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Talk of getting Chad Johnson (from Cincinnati) in Dallas is increasing by the hour.
It's all I heard about on the radio during my morning commute.
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For those of you who aren't familiar with Johnson here are some stats from his entry on wikipedia.com.
Chad Johnson holds the following records in the Bengals organization:
- Most receiving yards in a season (1,440)
- Most receiving yards all-time
- Most receptions
- Most receiving yards in a game (260)
- Most seasons with over 1,000 receiving yards (6)
- Most touchdown receptions in a game (3, tied with several other players)
On March 20, 2008 Johnson discussed his desire to play for the Dallas Cowboys on Fox's The Best Damn Sports Show Period, stating "If I end up in Dallas, I would just look at which finger I'm gonna put it on. That's it. Ain't no ifs, ands or buts about it," referring to winning a Super Bowl ring.
Chad Johnson is also the cousin of former Cowboy Keyshawn Johnson. (Drama must run deep in their family lol).


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When gorgeous bride-to-be Vanessa Sinclair starts fantasizing about every man she sees, she seeks refuge in the church confessional. After pouring out her soul to the priest inside, Vanessa asks him to remain by her side to help her remain faithful until the big day. However, the man she believes to be a priest is actually the sexy local carpenter repairing the confessional. Before you can say "mistaken identity," motorcycle-riding ladies-man Nick Francis has transformed himself into "Father Nick" to seduce the blushing bride. But lust quickly turns into love, and the fake priest must find a way to stop the wedding and reveal his true identity before he loses the women of his dreams forever.

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Bacardi has announced its latest flavor innovation, Bacardi Rock Coconut. Bacardi is proud to introduce the first coconut rum infused with rock melon and coconut water. The distinct combination of sweet and highly refreshing coconut water paired with the crisp and exotic taste of rock melon create a dynamic spirit, with a rich aroma, and authentic taste. Bacardi Rock Coconut follows the successful launches of Bacardi Dragon Berry and Bacardi Torched Cherry.
Bacardi is the first brand to introduce the unique ingredients rock melon and coconut water to the clear flavored spirits market. Rock melon is a member of the melon family that originates from India and Africa. Rock melon's sweet and crisp taste profile enhance the coconut rum flavor. The rum flavor is intensified with coconut water, the naturally fat-free, clear and refreshing liquid found inside young coconuts. The infusions of rock melon and coconut water give Bacardi Rock Coconut flavored rum a smoother, creamier, coconut taste.
"Bacardi Flavored Rums is committed to providing consumers with new and exciting flavor combinations that consist of unique ingredients with dynamic tastes," says Gordon Chisholm, Brand Director, Bacardi Flavored Rums. "We continue to lead the flavored spirits market by infusing popular flavors with those more exotic. We are the first flavored spirits brand to capitalize on the extreme popularity of coconut water and offer our consumers this exclusive flavor experience."
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The premium and distinctive package of Bacardi Rock Coconut communicates the look and taste of these unique tropical ingredients. With a suggested retail price of $13.99 for a 750 ml. bottle, the 35% alcohol-by-volume rum also comes in 50 ml., 200 ml., 275 ml., 1 liter and 1.75 liter sizes. Bacardi Rock Coconut joins other celebrated flavored rums such as Bacardi Limon, the best-selling citrus flavored rum in the world, Bacardi Torched Cherry, Bacardi O, Bacardi Coconut; Bacardi Razz; Bacardi Big Apple, Bacardi Grand Melon, Bacardi Peach Red and Bacardi Dragon Berry.
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Whitney Houston had the R&B music world on lock without a doubt, but she also dabbled in hip-hop, too. From collaborations with Missy Elliott and Swizz Beatz and Akon, Whitney was down with the rhyme. Check out some of our favorite Whitney Houston hip-hop collaborations, below.


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Though some characteristics could be deal-breakers for certain buyers, the 2013 Mazda CX-5 is an exceptional SUV.
Unlike the Mazda Tribute, a Ford Escape clone, the CX-5 compact SUV that takes its place has no Ford roots. It comes with front- or all-wheel drive and a pea-sized, high-tech four-cylinder. An automatic transmission is optional on the CX-5's base, Sport, trim level, and standard with the higher Touring and Grand Touring trims. The automatic is also required with all-wheel drive. At a press preview ahead of the car's early 2012 launch, I drove front-drive prototypes with both transmissions.
A new smile
Five inches shorter from bumper to bumper than the Mazda CX-7, the CX-5 has a footprint similar to popular SUVs like the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 and Escape. Mazda's smiling grille -- present on most cars and at its most extreme on the Mazdaspeed3 -- gives way to a five-sided scowl here. It's part of Mazda's new "Kodo" design theme from last year's Shinari concept, and it makes for a distinctive, if nose-heavy, look. I'd prefer less front overhang -- in the vein of Mitsubishi's well-proportioned Outlander Sport -- but the Mazda holds itself well.
Seventeen-inch wheels are standard, with 19s available. Uplevel trims have fog lights and adaptive xenon high-intensity-discharge headlights, which is uncommon for a small SUV.
Going and stopping
The CX-5 follows the Mazda3 compact car in getting the automaker's new SkyActiv engine: a 155-horsepower, direct-injection four-cylinder whose efficiency helps the Mazda3 eke out 40 mpg highway. Mazda tweaked this version for more low-end power, but the tiny engine still putter-putters more than zoom-zooms. The stick shift makes the most of it, with short, precise throws and a light clutch that's better than most SUV manuals. You'll want to keep the revs high to get much out of the CX-5's four-banger.
The optional six-speed automatic has long first and second gears, which makes for slow starts, but it kicks down two gears at once on the highway and bangs out quick midcorner downshifts to get you back up to speed. This thing works harder than a grandmother on Thanksgiving. I much prefer it to some of the lazier automatics out there, but there's no getting around the CX-5's pokiness.
That hasn't stopped anyone from buying the four-cylinder Chevrolet Equinox, which is slower still, and the CX-5's higher fuel efficiency provides further compensation. Mazda expects EPA mileage of 26/32 mpg city/highway with the automatic and front-wheel drive or 26/33 mpg with the manual. All-wheel-drive models still get 25/30 mpg. That's family-sedan mileage, and it leads all major SUV competitors by 2 mpg or more. (As of this writing, the redesigned Escape's mileage is still pending.)
Four-wheel-disc antilock brakes are standard. The pedal feels linear but delivers so-so braking power.
Ride and handling
The CX-5 rides more comfortably than the firmly-sprung Mazda3, but its ride is still a touch busy compared with the smoothest competition: the Subaru Forester, Dodge Journey and most versions of the RAV4. The CX-5 cushions out major bumps well enough, but on rougher stretches of highway, it picks up a lot of small stuff. It isn't fatiguing like the choppy Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage, but the CX-5 could isolate better.
On the other hand, other automakers should emulate Mazda's steering. The CX-5 has excellent straight-ahead composure, even at 80 mph, and confident, turn-me-harder feedback as you bomb down a winding road. The Mazda corners flat, and as the tires lose their footing, the nose pushes wide -- nearly every competitor short of the Forester does this -- but it's still more fun than any SUV deserves to be.
The inside
Mazda's prototype test cars had attractive materials and padding in most of the important places. Piano-black and painted silver trim lined the interior; the latter fooled me for real metal. The flubs, such as low-rent manual climate controls and an under-padded center armrest, are peripheral, and some of them may be ironed out by production time.
The bolstered front seats keep you planted in hard corners, but my 5-foot-11 frame could have used another couple inches' rearward adjustment range. What's more, the short cushions have too flat an angle, and only the CX-5 Grand Touring's power driver's seat has a tilt adjustment to improve thigh support.
Legroom and headroom in our moonroof-free test cars was good, with more room for your knees to spread than the CX-5's wraparound confines suggest. The center console can't swallow handbags like some do, and the cupholders sit between your hand and the shifter. Throw a water bottle or Big Gulp in there and it gets in your way.
Mazda claims visibility that's among the best in the segment. I'm not sure which models it benchmarked. Sightlines are good but not exceptional, with large side mirrors and tall windows. But this is no Forester: The A-pillars could be skinnier, and the small rear window limits your rear view.
The backseat sits high enough off the ground for adults, which isn't the case in a lot of SUVs. Legroom and headroom are good, albeit short of the Equinox's mammoth backseat. The Mazda's doesn't recline or slide forward and back, but it folds in a 60/40 or optional 40/20/40 split -- the latter allowing long objects in the cargo area to fit through the center portion. Release handles in the seatbacks and cargo area fold the spring-loaded seats in a single step. There's even a specific release in back for the middle section of the 40/20/40 split. Excellent.
Multimedia options include Bluetooth phone connectivity and audio streaming, an integrated (i.e., not dash-top) TomTom navigation system and an iPod/USB-compatible stereo. Alas, the navigation in our prototypes showed street labels on 3-D but not 2-D views, which Mazda said might be resolved by production. Check it out on your test drive. If street labels are still MIA and you prefer 2-D maps, skip the navigation.
Cargo volume behind the rear seats totals 34.1 cubic feet. Fold the seats and 60/40-split models have 64.8 cubic feet of maximum volume; cars with the 40/20/40 setup have 65.4 cubic feet. The maximum figures trail most major competitors, though not by much.
Cargo Volume Compared (cu. ft.)
Behind 2nd row Max w/seat folded 2013 Mazda CX-5 34.1 64.8 - 65.4 2012 Chevrolet Equinox 31.5 63.7 2013 Ford Escape 34.3 68.1 2012 Toyota RAV4 36.4 73.0 2012 Honda CR-V 37.2 70.9 Safety and features
The CX-5 has not yet been crash-tested. Standard features include six airbags, plus the federally required antilock brakes and electronic stability system. A blind spot warning system and adaptive headlights are optional.
Pricing is still unavailable as of this writing, but a company official told journalists to expect a typically equipped CX-5 to go for around $24,000. Standard features on the CX-5 Sport include keyless entry with push-button start, steering-wheel audio controls and various power accessories. Move up the ladder and you can get a power driver's seat, heated leather upholstery, dual-zone automatic climate control, 19-inch wheels and a navigation system.
CX-5 in the market
The CX-5 leaves the similar-size CX-7 with little reason to exist. Gas mileage and cabin quality should win Mazda a seat at the sales table; that's something the CX-7 and Tribute failed to do. This, and possibly a future diesel version, portends an interesting take on the future of small SUVs: big on versatility, quality and handling, but small on outright acceleration. Some will deem it too poky, and tall drivers should write it off right now. But the rest should add Mazda to the list.
Snapshot: Starting MSRP n/a MPG n/a Available Engines n/a Transmissions n/a New or Notable * All-new small SUV * Replaces Tribute * Seats five * FWD or AWD * Available manual transmission What We Like * Gas mileage * Steering * Interior versatility * Cabin quality * Second-row room What We Don't * Acceleration * Busy highway ride * Cupholder placement * Rear visibility * Driver's seat adjustability
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Local anesthesia in cattle
Food-animal practitioners commonly perform local-anesthetic techniques due to the dangers associated with general anesthesia. Local anesthetic techniques usually are simple, cheap and have relatively few side effects. Unless otherwise stated, "local anesthetic agent" refers to lidocaine or carbocaine. It is preferable to clip the hair and perform a surgical prep of the site before anesthetic agents are injected, particularly those injected deep into tissues.
Eye surgery
The most common reason to perform surgery on the eye or eyelids is for squamous-cell carcinoma. For anesthesia prior to hyperthermia or freezing of lid lesions, or H-plasty, a simple line block with a local anesthetic agent will work. For lesions on the globe, it is helpful to proptose the globe for better exposure and immobilization. I try to proptose the globe without relaxation from a Peterson or retrobulbar block so there is less chance of abrasions and drying of the cornea following the procedure, especially if animals are traveling in an open trailer following the procedure. A topical local anesthetic labeled for the eye should be applied.For enucleation of the eye, I prefer the Peterson eye block. A small amount of local anesthetic is placed subcutaneously at the notch formed by the supraorbital process and the zygomatic arch. A 14-gauge, 1-inch needle is placed through the skin, then an 18-gauge, 6-inch needle slightly curved is placed through the first needle with the tip aimed slightly caudal and ventral until I encounter bone. Although explanations of this technique by others describes repositioning the needle until it passes medial to the coronoid process of the mandible, I have rarely been successful at this. However, by depositing 20 mls of local anesthetic (after aspiration to make sure a vessel has not been entered), I am usually successful in obtaining anesthesia and resultant relaxation and protrusion of/to the globe. This technique does not block sensation to the lids. Blocking the auriculopalpebral branch of the facial nerve is described, but is not always successful and only blocks the lower lid. So, I prefer to block both upper and lower lids with a line of local anesthetic about 3 centimeters from the lid margins.
There is much debate among practitioners over the use of a Peterson eye block vs. the retrobulbar block. Both can be effective if performed correctly, and both can have deadly side effects. The Peterson eye block is purportedly safer and more effective if done correctly, but is more difficult to perform.
Blocking the cornual nerve desensitizes the horn for dehorning. Five mls to 10 mls of a local anesthetic agent is deposited subcutaneously and relatively superficially midway between the lateral canthus of the eye and the base of the horn along the zygomatic process. Complete anesthesia may take 10 minutes to occur. In older animals with larger horns, a partial ring block, especially posterior to the horn, may be needed.
For knife castration, a line of local anesthetic agent is placed in the scrotum at the proposed incision site. Injection of a local anesthetic agent into each testicle is then performed. The volume of the agent depends on the size of the testes. I inject until I get backpressure. It is important to remove the testes within a few minutes of injection into them to prevent any toxic side effects from lidocaine or carbocaine going systemically.
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For teat lacerations, an inverted V block immediately proximal to the laceration is usually sufficient. For severe, extensive lacerations, a complete ring block at the base of the teat may be necessary.


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In his latest Economic outlook quarterly, Neil Williams, Group Chief Economist at Hermes Investment Management, sets out the four main pillars of his macro outlook for the year ahead.
Handing over the growth baton...
Despite China's slowdown, concerns about Greece, and the imminence of the US Fed's first rate hike, global growth should not be completely derailed. But, clearly, these are headwinds, and another reason for central banks to take only 'baby steps' to normalising rates.
With the gap in 2015 between advanced and emerging economies' growth rates, at just 2%yoy, the smallest since the dot.com boom of 2000, the pressure to preserve world growth is tilting back from the emerging to advanced economies.
Our macro outlook is thus based on four core beliefs.
First, not only will US and UK real policy rates stay negative into 2017, but 'peak' rates when they come will be much lower than we're used to, and certainly below the US/UK's historic averages of about 5%. When they do rise, we expect US and UK rates to ultimately peak at just 3.75% and 2.25% respectively.
The ECB and BoJ meantime will extend their liquidity. The euro-zone will continue to be a monetary union lacking fiscal union. Greece may have to restructure its debt, but this should be felt by official institutions rather than private markets.
Second, these peak rates will ultimately be delivered by central banks running down their assets via 'QT' (quantitative tightening). The BoE wants first to see Bank rate back up around 2%, which will take years. This could be part of a 'disaster recovery' for Brexit (which is my risk case), which may need extra QE.
Third, China may be slowing, but has the wherewithal to soften the landing. Even with just 3% real growth in 2015, China will have generated over two years nominal growth equivalent to the total GDP of Spain. When it was growing 6-7%, it was generating over two years the equivalent of the total GDP of Canada! Expecting it to carry on generating the GDP equivalent to a G7 country was always unrealistic.
Fourth, despite pockets of vulnerability, a 'blanket' emerging market crisis seems unlikely. External debt ratios are generally lower, there are fewer fixed currency pegs to protect, and they can print money (run QE). This makes comparisons with 1994, when most assets were hit hard, look superficial.
Meanwhile, the 'baton' looks like it's being handed back to the advanced economies to fuel world growth, while China enacts an avalanche of stimulus measures sufficient to arrest the decline and avert market turmoil.
If it doesn't, the US Fed's rate tightening cycle could prove to be one of the shortest yet. Which all suggest 2016 will be more like 2015 than 1994.
The ball is admittedly in China's court - but doing nothing would be a bit like 'a turkey voting for Christmas'!
While China (and other BRICs) slow, but from a very high base
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Markets threw up enough technical red flags amid a wave of volatility Wednesday to have traders wondering if the first real sell off of 2013 has finally arrived.
The Dow, down 108 to 13,927 had its worst day since Feb. 4 and the S&P 500 , off nearly 19 to 1511 had its worst day of the year.Gold, in a multi-session decline, approached a "death cross," a bearish signal when the 50-day moving average falls below the 200-day.
"This is the first time the S and P had a decisive break below the eight-day moving average which it's been holding through all of 2013," said Scott Redler of T3Live.com. "Traders were looking for some type of signal to trim some positions and get short. Today's the signal…You had the home builders break their 21-day moving average and they had been market leaders."
Redler pointed out the technical warnings are flashing, as markets head into the final week for Congress and the White House to avoid"sequestered" spending cuts. The $85 billion in cuts this year and $1 trillion over 10 years would start March 1 if there is no deal made, and the White House and House Republicans show no sign of coming together on a compromise. Analysts have expected fiscal concerns to cause the market to sputter but the market has so far been shrugging off Washington's banter over the sequester.
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The demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes was a strategy authorized by the Government of India on 8 නොවැම්බර් 2016, stopping the utilization of all ₹500 (US$7.40) and ₹1,000 (US$15) banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series as legitimate delicate in India from 9 නොවැම්බර් 2016.
The declaration was made by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in an unscheduled live broadcast address at 20:00 Indian Standard Time (IST) මත 8 නොවැම්බර්. In the declaration, Modi pronounced that utilization of all ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series would be invalid past midnight, and reported the issuance of new ₹500 and ₹2,000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series in return for the old banknotes. The banknotes of ₹100, ₹50, ₹20, ₹10 and ₹5 of the Mahatma Gandhi Series and ₹2 and ₹1 stayed legitimate delicate and were unaffected by the approach.
This demonetization prompted to the development of different versatile wallets. Development of a portion of the famous wallets are:
1. Paytm
Paytm is an Indian electronic business and installment framework organization headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. It was propelled in 2010. It is possessed by One97 Communications. The firm began by offering portable reviving, including charge installment and internet business, with items like organizations, for example, Flipkart, Amazon.com, Snapdeal. තුළ 2015, it additionally included booking transport travel. Paytm additionally propelled film ticket booking by banding together with Cinépolis in the year 2016.
One of the main procedures of paytm is the office of money back. After practically every exchange that happens through paytm, a specific measure of money is included according to the arrangement. Each organization has some part of the financial backing dispensed for advertising and advancements. This is a piece of their working costs in an Income proclamation. You can pull a salary articulation of any fmcg organization to discover likenesses or read a yearly answer to get it.
Despite the fact that paytm is one of the underlying player in revive area, it has effectively lost huge internet business retail ground to players like flipkart, infibeam, snapdeal, amazon. Also it can't simply support with revives for long haul development. So to separate itself and position in the market it has utilized straightforward yet extremely successful mental limited time procedure. CASHBACKS. One of the key reasons u concede or not individuals began taking a gander at paytm as a substitute approach to buy online products is on the grounds that essentially cashbacks and rebates and not for its administration separation or unwavering quality variable. In the event that it has restricted itself to profound rebates on items it would have stayed one more shopclues, jabbong or other me too ecom players. This is the place the methodology and advertising individuals at Paytm thought of this diamond of a thought called cashbacks connecting that with their wallet. In mba language, it is known as the ideal SYNERGY.The money backs are being utilized through their wallet which inturn is being utilized to advance their item called WALLET. So one shot two winged creatures. Likewise the mental impact of getting a money reward is higher than taking a profound rebate for a client which all played consummately well.
2. FreeCharge
FreeCharge is a web based business site headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It gives online office to revive any prepaid cell phone, postpaid versatile, DTH and Data Cards in India. On 8 අප්රේල් 2015, Snapdeal obtained Freecharge what is being alluded as the second greatest assume control in Indian online business area as such, after the purchase out of Ibibo by adversary MakeMyTrip, and the greatest Venture Capital exit in India to date. As indicated by The Economic Times, the arrangement is relied upon to be anything around US$400 to US$450 million.
You can profit an extensive variety of revive offers from different versatile system specialist organizations utilizing Freecharge coupons with all the safety efforts, they convey to you an extensive variety of complete installment choices like postpaid portable bill installment, DTH charge installment and different offices.
The most recent coupon was the Freecharge New Year Special Promo Code and freecharge coupons and Offers for the greatest rebates and cashbacks on Mobile/DTH Recharge and Bill Payments. Zoutons is the well-known Indian coupon website which is sharing freecharge coupons.
3. Mobikwik
MobiKwik is a versatile wallet and online instalment framework where a client can store cash in an online "wallet" to make portable and DTH energize, pay service bills, and shop at recorded vendors. The MobiKwik wallet must be stacked with cash once before it can be utilized crosswise over functions.MobiKwik gives clients the alternative to include cash utilizing their charge or Mastercard, net keeping money, and 'money pay', a doorstep money gathering administration. MobiKwik wallet is a semi shut wallet approved by Reserve Bank of India.
Presently Mobikwik wallet is accessible convenient with their dispatch of a portable application, where clients can select remote revive, make charge instalments utilizing their Smartphones and Get Rs 10 cashback on Mobile Prepaid Recharge of Rs at least 100. Additionally, Mobikwik gives Promo Codes, Coupons and Coupon Codes to get up to Rs.400 cashback on DTH and versatile revives, charge instalments and shopping.
Aside from these three driving on the web versatile wallets there are few others in the rundown that have developed in the nation after demonetization.
4. State Bank Buddy
State Bank Buddy by State Bank of India is the main Indian versatile wallet accessible in 13 Indian dialects. Utilising this sending cash, requesting that updates clear duty, moment charge instalments and more from your portable. Satisfy Bank Buddy portable wallet helps you to do as such by connecting your credit or platinum cards to it. It permits you to load sum into your wallet and make instalments to your contacts on telephone directory. It is accessible for Android and iOS.
5. HDFC PayZapp
PayZapp from HDFC Nabk is accessible to clients of all banks and permits you to make instalments with only a solitary snap. Make instalments effectively by including credit or platinum card subtle elements. Your card points of interest are sheltered with the bank and no compelling reason to stress over that. PayZapp versatile wallet does three security checks for each exchange. It is accessible for Android and iOS.
India plans to wind up distinctly cashless at this point. The online method of instalments has been expanded, and the greater part of us are searching for sheltered and secure methods for doing it. In the event that you are additionally appearing to be identical, then this article is for you.


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I really loved the original, and have been waiting for this release. Nothing like an awesome dungeon crawler to keep you grinding for hours. Oh yeah and I was the first post so I should Get in!!!! BOOYA!
Ever since the first torchlight 1 my friends and I have all wished it had multiplayer and now it does with Torchlight 2 and we can't wait.
Never played Torchlight 1 but very interested in this. Already pre purchased it on steam.
I have been playing isometric action rpgs since baldur's gate and diablo 1 and it is my favorite genre, I own all the popular games like diablo, diablo 2, diablo 3 (bought the collector's edition), torchlight, titan quest, grim dawn (backed the kickstarter), and I plan on getting torchlight 2 and from the videos I've seen it vastly improves from the first game (which was close to perfect even with the absence of multiplayer) so I think I'm a good candidate because of my love of the genre


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Nov 25, 2013
HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College men's soccer player Daniel Jackson has been named to the 2013 Daktronics NCAA Division II Men's Soccer All-Southeast Region Team.
Jackson, a senior from Silver Springs, Md., was named to the second team as a forward. He was a first team All-South Atlantic Conference selection. He led the Cobras with 14 goals, a new single-season team record, and added a pair of assists. Jackson's 14 goals and 30 points were also good enough for second and third in the conference, respectively.
Jackson is a computer science major at Coker. He is the son of Toni Moore and Clinton Davis.


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Consensus Report
Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging (2006)Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
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Scientists and engineers have long relied on the power of imaging techniques to help see objects invisible to the naked eye, and thus, to advance scientific knowledge. These experts are constantly pushing the limits of technology in pursuit of chemical imaging--the ability to visualize molecular structures and chemical composition in time and space as actual events unfold--from the smallest dimension of a biological system to the widest expanse of a distant galaxy. Chemical imaging has a variety of applications for almost every facet of our daily lives, ranging from medical diagnosis and treatment to the study and design of material properties in new products. To continue receiving benefits from these technologies, sustained efforts are needed to facilitate understanding and manipulation of complex chemical structures and processes. By linking technological advances in chemical imaging with a science-based approach to using these new capabilities, it is likely that fundamental breakthroughs in our understanding of basic chemical processes in biology, the environment, and human creations will be achieved. This report reviews the current state of chemical imaging technology, identifies promising future developments and their applications, and suggests a research and educational agenda to enable breakthrough improvements. The report highlights advances in chemical imaging that could have the greatest impact on critical problems in science and technology.
Key Messages
- A quantitative understanding of molecular electronic structure is needed to make advances in chemical imaging. Two chief ways in which this understanding can be furthered are through improving probes and better theory.
- Acquisition speeds need to be increased in order to provide improved time resolution. In addition, there is a need to provide more online analysis capabilities to improve the efficiency of imaging by allowing more directed investigations of samples.
- Analysis tools for three-dimensional visualization need to be developed for various microscopies and materials analysis instrumentation.
- Brighter, tunable ultrafast light sources need to be developed, particularly infrared-terahertz vibrational and dynamic imaging, near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), and X-ray imaging.
- Chemical imaging would be invigorated by innovations in basic theory of molecular dynamics. At the same time, the specific needs of chemical imaging should play a role in guiding the development of MD theory.
- Contrast mechanisms that reveal chemical identity and function in surface characterization need to be improved for a wider variety of samples.
- Imaging has a wide variety of applications that have relevance to almost every facet of our daily lives. These applications range from medical diagnosis and treatment to the study and design of material properties in novel products. To continue receiving benefits from these technologies, sustained efforts are needed to facilitate understanding and manipulation of complex chemical structures and processes.
- In order to probe chemical constituents and follow their biochemical reaction in cells and tissues, there is a need to make fluorescent labels more specific, brighter, and more robust. This will require greater understanding of the photophysics and photochemistry of fluorescent probes and the mechanisms of their photobleaching.
- Increasing signal-to-noise ratios should be a chief focus of the efforts to improve the sensitivity of NMR and MRI detectors.
- Integrated real-time analysis needs to be expanded for automated customization of data collection, particularly in multiscale imaging applications.
- MRI probes need to have higher relaxivity, be more specific, and be deliverable to the site of action.
- Nonlinear optical techniques need to be developed with particular emphasis on improved ultrafast laser sources and special fluorophores, novel contrast mechanisms based on nonlinear methods for breaking the diffraction barrier without using proximal probes.
- Novel approaches to funding mechanisms for chemical imaging need to be promoted.
- Researchers should be encouraged to integrate their data analysis with the development of their apparatus.
- Spatial and temporal sensitivity of electron microscopy detectors need to be improved.
- The miniaturization of high-field NMR and MRI magnets is needed to broaden the applicability of these techniques by reducing the need for dedicated facilities.
- Theory needs to be developed and better utilized to address the data storage and search problems associated with the increasingly large datasets generated by chemical imaging techniques.
- There is a need for detectors to be developed that possess all of the following attributes: (1) the ability to measure multiple dimensions in parallel fashion, (2) high time resolution, (3) high sensitivity, and (4) broad spectral range. IR and UV detector improvements, even if incremental, could catalyze new chemical insights.
- There is a need to advance X-ray-absorbing probes to specifically detect and localize chemical signals that are introduced into cells.
- There is a need to develop a better theoretical understanding of the radiation signals of gold and silver nanostructures including Raman scattering, Mie scattering, and fluorescence. New probes composed of metal-based nano-particles or atomic clusters should be developed to provide improved sensitivity, specificity, and spatial localization capabilities.
- There is a need to develop a next generation of readily accessible, easy-to-use MD simulation packages.
- There is a need to develop better analysis and data extraction techniques for elucidating more and different kinds of information from an image. In particular, this should include user-friendly multivariate analysis tools and hyperspectral imaging deconvolution and analysis.
- There is a need to develop higher-quality electron beams in order to broaden and deepen the application of electron microscopy.
- There is a need to develop imaging methods for patterning complex spatial and temporal organization into chemical systems.
- There is a need to develop methods for optical, X-ray, Raman, and other probe regimes that can image at depths of a few nanometers to macroscopic distances beneath a surface, especially for materials science applications.
- There is a need to develop multitechnique correlations for various combinations of imaging techniques.
- There is a need to develop optics for miniaturization and speeding of microscopic imaging instrumentation in order to improve chemical imaging capabilities.
- There is a need to develop standards for chemical image data formatting.
- There is a need to encourage both individual investigator and multidisciplinary team approaches for the development of chemical imaging techniques.
- There is a need to expand the range of techniques useful for hyperpolarizing NMR and MRI signals, as well as the range of molecules that can be hyper-polarized.
- There is a need to improve probe geometries for high-resolution chemical imaging beyond the diffraction limit. This includes design (theory) and realization (reproducibility, robustness, mass production) of controlled geometry near-field optics.
- There is a need to improve zone plate optics, which are presently the limiting factor for scanning transmission X-ray microscopes (STXM) and full-field X-ray microscopes (TXM).
- X-ray detectors including solid-state pixel detectors and detectors for hard X-ray tomography need to be improved through the development of scintillators that convert X-rays to visible light and detectors that image directly onto a CCD chip with column parallel readout, among other detector possibilities. The goal is to improve X-ray detector's resolution, dynamic range, sensitivity, and readout speed.


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Ruby on Rails 2.0 has been released. "Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that's absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish. We've even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean." On Zenbits, they give tips on how to install 2.0.


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It's becoming more obvious every day that doing more with less — by individuals, businesses and government agencies — is the new normal. As the economy appears to be undergoing a global reset in which U.S. firms can tap offshore labor to make goods for pennies on the dollar, a grand leveling seems certain.
Can the U.S. compete on this new playing field? Without a doubt. American entrepreneurs have proven they are the most creative on the planet, having built the technologies that have powered the world economy for generations: the light bulb, the transistor, the television, the personal computer, the smart phone; the list goes on and on.
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Some of these technologies wouldn't have gotten as far as fast without U.S. taxpayer support. The prime example, the Internet itself, was spawned from defense research grants. At a smaller, more experimental pace, some government agencies are now embracing yet another potential game changer — also developed in the U.S. — with the potential to help workers become vastly more productive.
Analytics, a breed of software that uses computer technology and statistical math to sift ultra-large datasets, is increasingly being put to use by government as a way to discover economic and operational advantages that otherwise would be hidden in the streams of unstructured data pouring out of most government programs and projects.
That is the motivation behind the Obama administration's push to create a national system of electronic health records. Although the convenience and efficiency of this technology is good to have, the real prize is the clinical data produced by the thousands of patient encounters taking place every day. With analytics, this data can be sorted to discover which treatments work best, where the next pandemic is percolating and how to take hidden costs out of the system.
Law enforcement is another area in which the use of analytics is being used to make government more dynamic. Grand Junction, Colo., Deputy Chief of Police Troy Smith told GCN that although police departments have long had "tons of data at their disposal," the difference today is that his agency has staff members "who are really proficient at analyzing data using different pieces of software and are beginning to put together patterns that exist in that data between jurisdictions that allow us to deploy our resources much smarter than we've ever been able to do before."
Some say the upside of analytics is unlimited. In a report earlier this year, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that big data, sorted by analytic tools, could "create significant value for the world economy, enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of companies and the public sector, and creating [a] substantial economic surplus for consumers." For the U.S. health care sector, savings would be $300 billion in value every year, it said.
Will analytics help show how to pull the economy out of its current dive? Probably. But it is a much surer bet that continued investment in these tools by government will help make government smaller, smarter and more productive and its citizens financially — and physically — healthier.
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Big Data = Smaller Government is only part of the headline. Smarter Government = Smaller Government is the other part. Analytics have the power to make governments smarter. Industry leaders have long recognized that data is a competitive asset of any organization (think Fedex which launched as an 'information business' vs a 'shipping business'). And if you look at the state of Michigan, recent winner of many industry awards, they are empowered to do more with less and be more nimble by leveraging the resources they already have, like data, to make smarter decisions. All government agencies have mounds of data at their fingertips, but need the right tools to make sense of it all. My company Teradata helps government customers, including Michigan, capture data from a variety of sources and analyze it make faster, smarter decisions.
I am not sure it will lead to a smaller government, but hopefully it will lead to a more effective one. Getting the right mix of police, firemen, and rescue workers to trouble faster doesn't mean you need fewer of them, it just means they will save more lives and property from harm. Getting a patient the best medicine doesn't remove the need for a doctor or pharmacist, but it may keep you alive longer, with fewer bad side effects and less pain.
Good luck with that. I've been implementing strategic systems (including analytics apps) for 15 years. Although the rationale for every project included workforce savings, very rarely do those ever materialize. Public sector project sponsors and organizations must not only be willing to acknowledge the potential for savings, but they must also be willing to realize that potential.
"Some say the upside of analytics is unlimited." With every upside, there's a downside. So, where's the discussion of te downside?
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Couples owns clubhouse lead at the Masters
Augusta, GA – Fred Couples overcame a double-bogey on the seventh to grab the clubhouse lead Friday at the 77th Masters.
Couples, the 1992 Masters champion, birdied the final hole for a 1-under 71. He stands at 5-under-par 139 for the championship.
Though he is the clubhouse leader, Couples is one shot behind Marc Leishman, who shared the first-round lead and is even-par for his second round through 10 holes.
Couples was joined at minus-5 by 2003 U.S. Open Jim Furyk, who was 2-under for the day through 11 holes.
Angel Cabrera birdied five of the last six holes to get into the clubhouse at 4-under-par 140. The 2009 Masters champion had struggled early, so the late surge got him back to 3-under 69 for the day.
Adam Scott managed an even-par 72 to end two rounds at minus-3, while first- round co-leader Sergio Garcia (76), Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (74) and Bernhard Langer (71) are in the clubhouse at 2-under 142.
Fourteen-year-old Tianlang Guan played another solid round, but was penalized one stroke on the 17th hole for slow play. He had been warned earlier in his round, and was given another bad time leading to the penalty.
The teenager from China posted a 3-over 75 to end two rounds at 4-over-par 148. He was in danger of missing the cut after a round the included three bogeys and 15 pars.
Couples, long a fan favorite at Augusta, had two bogeys and two birdies through six holes. He stumbled to a double-bogey on the seventh.
The 53-year-old drove into the trees, then knocked his second over the green. Couples missed the green with his third, then pitched his fourth to six feet. From there, he 2-putted to fall four behind the leader.
Couples bounced back with his second birdie in two days at the par-5 eighth.
Around the turn, Couples dropped his tee shot 11 feet from the hole at the 12th and poured that in for birdie. He parred five in a row before closing with a birdie at the last.
Couples' playing partner Dustin Johnson had taken the lead at 7-under through 13 holes. To that point, Johnson had two bogeys and four birdies to move to minus-7.
However, Johnson carded two bogeys and two double-bogeys in the last five holes to slide to 1-under 143. Those dropped shots gave Johnson a 4-over 76 for his second round.
Earlier in the day, Nick Watney carded a 3-under 69 to move to 3-over par for the tournament. Watney and Cabrera share the low round of the day honors to this point.
Phil Mickelson went 5-over for the final 10 holes en route to a 4-over 76. He walked off at 3-over 147 and tied for 47th.
Defending champion Bubba Watson was among those on the course this afternoon. He was 1-under par after six holes to move to plus-2 for the championship.


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You are suddenly awakened but something is very wrong. You are underwater. Breaking the surface and gasping for breath you see your sailing vessel is merely splinters in the sea and a great Kraken thrashes overhead. You see land in the distance, but, can you make the swim?
A sorcerer with evil intentions or just a murderer waiting for another fool?
At a crossroads, the characters come across a trio of thick poles set into the ground, just outside the overlapping roads.
"There is a time to fight, and a time to run and hide,and the clever thing is deciding when it is the right time to do either." Unamed veteran of many hard-fought battles.
As you are traveling through the forest you stumble accross a poor peasent, who begs you to help his village.
You'll never eat in this town again.
This random-roll chart is designed for those times when a player unexpectedly misses a game session. What is their character doing while everyone else is out on an adventure?
At the foot of the World can be found both great treasure and danger! Adventure Awaits!
The forest is too large for just one person to forage…
A collection of plot hooks for a game on the road, or more precisely, on the route.
When a stranger warns of demonic activity, should you take him at his word?
- "Course heading, Captain?"
- "Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning."
Martha's coming wasn't a lucky sign. A heavy birth and a deformed face left even the midwife distrustful. But the child turned out healthy.
'Come in my friend, be seated with your fellows. I am Ruufon and I hope your sleeptravel has refreshed you and washed away the weariness of your wanderings…'
When armed men barricade the road and demand money, be careful how you respond.
They just might have a legal right to do so.
...and a star to steer her by.
In the vein of the other Random Encounter threads, now comes the thread for Oceanic encounters
Those Terrifying Tumbling Tubers: The Tale
The mountains are often a desolate place, but not without dangers, or opportunities.
A tree, a length of rope, and a (maybe not so) innocent victim.
Wotcha gonna do?
Here, have a sup, just two piece of silver.
A Village by a forest, and a secret few knows. Will the PCs discover what dwells beneath the surface?
You type the command into the console. "Insufficient Guineapigs" the computer responds. Baffled, you retype the command. "Insufficient Guineapigs" the computer replies again. You decide you should start smaller, with a simpler command. "Insufficient Guineapigs"
What does cycling the spaceship's airlock have to do with a now-extinct Peruvian rodent?


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Running his hand along the slender 5-millimeter-thick edge, Apple's Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, debuted the company's newest iMac. "It's hard to believe there's even a display in there," Schiller said, highlighting how outlandishly thin it is.
Though Schiller said the new iMac "epitomizes something Apple does so well, to create an innovative, breakthrough product," the last time an iMac was a breakthrough product was when it was introduced in 1998. Yes, everything on display at the October 23 launch featured top-of-the-line specs and dazzling improvements, but nothing felt truly new. Where are the disruptive technologies of launches past? The one area that many of us have prayed Apple would dive into is the HDTV market. So where is the iTV?
There's a market for computers large enough and thin enough to double as televisions, and Apple has all the key ingredients to build one. Creating an Apple-branded flat-screen HDTV that doubles as a powerful computer would surely make an impact on the television market. And though it's a good start, Apple has only inched into the arena with its current Apple TV set-top box.
Computers are far more versatile than TVs. Not only can people watch televised content through a myriad of sources, including Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, HBO GO, and iTunes, but they can also enjoy full Internet browsing and productive capabilities native to a computer. That being said, today's Smart TVs are already doing a pretty good job at blurring the lines between computer and TV. Most Smart TVs offer streaming from the above sources, and many of them offer Internet browsers with support for Flash; what they don't offer is the kind of clean, simple user interface that Apple has leveraged through the years to turn customers into obsessives.
As TV manufacturers struggle to integrate the increasing functionality of their products, Apple could easily leapfrog ahead of them. But don't take our word for it. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs' authorized biographer, quotes the late Apple founder on the subject in Steve Jobs:
"'I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use,' he told me. 'It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud.' No longer would users have to fiddle with complex remotes for DVD players and cable channels. 'It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.'"
Although we know Apple can do it, the company has not yet made large displays with competitive pixel resolution. The new iMacs lack Retina Display, but come packing a 1920-by-1080-pixel resolution on the 21.5-inch model, and a 2560-by-1440-pixel resolution on the 27-inch model. Coupled with the laminated screen and 300-nit brightness, it is almost ready to wrangle with some of the HDTVs already on the market. No, it's not Plasma or LCD/ LED technology, but it's very good, and it leaves us with no doubt that Apple's talented staff could (and perhaps do) already have a prototype capable of making current purveyors like Sony tremble.
Perhaps more important than the hardware, though, is the need for a content ecosystem robust enough to convince the average consumer to cut their cable cords. The Apple TV is a good start, since it marries iTunes, Netflix, Vimeo, and other streaming services, but Apple would have to up its ante to compete with traditional cable companies.
Jobs knew this, as evidenced by his efforts to reach out to content partners in a possible attempt to create a streaming media service. Reported back in March by Engadget, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves disclosed Jobs' advances towards establishing a partnership. Moonves chose to decline the partnership due to concerns about the impact it would have on existing revenue streams.
One way of working around the challenges of quickly establishing a content system as comprehensive as those of cable companies is to shift the emphasis away from the convenience of browsing channels over to the convenience of having a mounted computer. As more television networks have recognized the importance of streaming content, more shows have become available online. In an ideal world, the TV industry would have the future of computers built into TVs, but we think the future of TV is actually on computers. Because of that, it makes sense that an iTV would do more to blur the lines between computers and TVs than any other product so far. It also makes sense for Apple to stop trying to fit the outmoded concept of network time slots into its usually forward-thinking vision, and champion streaming.
What Jobs claimed to have "cracked" remains out of his company's reach for the time being. Apple's recent launch introduced some attractive devices, but none of them shifted paradigms in the same way as the iPod, iPhone, or iPad have done in the past. And though the company isn't quite there yet, it won't have another watershed moment until it introduces something as legitimately game-changing as an iTV – or something equally novel.


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Pakistan cricket chief Zaka Ashraf Wednesday said Bangladesh's short tour will help revive the suspended sport in his country.
Bangladesh on Sunday confirmed it will play a one-day and a Twenty20 match in Lahore this month, matches which will reintroduce international cricket to Pakistan following its suspension in the wake of 2009 attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus.
"I am sure the Bangladesh tour will break the ice, and the breakthrough achieved during President Asif Ali Zardari's tour to India will also help in the revival of Indo-Pak cricket," Ashraf told a press conference.
Last week Zardari reportedly requested Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh to send his national team to Pakistan. Singh promised to talk to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over the matter.
Ashraf said he wants to revive cricket ties with India, stalled in the wake of 2008 terrorists attacks on Mumbai which killed 166 people and were blamed on militants based in Pakistan.
"I had a good meeting with BCCI president (Narayanan) Srinivasan and this time he was more positive on the revival of the ties," said Ashraf of his talk on the sidelines of International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting in Dubai.
"I thank the ICC Board for the way they appreciated the revival of cricket and approved of it.
"The situation is not like it was in 2009. Since cricket was suspended in Pakistan our grounds were left deserted but things have improved and I hope more teams will come after the Bangladesh team's tour."
Ashraf said convincing Bangladesh to tour was a victory for fans of the game.
"Cricket is a passion in Pakistan and convincing Bangladesh to tour is a victory for all of us and now even a single policeman will do his best to give the visitors full security," he said.
The Pakistan Cricket Board said a comprehensive security plan will be approved by the federal government and will be forwarded to the ICC shortly.
The Bangladesh team is due to arrive on April 27. They play a 50-over game on April 29 and a Twenty20 the following day.
Bangladesh tour will revive cricket: Pak. chief
Pakistan cricket chief Zaka Ashraf Wednesday said Bangladesh's short tour will help revive the suspended sport in his country.


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TORONTO, (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted on Tuesday that he has smoked crack cocaine, probably "in one of my drunken stupors," but insisted he's not an addict.
Speaking just days after Toronto's police chief confirmed that police have recovered a copy of a video that two media organizations have said shows the mayor smoking the drug, Ford told reporters he had smoked crack, perhaps about a year ago.
"Yes I have smoked crack cocaine," Ford said in his first admission of drug use after six months of evading the question.
"But, no, do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I have tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago," he said.
Elected in 2010 on a cost-cutting platform, Ford has maintained strong support from voters in his suburban base even as the scandal has escalated. A poll taken after Police Chief Bill Blair confirmed the existence of the video put Ford's approval rating at 44 percent, up five points from a previous poll.
Ford repeated on Tuesday a plea to the police to release the video, which he told the Toronto Sun newspaper was probably "not pretty". He said he would not quit or take a leave of absence.
Ford has already apologized for "mistakes" in his past, admitting to being "hammered" at a street festival this summer and drunk at city hall after-hours on St. Patrick's Day last year. All four big Toronto newspapers, including the right-leaning Toronto Sun, have urged him to quit.
"I don't even remember," Ford said on Tuesday of his drug use. "After some of the stuff that you guys have seen me, the state I've been in. It's a problem."
In May, when the Toronto Star newspaper and the Gawker media blog first reported the existence of the video, Ford said he does not use crack cocaine, and he could not comment on a video he has not seen.
Blair said on Thursday that police had obtained a video "consistent" with the Gawker and Star accounts, recovering the video from a deleted hard drive scooped up as part of a wide-ranging drug probe.
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"It is very disappointing to have the mayor of the City of Toronto admit to smoking crack cocaine," he told reporters. "I was disappointed at two levels: firstly that he did it, but secondly that it took him so long to admit it."
Another motion circulating at city hall would seek to restrict Ford's ability to remove people from his executive committee and other standing committees.
Ford's personal life made headlines even before he was elected mayor.
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In 2008, police charged him with assault and threats to his wife, but then withdrew the charges, citing inconsistencies in her story. Ford maintained his innocence, and the two later reconciled.


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My adventures answering J.D. Salinger's mail.
Also in Slate: Ron Rosenbaum on Salinger, sex, and the road not taken; Troy Patterson on the two Salingers; Stephen Metcalf on Salinger's genius; Nathan Heller on Nine Stories; Chris Wilson on " Seymour: An Introduction"; Jody Rosen on Salinger's New York; Dana Stevens on Hollywood Holdens; Donald Fagen on his love for Franny Glass.
On my first day of work at Harold Ober Associates—one of New York's oldest and most storied literary agencies—I was shown the enormous, outmoded IBM Selectric on which I would type letters for my boss, the clunky Dictaphone that would provide me with the content of those letters, and the vast metal cabinets in which I would file all correspondence with authors. I was then escorted into the dimly lit corner office occupied by Phyllis Westberg, the company's president, whom I would be assisting.
"Sit down, sit down," said Phyllis. "We need," she said, as I arranged myself in the chair across from her large wooden desk, "to talk about Jerry." I nodded in an attempt to mask the fact that I had no idea what she was talking about. This was 1996, and the first "Jerry" to come to mind was Seinfeld. It was only later, when I noticed a wall of books opposite my new desk—all with plain spines, in maroon, yellow, and white—that I realized the Jerry in question was Jerome David Salinger.
"Now, his address and his phone number are in the Rolodex on your desk," Phyllis explained. "People are going to call and ask for his number. You think it won't happen, but it will." She paused to light another cigarette. "Grad students. Reporters. Just … people. They may try to trick you or manipulate you. They may give you some song-and-dance routine." She laughed a throaty laugh, then fixed me sharply in her pale blue eyes. "But you can never, ever give out that address. Or that phone number. NEVER. OK?" I nodded and gave her my most professional smile. "Because it's happened before," she told me. "I've had assistants who just don't understand."
"I understand," I told Phyllis, though really I didn't. I knew almost nothing about Salinger. I had been perhaps the only American teenager—or, the only bookish, angry, misfit American teenager—to have graduated from high school without reading The Catcher in the Rye, though it had sat on my parents' bookshelf, right next to Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. Once or twice, on rainy afternoons, I'd skimmed the first pages of the latter books and found the writing overly cute, the subject matter tired. I knew, I suppose, that Salinger was a recluse, but I didn't understand the extent of his removal from society, in general, and the realms of literature and publishing, specifically. Nor did I understand—naive as this sounds—the cultlike devotion of his fans, that there were people in the world—many people—whose entire existence seemed to revolve around their identification with Holden Caulfield or Franny Glass.
My naiveté didn't last long at Ober. Every day, a bundle of mail was dropped on my desk by the office secretary, much of which consisted of letters addressed to Salinger. The letters came from Sri Lanka or the Netherlands or Arizona. They included deeply personal admissions—cancer diagnoses, bankruptcy, divorce—and were often written in Salinger's own brash style or, at the very least, incorporated the slang of the period he chronicled. "Dear Jerry, you old bastard," they tended to start. "I gotta tell you. The Catcher in the Rye is one helluva goddamn book."
Some of these letter writers wanted something specific from Salinger—his permission to make a film version of one story or another, often—but most simply wanted a letter back from him. For the most part, they knew that Salinger didn't read his fan mail—in fact, he'd insisted that nothing, not one letter, be passed on to him—but each was convinced that his letter was going to be the one that was so moving, so brilliant, so funny, so perfectly aligned with Salinger's interests and sensibilities, that we, at Ober, would pass it on to him. And that Salinger would then, of course, recognize the writer—the teenage girl from Japan, the World War II veteran in Kansas—as a kindred spirit and write back. Though the authors of these letters varied in age and nationality, there was a theme common to nearly all the letters: Salinger was the only person who understood them.
All of this seemed ridiculous to me, at first, as ridiculous as the quasi-religious way in which Salinger was regarded in the Ober office. My position was less, I realized, a run-of-the-mill publishing job and more akin to entering the novitiate. We were Salinger's gatekeepers—charged with protecting his life and work—but in order to do so, we had to buy into the mythology that had sprung up around the man, too. We had to believe that Salinger's privacy was the most important thing in the world, to be protected at all costs. And in order to make this leap of faith, we needed to believe that Salinger, as his fans insisted in the letters I fielded daily, was the greatest writer of the 20th century. It was an honor I wasn't willing to bestow.
With regard to Salinger's correspondence, I had specific instructions. I had been given, along with my first batch of letters, a yellowing carbon of a standard form letter, which had been composed sometime in the 1960s and passed through the hands of, presumably, dozens of obedient, bored assistants before landing in mine. "Many thanks for your recent letter to J.D. Salinger," the letter went. "As you may know, Mr. Salinger does not wish to receive mail from his readers. Thus, we cannot pass your kind note on to him. We thank you for your interest in Mr. Salinger's books."
At first, I dutifully retyped this form, over and over again, uncomfortably scrawling my own name at the bottom, as instructed, then tossing the letters in the trash, also per office protocol. But as the months wore on, I found myself increasingly unable to ignore the raw emotion of the letters. Even the angry teens struck a chord with me. These were not letters that the writers had tossed off carelessly, but notes that had clearly been written and rewritten, until just the right tone was struck. How could I simply throw them away? I began sending them personal letters telling them how much we appreciated hearing their stories and explaining, more gently, that we were prohibited from sending Salinger his mail, but we so often wished that we could. I offered unsolicited advice to a few, which was perhaps not the best idea, and simply an ear to others, mostly his older fans, many of whom were war veterans like Salinger and had questions about possible mutual acquaintances or experiences.
On Friday afternoons, when the agency gathered for scotch in the foyer, talk would eternally turn to stories about Jerry, most of which were less about Jerry himself and more about those who had violated his privacy: the assistant who'd been fired because he gave out Jerry's phone number. The writer—Slate's Ron Rosenbaum, then on assignment for Esquire—who had shown up at Jerry's home in New Hampshire. Shyly, I chimed in with news of the middle-school administrator who'd called asking whether Salinger might be interested in speaking at his institution's commencement and was absolutely shocked when I explained that no, Mr. Salinger did not accept speaking engagements. My co-workers laughed uproariously, which instilled in me a mix of pleasure and guilt. I realized I had become one of them, a keeper of the Salinger flame.
What was missing from this equation was, of course, Salinger himself. Normally, I was told, he phoned to check in once in a while, sometimes sending the whole office into a tizzy with a bizarre request, for copies of his royalty statements from 1986 or press clippings from 1974 or some such thing. During my first months on the job, however, he remained a comfortably abstract concept. Then, in June, he called, anxious to speak to Phyllis. My stomach lurched a little when I realized that it was Salinger, for real, on the other end of the phone, speaking rather too loudly and seeming a bit confused by my voice, though I tried to speak brightly and enunciate. He was, alas, somewhat deaf and refused to use the amplified phone his wife, a nurse, had installed for him.
It turned out something momentous was afoot in Salingerland: Eight years earlier, a small publisher in Alexandria, Va., had written to him, asking whether they might put out a book consisting solely of Salinger's novella "Hapworth 16, 1929," which had appeared in The New Yorker in 1965. To the shock of Phyllis—and everyone else at Ober—Salinger had, after years of thought, decided that this "fellow in Virginia" could publish "Hapworth." Suddenly, he was calling all the time, anxious about the details of this new deal, which seemed like it might mark a tentative re-entry into the world he'd abandoned 30 years earlier. Ober, just as suddenly, seemed charged with a frenetic energy. Phyllis bustled around the office and had long, loud conversations with Salinger, going over the details of the new book, from the cloth of the binding to the font to the paper stock. She asked him about the publisher, a retired professor, whom Salinger seemed to like very much, to Phyllis' surprise. It was not often, I supposed, that Salinger took a shine to someone new. In a way, I realized, the Virginia publisher was simply one of the fans whose letters I fielded, one who had managed to break through the wall of Ober's protectorate and prove to Salinger that, yes, they really were kindred spirits.
One day, as I transcribed a round of letters for Phyllis, a tall man with dark eyes and thinning gray hair arrived in the little antechamber in which I sat. He glanced in my direction, seemed confused, then gave me a small yet warm smile. Before I could ask if he needed help, Phyllis came running out of her office, shouting, "Jerry! There you are!" A moment later, I was standing in front of my desk, just below the wall of Salinger's books, shaking his large, dry hand. "Hello," he said. "Nice to meet you. We've spoken on the phone many times."
"We have," I said, smiling stupidly.
"OK, we have a lot to talk about," Phyllis said, guiding Salinger into her office. "This is a big year."
The Hapworth book never materialized. The publisher gave an interview to a local magazine, and Salinger decided his new friend was a phony after all. But before things went bad, around the time of Salinger's visit, I realized that I wanted to see what kind of writing could inspire such frenzied devotion. One night, I grabbed copies of his books off the shelf opposite my desk and devoured them in a weekend. These were not, as I'd thought, precious, nostalgic trifles of old New York, but strange, difficult, and, in many ways, deeply weird pieces of fiction. Salinger's narrative voice, 30, 40 years later, felt as fresh and shocking as any of the contemporary writers I was reading at the time—Mary Gaitskill, Martin Amis, Jonathan Franzen—or more so, even. He broke every rule and, with some exceptions, got away with it.
Six months later, I left Ober, unsure exactly of what I would do next but certain I couldn't spend another minute behind that old Selectric, secretly consoling the readers of a writer who didn't care to receive their letters. Over the ensuing years, as I became a writer myself, I returned regularly to Franny and Seymour and Buddy and Zooey—and even, on occasion, Holden—often at those moments when I felt unsure of what turn to take in a story. People often talk about outgrowing Salinger, about returning to Catcher as an adult and finding it silly, histrionic, annoying. But the stories have grown with me, as the best fictions do. I still have some of those letters—the letters I couldn't bear to throw in the trash—and I look at them from time to time, too, if I'm feeling strong enough. They still break my heart, those old bastards, almost as much as the work that inspired them.


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ALEXANDRIA, VA - This is a news release from the National Beer Wholesalers Association
As Americans prepare to celebrate Labor Day, the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) and Mississippi's independent beer distributors are recognizing beer distribution industry employees whose work positively impacts the national and state economies.
"From truck drivers to graphic artists and sales representatives, America's beer distribution employees work day in and day out to make this the best beer market in the world," said NBWA President and CEO Craig Purser.
According to the economic impact report America's Beer Distributors: Fueling Jobs, Generating Economic Growth & Delivering Value to Local Communities, more than 3,000 beer distribution facilities directly employ 135,000 men and women in communities across the country.
The report, produced by Dr. Bill Latham and Dr. Ken Lewis of the Center for Applied Business & Economic Research at the University of Delaware, provides a comprehensive look at beer distribution companies' total impact on national and state economies. In addition to the impact of distributor operations, the report accounts for resources contributed by beer distributors in supporting community events and local economic development, contributing to charitable causes and promoting responsible alcohol use.
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Mississippi beer distribution facilities directly employ 1,341 people, who earn $85.8 million in wages and salaries.
Mississippi beer distributors add $520 million to the nation's gross domestic product.
Mississippi beer distributor activities generate $1.5 million in economic impacts to communities through support of charities, local events and economic development.
Mississippi beer distributor activities contribute $112.7 million to the federal, state and local tax bases. This does not include an added $98 million in federal, state and local alcohol excise and consumption taxes on beer sold in Mississippi.
The Mississippi beer distribution industry contributes more than $119 million in transportation efficiencies for the beer industry each year.
Purser added, "Independent beer distributors do much more than deliver fresh beer. They provide significant economic benefits in their communities through local business-to-business commerce; investments in infrastructure and capital assets; and tax revenue. Beer distributors provide services that help brewers of all sizes grow; improve efficiency for trading partners, especially small brewers and retailers; and ensure consumers have a broad selection of products to enjoy."
To view the full report, visit www.nbwa.org/resources/economic-impact.


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Place large, sturdy driftwood branches and hollow logs in the terrarium for climbing and hiding. A variety of artificial plants, especially those with large leaves, will also help to provide hiding places and give the terrarium a more natural feel. Many frogs will also prefer to sleep under a ledge of some sort during the day.
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