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 Myspace The social networking hub known as Myspace, previously MySpace, used by many in Tipperary to promote the entertainment industry, have recently announced it will cut possibly half of its global workforce, as part of it’s restructuring efforts.
Up to six hundred Myspace employees worldwide will soon be looking for work, as the site continues to redefine itself from a social network site to an entertainment content site with added social networking features. Myspace’s recently announced layoffs already follow two previous rounds of job cuts which it implimented in 2009, reducing it’s then workforce by 30%.
Myspace, which sought to partially retreat from it’s once mighty social network to an entertainment content site, has seen its Web traffic numbers drop dramatically in the recent past.
The parent company News Corp. and it’s division, which includes Myspace posted a $156 million loss for the quarter ending September 2010.
News Corp. may now be looking to sell this site which it purchased for $580 million in 2005, and one potential buyer, according to rumour, just may be Yahoo!, best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services..
Myspace was overtaken Internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.
Last August, Myspace launched a service that allowed you to push your Myspace activity into Facebook. This was followed by a new product called MySpace Mashup with Facebook that let you pull in your likes and interests from Facebook, to obtain personalized entertainment recommendations onto Myspace. This move incorporated Myspace into Facebook’s universal login platform, and many critics saw this move as Myspace formally bowing down to its more popular and ever increasing social networking rival.
The big question currently being debated regarding Myspace is whether it can recover or if any new potential owner can revive it’s ailing social networking hub, through into 2011.
 Holycross Abbey 1841 Legendary hurler Mr John Doyle’s body will repose at Egan’s Funeral Home, Dublin Road, Thurles, from 4.00 pm to 8.00 pm today Thursday, December 30th 2010. His body will then be removed to the historic Abbey of Holycross at 8.30 pm sharp.
A Requiem Mass will take place tomorrow morning, Friday, at 11.30 am. John’s burial will take place in the adjoining cemetery following his funeral Mass.
Note: Family flowers only, however donations to his memory, if desired, can be sent to the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.
House to remain private.
 Over 500 homes in Ireland maybe at risk of catching fire because of a faulty Immersion Water Heater that owners – occupiers may not realise are installed in their hotpress.
This Immersion Heater, named the ‘GeminoX Ebs’ cylinder have already been identified as the cause of fires in four homes and the company are now desperately trying to track down the owners of this installed model.
Despite a number of public danger warnings, the response has been poor and to-date just 200 devices have been located, with at least 500 still not located.
Householders have been urged to check their hot-press and if they have a GeminoX Ebs water cylinder installed, they are urged to switch it off immediately.
They should then contact the GeminoX’s helpline on Lo-call 1850 427 947 or email info@gaswise.ie to arrange a free safety inspection and possible refit.
Overheating and possible fire ignition is caused by the black plug-in connectors located at the bottom of the grey box and at the front and on top of the cylinder.
Householders are warned not to be complacent and to contact the helpline if they have a GeminoX installed.
Reading Association Of Ireland A large number of Thurles teachers are expected to attend the 34th Reading Association of Ireland’s Annual Conference beginning this coming week.
This years conference theme ‘Promoting Effective Language and Literacy Instruction in 21st Century Classrooms‘ will be held in the Marino Institute of Education, Dublin from the 30th September through to the 2nd October, 2010.
Leading Irish and International researchers in the field of literacy will present on a diverse range of topics (such as responding to the literacy needs of struggling readers; responding to the language and literacy needs of migrant children in primary education; literacy reform in urban schools; perspectives on how phonics, handwriting and reading should be taught in our schools and, among other issues, they will explore why despite changes to our curriculum, the National Assessment of Reading Achievement (2004) of Irish primary pupils indicates little improvement in reading standards from the 1998 assessment.
Notable speakers at the event include Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois at Chicago, Peter Afflerbach, University of Maryland; Brian Murphy, School of Education, University College Cork; Gerry Shiel, Educational Research Centre, St Patrick’s College and Taffy E. Raphael, University of Illinois at Chicago.
The conference will be officially launched on Thursday 30th September by the current president of RAI, Dr Martin Gleeson of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and Dr. Anne O’Gara, President, Coláiste Mhuire, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin.
All members of the press are invited to attend the official launch from 7.30pm – 9.00 pm on Thursday 30th September at Coláiste Mhuire, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin.
The Reading Association of Ireland was founded in 1975 and is affiliated to The International Reading Association, whose primary aim is to encourage reading and literacy education worldwide.
For further information visit www.reading.ie or contact Karen Willoughby, Thurles, Tel:0868206422.
 Following a doubling in the rate of electricity disconnections in the four months up to July last and a warning yesterday by Bord Gáis of a “social middle-class recession,” the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has called Bord Gáis, ESB, Airtricty and the Commission for Energy Regulation to a meeting of the Committee set for next Wednesday September 29th.
110,000 families who ran up huge arrears on their electricity and gas bills over the past nine months have been forced to sign special repayment plans, to avoid having services cut off.
Bord Gáis is now disconnecting 230 homes per month from gas supplies while the ESB is disconnecting 900 Irish homes each month or some 30 homes each day.
The Oireachtas Committee, of which Tipperary North TD Noel Coonan is a member, have taken this action following concerns expressed regarding the high disconnection rate in recent months, the cost of reconnection and the recent increases in electricity prices.
Speaking to Thurles.Info Deputy Coonan stated:
“Many households in North Tipperary have been impacted by disconnections. It has been revealed that almost 2,500 households a month, some 80 a day, are having their electricity disconnected after failing to pay their bills. In total, as of the beginning of September, 10,678 customers had been disconnected, more than in the whole of 2009. Bord Gáis is introducing a range of payment plans every five minutes for customers across the country, who have fallen into arrears. Electricity suppliers and the Regulator have agreed to our request to attend, so the Committee and I look forward to putting these issues to them and finding out how they intend to handle this worrying trend in North Tipperary and nationwide.”
There is also great concern among Oireachtas Committee members that the price for reconnecting electricity is excessively high and prohibitively expensive for many consumers.
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