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ByKateBrumbackand Tamara Lush The Associated Press ROSWELL, GEORGIA The parallels are haunting: Bobbi Kristina Brown and her mother, Whitney Hous- ton, were both found face- down in bathtubs as the music industry prepared for the Grammy Awards. Both lived in the con- stant glare of entertain- ment industry attention, both struggled with drugs; both married men criti- cized by family and friends as wrong for them. As the pop star's 21-year- old daughter lay hospitalized in a coma Monday, police in Roswell, Georgia, issued an incident report saying only that they were called Satur- day to her home in subur- ban Atlanta in response to "a drowning," and had secured the scene for investigators. "Bobbi Kristina is fight- ing for her life and is sur- rounded by immediate fam- ily," the Houston family said in a statement Monday. "We are asking you to honor our request for privacy during this difficult time. Thankyou for your prayers, well wishes, and we greatly appreciate your continued support." With no details forthcom- ing from police or family about her condition or what may have caused the trag- edy, many people looked to see what she's been posting online. Her last tweet, from Thursday, reflected obvious frustration over her failure to break out as an enter- tainer: "Let's start this ca- reer up&&moving OUT to TO YOU ALLLL quick shall we !?!???!" Two days later, her non- responsive body was discov- ered, in circumstances ee- rily similar to her mother's death. On Feb. 11, 2012, just be- fore the Grammys, Hous- ton's assistant found the singer's lifeless body face- down in a foot of water in her tub at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Authorities found a dozen prescription drug bottles in the suite and listed heart disease and co- caine use as contributors, but concluded that she ac- cidentally drowned. Bobbi Kristina, then 18, was outside Houston's room, and became so dis- traught that she needed to be hospitalized. "She wasn't only a mother, she was a best friend," she told Oprah shortly after her mother's death in 2012. But Houston was an im- possible act to follow for her daughter, who identi- fied herself on Twitter as "Daughter of Queen WH," "Entertainer/Actress" with William Morris & Co., and "LAST of a dying breed." Houston had her first No. 1 hit by the time she was 22, followed by a flurry of No. 1 songs, selling more than 50 million records in the United States alone. Her voice, an ideal blend of power, grace and beauty, made classics out of songs like "Saving All My Love For You," "I Will Always Love You," "The Greatest Love of All" and "I'm Every Woman." Her six Grammys were only a fraction of her many awards. Bobbi Kristina inher- ited her mother's entire es- tate, but not her voice. Aside from the crew of her fam- ily's short-lived reality TV show "The Houstons: On Our Own," she has mostly appeared in online "selfies" and images captured by pa- parazzi. She told Oprah that she wanted to sing, act and dance, like her mother — and that she was coping as best she could. But in the years after her mother's death, she made more headlines for drug use, weight loss and family disputes. "Damn, lol, it's incredi- ble how the world will judge you 4ANY&EVERYthing," she tweeted in March of 2014. Bobbi Kristina was born into the tumult of a toxic re- lationship between two fa- mous people. Houston met R&B star Bobby Brown at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989. The gifted singer and her bad boy partner mar- ried in 1992, much to the dismay of Houston's family. A year later, she gave birth to Bobbi Kristina, and her drug use took off. When Bobbi Kristina was only a toddler, Houston told S2S- Magazine that she was a "functioning junkie." Her husband's struggles with ad- diction also have been also well-chronicled, and around 2002, the family decamped to the Atlanta area, drawn to a healing service by a singer- turned evangelical preacher. Houston's love for her only child was evident through- out. She sang "Happy Birth- day" to Bobbi Kristina while on Oprah, and often brought her on stage. The girl made a few ap- pearances on Being Bobby Brown, the reality show that infamously captured Brown and Houston fight- ing, swearing and appear- ing in court. The Holly- wood Reporter said "not only does it reveal Brown to be even more vulgar than the tabloids suggest, but it manages at the same time to rob Houston of any last shreds of dignity." While the Houston- Brown family stayed in the Atlanta area, they added a new member: Nick Gor- don, an orphan. While Houston never formally ad- opted him, he became like a brother to Bobbi Kristina. Houston sought recov- ery through rehab in Cali- fornia in 2004 and took the kidswithher.By2007,shedi- vorcedBrown,keepingBobbi Kristina and Nick close. The pair who called each other big brother and little sister went public with their romance about a month af- ter Houston's death The young couple's mar- riage in 2014 troubled some members of the fam- ily, but the pair was defi- ant. Last week, she tweeted her late mother, saying: "Littlelady&yourgrowing young man @nickdgordon miss you mommy ..:') SO- much.. loving you more ev- ery sec. #Anniversary!" ATLANTA INCIDENT Hauntingparallelsemerge for Whitney Houston, daughter DANSTEINBERG—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Whitney Houston, le , and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown arrive at an event in Beverly Hills in this 2011photo. The Associated Press DAVIS While detectives investigate spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-cam- pus Jewish fraternity house as a hate crime, a Muslim civil liberties group has come out in solidarity with the Jewish community. No suspects had been identified, and no arrests had been made Monday, Davis police spokesman Tom Waltz said. The two large swastikas spray-painted onto the Al- pha Epsilon Pi fraternity house happened between 3 and 9 a.m. Saturday, The Sacramento Bee reported. In a statement, UC Da- vis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi called the behavior "repugnant and a gross vio- lation of the values our uni- versity holds dear." Council on American Islamic Relations Sacra- mento Valley Executive Director Basim Elkarra released a statement Mon- day that says the group "condemns all acts of hate targeting members of any faith or background, in- cluding rejecting anti- Semitism." The vandalism comes af- ter the Associated Students of UC Davis passed an ad- visory resolution asking the UC regents to divest from businesses with connec- tions to Israel. UC DAVIS Po li ce pr ob e sw as ti ka g ra ffit i as h at e cr im e Thankyou! PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. By Michael Liedtke The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Tech- nology's big-spending trio of Google, Facebook, and Amazon.com appear to be tightening their belts — at least a notch — in a conces- sion to cost-conscious in- vestors and a strong dol- lar that's taking a big bite out of their revenue. Hints of restraint were sprinkled throughout the companies' latest quarterly reports released last week. Expenses at all three are still expected to rise faster than revenue this year, but Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. sig- naled that spending in- creases might not be as dramatic as expected. The message boosted all of their stocks, which had been in Wall Street's pen- alty box for the companies' free-spending ways. The shift can be traced to economic turmoil in Europe and Asia that has caused the dollar's value to rise against many other currencies, said BGC Fi- nancial analyst Colin Gil- lis. Revenue coming in from overseas will trans- late into fewer dollars — potentially chopping about 4 percent off of 2015 reve- nue compared with 2014, Gillis estimates. "That's a significant hit," said Gillis. "They all have massive opportuni- ties ahead that they want to pursue, but they are also going out of their way to sound more prudent." Amazon's moderation was the most obvious: the e-commerce compa- ny's fourth-quarter op- erating expenses rose at a slower pace than an- alysts had anticipated. That delighted investors who have become increas- ingly frustrated with re- curring losses driven by CEO Jeff Bezos' prolific spending on data centers, distribution centers, gad- gets and drones. Amazon shares, which had hit a 52- week low after the compa- ny's prior earnings report in October, spiked nearly 14 percent on the fourth- quarter results. "It looks like Amazon does actually care about its stock and profits," Mac- quarie Securities analyst Ben Schachter wrote in a research note. Amazon earned $214 million in the fourth quarter. The change was more about tone than the actual numbers released by Face- book and Google, since spending at both compa- nies still accelerated in the fourth quarter. Investors initially seemed spooked but settled down after re- assuring remarks from Facebook and Google ex- ecutives. Since their last quarterly earnings reports in October, Google's shares had fallen 4 percent and Facebook's shares slipped 6 percent. But the day af- ter announcing earnings last week, Google shares rose nearly 5 percent and Facebook climbed 2 per- cent. Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette stressed that the search giant's expenses included $300 million in one-time accounting items and emphasized the compa- ny's commitment to find- ing "a healthy balance be- tween growth and dis- cipline." That balancing act prompted the com- pany to recently suspend consumer sales of Google Glass, its Internet-con- nected eyewear, in an ef- fort to design a version more likely to appeal to customers. Without pro- viding specifics, Pichette promised Google will can- cel other projects that "don't have the impact we had hoped for." REVENUE DOWN Tech firms hint at more restraint All interested parties are invited to attend a: Community Informational Meeting regarding the proposed Lassen Lodge Hydroelectric Project located on South Fork Battle Creek below Mineral, CA. 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