At the moment, exit polling data will be processing through news sites and blogs worldwide and give hints as to who is the victor in yesterday's election. No official data regarding the polls was released before 5pm today so any official exit poll data you think you've received before that time today is most probably false.
The exit pollsters release no data to the networks that pay for it until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, and the networks do not report full tabulations until the polls close. However, certain pieces of data such as the results to issue questions could start to be reported on air at that time, and results about who is ahead or behind often leak before that time. However, you won't see an officially tabulated exit poll result until after the polls close in any given state. And as Mark Blumenthal wrote in 2004, "those leaked exit polls really don't tell us much more about the outcome of the race than the telephone polls we were obsessing over just a few hours ago. Even if we wanted to call a race on unweighted, unfinished, mid-day exit polls alone (something the networks will not do), we would need to see differences of 10-15 points separating the candidates to be 95% certain of a winner."
Young actress Shannon Tavarez, who played the role of Young Nala in the Broadway production of "The Lion King", has lost her fight against Leukemia at the tragicly young age of 11. She had strived to raise awareness for the disease and for bone marrow transplants and her call inspired celebrities and the public. Alicia Keys, Rihanna and 50 Cent took up her cause. At least 10,000 people registered as bone marrow donors because of it.
Shannon died Monday afternoon at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, on Long Island, of acute myelogenous leukemia, a common type of leukemia among adults, but rare among children. "She was a remarkable and talented young lady who touched the lives of those she entertained, as well as those who cared for her over the past several months," medical center said Tuesday in a statement. In August, we reported on Shannon's difficulty in finding a suitable bone marrow transplant and her decision to try cord blood instead. "It's rare that you meet such a spirited girl at such a young age," said Katharina Harf, who runs a donation center. "She touched so many people to register. She was really, really a special girl."
The new Samsung Monte is another high quality, multi functional device proudly revealed to the world by Japanese giants Samsung. It has a wide array of multimedia features along with a classy, sleek look and delivers a high rate performance to that of a strong handset, and all of this for an affordable price on the market.
With a stunning contrasting orange and graphite, or black and silver, color casing and an intuitive TouchWiz 2.0 Plus User Interface (UI), the Monte is set to become the latest must-have full touch Samsung device.The Samsung Monte makes staying connected with friends and colleagues incredibly easy with a suite of native social network applications including Facebook and MySpace, allowing users to access their profiles whenever and wherever they choose. The advanced Twitter, Bebo widgets and multi-IM capability also provide users with the opportunity to chat in real-time via their chosen service. In addition, the handset features full Internet browsing with an accelerometer sensor allowing the onscreen image to automatically adjust as you rotate the phone.The Samsung Monte also includes navigation features with GPS supported by Google Latitude, users will always know where they are and can keep their friends updated on their location at all times. With a Geo-tagging capability, users can imprint their photos with geographic tags to share their experiences with friends. Other connectivity features include optional anytime, anywhere Wi-Fi connectivity, Exchange ActiveSync for access to Outlook email accounts and Google Sync.The Samsung Monte comes equipped with a 3.0-inch WQVGA LCD screen with 16:9 landscape viewing and a 3.2-mega pixel camera with imaging features including smile shot, panorama shot, and face detection. The phone also supports Smart Unlock and One finger zoom making it easier and more intuitive to use.Furthermore, the handset will be complemented by a specially created Samsung Monte Bluetooth headset, featuring BT Version 2.1, multipoint technology, 1 microphone noise reduction and Active Pairing.
Amazon customer review: "This is a very good phone. I bought it a week ago and took it away camping with me and it last well even without a cover. mine came with a screen protector already fitted and earphones even though it says it doesn't (no complaints). I have truly fallen in love with this phone!!! does everything i want it to do and the wifi feature is very good. it does lag just after you have turned it on and just randomly sometimes but not that often. Internet is fast and the speaker is good. i advise buying it from phones4u a lot cheaper though they are locked to networks. That was alright for me as i was already on orange pay as you go. Highly recomended."
Another product from the Japanese goants Samsung which leaves it's competitors envious. This is sure to be a very popular product among those who desire multi functional and highly efficient yet stylish phones.
Samsung's new "wave" phone is a really great new product from the company which sees them branching out into what they call a "super AMOLED" display which offers a superb new experience on a smartphone with a much brighter, clearer, and less reflective AMOLED OnCell display, featuring a high resolution WVGA (800 x 480) screen with mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) technology.
With a free viewing angle and super fast response, the Samsung Wave display provides superb image quality for viewing both videos and photos.
Social Hub
Social Hub has been designed from the ground up to seamlessly integrate all major email providers, IM and social networking services such as Yahoo, MSN, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace directly into the Samsung Wave. With it's TouchWiz 3.0 UI, it provides users easy-flow integrated experience of messaging, managing contacts and viewing calendar events. Social Hub is powered by push technology to deliver email messages, calendar events and SNS updates in real-time.
TouchWiz 3.0 UI
The Samsung Wave provides superior levels of choice to all users via its fully customisable menus and homepage. For those who demand access to their social networking sites at all times, the device allows users to change the layout of the home-page to allow instant access to Twitter, Facebook and a host of other social networking services. For music lovers, the device homepage can be turned into an intuitive media player, and for those that take and share a lot of photos, the homepage can be customised to feature favourite images. Users will also benefit from Quick Panel, a way of prioritising and aggregating applications into one screen for instant access. With it's eye-catchingly brilliant screen, Samsung's latest TouchWiz 3.0 user interface gives a tactile, intuitive user experience, and includes iconic new features such as motion UI, smart unlock and customisable widget screen.
Speed, performance and beauty
The Samsung Wave boasts a superb 1 GHz processor which offers the best graphic performance available today. It's speed means the touch screen user interface is incredibly responsive, intuitive and, more importantly, the 3D and memory-intensive graphic and video performance is unsurpassed. The Samsung Wave is one of the most attractive devices to launch this year, it's seamless, streamlined body has no parting or harsh lines and features a beautiful curved, tempered glass display which perfectly complements and enhances the vividness of the Super AMOLED display. And, with anti-smudge technology, those greasy thumb prints are a thing of the past. Samsung Wave incorporates Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi 802.11n as standard.
Amazon customer review: "great camera,wonderful video recording better than iphone4 as i compared both phones in the shop,i don,t care about apple store as i don,t need lot of applicatios,good battery life,great looking,great colourful display,iphone4,s display got better contrast but samsung wave produce sharp rich colour,i compared audio quality with my wife,s iphone3gs but honestly this is the first handset which is better in this regard,1gh processor is really fast and watching videos on beautiful super amoled display is really enjoyable, great job by samsung at small price.i believe 2011 going to be very difficult for apple as i see samsung as a serious contender."
With this new product from Samsung on the market, other rival phone companies will certainly be turning green at the fascinating technology this new device shows off and it is likely to prove a great venture for the Japanese outfit, Samsung.
The marine corps marathon took place on Sunday the 31st of October. The course involved going through georgetown, part the lincoln and Jefferson memorials, The U.S. capitol and the pentagon and it's distance was 26.2 miles long. There were 30,000 runners which included 100 registered wheelchair and hand-cycle participants.
Jacob Bradosky of Centerville Ohio won the men’s division. The second lieutenant at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was running his first marathon, and finished in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 30 seconds. Janet Cherobon of Rome, Ga., won her sixth straight marathon in the women’s division. She finished in 2 hours 39 minutes and 19 seconds. According to bleacherreport.com, “In the women’s division, Janet Cherbon of Kenya was a late entrant to the event and took home the top spot, finishing in a time of two hours, 39 minutes and 19 seconds.” This event was open to anyone who wanted to race and since it was held on Halloween, many of the runners wore costumes, making the event a bit more playful.
Many people across the United States are getting ready to vote but lots of you are in the dark over where it is you go to cast your vote. This is done by simply referring to your voter registration certificate which you received on registering to vote.
This document will list the telephone number. When you call, tell the person that answers the phone your precinct number which is located on your registration certificate to find out where your polling place is located. Remember, on election day you must vote in the precinct where you are registered. However, during the early voting period, you can vote at any early voting site within the county you inhabit.
Also if you didn't register to vote at least 30 days ago you won't be able to partake in the election voting this year.
Discover financial services were able to reach an agreement with payments processor company Moneris solutions which will see the merchant acceptance of Discover increase and expand in it's acceptance throughout Canada and beginning next year merchant customers with Toronto-based Moneris will have the ability to accept transactions on the discover card.
Moneris offers credit, debit and other payment services for more than 350,000 merchant locations across North America, and is Canada's largest merchant acquirer. Gerry Wagner, vice president of global acceptance for Discover, said the company plans in coming years to aggressively expand the number of Canadian merchants that accept Discover cards. David Ades, a senior vice president at Moneris, said his company is the first payments processor to offer Discover card acceptance to merchants in Canada. Shares of Riverwoods-based Discover Financial fell 3 cents to $17.49 in afternoon trading.
So good news for Discover cards which will receive more exposure throughout the United States and give owners the ability to pay for more with the card.
