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With college costs rising, most students need help paying for higher education. And most will rely on more than one source to cover costs. Learn how to put together the pieces of your financial aid package.
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OAKLAND — Damian Lillard, the Portland Trail Blazers second-year star, has the makings of the next great point guard from Oakland.
His numbers at this stage stack up with Hall of Famer Gary Payton and future inductee Jason Kidd. He has a Rookie of the Year trophy on his shelf and could end up with an All-Star selection this week. He already has a reputation as one of the most explosive and clutch guards in the NBA.
But it is too early to place him on the mantel with the Oakland legends. So says his father.
"He's got a long way to go," Houston Lillard said. "He's not there yet."
Lillard's going to get there. Not just because he has a smooth outside shot, with range that rivals anyone in the league. Not because on top of that he is aggressive and creative at getting to the basket.
But Lillard also has the mental makeup to pair with his talent. He has the rare ability to juggle confidence and humility.
The former drives him to impose his will, gives him the fortitude to take the respect he is sure he deserves. In yesteryear, it was simply known as pride. These days, they call it swag.
The latter keeps him working on his game. Keeps him appreciative of his burgeoning stardom. After Sunday's loss to the host Warriors, in which he needed 16 shots to get 16 points, he spent time with his usually large throng of family and friends. Lillard supporters are known for taking over an entire section when he comes home. Many of them got pictures and autographs and hugs.
They usually get a show as well, but Lillard was outshined this day by Stephen Curry. In the latest installment of what is sure to be an excellent rivalry, Curry went off for 38 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in less than 35 minutes.
Lillard struggled his last time here as well, back in November, but came alive in the third quarter with a couple of big 3-pointers as Portland took over the game and eventually won. He has yet to top his first performance at Oracle Arena as a pro, dropping 37 points on the Warriors, going on a second-half outburst to nearly steal one from Golden State.
Like Curry, Lillard is already known as one of the league's best closers. He is sixth in the NBA in total fourth-quarter points, punctuated by two game-winners this season.
He has a knack for performing best in the clutch. He's comfortable when the stakes are highest, a trait developed by the city whose name he has tattooed across his chest.
"He's been that way since about the eighth grade," Lillard's dad recalled. "I tell him all the time to just be natural and regular. There is nothing to be scared of on the basketball court."
Certainly, Lillard had a lot more to be afraid of growing up in Brookfield, a neighborhood close enough to the Coliseum to hear the roars. He's witnessed and experienced some things that make basketball — even the pressure of it all — a comforting escape.
One night as a junior in high school, he was near Eastmont Mall. The Oakland High basketball star was robbed while minding his own business. They took his smartphone and the cash he had in his pocket. And he was relieved.
"That's something to be scared of," his father said.
In hindsight, it's clear to see how Lillard has been groomed for this mantle as Oakland's next. He was just close enough to the drama and danger to experience its effects but still had the family structure to get through it.
He's had his talents honed since he started showing glimmers of a real future. The pressure of Oakland Athletic League basketball — with only six schools, every opponent is a hated rival — fostered the flair to Lillard's game. His AAU coach with the Oakland Rebels, sensing he had something special, never let Lillard coast.
Even as a kid, his toughness was crafted by playing against bigger, older types. Mostly against his older brother, Houston Jr., and cousins "Jonathan and Deuce" — none of whom took it easy on him, whether they were on the blacktop or using a milk crate affixed to the telephone pole by his grandmother's house.
Still, despite his obvious talent, he remained unheralded. He wound up having to go to Utah to play college ball as Weber State was the only college pining to get him. Which worked out perfectly for Lillard as he got three full years of experience carrying the load and sculpting the chip on his shoulder.
He has the talent. But it's those things, the intangibles, that separate the good from the great, that put Lillard in line to join the likes of Payton, Kidd and Brian Shaw in Oakland lore. He will get there.
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The first two NBA seasons for Damian Lillard (top) have been on par with fellow Oakland point guards and future Hall of Famers Gary Payton (middle) and Jason Kidd. Here are Kidd's and Payton's statistics through two seasons, and Lillard's career stats entering Sunday:
Jason Kidd 1994-95 1995-96
Points 11.7 16.6
Assists 7.7 9.7
Rebounds 5.4 6.8
Gary Payton 1990-91 1991-92
Points 7.2 9.4
Assists 6.4 6.2
Rebounds 3.0 3.6
Damian Lillard 2012-13 2013-14
Points 19.0 20.8
Assists 6.5 5.7
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Helen Gurley Brown told women they didn't have to compromise: They could have the career, the man, the family, and a great sex life. As the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, she defended this agenda enthusiastically for more than 30 years. Judy Woodruff and writer Gail Sheehy remember the life and legacy of Gurley Brown.


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The body's largest joint, the knee is where the femur (thighbone), the tibia (shinbone) and patella (knee bone) connect. In addition to these three bones, the joint also consists of muscles that help the joint move; ligaments that connect the bones to one another and that help stabilize the joint; and cartilage that acts as a shock absorber between the bones. When any of these parts cease to function properly due to disease or injury, repairs may be indicated to reduce pain and improve mobility.
The scapula (shoulder blade) and the humerus (bone of the upper arm) meet in an area of the scapula called the glenoid. Ligaments, tendons, cartilage and muscles provide stability and movement to the joint. Usually, when this joint has become injured or unstable, muscles, ligaments or tendons have been affected. Minimally invasive surgical techniques in many cases are a good option for treating problems in the shoulder.
Three groups of ligaments support the bones of the ankle, the talus (ankle bone), the tibia and fibula (bones of the lower leg). Minimally invasive techniques are available for repairing or reconstructing ligaments in this area, as well as for removing loose fragments that may be causing pain or limiting mobility.
A highly complex joint, the wrist consists of eight bones and many ligaments. Minimally invasive surgery may be indicated for a number of reasons including determining the cause of wrist pain; repairing fractures, cartilage or ligaments; removal of inflamed tissue or loose fragments and many others.
Minimally invasive surgeries of the bones and joints are most commonly done through arthroscopy. For these procedures, physicians use a device called an arthroscope, which the surgeon inserts into the joint through a small incision. The arthroscope transmits an image of the joint's interior to a video monitor that the surgeon views during the procedure. Using surgical instruments inserted through other small incisions, the surgeon is able to make the necessary repairs to the affected joint.
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CLARKSDALE, Miss. -- It was long after the fact when Bill McNamee, our former publisher who died this week, told me I was the only person who'd ever turned down one of his job offers.
We were half a world away on an ag tour in Iran, killing time in the airport in the ancient capital Isfahan, waiting for a plane to arrive who-knows-when. Recalling my turndown, Bill said with a wry smile, "I would have fired you if I could have." You had to know him to appreciate the remark.
I'd answered a blind ad in the Memphis newspaper for an associate editor position with a "rapidly-growing Mississippi publication," which turned out to be Delta Farm Press, and on an October evening, with a golden full moon glimmering and the smell of cotton harvest heavy in the air, I arrived at the company's spanking new Clarksdale headquarters building for my interview with Bill.
Most newspaper offices I'd been in over the years were, at best, minimally-organized warrens of clutter. The Farm Press offices were as though they'd sprung intact from an upscale interior design magazine, paintings adorning the walls, carpet so lush and thick I could've used it for a bed. Bill, immaculately dressed in suit and tie, was ensconced in a gorgeously paneled office at least half the size of my entire house, behind a designer desk that I figured cost more than I earned in a month.
Whoa, I thought: this ain't like any newspaper operation I've seen before.
After having me take his required timed intelligence test ("Nobody's ever made a perfect score," he said, though he never told us what our scores were) and going through his interview inquisition, Bill advised, "I've had more than 50 applications for this job from all over the country. I'll let you know when I make a decision." If he was the least bit impressed with me or my qualifications, it wasn't apparent. I handed him a sheaf of my writing samples, we said our goodbyes, and I fully expected to never hear from him again.
Time went by. A month or more later, he phoned out of the blue, offered me the job. In the meantime, I'd done some checking around and found the landscape littered with editors and sales people who'd clashed with Bill and were given the boot or left. Cantankerous, ornery, demanding, perfectionist, opinionated — those were but a few of the descriptions they applied to him. No way, I'd decided, that I wanted to work for him.
I crawfished, told him I was sorry, things had changed, I couldn't accept. Didn't want to uproot my young family. The frost in his voice nearly froze my ear to the phone. I expected never to hear from him again.
Two years later, out of the blue, Bill phoned. Business was booming, he was launching two new publications, Southeast Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press, and offered me a job, with more money than the nice salary he'd dangled two years earlier. "Let's give it a try," I told my wife. "We'll stay a year, and if it doesn't work out, we'll go elsewhere."
This November will be 30 years since I said "yes" to Bill the second time around: A lot of miles over much of the globe and a lot of words in hundreds and hundreds of issues. And sure enough, it was like no other newspaper operation I'd encountered before.
Bill turned out to be everything I'd been forewarned: cantankerous, ornery, demanding, perfectionist, opinionated, Vesuvian in his anger — not to mention prickly, irritating, infuriating, iconoclastic, obstreperous, quirky (I could never confirm the story that made the rounds of Clarksdale that he'd posted a notice in his new building that everyone had to walk on different sides of the hallways on alternate days in order to equalize wear on the carpet). And in the least expected moments, like rays of sunshine breaking through storm clouds, I found these descriptions could also apply: charming, witty, generous, insightful.
But most importantly, first and foremost, Bill was a staunch defender of journalistic principle. He believed unflinchingly that the reputation and integrity of his publications took precedence over anything else, and that if he had the trust of his readers, business would follow.
He adhered unconditionally, uncompromisingly, to the position that journalism and advertising should be totally separate entities and that the former should not in any way, form, or fashion be influenced by the latter. He forbade the sales staff to as much as suggest an advertiser-related story to one of his editors.
Nor did he believe in quid pro quo with advertisers. Woe betide any ad agency person who dared ask for editorial mention in exchange for advertising. The stories are numerous of those he told where they could stick their advertising. Nor did he shrink from publishing something because an advertiser might take offense. He saw it as a badge of honor, for example, that a series of articles we published during the '70s Arab oil embargo ("The Energy Crisis: Real or Rip-off") cost him a quarter-million dollars in lost advertising from oil-related companies.
"A company should advertise with us because they know our publication has integrity, that it has the trust of its readers," Bill said. "If our editorial content is of unimpeachable integrity, if our readers know we can't be influenced by advertisers, then the value of our product to advertisers is that much greater."
He was not publisher in title only. Almost everything his editors wrote came under his scrutiny, particularly those articles dealing with policy or politics. He'd go over them word for word, slowly, maddeningly, analyzing whether this word or that sentence might hold hidden meaning or be misinterpreted. Rewriting was an accepted part of our routines.
I and most of the Farm Press editors did not come from agricultural backgrounds, but rather from daily/weekly newspapers or national wire services. "As long as someone can write well, I don't care if he doesn't know a soybean from a shoebox," Bill said. "A good writer can learn agriculture." And so we did. In the '70s, he began accumulating the editorial staff that would, three decades later, be perhaps the most stable and most experienced in the industry. Collectively, our editors now have nearly 250 years of experience with Farm Press, with a median tenure of nearly 20 years.
A born-and-bred, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, having seen as a young man the devastating impact of the Great Depression, Bill fervently believed his party was more attuned to the welfare of the everyday citizen and that its farm programs were more protective of the interests of his farmer readers. He thought nothing of picking up the phone to call a member of Congress or a White House official to lobby for farm programs. Or hopping on a plane to Washington to corner them on their own stomping grounds (or sending one of us, often at a moment's notice). He once spent thousands of dollars to charter a yacht for a cruise on the Potomac, with a gaggle of key Capitol Hill decision makers aboard, so he and Delta leaders could bend their ears on farm policy.
His editorials expounding his views of what the government's role should be in supporting a strong American agriculture ruffled a lot of feathers. He didn't care. He believed he was speaking up for what was best for his readers, and he gave nary an inch.
Call it vision, call it luck, or a combination of the two, Bill was in the right place at the right time with the right product during the boom years of agriculture in the late '60s and early '70s. Business was great; Farm Press prospered and expanded, eventually covering 22 Sunbelt states. And in 1984, again through vision or luck or both, he sold out at the right time, pocketing a lot of millions. Not bad for a boy from Tutwiler, Miss., who held just one job during his lifetime.
Many of the farmers and politicians and business leaders with whom he shared the agricultural stage for three and a half decades have themselves died or otherwise left the scene. For many of today's players, the boom years of the late '60s and '70s are only a history book chapter, and government policies and world markets more and more seem at odds with a strong national agriculture. The once-hundreds of agribusiness companies have morphed into only handsful as they merge or go out of business. Publishing, too, has taken a hit from an economy on the ropes.
It would have been interesting to see how Bill would have coped with the vicissitudes of agriculture, the economy, and publishing in the last decade.
Bill was a complex, difficult, often puzzling person. But underlying the single-mindedness that could drive his staff up the wall, was his unyielding determination to stand up for the farmers he served and to steadfastly protect the honesty and integrity of his publications.
One has only to pore over the thousands of issues published during his 35-year career to understand how well he succeeded.
Goodbye, Bill. -30-


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Fantasy Commentator
Fantasy Commentator was a fanzine by A. Langley Searles that was first published in the 1940's and ended in the 2000's.
Fantasy Commentator with the subtitle, "...covering the field of imaginative literature..." , was a letter sized, stapled zine first appearing in 1943. Twenty eight issues were published between 1943 and 1953 in New York City, New York, U.S.A. Searle resumed publication of the zine in 1978 with issue 29 and published until 2004.
Contributors from the first run included F. Lee Baldwin, Robert Bloch, Redd Boggs (The Lovecraftsman), Charles Peter Brady, Thomas H. Carter, Joyce Dayday, William Evans, Nora May French, Thomas Gardener, Malcolm Jameson, David H. Keller, H.C. Koenig, Thyril Ladd, R. George Medhurst, Darrell G. Richardson, Sam Moskowitz (Helios), Matthew Onderdonk, Alex Osheroff, A. Langley Searles, Genevieve K. Stevens (Loki), and William Sloane with H.P. Lovecraft.
Contributors to the later run included Eric Leif Davin, Steve Eng, writing on Stanton Coblentz and the "Stellar Poetry" movement of Coblentz and Lilith Lorraine , H. R. Felgenhauer, writing on Joseph Payne Brennen (Macabre), and Steve Sneyd.
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The Most Stylish Ways To Wear A White Coat
With the help of some street style snaps, we gathered eight inspiring ways to style a white coat this winter. Click through to learn more.
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The Age of Adaline is a beautiful glimpse into the eternity.
The Age of Adaline if not great, is a good movie that skims romance gorgeously. The concept though a mere fantasy is brought to life with a scientific outlook and a background narration that doesn't properly explore the how. The theme of the movie is romance and it tries to stay on it with Lee Toland Krieger's beautiful direction. The drama is great to watch owing to exceptional performances packed in by Harrison Ford and Blake Lively.
In the beginning things are a little mediocre, with the far-fetched concept and the narration that often returns at unwanted moments, where the director tries to show the past through a black and white film Adaline is looking at and tries to milk the resemblance. However, it becomes an exercise in futility and you wish the narration to just stop as it skims unnecessarily into the diegetic territory. But soon the story resumes its right course with the introduction of Ellis Jones played by Michiel Huisman. The spark that he brings with him complements Adaline well and the story gallops into something from nothing.
The moment Harrison Ford is introduced into the story the flick's luster refurbishes itself completely. Melodrama becomes grave and the tale becomes a tad dark. However, it soon gets wobbled up by mediocrity once again and Fordism disappears eventually.
What stops this movie from being great is its screenplay. There aren't many lines that explore profundity. Also, unlike David Fincher's dark aftermath, this movie doesn't explore the many phases of time. There is so much poetry to a woman that cannot age, and all goes to waste since Krieger was too busy exploring romance, failing to milk the concept enough. What could have been a literally orgastic flick drenched in poetry, dies down into a bleak love story confined to a woman quandary.


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Mayor's Message to the Common Council, of the City of Portsmouth...June 30, 1892
A Confederate veteran who lost his left leg in the battle of Davis's Farm, near Petersburg, in 1864, J. Thompson Baird was elected mayor of Portsmouth 12 times, serving continuously except for one term, during which L.H. Davis was mayor. He died of paralysis on May 9, 1905, at the age of 73. The Portsmouth Board of Aldermen and Common Council, in their Resolutions of Respect, described Baird as "kind hearted, generous, and brave...always tempering justice with mercy when mercy was due."


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Another biologic makes the grade – but will NASTY sanction it?October 6, 2009 at 7:23 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 2 Comments
Tags: arthritis, certolizumab pegol, Cimzia, disease progression, DMARDs, European Commission, FDA, injection, joint damage, methotrexate, MTX, NHS, NICE, RA, Rheumatoid arthritis
Cimzia (certolizumab pegol), a biologic produced by UCB and administered by injection under the skin, has got the OK from the European Commission for use in rheumatoid arthritis. (It was approved by the FDA in the US in May.) It has been approved both as a combination therapy with MTX for those with moderate to severe active RA who haven't responded to treatment with DMARDs, AND as a treatment on its own where a patient can't use methotrexate.
Trials showed that Cimzia brought significant benefits to patients that lasted for more than two years. Clinical data also indicates that Cimzia stops disease progression – or did for the length of the trial, which was around two years.
Of course the big question for the UK (and it's a big question for UCB as well since the UK market is quite a significant one) is will 'NICE' approve it for use on the NHS? I wouldn't like to try and guess but it'll be an interesting story to follow.
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An Affair with the Java Native Access (JNA)
I was recently speaking to a colleague about my first couple projects here at NAG. The first project was learning to call the Library from Python using c-types (thanks to Mike Croucher's blog which helped immensely). Next, was a project using the Java Native Interface (JNI), which I had difficulty using. After hearing the above two pieces of information, my colleague recommended I look into Java Native Access (JNA) as it was very similar to c-types in Python. Thus began a brief love affair! I say 'love affair' because my experience the JNA was a bit of a roller coaster of highs and lows. In the beginning, the JNA and I got along great. As time went on, I was left sitting at the computer screen wondering what to do next, hoping for the JNA to fix things.
Background of JNI
NAG already has a thorough technical report on our website for calling the NAG Library using the Java Native Interface. This includes creating header files, compiling java files, compiling the interface library, and running the program. Seems like lots of work, even for simple functions. I was hoping the JNA would be easier.
First date with the JNA
To start using the JNA you just need to go to download the .jar file from https://github.com/twall/jna. Download the file and then move it to the directory you will be working in. Unzip it to create a com folder and you're done! You can now start using it. Whenever you need to use a package from the JNA, just import it at the top of your Java file.
My first impression of the JNA started off on a high note. I found it extremely easy to start using the interface. Looking at code for calling the Bessel function (routine s17acc):
import com.sun.jna.Library;
import com.sun.jna.Native;
import com.sun.jna.Platform;
public class HelloWorldBessel { public interface CLibrary extends Library { CLibrary INSTANCE = (CLibrary) Native.loadLibrary("/opt/NAG/cll3a09dgl/lib/libnagc_nag.so", CLibrary.class);
double s17acc(double k,int fail); } public static void main(String[] args) {
int k=0; int retCode=0;
System.out.println("Y0(" + k + ") is " + CLibrary.INSTANCE.s17acc(k,retCode));
Using the JNA takes only a couple lines! Feel free to compile and run it yourself! No header files, no Javac/Javah code to compile, no JNI in sight! I was excited how easy the JNA was and very eager to try other functions.
Falling in love again
The second impression of the JNA was very nice as well. The reason I 'fell in love' was that it took only a couple more lines of code from the above Bessel example to call the linear equation solver (f04arc). Once variables are initialized and we've declared the f04arc method, all we need is a call to
CLibrary.INSTANCE.f04arc(n, a, tda, b, x,fail);
Again, it was nice and easy to use. Note: if the NAG function detects an error in the inputs, the error is automatically printed, and the entire program is terminated. A small inconvenience, but all relationships have some skeletons hidden in the closet.
Never getting Calledback
The JNA and I hit of rough patch with the callbacks. It proved to be difficult on getting the right calls, in addition to mapping C structures to Java. It took me pages of online forums and reading through user comments, but you end up needing to add extra lines when loading the library, creating the callback, and adding a structure class. A brief excerpt:public interface CLibrary extends Library { CLibrary INSTANCE = (CLibrary)
Native.loadLibrary("/opt/NAG/cll3a09dgl/lib/libnagc_nag.so", CLibrary.class);
interface acallback extends Callback{
double invoke(double x);
void d01ajc(Callback fun, double a, double b, double epsabs, double epsrel, int max_num_subint, DoubleByReference result, DoubleByReference abserr, Nag_QuadProgress qp,int fail);
CLibrary.acallback fn=new CLibrary.acallback(){
public double invoke(double x){
You'll note when calling d01ajc, I needed to pass a Quad_Progress structure into the function. To do this, we need to create a structure with variables, but if you examine the contents of these variable after the call d01ajc, their information is meaningless (comments on how the call to d01ajc populates these fields are welcome below!). On top of this, the JNA does not handle errors very well. Since it is not apart of Java itself, I would oftentimes get "An error occurred outside Java" and left wondering which argument I got wrong.
Averaged over 100 runs, the timings are:
Back to the JNI
My first impression of the JNA was nice. It was simple and no 'glue code' was required. Upon further investigation I found a couple of drawbacks which include:
- Mapping C structures to Java
- Slightly slower than JNI
- Error Handling
Since we already have most (if not all) the wrappers for the Library using the JNI, I will stick with that for now. Alas, my time with the JNA was fun while it lasted.


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Enough is Enough: Stop Violence against Women!
One in every three women in the world will be physically or sexually abused at some point in her life. This could include the woman sitting next to you on the bus, your little niece playing in the garden, or even a friend you have known all your life.
For years, Rumana Manzur, assistant professor at Dhaka University, had been silent about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband. But on June 5, 2011, Manzur was brutally attacked at home. Her husband beat her mercilessly, tried to gouge out her eyes, and bit off part of her nose in a fit of rage. Their 5-year-old daughter was in the room and witnessed this inhuman act. Manzur is now blind, her daughter traumatized for life.


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USDA has raised its forecasts for U.S. corn and sorghum exports to the highest levels in nearly two decades. Buoyed in part by U.S. corn and sorghum sales, the value of U.S. agricultural exports rose $1 billion compared to last year. Estimated exports of U.S. corn were increased by 100 million bushels and U.S. sorghum by 40 million bushels.
This is particularly good news for U.S. grain producers as corn demand for ethanol was lowered by 100 million bushels for the second consecutive month.
Ken Hobbie, U.S. Grains Council president and CEO, also noted that the organization's market building programs have introduced ethanol co-products such as distiller's grains and corn gluten in markets from Morocco to Taiwan.
According to USDA's Oct. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, U.S. corn production is expected to reach 13.3 billion bushels and 2007-08 exports are projected to be 2.35 billion bushels, the most in 18 years. USDA also lowered China's corn production by 157 million bushels, to 5.6 billion bushels.
The latter is in line with assessments by USGC officials on the Council's 2007 China Corn Tour, which estimated China's production at approximately 5.5 billion bushels.
In Europe, coarse grain production has suffered from bad weather, creating demand for U.S. sorghum. USDA's monthly foreign agricultural trade data released on Oct. 11 revealed a 28 percent increase in the value of U.S. grains and feeds exports for October 2006 through August 2007, contributing to an overall increase in value from $63.2 billion to $74.25 billion.
"U.S. grains and grain products are valued across the globe for their high quality and reliable supply," said Dale Artho, USGC chairman and a Texas sorghum producer. "Europe's grain shortage is altering international grain markets as their demand for U.S. sorghum will most likely result in some of our grain typically exported to Mexico going instead to European buyers. This will lead to additional export opportunities for U.S. corn to Mexico."
Artho hopes the tight supply and demand situation will increase calls in the European Union to approve more biotech events and reopen the market to U.S. corn and corn products as a means to control rising food costs on the continent.


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Solving a 30-Year-Old Problem in High Mass Star Formation
Friday, January 17, 2014
Some 30 years ago, astronomers found that regions of ionized gas around young high mass stars remain small (under a third of a light-year) for ten times longer than they should if they were to expand as expected in simple models. Recent supercomputer simulations predicted that these regions actually flicker in brightness over this period rather than grow continuously. Observations from a team of researchers using the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) over a 23-year period have confirmed that such flickering actually occurs.
The lives of stars like the Sun are relatively easy to understand, because they are numerous, and live for billions of years. High mass stars, however, are rare and live for only a few million years. As a result, understanding their early evolution has been a challenge. Simple models would suggest that when high mass stars become hot enough to ionize the gas around them, heating it to thousands of degrees, the gas will quickly expand. However, as this happens, the massive stars continue to collect material via their gravitational attraction. As a result, the regions of ionized gas around a star may not simply grow, but instead interact with the infalling material, causing them to flicker in size and brightness during the main assembly phase of the massive stars.
The new observations confirming the occurrence of such flickering were published this week in The Astrophysical Journal (Letters) by a collaboration of theorists and observers at Agnes Scott College, Universität Zürich, American Museum of Natural History, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, European Southern Observatory, and Universität Heidelberg.
Since the VLA was dedicated in 1980, astronomers have observed a large number of regions of ionized hydrogen (so-called H II regions) around high-mass stars that were very small, so small they were termed ultracompact. These early observations conflicted with existing models, which predicted that only the very youngest regions should be so small, and hence, they should be rarely seen. Several models have been proposed to explain this discrepancy, but the recent numerical work made a testable prediction that differed from the other models. If the cause of the small size was the continued infall of material, these radio sources should flicker and the changes in brightness should be detectable over a 20-year period. "In astronomy it is a rare occurrence to see sources vary on such short timescales, " said Thomas Peters from Universität Zürich, who led the numerical simulations. "But the regions we predicted to change are huge, almost a thousand times larger than the Solar System!"
The researchers, led by Chris De Pree, professor of astronomy and director of the Bradley Observatory at Agnes Scott College, used VLA observations of the Sagittarius B2 region made in 1989 and again in 2012. This massive star forming region located near the Galactic center contains many small regions of ionized gas around high mass stars, providing a large number of candidates for flickering.
"In the old theoretical model, a high-mass star forms, the HII region lights up and begins to expand, everything was neat and tidy," De Pree said. "But the group of theorists I am working with were running numerical models that showed accretion was continuing during star formation, and that material was continuing to fall in toward the star after the HII region had formed."
De Pree's group chose Sagittarius B2 because the region contains more than 40 ultracompact HII regions. "Since there are so many sources, you can look for changes in relative brightness," De Pree said. Between 1989 and 2012, four of the HII regions indeed changed in brightness significantly.
"The long term trend is still the same, that HII regions expand with time," De Pree said. "But in detail, they get brighter or get fainter and then recover. Careful measurements over time can observe this more detailed process."
Caption for telescope image: Observations of the massive star forming region Sgr B2 were made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in 1989 and 2012. The VLA has been operational since 1980 and received a major upgrade that was completed in 2011. (Credit: NRAO/AUI)
Caption for second image: This false-color Very Large Array image of the ionized gas in the star forming region Sgr B2 Main was used to detect small but significant changes in brightness of several of the sources. The blobs and filaments in this image are regions of ionized gas around massive stars. The changes in brightness detected support a model that could solve a 30-year-old question in high mass star formation. (Credit: NRAO/Agnes Scott College)
Agnes Scott College educates women to think deeply, live honorably and engage the intellectual and social challenges of their times. Students are drawn to Agnes Scott by its excellent academic reputation, exceptional faculty and metropolitan Atlanta location—offering myriad social, cultural and experiential learning opportunities. This highly selective liberal arts college is known for its diverse and dynamic intellectual community. Through SUMMIT, it provides every student, regardless of major, with an individualized course of study and co-curricular experiences that develop leadership abilities and understanding of complex global dynamics.


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Denial of Service - Appeal
The following policy shall constitute right of appeal for denial of library services by the St. Charles City-County Library District.
Citizens who have been denied library service for any reason shall, after the normal course of reviews by branch managers and the Deputy Director as specified within various policies of the District, have fifteen days to appeal in writing such denial to the Director of the Library District. The Director shall respond in writing with a ruling concerning the denial within fifteen days.
If the Director finds that service shall continue to be denied, a final appeal may be made to the District's Board of Trustees. Such appeal must be made in writing and must arrive at the District's Administrative offices no later than the 25th of the month for inclusion in the following month's Board packet. The Trustees shall be supplied with the final patron appeal along with all findings by management. Appeals to the Board of Trustees must be filed within thirty days of the date of the denial finding submitted by the Director.
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Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray hasn't had much luck staying healthy during his first two NFL seasons, making the need for a quality second option in the backfield a fairly important one in Dallas.
Lance Dunbar has shown some signs of being just that in the preseason. He's run eight times for 45 yards and caught six passes for 83 yards during a preseason that's been marred only by a fumble at the tail end of a long catch-and-run against the Cardinals on Saturday. Dunbar's status for the rest of the preseason and the start of the regular season is up in the air now, though.
Dunbar has a sprained left foot and is wearing a protective boot to protect it. Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com reports that Dunbar could be out for three or four weeks, a timetable that puts the first couple of weeks of the season in doubt while also costing Dunbar time to work with the team in a third-down back as they rehearse for the regular season in their third preseason game.
Fifth-round pick Joseph Randle will likely move up to the No. 2 spot on the depth chart with Dunbar out. Randle has not been particularly impressive in the preseason, but it appears he'll get a chance to make a stronger impression in the next few weeks.


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The House of Sandeman and the History of Port Wine : Port wine it seems was discovered in the 17th century when British merchants added brandy to the wine of the northern Douro region to prevent it souring and to improve its shelf-life during shipment to England. The wine was called Port, … [Read more...]
Port Wine Tasting at The House of Sandeman – Oporto
Meet the Mysterious Don at The House of Sandeman: We're on a port wine-tasting tour of The House of Sandeman. Our "Don" guide (in fact, a blonde woman dressed like Antonio Banderas in "Zorro") meets us at the entrance. Even after claiming for years 'reformed status' as regards his time as an … [Read more...]


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First floor 4 bedroom with attached bathroom
Wardrobe in all room
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The Editor's Back Fence
You Need to Know
Here are a few important articles which ran this week in the commercial publications which cover Berkeley:
The Media News publications ran this story about the Berkeley City Council's handling of the city's chronic homeless population. It's noteworthy that reporter Judith Scherr not only covered the city council meeting, where all was mostly sweetness and light, but also covered the Chamber of Commerce meeting where Mayor Bates sang a different tune.
Sudden Oak Death is a very real problem for the East Bay. Berkeley Patch, the local manifestation of the Huffington Post/Yahoo empire, has a good story about a new UC project to track its spread.
Another UC Berkeley story that's not so upbeat is featured on berkeleyside.com: the Big U's plan to build a lavish and probably ugly swim center on Bancroft which has been criticized by city planners and residents.
And finally, Berkeleyside's links section points to a press release from the Berkeley Public Education Foundation which oddly enough was not sent to the Daily Planet, reporting the appointment of longtime developers' flack Erin Rhoades, spouse of Mark Rhoades, another one of same, as the foundation's executive director. This should come as no surprise, since the BPEF chair is developer Chris Hudson. School district watchers might be alert to the potential expansion of the Berkeley Unified School District's edifice complex, which is now producing a wall of concrete along Milvia, with more in the works.


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Inspired by the Past: Timeless Style for the KODAK EKTRA
Old meets new in this retro-inspired Camera Case for the KODAK EKTRA. Look the part and style your Ektra to fit your lifestyle with this impressive genuine leather case, custom built to make the most of your camera-first smartphone. Taking inspiration from the original Kodak SLR cameras, this case sports brass accents, a hard-shell lens protector and an inner scratch-resistant micro-fibre lining, with an adjustable shoulder strap completing the look.
- Heritage SLR-Inspired Design
- Genuine Hand-Stitched Leather Design
- Anti-Scratch Microfiber Interior Lining
- Removable Lens and Screen Cover
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Recently, I received samples for review of House Spirits Distillery's Aviation Gin and Krogstad Aquavit. I've bought several bottles of Aviation over the last couple of years. I like it, even though it's considered a "New Western"-style gin–meaning it de-emphasizes juniper to focus on other botanicals. Now, I like a juniper-forward gin. I always have a 1.75L bottle of Beefeater to keep on hand and threaten the cats with, and to my mind there's no better martini than one made 3 parts Beefeater to 1 part vermouth. But I also like tripping through other styles of gin, and Aviation's no exception.
The Krogstad, though, is new to me, and to be honest, so is aquavit as a spirits category. I can't really judge the Krogstad except on its own merits, since I've never sampled its competitors. I really like it, though. It carries notes of anise and caraway right at the front, and it's very tasty. I'm looking forward to what some might consider an unconventional use for it. I have a recipe for home-cured salmon, and where this recipe calls for Pernod, I'm planning to use Krogstad in its place. Yummy, yeah?
UPDATED with photo by Jennifer Hess
But I'm not here today to review the products or speak of charcuterie. I'm here for cocktails, and I have a doozy that I whipped up to showcase these spirits. I call this the Mah Nà Mah Nà. If you want to know why, you'll have to buy me a drink and I'll tell you. This quaff, though, is a botanical bomb, all the more reason to love it.
Mah Nà Mah Nà
- 1 oz. Aviation gin
- 3/4 oz. Krogstad aquavit
- 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 oz. yellow Chartreuse
- lemon twist, for garnish
Shake it over ice like Animal, strain it into Miss Piggy's slipper, and enjoy.


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Acknowledging that the movie business is "not for the faint of heart," NBCUniversal Chief Executive Steve Burke said he'd like to see more animation and more franchise films out of Universal in the years ahead.
"We've had our ups and downs for the last 18 months," Burke said at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Investor Conference in Beverly Hills on Thursday. Among Universal's disappointments this year were "Battleship" and "The Five-Year Engagement."
But "Ted" was a smash and "The Lorax" and "The Bourne Legacy" delivered solid numbers.
"We'd like to see 'Ted 2' as soon as we can," Burke said.
Burke is hoping for more from the Universal Pictures-backed animation shop Illumination Entertainment. The plan is for Illumination to go from making one film every 18 months to two a year, Burke said. Next year, Illumination will release a sequel to "Despicable Me."
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Mumbai: Having "fed the 5,000" and fulfilled his duty of leading the India hockey team to Olympic qualification, Australian coach Michael Nobbs has set the target of a top-six finish in London.
The former hockey powerhouse won the last of their eight gold medals in 1980 but their gradual decline reached its lowest ebb in 2008 when the team failed to qualify for the Beijing, the first time India missed a Games in 80 years.
So it was a huge relief for the nation when the team won a qualifying tournament in Delhi in February to seal a London berth.
"I was very relieved. I was quite apprehensive. I knew how Indian hockey had probably declined in the last number of years," Nobbs, who took on the job in July 2011, said in an interview.
"They were just not going anywhere because they were sitting 10th in the world... And then everyone came up to me and said 'you realise you have to qualify?' At least 5,000 have told me and I was waiting for the rest of the nation to walk up to me and tell me. It was very stressful," he said.
A rumbling administrative row and cricket's emergence as the most dominant sport in the country have not helped Indian hockey. But the team's qualification gave hockey some rare front page coverage in local dailies and also dominated the primetime news slots. Sponsors and local governments have jumped on the bandwagon by announcing cash bonuses for the national hockey team.
Nobbs considers India an "unseeded player" when they face-off against their higher-ranked opponents that include Australia, Germany and Netherlands, during the London Games.
Tough ask
"Realistically, let me put it this way. Anything can happen," Nobbs said by phone from Bangalore, where a national camp for the players was being held.
"We are an unseeded player, playing against top seeds and there is always a chance that we can knock a few of them off.
"I think if we can finish in the top six that would be realistic but it would be a pretty tough ask. If we can do anything better than that, we will be profoundly happy."
India remained unbeaten in six matches and scored 44 goals during the qualifiers.
Nobbs felt more time was needed before the players could match the fitness and strength of their counterparts from Australia and Europe.
"One thing that is hindering us is the fact that our European and Australian counterparts are six to eight kilos heavier," the Australian said.
"They are physically stronger. Skill-wise we are pretty much at par. But that makes a huge difference.
"They have spent five-six years preparing for this Olympic Games. We have spent six months and trying to repair the damage that's been caused over a number years."
For the 57-year old Nobbs, the development plan is more long-term for hockey in India.
"It's a time factor more than anything else. The publicity just shows the passion in the people in this country and how much they love the sport," he said.
"We know we are not good, not yet. But we are going to be. And that's going to take a bit of time to repair that.
"It's helped that the cricket team has been absolutely whitewashed (in England and Australia) in the last two overseas series.
"People have started to focus on something that's actually winning something. Hockey is the national sport of this country and it certainly helps."
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The first dish served on Miles Thompson's five-course tasting menu during the Vagrancy Project's residency at Allston Yacht Club on a recent Monday was called "Oyster." But it was so much more. The 24-year-old chef had encased a raw oyster inside a translucent oval of rosy kimchi gelée
and placed it on top of a bed of crushed dashi gelée redolent of fish and earthy soy sauce. He then added a soft, pink mound of pied de cochon, a few rounds of pickled radish, some crunchy agretti and slender scallion slices.
"People say I'm crazy all the time. That I'm too young to do what I'm doing," says Thompson who left a high-profile job as executive sous-chef at Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's acclaimed seafood restaurant Son of a Gun to start the Vagrancy Project as a pop-up series in his living room.
But talk of crazy hasn't stopped the blogs from buzzing. After rapturous write-ups on various food blogs and websites, Thompson scored a semi-permanent home for Vagrancy at AYC, Charles Kelly and Bill DiDonna's cozy Echo Park restaurant.
Every Monday and Tuesday night through Labor Day, Vagrancy takes over the restaurant with Thompson's fantastical brand of cooking paired with cocktails by mixologist Nathan Oliver (Ink, Harvard & Stone, Church & State). Fond of jazz and music analogies, Thompson is calling this a "residency" rather than a pop-up and says that it's phase two of a business plan that he hopes will lead him to phase three: his dream of opening his own restaurant, which he plans to call Cottage.
Turning a pop-up into a brick-and-mortar restaurant is not a new idea. It's the scope of Thompson's ambition that's noteworthy. He imagines Cottage as a 28-seat, tasting-menu-only restaurant — perhaps with a bar like the one at Providence, where diners have the option of ordering a single dish.
"I like the freedom of à la carte, but I love the formality of a tasting menu. I love building them — the commitment to crafting something and living with it is amazing," says Thompson, who is small and intense with coffee-brown skin and liquid green eyes (he was also an actor, landing a role in Miranda July's 2005 film, "You and Me and Everyone We Know").
Thompson, raised in South Salem, N.Y., began washing dishes at a local restaurant at age 13. In 2007, the self-taught chef moved to L.A. and immediately landed a job as lead line cook at Nobu L.A. ("I gave a really good interview," says Thompson of his meeting with chef Alex Becker.) From there he moved on to Animal and Son of a Gun.
He left the latter because "I needed to do that. I was hungry to create," says Thompson, who briefly worked with revered pop-up chef Craig Thornton before starting Vagrancy. "I loved working there. They taught me a lot about restraint in food and management."
How restrained it is to serve a $175, 21/2-pound Stemple Creek Ranch bone-in rib-eye steak on the bar menu is another matter. But the buttery meat goes well with Oliver's Classic Frisco Rittenhouse 100 Benedictine, a bottled cocktail that he has created for a company called Bottle Service that he is in the process of launching. In a clever twist on the company's name, Oliver shows diners how to pour and garnish the drink by themselves.
"I never thought bottle service would be me making my own drink," jokes Oliver, 27, about what customers say.
The juxtaposition of Thompson's serious food — including a clever dish of John Dory on a black-bubble bed of miso tapioca "risotto" in aromatic candied shiitake butter — with the unpretentious familiarity of his staff and the laid-back atmosphere of AYC makes for a playful dining experience tailored for lazy summer nights.
"I really like Miles and Nathan," says AYC's DiDonna. "I hope we've done everything we can to give them a leg up, although I'm not sure they need it."
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Study Documents Conversion of Grassland to Crops
SIOUX FALLS - A new study documents a loss of 1.3 million acres of grassland over a five-year period in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa.
The research by Christopher Wright and Michael Wimberly of the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence at South Dakota State University says a doubling in commodity prices has created incentives for landowners to convert grassland to corn and soybean cropping.
The authors say the conversion rates have not been seen in the Corn Belt since the 1920s and 1930s, the era of rapid mechanization of U.S. agriculture.
Grassland conversion between 2006 and 2011 was mostly concentrated in North Dakota and South Dakota, east of the Missouri River.
The study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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Reykjavik, Iceland – ipSoft today is pleased to introduce Chord Dictionary 1.0, an iOS version of its innovative, Mac OS X, music app that provides instant reverse chord lookup from a guitar fretboard. Unlike most chord dictionaries, which allow the user to select a chord and then view the correct fingering on the fretboard, the app allows users to create their own chord and then lookup its name. An ideal reference tool for musicians of any level of expertise, Chord Dictionary can figure out chord names just from notes and intervals, and it will identify every conceivable chord on all 22 frets of the guitar and every possible note over the guitar's almost 4-octave range. The app can also be used as an interactive teaching tool, allowing musicians to learn new chords by discovering what happens when they alter a basic chord they already know. Now portable on mobile devices, the app includes audio playback of the note or chord selected, an advanced touch interface, and saving fretboard diagrams to the Photo Library.
Feature Highlights:
* Reverse chord lookup from a guitar fretboard
* Covers all 22 frets, plus chords that are physically impossible to play
* Provides the exact name of the chord produced by any fingering
* Hear the notes and chords selected on the guitar neck
* Convenient touch interface
* Scroll to moves up or down the fretboard, while maintaining the fingering
* Save complete, titled chord diagrams to the Photo Library
* An ideal reference for musicians of every level of experience and education
* NEW iOS version makes chord lookup easy anytime, anywhere
Using Chord Dictionary is extremely simple, with black frets and fingerings on a white background. The screen displays five frets vertically and six strings horizontally in the standard representation. On the far left are the fret numbers aligned in a column next to the diagram. Users can scroll up or down one fret at a time with the vertical drag gesture. The default display is of frets 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Guitarists can move up the neck, one fret at a time, until frets 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 are displayed. The components of the chord (root, third, fifth, seventh, etc.) are aligned horizontally at the bottom below each string. Three buttons are located at the bottom of the screen, Clear, Play, and Save. Lastly, the complete name of the chord is displayed in bold above the diagram.
With Chord Dictionary set to display frets 1 – 5, the user simply touches a string to produce a large black dot or fingering (e.g., 1st string, 3rd fret; 5th string, 2nd fret; 6th string, 3rd fret for G Major). Each touch changes the name of the chord and the components of the new chord (it is also possible to eliminate a string from the fingering). Since many chords can be played using a variety of fingerings (inversions and voicings), musicians can quickly determine if they are playing such a variant. In fact, Chord Dictionary will name every conceivable chord on the guitar neck, including those that are physically impossible to play. That means that the app knows music harmony and can figure out chord names just from notes and intervals. This capability is invaluable for students of music theory, jazz guitarists, composers, transcriptionists, and midi-programmers.
The Mac OS X version of Chord Dictionary has been a great success with musicians since it was released in May 2012. After the initial release, the app was updated, giving it the capability of actually playing the chord aloud in addition to identifying it. Having created a fingering, the Play button allows the user to hear single notes or complete chords. To include the sound of an open string in a chord, the musician can touch above the string, creating a large white dot (no fingering). Playback reproduces the sound of every string with a white or black dot, strummed downward. The professionally recorded library of individual notes, played on a classical guitar, supplies all the notes to create the selected chord. The Clear button removes all fingerings and the Save button exports the diagram to the Camera Roll.
Learning about chords from books is somewhat difficult, but Chord Dictionary offers an alternative. For example, from the G Major chord it is possible to create a large number of other G chords, such as G maj7, maj9, maj11, maj13, maj9#11, maj13#11, 6, add9, 6add9, maj7b5, maj7#5, m7, m9, m11, m13, m6, madd9, m6add9, mmaj7, mmaj9, m7b5, m7#5, 7, 9, 11, 13 7sus4, 7b5, 7#5, 7b9, 7#9, 7, aug, dim, dim7, sus4, sus2, etc. From the basic, three-finger, G Major chord (1st string/3rd fret, 5th/2nd, 6th/3rd), the musician can learn interactively the result of adding the 4th string: 1st fret (Gaug5); 2nd fret (G6); 3rd fret (G7); 4th fret (Gmaj7); 5th fret (Gmaj), etc.
"How many times have you played a chord but weren't quite sure exactly what chord it was?" asked Sigthor Hrafnsson of ipSoft. "Now with Chord Dictionary, the reverse lookup, you can be certain of the name of every chord. And this iOS version includes all the features and capabilities of the full OS X application."
Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS/4/4S/5, iPod touch (3rd/4th/5th generation), and iPad
* iOS 6 or later
Pricing and Availability:
Chord Dictionary 1.0 for iOS is $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Reference category. Review copies are available on request. The Mac OS X version of Chord Dictionary is $1.99 and available through the Mac App Store.
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In the past five years, the evolution of social media and its influence on business has been unprecedented. The bottom line message is: The customer is no longer outside the organization; the customer is now shaping the organization. If you want to thrive in this economy as a product or service, your approach to evolving the business requires a customer-centric approach.
What does customer-centric mean? Providing a superior customer experience across an organizations product and services, providing the customer with indisputable value and satisfaction is the simplest form of being customer-centric. One can argue that most organizations today adopt this approach, but the reality is there are only a handful who have really embraced the concept and made gains. There are others who have tried and failed, and yet others who probably have a lip-service approach.
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The key to stopping pet overpopulation and curbing the number of feral cats at Caltech and other locations is convincing humans to be responsible pet owners and spay and neuter our pets. Pets count on us humans to care for and protect them, and helping to control their population is an essential part of that commitment. The procedure is simple and painless to the pet, it is beneficial to your pet, and there is no good reason not to do it (but there are a lot of myths).
Spaying and neutering is not an expensive operation at most veterinarians, but nevertheless, cost can be an important consideration for many people. The following lists provide many sources for low-cost spay/neuter services, as well as vaccinations and testing, in Pasadena and neighboring cities:
If you still cannot afford the fees, please contact us and we will try to help you find an alternative.
If you simply need to borrow a pet carrier, you can contact us and we gladly loan you one. If you need assistance taking your pet to a place that can perform spaying/neutering, will try to help as well, but please try other alternatives first (e.g., ask your friends).


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The password could be dead by 2015.
That's the prediction (and hope) among security experts who are racing to replace the is-it-really-you test, which dates to the early 1960s. Since then, passwords have become an omnipresent nuisance for both users and security officers—perpetually forgotten and inevitably stolen, as evidenced this week by the news that a Russian gang has amassed a trove of more than one billion login credentials. (Read: More than a billion online accounts breached by Russian gang.)
Two out of every three data breaches involve the exploitation of weak or stolen passwords, according to Verizon's 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report. And making them stronger isn't much help.
The more requirements websites add for passwords—to reach a minimum number of characters using uppercases, lowercases, and special characters, to avoid strings similar to previous passwords, to do a handstand while typing it in—the more likely people are to reuse passwords across accounts or create weak ones, researchers say. A 2012 study found that almost one-third of people have more than 10 unique passwords, and 38% of people would rather scrub toilets than try to come up with new ones. Listen to an interview with Priya Anand on the future of passwords.
The tech industry is brimming with companies touting products to block impostors in a post-password age—all aiming to cash in on cybercrime, a problem with an estimated global cost of up to $445 billion, according to Internet security firm McAfee. Among the options: software that, invisible to the user, tracks contextual factors like time and location, and how users type, wiggle their mouses and swipe screens; and biometric scanners for faces, eyes, voices, veins and even heartbeats, often in combination with a designated mobile device.
A working group to create password-alternatives, called the FIDO Alliance, released a draft of new standards for online authentication in February and plans to issue the final version by the end of the year. Its members include Google GOOG, +0.00% Bank of America BAC, +0.00% MasterCard MA, -0.05% Samsung 005930, -0.66% and PayPal.
By 2015, a large portion of Internet users will say goodbye to the old-school username and password in favor of methods such as biometrics and one-time secure keys, especially after the big players in the group begin to adopt the new standards, says FIDO Alliance president and co-founder Michael Barrett.
"Passwords…made absolutely fabulous sense back in the '60s. They make no sense now," Barrett, who previously worked as chief information security officer at PayPal, says.
Privacy advocates say part of the reason passwords are considered a pain—that they sometimes need to be changed—is also an advantage: If an intruder learns the code, you can write a new one. Your heartbeat and fingerprint, however, remain the same.
But what makes passwords such an easy and prime target for cybercriminals is scalability. One cyber heist can yield thousands or even millions of account credentials, depending on the target. For a crook, biometrics produce far more barriers to entry. A thief could likely be forced to mold fingerprint replicas on an individual basis, or attempt to record someone's heart activity without being noticed.
Attacks against biometric security and other password alternatives "require physical access to us or our devices, and those don't scale," Barrett says. "How many people can I attack in a day? Two or three? From a bad guy perspective, it's just not very interesting."
For some companies, passwords are already so yesterday.
"We've eliminated usernames and passwords," says Jonathan Klein, president of the Virginia-based software company MicroStrategy MSTR, -1.10% which designed an app called Usher. Usher checks who you are through options including voice and facial scans, verifying the device itself and tracking its location so people can only log into sensitive systems from specific locations or within boundaries, or for a limited time. The app then reveals a QR code that users scan at their workstation or on a website, and a code to authorize transactions over the phone.
"Everyone in the company uses it," Klein says, citing MicroStrategy's 3,000 employees. Its customers include Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC, +0.86% one of the top defense contractors in the U.S., banks and insurance companies. Georgetown University began piloting the technology this summer.
If scanning your body with an app seems like too much work, you can just go with your heart, literally, by preordering a $79 wristband called Nymi from Toronto-based Bionym Inc. The bracelet measures electrocardiographic activity and can be synced with devices ranging from computers to garages and car doors, eliminating the task of logging in and out throughout the day. CEO Karl Martin says the company has about 10,000 preorders (the wristband is slated for release this fall) and that in 2015, he expects similar devices to become more commonplace.
Until then, people can opt for two-factor authentication. In most cases, that means websites will send security codes to users' inboxes or smartphones, which they must enter in addition to the username and password when logging in. It's imperfect, and hackers can sometimes circumvent or spoof it, but it's better than not opting into a second layer of security at all—especially given that most people don't change their passwords in the first place or still name them after their cats.
Also worth reading:
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The idiotic thing Americans did after 'Heartbleed'
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David Nail Goes to Emergency Room Following Charity Softball Game
Prior to stepping on the baseball field Saturday at the 22nd-annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge, David Nail was feeling pretty good about himself, as were his teammates, seeing how that the singer's passion and expertise for the sport might come in handy during the friendly charity game. Unfortunately, Nail earned himself a trip to the hospital during the competition.
The good news was that the singer's fellow players were right about his skills -- he gloved several balls, which resulted in getting many batters from the other team out. One impressive low line-drive in particular scored Nail the title of this year's MVP, but unfortunately the play also gave him something else... a trip to the emergency room at Vanderbilt Hospital for a minor fracture and a detached tendon.
"You put me in the game, and I only know one speed: hard," Nail told Taste of Country following his injury. "I only play all-out, and that's what I was doing. I can't believe I broke something doing it, but at least I got my out."
After getting his hand wrapped up at the hospital, Nail remained optimistic about being able to bounce back before too long. "I've got a really good neurosurgeon who will look at this next week, so I know I'll be okay long term," said Nail. "Right now, I just know I played hard, got to see a lot of the people from around the country who've been there with us over the past few years, and, hopefully, made a few new believers along the way."
Nail's Twitter page and Facebook page were flooded with love and well wishes for the singer following the accident, as the news traveled fast thanks to the powers of social media.
"Thanks for the concern, this is a lesson to not play like you're 18 when you're 33," the 'Red Light' hitmaker tweeted Saturday afternoon. "Fingers crossed for no nerve damage, kinda need [this] finger!"
And for those wondering about the pain? "Imagine hitting your funny bone times 10 and it never goes away!" he shared.
Nail will go to his specialty hand doctor on Tuesday for further evaluation. We hope he gets to feeling better soon and congratulate him on his MVP title! It was certainly earned.


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While you were sleeping, a legend was born.
It looked like it, anyway. It felt like it, too. Kyle Schwarber had the "Schwarber Game.'' If a game has a name, then it has to be some kind of legend, right?
The Cubs left-handed slugger will have a lot of "Schwarber Games,'' I believe. The "Schwarber Game'' on Tuesday night won't remain singular. This appears to be the start of a collection.
About 3 1/2 hours after first pitch, the rookie catcher belted a two-run homer in the top of the ninth to tie the Reds at 4-all. Then, more than five hours after the start, Schwarber smacked a solo shot in the 13th that


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