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Wrestling considers changing singlet for Olympics

In this image made available by FILA News Bureau, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, right, shakes hands with the acting head of wrestling's world governing body Nenad Lalovic at the IOC headquarters in in Lausanne Switzerland Thursday March 7, 2013. Lolovic met with IOC President Jacques Rogge and promised the sport would work hard in its fight to retain Olympic status. (AP Photo/FILA News Bureau)

FILE - In this May 15, 2012 file photo, freestyle wrestler Jordan Burroughs poses for a photo at the 2012 Team USA Media Summit in Dallas. His performance at the London Games cemented his status as perhaps the best athlete in the world in his sport _ a sport that just a few months later in fighting for its very existence. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, File)

Northwestern's Matt Wheeler, right, tries to take down Saegertown's Tyler Vath in a 120-pound match at the PIAA Class AA high school wrestling championships on Friday, March 8, 2013, in Hershey, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

LONDON (AP) ? Kicked out of the Olympics and desperately trying to get back in, wrestling hopes a wardrobe change will wow those set to rule on the sport's fate.

The acting head of wrestling's governing body said Friday the federation is negotiating with manufacturers to produce a new singlet ? the skimpy sleeveless T-shirt worn by competitors ? that will reduce sweat and look different for Greco-Roman and freestyle events.

It's a sign of how far the sport is ready to go to regain its spot in the Olympics after being cut from the 2020 Games last month by the IOC executive board.

"I want to change the singlets to modernize them," acting FILA president Nenad Lalovic told The Associated Press. "Sweat is really a problem for the wrestlers. By the end of the match they cannot make grabs, especially for the Greco-Roman.

"Also that will help to distinguish immediately the Greco-Roman wrestler from the freestyle wrestler."

Currently, Olympic wrestlers in both disciplines wear either red or blue one-piece singlets.

Lalovic said FILA is also working on proposals to include women and active athletes on its decision-making body and make changes to competition formats and venues.

"We want to find something that will make our sport much more watchable and understandable," Lalovic said. "We want spectators who come to the wrestling hall for the first time to know the rules by the end of the day."

The changes, which would take effect in 2014, will be voted on at an extraordinary FILA congress in Moscow on May 18 ? just 10 days before the IOC executive board meets in St. Petersburg, Russia, to discuss the program for the 2020 Games.

"We have to make changes to modernize our sport," the Serbian official said in a telephone interview after chairing a FILA meeting in Vevey, Switzerland. "We have to show that something has changed and that we can implement it."

As part of the campaign, FILA is planning a "World Wrestling Day" on May 24 with national bodies organizing wrestling exhibitions and other events to promote the sport.

FILA had originally planned to hold the congress in Turkey, but that was considered a possible conflict of interest because Istanbul is bidding for the 2020 Olympics.

"We have to be impartial," said Lalovic, who plans to run for the FILA presidency at the Moscow meeting.

Russia, a traditional wrestling powerhouse and homeland of the great Alexander Karelin, has been among the most active countries fighting for the sport's Olympic future. Lalovic said the Russian government will help organize and finance the congress.

Lalovic took over FILA on an interim basis after Raphael Martinetti resigned as president within days of the IOC decision to remove wrestling after the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

He said he spoke to Martinetti this week and the Swiss official told him he would not be a candidate at the May meeting. Lalovic said he doesn't know if he will face any challengers or be unopposed to finish the presidential mandate until 2014.

At the IOC meeting in St. Petersburg, May 29-31, the board will hear presentations from wrestling and seven other sports competing for one spot on the 2020 program. Those sports include a combined baseball-softball bid, roller sports, sport climbing, squash, wakeboarding, and the martial arts of karate and wushu.

The board could select a short list of three sports to submit to the full IOC assembly, which will make the final decision at its session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September.

Lalovic met with federation leaders a day after talks with IOC President Jacques Rogge, who told him the sport will need to earn its place on the program.

"The other competitors started two years ago," Lalovic said. "We have to run fast and act fast. They have had much more time to prepare. But I think we have stronger arguments and I believe we will be ready to make our case."

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Ouya store ready for launch, will highlight devs with short documentaries

We're still a little bit away from the official launch of the much-hyped Ouya console, but the game store appears ready for takeoff. Today the company hit the reset button on the beta version of its shop and went back to square one. But, from now on, any app uploaded through the developer portal will be ready and available on day one when it starts shipping to Kickstarter backers on March 28th. Those who have already submitted will have to go through the process all over again unfortunately. In her inaugural blog post as a member of the Ouya team Kellee Santiago revealed a promotional push aimed at benefiting both the console and some of its early-adopter developers. The top three games, as measured by total play time over the first six weeks of availability, will become the focus of a series of short documentaries. To be eligible for the competition you'll need to get your title in before the March 28th shipping date. For a few more details and to review the developer guidelines yourself hit up the source link.

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GOP at odds with itself over drones and immigration

Republican Party divisions over immigration, anti-terrorism and other issues are bubbling to the surface just as President Barack Obama shows a new interest in capitalizing on GOP differences.

The latest example played out Thursday on the Senate floor, where two Republican senators rebuked a third ? tea party favorite Rand Paul of Kentucky ? for his filibuster that challenged U.S. policies for using drones to kill suspected terrorists. Just a few days earlier, other high-profile Republicans had differed on immigration, and a House committee chairman renewed his call for spending cuts that would go much deeper than those now making headlines.

Every case featured past or possibly future presidential candidates. It was a fresh reminder that the party has no clear leader, and no clear road map, after Mitt Romney's November loss to Obama.

The quarrels also underscore the Republican establishment's uneasy relationship with the tea party. That grass-roots movement, born in 2009, pumped new passion into the GOP, but it also fueled unwise Senate nominations that saved several endangered Democrats.

Every party undergoes self-examination and blame-swapping after losing a presidential race. The Republicans' intramural disputes may eventually lead to greater solidarity and popularity.

Some party activists, however, are warily watching Obama launch a new outreach to rank-and-file Republicans, including his Wednesday night dinner with a dozen GOP senators at a posh Washington restaurant.

"The president recognizes the fractures within the Republican Party and is moving to try to take advantage of them with a charm offensive," said GOP pollster Steve Lombardo. Republicans should react carefully, he said, because voters "want to see each side extend an olive branch and work together."

First, however, top Republicans must resolve some of their own differences. And either by choice or trial-and-error, the GOP must decide how closely to align its identity with the tea party movement, whose fiercely small-government philosophy draws relatively low approval ratings in national polls.

Paul, the son of libertarian hero and three-time presidential contender Ron Paul, drew widespread attention this week with a 13-hour Senate filibuster. He demanded assurances from the Obama administration that unmanned aircraft would not be used in the United States to kill terrorism suspects who are U.S. citizens.

Many Republicans say Paul and his father are so libertarian in their outlook that they operate outside the party mainstream. But Paul's filibuster drew active support from several tea party-leaning senators, including Marco Rubio of Florida, who possibly could vie with Paul and others for the 2016 presidential nomination. Also helping with the filibuster were more traditional Republican senators such as John Cornyn of Texas and John Thune of South Dakota.

That sharpened the drama Thursday, when Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina claimed the Senate floor to chide Paul and to defend the administration's drone policies.

McCain, the party's 2008 presidential nominee, and Graham are frequent guests on national talk shows. They rank among the party's best-known members, and they attended Obama's dinner Wednesday.

Their critiques of Paul's actions were acidic at times. McCain read approvingly from a Wall Street Journal editorial titled "Rand Paul's Drone Rant." McCain said Paul's reasoning did not match his "showmanship."

McCain and Graham are among pro-military Republicans unhappy with a tea-party-backed push to cut spending across the board, including in the Pentagon. The recently enacted "sequester" cuts were seen as a triumph for conservatives, especially in the House, who place their highest priority on refusing to raise income taxes on anyone, even if it means reducing military spending.

These House Republicans, led by 2012 vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, now promise to pass a 10-year budget plan that will call for much deeper spending cuts, including significant changes to Medicare.

The move carries risks, say moderate Republicans. They cite polls showing substantial public support for a balance of tax increases and spending cuts to tame the deficit.

A survey by the centrist Republican Main Street group found that most Americans feel the Republican Party chiefly "looks out for rich guys," said the organization's president, Steve LaTourette. The former Ohio congressman said the party's self-examination, on balance, is healthy and essential, and he thinks Republicans outflanked Democrats in the sequester showdown.

Virginia-based Republican consultant Chris LaCivita said the intraparty debate is healthy and should reassure voters the GOP is vigorous and transparent.

Obama is appealing to Graham and other Republicans who say new taxes on the rich might be possible if Democrats agree to tackle the long-term funding problems of Medicare and Social Security. Most Republican leaders adamantly oppose any increases in income taxes.

Other internal debates that Republicans must resolve include changes to immigration laws. Romney and other GOP candidates did poorly among Hispanic voters, many of whom see the party's immigration policies as a slap at all Latinos.

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, is heading a Republican effort to craft immigration legislation to counter Obama's proposals.

Another prominent Republican, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, created a stir this week by saying he did not support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, even if they have lived peacefully for years in the United States. Bush, whose father and brother were presidents, tried to soften the comments later, but they served to remind everyone that Republicans face difficult debates over immigration.

The 2016 presidential race could possibly attract Bush, Rubio, Ryan, Paul, Thune and numerous other Republicans, including Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.

The 2012 Republican primary featured exhaustive and often unwieldy debates. Catering to hard-core conservatives who dominate primaries, Romney and his rivals veered to the right on many issues, a process that many feel hurt Romney among centrist voters in the general election against Obama.

With tea party-backed House Republicans thus far dominating the tax-and-spending debate, it's unclear whether the GOP can avoid similar clashes in 2016. Before it confronts that question, however, the party must move closer to consensus and intraparty peace over immigration, anti-terrorism and other matters.

This week's back and forth in the Senate indicates the soul-searching will go on a while longer.

Hugo Chavez's body to be put on permanent display

In this photo provided by Miraflores Presidential Press Office, a man helps a girl to look into the glass-topped casket containing the remains of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez lying in state at the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 7, 2013. While Venezuela remains deeply divided over the country's future, the multitudes who reached the president's coffin were united in grief and admiration for a man many considered a father figure. Chavez died on March 5 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.(AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, mourners walk beside the coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez on display during his wake at a military academy where his body will lie in state until his funeral in in state in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 7, 2013. While Venezuela remains deeply divided over the country's future, the multitudes who reached the president's coffin were united in grief and admiration for a man many considered a father figure. Chavez died on March 5 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.(AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Hugo Chavez' s father Hugo de los Reyes Chavez, center right, comforts his wife Elena Frias as they stand next to the coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez on display during his wake at a military academy where his body will lie in state until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's acting president, said Chavez's remains will be put on permanent display at the Museum of the Revolution, close to the presidential palace where Chavez ruled for 14 years. A state funeral for Chavez attended by some 33 heads of government is scheduled to begin Friday morning. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)

Mourners break past a barrier instead of waiting in a long line to enter the military academy where Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez's body lies in state at the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 7, 2013. While Venezuela remains deeply divided over the country's future, the multitudes who reached the president's coffin were united in grief and admiration for a man many considered a father figure. Chavez died on March 5 at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Colombian former senator Piedad Cordoba, center left, Hugo Chavez's daughter Rosa Virginia Chavez, left, and Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro stand next to the coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez on display during his wake at a military academy where his body will lie in state until his funeral state in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 7, 2013. While Venezuela remains deeply divided over the country's future, the multitudes who reached the president's coffin were united in grief and admiration for a man many considered a father figure. Chavez died on March 5 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.(AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and now Hugo Chavez. The late leader's supporters have put him on a pedestal long provided for the world's great leftist revolutionaries by saying they will embalm his body for perpetual display.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's acting head of state, said Thursday that Chavez's body would be forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace from which the socialist firebrand ruled for 14 years.

"We have decided to prepare the body of our 'Comandante President,' to embalm it so that it remains open for all time for the people. Just like Ho Chi Minh. Just like Lenin. Just like Mao Zedong," Maduro said.

Other socialist or communist leaders given similar treatments after dying are Russian dictator Josef Stalin, though his body was later removed, and North Korea's father-and-son leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. But it was the famous display of Soviet founder Lenin in Moscow's Red Square in 1924 that inspired the custom among leftist leaders.

Maduro said Chavez's body would be held in a "crystal urn" at the Museum of the Revolution, a stone's throw from Miraflores presidential palace, but that first the body would lie in state for "at least" seven days at the museum.

The announcement followed two emotional days following the leaders' death in which Chavez's supporters compared him to Jesus Christ, and accused his national and international critics of subversion.

But not everyone shared in the adoration of Chavez in death.

"Seriously? It's not a joke?" asked street food vendor Juan Ferreira, 51, on hearing that the late president's body would be put on permanent display. "Well, they can do what they like with Chavez's body. What is important is that they leave us in peace and give us the tranquility to work, that they stop making all us Venezuelans fight."

A state funeral was planned for Friday and would be attended by more than 30 heads of government, including Cuban President Raul Castro and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Congressman Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat, and former Rep. William Delahunt, a Democrat from Massachusetts, will represent the United States, which Chavez often portrayed as a great global evil even as he sent the country billions of dollars in oil each year.

A sea of sobbing humanity jammed Venezuela's main military academy Thursday to see Chavez's body, some waiting 10 hours under the twinkling stars and the searing Caribbean sun to file past his coffin. On Thursday night, Castro and Uruguayan President Jose Mujica visited the viewing site.

Even as his supporters attempted to immortalize the dead president, a country exhausted from round-the-clock mourning began to look toward the future. Some worried openly whether the nation's anointed leaders are up to the task of filling his shoes, and others said they were anxious for news on when elections will be held. The constitution mandates they be called within 30 days, but the government has yet to address the matter.

"People are beginning to get back to their lives. One must keep working," said 40-year-old Caracas resident Laura Guerra, a Chavez supporter who said she was not yet sold on Maduro, the acting head of state and designated ruling party candidate. "I don't think he will be the same. I don't think he has the same strength that the 'comandante' had."

At the military academy, Chavez lay in a glass-covered coffin wearing the olive-green military uniform and red beret of his paratrooper days and looking gaunt and pale, his lips pressed together.

Government leaders were largely incommunicado Wednesday as they marched in a seven-hour procession that carried Chavez's body from a military hospital to the academy. But they finally emerged before the cameras Thursday.

Asked when an election would be held, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said only that the constitution would be followed. National Assembly chief Diosdado Cabello said later that Maduro would be sworn in as acting president of Venezuela on Friday after Chavez's state funeral.

While Maduro is the clear favorite over likely opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, the nation is polarized between Chavez supporters and critics who hold him responsible for soaring inflation, a growing national debt and a jump in violent crime.

Ana Teresa Sifontes, a 71-year-old housewife and opposition sympathizer, said Chavez did some good things for the nation's poor. But she said he had mismanaged the economy and showed more interest in regional grandstanding than governing.

"Why do we have to pay for Cuba?" she asked, referring to the billions in Venezuelan oil Chavez sent to Havana each year in return for Cuban doctors and other experts. "Why do we need them here?"

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Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez, Frank Bajak and Christopher Toothaker contributed to this report.

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30% of Top Brands Have Customer Service Twitter Handles

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Twitter is quickly becoming a popular customer service method for many top brands, a new study finds.

Research from social media analytics firm Simply Measured shows that 30% of the of the companies in the Interbrand 100 ? which ranks businesses based on financial status, how the brand influences purchasing decisions and how strong the brand is ? now have dedicated customer service handles on Twitter as a way to divert negative attention and activity away from their primary brand account.

The study found the 30 brands with a separate customer service Twitter feeds have received more than 198,000 inbound tweets in the last quarter, and sent out more than 82,000 support responses.

Among top brands that have adopted a customer service handle, Ford and Nike top the list, replying to more than 70% of inbound tweets.

In addition, the research shows that Microsoft is the only brand that regularly responds to customer issues in under an hour. While not as fast, UPS and American Express also had relatively quick response times. The average response time among all top brands is just over five hours.

Overall, the study discovered that requests for customer support on social networks increased by 25% over the last three months, which prompted top brands to increase their activity by 33%.

"With more and more consumers using Twitter to get help and make decisions, it?s important for brands to maintain an open communication channel and measure their customer service efficacy," said Adam Schoenfeld, CEO of Simply Measured. "Top companies are paying attention to that and investing to respond and support their customers on Twitter."

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After Ch?vez, politicians cannot ignore Venezuela's poor

Analysts agree that after Ch?vez, no politician can succeed in Venezuela without a platform that touches on social inclusion.

By Andrew Rosati,?Correspondent, Whitney Eulich,?Staff writer / March 6, 2013

Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez watch as his coffin arrives at the Military Academy, where his wake will be held, in Caracas March 6. Authorities have not yet said where Chavez will be buried after his state funeral on Friday.

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Many Venezuelans awoke this morning still coming to terms with the loss of their president, Hugo Ch?vez, and wondering ? along with the world ? what the future holds for a post-Ch?vez Venezuela.

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Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced Ch?vez?s passing after a two-year battle with cancer yesterday afternoon in a nationally televised broadcast. Immediately a large number of Venezuelans, including retiree Carmen Gonzalez, flocked to Caracas?s iconic Plaza Bol?var.

"I'm so upset; it's incredibly painful," Ms. Gonzalez says, holding back tears. "Venezuela suffered a huge loss ? President Ch?vez can't be replaced."

Replacing him, however, is a must: The Constitution stipulates that elections be called within 30 days, with the president of the National Assembly taking over as interim leader.?But in a sign that Ch?vez?s word is law, even after his death, his designated successor as presidential candidate for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Mr. Maduro, has stepped into the interim position instead, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua announced last night.

There are no shortage of variables playing into the transition ? from respect for the Constitution to peace in the streets to the possibility of food shortages. It is expected that the individual who steps into the role of president will be faced with continuing much of Ch?vez?s popular social programming, while dealing with an unstable economy that depends on international imports and petrodollars.

But analysts agree that after Ch?vez, no politician can succeed without a platform that touches on social inclusion.???

"[Ch?vez has] given real hope to members of the lower classes," says Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas. ?That's not something an opposition candidate will want to ? or even be able to ? walk away from.?

Reaching the people

Condemned by his critics for causing rampant inflation, crime, and corruption, Ch?vez's special brand of populist-fueled socialism struck a resonant chord with Venezuelans fed up with the decades of exclusive ?politics as usual? that preceded his time in office. His electoral base has been the poor and working class, who felt for decades they were brushed aside by the two parties that dominated the political spectrum.

Coining the term "socialism for the 21st century," the former Army paratrooper shored up unprecedented support during his tenure by investing the country's vast oil wealth in subsidies and popular assistance programs providing anything from free medical care to housing and groceries.

Almost 60 percent of Venezuelans favor his policies, according to Luis Vicente Leon, president of the polling firm, Datanalisis, though he also calls the number ?incredibly volatile."

But ?the situation today in Venezuela is very difficult," says Herbert Koeneke, a political science professor at Simon Bolivar University, referring to skyrocketing public debt accrued during the Ch?vez years and a faltering oil industry.

Despite having the world's largest proven oil reserves, South America's largest oil exporter is now importing oil products from the US to meet its domestic demand. Production has dwindled by an estimated 25 percent since Ch?vez took office. The US Energy Information Agency reported last year that 89,000 barrels were exported daily to Venezuela.

And that presents an added challenge to his successor ? whether it?s Maduro from the PSUV, or the opposition?s expected candidate, Henrique Capriles.

?An election without Ch?vez could increase the opposition's prospects should shortages of food, medicines, and other basic goods continue intensifying in Venezuela,? IHS Global Insight Latin America analyst Diego Moya-Ocampos said via email.

The latest polling data from Hinterlaces, collected prior to the announcement of Ch?vez?s death, shows that if Maduro and Mr. Capriles face off in a presidential election, Maduro is projected to win 50 percent of respondents support; Capriles 36 percent; with 14 percent of respondents undecided. And though Maduro had Ch?vez?s backing, that doesn?t make him Ch?vez.

"The popularity of Ch?vez is not solely based on his policies but rather on Ch?vez himself.? He's a phenomenon," says Eduardo Brown, a retired public administrator, while paying his respects to the president at the Plaza Bol?var last night. "It's his charisma, the rational behind his actions. He's the only president that has truly reached the people."

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