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Recently I ran accross Law Clerk Connection – a marketplace in which "clerks" (and presumably paralegals and maybe lawyers) can connect with "lawyers" (and perhaps small law firms or small companies) that need work done. In other words, those who need work connect with those who need work done. Readers will remember that I've documented attempts to bring such a marketplace to life, including Lawrex – a referral trading site created by my collaborator and blogging subject Krieg .
The founder of Law Clerk Connection, Laurel Edgeworth, who studied both anthroplogy and business, describes it as an attempt to supplant a bad business model with a good one (sound familiar?). Specifically, says Ms. Edgeworth
The traditional model of the prestigious big firm with high over-head has actually begun to stifle the firm's ability to compete. Companies that could anticipate changes in the market environment and change their model to adapt have survived and succeeded. What I found in studying those shape-shifting companies was that they actually scaled-back their workforce, automated, and diversified. The difference: quick and agile beat out large and cumbersome.
A good observation and well phrased. But will it play in Peoria? The ABA Journal will be carrying a piece on the site and surely it will get at least some interest from various quarters around the country. I'm as eager to find out what happens as you are.


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Chris Brown wonders why Jay Z gets a pass for stabbing somebody but he doesn't get a pass for beating the shit out of Rihanna...
In 2001 Jay Z got three years probation for stabbing record producer Un Rivera for leaking his album Vol.3...Life and Times of S. Carter one month before its release date [click here if you missed that].
In the latest issue of Jet magazine Chris Brown wonders why Jay Z gets a pass and not him telling the mag,
"No disrespect, because I'm a fan, but nobody brings up the fact that [Jay Z] stabbed somebody and sold drugs. He gets a pass."

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(Alabama) TVA – Green Power Providers
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and participating power distributors of TVA power offer a performance-based incentive program to homeowners and businesses for the installation of renewable generation systems from the following qualifying resources: PV, wind, hydropower, and biomass. The long term Green Power Providers program replaces the Generation Partners* pilot program. The energy generated from these renewable generation systems will count towards TVA's green power pricing program, Green Power Switch.
The Green Power Providers program contract term is 20 years. For years 1-10, TVA will purchase 100% of the output from qualifying solar systems at a premium of $0.12** per kilowatt-hour (kWh) and from all other systems at $0.03 kWh** on top of the retail electricity rate. Participants will be paid only the applicable retail rate for years 11-20 of the contract. Premium payments will be reviewed annually by TVA, with plans to phase these payments out over the life of the program. All new participants in the Generation Power Providers program will receive a $1,000 incentive to offset the upfront cost. Participation in the Generation Power Providers program is subject to annual limits imposed by TVA and based upon available budget, the value of renewable technologies to TVA and renewable energy market conditions. Eligible Systems must not have previously generated renewable energy for sale to TVA prior to October 1, 2012, unless the system was part of the Generation Partners pilot.
TVA will retain all rights to all renewable energy credits and any other environmental attributes provided by system. Payment is made by either the Distributor Billing Option or the TVA-Vendor Direct Billing Option. With the Distributor Billing Option, a generation credit is issued by the local power company on the monthly power bill for the home or business where the generation system is located. If a qualifying system produces more electricity than the customer consumes, payment for any excess credits will be issued either monthly or annually, at the discretion of the power company. With the TVA-Vendor Direct Billing Option, participants receive the retail-rate portion of their monthly generation credit from the local power company and the premium rate is issued through a TVA-designated third party vendor.
Qualifying systems will have a minimum total nameplate generation capacity (DC) of 500 watts (W) and a maximum of 50 kilowatts (kW). Systems over 50kW may qualify to participate in TVA's Mid-Sized Renewable Standard Offer program (link to DSIRE summary). Systems greater than 10 kilowatts in size will be subject to a load requirement. A "load requirement" simply means that the system's maximum capacity will be limited so that it should not generate more than 100% of the energy usage or consumption at the home or business. TVA will conduct annual program evaluations to set annual MW limits to the program. These limits will be made available on the Generation Power Providers web site. A limit of 2.5 MW in nameplate capacity has been set for the remainder of the 2012 calendar year and 9 MW in nameplate capacity for the 2013 calendar year.
Installations must comply with local codes and adhere to guidelines established by the program. All equipment must be in compliance with environmental regulations and national standards, certified by a licensed electrician, and meet all applicable codes. Systems must be dual-metered, have an external disconnect switch, be grid-tied, and be validated under an interconnection agreement.
* Existing Generation Partners participants may qualify for a 10 year contract extension to be paid at retail prices.
**Prices reflect Premium Rates for 2012 Calendar Year and are applicable for agreements executed and dated by TVA on or prior to December 31, 2012. Projected Premium Rates for 2013 are $0.09 kWh for solar PV systems and $0.03 for all other systems.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two roadside bombs killed two soldiers in a restive northwestern region of Pakistan on Sunday while a gun attack in the country's south killed two more, officials said.
Two intelligence officials said three soldiers sweeping the road ahead of a military convoy on the road between the towns of Miran Shah and Razmak in North Waziristan were hit Sunday by a bomb planted near an intersection. Two died and one was wounded. They spoke anonymously because they weren't authorized to speak to media.
The same officials reported a second blast on the Mir Ali-Miran Shah road near a checkpoint, but that wounded only one soldier.
The Pakistani army recently carried out several offensives in tribal regions along the Afghan border but is reluctant to conduct a massive sweep of the militant stronghold of North Waziristan, despite the US urging it to do so.
Also on Sunday, four gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire on a police patrol in the southern city of Karachi, killing two officers and wounding a third one, said Usman Bajwa, a senior police officer.
Bajwa said the police patrol had deployed in a central neighborhood of Karachi, the country's main commercial hub, where two political workers were similarly gunned down by armed motorcycle riders yesterday.
He said the gunmen fired 15 shots from their pistols into a police vehicle, killing two officers and leaving a third struggling for his life.
The police officer said seven people were gunned down, including a police officer and two political workers, in different incidents in the city yesterday. He said the attacks appeared part of a "plot" to destabilize Karachi.
The volatile megacity frequently witnesses deadly shootings linked to a range of groups, including Islamic militants, political parties, crime gangs, rival ethnic groups, and others.
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Twitter Reacts To Robin Thicke And Paula Patton Splitting
Damn, Gina! News broke today that Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are separating after eight years of marriage, so another celeb couple is possibly biting the dust. Did you see this one coming? Did you tweet about it? Well, people are sad. Here's how Twitter reacted to the news.


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The Northern short-tailed shrew is a small, energetic mammal that lives in central and eastern North America. The Mexican beaded lizard is a much larger reptile found in Mexico and Guatemala. These species are separated by a lot of a land and several million years of evolution, yet they share astonishing similarities. Not only are…


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We've moved! As of today, the Yahoo! Policy official blog has moved to yahoopolicy.tumblr.com. Come on over and check out the new digs!
We've Moved!July 23rd, 2013
In Support of a Personalized User ExperienceOctober 26th, 2012
Our policy has changed since this blog was first published. For more please visit our Tumblr.
At Yahoo!, we aspire to make the world's daily habits more inspiring and entertaining. Our users have come to expect a personalized Yahoo! experience tailor-made for their lives — whether they're checking local weather, sports scores, stock quotes, daily news, or viewing ads on our site. We fundamentally believe that the online experience is better when it is personalized.
That said, we also believe that there should be an easy and transparent way for users to express their privacy preferences to Yahoo!. That's why we offer our own tools and resources such as Ad Interest Manager, to give users more control over personalized advertising on Yahoo!, and why we participate in industry-wide programs such as AdChoices, which allows users to learn why they've been shown an ad.
Yahoo! has been working with our partners in the Internet industry to come up with a standard that allows users to opt out of certain website analytics and ad targeting. In principle, we support "Do Not Track" (DNT). Unfortunately, because discussions have not yet resulted in a final standard for how to implement DNT, the current DNT signal can easily be abused. Recently, Microsoft unilaterally decided to turn on DNT in Internet Explorer 10 by default, rather than at users' direction. In our view, this degrades the experience for the majority of users and makes it hard to deliver on our value proposition to them. It basically means that the DNT signal from IE10 doesn't express user intent.
Ultimately, we believe that DNT must map to user intent — not to the intent of one browser creator, plug-in writer, or third-party software service. Therefore, although Yahoo! will continue to offer Ad Interest Manager and other tools, we will not recognize IE10's default DNT signal on Yahoo! properties at this time.
Yahoo! is committed to working with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reach a DNT standard that both satisfies user expectations and provides the best Internet experience possible. We will closely evaluate our support for DNT as the industry makes progress in reaching a meaningful, transparent standard to promote choice, reduce signal abuse, and deliver great personalized experiences for our users.
Yahoo Joins with Polaris Project to Provide Users with Resources on Reporting Instances of Human TraffickingJune 14th, 2012
Yahoo! has been a longtime industry leader in online safety. Fostering safer online experiences continues to be one of Yahoo!'s primary concerns, particularly as the Internet plays a larger role in the everyday life of children. As kids spend more and more time online, searching for help with schoolwork or just staying in touch with friends, parents and educators are also looking for new tools and resources to protect children from online harm. As part of Yahoo!'s commitment to protecting children online, we collaborate with child safety advocates and law enforcement, including an on-going, multi-faceted partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Ten years ago Yahoo! collaborated with NCMEC to help disseminate AMBER alerts to Yahoo!'s powerful network of millions of people around the world. The AMBER Alert program has been credited with the safe recovery of 525 children nationwide.
Recently, we announced our latest initiative in providing our users with additional online safety resources. Working with the Polaris Project and the Office of the California Attorneys General, we now provide information directing users to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) when users search for certain terms associated with human trafficking. Users will be given contact information for NHTRC which is operated by the Polaris Project. The NHTRC hotline is the single most effective national resource to identify and support victims of trafficking. This national, toll-free, victim-centered hotline is available to answer calls from anywhere in the U.S., 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and in more than 170 languages. Trained call specialists are on constant standby to link human trafficking victims to shelter and other resources that provide safety and protection. The hotline also fields tips of suspected human trafficking cases and provides information, training and technical assistance to diverse audiences. THE NHRTC has been extremely successful in helping victims and law enforcement:
- The national human trafficking hotline has received more than 53,000 calls nationwide and 5,650 calls from California, since Polaris Project began operating it in December 2007.
- The hotline has connected almost 6,200 trafficking victims to services across the country.
- The hotline receives more calls from California than any other state.
- In 2011, almost 20% of callers nationwide who reported potential human trafficking cases found the hotline number through an Internet search.
Unfortunately, the Internet is not immune from crime that has traditionally occurred in the offline world. But at Yahoo! we will continue to take steps to address online crime by providing information and resources to our users, and by coordinating with law enforcement and groups like Polaris to help bring predators to justice.
Yahoo! Brings New Interest Tool to the Media MixMay 10th, 2012
Yahoo! has begun testing a conceptual approach for users to share what content they would be most interested in receiving via Media Interest Manager (MIM). In its initial incarnation, MIM is available to select users of Yahoo! News via News for You and gives those users the ability to declare their interests and receive some content that is personalized based on those interests.
Media Interest Manager is only available to a limited number of random users at this time and requires that you be logged-into your Yahoo! account to access the tool. If you're one of the lucky few that have access, you'll be able to select from 100 interest categories (you can change these at any time).
It's important to note that our interest based advertising and content opt-out (Ad Interest Manager) does not affect the interests you declare within MIM. If the opt-out is selected, MIM will not override your preference, but will tailor your experience based on your MIM interest selections. To stop using MIM simply deselect all previously highlighted media interests and close the tool.
We're excited to be expanding our privacy suite of Interest Managers with the addition of MIM. This release demonstrates Yahoo's continued commitment to extend more choices to users to further customize their Yahoo! experiences. This is very much an early concept release and you should expect to see tremendous evolution of Media Interest Manager throughout 2012 and beyond!
Shane Wiley
VP, Privacy & Data Governance
Yahoo! Leads Charge On 'Do Not Track' ProposalApril 19th, 2012
At Yahoo!, consumer privacy is paramount. We have the track record to prove it.
Yahoo! and many others in our industry — in partnership with trade association leadership, consumer advocates, academics, and regulators — have been working diligently to develop technical specifications and compliance guidelines for the implementation of the 'Do Not Track' signal. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, an editor chose what we see as a misleading headline that has led some to unfortunately believe that Yahoo! and industry are somehow not supportive of responding to the 'Do Not Track' browser signal. This couldn't be further from the truth.
Put simply, Yahoo! was among the first to announce that we would support and implement a robust response to the 'Do Not Track' browser signal, and we also fully support the implementation of workable, universal standards. The road to such standards is never easy, but we have been leading the way and will continue to do so. The process of developing the 'Do Not Track' standard is on-going within the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. Most recently in face-to-face meetings in Washington, DC, multiple proposals for key issues such as first party and third party definition and permitted uses of data were discussed. There were five proposals in total; I was a lead author on one of those proposals. It's unfair – and inaccurate — to state since Yahoo! and others offered one proposal, that we are somehow attacking other proposals. In fact, commonality was found in some of the leading proposals and the working group is in the process of finalizing common language. This is a process of working together to maximize user privacy protections while minimizing expansive costs to the Internet where vast amounts of free content are available to consumers. This is not, as the Wall Street Journal headline suggests, about one or more companies "leading charges against" 'Do Not Track'. This is about working on and advocating for the best possible standard for consumers and for the Internet.
While the misleading headline may get more attention for the Wall Street Journal, we wanted to set the record straight that Yahoo! continues to support the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group and the multi-stakeholder process it embodies. For us, working hard to earn and keep the trust of our users is just plain common sense.
Shane Wiley
VP, Privacy & Data Governance
Yahoo! Launches Global Support for Do Not TrackMarch 29th, 2012
Yahoo! is excited to be one of the first large online companies to announce live, global support for Do Not Track (DNT)! This commitment continues our leadership in user privacy where Yahoo! was among the first to launch an Ad Interest Manager (3 years ago) and followed this up by being the first to support the AdChoices Icon program (2 years ago).
Yahoo's DNT solution has been in development since last year and is implemented in-line with Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) principles which provide guidelines for the appropriate use of online behavioral advertising (also called "interest-based" advertising) and multi-site data – AND – our proposal to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards body that manages many of the technical elements of the Internet. Of course, we will continue to follow further DNT-related developments in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere very closely.
How does it work?
If you're using a more recent web browser you may have an option to set a DNT preference (location varies by browser). If you activate this feature, the DNT signal is sent to our servers when you view websites where Yahoo! collects data. When our servers receive the DNT signal, this activates our existing opt-out process. With DNT turned on, Yahoo! will no longer score your activities for advertising or content interests and no longer personalize your ads and content based on those interest scores.
Yahoo! is deeply committed to innovation and bringing world class experiences to our users. To do this, Yahoo! will continue to collect information for purposes such as fraud and security, financial reporting, and to improve our products for your benefit. It's important to note that you will continue to see ads — but without the advantage of being personalized to your ad interests.
NOTE: Curious to learn what we believe your ad interests are? Please check out Ad Interest Manager to view and manage your ad interests or opt-out.
When will the rollout be completed?
We've already begun the implementation process and will continue the rollout to our systems around the globe with completion targeted for early summer. Several of our advertising platforms (Right Media and interclick) and properties already support the DNT standard – with more adding support every week. Once you come into contact with a system that supports DNT, your opt-out will be set and apply to your interactions with Yahoo! going forward.
The Yahoo! Privacy Team is proud of our history in providing enhanced transparency through the AdChoices Icon program and now providing enhanced control through Do Not Track (and Ad Interest Manager). We'd like to thank our product and engineering teams for their efforts to make DNT a reality for users and to our executive team for supporting us along the way.
Shane Wiley
VP, Privacy & Data Governance
As Industry Leader, Yahoo! Applauds White House focus on PrivacyFebruary 23rd, 2012
We are pleased the White House is holding a privacy event today. It is encouraging to see such high level attention from the Administration as it helpfully looks to elevate the U.S. voice and perspective within the broader global discussion of privacy frameworks. It is critically important that modern privacy protection frameworks recognize that innovation in our global information economy will require thoughtful and responsible collection and use of data. It is also critical that self-regulatory structures play a large and growing role within these frameworks.
Let's focus on self-regulation for a moment. Industry has made incredible strides in just a few years – implementing a code to give users contextual notice and controls over online behavioral advertising. This effort requires advertisers, publishers, ad networks and many other players to take responsibility and to accept a role in presenting consumers with an Ad Choices icon which, when clicked, tells them more about what is going on behind the scenes in ad delivery and gives them an opportunity to opt out of the use of their data for this kind of customized advertising. With a single click, the opt-out can apply to the vast majority of systems serving such ads today. No more need to opt out from every website individually or ad serving entity. This is a huge improvement for consumers uncomfortable with this practice. These icons are now nearly ubiquitous across the web, and certainly across Yahoo.com.
But industry players did not stop there. We have clearly and demonstrably answered the call from policymakers to bring more certainty to an understanding of the use of Do Not Track technology while providing consumers the services and innovation they expect and demand.
The Digital Advertising Alliance has introduced a new code on the collection and use of Multisite Data (http://www.aboutads.info/msdprinciples) which addresses these issues. This code has strict prohibitions on the collection, use or transfer of such data to determine adverse terms or ineligibility for employment, credit, housing or insurance. It further touches on sensitive data including the personal information of children, health records, and financial account records. It acknowledges there are some operational or systems management purposes for which companies will always need to collect data like fraud prevention, billing, or consumer safety. Yahoo! is proud to have been a key advocate for many of the provisions of this new code. Once again, industry's proactive efforts on privacy have raised the bar.
As industry moves forward to address new issues in the marketplace through codes of practice, consumers benefit from timely implementation of broad-based changes that can be readily enforced by the FTC. We are gratified to see Administration and FTC statements embracing these self-regulatory efforts as an important step in protecting consumers' privacy online, which signals that we are on the right track. While there is a lot to be worked out and the devil is always in the details, we appreciate the work they've done and the recognition that self-regulation has been working.
We understand the online landscape is constantly evolving. As an innovator in the online space, Yahoo! will continue to be at the forefront of industry best practices and self-regulatory initiatives. It is the best and quickest way to introduce protections into the marketplace without sacrificing innovation and value creation for consumers. We commend the Administration for its understanding that such codes are a key ingredient in a successful privacy framework for the information age. Yahoo! will continue to be at the very front of efforts to give consumers the transparency and choices they want while continuing to create innovative, free products every day.
vp, privacy, policy and trust at Yahoo!
International Data Privacy Day is January 28January 27th, 2012
Tomorrow January 28 and in the coming weeks many countries will be celebrating International Data Privacy Day. To celebrate this day and honor the spirit of promoting awareness about privacy and best practices in this area, this year we chose to put the focus on the Spanish speaking Americas, due to the attention and momentum that privacy keeps gaining in this side of the world. Not only the right to "Habeas Data" has been widely recognized across the region but countries like Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru and Costa Rica have take a step further in developing and enacting comprehensive data protection laws. It is therefore not by coincidence that the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners took place in Mexico in 2011 and will take place in Uruguay in 2012.
At Yahoo! we have always taken privacy very seriously. Privacy is a core element in building our users' trust, which is in turn core to us. We build our world-class products with privacy and trust in mind, and in order to succeed we strongly believe that the very first targets of education and awareness should be within the very inside of our company. This is why on February 1st the Yahoo! Miami office will host an invitation-only discussion on the latest global and regional developments in privacy. We will share perspective on how Yahoo! has maintained the hard earned role as a leader in building and maintaining user trust, how Yahoo! innovates with privacy in mind to give users transparency and choice in their online experiences, and what the landscape looks like for the online industry, as well as an overview of legislation affecting user privacy especially those affecting Latin America. There will be a Q&A session and the event will be videotaped – all in Spanish – for audiences unable to attend.
director, international privacy for Yahoo!
The Life of an Ad InterestDecember 22nd, 2011
The Yahoo! Privacy team sometimes receives the question of how long we retain a web browser's ad interests. The answer is a bit complicated but I'd like to take a moment to review the life of an ad interest and how for the most part that life is a fairly short one – typically less than a few weeks.
Before an ad interest can be determined, a category must first be created. Yahoo! has nearly 400 standard interest categories in the US (these can viewed from Ad Interest Manager). Categories fall across a range of topics such as iPods, Ford Trucks, Kitchen Remodeling or European Travel interests. Once a category is created, the next step is scoring interest in that category.
The birth of an ad interest begins when an interest scoring rule is triggered in our backend ad interest systems. Only a few key events are reviewed for scoring today: searches, page view, ad views, and ad clicks. Note – our new mail system processes email keywords similarly to "searches". These events are funneled to a special set of servers at Yahoo! which score each event for interest in a category. Each category may give different scores to different events. For example, for an interest in Gifting Flowers the system will typically weight a search higher than a page view, whereas the Truck interest category may score a visit to the Yahoo! Autos site higher than a generic "truck" search. The resulting event score is then added to the existing score for an ad interest in relationship to an anonymous browser cookie.
Once an event has been scored for an ad interest it is held in these systems for a short period of time just in case something fails and data needs to be reprocessed. After a few days the raw event information is purged from these systems and only the resulting scores remain. It's important to note that when a user opts-out of receiving interest-based ads, their activity is no longer sent to our backend ad interest systems for scoring (this includes from the new Yahoo! Mail platform) AND ads are no longer selected for that user based on interests.
Now that we have a score for an ad interest, the question of its life span can be addressed. Ad interest scores at Yahoo! "decay" – meaning that each day that goes by, each ad interest category will slowly reduce its score for a browser cookie. Each ad interest category has a different decay rate – tied to how long it typically takes to make a purchase decision. For example, an interest in Gifting Flowers may live a very short period of time – less than a week. Whereas an interest in Trucks lasts longer. While most ad interest categories will decay out scores within a few weeks, the maximum decay is about 90 days.
Interest scoring and decaying are always occurring at the same time. On some days activities may increase the score in a particular ad interest category while other interests are decaying because no activity occurs in relationship to them. If a browser cookie event isn't processed through our backend systems for 90 days, all ad interests for that browser cookie will decay out.
That's it! In quick review, the steps are: ad interest category creation, select event scoring, raw data purging, and category interest decay.
To learn more about other forms of log data retention at Yahoo!, please read this blog article.
To learn more about interest based advertising at Yahoo!, view what we believe your ad interests are, and see other general ad interest related information, please visit http://privacy.yahoo.com/aim .
Shane Wiley
VP, Privacy & Data Governance


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Just Poppin' HD is an interactive and dynamic balloon popping game! Your objective, pop as many balloons of the correct color as quickly as possible before you time-out. Each colorful balloon is rendered in full 3D, using an accurate physics model, they float, bump into one another, pop, and deflate realistically, just like the real thing. Pop the wrong color and you'll lose points, but be rewarded with a *squelch* sound. If you run out of time to pop the appropriate balloon, it will deflate and fizzle off into space with equally fun sound effects.
60 levels are built into Just Poppin' HD and every fifth features a Quick-Pop bonus round highlighting different balloon shapes. Pop as fast as you can, every second counts!
As you progress through levels, you will get more balloons with a greater variety of color thereby increasing difficulty. On occasion, another balloon may block your targeted choice, but keep in mind that there may be more than one balloon of that color available, so be sharp!
Added elements include dynamically changing balloon colors with every reload, so no level is ever the same. Our scoring system rates your performance, and if you rated a Silver Star, you are advanced to the next level. Jump through levels; if you want to jump ahead, go for it. You can jump through five levels at a time (to level 6, 11, 31 etc.) Tap on the info button to bring up the settings. Using the menu, flip left and right through levels. The number of balloons and colors are displayed for each level, and those that are available to you, either on the basis of your Silver Star, or the Jump feature will be unlocked. High resolution balloons, dramatic lighting effects, and retina display support complete the package.
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Tonight: Newman Lecture on Contemporary Photography with James WellingPosted Oct 14, 2010
The Newman Lecture on Contemporary Photography with James Welling is tonight from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Pillsbury Auditorium. The cost is $15; $10 for MIA Members; free for Contemporary and Photography & New Media Affinity Group Members. To reserve, call the Members' Hotline: (612) 870-6323.
Focusing on twenty-five photographs from 1970 to 2010, James Welling will chart his transition as an artist from video, sculpture, dance, and painting to photography.
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Abandoned Buildings: Lebow Clothing Factory
Have you ever wondered what's inside the abandoned and boarded-up buildings in your city? I always assumed they stood empty, aside from some cobwebs and a stray cat or two. If you're a fan of The Wire, then I'm sure you're thinking, perhaps a dead body. So it's not surprising to learn that a few have let their curiosity get the best of them. Chris from Studio Tempura, wandered into a deserted factory that wasn't so bare. With camera in hand, he captured some amazing pictures of a building steeped in history and frozen in time...
From what I can gather, the Lebow Clothing Factory was built in the 1930's and was the manufacturer of the high-end Lebow Clothes label, best known for its men's suits and sportcoat collection. At its peak in the 50's and 60's, it employed several thousand blue-collar workers in Baltimore until it closed its doors in 1985. The building was sold, but after sitting vacant for the last five years, the city seized the property. Currently, there is a lawsuit pending against the city over the seizure of the property. The pictures vividly tell a story of a city's bygone days. It's as if the factory workers punched their time card, went home for the day, and never returned.
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So they say there aren't enough pubs in which to wet your whistle in downtown Stockton, and the city hasn't taken advantage of its greatest resource, the waterfront?
So they say there aren't enough pubs in which to wet your whistle in downtown Stockton, and the city hasn't taken advantage of its greatest resource, the waterfront?
Nonsense. Things seemed to be jumping the other day at a joint called Barbary Red - Toast of the Stockton Waterfront.
What's this about the local jail, that there isn't enough room to house inmates? There was enough space to incarcerate a supposed bad guy - who looked an awful lot like Captain Kirk - after he allegedly robbed the Bank of Stockton.
And who says newspapers are struggling? The Stockton newspaper was digging up all kinds of stories and the editor even had a bit of an outlandish motto painted on the wall behind his desk.
OK, so all of this was happening in Stockton during episodes of "The Big Valley" - which are now showing up on a concoction of a network called INSP, short for Inspiration TV.
It's a bit of an odd network, filled with hours of religious-related content followed by hours of westerns - "The Big Valley," "The High Chaparral," "Bonanza," etc.
I'm a sucker for television shows that involve Stockton and the San Joaquin Valley, which explains all the hours I've spent watching "Sons of Anarchy" long after the FX motorcycle gang themed show jumped the shark.
But in "The Big Valley," the Barkleys have reeled us in - my wife first ran across the show one night watching television - and it's mainly because of all of the Stockton story lines. Now we watch it a couple of times a week.
You have the overacting Barkley boys - Jarrod, Nick and Heath (Lee Majors, in his pre-"Six Million Dollar Man" days) - showing all sorts of macho bravado. You have a milk-and-cookies Linda Evans before she morphed into a "Dynasty" vixen. And there's Barbara Stanwyck as the widowed family matriarch, a classic combination of elegance and grittiness.
"The Big Valley" was on ABC from 1965 through 1969 and - based on story lines - could be dated as happening in the 1870s or early 1880s. It was purportedly based on the historic Hill Ranch, which was at the western edge of Calaveras County. That meant there were many Barkley "trips to town" into Stockton.
Almost every episode is good for a guest-star sighting of someone who went on to fame: Dennis Hopper, Katharine Ross, Milton Berle, Charles Bronson, Adam West (Batman!), Robert Goulet, Richard Dreyfuss, Regis Philbin, Cloris Leachman, Wayne Rogers and Pernell Roberts come to mind.
My current viewing game consists of waiting for a prominent visual mention of Stockton, grabbing the TV remote control to hit "pause" and then snapping a smartphone photo of the screen for posterity.
That's led to a photo of a bar called the Barbary Red - Toast of the Stockton Waterfront. Its less-than-upstanding owner was Jill St. John, one of the bombshell redheads of the '60s and '70s. She had a human trafficking business on the side.
Another episode had William Shatner plotting to rob the Bank of Stockton. The future "Star Trek" captain had second thoughts and didn't go through with the heist. But that didn't stop him from having to spend a few nights in Stockton Jail.
Another interesting episode dealt with the town newspaper, The Stockton Eagle, trying to dig up dirt on the Barkley family's past. The editor's office wall was emblazoned with the words: "Stockton Eagle: The Truth No Matter Who It Hurts."
"The Big Valley" actually got more popular in syndication (in the late 1970s, early 1980s) than during its original four-year run. Out of about 85 network shows, it finished somewhere in the 40s in the viewer ratings.
It's on at 9 p.m. most weeknights on INSP, which is available from some providers (I get it on Uverse) but not on others. It's also available every afternoon on KCRA's second channel, 3.2, available over the air and on most cable systems.
You'll enjoy all of the Stockton mentions, even if they do come with a caveat: Virtually all of the filming was done in Southern California.
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William Charles Rose passed away June 6, 2013 in Stockton, CA at the age of 59 years. He was
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William was the loving father to Cassandra Burdick (Patrick);
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He also leaves behind numerous nieces and nephews.
Family and friends are invited to attend a Celebration of Life held at DeYoung Shoreline Chapel, 7676 Shoreline Drive, Stockton, CA 95219 on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Stockton Firefighters Relief Association, P.O. Box 692201, Stockton, CA 95269-2201.


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Northampton Saints flanker Phil Dowson has been handed the England captaincy ahead of their match with the Barbarians on Sunday.
Dowson takes over the reins from Test skipper Chris Robshaw, who leads Harlequins against Leicester in the Aviva Premiership final the previous day. Dowson has been a senior figure in Stuart Lancaster's England squad, even after losing his place in the starting side to Ben Morgan during the Six Nations.
With Morgan recovering from a hamstring injury, Dowson will start against a star-studded Barbarians side and he has been chosen as captain ahead of his club skipper Dylan Hartley.
Hartley is set to play his first game since the Six Nations after serving an eight week ban for biting Ireland flanker Stephen Ferris. England forwards coach Graham Rowntree believes Hartley is a future England captain but this weekend wanted the Northampton hooker to concentrate on his scrummaging. Rowntree said: "The fact he has been out for eight weeks, I want Dylan to focus on playing, to focus on his game and not be saddled with captaincy issues."
Dowson's elevation is a reward for his leadership during the Six Nations as a new-look England team defied the odds to finish second in the championship. And that ability to galvanise a new team is particularly important this week, with 18 members of the touring squad absent on Premiership final duty.
"Phil coped with the disappointment (of losing his place in the team) very well. That is the mark of Phil Dowson," Rowntree said. "He took it on the chin and we all saw the rise of Ben Morgan towards the end of the Six Nations so it wasn't easy for him.
"But he took it on the chin and never stopped giving his experience to the younger guys and giving to the group. He is a great leader. When he makes a point it is worthwhile. We have a strong leadership group at the moment. There are a few guys we could give the captaincy to but we feel Dows is right for this game.
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BEIJING (AP) — The leader of a Chinese baby trafficking ring that brought 23 boys and pregnant women from Vietnam was sentenced to death Friday, a state news agency reported.
The court in the southern region of Guangxi gave another 23 members of the group sentences ranging from less than two years to life in prison, the Xinhua News Agency said.
A Vietnamese woman who was among those sentenced also was ordered expelled to her home country.
The trafficking ring operated in 2010 and 2011 and sold the babies for adoption in China, Xinhua said. It said the smugglers evaded detection at the border by moving the children and women by taking out-of-the-way roads before heading to the southern Chinese city of Guangdong.
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People have been grumbling for years about the strategy consulting industry, whose reports fail to solve the problem of finding and implementing strategies to better fit a changing environment. A consultant's report—all thought and little heart, forecasting where you can flourish in two or five or 10 years, produced by smart outsiders, and acted on in a linear way by a limited number of appointed people—has little or no chance of success in a faster-moving, more uncertain world.
The inevitable failures of single operating systems hurt us now. They are going to kill us in the future. The 21st century will force us all to evolve toward a fundamentally new form of organization. I believe that I have basically described that form here. We still have much to learn. Nevertheless, the companies that get there first, because they act now, will see immediate and long-term success—for shareholders, customers, employees, and themselves. Those that lag will suffer greatly, if they survive at all.
John P. Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at Harvard Business School and the Chief Innovation Officer at Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations. His newest book, , was released in April 2014.
This is actually a traditional organizational design response - it solve first for the human need for certainty. In the emerging work world, that is inadequate.There are three driving influence in org. design today; 1) Overwhelming complexity 2) Increasing speed of change, and 3) the human need for certainty. Without fail, all traditional org. design solves for certainty above complexity and change. Yet it is our ability to embrace complexity and change that keeps an organization healthy. Traditional approaches like this one readily recognize complexity and change as influences, but in order to preserve certainty, the only possible solution is to respond to complexity with complication. Like the complicated matrix organization of the 80s-90s; this solution solves first for the status quo while attempting to address complexity and change with added layers of complication. Complicated problems, like an aircraft carrier, can be solved with complex rules, formulas, policies and constructs. Complexity (the universe, the internet, block chain, business and markets) is full of overwhelming unknown unknowns and outside influences that defy complex control mechanism like the above.The only response to a world full of complexity and change is simplicity - leading by a few principles not policies, organic leadership not hierarchical management, and a commitment to change that starts locally and works its way to the center.This dual org. solution also assumes that the center, the strategic function, still has the wisdom and breadth of understanding to see what needs to change, and then organize responses to it. This Genius Hero model is dead. The world is simply too complex for any strategic function to control and dictate the direction of an organization. Rather than a top-down hierarchy "telling" the organization what to do, the most successful companies, like The Morning Star Co., W. L. Gore, GE Aviation, Semco, Nearsoft, the Apollo Education call center, and thousands more are trading in management hierarchy for organic leadership. The result is a nimble, flexible, evolving organization that changes from the edges on in. The strategic takes its cues from the edges where change is happening first, long before the strategic function ever encounters it. When the edges are free to respond to localized complexity and change, this informs the strategic function, and the organization remains healthy, flexible, adaptive and always evolving. Self-managed teams without a command and control hierarchy represent the simple (not simplistic) organizational design response to a complex world.The author is correct that hierarchies are no longer up to the task. Leaving them in place and adding new layers of complication only delays the inevitable and exacerbates the problem.The necessary priority for organizational design today is to organize for complexity and change first, and address the human need for certainty as the third influence, not the first.
Over the past few years, website builders have become a popularway to build small business websites . When you watch their advertisements on television or YouTube, they look pretty easy to use. On the surface, they sound like a great option. You pay a relatively small monthly fee, pick a template, create some pages, and you've got yourself a website. Simple, right?
Not so fast.
While it may seem like a perfectly fine option, there are a number of reasons why using an online website building service may not be in your best interest. Here are four things to consider:
With a website builder, there is a limit to the number of templates you can use for your site. For example, Wix currently has about 250 available templates, and while that number may seembig, it's not. Remember, your website is going to be using a template that's likely also being used by more than 4,000 other Wix-built websites. That's assuming all their templates get used evenly across the board.
But, if you run a bakery and you pick the theme that's "perfect for bakers," now you've doomed your website to look like a large number of other bakery websites who are also using Wix. If somebody was researching your industry and found that your website resembled a number of other websites in the same industry, how do you think that will look? Will it build confidence in your brand? Probably not.
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Countless times, I have heard people complain about Facebook. They'll say something like, "I sure wish Facebook would let me do… [insert missing feature]." And, while Facebook is great at letting you do a LOT, if there are things you want to do that the site doesn't support, you're out of luck.
Website builders are the same as Facebook in this regard. They have a number of features that they provide. If there's a feature they don't offer, or if you would like to modify an existing one, all you can do is hope that they add it or allow you to modify it in the future. Your ability to customize features is limited by their available offerings.
The only way to truly have the freedom to do whatever you want with your website is to use a platform like WordPress where you have the ability to add or modify the code to do whatever you can dream up. (Remember, you can always hire a website developer to help you, but you're still in control.)
Did you know that you can have your own storefront on Amazon? There are thousands of businesses who use Amazon as their sole platform for selling their products. The appeal is obvious; instant access to millions of buyers.
But if you ever take a look at the online forums for Amazon sellers, you'll find just as many people complaining about whatever the latest changes are to Amazon's rules for sellers. And do you know what the sellers' options are for dealing with Amazon's rule changes? They can complain, or they can stop using the platform.
Also important to consider when relying on somebody else's platform: what would happen if the service you are using was sold to another service who decided to shut it down? It's happened before. To think it can't happen is naive.
And, I keep coming back to it, but it's an important point. With WordPress, it's all about freedom—freedom to do whatever you want and not be limited by somebody else's rules.
Let's assume for a minute that you didn't listen to my first three warnings and you've gone ahead and built your site using a website builder. Then your business explodes in popularity and you decide now is the time to switch to a new platform to support the influx of website traffic. That is fantastic news, to be sure. However, you're about to be in for a rude awakening.
Website builders don't want to lose your business. So, making it easy to export all your data in a way that is simple to convert to a new platform isn't high on their list of priorities. If your website is small and simply has a handful of static pages, recreating those in a platform like WordPress would be pretty easy. But, if you're selling products on your site, converting your product data, not to mention your customer and sales data, is going to require major work.
When starting a business, it's not a great idea to just wing it. Building it up one way only to tear it down and build it up again is both expensive and a waste of your valuable time. Your company's website is no different. Your website is an extension of your business and will likely be the first way your potential customers interact with you. Don't leave that up to chance. Build your site on a platform that you have control over from the start. And if you don't want to do it yourself, give us a call . We would love to partner with you.
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Uber has begun running constant background checks on its drivers so that the company can know immediately if a driver is charged with a crime.
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Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their résumés pay a penalty on the job market, even if they clearly had nothing to do with the trouble. Because the scandal effect is lasting, a company you left long ago could have an impact on your current and future job mobility, not to mention your compensation. Overall, executives who suffer from the effect are paid nearly 4% less than their peers. You can't control this risk, the authors write, but you can and should plan for it.
They offer three steps to help you survive a corporate scandal.
1. Be forthright. Transparency and full disclosure are key to overcoming the stigma. Executive recruiters, who do due diligence on candidates, can help you create a full, clear, and succinct narrative for hiring managers.
2. "Borrow" reputation and legitimacy from others in your network, establishing innocence by association. Executive search firms can also act as references and sponsors.
3. Take a "rehab job," one at which you so clearly excel that it creates a persuasive story to compete with the scandal narrative.
Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their résumés pay a penalty on the job market—even if they had nothing to do with the misbehavior.
The stigma that arises from scandal plays an outsize role in hiring decisions because judging other people accurately is difficult and because those making executive hires tend toward conservatism.
If you have a scandal-tainted firm on your résumé, you should address the matter forthrightly, establish relationships with people who can attest to your character, and consider taking a "rehab job."
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What's the most famous hat in Hollywood history? Charlie Chaplin's bowler? Humphrey Bogart's fedora? Our vote goes to a more singular fashion statement — the pointy-tipped black chapeau worn by the Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's "The Wizard of Oz," a pop-culture artifact that goes on the auction block June 10.
The hat is being sold by Profiles in History, an auction house that expects the bidding to run into the low six digits. Of course, the hat would have been just a movie prop if it hadn't been for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who nearly stole the movie from Judy Garland and her beloved pooch-pal Toto.
With her green face makeup, pointy nose, talon-like fingers and that cackle — "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too" — Hamilton became one of the most iconic villains in screen history.
Hamilton, who was born Dec. 9, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio, was in real life a gentle, sweet woman who even taught kindergarten before she landed her first major role in the 1932 Broadway play "Another Language."
She reprised her role for the film version and became one of Hollywood's most dependable supporting actresses playing, as she once described, "women with a heart of gold and a corset of steel." Hamilton was savvy. Going out of her way to avoid typecasting, she refused to sign with a studio and asked for only $1,000 a week as her salary so she wouldn't price her way out of jobs.
She had played the Wicked Witch in a stage version of "Wizard" in Cleveland, but her experience on the broomstick didn't mean she was the first choice for the part in the Technicolor fantasy. The film's producer, Mervyn LeRoy, had his heart set on Oscar-winning actress Gale Sondergaard ("Anthony Adverse"). But even in her makeup, Sondergaard was deemed too attractive.
Hamilton was waiting in the wings. She got the part and a guarantee of six weeks' work. But it was not without its downside. She had an especially scary moment during the filming of the scene when the witch leaves Munchkinland by disappearing in a flash of smoke and flames — in one take, the trap door didn't open and her costume caught on fire.
She continued to work in movies over the years, including 1940's "My Little Chickadee" and Robert Altman's R-rated 1970 comedy "Brewster McCloud," but didn't give up the theater. She toured the country in 1974 in the seminal Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music" and appeared at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1977 with Rex Harrison in George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple."
Hamilton's connection to "Wizard of Oz" continued over the decades. In 1962 she provided the voice of Auntie Em in the animated "Journey Back to Oz" and reprised her role briefly as the Wicked Witch in a 1964 episode of ABC's children's education program "Discovery." She died of a heart attack May 16, 1985. A whole generation also remembers her commercials for Maxwell House coffee….
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Hannah BOGIE born circia 1827 in Scotland who married John MILLIGAN in KIRKCALDY, FIFESHIRE, SCOTLAND
I am looking for information on a Hannah Bogie born cirica 1828 possibly in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland who married a John Milligan according to the IGI on 30 Oct 1846 in Dysart, Fife, Scotland.
I have found a Hannah Ropper Boggie who was born 05 AUG 1828 and christened on the 24 AUG 1828 in Dysart, Fife, Scotland and child of DAVID BOGGIE & ISABEL FYFE but I 'm not sure if she is the same person. I think I have found the family in West Gallatown North Side, Dysart in the 1841 Scottish Census; which would have been close to where my Hannah would have been born and got married.
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John Milligan born in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland in 1827
In 1861 he lived in Dawell Brae, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland his wife and children and was running a grocer shop.
By 1871 and till after 1881 he was living in Duddingston Midlothian Scotland and was a spitit merchant.
He married Hannah but may have another wife before Hannah called Margaret but I am not sure
Hannah maiden name unknown was born about 1828 in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland
John appears to have died between 1881 and 1891, although this has not been confirmed as the Scotish census does not give the maritial status of the people listed in the house hold, however John was not present and his wife was living with her daughter Margaret's family.
Children of John are:-
1. Alex Milligan born about 1849 in Haddington, Haddingtonshire possibly the son of the first wife Margaret
Children of John & Hannah appear to be:-
2. Isabella Milligan born about 1854 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
3. Margaret Milligan born about 1857 in Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland
4. Robert J C Milligan born about 1860 in Dumbar, East Lothian, Scotland
5. Hannah Milligan born about 1862 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
6. Elizabeth Milligan born about 1865 in Drummore, Midlothian, Scotland
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When a patient is suffering from symptoms of a thyroid condition, there are a number of tests the doctor will perform to diagnose the type of thyroid condition a patient has.
Blood tests are used to diagnose thyroid disease. The levels of T4, T3 and "thyroid stimulating hormone" or "TSH" in the blood stream can be measured. An overactive thyroid would be expected to cause high levels of T4 and T3 and low levels of TSH.
An underactive thyroid would be expected to cause low levels of T4 and T3 and a high level of TSH. This is because the pituitary gland senses that there isn't enough thyroid hormone in the blood stream and is trying to stimulate the thyroid to make more.
Occasionally, a patient develops a disease in the pituitary gland which causes it to secrete too little TSH. Even though the thyroid gland itself is normal, it doesn't make enough thyroid hormone because it isn't being appropriately stimulated by the pituitary gland. This can result in hypothyroidism with a low T4 a low T3 and a low TSH.
Sometimes a nuclear medicine thyroid scan is ordered to help determine the cause of a patient's overactive thyroid. Patients swallow capsules that contain a harmless radioactive tracer. Some of this tracer winds up in the thyroid gland. Four, six or twenty-four hours after the capsule (depending on the preferences of the radiology department performing the scan) a scanner is placed over the thyroid gland. This scanner can take a picture of the thyroid gland by detecting the parts of the thyroid gland that have taken up the radioactive tracer.
In a normal thyroid gland, radioactive iodine is taken up to the same degree throughout the entire gland. If there is an area of the thyroid that does not take up radioactive iodine well, then it must be further investigated.
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Monday, September 7, 2015
If the older adult is not brushing or flossing, and there seems to be no physical limitation to prevent this, perhaps tooth decay or gum disease is present. If the individual is able to cognitively understand your questions, ask if they are having mouth pain. Some indications of tooth or gum pain can be:
Picture of periodontal disease (courtesy of Case School of Dental Medicine)
If the person has Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, he or she may not be able to tell you that there is pain. Caregivers - wearing protective gloves and if necessary, a surgical mask - can carefully examine the individual's mouth for some of the following signs:
Caregivers can check the mouth of an older adult for visible signs of bleeding, red or swollen gums - common indications that a dentist should be consulted.
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An older adult can experience problems with the teeth and gums (which can lead to or worsen tooth decay or gum disease) for many reasons.
Dry mouth - Constant or frequent dry mouth can be uncomfortable and can increase the chance of tooth decay and infections of the mouth. Over 400 common prescription and over-the-counter drugs are known to cause dry mouth. Sjogren Syndrome and some cancer therapies can also cause this.
Symptoms of dry mouth can be:
A solution would be to check with your prescribing physician (or pharmacist for over-the-counter products) to see if medication(s) may be causing or contributing to dry mouth. The medication or dose may be changed to help ease the dry mouth. Also, ask about artificial saliva products.
Other tips are:
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Jailed Venezuelan activist awaits judge's ruling
June 3, 2014
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Venezuelan court is holding a hearing to determine whether opposition hard-liner Leopoldo Lopez will be freed or must wait in jail while facing charges of inciting violence and arson during anti-government protests.
The closed-door proceedings at the Caracas courthouse are to resume Tuesday, after a 10-hour session Monday.
Lopez is a former mayor who spearheaded protests in February seeking to pressure President Nicolas Maduro into resigning. Three people died on the streets after tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators returned home, and authorities filed charges against Lopez.
Three months of political unrest triggered by the initial demonstrations have claimed the lives of 42 people on both sides.


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Victoria Beckham gave her son Romeo a 10th birthday to remember over the weekend (01Sep12) - she hired boy band The Wanted to perform at his party.
The former Spice Girl reached out to the Glad You Came hitmakers and invited them to play at a celebration in Los Angeles to mark her second son's big day, and the band happily obliged.
Max George, Tom Parker, Nathan Sykes, Siva Kaneswaran and Jay McGuiness also posed for photos with their young fans and Beckham showed her gratitude to the boys via Twitter.com after the bash, writing, "@thewantedmusic boys, the coolest boys in music!!! Thank you for making Romeo's 10th birthday so special!!!!"
Kaneswaran replied, "absolute pleasure", while George added, "hey, thanks for a lovely day yesterday... Hope Romeo had the best birthday ever!".
The Wanted are in L.A. ahead of the MTV Video Music Awards, which take place on Thursday (06Sep12).


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Port Chester is the lone Westchester representative named among the top 10 exciting places to live in New York, according to a report by Movoto.
Six other Westchester locales were also among the 62 locales that were ranked.
Port Chester's music venues including the Capitol Theatre, restaurants such as Tarry Lodge, its famous residents including Ed Sullivan and its young people ages 18 to 34, who make up more than 28 percent of its residents make for an exciting place to live and the No. 3 overall ranking, according to the report.
Ithaca ranks No. 1 overall, ahead of New York City, which checks in at No. 2. The rankings were confined with locations with populations of more than 25,000. All told, 62 locales were ranked.
Others from Westchester to be ranked were: White Plains at 11, Ossining at 15, New Rochelle at 22, Harrison at 30, Mount Vernon at 35 and Yonkers at 37.
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Happy 400 ppm week! What'd you get me?
This past week the Earth passed a wondrous milestone: atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reached 400 parts per million, a level not seen on the planet in at least two million years but probably more like ten (okay, so it hasn't hit 400 ppm at every measuring station, but in the Arctic it's actually been there for nearly a year).
Seeing as how scientists have now concluded that the safety level for CO2 levels is roughly 350 ppm, and we breezed by that rest stop in the early Nineties, 400 ppm doesn't make all that much difference other than a nice marker for your kids to fondly dream about when we've reached 500 ppm and the Earth is on course for a civilization-ending six degrees centigrade rise in global average temperature.
With CO2 levels rising about 2 ppm each year, we're roughly on course to hit 500 ppm in the next fifty years if we continue burning fossil fuels the way we're doing now. The people knowledgeable about these kinds of things tend to think that global greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next decade if humanity wants even a prayer of keeping the planet habitable. In order for that to happen, the entire developing world will have to skip economic development via fossil fuel extraction and burning, while those of us whittling our thumbs away at the apex of late-stage capitalism will have to stop our emissions on a dime.
Still, it's not all doom and gloom. As New York Mag's Jonathan Chait aptly points out, President Obama is well on his way to the emissions reductions he promised at Copenhagen in 2009 (not enough, but then again nothing politically palatable would be), and he still has one huge card to play. In twenty years no one is going to remember Benghazi or Boston or budget negotiations or any of the other distractions that flit by in the daily news cycle. The EPA regulations for existing power plants could be the most important component of his entire presidency, and we'll find out within the next two years if he's serious about climate change, and in turn, his legacy. While the Keystone pipeline remains a more potent litmus test for environmentalists (and Obama should reject it), the more powerful and important step would be for the EPA to regulate existing power plants by giving states an emissions cap, similar to a proposal from the National Resources Defense Council.
There are other signs that the world's waking up to the utter catastrophe that lies in our immediate future. South Korea has passed the heaviest carbon price in the world. Germany's solar power boom proves renewable energy is totally viable if the political will exists. Bill McKibben's divestment movement continues to gain steam.
The problem is that none of this is happening fast enough. Having hit 400 ppm with emissions still climbing, it seems virtually unthinkable that the earth will avoid the 2 degree temperature increase that looks increasingly terrifying. The storms will get more powerful, the droughts will get more severe, the wildfires more devastating, sea levels will rise at least another foot this century.
Now all of that may sound rather anodyne in the abstract, but think about it this way: if you are one of these brave, foolhardly souls who has or is planning to have children, and if we continue with business as usual when it comes to burning fossil fuels, your child is virtually guaranteed to see the end of the world.
How does that sound, people my age having babies?
No equivocating on that one: If the world does not cooperate in bringing global emissions to a rapid halt and develop multiple ways to remediate carbon out of the atmosphere, your kids are going to watch the end times play out in disaster after disaster after disaster.
And you say I didn't get you anything for 400 ppm week.


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New Species of Human Relative Discovered
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South African fossil find representing at least 15 Homo naledi individuals sheds new light on the origins of our genus and may suggest early ritual practices.
Digitizing Darwin's Work
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Find out more about the ambitious project to bring Charles Darwin's scientific papers online.
Polar Bears May Survive the Ice Melt, With or Without Seals
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New calculations indicate that land-based food sources like caribou, snow geese, and eggs might provide enough calories for polar bears to avoid starvation during ice-free periods.
September 5–7: Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Scorpion
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Spend Labor Day weekend in the newly reopened Butterfly Conservatory, and get your arachnid fix in the live-animal exhibit Spiders Alive!
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A massive journey to Kilmarnock. At rush hour. Still, a long, leisurely trundle along the motorway will be good for me after the day at work I've had. Time to unwind, really.
No sooner had I programmed the GPS than it was throwing my boring old plan of taking the M8 out of the window and demanding a breakneck burn along the A71 with an ETA of 7.47pm: two minutes after the football match I was going to see kicks off.
I hate missing the kick-off.
It was as I was fumbling around with the GPS controls to switch the damn thing off for proposing such a rubbish route that, and I'd been so distracted by these inane instructions that I was in the wrong lane on the roundabout and being hurled — as if by some malevolent force — towards the A71 anyway.
Have you seen The Omen? It was exactly like that. Devious, this car.
The evil "phantom black" colour scheme (does absolutely everything on the car with the exception of the wing mirrors being black count as a "colour scheme"?) offers a hint at this beast's dark heart.
That growling, purring 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine is a constantly-nagging devil on your back, always leading you into temptation, towards the Dark Side.
If Darth Vader drove, he may well have driven one of these.
Maybe more likely he would have driven a Humvee though, what with him being a planet-destroying ****.
Presented with a stretch of open road, it would take the resolve of Yoda to resist the urge to slam down the accelerator pedal, letting that 208bhp engine slam you deeper into those firm black leather sports seats as you launch into hyperspace. ETA: 7.42pm
The steering, light and responsive, makes throwing the car round bends and roundabouts all too easy, all too tempting, while the grippy handling makes such naughty activities rather habit-forming.
Or at least, that's what I found, having been lured down the A71 by that nefarious GPS, then led a merry dance through East Kilbride and its gnarly concrete-rimmed roundabouts. Try as I might, I just couldn't drive the FR+ round them sensibly, and we skimmed perilously close to those alloy-mashing kerbs. ETA: 7.36pm.
More disciplined drivers than me can reach 62mph from stationary in 6.9 seconds, but my attempts to replicate this feat were stymied by a week of rain and greasy roads coupled with, I admit, not a little overexuberance on my part.
My feeble control of the 280Nm of torque tended to result in a squealy flurry of wheel-spinning on the spot before the grip would suddenly take and we'd streak off into the distance like Scooby Doo when he's seen a ghost. ETA: 7.33pm.
It's not just the speed. The FR+ seduces you in altogether more wholesome ways too.
There's the fuel consumption, which Seat claims can hit 49.6mpg. But only if you are a nun.
With all that riproaring power bubbling right underneath your toe, how could anyone but the most chaste and pure of spirit not fly like a bat out of hell from every roundabout, every set of traffic lights or parking space, cackling manically as they do?
I was averaging around 27mpg on this blast to Kilmarnock, which isn't too bad for something which was such devilishly good fun. ETA: 7.31pm.
Then there's the price. It's about £4,000 cheaper than a Golf GTI and you pretty much get a Golf GTI engine here.
It's about the same amount dearer than a Ford Focus Zetec S. It looks better, though, and you get more power, kit and evilness into the bargain.
That kit includes digital radio, Bluetooth, sports seats, cruise control and parking sensors.
You'll need those sensors too, because, in a Faustian bargain, those delicious evil-eye-shaped windows come at the expense of being able to see much of what's happening over your shoulder.
Parking in Kilmarnock took me about as long as the Eaglesham-to-Kingswell stretch.
So here I am at Rugby Park. It's absolutely freezing. Twenty minutes before kick-off. I hate arriving early. Already looking forward to getting those heated seats fired up and having a nice, relaxing amble back along the M8.
But what's that I hear? It's like a burbling, growling engine calling me, the succubus behind the GPS seducing me, persuading me, compelling me: the B744 via Dead Man's Curve would be a far more exciting way to go.
CAR: Seat Leon FR+ 2.0 TSI
PRICE: £21,940 (£25,150 as tested)
EMISSIONS: 170g/km
PERFORMANCE: Max speed 145mph; 0-62mph: 6.9s
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Victory at Sea is Mongoose Publishing's fast-playing naval warfare rules set, loosely based upon the Origins Award-winning A Call to Arms games system. The core Victory at Sea rulebook covers fleets in World War II and is expanded upon with the Order of Battle supplement, while Age of Dreadnoughts is a complete core rulebook for battles in World War I. This era is expanded by the supplement Far Flung Seas.
Both games will see players controlling fleets from around the world in one off fights, historical battles or full blown campaigns - all of which are contained in the main rulebooks. Victory at Sea is fully comptaible with our new Victory at Sea models, a range of highly accurate 1/1800 scale warships from World War II.
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BOSTON — Although the Bruins lost for just the second time this season tonight, Nathan Horton continued his hot hand with his fifth goal of the season in six Bruins games.
He now has a point in all six Bruins games, which matches his longest career point streak. He has three previous six-game point streaks. Horton's nine points in six games also sets him up as the hottest Bruins player from the beginning of a season since Marc Savard tallied the same amount of points in the same amount of games in 2008-09.
Here's what Horton had to say after the Bruins' 3-2 loss to the New York Rangers at TD Garden:


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The continuation of Showtimes saga of Englands King Henry VIII (portrayed by Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and those who surrounded him encompasses a notable cast addition in music star Joss Stone, playing Anne of Cleves, who became another of the monarchs wives. So did Jane Seymour (Annabelle Wallis), but Henry had other concerns at the time beyond the marital ones, notably his chief minister Thomas Cromwell (James Frain).
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Gallery: Lea Michele Finds, Wears, The Dress Version Of Herself
Last night for her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lea Michele selected an outfit that might just be the very essence of her personality distilled into clothing form: short, shiny, sheer, loud, and prone to bursting into song at random. How did Lea Michele find such a dress and how did it aid her in her journey towards self-actualization? I'm not sure I have all the answers, but let's take a look.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Whole Foods Market is reviewing its employee language policy after two of its Spanish-speaking workers in New Mexico said they were suspended after complaining about it, a company spokeswoman said Friday.
The Austin, Texas-based organic grocery chain is re-examining the policy "as we speak, and it will be the topic of ongoing conversations at an all-leadership conference next week," spokeswoman Libba Letton said in a statement.
The move comes after two employees at an Albuquerque store said they were suspended for a day after recently complaining about a company rule that they say forbids them from speaking Spanish to each other while on the job. But Whole Foods says the two were suspended for "rude" behavior.
Ben Friedland, the company's Rocky Mountain region executive marketing coordinator, said the policy states that all English-speaking workers must speak English to customers and other employees while on the clock, unless the customer speaks another language.
"Team members are free to speak any language they would like during their breaks, meal periods and before and after work," Friedland said.
He said the policy doesn't prevent employees from speaking Spanish if all "parties present agree that a different language is their preferred form of communication."
News of the suspensions and the policy barring workers from speaking other languages while on the clock sparked outraged on social media and among advocates who started online petitions and called for the company to change the rule.
At a news conference outside the Albuquerque store where the employees were suspended, Ralph Arellanes, state director of the New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens, said the company has a week to change the policy before advocates will launch a nationwide boycott of Whole Foods.
"I will give them a period of seven days to implement a new policy, which includes (dropping) this policy, or we will hold them accountable," Arellanes said.
Letton said during the review of the policy, Whole Foods Market Inc. will speak with various civil rights groups.
"We are also in the process of reaching out to groups like LULAC to discuss the issue and hear their perspective," she said.
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On Saturday night, the Doctors descended on Burbank.
At the AMC Burbank 16, "Doctor Who's" most loyal fans gathered for a special midnight screening of the eighth-season premiere, "Deep Breath." It was their first chance to see the latest Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, in action. And it was definitely one of the most dapper late-night movie crowds in recent history.
Many fans arrived dressed as their favorite Doctors — there were bow ties and fezes in honor of Matt Smith, pinstripes and sneakers for David Tennant and even a long, colorful scarf or two to acknowledge Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor.
They came from far away — Matt Borcky, dressed as Smith's Doctor, and his three friends drove 100 miles from Bakersfield just for the screening. Yes, they could have just watched it at home when it aired on BBC America on Saturday night. But at home, he wouldn't get the experience of being greeted by another costumed Doctor in the theater lobby.
"Doctor!" a fan dressed like Peter Davison's fifth Doctor greeted Borcky.
"Doctor!" Borcky replied without missing a beat.
"I go to conventions dressed like this," Borcky said. "It happens all the time."
So it goes for Whovians.
The theater devoted two screens to the special premiere, and when those sold out, it added a third. But despite the excitement, "Who" fans didn't bring a rock concert vibe to the screening. There were no waving light sabers like at a "Star Wars" screening or thrown beach balls. "Doctor Who" fans aren't raucous so much as emotional. As one guy was overheard admonishing his friends before the screening began, "Don't laugh at me if I cry."
The screening organized by Fathom Events took place in 12 cities at midnight. Another screening is scheduled to take place on 550 additional screens on Monday night.
The episode was written by current "Doctor Who" showrunner Steven Moffat and set the Doctor and his companion, Clara (Jenna Coleman) on very familiar territory in Victorian London, as the city was threatened first by a rampaging T. Rex and then by repair bots run amok, harvesting human organs for their own purposes.
Fans in the theater were treated to a special prologue featuring the Doctor's other comrades Strax (Dan Starkey), Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh) and Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart), with Strax recalling the fates of the previous 11 Doctors.
There were in-jokes and references to previous Doctors galore in "Deep Breath," which served to help acquaint both the fans and Clara with this eccentric, darker version of the Doctor.
If "Fezes are cool" was the catchphrase from the Matt Smith era of "Doctor Who," the most notable quote from the Capaldi era seems be "Shut up!" Which, considering the foul mouth of Capaldi's character from "The Thick Of It," it could almost be considered a term of endearment.
After the episode and the behind-the-scenes featurette ended, the Doctors congregated once again in the plaza outside the theater to dissect what they'd just seen.
Some objected to the Doctor's trimmed down new costume — no hats or scarves. Others discussed the shooting style of the episode's director, Ben Wheatley, known for his films "Kill List" and "A Field in England."
But concerns and quibbles aside, they all seemed pleased, if a bit trepidatious about this new era of "Who."
"I'm happy" one fan said, fiddling with his bow tie.
And with that, the Doctors disappeared into the night.
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A lonely girl sits in the library reading, and we follow her into a daydream in which she makes a friend and is comforted. She quickly gets awaken from this fantasy when the same person taps her on the shoulder. By Megan Lasher
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