWaka Power in direct sunlight for a whole day and you will notice that the battery will be completely full, even if you live in New York or Seattle (where the intensity of the sun is far less than in Texas). The capacity of the battery is large enough to fully power most mobile phone from completely depleted, to practically full. On top of this, you will have 10 or more hours of excellent reading light as well. If you don?t charge your phone or tablet, as said before, you can have more than 40 hours of light.

If you like the look of the Waka Waka Power, you can grab a piece of the action with an early pledge. The early bird $49 offer has already sold out but you can still pick one up if it is successfully launched for a $59 pledge. The Kickstarter project has already smashed through its funding goal of $50k and currently sits at over $70K. It looks like the Waka Waka may have a very successful future. What do you think about the Waka Waka Power?

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Good Reads: Mexico?s rise, Lincoln?s precedence, and tomorrow?s truth

A round-up of this week's long-form good reads include a look at Mexico's competitive growth, the virtues of compromise in multiple administrations, and how facts 'decay.'

By Marshall Ingwerson,?Managing editor / December 14, 2012

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Three years ago, a Pentagon report warned that Mexico was on the brink of becoming a failed state, notes a special report in The Economist. Instead, Mexico?s economic growth has overtaken and surpassed that of Brazil. And as Chinese wages have quintupled in the past 10 years, Mexico?s competitiveness is rising to match its great field position next door to the US Sun Belt. The flat-screen TVs are the least of it. What?s amazing to The Economist is how little Americans know about the progress of their southern neighbor. It estimates that nearly a tenth of current US residents, or their children, are Mexican citizens. But as the Monitor has noted, net migration from Mexico has dropped to zero or lower as opportunities there have expanded.

Many Americans have heard, if vaguely, of Mayan calendars that seem to predict the end of the world coming in a few weeks. But few have heard that recent translations revise that apocalypse into something more like a renewal or fresh start. And that, the magazine argues, looks to be where Mexico is heading.

Lincoln?s example for today?s mess

In these times of winter winds whipping across the ?fiscal cliff? at Americans? feet, compromise is suddenly in again. What was scorned in the tea party upswell of 2010 as caving in to bad Washington habits, is lauded in late 2012 as adult behavior and getting something done.

History, of course, stands on both sides of the compromise question. Abraham Lincoln may have been the self-effacing pragmatist who could hold together a diverse ?team of rivals.? But he was not about compromise. This is something the new Steven Spielberg film on Lincoln gets right, says The New Yorker?s Adam Gopnik. The United States had been straddling various compromises over slavery for years, he says, and there are still arguments over whether Lincoln could have avoided the unprecedented human suffering of the war. But Lincoln instead stood at the end of the line for compromise. His position was absolute, both on union and on slavery.

?Lincoln was an uncompromising man who sponsored violence on a hitherto unimaginable scale; that he paid the highest price himself for the noble but hugely costly morality in which he believed is one of the things that makes his story still so fateful and, in its way, uncompromised.?

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