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  • Molly Glynn, ‘Chicago Fire’ Actress, Killed By Fallen Tree In Freak Accident

    Actress Molly Glynn passed away on Saturday morning, due to injuries she received from being hit by a tree in a biking incident the day before.  Glynn and her husband, actor Joe Foust, were riding their bicycles in the Erickson Woods Forest Preserve, in suburban Northfield, Chicago on Friday afternoon when a fast moving storm uprooted a tree which fell in their path and hit the actress.

    Foust first shared the tragic news of her passing on his Facebook page by posting: “I couldn’t save her. I couldn’t save her. She’s gone.”

    Glynn is known for her work on TV for her roles in Chicago Fire and Boss. She has also appeared in several theater productions of Milwaukee’s First Stage as well as in some of Chicago’s top theaters, including the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare and Northlight.

    The untimely demise of the 46-year-old actress has deeply saddened the theater community. First Stage associate artistic director John Maclay was among the first to write a tribute for the actress on Facebook:

    “The world of theatre and the world at large have lost a bright, bright light. We lack the words to describe the grief and loss caused by the sudden passing of Molly Glynn. Molly was a brilliant artist on stage and an even better human being off stage.”

    Michael Halberstam, artistic director of Writers Theatre in Chicago, also said in a statement:

    “She was a loving mother and wife and everyone who met her fell in love with her. She possessed a rare combination of talent, heart and beauty in all aspects of her life.”

    In memory of Glynn, a Give Forward campaign was established to raise money for the family.  According to reports the campaign had reached its goal of $75,000 in less than a day.

    “Performers give. They give from their heart and their soul; they give of their energy and wit and time and resources just to create a few moments of brilliance that they eagerly share with the world,” the Give Forward page stated.

  • Kidney Donor Fired After Giving Up Organ For Boss

    A New York woman is claiming she was fired after giving up her kidney to help save her boss’s life…and she wants it back.

    47-year old Debbie Stevens says that when her former employer, Jackie Brucia, needed an organ transplant to save her life, she didn’t hesitate to help out, donating her kidney to the national pool so that Brucia would be moved up on the list of recipients. She says she couldn’t donate her own kidney to Brucia because the two weren’t a perfect match.

    But after a painful and costly surgery, Stevens says she was berated by her boss for leaving work early when she felt ill from the aftereffects of the surgery and was eventually demoted to an office 50 miles from her home before being fired from Atlantic Automotive Group altogether. She says she feels used by Brucia, who had a hand in rehiring her in 2010 after Stevens briefly left the company, and that she feels Brucia was just grooming her to be a backup plan.

    “She used her power to manipulate me,” Stevens claimed.

    Stevens says her medical insurance will soon run out and that she may have a hard time finding another insurance company who will cover her since she has donated an organ and plans to file a discrimination lawsuit against Atlantic Automotive.

    “Atlantic Auto treated her appropriately and acted honorably and fairly at every turn,” Atlantic Auto lawyer Robert Milman said. “We expect to have this resolved favorably in the legal system.”

  • Bruce Springsteen Debuts At Number One With “Wrecking Ball”

    They say when you’re on top, there’s no where else to go but down. It must be kind of like that for the Boss. I mean Bruce Springsteen’s latest, “Wrecking Ball” debuts on the charts at number one. Same deal in the United Kingdom. The pressure he must feel. But that’s why he’s the Boss I guess. Along with the E Street Band, Springsteen landed perfectly on both continents with his new album. Well, actually it’s a DVD. But we all know what I mean when I say album.

    The Boss did his homework though which is probably why he always seems to start in first place. Suported by Sony Records, Bruce did a show at the Apollo and spent a week on the Jimmy Fallon Show to help promote his new creative. Great publicity. Springsteen was the only one to be able to move Whitney Houston down on the charts where she had been for the past few weeks since her unfortunate passing.

    If you’re into the specific numbers, “Wrecking Ball,” has sold 201,000 copies in it’s first week. Springsteen’s last “album” which was “Working On A Dream,” debuted with a sale of 224,000 copies. “Magic,” sold 335,000 copies and “The Rising,” opened by selling 520,000 copies when it was released back in 2002. So while the Boss might be losing some numbers, he’s still able to come out and debut at that number one spot. Pretty amazing after all these years.

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  • Yahoo Adds Blog Search to Search BOSS

    Yahoo Adds Blog Search to Search BOSS

    Yahoo announced today that it has added Blog Search (in beta) to Yahoo Search BOSS, the company’s “Build Your Own Search Service” open search and data platform.

    “Developers looking for a blog search API often find the APIs that do exist are providing a variation of a web index,” says Rahul Hampole with the Yahoo Search BOSS team. “We decided to take a different approach. Yahoo! developed a custom blog index where the relevancy is specifically tuned for blogs. This allows us to provide you a wealth of data such as the provider, the author, date of post and in certain cases, contextually relevant terms associated with the article.”

    “By their very nature, web indices used for blog search cannot provide the complex functionality that developers demand,” explains Hampole. “For example, try finding a commercial API that will give you all the blog articles written on ‘Yahoo’ in the last week sorted by date. Yes, I know, I couldn’t find one either. Developers can now make that exact query on BOSS and build a rich powerful application. As always, BOSS developers get maximum flexibility on the display of this data.”

    Yahoo has set the pricing at ten cents per 1,000 queries. Users can apply to show advertising when they sign up, and those who have already signed up for BOSS can use Blog Search immediately.

    Yahoo says it has hundreds of developer sites using BOSS for millions of queries each day. ” We have seen fascinating applications in social, mobile and on the web that are using the service,” says Hampole. “Our goal is to nurture and grow this ecosystem by continuing to add new services and helping you monetize your offering.”

    He says the team’s next goal is to “shake things up in mobile,” adding that they’re not planning on a BOSS OS.

    Earlier this year, Yahoo launched BOSS v2, which brought a number of new things to the table (including Yahoo Search advertising).

  • Yahoo Search Boss V2 Launched

    Yahoo has launched a new version of Yahoo Search BOSS – v2.

    Yahoo says its been working hard for months to keep BOSS “alive and affordable,” and that it will continue to make it more useful through new features and services.

    Rahul Hampole of the Yahoo! Search BOSS product team tells us that BOSS has thousands of publishers serving millions of queries per day, and that compared to the Google Custom Search API, it has more “flexibility, data and monetization” in a single API.

    Here’s a comparison of features between version 1 and version 2:

    Yahoo Search BOSS Comparison

    “Users have control over the way they display the search results data and combine it with any other content from around the web,” says Hampole. “In addition, they can apply and use search advertising from Yahoo! to monetize it.”

    “To switch from BOSS V1 to BOSS V2, there are minor syntax changes that users will have to follow as listed in the BOSS technical documentation,” notes Hampole. “The BOSS product team worked with a few developers to test the new API and they were able to get their service re-wired in 7-10 days.”

    Last month, Yahoo released documentation for BOSS to developers so they could prepare for the new version. More on the pricing and markets here.

  • Yahoo Search BOSS Documentation Released to Developers

    Last month, Yahoo announced pricing info and search advertising/branding policies for the upcoming version of Yahoo Search BOSS, which is expected to be released this summer. Now, the company has released the technical documentation for developers. 

    The documentation includes info on using OAuth with the new API, Syntax specs on querying the API and the format of the returned results, and for calling ads from the platform, as well as the markets that are supported by the product. 

    Markets include 40 countries in various native languages. The full list can be found in this section of the documentation. Here’s what the pricing chart looks like:

    "BOSS has always been and will be about developers," wrote the BOSS team’s Rahul Hampole. "Our goal is to provide a product that allows you to build sustainable businesses via interesting cloud based search technology at a fair cost. In addition, we encourage BOSS developers to monetize your products using Yahoo! Search advertising – this will enable a long-term, symbiotic relationship between developers, consumers and Yahoo! Our pricing scheme is designed to reflect our belief in this ecosystem."

    When Yahoo switched to Bing as a back-end search results provider, a lot of questions were up in the air with regards to BOSS, as well as Yahoo’s other developer search tool, SearchMonkey. Ultimately, Yahoo decided to ditch SearchMonkey and Keep BOSS.

    There is of course a fair amount of conversation about the BOSS documentation in the Yahoo Search BOSS Yahoo Group. 

  • Yahoo: BOSS in, SearchMonkey Out

    Yahoo and Microsoft announced the beginning of the transition of organic search results today, but since the original announcement of the deal, it has been unclear what would happen to the Yahoo Search BOSS and SearchMonkey tools. That is because Yahoo had yet to make up its mind.

    Yahoo’s mind has now been made up. BOSS will carry on, and SearchMonkey won’t.

    "In the not too distant future, BOSS will provide web and image search results from Microsoft along with other search-related services and content from Yahoo!, such as news," says Neal Sample, VP of Social, Open, & Publishing Platforms at Yahoo. "In the next 30 days, we will announce the specific details about how BOSS will evolve. We are exploring a potential fee-based structure as well as ad-revenue models that will enable BOSS developers to monetize their offerings. When we roll out these changes, BOSS will no longer be a free service to developers."

    Yahoo Search BOSS

    SearchMonkey will shut down on October 1. That oges for the tool, the gallery, and the app preferences. "Yahoo! Search is continuing to shift from a model where developers build lightweight apps to install on Yahoo! to one where publishers enhance their own site markup to produce similar results," says Sample. "Yahoo! Search results pages will continue to show enhanced result templates from websites’ page markup and structured data feeds along with Microsoft’s organic listings."

    SearchMonkey closing

    Sample also provides updates on various other Yahoo Developer tools here. He discusses the future of YQL, Site Explorer, Maps, Geo, and Local APIs, and MyBlogLog.