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Editor's note: Jared Loughner, the Arizona man who pleaded guilty to the January 2011 attempted assassination of then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will be sentenced Thursday. The shooting at a meet-and-greet in Tucson killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Giffords. Her husband, Mark Kelly, will speak on her behalf at the sentencing. Below is his statement in full.
Mr. Loughner, for the first and last time, you are going to hear directly from Gabby and me about what you took away on January 8th, 2011 and, just as important, what you did not. So pay attention.
That bright and chilly Saturday morning, you killed six innocent people. Daughters and sons. Mothers and fathers. Grandparents and friends. They were devoted to their families, their communities, their places of worship.
Gabby would trade her own life to bring back any one of those you savagely murdered on that day. Especially young Christina-Taylor Green, whose high-minded ideas about service and democracy deserved a full life committed to advancing them. Especially 30-year old Gabe Zimmerman, whom Gabby knew well and cherished, and whose love for his family and his fiancee and service to his country were as deep as his loss is tragic. Especially Judge John Roll whom Gabby was honored to call a colleague and friend and from whose interminable dedication to our community and country she gained enormous inspiration. Gabby would give anything to take away the grief you visited upon the Morrises, the Schnecks, and the Stoddards – anything to heal the bodies and psyches of your other victims.
And then there is what you took from Gabby. Her life has been forever changed. Plans she had for our family and her career have been immeasurably altered. Every day is a continuous struggle to do those things she was once so very good at. Gabby is a people person: she exudes kindness, creativity, and compassion. If she were not born with the name – "Gabby" – someone would have given it to her. Now she struggles to deliver each and every sentence. Her gift for language can now only be seen in Internet videos from a more innocent time.
Gabby was an outdoor enthusiast. She was often seen rollerblading with her friend Raoul in Reed Park, hiking in Sabino Canyon, or careening down Rillito Wash Trail on her bike, as she was the night before you tried and failed to murder her. She hasn't been to any of those places since, and I don't know when she'll return.
There's more. Gabby struggles to walk. Her right arm is paralyzed. She is partially blind. Gabby works harder in one minute of an hour – fighting to make each individual moment count for something – than most of us work in an entire day.
Mr. Loughner, by making death and producing tragedy, you sought to extinguish the beauty of life. To diminish potential. To strain love. And to cancel ideas. You tried to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as your own. But know this, and remember it always: You failed.
Your decision to commit cold-blooded mass murder also begs of us to look in the mirror. This horrific act warns us to hold our leaders and ourselves responsible for coming up short when we do, for not having the courage to act when it's hard, even for possessing the wrong values.
We are a people who can watch a young man like you spiral into murderous rampage without choosing to intervene before it is too late.
We have a political class that is afraid to do something as simple as have a meaningful debate about our gun laws and how they are being enforced. We have representatives who look at gun violence, not as a problem to solve, but as the white elephant in the room to ignore. As a nation we have repeatedly passed up the opportunity to address this issue. After Columbine; after Virginia Tech; after Tucson and after Aurora we have done nothing.
In this state we have elected officials so feckless in their leadership that they would say, as in the case of Governor Jan Brewer, "I don't think it has anything to do with the size of the magazine or the caliber of the gun." She went on and said, "Even if the shooter's weapon had held fewer bullets, he'd have another gun, maybe. He could have three guns in his pocket" – she said this just one week after a high capacity magazine allowed you to kill six and wound 19 others, before being wrestled to the ground while attempting to reload. Or a state legislature that thought it appropriate to busy itself naming an official Arizona state gun just weeks after this tragedy occurred, instead of doing the work it was elected to do: encourage economic growth, help our returning veterans and fix our education system.
The challenges we face are so great, but the leadership in place is so often lacking. In so many moments, I find myself thinking, "We need Gabby." In letter after letter, I've seen that others agree. As Americans mourned the six who died, they also mourned the loss of a representative who embodied the service they realized they should expect from those they elect, the type of person our county desperately needs to provide leadership and solve problems. Gabby was a courageous member of congress. Willing to stand up to the establishment when the establishment was wrong. She was thirsty for partnership across the aisle and was an unrelenting champion for her 600,000 constituents. One of which was you.
There's something else Gabby and I have been spending a lot of time thinking about. The way we conduct politics must change. Sure it's easier to win a debate if you can turn your opponent into a demon, but that's not how we move forward. Not only does slash and burn politics make Americans cynical about their leaders, but it leads to bad ideas. It creates problems instead of solving the ones we have now.
Even amid all that was lost, Gabby and I give thanks for her life, her spirit, and her intellect, which are a continued force in this world despite what you've done. We exalt in sharing our lives with each other and with our family and friends.
As a city, Tucson has grown stronger. We love this community, and we love our neighbors. We are resilient, and the dynamism and compassion of our fellow Tucsonans will continue to push this city forward.
And there is what persists in Gabby: her love for this city, this state and this country. Her commitment to lifting us all up, and her ability to lead. Mr. Loughner, you may have put a bullet through her head, but you haven't put a dent in her spirit and her commitment to make the world a better place.
Mr. Loughner, pay close attention to this: Though you are mentally ill, you are responsible for the death and hurt you inflicted upon all of us on January 8th of last year. You know this. Gabby and I know this. Everyone in this courtroom knows this.
You have decades upon decades to contemplate what you did. But after today. After this moment. Here and now. Gabby and I are done thinking about you.
Powerful statement. It wanders into politics in a manner that is arguably inapprorpriate, or maybe even hypocritical, but in view of what this monster did, Gabby and her husband can say anything they want.
I did like the protest against politicians trying to turn their opponent into a demon (which refreshingly I assume was directed against how Obama won re-election). It also is an issue in which Gabby could turn into an effective advocate – identifying on a non-partisan basis those who engage in such tactics. She would not need to speak. She could just give the Gabby seal of approval to candidates who do not demonize the other side.
I especially liked the end, when he says it is the last time they will think of him. I hope that is true. God bless Gabby and her family.
What a bunch of crap this is.. People say anything to get attention these days.. Want to be one of the 295 million heros in this country.... She did nothing more then get shot.. Why does this make someone a hero??
I doubt that.
He is a Fox News watcher.
God bless Gabby and Mark. You are so strong to come this far. God bless you....
Gabby for President 2016!!!!!!!!
survivors guilt. she still needs a good therapist.
This speech is a phenomenal and very fitting end for that psychopath; he wanted to make a mark on those who he killed and tried to kill, and it was shown that he failed.
i hope you enjoy hell, "mc".
It is so rare for an American speak the truth regarding guns in your country. if things go as they always have Mark should be demonized by dinner.
They need to post all the victims' pictures (the day of the shooting) on his prison cell walls, painted, so he can't tear them off.


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Seattle Sounders 4, Colorado Rapids 1 | MLS Match Recap
SEATTLE — Clint Dempsey and the Seattle Sounders are on quite a roll.
The US captain scored two more goals — giving him a league-leading eight — and the Sounders won their third straight, a 4-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids on Saturday at CenturyLink Field. Seven of Dempsey's goals have come during the Sounders' four-match unbeaten run and he has now scored in or assisted in all six matches he's played this season.
The hosts opened the scoring just before the halftime whistle on Lamar Neagle's third goal of the season. Obafemi Martins did not get an assist, but deserves a good share of credit for the goal. It was his perfectly weighted through ball that put Dempsey in alone against Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin.
Dempsey was able to round Irwin with his first touch, but was forced to send in a shot from a tight angle. Rapids defender Drew Moor was able to get just enough of the ball to keep it out of the net, but his block went right to Neagle who smashed it into the net.
That ended the Rapids' 248-minute shutout streak and marked the first time a first-half goal had been scored in any of their matches this season.
As it turned out, the goal also opened the floodgates. The Sounders came out flying to start the second half, scoring two goals and nearly scoring a couple more by the 52nd minute.
Dempsey got his first of the game in the 47th minute, tapping in a rebound from Marco Pappa's shot. Although the goal was about as easy as any Dempsey will score, the Seattle captain helped create it with a back-heeled flick that gave Pappa an open look from about 10 yards out. Irwin was able to make a diving save on the intial attempt, but the rebound went right to Dempsey.
A couple more golden chances came just a a few minutes later, with Irwin first stopping a Dempsey shot off a Martins feed and then stopping Martins on a 1-v-1 chance. The resulting corner kick, however, led to Seattle's third goal.
Pappa put it in a ball about 14 yards out that Chad Marshall headed back toward goal, where Dempsey was waiting near the top of the goal box. Dempsey then looped his header over Irwin, who was stranded in no-man's land.
The Rapids were able to make a game of it, at least for a few minutes. Dillon Serna, who had spent the week with the United States U-21 team, got his first professional goal off a through ball from Nick LaBrocca.
The Rapids' hopes of a comeback were short-lived, though, as the Sounders effectively put the match away 12 minutes later on Martins' third goal of the season. The Nigerian took a quick throw-in from Neagle, made a quick move to free up some space and slotted the ball inside the far post.
Seattle (5-2-1) have now won three straight and have scored multiple goals in four straight games, a span in which they've claimed 10 points and found the back of the net 13 times.
Colorado (3-2-2) saw their three-game unbeaten streak snapped and have still never won in eight MLS matches at CenturyLink Field.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Clint Dempsey
USMNT fans will hope Deuce is not peaking a month early: The Sounders' No. 2 is inspired and his two goals and numerous, inventive heel flicks are the evidence.
|Obafemi Martins
Had a hand in all four goals and did it all: Great passes (his through ball on the first goal was exquisite), tireless runs into space (see his goal), and clever combination play. The partnership with Dempsey is flourishing.
|Dillon Serna
With the Rapids midfield mostly in defensive mode, the youngster was the only Rapids player with any clear ideas in the attack. He was rewarded for his effort with his first MLS goal.

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I am in the camp that says once the barrel is infected, the bugs are deep in the wood pores,, and your barrel is now good for vinegar or firewood.
any idea on how deep? I figured it would need to be sanded/planed down anyway... including a re-toast
Soak it and see.
The barrel is sitting in my garage now. I'm going to fill it with water tonight. Is garden hose water ok to use? That's a lot of trips from the sink with a pitcher...


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Facebook stock hits new lowAugust 31, 2012: 1:47 PM ET
Facebook really can't catch a break. Shares of the social network hit an all-time low Friday after Bank of America-Merrill Lynch analysts lowered their price target and warned of headwinds for the stock.
It's been a rough summer for Facebook. The company's much-hyped IPO in May fell flat as a pancake after Nasdaq (NDAQ) botched Facebook's opening. Since then, the stock has barely come within spitting distance of its $38-a-share IPO price.
Facebook's (FB) stock fell 5.4% Friday to $18.06.
The biggest blocker right now, say analysts, is the multiple expiration of lock-up periods, which is when company insiders and major stakeholders can sell their shares.
Related: Facebook's stock falls 6% as insiders get chance to sell
In Facebook's case, there will be three more times this year, and one early next year, when the market may need to contend with a flood of Facebook stock. More than 40% of shares will be eligible for sale in November.
That could put more selling pressure on Facebook. Just take a look at Zynga (ZNGA). Its stock fell nearly 14% in the week after its lock-up expired.
"Revenue pressure from growing mobile usage, a larger-than-expected social gaming revenue slowdown, higher spending and lock-up expiration are overhangs that, in our view, will continue to impact the stock in 2012," said Bank of America-Merrill Lynch analysts.
But they weren't all doom and gloom. While they did lower their price target to $23, longer term, they expect Facebook's revenue to gain traction.
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An audio recording of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan yelling at her The Canyons co-star James Deen during a read-through session prior to filming has leaked online.
A New York Times Magazine expose, called This Is What You Get When You Hire Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie, was published on Thursday and in it editors have chronicled the beauty's alleged antics on the set of director Paul Schrader's upcoming erotic thriller.
The article suggests the 26 year old arrived late to work multiple times and constantly argued with the crew, among other things, and now TMZ.com has obtained a recording providing evidence of her behaviour.
The clip was reportedly captured on the third day of production, during which Lohan can be heard swearing at Deen during rehearsals.
She says, "Let's act, come on, I know it's for fun for you, but let's do it... Please James, say your line as you're walking over... cause we're doing rehearsal... Do your f**king job!"
A frustrated Schrader, who is forced to break up their argument, then calls for the cast to take a break, saying, "Alright, I've had it... I'm tired."
And Lohan responds, "So have I."
Sources close to the actress, who is facing a return to court for a probation hearing next week, insist Lohan thinks the Times Magazine article is largely factually correct - but she's not happy with claims in the piece she drank alcohol on the set and got behind the wheel of a car afterwards.
One source tells TMZ.com, director Schrader would often pour vodka shots for the crew at the end of a shooting day but Lohan swears she didn't partake in the toasts.
The insider also insists Lohan is far from upset about the article, and she is still on good terms with everyone involved in the project, including Schrader, who is reportedly interested in working with her again.
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Below is a feature that I recently wrote for VYPE Magazine on former standout of The Woodlands HS, Paul Goldschmidt. Special thanks to Casey Wilcox and Morgan Ballard of the Arizona Diamondbacks for arranging the interview.
Five years ago he was prepping for the fall semester at Texas State. Now, Paul Goldschmidt is in the midst of a heated pennant race while adjusting to life in the Major Leagues.
After a stellar start to the 2011 season with the Class Double-A Mobile BayBears, Goldschmidt had asserted himself as one of the Southern League's premier offensive standouts in what is typically a pitcher-friendly league.
Notching 30 home runs, 94 RBI with a .306 batting average and a .636 slugging percentage in just 103 games, the six-foot-three, 245-pound product of The Woodlands High School got the call that he had been waiting for since he was a youngster.
"I was excited because they just called and told me to go pack my bags," said Goldschmidt after learning of his promotion to the Arizona Diamondbacks. "I told my wife and we both called our families and everyone was excited. I was just thrilled to get out to San Francisco where we had our first game."
As one of the top prospects in the Diamondbacks' minor league system, it wasn't a surprise to many scouts that Goldschmidt bypassed the clubs' Triple-A affiliate, the Reno Aces. After all, the standout rookie had garnered a selection to the 2011 MLB Futures Game and was named both the Best Batting Prospect and the Most Exciting Player in the Southern League according to Baseball America.
However, Goldschmidt credits his quick rise to where it all began – The Woodlands.
"Playing baseball in the Houston area has been extremely competitive since Little League," said Goldschmidt. "There are so many great players in the area and growing up playing against a lot of them in both high school and college made it fun to go out there and compete every day while just having fun.
"Every little kid's goal is to make it when they watch baseball on TV. I didn't really know what the chances were (to make it professionally) but it was something that I worked really hard to get and it is something that I will continue to work hard to prove myself as best that I can."
During his senior year at The Woodlands, The Highlanders put together a dominant run through the state baseball tournament as they posted a 38-1 record en route to topping Katy for the State Championship. With a talented roster that featured current Blue Jays' top-prospect Kyle Drabek and former TCU standout Steven Maxwell, the Highlanders had a formidable 1-2 punch on the mound.
Despite all of the talent in the program, it was Goldschmidt who was often deemed one of the key leaders on the team. Holding down the hot corner on the diamond, he posted a .315 average while tallying eight home runs and 44 RBI during his senior campaign. His on the field performance was good enough to earn a 48th round selection by the Dodgers in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft.
With the prospect of beginning his professional career directly out of high school, Goldschmidt opted to play collegiate baseball under the tutelage of Ty Harrington at Texas State with hopes of improving his draft stock.
"My whole goal was to just try and get better every day," said Goldschmidt. "The coaches at Texas State were awesome. They worked with me both offensively and defensively and we played against some great competition. I was able to improve there and the plan is continue to get better for as long as I am playing."
In a junior season that saw Goldschmidt smash career marks for home runs and runs batted in, scouts took notice of the two-time Southland Conference Hitter of the Year and reigning Player of the Year.
With gaudy offensive numbers and an improved glove despite a position change, the Arizona Diamondbacks decided to pull the trigger in the eighth round of the 2009 draft by selecting Goldschmidt.
After an impressive run through Single-A ball that saw Goldschmidt garner citations as the D-backs' organizational Player of the Year, California League Most Valuable Player and league Rookie of the Year, the club promoted the slugger to the BayBears prior to the start of this season.
Without a decline in offensive numbers in a more difficult league, he was given his next assignment on Aug. 1 as he made his Major League debut against Matt Cain and the San Francisco Giants.
In his first at-bat at in a Diamondbacks uniform, Goldschmidt ripped a single off of Cain and followed with his first career homer off of two-time Cy Young Award winner, Tim Lincecum, the following night.
"It was nice to get the first hit out of the way," said Goldschmidt. "It helped me to settle in, relax and just play the game.
"It was a lot of fun making my debut in San Francisco against a sold-out crowd. We had our best pitchers on the mound and so did the Giants. We were able to win the first two games and clinch the series so it was definitely a good way to start my big league career."
With just 15 games under his belt, Goldschmidt has tallied two doubles, four home runs and 10 RBI including a game-tying, pinch-hit, home run against the Astros on Aug. 11 and a 3-for-4 performance on Aug. 14 as the Diamondbacks swept past the Mets to stay atop the National League West standings.
Earlier this week, Goldschmidt belted his third home run of the season off of Cliff Lee to become the only active player to hit home runs off of two former Cy Young Award winners less than three weeks into his major-league career, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Led by Goldschmidt's .298 batting average, Arizona is currently sitting just two and a half games ahead of the Giants in the pennant race. Additionally, the D-backs' have utilized 32 come-from-behind victories this season and have proved that they are a contender in the playoff race with their never-say-die mentality.
"It was definitely a quick (call-up to the big leagues) but I'm excited to be here during a division race," said Goldschmidt. "We have such a talented team here with a bunch of great guys who refuse to give up and keep battling. I've just enjoyed the opportunity to be able to play baseball for a living – I'm very lucky."
While it isn't typical to make a jump straight from Double-A to the Major Leagues, Goldschmidt admits that there are challenges to facing such a stringent learning curve.
"The consistency that the guys in the big leagues have is the biggest difference," said Goldschmidt. "The pitchers aren't making as many mistakes and the hitters are much better because they all have a plan up at the plate and are more disciplined. I am trying to learn as much as I can here every day by talking with the veteran guys on the team and the coaching staff to just pick their brains to learn as much as I can."
At the young age of 23 and a bright future on the horizon, Goldschmidt is thankful for the chance to play the game of baseball. As for the youth back in the greater Houston area that hope to follow in his footsteps, he encourages them to just enjoy the game.
"If you have goals to play professionally or in college, work hard at it because there are guys all over the state of Texas and the Houston area that are vying for that same dream," he explained. "It's tough to do but if you work hard and put in the effort and keep the right positive attitude, anything can happen."


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Macaulay was a radical republican historian who wrote a poplar 8 volume History of England which argued that English history was a failed struggle for virtue and liberty. She believed that virtue and liberty had been achieved by the American colonists and so was a supporter of the American Revolution. She later supported the French Revolution, writing an attack on Burke's opposition.


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James Franco, the star of Sonny as well as some other less-naked movies, wrote a full-blown academic analysis of Kristen Stewart's performance in Snow White and the Huntsman that he may or may not have "borrowed" from one of his NYU film students, adding a little something personal about how much he misses his nana so it'd seem like he actually wrote it (we're on to you, Franco). Writing in the HuffPo, Franco explains that the latest Snow White iteration might really be about the crazy amount of pressure Hollywood puts on aging actresses to look as young as possible:
So, the conflict is ultimately between two females who represent innocent youth (Stewart) and aging beauty (Theron), each of whom is fighting to control the throne. Sadly, this can be seen as an analog to the dynamics faced by actresses (and, to an extent, actors) today. The old guard will always be wary of the new guard, but the fact is that women in entertainment still depend on their looks more than men do. Even two powerhouses like Theron and Stewart are beholden to the dictates of a man's world.
Deep thoughts. That's a good interpretation of what's being reviewed as a pretty "bleh" movie, and while it's always tempting to make fun of the way Franco very publicly leads his "life of the mind," going to graduate school for books, teaching movie school, and occasionally popping up in a stoner comedy or hosting the Oscars sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
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Poor Justin Bartha--dude gets left out of everything.
Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms are negotiation a package for "Hangover 3" that would net them each $15 million dollars, according to The Hollywood Reporter. What about Bartha, you ask? The poor guy isn't even mentioned in the piece--Warner Bros. likely just assumes that as the franchise's human MacGuffin, he's should just be happy for work.
Most folks (not us) hated the second film, saying it was a carbon copy of the original. This new film reportedly takes place in L.A. and reportedly breaks with the "what happened" formula of the first two--which will probably alienate the folks who bought $1 billion worth of tickets to its predecessors.
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There's been talk that the next film will center around an effort to break Alan (Galifianakis) out of a looney bin, but it's been a while since anyone's mentioned that angle. In any event, the film should start shooting this summer and be finished in time for Memorial Day 2013.


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Ethical issue: Who gets experimental Ebola drug?
The use of an experimental drug to treat two Americans diagnosed with Ebola is raising ethical questions about who gets first access to unproven new therapies for the deadly disease. But some health experts fear that debate over extremely limited doses will distract from tried-and-true measures to curb the growing outbreak, like more rapidly identifying and isolating the sick.
The World Health Organization is convening a meeting of medical ethicists next week to examine what it calls "the responsible thing to do" about whatever supplies eventually may become available of a medicine that's never been tested in people.
At least one country involved in the outbreak is interested in the drug. Nigeria's health minister, Onyenbuchi Chukwu, said at a news conference that he had asked U.S. health officials about access but authorities say the manufacturer would have to agree. CDC Director Tom Frieden "conveyed there are virtually no doses available," a CDC spokesman said Wednesday.
There is no proven treatment or vaccine for Ebola, which so far has infected more than 1,700 people and killed more than 930 in West Africa in what has become the worst outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever.
"How many times have we found magic therapies that ended up ... doing more harm than good?" cautioned University of Minnesota professor Michael Osterholm, who advises the U.S. government on infectious disease threats.
"Vaccine and drug treatment right now is not going to be the main way you bring this to a stop," he said.
Scientists stress that there's no way to tell if the experimental drug ZMapp really made a difference for two American aid workers infected while working in Liberia. They are now at an Atlanta hospital.
"We don't even know if it works," said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, which helped fund research that led to the drug's development.
The drug is a cocktail of three antibodies engineered to recognize Ebola and bind to infected cells so that the immune system can kill them. People's immune systems make antibodies to fight off various diseases, and attempts to cull those antibodies—from the blood of people who survive an illness, or from animals—date back to the 19th century and early diphtheria treatment. Using modern techniques to fight Ebola, scientists culled antibodies from laboratory mice, Fauci said, and ZMapp's maker now grows the antibodies in tobacco plants and then purifies them.
That process is "painfully slow," he added, saying the manufacturer has told the government that it would take two to three months to produce even "a modest amount."
"We've got to do better than that," Fauci said. The NIH and other government scientists are looking into ways to increase production, necessary to attempt formal testing or to consider more so-called compassionate use, he said.
"We're hoping the outbreak is going to die down soon, but it doesn't look that way," said Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "Everybody's trying to speed things up."
To help improve diagnosis in affected countries, the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized emergency use of an experimental blood test to detect Ebola. Early symptoms—fever, vomiting and diarrhea—can be confused with other illnesses. The test was developed by the Defense Department and is only for use in DOD-designated laboratories.
This week, the WHO is convening an emergency committee to determine if the outbreak warrants being declared a "public health emergency of international concern," meaning it poses significant risk to other countries and requires more of an international response.
The WHO said that particularly in Liberia, health officials face community resistance from residents who fear going to the hospital and secretly care for ill loved ones at home, thus exposing themselves. Ebola is transmitted only through direct contact with the blood and other bodily fluids of someone who is sick.
But health care workers have to recognize the virus, too. Authorities in Nigeria have acknowledged that they didn't immediately suspect Ebola in the first known patient to travel to that country.
"The bottom line with Ebola is we know how to stop it: traditional public health," CDC's Frieden said: Finding and isolating patients, finding and educating who's been in contact with them and strict hospital infection control.
"Do those things with meticulous care and Ebola goes away," he said.
Minnesota's Osterholm fears such tried-and-true methods could be overshadowed by misunderstanding about any availability of the experimental drug.
"If the Americans had this serum all the time, why didn't they send it to us Africans to help save lives?" said Winston Ojukutu Macauley, a social commentator in Sierra Leone.
But taking an experimental drug requires making sure the patients fully understand there's no proof it will help—and it might even harm, said Osterholm, noting that 40 percent of Ebola patients are surviving. And would it be appropriate for the U.S. to offer a drug to people in developing countries that hasn't been tested on its own citizens?
That's among the things the WHO meeting next week could address. Even if enough doses were available for wider experimental use, "we need to find a way to do this in a fair manner so that we can live with ourselves when someone asks why this person got it and why not that person?" said Dr. Heinz Feldmann, NIAID's virology chief.
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Bye, Bye Bocce: New Scottsville spots evoke Ms and mmms
Winter is generally a quiet time for restaurants. But big spring-like changes are already well under way in Scottsville, as not one but two new eateries prepare to open on Valley Street.
Fans of Chris Long's 10-year-old Caffè Bocce surely noticed its permanent hibernation– the restaurant closed for good on January 1 after a rip-roaring New Year's Eve party. Long and his partner Marcia Miller had planned on just selling the building, but then a mysterious someone with restaurant dreams of his own made them an offer that, well, they couldn't refuse.
"Our business was as strong as ever," Long says, "but we basically realized our goals in Scottsville and we're ready to move on to new challenges now."
Long and Miller– now in Rheinbeck, New York– are currently investigating new restaurants possibilities both in the Hudson Valley and Charlottesville. They encourage friends and customers to keep in touch via caffebocce.com.
As for the new restaurants taking Bocce's place, Scottsville can expect The Brick, a casual pizza and Southwestern café to open first (in the Bar Bocce spot), maybe even before March. A few weeks later, look for the slightly more elegant River Rock Chop House in the adjacent space.
In charge of these twin eateries is owner and Executive Chef Timm Johnson. Johnson, a friend of the enigmatic new building owner, is just a few classes away from getting his Le Cordon Bleu diploma from the Orlando Culinary Academy in Florida. When we met in Scottsville last week, Johnson was actually on his way back to Orlando for the school's attempt to create the world's largest crème brulée!
Johnson and general manager (and pizza maker) Ken Woldt were putting the finishing touches on The Brick, including about 10 different paint colors on the walls and an equally fun and varied menu. Teasers include fresh mozzarella and tomato Cheese Skewwers, Garlic Knotts and a fish-n-shrimp-n-scallops Ceviche. (Weird spelling is an intentional play on the chef's name– Timm with two m's.)
In addition to competition-qualified "Chilly" and Wings ("10 fer $6.36"), The Brick aims to tease and please with a create-it-yourself pizza (thin cornmeal crust!), sandwich, and Mexican menu that you'll really have to try for yourself 'cuz here I can't do it justicce herre.
The Brick will be open seven days for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A fully stocked bar is planned.
What does Johnson– who spent many years in the Tampa metroplex– think of Scottsville?
"I grew up in what they call a 'poke and clean' town in Iowa– poke your head out the window and you're clean out of town– so I'm very glad to return to a smaller community," he says.
The 41-year-old chef, who gets many ideas from his collection of vintage cookbooks, is still working on River Rock's "nouveau French-American with heartland traits" menu, but promises lots of fresh seafood and certified Angus beef which he plans to butcher himself using the lessons he learned on his family's Iowa farm.
Hold the pool tables
A few months ago, Dish heard that a downstairs pool-hall was in the works at the Fusion Restaurant and Deli on the Downtown Mall. Well, though the city did approve owner Andreas Gaynor's request to convert the downstairs room into an entertainment space, Gaynor told Dish that the plan is now on hold.
"With all the remodeling the city required, it's just not cost efficient for us at this time," he explains. But March will bring several significant enhancements to the restaurant that are sure to please– a full bar (wine, beer, liquor), "unplugged" acoustic music nights, and hours extended to midnight on weekends.
Two Ms mean two restaurants: Chef Timm Johnson of The Brick and River Rock.


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Adventure film festival to highlight extreme sports
Rock climbing the walls in Yosemite in less than 19 hours, wingsuit BASE jumping and mountain biking on dirt spines in China's Gobi desert are a few of the films hitting the road in advance of Tahoe Film Festival 2013.
Eight action/adventure films highlighting the progression of individual sports during the year will be shown 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in the CVIC Hall in Minden.
"I think there's a void in that genre of what went on each year in action and adventure films, and how things have progressed," producer Todd Offenbacher said. "The road tour we're doing in Minden, Mammoth and the West Coast is a collection of the films. People love it."
This is the 12th year for the film festival, which takes place at the MontBleu Resort in Stateline.
Each film is independently produced by professional and amateur videographers. Offenbacher is hosting the showing in Minden and introducing each film.
Proceeds from the Sept. 27 viewing will benefit the Carson Valley Arts Council's Building Fund.
"This is art. Cinematography is an art form I want to expose people to here," CVAC board member Dave Rich said. "We live in an outstanding area for these sports. The people who are doing this are the best in what they are doing."
A raffle for various items will be held during the night.
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show begins at 7. Tickets cost $15 each.
Tickets may be purchased at http://www.cvartscouncil.com or by calling 775-782-8207.


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Store policy stops Michaels from taking quarters as payment
I've put in an email to Michaels to find out if this ridiculous policy is in fact store policy, or simply an employee exercising poor customer service, but I haven't heard back from them yet. Even if such a policy exists, refusing to take 16 quarters for a purchase is simply lazy. I can see the same cashier refusing to take 16 singles next week because counting them would be too much of an inconvenience. Turning down this small of a quantity of change would obviously violate the spirit of any such policy if one exists.
If like me you wondered how a store can refuse a government issued coin, which is "legal tender for all debts public and private" it's because while these coins can be used to satisfy any debt, private businesses do not have to accept them. The Coinage act of 1965 set this policy into place meaning that coins and bills are a legal means of paying a creditor but allowing private businesses to set rules on forms of payment on their own.
I can understand how at some point a store might say that they won't take accept pennies for items over $20 since it can hold up all of the other customers. Aside from any store policy it's downright rude to pay for high ticket items only in change. I'm sure if you had asked me whether stores should ban all coin purchases 8 years ago while I was busy counting out $50 worth in my Kmart vest I would have agreed with you but stores shouldn't be banning reasonable amounts of change.
I think business need to remember, money is money, no matter how small and customer service is the most important of all. Taking change is simply good business and when many retailers are suffering poor same store sales; refusing to take cash of any kind is a surefire way to fail!


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Three years ago, when virtually nobody had yet heard of High Frequency Trading, Zero Hedge wrote "The Incredibly Shrinking Market Liquidity, Or The Upcoming Black Swan Of Black Swans" in which we asked "what happens in a world where the very core of the capital markets system is gradually deleveraging to a point where maintaining a liquid and orderly market becomes impossible: large swings on low volume, massive bid-offer spreads, huge trading costs, inability to clear and numerous failed trades?" Subsequent to this, our observation was proved right on both an acute (the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash), and chronic (the nearly 50% collapse in average daily volumes since the 2008 top) secular basis. And while we are not happy to have been proven correct in this particular forecast, as it ultimately means the days of equity capital markets in their current configuration are numbered, we now note that none other than Morgan Stanley's Quantitative and Derivative Strategies released a note which, with a three year delay, effectively predicts the end of capital markets in a world where every declining retail participation (another topic we have been hammering for the past 3 years as it is only the most natural response to a world in which not only equities are openly manipulated by central banks, but in which perpetrators for massive market disturabances are neither identified nor prosecuted) is replaced by artificial high frequency trading churn, which never was and never will be a true liquidity provider on a long-term basis.
To wit from Morgan Stanley: "In our mind, many of the approaches to algorithmic execution were developed in an environment that is substantially, structurally different from today's environment. In particular, the early part of the last decade saw households as significant natural liquidity providers as they sold their single stock positions over time to exchange them for institutionally managed products... While the time horizon over which liquidity is provided can range from microseconds to months, it is particularly shorter-term liquidity provisioning that has become more common." Translation: as retail investors retrench more and more, which they will due to previously discussed secular themes as well as demographics, and HFT becomes and ever more dominant force, which it has no choice but to, liquidity and investment horizons will get ever shorter and shorter and shorter, until eventually by simple limit expansion, they hit zero, or some investing singularity, for those who are thought experiment inclined. That is when the currently unsustainable course of market de-evolution will, to use a symbolic 100 year anniversary allegory, finally hit the iceberg head one one final time.
How does Morgan Stanley frame their analysis? First, MS notes the ever increasing ownership of the stock market by big institutions, as retail investors took a back seat to investment allocation decisions, a secular theme until 2008, which however has subsequently plateaued:
Asset management has become increasingly institutionalized over the years. Individuals have outsourced their wealth management to institutions, whether pension funds, insurance companies or investment advisors. These, in turn, invest mostly in institutionally managed products such as mutual funds, ETFs, or long/short vehicles. The net result of this is that the vast majority of investable assets are held through institutionally managed vehicles. Exhibit 1 shows the evolution of ownership vehicles of corporate equity in the US. 37% of the USD 22tn of corporate equity is held by 'Households and Nonprofits' now, down from 50% at the turn of the century. This segment includes endowments and foundations, as well as on-shore hedge funds. Arguably, these should be counted as institutional investors as well. This means that direct household ownership of corporate equity is substantially below this figure.
For a universe of large-cap stocks4, Exhibit 4 shows the evolution of the percentage of ownership attributable to 13F filers and mutual funds since Dec 2001. This data corroborates Exhibit 1 on the increase in institutional ownership – on average, institutional ownership increased from 54% in March 2000 to 81% at the end of 2011.
Following the rapid growth of institutional asset management, however, the pace of increase in institutional ownership has slowed since 2008. We see this as one of the key drivers of the change in market structure and liquidity sourcing opportunities in recent years.
As more and more "equity capital" was concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people, the only logical outcome took place:
Trading decisions have become more concentrated as asset management has institutionalized. There are fewer decision makers (fund managers) now than in a world where management is dispersed across households. The size of their parent orders, on the other hand, has grown. The basic set up of the market – in terms of a continuous auction limit order book supplemented with 'upstairs' solutions – has not changed. The details of the implementation have adjusted, of course – such as competition in execution venues, new order types, and greater use of technology.
One of the most significant results of the tension between fewer market participants and larger parent order sizes is that the share of 'real' trading volume has declined by around 40% in the last five years. In Exhibit 5, we show the average proportion of quarterly trading volume that is attributable to changes in the 13f filings of each institution. We use this as our definition of 'real' trading volume. We also calculate the trading volume from our separate dataset of mutual fund holdings. We aggregate 'buys' (positive position changes) and 'sells' separately for each institution and mutual fund, on a per-stock basis, and calculate the average percentage of volume across stocks in our universe.
As a result, reports of the market's evaporating volume are not greatly exaggerated.
In our mind, these numbers constitute a lower bound on the amount of 'real' trading volume in the market (defined as the trading volume from market participants that hold assets for longer periods).
The share of real trading volume shows three distinct phases. From 2001 to 2006, institutional buys accounted for 27% of total trading volume on average, while sells accounted for 20%7. The asymmetry between buys and sells reflects the growth in the institutional share of ownership over the period (see Exhibit 4). From 2008 to 2011, we see a significantly lower share of trading volume – buys represent just 16%, and sells 13%, a drop in market share of almost 40%.
The 2007/2008 period represents a transition period, with a rapidly declining share of 'real' trading volume. This period coincided with rapidly increasing overall trading volume (Exhibit 6) – in 2006, the ADV was 4.8bn shares, while in 2008 it was 8.8bn shares. Volume has since declined again – YTD ADV is 6.9bn shares.
While it will not come as news to any of our regular readers, the disappearance of retail investors has meant the incursion of electronic trading in the form of relentless rise in HFT dominance.
Throughout the last decade, the share of institutional trading volume by each institution type has been remarkably constant (Exhibit 7). This means that the reduction in institutional share of overall trading volume between 2007 and 2008 was not due to a reduction in trading activity by any one institution type, but rather due to the introduction of a new type of trading volume.
A potential reason [for the drop in our measure of the share of 'real' institutional trading volume] is that institutional execution strategies have made liquidity more challenging to find. Concentration in assets under management has led to larger order sizes. One of the responses to this has been automation in execution strategies. The algorithms used tend to split parent orders into smaller child orders. As a result, we find that block trades, which made up around 30% of trading volume in 2003, accounted for just over 5% of trading volume in 2011 – see Exhibit 8. At the same time, the average trade size has fallen to around 250, from more than 1,000 back in 2003. Both data series are based on NYSE listed stocks.
Next Morgan Stanley explains precisely why the current market is no longer fit to deal with the existing roster of players, fit for a previous iteration of capital market topology such as that which prevailed when Reg-NMS was conceived, but certainly not the current one, especially if retail continues to withdraw from trading equities and invest its cash forcibly into that other terminally epic bubble - bonds.
In our mind, many of the approaches to algorithmic execution were developed in an environment that is substantially, structurally different from today's environment. In particular, the early part of the last decade saw households as significant natural liquidity providers as they sold their single stock positions over time to exchange them for institutionally managed products. Adjusting the institutional execution strategy to capture this liquidity was a rational thing to do.
This institutionalization of asset management is mostly done by now, as we showed in Exhibit 4. As a result, execution strategies that were calibrated on the earlier market environment may no longer be optimal. The rise in trading volume since 2007 (when the growth in institutional ownership leveled off) reflects the growing challenges of sourcing liquidity. The way this has been resolved is through the introduction of more 'market making' activity in the form of liquidity provider trading.
Let's repeat that for the cheap seats: "As a result, execution strategies that were calibrated on the earlier market environment may no longer be optimal" and we could in theory just end it here.
We all know that the bulk of HFTs close each day flat to avoid overnight holding risk, which they do by increasing churn amongst each other to unprecedented levels, in the process generating massive momentum swings as every player piggybacks on either side of the move. End result: even Moran Stanley admits that churn is not liquidity, and that the inability of HFT to carry inventory and have a longer-term bias is the fatal flaw in the current market topology, precisely as we warned back in April 2009!
The risk-carrying capacity of these providers is limited. If natural liquidity does not materialize, they may trade with another intraday liquidity provider to manage their inventory. This is particularly true if the institutional parent orders are larger and hence typically longer lasting.
From here, everything else follows:
Typical market-making liquidity provisioning strategies can be modeled as mean reversion strategies. If liquidity demand is persistently one-sided (such as in the case of large parent orders), it is rational to flatten the market maker position faster if the risk-carrying capacity is limited. In the absence of natural liquidity on the other side, this will often be through a trade with another intraday liquidity provider. The net result is that the the amount of trading volume that is attributable to this segment of the market will increase.
Thus: lim investing time horizons approaches 0 as HFT -> infinity
While the time horizon over which liquidity is provided can range from microseconds to months, it is particularly shorter-term liquidity provisioning that has become more common. This is partially a reflection of the changing nature of the default liquidity provider – 'High-Frequency Trader' is a commonly applied term.
Unfortunately, the "High Frequency Trader" is NOT, as explained, a liquidity provider in the conventional sense: it is an ultra-short time horizon churn facilitator and liquidity extractor (when the meager rebate for providing liquidity does not offset the capital holdings risk) and nothing else. Which is why just like the Fed has become the artificial lender of last resort in a regime that is unsustainable and where central banks are forced to grow their assets exponentially (as shown on Zero Hedge) just to preserve the flow so very needed to keep equities from collapsing, so HFT has become the artificial provider of fake liquidity.
The problem is that just like the half lives of central bank intervention, so the incremental benefits of ever greater HFT penetration are becoming less and less.
What happens next? Here Morgan Stanley, while trying to be diplomatically correct, comes to precisely our conclusion - trade while you can.
In our view, many of the changes in the market environment – such as the decline in trading volume – are secular. The trade from household direct share ownership to institutionally managed ownership has happened, removing one of the natural sources of liquidity. At the same time, the micro-efficiency of the market in identifying and exploiting liquidity demand, exemplified by the growth in intraday liquidity provisioning strategies, is here to stay.
What are the implications for institutional execution strategies? The first implication is a re-evaluation of parent order sizing. Liquidity for institutional trades is now ultimately sourced from other institutions for the most part, rather than from households. The share of trading volume from these institutions has been falling by almost 40% over the last five years. This means that the amount of liquidity we can reasonably expect to source in the market should also fall by a similar amount. For example, we find that the upper limit of the percentage of ADV that can be traded in a VWAP-type strategy without undue price impact is typically around 4-5% now, versus 10-15% in the period before 2007.
The second implication is that execution strategies have to focus on maximizing the likelihood of being a liquidity provider. This has always been the objective of portfolio managers ('Buy Low, Sell High'). Within the institutional asset management process, that has not always been as central to the execution strategy. The assumption has been that liquidity will be available in the markets, and that the cost of demanding that liquidity (the market impact cost) was small relative to the alpha potential over time. As the composition of trading volume changes, this assumption has become more problematic. Having urgency constraints (e.g. having to finish a trade at a particular time) becomes increasingly costly relative to the alpha potential.
Where Morgan Stanley stops short is the logical next question: what will detour this transition to a market driven by quantized incremental binary decision-making, aka RISK ON, RISK OFF, where with every passing day, we get greater and greater volatility shifts? The answer: nothing, unless of course, for some reason retail investors do come back, however with Lehman, the Flash Crash, MF Global, central planning, forced media propaganda telling everyone "it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to buy", even as markets in real terms are still down nearly 40% from 2000, retail has had enough of the rigged stock market casino.
Simply said: they are done.
Hence HFT will have no choice but to become a greater and greater role in equity trading, pardon, churning. Until one day, by logical extrapolation, only HFT is the marginal setter of prices, with no regard for value, logic or analysis, and a price-determining function set purely by historical precedent yet a precedent which will be no longer applicable in the least as the paradigm shift to a conceptually different "market" will have then happened. Or said otherwise: "large swings on low volume, massive bid-offer spreads, huge trading costs, inability to clear and numerous failed trades"... just as we predicted back in April 2009.
Just as simply said: with its advent, HFT sowed the seeds of its own self-cannibalization.
Which also goes back to another key concept, and arguably the biggest flaw in all of modern economics: it is never about the stock. It is all, and always has been, about the flow. Last week Goldman tacitly acknowledged it for the first time. Expect more and more economic hacks to follow suit.
The irony that ties it all together, is that if indeed for some reason retail investors do come back, and do pile their over $8.1 trillion in fungible money currently stored under the electronic cushion as we described in This Is Where "The Money" Really Is - Be Careful What You Wish For, which in turn would also unleash the titanic wall of money hidden behind the Shadow Banking dam wall (at last count about $35 trillion contained among the custodial holders of all securities why are quietly swept into the shadow banking system's re-re-rehypothecated pseudo asset pyramid and regulated by exactly nobody), which no conventional economic theories account for, yet which as Ben Bernanke this week, and Zero Hedge for the past 2 years, has been warning is the real catalyst of the (hyper) inflationary spark, then the Fed will be powerless to stop the biggest avalanche of empty artificially created fiat currency ones and zeros to ever hit the monetary system in the history of the world since Weimar. Only this time it will have the added benefit of HFT to accentuate every move imaginable as cash transitions from an inert form to an active, asset managed one.
But this is far beyond what one learns in Econ 101, which is why we will have to wait at least another 3 years before the Morgan Stanleys and all other bandwagon chasers of the world close the loop on what we are (and have been for a while) warning right now.
In the meantime, we are confident readers will enjoy the supreme irony: in their attempt to perpetuate the insolvent status quo farce, the central planners are now forced to choose between the terminal Scylla and Charybdis: a pyrrhic Schrödinger [alive|dead] market, or an even more pyrrhic Schrödinger [alive|dead] monetary regime.
We hope they choose wisely.


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December 30, 2014
"But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life." - Romans 6:22
We need to know that the same Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is at work in our lives today. And it is because of this that the power of sin has been broken in our life. What is the power of sin? It is "Death!" When Christ died, death had no more dominion over Him, and if we are in Christ Jesus, death no longer has dominion over us. We are alive right now and we are alive forever more in Christ Jesus.
For more resources from Above & Beyond Fellowship, visit www.abidingabove.org.


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Another season of post-Sandy repairs blooms along town shoreline
With warmer weather waiting in the wings, the Department of Public Works is busy finishing up repairs to shoreline facilities still showing signs of damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.
At Sasco and Southport beaches, small sheds are being built for lifeguards. Before the storm struck, concession stands at both beaches also housed facilities for lifeguards. But Sandy ripped both buildings off their foundations and officials decided not to rebuild the concession stands. Instead, they opted to provide beach refreshments via mobile vendors.
The asphalt-and-concrete barrier at Southport Beach, left broken and in pieces after the storm, has been redesigned, according to Public Works Superintendent Scott Bartlett, and will now act as more of a seawall. Crews are rebuilding the wall.
"The old wall was designed to lessen the impact of waves" during big storms, Bartlett said. "Now, we're trying to divert the waves, and we think we'll be able to."
The seawall at the other end of the beach, closer to Beachside Avenue, was rebuilt last year.
Other shoreline work includes repairs to the fishing pier at the South Benson Marina. "That one we're still tidying up," Bartlett said.
Test pits are being dug at the end of Fairfield Beach Road near the turnaround, he said, for a new seawall on the Long Island Sound side of the street and a new bulkhead on the creek side.
"That's a longer-term project," Bartlett said. "The waves damage the road as they're coming across from the Sound, and then they wash back out across the road.
The town will also determine whether to repave the road's entire turnaround or just repair the areas damaged in the storm. The Federal Emergency Management Agency reimburses only for the square footage that was damaged, but Bartlett said it sometimes makes more sense to do a complete repair.
The work was approved as part of a $5.15 million bonding package for repairs to town buildings
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Search continues for missing UWM student
Nick Wilcox last seen early New Year's Day, family says
The search continues for a missing Milwaukee man.
Nick Wilcox disappeared early New Year's Day after partying at the Irish Rec Room on Old World Third Street.
"We are hitting the bars tonight. We are passing out fliers to anybody and everybody. Maybe they are people who were out on New Year's Eve, coming out tonight because it's Friday. We are just doing it again and again and again and not going to stop until we find something," said Wilcox's sister, Andrea Wilcox.
Milwaukee police searched part of the Milwaukee River on Thursday afternoon. They did not search Friday and said they will not go back in the river unless there is evidence Wilcox may be there.
Wilcox's family went bar to bar, searching for clues in his disappearance. Friends and family have been going out in different search party groups trying to retrace Wilcox's steps along Water Street on Friday. They hope to jog someone's memory who may have information on Wilcox's whereabouts.


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Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) is one of the largest of the sea and fish eagles of the genus Haliaeetus (3). These large blackish-brown birds have an enormous, strongly arched yellow bill (3). The feathers on the shoulders, tail and legs are white (2), and females are generally the larger sex (3).
Steller's sea eagles start to build their large, bulky nests in the trees in late February and early March (3). The first eggs are laid in mid-April, and clutch size varies from one to three eggs; hatchlings emerge in mid-May to mid-June and begin to fly by August and early September (3).
These large birds feed predominately on salmon (Onchorhynchus spp.), which are taken both dead and alive. Prey is usually caught by swooping from perches located at the waters' edge, or from circling and diving down; occasionally birds will stand in the shallows to catch fish (5). Steller's sea eagles have a large, powerful bill that is perfectly adapted to ripping and tearing at flesh and these birds will also prey on other fish and the carcasses of animals such as seals and sea lions (3). Where there are large congregations of prey such as salmon, groups of eagles will gather and individuals will often attempt to steal food from each other in a behaviour known as 'kleptoparasitism' (3).
Steller's sea eagles breed in eastern Russia, around the Sea of Okhotsk and on the Kamchatka Peninsula. A small number of birds remain in Kamchatka over the winter but the majority fly south to the Japanese Islands of Kuril and Hokkaido (2). This species is also occasionally seen in China and North and South Korea (2).
Inhabits coastal cliffs and estuaries; further inland, Steller's eagles are associated with river and lakeshore forests (5).
Steller's sea eagles are under threat from a variety of factors. In Russia, the most pertinent threat is habitat loss caused by hydro-electro schemes, together with logging for timber and coastal development (5). Salmon stocks have been depleted in much of the range of this eagle, which in turn threatens population numbers (2).
The magnificent Steller's sea eagle is protected within the countries of its range and internationally by its listing on the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) (2). In addition, international trade is restricted by the placing of this species on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) (4). In Russia, these sea eagles are found in a number of reserves where their populations are monitored; the important wintering grounds on the islands of Hokkaido, Shiretoko and Furen-ko in Japan are National Wildlife Protection Areas (2).
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I have a list, with a list item that contains an attachment. I was horrified to see that the link to the attachment doesn't work if the attachment file name contains a space.
I'm amazed that SharePoint will even allow you to store file names with spaces, if it doesn't know how to handle them correctly.
Is there some kind of server setting that you can set to "Handle attachment file name spaces" correctly? Or is this a known limitation with Sharepoint? If yes, please tell me this issue is fixed in 2010?
I've narrowed it down to " +" in the filename a space directly followed by a + sign. Space alone works fine.


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TORRANCE, Calif., U.S.A., September 19, 2007 – American Honda Motor Co., Inc., hosted nearly 500 Honda S2000 roadsters and their owners at the first-ever Honda S2000 Homecoming at Honda's Torrance, California, facility, the company announced. Held on Saturday, September 8, the event represented the largest gathering of S2000s to date. Almost 1,000 guests attended the show and had an opportunity to meet Shigeru Uehara, the chief engineer for the S2000 who flew from Japan to attend the event. S2000 enthusiasts also had an early viewing of the all-new S2000 CR before its scheduled on sale date in early October.
Shigeru Uehara, chief engineer for the S2000, traveled from Japan to attend the S2000 Homecoming
"It was very rewarding to see so many fans of the S2000 gathered together for this event," said Shigeru Uehara, chief engineer of the Honda S2000. "I was very happy to present the S2000 CR as my gift to enthusiasts in the United States."
"This is what owners have wanted for a while," said S2000 owner Mike Trinh, a Community Organizer of S2K International, a group of owners that meets regularly in Torrance and West Covina, California. "The Homecoming isn't just about the car; it's about the community, getting all of the owners together to share stories and information."
The Honda S2000 represents the purest expression of Honda fun-to-drive DNA with its two-seat, open-topped roadster configuration and sophisticated front-engine, rear-wheel-drive platform. As a true sports car that can serve as a practical and fun daily driver and also feel equally at-home on a racetrack, this concept further evolves with the addition of the club racer-inspired S2000 CR to the Honda lineup.
The S2000 CR (CR for "Club Racer") introduces more track-oriented suspension settings, aerodynamic-enhancing bodywork, a removable hardtop, higher rigidity and reduced weight to the S2000 formula. The added features are designed to appeal to enthusiasts who enjoy open track-day events and also provide a more ideal starting point for racers who modify the S2000 for competition in club racing events.


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Hugh Jackman: Violence in 'Prisoners' Is Different
Hugh Jackman's latest film, "Prisoners", premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The film is about a father, played by Mr. Jackman, whose daughter goes missing, and the lengths he'll go to to find her. Mr. Jackman sat down with WSJ's Barbara Chai.
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While seemingly not as exciting on paper, there really was still some fun sheetmetal being revealed on the Cobo Hall floor. Here's a brief run-down of the top-trafficked foreign, domestic, real, fake, gas-powered, electric powered, dream-powered, sporty, rugged and, in one case, smoke machine-equipped cars. Remember, your eyeballs chose them.
Below that, we've include all the rest of the reveals that didn't make the cut. So once you've walked through the eye candy in the top ten, hit the links at the bottom to see what else the automakers had goin' on here at Cobo Hall
10.) Toyota FT-EV Concept
Your eyes are not deceiving you, the Toyota FT-EV Concept is a version of the Toyota iQ, but lacking 1.5 seats and adding one lithium-ion battery pack in their place. While sized for Stuart Little, it'll likely be a huge success when a production version is launched in 2012.
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The Revenge GTM-R is a fully tricked-out version of the Factory Five GTM chassis, so it does all the work the GTM buyer would have to do themselves. The GTM-R boasts a GM supplied 427 cubic inch V8 good for 505 HP at 6300 rpm and 470 lb-ft of torque at 4800 rpm.
8.) 2010 Chevrolet Equinox
The all-new Equinox is just like the original, only better. A solid people mover, GM has improved engine and transmission choices while tweaking styling for an aggressive but paunchy look. The interior gets friendlier with plenty improved feel compared to it's predecessor. Think of it as a Malibu wagon, only well fed.
7.) 2010 Lincoln MKS
Lincoln is hoping buyers will sail past cars like the V8-powered Infiniti M45 to look at the Lincoln MKS, which they claim will offer best-in-class highway economy at 25 MPG, and the Lincoln's relatively more powerful V6. Whether or not this actually sways anyone to buy a car from a brand more associated with livery than with living good is another question.
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Drowning in Potential: How American Society Can Survive Digital Technology
Digital technology strengthens our voices, but at what price? Social media draws us into pitched battles on high-profile issues such as trans bathrooms and the right to wedding cakes. These issues play a critical role in defining who we are and where we stand in today's society. But do these battles help us create a nurturing society? Or is digital technology leading us to under-serve issues that foster progress?
As digital technology grows, it makes our world more complex. As a result, we frequently lose the ability to connect on a human level, we miss critical insight, and our attempts to coordinate slip into disarray. We feel these side effects of digital technology broadly.
As illustrated in my book, Drowning in Potential: How American Society Can Survive Digital Technology, more than 60% of the American economy is dedicated to industries failing at the most basic level. For example, American healthcare embraces robots and artificial intelligence, yet American life expectancy is the shortest in the developed world and getting shorter. Similar fundamental failures exist in food, real estate, finance, education, and more. Despite the amazing conveniences brought forth by digital technology, our society is struggling to progress and find alignment on countless big issues.
Individuals play critical roles in solving these problems. Yet as technology increases the complexity of our world, no individual or organization controls all the moving parts needed to create meaningful change. We are constantly fighting others so that "'our side"' can make progress. And yet with digital technology, "our side" has become myriad insular opinions that fail to align and effect constructive change.
So, how can we solve society's big problems?
The chocolate industry may have some answers. At a World Cocoa Foundation board meeting, you'll find senior representatives developing plans to change their industry. These executives from competing chocolate firms come together with a common purpose. They're creating an environment in which company shareholders benefit, while solving deep-seated societal problems challenging the 1.4 million cocoa farmers in Western Africa. Nestlé still fights Mars to sell you chocolate. Yet these bitter rivals have aligned their vision of a sustainable world in cocoa-growing regions.
As a society, we must focus our greatest energy where most people can agree. A core mission of the nonprofit
The core Equity Advancement Partners initiative transforms families and communities — and it invites support from people with opposing views on bathrooms and wedding cakes. Helping a child's family love each other, strengthen each other, and find their way to success is not an LGBTQ goal. It is a universal goal virtually everyone can support. And when we share a goal, we invite aligned, not opposing, efforts to improve society.
This doesn't mean that the fight for equal rights is unimportant, but that we should find common ground where we can. As digital technology causes us to get more polarized and insulated, we lose the ability to communicate. Engagement reduces this disconnect. The more you engage, the better you understand another group and your own biases toward that group.
What is the common ground for those inside and outside the LGBTQ community, beyond that covered by Equity Advancement? I leave such questions for discussion. But keep this in mind: Technology doesn't solve problems. People solve problems. And we solve them most effectively when we work together.
Rod Wallace is a business consultant, economist, and speaker who works at the crossroads of strategy, technology, and social good. His TEDx Talk, Meaningful Profit: When Business Solves Society's Big Problems, explains how competing interests can come together to make a difference. You can find him at RodWallacePhD.com
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