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Positron Corporation (Positron) is a nuclear medicine healthcare company. It specializes in the field of cardiac Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. The company's product portfolio includes, PET imaging systems, radiopharmaceuticals and radioisotopes. Positron offers these products through the Attrius and PosiRx,. It also provides risk mitigating financial programs to its clients. It offers these products and services to healthcare providers. The company manufactures PET scanners in China; and manufactures PosiRx product line in Indiana; and produces, recycles, processes and carries out the refurbishment of spent Sr-82/Rb-82 generators, and produces, recycles and processes Sr-82 from international vendors at its facilities in the US. Positron is headquartered in Westmont, Illinois, the US.
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Nov 14, 2013: Positron Appoints Joseph Oliverio As President
Oct 11, 2013: Positron's Radioisotope Manufacturing Facility Receives ISO 9001 Certification
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May 01, 2013: Positron Releases PosiRx 3000-Series Pharmacy Automation Systems
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Section 1 - About the Company
Positron Corporation - Key Facts
Positron Corporation - Key Employees
Positron Corporation - Key Employee Biographies
Positron Corporation - Key Operational Employees
Positron Corporation - Major Products and Services
Positron Corporation - History
Positron Corporation - Company Statement
Positron Corporation - Locations And Subsidiaries
Head Office
Other Locations & Subsidiaries
Section 2 – Company Analysis
Positron Corporation - Business Description
Positron Corporation - Corporate Strategy
Positron Corporation - SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis - Overview
Positron Corporation - Strengths
Strength - Cardiac PET System
Strength - Unique Radiopharmaceutical Delivery System
Strength - Research and Development
Positron Corporation - Weaknesses
Weakness - Operational Performance
Positron Corporation - Opportunities
Opportunity - Market Opportunity
Opportunity - Strategic Initiatives
Opportunity - Growth Prospects in Medical Devices Industry
Positron Corporation - Threats
Threat - Stringent Government Regulations
Threat - Technological Changes
Threat - Competitive Pressures
Positron Corporation - Key Competitors
Section 3 – Company Financial Ratios
Financial Ratios - Capital Market Ratios
Financial Ratios - Annual Ratios
Performance Chart
Financial Performance
Financial Ratios - Interim Ratios
Financial Ratios - Ratio Charts
Section 4 – Company's Lifesciences Financial Deals and Alliances
Positron Corporation, Medical Equipment, Deals By Year, 2008 to YTD 2014
Positron Corporation, Medical Equipment, Deals By Type, 2008 to YTD 2014
Positron Corporation, Recent Deals Summary
Section 5 – Company's Recent Developments
Nov 14, 2013: Positron Appoints Joseph Oliverio As President
Oct 11, 2013: Positron's Radioisotope Manufacturing Facility Receives ISO 9001 Certification
Section 6 – Appendix
Ratio Definitions
About Us
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List of Tables
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Positron Corporation, Key Employees
Positron Corporation, Key Employee Biographies
Positron Corporation, Key Operational Employees
Positron Corporation, Major Products and Services
Positron Corporation, History
Positron Corporation, Other Locations
Positron Corporation, Subsidiaries
Positron Corporation, Key Competitors
Positron Corporation, Ratios based on current share price
Positron Corporation, Annual Ratios
Positron Corporation, Interim Ratios
Positron Corporation, Medical Equipment, Deals By Year, 2008 to YTD 2014
Positron Corporation, Medical Equipment, Deals By Type, 2008 to YTD 2014
Positron Corporation, Recent Deals Summary
Currency Codes
Capital Market Ratios
Equity Ratios
Profitability Ratios
Cost Ratios
Liquidity Ratios
Leverage Ratios
Efficiency Ratios
List of Figures
Positron Corporation, Performance Chart (2008 - 2012)
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Pete, I think you provide a timely and insightful warning about the dangers of excessive and unbridled criticism of a new administration facing enormous challenges. I have a few additional thoughts and a distinction to offer on the subject you raised.
We shouldn't get too carried away with restraint in the effort to be good citizens and loyal opponents. It is entirely appropriate and indeed helpful to the cause of good governance to call it as we see it when the President makes an error. If an unqualified or an ethically questionable nominee is put forward, as I would argue are the cases with Leon Panetta and Eric Holder, respectively, then the criticism is not only warranted but vital. If the President comes out with a bloated and ill-conceived stimulus package critics shouldn't pull their punches.
The errors the next President is likely to make will, I suspect, come from hubris and, specifically, the hubris which comes from having "handled" the press so effectively during the campaign. Unlike a Republican administration, which would exercise a second round of vetting and self-evaluation in advance of criticism it knows will be unleashed, the Obama team has come to expect a degree of latitude almost unheard of in American political coverage. This isn't in the long run a good thing — it promotes laxity and puts a premium on political salesmanship over carefully thought out policy. The temptation to conclude that "no one will notice" or "this should fly under the radar" is great.
So I think observers, whether from the Left or the Right, are well advised to offer criticism when warranted. It might improve the decision making and cause the administration to think twice before embarking on a rash course of action.
But two caveats should apply, I think. First, praise shouldn't be withheld when warranted. Many here at CONTENTIONS and elsewhere around the Right blogosphere have complimented some of the President-elect's better national security personnel selections and defended him for reaching out to Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration, to cite two examples. There should be more of that sort of encouragement and praise as we go forward. It does conservatives no good to be stingy with compliments. To the contrary, it serves the policy aims of those on the Right to demonstrate that the President-elect's efforts to move to the center (and indeed to the right) will be appreciated.
Second, conservatives should get out of the business of questioning the motives of their opponents. This (coupled with the vile language, ideological extremism and hyper-negativity) was the Left's failing during the Bush years. And sometimes the Right fell into the same trap. "Bush lied"– he didn't merely get the WMD intelligence wrong, the netroots cried. Bush, we were told, hated poor people, didn't care about the environment and wanted to rip apart the Republican party on immigration reform to gain Hispanic votes. All of these were accusations of motive and intent, built on flimsy grounds. The legitimate policy differences with the administration became twisted into nefarious plots and sinister intentions.
Conservatives shouldn't get into this messy business. It isn't necessary or becoming. If the President-elect makes a bad pick for CIA or Attorney General, conservatives can say it without attributing a nasty motive. If he extends an olive branch to House Republicans, why accuse him of trying to sucker punch the opposition? And if he comes out with an ill-conceived national health care plan, conservatives should explain why it is ill-conceived. In short, argue the merits, not the intentions.
Pete, all of this is a long way of saying your overarching point was precisely correct: the manner and tone of the criticism of the next President should be an improvement, not a repetition of what we witnessed in the Bush years. In that regard, "changing the tone" in Washington is as much the responsibility of the loyal opposition as it is of the next President.

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Anniversary of Iraq invasion spurs Vermont protest, praise
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RUTLAND — They came from across Vermont, across generations, and across the political spectrum.
Nearly 300 people lined some four blocks of a busy Main Street intersection on Saturday. From Burlington, Middlebury Springs, St Johnsbury, Londonderry, Windham and parts beyond, they converged in sub-freezing temperatures with signs, quilts, costumes, hats, flags — anything they could think of to voice opposition to the war and, in many cases, to call for the impeachment of Pres. George Bush.
Devoid of fanfare earlier in the day, and two hours north of the rally, Gov. Jim Douglas met with reporters to talk about his recent trip to Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan as part of a Pentagon-sponsored trip last week, and praised the work of Vermont's troops.
While support to bring the troops home was evident at the rally, it was clear there was little support for the person who put them there.
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And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Isaiah 54:13
The Lord is great and greatly to be praised; so, let us Bless His holy name.
We are to bless the Lord at all times, even in good weather and bad.
I had spent the night at my moms house this past Tuesday.
We had turned in a bit early after hearing the presidents progressive address and listening to the latest weather forecast. The forecast said we were to have sleet in the early morning followed by snow. This was not a familiar report as we all know for South Carolina, especially not for North Santee.
I awoke at one point in the wee hours to see that the electric clock was blinking on and off as they usually do when power has been interrupted; it was a little after 3 a.m. which meant that power had been lost, and restored. I reset the clock to the original 3:40 a.m. time, and went back to bed.
I could hear the rain and sleet still falling when I awoke, and realized that I was beginning to feel quite chilly. This time the house was totally dark, and I realized that we had lost power again. The old Boston lantern and lamps were quickly lit as I checked my cell phone to see that it was about 6 a.m., which meant that daylight would follow soon.
I called Santee Electric Cooperative to report the outage and found out that they were already working on the problem. I was grateful for their service. The lights were restored for the second time around 7:25 a.m. By this time the yard was covered with thin white ice, and lovely snowflakes were beginning to fall. Later an automated call came from the power company to make sure that everything was back in order, and to apologize for the time of the power loss. I was again thankful for their service. We were members of Santee Electric since the early fifties, and this certainly made me feel better about the rest of the day and weather conditions.
I drove slowly to Georgetown around 11 a.m., being cautious of ice or slippery roads. I found the highways to be quite safe, and was again thankful for any work done by the highway crews. I arrived home to see little snowbirds had gathered to hunt for food which took my mind back to the days when my older brother and his friends would go hunting with their BB guns for bird stew. No such danger for these little birds, as a blue bird appeared among the bunch. Icicles hung in clear, crystal like beauty from around the roof of the house, as if they were some creative icing on a cake. I took out my camera to capture Gods beauty in nature, then went inside to savor the inviting warmth, and listen to weather conditions on the television.
Winter poem
My friend Leola and I had talked the previous night about the big ice storm that we had in April the year that I was in the ninth grade, and she was in eighth. Those memories also brought back a favorite work of poetry that I adored, and was written by Robert Frost. Whenever the weather gets cold, I always quote the words that seem to make me a part of the scenery. I bet many of you remember it.
Robert Frost wrote the poem in 1923, and it was appropriately called, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Let us continue to be thankful for all kinds of weather, and to pray for others less fortunate who may be homeless or hungry, or without sufficient heat; even for the poor stray animals that roam the areas looking for a place of warmth.
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(We're still away visiting family, but we couldn't wait to share this recipe with you. With any luck, we'll be making it again in Chicago!)
We're walking through the grocery store, and Tim's telling me about this idea he has for using up the case of blueberries in our cart (because apparently it's an annual tradition).
"It'd be like a cookie," he's saying, "but you wouldn't bake it, and there'd be blueberries mixed inside. Then, we'll dip them in chocolate!"
I hear my mouth say something like OK even as I'm rounding another aisle on the hunt for flour, but honestly, all I'm thinking about is cracking open a pint as soon as we can get in the car. In the checkout line, when our cashier inquires about our blueberry plans, Tim's ready. "Well, we'll bake some, we'll eat some and then we'll freeze some!" he tells her, as excited as it were a conveyor belt of diamonds and rubies, not berries, that we are sending down the line.
And minutes later, as we're feasting on fistfuls of blueberries while exiting the parking lot, talking excitedly about scones and pancakes and smoothies, I think to myself, man, there's just nobody like Tim.
We've only been married eight-and-a-half months, a time span not quite long enough to complete a school year, qualify for employee vacation time or in most cases grow a child, and yet there are so many things I already find myself taking for granted about our life—like the way we read to each other, in bed at night, on car trips to nearby towns or at the table when one or the other of us finds an article that's interesting in the middle of our workdays; or the random way we'll enter deep discussions, like when I ask him "Why do you think people are so drawn to laughter?" one afternoon, driving in the car.
In many ways, Tim is just like me: enjoys reading, a homebody, gets frustrated when something is imprecise. In other ways, he's not: doesn't fear what people think, for one; is full of faith, for another. I told our friend Jared a few weeks ago that I think marriage is sometimes like a mirror and what I meant was this: there's something about the very close, very personal day-to-day interaction with another human being that makes you better able to see yourself. Through eight-and-a-half months of living with Tim, sharing our meals and our work and our weekends, I've seen things about myself I don't like, areas were I lack—mostly because they are areas where he doesn't.
I, it's becoming clearer and clearer, am what you might call a cynic, a person prone to suspicion and doubt. I like proof and want evidence and probably won't believe something until I can see, for sure, that it's true. You could blame this on authority figures I had who lied to me or to the social environment I grew up in that deceived and hid grace, but the larger issue is me—me and my fear and my doubt. A few years ago, in a Bible study I was in, we were reading about the apostle Thomas, the one who had to see Jesus' hands, and I starting sobbing when I read Christ's response: no censure, no condemnation, just "Put your finger here. See my hands." I think about that sometimes when Tim and I talk about the future and wanting to give more, and I have to rehearse in my mind promises, promises that I've seen to be true, like evidence, right before my eyes.
And I think about that when he talks animatedly about blueberries, to a stranger at the grocery store, without inhibition or caution or a guard up, and I think about it when he tells me his hopes for the future, hopes I'd throw away as impossible or too big. What a gift to live life with a man like this, what a gift to rub up against him and feel my faith sharpened, see my hope grow. And what a gift to eat blueberry-filled, cookie-dough truffles covered in chocolate, the ones he envisioned and I couldn't see, the ones that are crazy, almost unbelievably, good.
Blueberry Cookie Dough Truffles
Makes nine large or 18 small truffles
The way I describe these truffles to everyone we've told about them is this: Tim had an idea, and I didn't think it would be good, but I was so wrong. These truffles, decadent and only sweetened with honey, lasted hours—mere hours—in our fridge.
1/4 cup raw butter – room temperature or melted (or you might try coconut oil)
1/8 cup raw honey
1 to 1 1/4 cup almond meal
Around 1/3 cup blueberries
2 ounces melted dark chocolate*
In a medium bowl, mix together softened butter and honey until creamy and well blended. Add almond flour until the texture is like a sticky paste. Add blueberries.
Scoop out balls of batter and place on a parchment-lined half-cookie-sheet and freeze for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, melt chocolate in a double boiler.
Take the truffle balls out of the freezer and, using a spoon, dip them one by one in the chocolate, rolling them around until covered. Return, one by one, to parchment-covered sheet. Place in the fridge until firm.
*We made our own chocolate by combining unsweetened chocolate, honey, cocoa powder and coconut oil in a double boiler, adjusting proportions to taste, similar to what we did for the cherry chocolate coconut milk ice cream from last week.
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Lan | angry asian
i love the mirror analogy. and i love how you both complement each other.
we have a glut of blueberries, we seem to go picking every.single.weekend!, but alas, whereas i love chocolate covered fruit, my beloved does not… plus, i *think* i'm reaching a disturbing level of dislike for the fruit…
Jenny M
I love everything about this post.
Oh man! These sound so good, such a great idea!
I have the exact same feelings about my husband too! I've probably learned so much about myself just by being with him these last 8 years and it keeps getting better.
Beautiful thoughts on faith and understanding yourself and finding that love can, in fact, make us better. And blueberry truffles — well, that can't be bad either. Happy summertime, and happy vacation to you!
Paula @ Vintage Kitchen Notes
I was waiting suspiciously for the recipe… it´s fantastic! I just love berries with chocolate. No wonder they didn´t last.
You seem to be in a good place with your life right now, and it´s great to see how grateful you are. Gratitude and big plans will get you places.
What a beautiful post all around! I love your thoughts on marriage and found myself nodding in agreement, and omg these truffles!! I hope there are some blueberries left at the market so I can try this.
K Maki
Not only did I love the recipe, I loved this blog post. I feel I am a lot like you and I know I have a lot to work on. I hope to find (if I have not yet) what you two share. It's inspiring and gives hope! You are a wonderful, sweet woman!
That was such a sweet comment, Katy—thank you! Tim has been such a gift to me, especially in helping me see. Hoping Real Hope for gifts like that in your life, too, whether through people or places or blog posts. : )
This is the first of your blogs I have received and I love it. I am sure I'm much older than most of your subscribers – a great grandmother.
A minister once told me a married couple should mirror each other to have a sucessful happy marriage. You and Tim share common interests and likes but your personalities and characteristics are opposites. That is the way God designed us to be in marriage – to balance. Can you imagine how competitive you two would be if you were as outgoing as Tim? I am going to try the truffles but don't have the necessary ingredients at the moment. I use dark cocoa in my iced lattes along with cinnamon.
Sharon, You're the first great grandmother I've met who reads blogs, and I love that about you! : ) Thanks for stopping by and saying hi and for adding the insight that marriage is as much about complementing each other as it is about revealing what is there. Hope you can try this recipe sometime soon!
It's funny, when I saw the title of your recipe, I had some doubts, but your writing and recipes having never been disappointing so far, I kept the faith and read your post! I'm going to have to try them now! A wonderful relationship you describe, one to aspire to, thanks for sharing.
wesley @ the way home
Ummmm, yum. Those sound incredible. Mainly because I like cookie dough more than I like actual cookies! And adding blueberries into the mix? Genius. And as a fellow newlywed, I totally feel you on the mirror sentiment. Marshall and I are so similar but so different, and I think having a good mix of the two makes for a successful relationship and mutual sanctification. I don't know what I ever did without him!
Running to the farmer's market in a few minutes and just added blueberries to my list. I already checked the fridge for butter and the cabinets for almond meal, and we're all set (no need to check for chocolate in this haus). Looking forward to trying these little balls of goodness.
Wonderful post!
This is lovely. I feel much the same about my husband – he is so good for me in so many ways, not least of all is his eternal positivity and his faith that things will always be fine in one way or another (I tend more toward the worry than he). It pushes me to see things the way he does, too, and I am grateful.
I'm much like you and it's very uplifting to hear that you've found someone who can help you grow, learn, see and balance each other out. It's spectacular….just like these blueberry cookie dough truffles. [:
these look so seriously amazing! I can't wait to make them! I'm already thinking about the amazingness that could happen with raspberries, orange zest, walnut, and any other mix-ins. Thanks for a great idea aloha.
i don't think they would last long here, either. such a fun and pretty treat!
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Ok I know I've been going on and on about these, but this is my 4th batch and I made a double because one batch wasn't lasting long enough!
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From December of 2002 until December of 2008, I wrote a series of long format essays and assorted other bits and pieces, right here at Eject! Eject! Eject! When I moved to PJTV, they wanted me to move the blog with me, to the PJ Media page. PJ Media never once tried to limit or control what I wrote in any way, but the fact is, what with the banner ads and the general look being so different, it never really felt like home in the way the old place did.
She stayed boarded up from 2009 until now, the old girl did. But we are airing her out again. All of the old nooks and crannies and hiding places should still be there... the failed but noble ideas for Ejectia! culminating in the summer of 2007 remain as well. And, of course, the essays that started as stand-alone pieces that eventually ended up in SILENT AMERICA are also still there, on the right sidebar.
I did a little re-reading of the smaller items, and it's a diary not only of my life but also a kind of diary of America, at least as she was seen through my eyes. Anyway, it's all here, warts and all -- an open house from now on.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The University of New Mexico women's basketball team will open Mountain West Conference play on Thursday night in Laramie, Wyoming, against the University of Wyoming. The Lobos bring a 10-3 record into the contest, while the Cowgirls are 9-3 on the season. Tip-off from Arena Auditorium is scheduled for 7:00 PM. The conference opener will be televised on the mtn. and can be heard live on 610 AM The Sports Animal.
TONIGHT'S GAME: Tonight's game features the Lobos of the University of New Mexico playing on the road against the Cowgirls of the University of Wyoming in the Mountain West Conference opener.
SCOUTING THE LOBOS: New Mexico is 10-3 this season with victories over Florida Atlantic (74-44), No. 25 Texas (63-60), Georgia Southern (64-43), Siena (78-39), New Mexico State (81-47 and 65-45), at Arizona (76-63), Sam Houston State (77-41), UCLA (72-63) and Northern Arizona (62-51) and losses to No. 12/13 Arizona State (67-49), Nebraska (66-59) and No. 7/8 Oklahoma (80-58). UNM is led in scoring by senior Julie Briody at 17.5 ppg and rebounding by juniors Brandi Kimble and Dionne Marsh at 6.2 rpg. Leading the Lobos in assists is senior Katie Montgomery at 3.2 apg.
SCOUTING THE COWGIRLS: Wyoming is 9-3 on the season with wins over San Francisco (71-58), Northern Colorado (76-46), Colorado (68-49), Charlotte (77-55), Nevada (80-71), Idaho State (79-58), Western State (69-56), Utah State (62-43) and Idaho (68-45) and losses to Kansas State (68-62) and Montana twice (70-59, 79-72). UW is led in scoring, rebounding and assists by Justyna Podziemska at 14.8 ppg, 7.0 rpg and 4.4 apg.
THE COACHES: UNM is led by head coach Don Flanagan who enters his 12th season at New Mexico. Flanagan is 249-107 at UNM. The head coach of Wyoming is Joe Legerski who is in his fourth year at UW and has a record of 57-42.


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Sales technique: Hope floats, fear sinks
By Bob Wilgus
Have you ever considered using a "hope-based" sales technique instead of using fear?
There's no doubt that showing a grieving spouse next to a casket is an effective way to motivate a prospect or client to buy life insurance, or showing a 70-year-old woman working at a grocery store to make the case for having a solid retirement income plan. But consider the impact of using these tactics to justify your financial solutions. Do you really want the relationship you have with a client to be based on — and mentally linked to — fear?
I would argue that for every fear-based scenario, there's a hope-based image or scenario that will work just as effectively. Think about it. When you're meeting with a new prospect, instead of scaring them with statistics about how inflation can turn their retirement dreams into a nightmare, place in their mind images of being with their grandkids for their soccer games, dance recitals and holidays.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed:
The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
Ultimately, isn't the goal of every well-drafted financial and retirement plan to give your clients peace of mind? Hope-based marketing — give it a try.
See also:
Fear: the closing technique of losers
Why positive thinking is like crack cocaine and how you can get hooked
9 cognitive biases that impede your sales — and how to overcome them


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Rob MacLeod, a veteran history teacher at Harwood Union High School, has been named the 2012 Vermont History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, HISTORY and Preserve America.
As part of this award, MacLeod will receive $1,000, a certificate of recognition, an archive of books and historical resources presented in his name to the HUHS school library and an invitation to attend a 2013 Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminar. He will also be recognized at a ceremony within Vermont. He is also a finalist for the $10,000 National History Teacher of the Year Award.
In addition, Harwood will be named a Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School. Affiliate schools receive invitations to regional forums with noted historians, access to extensive teacher resources such as lesson plans, toolkits and primary source documents to use in the classroom, priority access to teacher seminars and traveling exhibitions, discounts to the online store and free mailings.
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Feast your eyes.
I've written previously that the Xbox One has an early edge over the PS4 when it comes to video games. This doesn't mean Microsoft Microsoft has more games than Sony Sony, or even necessarily better games.
Rather, Microsoft's early game lineup has more potential blockbusters and system-sellers, whether that's launch titles like Forza Motorsport 5 and Dead Rising 3 or the promising new shooter Titanfall releasing in the first half of 2014.
Sony has some very top-notch looking games coming out also, including the stunning Killzone: Shadow Fall and perhaps the most promising game of either system's launch, Mark Cerny's Knack.
But Sony also has a really terrific emphasis on indie games, and I've noted that they will likely maintain that edge in spite of Microsoft's recent policy changes regarding self-publishing.
These aren't going to be the biggest sellers or drivers of hardware sales, but for so-called "core" gamers they add more than just flavor.
"The indie movement is so exciting to me," Sony Worldwide Studio's President Shuhei Yoshida said recently in an interview on the PlayStation Blog. "It really reminds me of when we were working on the original PlayStation. Back then, PlayStation really expanded the audience for gaming and brought in a lot of new developers. Lots of unique, interesting games came out of nowhere [...] I feel a similar kind of vibe and passion from those indie people today. I'm so excited this time."
This echoes the sentiments of PS4 designer Mark Cerny, who sees the PS4 as a return to the openness and diversity of the original PlayStation era.
Here are five indies coming to the PS4 that you should keep an eye on.
[Note: There are true exclusives and console exclusives mentioned here. True exclusives come to one system and one system only. Console exclusives come to just one console but may also launch on PC. Many exclusives are also timed, launching on a system exclusively and then launching later on other systems.]
1. Rime (Tequila Works)
Rime looks absolutely stunning. It's almost the perfect mix of Ni No Kuni and Journey, with a lovely painted look that's part cell-shaded and part water-color.
The game is a mysterious looking platformer, an adventure on a solitudinous island or coastline. Here's the trailer:
Developed by Madrid-based Tequila Works, the developer behind Deadlight, Rime has no set release date yet but it's already become my most highly anticipated little game of the next generation.
Writing at the PlayStation blog, Creative Director Raúl Rubio Munárriz described the project as a deeply personal one, and one they were happy to share with the world.
"We are happy," he wrote. "We create things with gusto." I love this concept almost as much as the game itself. We create things with gusto!
More like this, please. (You can see more screenshots for the game in the gallery at the end of this post.)
Release Date: TBD
2. Transistor (Supergiant Games)
Not everyone was a fan of Bastion, and it's not a perfect game by any means. But it's still a lovely, beautifully scored, and magnificently narrated indie action-RPG that's well worth your time. (I've played it on iOS and PC and it's great on both versions. Wear headphones and sink into the sound.)
Supergiant Games' is going to have a hard time topping Bastion's success and style with their next release: Transistor. The game follows the story of protagonist Red as she escapes with the titular powerful weapon in hand.
The colorful, futuristic cityscape looks great. Hopefully the combat from Bastion has been upgraded, though I liked it just fine. A nice blend of action and strategy; a good variety of weapons and perks to choose from to handle any given scenario. Hopefully the music and other elements are as rich.
The game will also come to PC and possibly other platforms at a later date.
Release Date: 2014
3. Secret Ponchos (Switchblade Monkeys)
If you like Spaghetti Westerns and top-down action games and have always wanted to mix the two, Secret Ponchos is your game.
It's a competitive multiplayer title designed around crazy Western combat and it looks like a blast.
My quibble, my complaint, the drum I so often beat: I want a single-player campaign. Competitive multiplayer is great, but for me it's the thing I do after a single-player campaign. It's the reason I come back to a title rather than play it in the first place.
Still, as a huge fan of Westerns and action-RPGs, I'm pretty much sold on this—for now.
It will also launch on PC sometime after its PS4 debut.
Release Date: Q1 2014
4. Helldivers (Arrowhead Game Studios)
Helldivers is the top-down co-op answer to Starship Troopers. You and three friends take on hordes upon hordes of alien bugs in an attempt to rescue Earth.
The developer, Arrowhead Game Studios, says that the combined efforts of all Helldivers players will somehow figure into the Earth's doom or salvation, so we could have an interesting take on multiplayer here.
Helldivers is "a top-down shooter set in a satirical and dystopian future where mankind is ruled by a managed democracy" writes Johan Pilestedt, CEO and Game Director at Arrowhead Game Studios.
Coming to PS4, PS3, and PS Vita, the game will feature cross-play with the Vita and cross-save across all three systems. This is more good news for PS Vita owners especially.
I think it looks great. Bug-destroying space marines in four-player co-op? What's not to like?
Release Date: 2014
5. The Witness (Thekla Inc.)
Love him or hate him, Jonathan Blow makes interesting games. I thought Braid was an interesting game, though maybe not quite as interesting as a lot of people made it out to be.
That's neither here nor there. I'm excited for The Witness because it looks like Myst.
For you kids out there, Myst was a gorgeous, atmospheric puzzle-mystery game that, at the time, simply blew gamers away with its amazing visuals and tricky puzzles. There haven't been many games like it since.
This is what I imagine Myst would have looked like if it was being released in 2014 rather than 20 years ago in a distant land known as 1993.
Typing this makes me feel old. Hopefully playing The Witness will make me feel young. After all, we have far too few ambitious puzzle games (that don't involve solving puzzles via in-app purchases.)
The Witness will release on PS4 as a timed exclusive. It's also coming to PC and iOS.
Release Date: TBD
There are other games like Blacklight Retribution coming to PS4, but that game is already on PC. The ones listed here are yet-to-be released on any platform. It's also a non-exhaustive list. More indie games are coming out as cross-platform releases as well.
What catches your eye?


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By jaredmoshe | Jared Moshé's Blog October 3, 2006 at 6:35AM
I arrived early to Friday night's swanky shindig for the opening night of the New York Film Festival - the "prom of Indie film" as some people call it - trying to beat the Rabbi to the seared Tuna and sat down for a hearty meal (anyone notice the food at Tavern on the Green improves exponentially on this one night a year?) with indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez and Magnolia's Ben Stambler and Jason Janego. Soon I found myself nominated to do a fashion piece in my blog on the best and worst dressed of the night, or as someone called it a hot-or-not for the NY film set. Armed with my handy, dandy 4 mega-pixel digital camera I set out into the night. Unfortunately, it turns out my skills as a photographer royally suck when I'd rather be talking, drinking, eating and searching for a non-existent sundae bar (what the hell, by the way). So all I got was a bunch of crappy pics of random faceless people, a few photos of friends and one good shot of Fuse's Elma Kremin (hot). Among things I missed: Sandi Dubowski's retro-cool checkered jacket, some woman in a hat that looked like a boat cresting on a wave of hair, Ryan Werner's puffy shirted tux, a wannabe French intellectual, and of course, Helen Mirren, rightfully glowing.


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Palm Beach County gas price spike has motorists fuming, station manager explaining
LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- When a Lake Worth gas station hiked the price of a gallon of regular gas on Sunday to $4.19, motorist Adrian Bellido called it a "crime."
Brian Mercurio called it "disgusting."
George Schaaf probably summed up best what his fellow drivers thought: "Wow, these guys are price gougers!"
But to Aabhash Pradhan, the gas station's manager, the whole episode was simply a "mistake."
Whether or not the Chevron-branded gas station at 6760 Lantana Road, just west of Jog Road, actually met the definition of price gouging under Florida law remains to be determined.
Five complaints have so far been received by Attorney General Pam Bondi's price gouging hotline about the gas station, said John Lucas, Bondi's spokesman. Lucas said that one of those complaints was deemed to be unfounded and that the other four were still under investigation Tuesday.
"We have to do the investigation to determine if price gouging did occur," Lucas said.
Pradhan, whose company Lantana Oil Inc. operates the independently owned station, said the price jump was a mishap that should not have happened.
"It was not jacked up," Pradhan said of the $4.19 price. "The employee made a mistake, he was supposed to put a bag on it (the pump)."
Pradhan explained that the new employee activated the price jump at about 2:30 p.m. as station's fuel dwindled to about 1,200 gallons. When the fuel reserves at the station hit 850 gallons, the pumps stop working, Pradhan said, adding that he tries to keep a reserve of fuel in case police or other emergency workers need to gas up during a storm. Bottom line: his employee should've known to close the pumps down.
Still, Pradhan acknowledged that most drivers would be less than sympathetic. He said that it's difficult to compete with the stations owned by the big oil corporations, who sell the gas to independently owned stations like his at a price that is higher than corporate stations' retail price. Pradhan said he paid $3.94 a gallon on Friday for 6,000 gallons from Crystal Petroleum, a Chevron supplier. That price was higher, he said, because of the Isaac-related shutdown of Port Everglades over the weekend, the main point-of-entry for petroleum into South Florida.
After credit card fees and operating costs, Pradhan said he was making nine cents per gallon even at the $4.19 price. Asked if it would then make sense to charge that much a gallon when costs go high, he said it does in the short term — but not in the long term.
"Financially, it does, but we want to stay with the competition," Pradhan said. "We try not to go much higher than the competition because then nobody will come to the store."
Mercurio, 52, of Lake Worth, said he'll never go to the Lantana Road station again.
"I don't see how somebody could look themselves in the mirror after doing this to people," he said.
Bellido, 48, of Royal Palm Beach, couldn't believe what the station was charging Sunday.
"Oh, I was just astonished," Bellido said. "I was thinking that they're taking advantage of people. It's a crime."
Of course, the state will decide if any violation of law has taken place. According to Florida law and the attorney general's Web site, it's illegal to sell essential commodities at a price that "grossly exceeds" the average price for that commodity in the 30 days before a state of emergency is called. Examples of essential commodities include food, ice, gas and lumber.
As then-Tropical Storm Isaac approached Florida, Gov. Rick Scott called a state of emergency on Saturday.
Lucas said that state officials probing reports of Isaac-related gouging at gas stations will need to examine each station's prices in the 30 days prior to Saturday. They will need to confirm if there was a "gross disparity" from the past month's daily average.
Each situation is different and a variety of factors are taken into consideration, including whether or not market conditions justify an increase, Lucas said. If a business is determined to have engaged in price gouging, the penalty ranges from $1,000 per violation up to $25,000 for multiple violations committed in a 24-hour period.
Bellido, Mercurio, and Schaaf, 54, of Lake Worth, each made complaints to the price gouging hotline about the Lantana Road station.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the hotline had received 89 complaints of gouging state-wide, low compared to previous storms, Lucas said.


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WORCESTER, Mass. - Junior third baseman Matt Perry (Sudbury, Mass.) has been named the AT&T Crusader of the Week, for competition from April 13-19. Perry led the Holy Cross baseball team to a 5-3 record on the week, including a 4-2 mark against Patriot League opponents.
Over the course of last week's games, Perry went 23-for-37 (.622) with four doubles, 10 runs scored and nine runs batted in. During Saturday's 14-10 victory at Lafayette, he was five-for-six with two runs scored and two runs batted in. Perry also went four-for-six with four runs scored and two runs batted in during the 13-10 win at Central Connecticut on Tuesday, while having a four-for-five day with three runs batted in during the 11-7 victory over Bucknell on Monday.
On the season, Perry leads the team with a .430 batting average, 14 doubles and 32 runs scored. He has also totaled six home runs and 30 runs batted in this year.
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Matthews was married to her husband Doug, Xavier tennis assistant coach, in 2012, and welcomed their daughter Kinsley into the family on Dec. 4, 2012.


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Rayz Notebook: 04.21.07
If keeping their season alive wasn't motivation enough for the Rayz, the sight of a busload of Laredo fans carrying brooms on Friday night certainly added some incentive.
"In warm-ups, we noticed it," center Justin Quenneville said. "If anything, it fueled us a little bit more. That's not the way you want to go out, losing in your own barn with the Laredo fans yelling at you. It's good to send them home thinking about playing again in the next game."
The Rayz again were without two of their top defensemen, as Tony Johnson and Steve
Pelletier sat out on Friday with injuries. Johnson has missed the past five playoff games, while Pelletier has been sidelined for three straight.
Injured goalie Brent
Zelenewich also was out of the lineup and has not yet dressed for a playoff game.
The Rayz-Bucks series also was the subject of a wager between the cities' mayors. Corpus Christi mayor Henry Garrett and Laredo counterpart Raul Salinas each agreed that the loser wear the winner's T-shirt during a city council meeting.
Also included in the bet is dinner hosted by the loser. If Garrett wins, he gets a steak dinner in Laredo. If Salinas wins, he gets a shrimp dinner in Corpus Christi.
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The change has been in effect for the past three playoffs since the 2004 President's Cup finals between Bossier-Shreveport and Laredo ended on a controversial goal ruling in overtime of Game 7.
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It's at this point I was pleased I'd forced myself to buy a shedload of those little plastic ziplock bags. All the various fasteners were bagged and tagged to ensure I don't have to rely on my brain too much:
A couple of measurements of the previously evicted engine transmission and the new one prove that, dispite the two transfer cases differing in appearance hugely, they mount with exactly the same mountings and rubbers and so no fiddling with the engine mounts was required.
Getting the gearbox back in to the Dakar is always a pain as it's probably the single heaviest assembly in the vehicle. I used the engine lifter to hoist the front end of the car into the air, slid the box underneath and then used a trolley jack under the off- and near-side mountings with the engine lifter steadying the assembly from the front. After much jacking, shuffling and swearing the mounts were bolted through the chassis and the rubbers then tightened.
The engine then went in fairly easily (note to self - purchase load leveller for hoist!) and then the torque converter - which had remained firmly strapped into the bellhousing throughout the entire procedure to ensure it didn't eat the oil pump drive through becoming dislodged - was bolted up to the flex plate. Due to the weight of this assembly, I wasn't really in the mood for taking lots of photos, but here are a couple of the finished articles:
I guess I've become rather paranoid about this thing overheating, and so I've decided to replace the standard spec engine and transmission oil coolers (heat exchangers in the radiator end tanks, and a pipe with corrugated wire wrapped around it) with "proper" discreet air-cooled units that will be mounted in front of the radiator. Here's one of the coolers (originally off a JCB 3CX, I think!) in a test fitting:
There's also not a hope in hell of the grille covering this lot, so to start with I'm just going to omit fitting one. Once I've finished fiddling (as if!) I think I'll use a mesh over the front rather than the existing chopped up Discovery grille.
I am of the opinion that this is well into "overkill" territory as Eliot's 5.7 twin turbo uses the same radiator. From the Dakar 4x4 mailing list:
Given the water rad is cooling a 5.7 engine with the extra load of water cooled turbos and having oil coolers in front of that (again with the heat load of the oil going round the turbos) and now charge cooler rads in front of all that - so far it's never overheated - bearing in mind that the bottom half of the rad is blocked by the bodywork - it shows how over specified the radiator is.
I've now mounted it about 8 inches further back than it was, which involved chopping and extending the coolant pipes attached to it. The result, though, is to have the tank a good four inches higher than it was previously. Although it looks well above the bonnet line, the arch of the bonnet top covers it nicely.
I'm going to add a crossmember to the two radiator braces to allow for fitting of some proper bonnet pins (or those really cool Aero catches that were demo'd on one of the Owners' Club DVDs) and also make up a pair of supports for the front of the body shell as presently it's not secured to the front of the chassis at all. I am sure this is what has caused the shoulders of the shell to crazy-pave at the stress points as there's a lot of GRP up front that's just flapping around in the breeze.
There's a battery isolator being fitted on the inside rear quarter to allow all the electrics to be knocked out in one. It isn't strictly necessary, but it's a neat safety feature.
Speaking of which, I'm keeping the Range Rover's inertia switch that was mounted at the centre rear of the transmission tunnel (rear passenger footwell). It appears to be wired in series with the fuel pump relay on the coil side, so given a sufficient enough thump, it cuts the power to the fuel pump.
A little bit of fabrication on the filler tube (forgive my crap welding and the appaling white balance of my camera!...) has allowed the existing filler hole in the back of the shell to be reused:
I found a set of rear lights for £12 from Martini Car Parts that, while not exactly the epitomy of style, are exactly the right size and shape to fit the rear of the Dakar. My existing rubberised ones seem to have dissolved over the past few years!
The filter is the large black square in the centre of the picture. The pick-up nozzle and filter are retained by three torx head bolts. Changing the filter is just a case of removing these three, pulling off the filter, replacing the O-rings on the valve body and pick-up nozzle and then screwing it all back together. Stripped bolts notwithstanding, it takes about a half-hour to do and can make a suprising difference to the feel of the gearbox! It's a cheap operation, too: the filter service kit comprising of the filter, two O rings and a new sump seal can be had for £20 from this eBay shop.
The oil cooler sandwich plate was tightened in its final position, the oil filter and cooler were then pre-filled with oil and fitted, and all of the oil unions tightened. The engine was filled with seven litres of oil, which got it to the full mark on the dipstick, however as the various pipes and coolers fill this will probably drop dramatically.
One thing I'm aware of is that the flexible oil cooler hoses are going to rub in their present position, so I took an old lump of radiator hose, split it down its length and zip-tied it around the lines where they pass sharp corners. Looks quite neat:
The engine bay is now pretty well complete with the exception of some add-ons like the wiring for the air horns. Everything is where I want it and there seems to be more room in there than before. Not sure if this is just my imagination or if things have been arranged a bit better... Either way, I'm quite pleased with the result:


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The "Zesty Guy" Is The Most Perfect Man Ever
You know what Zesty Guy I'm talking about.
1. So you're watching TV and then THIS MAN ENTERS.
2. And you can't look away, because um, HI, HELLO LOOK AT HIM.
3. Even though it's a health code violation to lick spoons in the kitchen…
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After Tuesday?s train wreck, how would the six Idol hopefuls fare? The musical theater songs of Sir Andrew Lord Webber, as the judges rightly noted, are more complex than most of the pop hits the contestants have so far taken on; the bigger voices carried the night, and the more musically adept performers seemed closest to making it to the next round. But how would America vote?
To begin, the six Idols gave a pneumatic performance of ?All I Ask of You,? the famous love duet from Phantom of the Opera. It?s a giant, emotional song, and unsurprisingly, was not particularly convincing from the sextet of nervous singers. But they plunged through it credibly enough. The evening?s other new performance, ?Bleeding Heart? by Simon prot?g?e Leona Lewis, dwarfed it easily?not that there was much competition.
A montage of scenes from the night before reminded viewers of the performances: the good, the bad, and the worse. Syesha surprised with an excellent rendition of ?One Rock ?N? Roll Too Many,? the evening?s best; Carly did well with ?Superstar,? a song suited to her enormous voice; the Davids did fine, as usual; and Brooke and Jason were poor. Sad Brooke took the majority of criticism on Tuesday, which was unkindly reprised last night: she forgot the lyrics to ?You Must Love Me? less than a minute in, paused, composed herself, then began anew and sang the song straight through. It?s the kind of gaffe that any rational mortal would pardon and ignore?the pause was literally seconds in, and barely disturbed the performance at all. But Idol, including the usually merciful Paula, was aghast. Brooke, looking shell-shocked and terrified, clearly thought tonight was her night to go.
But, as it turned out, it wasn?t. On the contrary, Brooke was not?to her clear surprise?even in the bottom two. Neither were the Davids (of course). Syesha found herself once again in the hot seat: while discussing her performance with Ryan, she looked blissfully at ease and confident in her performance. But once again she found herself at the bottom, and off she trotted to the perilous chairs.
The other obvious candidate for the bottom two was Jason, who spent last night butchering ?Memory? from Cats. The performance was, all admitted, abysmal, and Jason looked haunted as he waited to hear his fate. But his teen girl fan base had spoken, and Jason was safe. Instead it was Carly, Tuesday?s other strongest performer, who found herself in the bottom two.
In the end, Carly was sent home. As one of the strongest, most consistent voices in the competition this season, Carly seemed destined for a place at the top, and her removal this week feels unjust, a vote based more on popularity than on talent. It may be inevitable that after watching the contestants for so many weeks, personalities (or physical attributes) assert themselves more strongly than singing voices. But it?s a low week for American Idol when a genuinely talented performer is sent home while at least three less qualified contestants carry on to sing next week with Neil Diamond.
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A few good books: What to pack (and read) for Iraq
Chronicle photographer Mayra Beltran and I are getting ready to leave for Iraq in a few weeks to embed with the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, a Texas Army National Guard unit headquartered in Houston. As we wrack our brains trying to figure out how to pack our computers, cameras, sat phones, flack vests, and […] [Read More]
Giving thanks and getting married before Iraq
In September, I wrote a Sunday front-page article about 24-year-old Spc. Antonio Hernandez, an infantryman daddy-to-be facing his second tour in Iraq with Houston's 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team. His girlfriend, Laura Gonzalez, gave birth to their daughter, Karen Alicia Hernandez, on Sept. 10. Today little Karen Alicia slept on a bench in a Harris […] [Read More]
Local soldiers home for holiday, then on to Iraq
This week, thousands of soldiers from Houston's 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team will get a four-day pass from training at Camp McGregor in New Mexico to visit their families one last time before deploying to Iraq next month. Chronicle photographer Mayra Beltran and I will be spending the holiday with a Houston soldier and his […] [Read More]
New mental health services at Houston VA hospital
The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston has opened two new nursing units to provide inpatient mental health services for returning combat troops and women veterans. From the VA hospital's press release: Combat Veterans are at higher risk for psychiatric problems than military personnel serving in noncombat locations, and more frequent and more […] [Read More]
Deadline for Xmas mail to troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
If all goes according to plan, I will be spending Christmas and New Year's with the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Iraq. So watch this space during the holidays for photo galleries and stories about local National Guard soldiers celebrating the holidays in Baghdad. Meanwhile, take note, family and friends (hi mom!): The U.S. […] [Read More]
Army suicides on track to hit another record high
It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but the number of suicides reported among active-duty soldiers already has reached the record total reported for all of last year, the Army announced today. From American Forces Press Service: "Simply stated, it is not a single problem with a defined set of symptoms or markers," said Army Gen. Peter […] [Read More]
Director of Houston VA Regional Office to retire
The director of the Houston VA Regional Office will be leaving at the end of this year. From a statement by VA spokeswoman Jessica Jacobsen: After 32 years of service, Ursula Henderson, Director, Houston Regional Office, has announced her intention to retire on December 31, 2009. Ursula began her career in the Portland Adjudication Division […] [Read More]
Fort Hood tragedy colors otherwise festive Veterans Day in Houston
It was perfect parade weather – a breezy 72 degrees, not a cloud in the sky – but last week's tragedy at Fort Hood cast a shadow over Veterans Day celebrations in downtown Houston today. Ceremonies began with the lowering of flags to half staff at the steps of city hall on Bagby at 10 […] [Read More]
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It's hard to overestimate the importance of having a solid, memorable name on a show business or literary career, so if you're born with a dud moniker, it might not hurt to change it. Do you ever wonder how famous writers and performers came up with their pseudonyms, though? Here's a look at how some notables got their stage names.
Whoopi Goldberg took her stage name from the whoopee cushion. The actress, who was born Caryn Johnson, said that she was working in a theater in San Diego with small dressing rooms when she had a bit of a problem with gas. Goldberg would occasionally break wind during costume changes in the cramped space, and castmates would accuse her of being "like a whoopee cushion."
According to Goldberg, she considered going by the name "Whoopi Cushion" when she advanced her comedy career, but her mother suggested that nobody would take her seriously with such a silly name. Her mom thought it would be smarter to pair "Whoopi" with a more serious name and proposed that her daughter use "Goldberg."
Albert Brooks is a funny man, but he probably wouldn't have made it too far in show business with his birth name: Albert Einstein.
Brooks originally tried to go by his first and middle names, Albert Lawrence, but decided that "sounded like a Vegas singer." The name Brooks was already in his family, so he ran with that. His brother Bob Einstein actually kept the family surname when he entered show biz, but even he's better known by an alias: Super Dave Osborne.
M.C. Hammer got his nickname from his childhood job with the Oakland Athletics. Eccentric longtime A's owner Charlie O. Finley loved Stanley Kirk Burrell, the talented kid who danced in the team's parking lot and eventually became a batboy and an errand boy for the club, and the benevolent owner called him "Little Hammer" because he thought Burrell looked like "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron. When the Little Hammer picked up the mic, he became M.C. Hammer.
Jackie Chan was working at a construction site in Australia when he got his famous nickname. One of his fellow workers couldn't pronounce Chan's first name, Kong-sang, so he referred to Chan as "little Jack." The name soon morphed into "Jackie," and eventually it stuck.
Harry Houdini was born Ehrich Weiss, but he took on the stage name Harry Houdini as a tribute to famed French magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin. The "Harry" name was simply an American version of his childhood nickname "Ehrie."
John Le Carre was working as a diplomat when he began writing novels, but the British Foreign Office didn't allow its employees to publish under their real names. The writer, who was born David John Moore Cornwell, says that he took his pseudonym from a store called "Le Carre" he claims he saw in London.
Iron Eyes Cody was one of Hollywood's most beloved Native American actors throughout the 20th century; you might remember him as the "Crying Indian" in the famous "Keep America Beautiful" ads. One thing most audiences didn't know, though, was that Cody was actually the son of Sicilian immigrants, not Native American. For most of his life, though, he maintained that he was actually part Cree and part Cherokee and even married a Native American woman. This arrangement surely made it easier to land Native American roles than his real name, Espera Oscar de Corti, would have.
Snoop Dogg was born Calvin Broadus, but his parents nicknamed him "Snoopy" because he looked like the famous cartoon beagle. Nothing is quite as gangsta as hanging out with Woodstock and Charlie Brown.
Alice Cooper got his name from a ouija board. The shock rocker, who was born Vincent Furnier, was supposedly playing with a ouija board in the late 1960s when a 16th-century witch doctor named Alice Cooper contacted him. Furnier and his buddies then started a band called Alice Cooper with the magnetic Furnier in the lead role of "Alice." Since the name originally referred to the whole band and not just Furnier, he continues to pay an annual royalty to his old bandmates for the commercial use of the Alice Cooper name.
Michael Keaton was born Michael Douglas. He changed it because we already had a famous actor by that name.
Sugar Ray Robinson was born Walker Smith, Jr., but once he began to make some noise as a boxer commentators described his fighting style as "sweet as sugar." His manager began promoting him as "Sugar Ray Robinson," and every future boxer named Ray suddenly had a nickname.
Paul Rubens' Pee-wee Herman character got his name from two different sources. Rubens owned a brand of harmonica called a Pee-wee, and he remembered a particularly high-strung grammar school classmate named Herman. Rubens later told Vanity Fair that he ran with the combination because, "I like that it didn't sound like a made-up name, that it was just kind of cruddy."
LL Cool J stands for "Ladies Love Cool James," as you may already know. What you might not know, though, is that the name wasn't necessarily true when it made its debut. When James Todd Smith and a buddy were 16, they began calling themselves LL Cool J and Playboy Mikey D in the hopes that it would help their stock with the girls they tried to woo. In a 2008 interview with CBS' Early Show, LL Cool J admitted that the ladies didn't actually love cool James quite yet, saying, "It was just wishful thinking, just hoping for the best."
O. Henry wanted to send out some of his stories when he was a young writer working in New Orleans, but he wanted to use a pseudonym in case the tales weren't very good. One of his chums suggested that they scour the society page of a local newspaper for a good name, so they read an account of a fashionable ball and settled on the last name Henry. The writer than said he didn't want a long first name, so his buddy suggested going by an initial. They decided "O" was the easiest letter to write, so that's the initial that went on the stories.
Sid Vicious got his famous stage name from Sex Pistols frontman John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon's old pet hamster, Sid. The bassist was playing with Lydon's hamster one day when the rodent bit him and forced him to exclaim, "Your Sid is vicious!" Lydon thought the remark was so amusing that he started calling his friend "Sid Vicious."


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The incipient studio already has a few developers in place, and Goldfarb has an idea of what he'd like to make – and what he doesn't want to make. "No MOBAs, no comic book styled art, no pixel art," he said, though he added that those are all perfectly valid choices. "I love role-playing games so I will probably make one."
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Dance India Dance Season 3 Top 18 contestants came on stage behind the grand master for an opening performance. Master Terence Lewis, Geeta Kapoor and Remo D'souza followed them on stage. Abhik Banerjee and Riddhika Singh along with Varun Kumar and Sneha Sneha Kapoor was awarded performer of the day. In today's performance Sanam Johar and Mohena Singh rocked the stage. Tomorrow Masters will choose a couple each from their team and we will see the first eliminatin in this season.
As we posted earlier here are the final teams for this season.
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Shafeer and Rajasmita Kar – Halka Halka Sa
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Photo: David McGregor Buford's Lindsey White (7) shoots through the defense of Jackson County's Allison Reilly during the first half of the Wolves victory on Saturday afternoon in Buford.
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Michigan State edges TCU 17-16 in BWW BowlBy JOHN MARSHALL
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Michigan State kicker Dan Conroy, center, celebrates with teammates Donavon Clark, left, and Skyler Burkland, right, after kicking the game-winning field goal against TCU during the second half of Saturdays Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Michigan State won 17-16.TEMPE, Ariz. Dan Conroy kicked a 47-yard field goal with 1:01 left, LeVeon Bell ran for 145 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown, and Michigan State rallied to beat Texas Christian 17-16 in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl on Saturday night.
Michigan State (7-6) labored through the first half before going on the longest drive in the schools bowl history, a 90-yard march capped by freshman Connor Cooks 15-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Burbridge in the third quarter. The Spartans recovered a muffed punt by TCUs Skye Dawson at the 4-yard line midway through the fourth quarter and Bell scored two plays later by racing around left end for a 14-13 lead.
TCU (7-6) rallied to set up Jaden Overkrom for a 53-yard field goal with 2:42 left, but left Conroy too much time for his second straight postseason game-winner after beating Georgia with a 28-yard kick in the third overtime of last years Outback Bowl.
Trevone Boykin threw for 201 yards on 13-of-29 passing with an interception for the Horned Frogs.
TCU and Michigan State came to the desert with an awful lot of similarities.
The Horned Frogs opened their first season in the Big 12 with four straight wins before losing four of their final six games. Michigan State started 4-2, then lost four of six down the stretch.
Michigan State had the nations fourth-best defense and was 10th in scoring defense during the regular season. TCU was 18th in total defense and 10th against the run.
Michigan State quarterback Andrew Maxwell was up-and-down in his first season as Kirk Cousins replacement, throwing 13 touchdown passes and nine interceptions. Boykin took over after four games for Casey Pachall, who was suspended and later left the team, and threw for 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions.
The biggest difference between the teams was Bell.
The junior was third nationally with 137.3 yards rushing per game and had 1,648 on the season, second-most in Michigan State history and 242 fewer than TCU had as a team.
Early on, the Horned Frogs gave him nowhere to go.
Filling holes inside and stringing plays out toward the sidelines, TCU stuffed the 237-pound junior on nearly every touch, holding him to 38 yards on 11 carries in the first half.
Of course, it didnt seem to matter what Michigan State did. The Spartans had 29 yards on 12 plays in the first quarter and werent a whole lot better in the second, with Maxwell throwing two near-interceptions on consecutive passes and an ill-advised trick play that probably should have resulted in a turnover, too.
Michigan State had three first downs and 76 total yards in the first half.
The Spartans still seemed to be stuck in the ruts in the third quarter before grinding out a 14-play scoring drive led by Cook, who replaced Maxwell for the second time in the game. They had their biggest play on a floating pass from Bell to fullback TyQuan Hammock (29 yards), then Cook threw his first career touchdown pass, a 15-yarder to Burbridge on a crossing route that cut TCUs lead to 13-7.
TCU didnt exactly have its way with Michigan States defense, but did enough to put together three first-half scoring drives.
The Frogs started gashing the Spartans for decent-sized chunks with their option midway through the first quarter, setting up Matthew Tuckers 4-yard touchdown on an end-around.
Boykin had an impressive off-the-back-foot throw to freshman Kolby Listenbee for 59 yards on the last play of the first quarter and nearly had a 19-yard touchdown pass to open the second, but LaDarius Brown was bumped and dropped the ball in the end zone. Oberkrom followed with a 47-yard field goal and added another from 31 yards after Boykin hit Josh Boyce on a 61-yard pass to put TCU up 13-0 at halftime.
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