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By Leslie Gornstein, E! Online
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Why do celebrities such as Demi Moore say they are being admitted for “exhaustion” when there is no insurance company in the world that will pay for someone to “rest up” and no one really believes the diagnosis of “exhaustion” anyway? Why say anything at all? –?Mallie K., via Facebook
I’ve interviewed a range of doctors, from straight-up M.D.s to addiction specialists, and they all agree with you: If you think insurance is going to reimburse you for weariness, good luck with that. Celebrities aren’t fooling anybody with that old saw, either. But there’s a good reason why they use the same unbelievable language time and again …
Moore is the latest in a long line of celebrities to announce treatment for exhaustion. Tracy Morgan’s rep claims that the comedian’s recent out-passing at Sundance was partially exhaustion-related. Lady Gaga has claimed a bad romance with the same problem. Mariah Carey, Dave Chapelle — the list goes on and on.
It would all make a lot of sense, except, medically, it doesn’t.
“Exhaustion is a symptom,” confirms Andrew Spanswick, founder of the KLEAN Treatment Center in West Hollywood.
In saying this, Spanswick echoes the conclusions of many kinds of health experts I have spoken with, including Steven Krems, a doctor at the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center, who told me several years ago that “It’s not a medical diagnosis. It’s a symptom … Exhaustion is how they are feeling, [not] whatever it causing it, whether that is drugs, anemia, pneumonia, whatever.”
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In other words, saying that you’re seeking treatment for exhaustion is like saying you’re seeing a doctor for sneezing. You’re sick with something else. The sneezing is the sign.
So why do stars keep using the term? Because, in Hollywood, at least, it’s a kind of code. It’s shorthand for “Feeling Like Garbage, None of Your Business.”
“The celebrities are balancing between an obligation to disclose things to the public versus protecting their rights to privacy,” Spanswick says. “Smart publicists will use words like ‘exhaustion’ to minimize potential damage or gossip within the media but also protect a star’s privacy rights.”
That is, assuming that anyone even believes that word anymore. And assuming that the star even knows what she’s suffering from in the first place.
“They may not know what the problem is yet,” Spanswick very reasonably points out. “Or they may be in denial of what their problem might be.”
As for exactly what Moore is suffering from, well, this is Hollywood. We’ll find out on “Ellen” eventually.
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Independent retailer Phones4U has announced that it'll be the first in the UK to sell the new Prada Phone by LG 3.0 (aka LG Prada 3.0), with stock arriving from tomorrow, Jan. 27. The latest collaboration between the Korean manufacturer and the Italian fashion giant has resulted in a thin, high-end Android smartphone with distinctive hardware and software. As we said in our hands-on preview, though, the device's monochrome UI may not be to everyone's tastes.
A quick glance at Phones4U's site reveals that it'll be selling the LG Prada 3.0 with contracts from O2, Vodafone and Orange. The best value seems come from Voda, which offers the phone for free on a £31 per month, 2-year plan, though O2 isn't far behind with a similar deal for £32 per month. If earlier Phones4U exclusives are anything to go by, they'll likely sell you the device in-store without a contract, though you may end up paying a considerable mark-up.
Other British retailers are expected to begin stocking the LG Prada 3.0 from the second week of February, with SIM-free prices of around £430 (~$670). We've got Phones4U's press release after the break.
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Country singer Garth Brooks leaves a courtroom during a civil trial at the Rogers County Courthouse in Claremore, Okla. on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Brooks says an Oklahoma hospital pledged to name a women’s center for his late mother in return for $500,000, but a deposition unveiled Monday showed that, after filing a lawsuit, the country singer couldn’t remember what he had been promised. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Matt Barnard)
Country singer Garth Brooks leaves a courtroom during a civil trial at the Rogers County Courthouse in Claremore, Okla. on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Brooks says an Oklahoma hospital pledged to name a women’s center for his late mother in return for $500,000, but a deposition unveiled Monday showed that, after filing a lawsuit, the country singer couldn’t remember what he had been promised. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Matt Barnard)
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) ? An Oklahoma hospital that failed to build a women’s health center in honor of Garth Brooks’ late mother must pay the country singer $1 million, a jury has ruled.
Jurors on Tuesday evening ruled that the hospital must return Brooks’ $500,000 donation plus pay him $500,000 in punitive damages. The decision came in Brooks’ breach-of-contract lawsuit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon. Brooks said he thought he’d reached a deal in 2005 with the hospital’s president, James Moore, but sued after learning the hospital wanted to use the money for other construction projects.
Jury member Beverly Lacy said she voted in favor of Brooks because she thought the hospital went back on its word. As far as the punitive damages, she said: “We wanted to show them not to do that anymore to anyone else.”
The hospital argued that Brooks gave it unrestricted access to the $500,000 donation and only later asked that it build a women’s center and name it after his mother, Colleen Brooks, who died of cancer in 1999.
“Obviously we are disappointed, particularly with the jury’s decision to award damages above and beyond the $500,000,” Integris spokesman Hardy Watkins said. “We’re just glad to see the case come to a resolution.”
Brooks called the jurors “heroes” and said he felt vindicated by their verdict.
“I no longer feel like I’m crazy,” he said.
During the trial, Brooks testified that he thought he had a solid agreement with Moore. Brooks said the hospital president initially suggested putting his mother’s name on an intensive care unit, and when Brooks said that wouldn’t fit her image, Moore suggested a women’s center.
“I jumped all over it,” Brooks told jurors in tearful testimony. “It’s my mom. My mom was pregnant as a teenager. She had a rough start. She wanted to help every kid out there.”
His attorney told the jury during closing arguments that Brooks kept his end of the agreement.
“This case is about promises: promises made and promises broken,” lawyer John Hickey told jurors shortly before they started deliberating. “Mr. Brooks kept his promise. Integris never intended to keep their promise and never built a new women’s center.”
But hospital attorney Terry Thomas said Brooks’ gift initially came in anonymously and unrestricted in 2005. He also noted that Brooks couldn’t remember key details of negotiations with the hospital’s president ? including what he’d been promised ? when questioned during a deposition after filing his lawsuit in 2009.
“At most, it was a misunderstanding between these two,” Thomas told jurors during his closing argument. “Am I calling Mr. Brooks a liar? Absolutely not. It’s perfectly understandable that he does not remember these events.”
The jury began deliberating Tuesday afternoon in Rogers County District Court, and the judge told jurors she wanted them to work as late as midnight to come to a decision.
Before the verdict was read, Brooks said the day had been emotional. The country music star said he was simply trying to honor his mother.
“This little pistol, she deserves nothing but good,” Brooks said.
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On KNUS radio’s “Kelley and Company” this morning, Rep. Doug Lamborn told host Steve Kelley that he wasn’t the only member of Congress to skip President Obama’s SOTU speech yesterday, implying, perhaps, that he was being singled out unfairly:
The president didn’t know or care if I was there. And actually I know of others who were not there. I happen to be one who said in advance I wasn’t going to be there. [laughs]
I called Lamborn’s office to find out whom Lamborn was thinking of. And were the other no-shows also protestors like Lamborn?
“There’s no roll-call vote taken,” Lamborn’s Communications Director Catherine Mortensen told me. “If someone shows up or doesn’t show up, there’s no record of it.”
She didn’t know which lawmakers Lamborn had in mind, but she did tell me that she’d read press reports that Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina had considered skipping the event.
Scott was thinking about watching the speech with his brother, but he ended up attending. His idea to be a SOTU no-show was not a protest, according to local press reports.
Kelley didn’t ask Lamborn how he knew that Barack Obama didn’t care if he attended the SOTU, but he did ask Lamborn if he thinks he made a difference by not being there:
Lamborn said: “I did get a chance to tell people why I oppose the president so strongly… I feel better.”
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Teen Mom 2 Recap: Jenelle Evans Beats Roommate With Drumsticks, Corey Lets Kids Live in Squalor
By | January 27, 2012
As her mom, Barbara, has said so many times … Dammit Jenelle!!
Last night’s episode of Teen Mom 2 featured an all-out brawl between combustible time bomb Jenelle Evans and her new housemates, making us wonder if this girl will ever go longer than a few months without getting arrested.
On the flip side, your roommates all look better by comparison, no?
Let’s get down to this week’s Teen Mom 2 recap, THG’s +/- style!
Jenelle Evans‘ meltdown began, we think, because Kieffer Delp was texting someone in the 508 area code, which is not North Carolina. Uh oh. Minus 12.
She threatened to move out and take her couches with her. Not that you can put them in the car where she’d be living, but point taken Jenelle. Plus 4.
The bathroom door was victim #1 of the night. Holy rage issues woman! Plus 5 because at least the bathroom door can’t press charges against her.
Roomie Tori tried her best to console her, but Jenelle was past the point of no return and ranting about Tori’s BF, Kieffer clone Tylor. Uh oh. Minus 6.
That’s when the drumsticks came out. That’s not a euphemism, Tori and Jenelle really started frickin’ wailing on each other with drumsticks. Plus 50.
The image of them rolling around on the floor between the legs of Kieffer and Tylor, who were also brawling, will likely scar us for life. Still, Plus 12.
When Bahbwa sees this low-rent porn-gone-wrong scene? Look out. Minus 20.
Kailyn Lowry hired an attorney because, as we saw in last week’s episode, Jo would rather finance his music career than pay child support for Isaac.
We’re a little torn on this one. Jo should obviously pay money to keep his son’s standard of living up. But Kailyn could be a better communicator. Wash.
Just because he lives at home doesn’t mean he’s a deadbeat or doesn’t need the money. Not to go all Team Jo here, because we’re not. Just saying.
Work it out, you two. Come to an agreement for the sake of the kid. Each of you compromise a little. But at least they’re not Jenelle/Kieffer, so Plus 8.
Chelsea Houska got off to a promising start at Year Round Brown. Sorry, we can’t get over that being the name of the tanning salon … in South Dakota. Plus 4.
But, alas, she later cried a lot because Adam broke up with her. Minus 12 for being so hung up on that douche. Time to file for child support and move the hell on.
You agree with us, are we right Randy?! Plus 7 for Randy being the man.
Leah Messer has since parted ways with Corey Simms … and gotten engaged to Jeremy Calvert, and pregnant again, putting this in an interesting perspective.
Aspiring coal miner Corey would rather buy a new truck than a nicer trailer home for his family. That’s what we call a warning sign right there. Minus 40.
All a girl wants for her adorable little twin girls, who are looking cuter by the minute, is some land and a double wide. Is that too much to ask?! Plus 15.
Despite the place having more mold and cobwebs than Bethenny Frankel’s husband’s junk, Corey seems content to let his kids live in squalor. Minus 20.
Seriously. Leah has shown remarkable maturity given all she’s gone through, and this is the thanks that she gets. Hope Jeremy is an upgrade. Plus 10.
“This is over,” she tells Corey. “I’m leaving.” Foreshadowing … Minus 5.
EPISODE TOTAL: +6 SEASON TOTAL: +19!
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The opening of Ian Marsh’s open letter to Zynga.
Zynga doesn’t have the best name around the block, to put it mildly. Various folks across the video game spectrum were quite delighted by news of their recently introduced stock’s failure to light Wall Street on fire. Equally satisfying has been reports that their users have stopped playing their offerings in droves.
Much of the animosity stems from the fact that their games are accused of being unoriginal and derivative. Proof can be found in Zynga’s latest iOS release “Dream Heights,” which strikes a very close resemblance to “Tiny Tower” by NimbleBits, for the same platform. It was actually Apple’s pick for best iPhone game of 2011.
This copycatting did not go unnoticed by the makers of the original game, who have voiced their two cents via Twitter. Perhaps the most compelling opinion was shared by David Marsh, one of the co-founders of NimbleBits. He states: “Even when you refuse to go work for Zynga, sometimes you end up doing work for Zynga anyway.”
But it is his partner and brother Ian Marsh?who has gotten most of the attention, with side-by-side comparisons in a very tongue in cheek letter addressed to Zynga:
Ian Marsh’s open letter to Zynga in its entirety.
The open letter was first highlighted by the iOS-focused gaming blog?Touch Arcade, whichd?also reiterate the very hands-off approach Apple has when it comes blatant clones and other forms of copyright infringement in their App Store. But given how high profile the parties involved are, and especially since Apple itself also anointed “Tiny Tower” with high praise, perhaps Cupertino may be more proactive.
“Dream Heights” is currently available in the Canadian App Store. No word yet on when it’ll appear in the U.S. variant, if ever.
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Matthew Hawkins is a NYC based game journalist who has also written for EGM, GameSetWatch, Gamasutra, Giant Robot, and numerous others. He also self-publishes his own game culture zine, is part of Attract Mode, and co-hosts of The Fangamer Podcast. You can keep tabs on him via?Twitter,?or his personal home-base,?FORT90.com.
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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, author of ‘The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA?s War on Terror,’ faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly disclosing classified information to reporters.
A former CIA officer who helped capture senior Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan was charged on Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert US intelligence officer.
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The case is unusual because it is an effort by the Obama administration to prosecute a former government official suspected of leaking sensitive information to the news media. Such cases are rare.
It also stands in contrast to the Justice Department?s decision not to seek criminal charges against intelligence officials who violated a court order and destroyed recordings of the harsh interrogation of high value terror suspects.
John Kiriakou of Arlington, Va., appeared in federal court in Alexandria, Va. and was ordered released on a $250,000 bond.
Mr. Kiriakou, author of the book ?The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA?s War on Terror,??served in the Central Intelligence Agency from 1990 to 2004. He is accused of providing classified information concerning the identity or activities of two intelligence officers to at least three journalists.
The journalists are not identified by name in court documents, but an affidavit suggests that Kiriakou was a key source for a June 2008 New York Times article written by Scott Shane.
If convicted, Kiriakou faces up to 30 years in prison and $1 million in fines.
?Safeguarding classified information, including the identities of CIA officers involved in sensitive operations, is critical to keeping our intelligence officers safe and protecting our national security,? Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
?Today?s charges reinforce the Justice Department?s commitment to hold accountable anyone who would violate the solemn duty not to disclose such sensitive information,? he said.
Kiriakou is charged with one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act for allegedly revealing the identity of a covert official. He is charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly revealing that a particular CIA official was associated with the agency?s secret rendition, detention, and interrogation program.
He is also charged with lying to the CIA?s publications review board for trying to publish classified information in a submitted manuscript by falsely claiming that he?d simply made the information up.
Prior to publication of “The Reluctant Spy,” Kiriakou was required to submit the manuscript for review to ensure it did not include classified information.
Prosecutors say Kiriakou tried to ?trick? the review board into allowing publication of a detail of how US officials were able to locate and arrest Abu Zubaydah. The book said the CIA in Pakistan used an electronic scanner that allowed officials to track and pinpoint the location of a working mobile phone. Kiriakou called it a ?magic box.?
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.
The additional flexibility is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech may be weakening. It comes as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money.
But Twitter sees the censorship tool as a way to ensure individual messages, or “tweets,” remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates a maze of different laws around the world.
Before, when Twitter erased a tweet it disappeared throughout the world. Now, a tweets containing content breaking a law in one country can be taken down there and still be seen elsewhere.
Twitter will post a censorship notice whenever a tweet is removed.
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