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Irish singer Sinead O’Conner turned to Twitter yesterday to plea for psychiatric help following a suicide attempt.
O’Connor told the British newspaper The Sun she overdosed on pills last Thursday in Los Angeles. The Huffington Post, which reported the story Thursday, didn’t offer any more details.
The 45-year-old recently made news, announcing she and husband of 18 days, Irish therapist Barry Herridge, were splitting up, only to announce days later they were reuniting. The singer, who suffers from bipolar disorder, attempted suicide on her 33rd birthday in 1999.
On Jan. 11, O’Connor said she was in “serious danger” without her medication, and asked her Twitter followers to help her find a psychiatrist in Dublin. She said she was unstable after reading an Irish newspaper article Sunday alleging Herridge was counseling drug-addicted teenagers as O’Connor was searching for drugs. O’Connor also said she broke her ankle and didn’t want to go to a hospital for help because she didn’t want to leave her four children or “(expletive) up me work.”
Nearly nine and half hours later she thanked her followers, saying she felt “much better” and was going to start back on her medication. In September 2011, the singer also turned to Twitter, writing about her suicidal thoughts, which she also called “a cry for help.”
YES, WE DO HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS
AGAIN: TMZ reported Thursday that Robert Kardashian wrote that Khloe Kardashian is his biological daughter, apparently countering claims by his ex-wives that Khloe was fathered by another man.
Meanwhile, Khloe’s mother Kris Jenner said Thursday she knows Khloe is really a Kardashian because she was there at her birth. Oh. Well, that makes perfect sense.
When Kardashian sought to get his second marriage annulled from Jan Ashley in 1999, he submitted a declaration to the judge stating the marriage did not work because Jan wanted to have a child, but he didn’t. Kardashian wrote “I decided that since I already had four biological children, I did not wish to have any more.”
And what exactly does that prove again? Oh, right. That this whole thing keeps the Kardashians in the news for a few more painful days.
Ashley and Ellen Kardashian, Robert’s widow, both told Star magazine that Robert Kardashian confided to them that he believed another man fathered Khloe. Kris Jenner has admitted to cheating on Kardashian while they were married.
You’re right — that’s enough.
EDDIE COMES THROUGH FOR THE KIDS: Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 electric guitars to Los Angeles-area high schools as a way to inspire music in kids.
Tricia Steel of the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation says the Van Halen guitarist came with the brand-new guitars this week, saying he wanted them used in schools and not sold.
Of course, he probably shouldn’t have played, signed and numbered each one.
The nonprofit Los Angeles foundation has distributed the guitars to seven schools serving mostly low-income students that needed them to replace broken instruments or build music enrollment.
Schools were not told where the guitars came from until the instruments arrived, and officials were advised to keep them under tight lock and key. Which means that they’re bound to sell them now.
DOURDAN SKATES: Actor Gary Dourdan pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace Thursday and was fined $100, the end result of him bumping into several parked cars on an L.A. street back in 2010, E! News reported.
As part of the deal, the judge dismissed the part about police allegedly finding OxyContin in Dourdan’s car, which could’ve brought a felony drug charge.
What was the judge’s last name — Dourdan?
Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office Frank Mateljan said the judge was satisfied with proof that Dourdan has attended at least 20 Narcotics Anonymous meetings since his June 13, 2010 arrest.
A separate count of possessing drug paraphernalia was also dismissed. And here we thought Christmas was last month.
In 2008, Dourdan was arrested in Indio after police found him asleep behind the wheel of his car, which was parked pointing in the wrong direction on a city street, and turned up multiple drugs, including cocaine, when they searched the vehicle. The actor copped to coke and Ecstasy possession and avoided jail time by entering a drug-diversion program.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2012. There are 353 days left in the year.
1794: President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)
1945: During World War II, Soviet forces began a huge, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.
1966: Robert C. Weaver was named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Weaver became the first black Cabinet member.
1978: Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66.
1982: An Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River after taking off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived. (Half an hour after the Air Florida crash, a Washington Metro train derailed during rush hour, killing three passengers.)
1987: West German police arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner. (Although convicted and sentenced to life, Hamadi was paroled by Germany in Dec. 2005; he is on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.)
1990: L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.
1992: Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had had a role in abducting the so-called “comfort women.”
2001: An earthquake estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey at magnitude 7.7 struck El Salvador; more than 840 people were killed.
2002: President Bush fainted briefly after choking down a pretzel while watching a football game on TV in the White House residence.
2011: A funeral was held in Tucson, Ariz., for 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, the youngest victim of a mass shooting that also claimed five other lives and critically wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Frances Sternhagen (82), TV personality Nick Clooney (78), comedian Rip Taylor (78), actor Billy Gray (74), actor Richard Moll (69), rock musician Trevor Rabin (58), rhythm-and-blues musician Fred White (57), rock musician James Lomenzo (Megadeth) (53), actor Kevin Anderson (52), actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (51), rock singer Graham “Suggs” McPherson (Madness) (51), country singer Trace Adkins (50), actress Penelope Ann Miller (48), actor Patrick Dempsey (46), actress Traci Bingham (44), actor Keith Coogan (42), actress Nicole Eggert (40), actor Orlando Bloom (35), actor Julian Morris (29).
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Article source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19730875
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Doug Farrar is the editor of Shutdown Corner, Yahoo! Sports’ NFL blog.
Article source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/chad-ochocinco-ignores-twitter-follower-makes-him-183916139.html
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Jason Gore isn’t the biggest name on the golf planet, but over the last couple of days, he’s turned into a social media sensation with the help of thousands of followers on Twitter.
Gore, who became a fan favorite following his Cinderella run at the 2005 U.S. Open, was in need of some good luck after coming up one shot short of earning his card at Q-School.
With a limited PGA Tour schedule, he’d have to rely on the kindness of tournament officials to get a sponsor exemption into some of the top-tier events — like the Northern Trust Open.
The California native apparently really wanted to play in the event at Riviera, going so far as to use his Twitter account to send out this tweet on Jan. 8: “Just signed up for the @ntrustopen qualifier, but you have NO IDEA how stoked I’d be to get a sponsors invitation! #myhometown #mymajor.”
It was a bold move. A pro golfer saying he deserved a sponsor exemption into a tournament, via Twitter? It couldn’t work, right?
In a move that proved social media is the most powerful tool on earth, fans of Gore started to put a Twitter movement together, bombarding the Northern Trust Open’s Twitter account (@NTrustOpen) with tweets in support of Gore getting a sponsor exemption.
Clearly, the tournament was listening — they first sent out a message out on Jan. 10, confirming there was something in the works — because by Thursday afternoon, Northern Trust Open confirmed, via Twitter, that Gore was going to be in the field: “NTRS Corp. awards seasoned @PGATOUR pro local fan fav @JasonGore59 w/ @NTrustOpen Exemption. Congrats, Jason!”
I know sponsor exemptions have always been about handwritten letters and relationships with tournament officials, but if the golf world learned anything this week, it’s that social media may very well be the new handwritten letter if you’re seeking an exemption.
Based on what Gore accomplished in just one week, you have to wonder who’s going to be the next pro to try and “pull a Jason Gore.”
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While Mercedes-Benz unveiled the new SL-Class in Detroit, at CES it showed the new app technology that will be featured in the new car.
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LAS VEGAS–As its luxury competitors showed off new connected-car features and integrated apps, Mercedes-Benz lagged, until now.
At
CES 2012 Mercedes-Benz revealed a full-featured new telematics system, Mbrace2, which gives drivers access to a number of useful and popular apps in the dashboard. This new system will first see production in the updated 2013 SL-Class, then roll out to other 2013 models.
Mercedes-Benz enhanced its traditional onscreen interface with a carousel menu structure, and one of those carousel items leads to the apps. These include Facebook, Yelp, a news reader, Morningstar Finance, Google search, Google Street View, and Panoramio. Most of the apps are integrated with the navigation system, so the driver can instantly set a restaurant from Yelp as a destination, for example. As a safety feature, many of the app functions are blocked while the
car is moving.
Through its partner Hughes Telematics, Mercedes-Benz can update the apps available in the car without requiring the owner to visit a dealer. Mbrace2 relies on a new hardware module that includes a 3G data connection.
Along with the apps, the Mbrace2 hardware includes the features of the first generation of Mbrace, such as emergency crash response and remote door unlocking. And it adds a new set of features helping owners keep track of their cars.
Mbrace2 offers geofencing, so the owner can set an area in which the car can be driven. If it crosses a set geographical boundary, the owner will receive a text, and a disobedient son or daughter might have to come up with an explanation. Likewise, Mbrace2 enables a breadcrumb service, which lets the owner see where the car was driven.
Beyond keeping track of errant teen drivers, Mbrace2 should make it easy to find a stolen car.
Article source: http://www.cnet.com/8301-33369_1-57358985/mbrace2-puts-facebook-in-your-mercedes-benz/
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Google this week announced Search plus Your World (SPYW), a feature which essentially means more personalised information added to your search engine results. If you are logged in with your Google+ account (and sometimes even if you are not!), your results will include Google+ photos and posts (your own and those shared specifically with you), other people’s Google+ profiles so you can find whom you’re close to or might be interested in following, and Google+ pages related to a specific topic or area of interest. So, where does this leave Facebook and Twitter?
Well, as many people have already noted, results from these two social networks have been pushed further down Google’s search results page, making them much less likely to be clicked. For example, searching for celebrities points you to their Google+ Page, instead of also including their corresponding Facebook and Twitter accounts. If you’re not on Google+, you sometimes won’t come up as a suggestion at all. This gets even worse (and for some, amusing) depending on the query.
As you can see in the screenshot above, courtesy of Search Engine Land, when you search for Facebook in the new Google, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Google+ profile shows up as relevant. Obviously Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile is a much more sensible result, especially given that Zuckerberg has never posted on his Google+ account. Google doesn’t care though. There are loads of examples like this one because Google now rates Google+ webpages much higher than those from other social networks.
Twitter has been very vocal about the fact that Google+ is now so tightly integrated into Google search, and other social networks, like Twitter, aren’t. Alex Macgillivray, Twitter general counsel who formerly worked at Google, tweeted the following: “Bad day for the Internet. http://bit.ly/Am5bqz Having been there, I can imagine the dissension @Google to search being warped this way.”
This isn’t just one Twitter employee talking though; the company made a fierce declaration over the issue. “For years, people have relied on Google to deliver the most relevant results anytime they wanted to find something on the Internet,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “Often, they want to know more about world events and breaking news. Twitter has emerged as a vital source of this real-time information, with more than 100 million users sending 250 million Tweets every day on virtually every topic. As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often the most relevant results. We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone. We think that’s bad for people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users.”
Google responded to the complaints, on Google+, of course: “We are a bit surprised by Twitter’s comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer, and since then we have observed their rel=nofollow instructions.” This was taken further with a quote from Amit Singhal, who oversees Google’s ranking algorithms. “Facebook and Twitter and other services, basically, their terms of service don’t allow us to crawl them deeply and store things. Google+ is the only [network] that provides such a persistent service,” Singhal told Search Engine Land. “Of course, going forward, if others were willing to change, we’d look at designing things to see how it would work.”
In other words, Google claims if it was granted access to Facebook and Twitter data it needs to put that content into its search results, it would probably do so. As you can see in the video above, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Market Land. He was very good at deflecting questions but he did end with: “The core question is, ‘Would we be willing to [include Facebook and Twitter], and the answer is, ‘We’ll be happy to talk to them about it’.”
Twitter has been talking about the issue. Google has been responding, and has included Facebook in its statements. So, why has Facebook not been criticizing the move publicly like Twitter has? I contacted the company and was told Facebook was declining to comment on the news.
While Facebook won’t say anything as a company, like Twitter has, many of its employees have criticized Google’s moves in public status updates. Several of them even went as far as endorsing a Gizmodo article about switching your default search engine to Bing because “Google broke itself.”
AllThingsD notes three important Facebook figures were included in the list: “Pedram Keyani, an engineering manager who is a frequent public face of Facebook; Paul Adams, the former Google user experience researcher whose ideas about social circles were famously influential there, but who left for Facebook before Google+ launched; and Joe Lockhart, the former White House press secretary, who is now Facebook’s VP of global communications.”
“This is a pretty interesting read,” Keyami wrote on Facebook. “Google became something we love because they always focused on speed and giving us the best results. They have made a pretty big departure from that with their most recent change. They say fear is a great motivator (fear of facebook and twitter) but I think in this case it has also clouded their vision. Google was my first real fulltime job the direction they are moving in makes me sad. I hope they find their way.”
There is no doubt in my mind that Facebook is analyzing Google’s SPYW and has already made moves to react accordingly. Menlo Park is just choosing to do so quietly, and I think that’s a smart move, though we’ll likely hear from the company very soon. After all, the Federal Trade Commission has already been asked to investigate SPYW.
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Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-twitter-react-to-googles-spyw/7296
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If the company goes public this year, as many have speculated, the state stands to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in capital gains taxes from Facebook investors and employees profiting from stock transactions. That could bring a much-needed windfall to a state government facing a $9.2 billion deficit.
In calculating how much revenue the state can expect in the next year or so, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report that considered historical income trends but also budgeted for a revenue bump on the assumption that Facebook and some other California companies will go public.
An initial public offering from the Silicon Valley social networking giant is the most anticipated, with the legislative analyst saying the company could issue $10 billion worth of stock. California taxes the capital gains from stock sales.
California, where budget revenue slides up and down with changes in capital gains and stock options, has in years past benefited from outsized income tax filings from a handful of tech executives to help balance its budget.
Last decade, the state had Google to thank.
Mega-sized tax filings from Google (GOOG) executives began flowing into state coffers in 2006, two years after the company went public. The receipts helped fuel a tax windfall that allowed former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pour money into roads, classrooms and other popular programs, pleasing political enemies and helping smooth his path to re-election.
After cashing in more than 9 million shares valued at $3.7 billion that year, 16 Google insiders owed the state as much as $380 million in taxes. At the time, that was enough to cover the salaries of more than 3,000 state workers.
In addition to paying California’s 9.3% capital gains tax, the state’s millionaires pay an additional 1% income tax to underwrite mental health programs, the result of a voter approved ballot initiative.
Mac Taylor, California’s legislative analyst, said a Facebook offering could be four times as large as Google’s IPO, making it the largest public offering ever by a California company. Google’s closing market capitalization in its first day of public trading in 2004 was $27 billion. There has been widespread speculation that Facebook’s IPO might value the company at more than $100 billion.
“It could have a significant effect,” Taylor told reporters Wednesday.
“In the coming months, the state’s revenue forecast will need to be adjusted somewhat to account for the possibility of hundreds of millions of dollars of additional revenues related to the Facebook IPO,” Taylor wrote in the analysis of Gov. Jerry Brown‘s budget proposal, released Wednesday.
Democrats are already using the so-called Facebook effect to delay the governor’s proposed cuts to social programs.
Taylor cautioned that the performance of the overall stock market could play a larger role than any single initial public offering, no matter how successful, depending on whether the market has an unusually strong or weak year.
The Brown administration did not calculate higher revenue based on the assumption that Facebook will go public, said Brown’s finance spokesman, H.D. Palmer. But the Democratic governor is counting on a prosperous year for the wealthiest California residents, estimating $56 billion in personal income taxes for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
The legislative analyst has a lower projection, estimating the state will raise $53.1 billion from personal incomes taxes in that same period. The wealthy are essential to funding California state government: The top 1% of income earners pay about 40% of all income tax, the dominant source for the state’s general fund.
Facebook declined comment.
Article source: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/story/2012-01-13/california-budget-facebook-ipo-windfall/52536774/1
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By Sean Martin, Golfweek
Chalk one up for Twitter.
In a development that proved the power of social media, Jason Gore was awarded a sponsor exemption to the Northern Trust Open after his fans bombarded the event’s Twitter feed with messages of support.
Gore, a fan favorite since his Cinderella run at the 2005 U.S. Open, can thank his nearly 9,000 followers for his tee time at the Northern Trust Open, which will be held Feb. 16-19 at Riviera Country Club near Los Angeles.
Gore grew up in the L.A. suburb of Valencia and helped Pepperdine to the 1997 NCAA Championship. Pepperdine is located less than 15 miles from Riviera.
He missed his PGA Tour card by one stroke at the recent Q-School, but has past-champion status thanks to his victory at the 2005 84 Lumber Classic.
The campaign for Gore’s exemption started Jan. 8 when he tweeted, “Just signed up for the @ntrustopen qualifier, but you have NO IDEA how stoked I’d be to get a sponsors invitation! #myhometown #mymajor.”
One of Gore’s Twitter followers, @GhostOfHogan, responded to Gore’s tweet by writing, “ok followers let’s see if we can help get Jason a sponsors invite. Tweet NTrustOpen that u want Gore in the field!!”
Gore’s supporters soon bombarded the Northern Trust Open’s Twitter feed (@NTrustOpen) on Gore’s behalf, leading the tournament to tweet Jan. 10, “Hey @JasonGore59 fans…we do hear you! Exemptions decisions are coming soon. Stay tuned… .”
The exemption was announced two days later with a tweet that read, “NTRS Corp. awards seasoned @PGATOUR pro local fan fav @JasonGore59 w/ @NTrustOpen Exemption. Congrats, Jason!”
Gore Monday qualified for last year’s Northern Trust Open. He has appeared in the event six times, with a best finish of T-14 in 2008.
Jerry West, the tournament’s executive director, said in a statement, “Jason’s record and his strong local ties to Southern California put him on Northern Trust Corporation’s short list for a sponsor’s exemption since last year. We are all pleased to see that his many fans on Twitter agreed that he is deserving of this exemption. We look forward to seeing all of Jason’s fans, which we are dubbing Gore’s Gallery, at the tournament next month at Riviera.”
Gore responded by tweeting, “THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!! Absolutely AMAZING!!!!!” and “Could not have done it without you all!!!!!”
Gore’s exemption proved the power of the people, or should we say Twee-ple.
For more in-depth golf coverage check out Golfweek.com.
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Google’s decision to integrate Google+ photos and posts into its search results pages through an initiative called Search plus Your World has prompted a complaint from Twitter and raises the possibility of further government scrutiny.
Twitter said in a statement that it expects Google’s changes will make it harder for people to find tweets, to the detriment of Twitter, news organizations, and users of both services.
Certainly there’s an element of truth in this: Given a page with a limited number of search results, Google’s decision to add results from Google+ (if not overridden by users) will leave less room for Web content that otherwise would have been presented by Google’s search algorithm.
Publishers have been dealing with this for years. In 2007, when Google introduced its Universal Search, it made content from different indices–videos, images, news, maps, and books–available on the same page as website search results. The fact that Google is making some companies unhappy doesn’t necessarily mean its actions are unlawful.
[ How does Search plus Your World work? Read Google Marries Google+ To Search Results. ]
As Google noted in a Google+ post earlier this week, Twitter “chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer.” However, “chose” may not be the best word to describe Twitter’s decision not to renew the deal, since Google’s undisclosed terms may have left the company with little choice.
The agreement expedited Google’s access to tweets so they could show up as real-time search results. With the conclusion of that deal, Google must crawl tweets like other Web content and process them to make them available in its search index and on its search results pages.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) suggested that Google’s changes make personal data more accessible and noted that it had urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into whether Google was giving its own content preference over non-Google content on YouTube. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC, told the Los Angeles Times that his organization might complain to the FTC about Google’s search changes as well.
Google cannot afford to ignore such complaints. Both Google and Facebook this year settled FTC privacy investigations by agreeing to audits for 20 years. Google is also under scrutiny over antitrust concerns related to its search advertising business in both the United States and in Europe.
At the same time, Google may be making a strategically sound move. Facebook, the dominant social network, withholds its content from Google. If Google ends up being forced to accommodate competitors in its products, then Facebook could be forced to comply with similar rules. That is, unless Google is special.
Harvard assistant professor Benjamin Edelman, a frequent critic of Google and occasional consultant for Google’s competitors, argues just that. In analysis published on his website he states, “Google’s dominant position in search requires that the company hold itself to a higher level of conduct, including avoiding tying its other products to its dominant search service.”
His remedy is that Google should let users swap Google services for competitors’ offerings, citing as a precedent the ability of desktop operating system users to choose their preferred Web browser, media player, email program, and other applications. “[A] user at Google.com has zero ability to eschew Google Maps for Mapquest, or to replace Google Places reviews with Yelp,” he says.
Yet if dominance is the rationale for granting a competitor access to the market leader’s product space, then Facebook should be allowing users to run Google+, MySpace, or iTunes Ping, Apple should be providing iPhone users with the option to run browsers from Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google, and Microsoft should be making accommodations for Windows PCs to boot into Chrome OS, Mac OS, or Linux.
A Google spokesperson was not immediately available but was able to provide a lengthy list of legal experts who have expressed skepticism about the possibility that Search plus Your World might increase the likelihood of antitrust action against the company. For example, former FTC policy director David Balto told Law 360, “This isn’t going to move the enforcement meter even a millimeter. This kind of integration is something that consumers should cheer for.”
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