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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Demi Moore seeks treatment for exhaustion
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A spokeswoman for Demi Moore says the actress is seeking professional help to treat her exhaustion and improve her health.
Publicist Carrie Gordon says the decision is due to the stresses in Moore's life, and she looks forward to getting well.
Gordon did not release any other details about the nature or location of Moore's treatment.
The past few months have been rocky for Moore. She released a statement in November announcing she had decided to end her marriage to Ashton Kutcher following news of alleged infidelity. The two were known to publicly share their affection for one another via Twitter.
Moore still has a Twitter account under the name mrskutcher but has not posted any messages since Jan. 7.
Associated PressFriday, January 20, 2012
Democrat wants to see Snyder, Patterson communications ...
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder speaks at the CARE House of Oakland County's new 14,000 square-foot facility on Woodward Avenue during the Grand Opening in Pontiac, April 15 2011. (Oakland Press Photo: Vaughn Gurganian)
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Oakland County Democratic Party Chairman Frank Houston wants to see the emails and communications between Gov. Rick Snyder and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Clerk Bill Bullard and others.
Royal Oak attorney David L. Richards, with Houston's support, filed Freedom of Information requests late Wednesday ? the day of the governor?s second State of the State address ? seeking ?all documents, hard copy or electronic referencing or including the word ?redistricting? or ?redistrict? in communications by:
? Patterson, including his staff and office;
? Bullard, including his staff and office;
? Oakland County Commission Chairman Mike Gingell;
? Jim Theinel, chairman of the Oakland County Republican Party;
? State Rep. Bradford Jacobsen, R-Oxford;
? Any Republican Oakland County commissioner; and,
? Any lobbyist for Oakland County.?
Houston said he believes Patterson used the former lobbying firm of Snyder?s Chief of Staff Dennis Muchmore to get support for a law signed by the governor in late December that reduces the size of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners from 25 to 21 members and allows the current county commission, controlled by Republicans, to draw new districts in advance of this year?s elections. Continued...
Houston has challenged the new law in Ingham County Circuit Court.
?I?m confident that if Brooks Patterson and Gov. Snyder share with the public the conversations they and their staff had behind closed doors, it will show that the redistricting bill was nothing more than an outrageous political favor for Brooks and Oakland County Republicans, paid for by taxpayers,? Houston said.
?As an Oakland County taxpayer, I am concerned that our county executive potentially spent county resources to lobby for a change in redistricting laws so he can ensure a gerrymandered Republican majority on the Oakland County commission,? Houston added. ?I expect our tax dollars to be spent providing critical services for Oakland County residents, not enabling Brooks Patterson to give out county commission jobs to his friends.?
Patterson said Thursday he hasn't seen the information request but rejected an idea of a political conspiracy surrounding the new law. ?It's hardly a cabal in progress here,? he said.
?Everything the Legislature did was legal, transparent, and public as opposed to what the Democrats do when they forge signatures on petitions to influence elections,? Patterson said, referring to two former county Democratic Party workers who were sentenced recently on charges relating to election fraud in 2010.
As an elected executive, Patterson said part of his job is political.
?Mr. Houston should understand that,? he said. ?My job is to support legislation across the board from health to publc safety. That's a ridiculous charge.?
Houston is also chairman of the five-person Oakland County Reapportionment Commission, which had a Democratic majority and drew 25 new county commission districts last year.
Legal challenges to those districts by Republicans were rejected.
Oakland County Commissioners Thursday morning kicked off the new redistricting process to draw 21 new seats amid protests from the 10 Democrats on the 25-member commission. Continued...
Democrats unsuccessfully tried to block a resolution to begin the new redistricting process in a 15-10 party line vote.
Several Democrats have filed to run for office based on the 25-district map approved by the apportionment commission while the legal challenge to the 21-district law continues.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Yahoo's Jerry Yang quits the company he co-founded, walks away from Alibaba as well
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Rupert Murdoch turns to Twitter to attack Obama (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Media baron Rupert Murdoch used his new Twitter account this weekend to attack the Obama administration's opposition to parts of proposed legislation designed to combat Internet piracy.
"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery," News Corp's chairman and chief executive officer posted on his personal Twitter account Saturday.
Murdoch, whose media empire includes Fox TV, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Studios and the Sun newspaper in Britain, continued with several tweets, attacking Google as the "Piracy leader" for streaming movies free. In later tweets he called Google a "great company."
Google said it did not appreciate Murdoch's comment even after he back-pedaled with a compliment.
"This is just nonsense," Samantha Smith, a Google spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.
"Last year we took down 5 million infringing Web pages from our search results and invested more than $60 million in the fight against bad ads. Like many other tech companies, we believe that there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking U.S. companies to censor the Internet."
At issue are the concerns White House officials raised on Saturday about elements in the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) pending in Congress. Google and Facebook already have decried them as heavy-handed and Hollywood studios and music labels say the legislation is needed to save U.S. jobs.
In a blog posting, three advisers to President Barack Obama said they believed the act and similar bills could make businesses on the Internet vulnerable to litigation and harm legal activity and free speech.
"Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small," said the officials, including White House cyber-security czar Howard Schmidt.
The House of Representatives' SOPA bill aims to crack down on online sales of pirated American movies, music or other goods by forcing Internet companies to block access to foreign sites offering material that violates U.S. copyright laws.
U.S. advertising networks could also be required to stop online ads and search engines would be barred from directly linking to websites found to be distributing pirated goods.
Those who support stricter piracy rules reacted strongly to Saturday's White House statement, which darkened prospects for legislation already expected to struggle to clear Congress in an election year.
Schmidt and the other advisers said the Obama administration was ready to work with lawmakers on a narrower, more targeted approach to online piracy to ensure that legitimate businesses -- including start-up companies -- would not be harmed.
Murdoch, who opened his Twitter account this year, has used it to colorfully opine on a number of topics. Tweeting last week, Murdoch praised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest proposal to overhaul the city's public schools, but referred to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo as "chicken Cuomo."
He also admitted in a post to his company's mishandling of social network MySpace, which News Corp bought in 2005 for $580 million. Today the site is nearly irrelevant.
"...we screwed up in every way possible..," Murdoch posted last week.
(Reporting By Ilaina Jonas, with additional reporting by Caren Bohan in Washington; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)
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