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BEACH ISLAND, Md. (WUSA9) -- Have you ever wished you lived on a private island? Then you might want to check out the Wall Street Journal's House of the Day.
A couple is selling their 1930s home, worth $4,950,000, located on an island minutes from Annapolis, reports WSJ. The 6,500-square home has four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and one half bathroom.
The property includes "a water tower converted into an office with panoramic views" and "more than 1,600 linear feet of shoreline" with a dock, according to WSJ.
The couple has spent more than $2 million to restore and renovate the home and property, reports WSJ.
You won't have to give up a lot of modern amenities either: electrical wiring, telephone and plumbing are routed through an underground system, according to WSJ.
So why would you sell this property? The homeowners say it's a lot of property to maintain at their ages (they are in their eighties).


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Tucson, AZ (Sports Network) - Solomon Hill scored 19 points and Mark Lyons
added 14 as the 12th-ranked Arizona Wildcats defeated the Washington Huskies,
70-52, on Wednesday at McKale Center.
Hill added six boards, two steals and a block and Lyons shot 4-for-7 as
Arizona (22-4, 10-4 Pac 12) used a strong second half to capture a second
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Nick Johnson finished with 12 points, while Kaleb Tarczewski and Brandon
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AMES, Iowa Iowa State has sold more season football tickets this season than any other year in the history of the institution.
Through Wednesday, the school had sold 37,446 season tickets and orders continue to come in. The previous record was 36,610 in 2007.
It has been non-stop in the athletics ticket office, Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard said. The teams great start has also ignited single-game and mini-pack sales this past week.
This falls season ticket number is nearly 6,000 more than last year, a remarkable 18.3 percent increase. The Cyclones opening two home games drew the second (56,085 vs. Iowa) and fourth-largest (55,481 vs. UNI) crowds in Jack Trice Stadium history.
We have already sold more than 53,000 tickets for our game against Texas (Oct. 1), said Pollard. Fans wanting tickets to the Texas game better act quickly because we expect to sell out in the next several days.
Iowa State is on a pace to average more than 50,000 fans per home game this season. The Cyclones current home attendance average is ranked 35th nationally. That mark is higher than seven schools in the Big East, eight schools in the Pac-12, seven schools in the ACC and five schools in the Big Ten.
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Winning and being 3-0 - the best promotion ISU has had in a long time!
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That would be big to average 50,000 this season!
Hope they have two more for the Texas game, ordering for some friends today.
I also wonder how much of it has to do with winning and having the new scoreboard. It does seem that right after we do any new renovation to the stadium there are more fans in the stands regardless of record.
I don't know what to do. I don't know if we will be in the field yet or not.
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Winning and being 3-0 - the best promotion ISU has had in a long time!
Yep, we need to go to a bowl and the NCAA in case Powers/Boren/Denton flare/fires up again next summer. Our time is now.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
Solution hire Iowa fans to work in the fields for you while you attend the ISU game. Solving problems is what I do.
Way to go Clones!! Keep it up.
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I don't know what to do. I don't know if we will be in the field yet or not.
Buy them now, if you aren't running by then go to the game. If you are, sell the tickets to a buddy. You'll be able to get rid of them.
CPR called and we responded. Outstanding!
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Can't wait to go for a full day of tailgating and a great game. Win or lose, I just ask they leave it all out on the field like they did for Iowa.
ON AVERAGE (different tiers etc), how much is a ISU season ticket? I am trying to do a math here... Help me out.
Originally Posted by CycloneErik
CPR called and we responded. Outstanding!
JP and CPR are doing everything right. The day is near for a BIG XII North/South division again so we could win North Championship again. Oh wait, that happened already! Maybe National Champ this time?
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Tidying Up A Model A Coupe's Back Room - No Junk In The TrunkWritten on February 24, 2012
After finishing my traditional-looking '31 Model A in 2007, I just got busy driving the wheels off it. I will be the first to say that this Model A is not period correct in every way, and every time I opened the trunk that modern Optima battery was sticking out like a sore thumb—the lack of trunk mat and side panels didn't help matters much, either. Regardless of style of car, unfinished would be the correct description.
Don't get me wrong, the Optima battery has been an excellent performer, sitting for months on end only to be ready to bring that 425ci Nailhead to life faithfully every time I crank the ignition. Performance wasn't the issue.
It finally came time to do something about the complete (full trunk) back-door eyesore. So, I dragged the old sewing machine out of the attic and went to town—first order of business was to make a cover for the battery.
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This is door panel material made of plastic. It has a textured side and a smooth side. I cut a piece out to fit the top. I sourced this from the local upholstery supply store. Great material to use for panels, especially in open cars like Model A's, it doesn't attract moisture or warp-like cardboard, and can be glued or stapled.Using 3M Super77 spray adhesive I got the cover ready, then pressed it in to place (use High Strength 90 for more "stick").Perfect, a non-sagging battery cover. The Optima battery lends itself well to this solution as they do not need venting like a conventional battery.With the battery cover made it was time to attend to the trunk floor. This is cut pile carpet with vinyl backing. I like the vinyl backing in this case as it tends to keep the carpet straight and wrinkle free. If you want the carpet to be more pliable, for example to cover a transmission tunnel, use the type without the vinyl backing.
I realized that the empty space behind the panel would make a great storage area for the car's "beauty products", as my friends call them. I also carry spare inner tubes as most tire shops would not stock them in case of a flat. All of it fit behind this panel, but I had to create some kind of access.
I made this door from the same plastic panel material and covered it with matching vinyl. The chrome knob is a furniture item from the local hardware store. It looks very similar to an early '50s Ford dash knob.Before I installed the panel I glued some carpet to the inner wheelwell. That way, it has a more finished look when I open the door.This took the greater part of a Saturday and material cost was less than $150. I later added vinyl edging to the carpet around the spring cover. No more junk in the trunk … literally.


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I'd never heard of anycast until a few seconds ago when I read this SF post.
The wikipedia entry on it is quite formal and doesn't really evoke a mental picture of how it would be used.
Can someone explain in a few informal sentences what "anycast" is, how you configure it (just in a general sense), and what its benefits are (what does it make easier)?


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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The voices against Washington's football team name are growing louder.
Native Americans spoke out against the team name at the White House Tribal Nation's Conference. "It's an ugly word," says Gary Pratt chairman of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma.
Outside the Interior Department, where the Obama administration was meeting with hundreds of tribal leaders, there was plenty of anger. "It's stereotypical. It's disparaging. It's racist." says Gregg Deal, a Paiute, who was protesting in front of the conference.
"I look at it on how its going to effect that six-year-old, that eight- year-old kid growing up when he's called that name," says Pratt. "Is that going to have an effect on him for the rest of his life? Yes it is."
The Oneida Indian Nation, which has been leading the campaign to force a name change, presented the President with a jersey from Cooperstown High School, which changed it's name from the R word to the Hawkeyes.
The President said last month that if he owned the team, he'd think about changing the name. But he said nothing at Wednesday's conference.
Not that opinion is unanimous in Indian Country. Chief Walter Redhawk Brown is a Nottoway, one of the Virginia tribes struggling for federal recognition. And he embraces the Washington name. "Of course it's an honor."
ChangetheNameNow.org published videos from Native Americans demanding a change. "We are human beings, change the name. Change the name! Change the name!!!" they say in the videos collected and put together by activist Gregg Deal.
The National Congress of American Indians launched an ad offering team names and mascots that are unquestionably offensive.
So what's the alternative? "The term "warrior," the term "chief," are honorary positions with the tribe, and I'm ok with that," says Pratt.
WUSA9 spoke to a tribal leader outside the conference who said he has no problem with the team name but he declined to give his name.


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VIENNA, Va. (AP) - Safety investigators are reviewing a near-collision between an oncoming Metro train and two track workers last month.
The February 5 incident on the new Silver Line in Northern Virginia is expected to be discussed at a meeting of Metro's safety and security committee on Thursday.
Jim Benton of the Tri-State Oversight Committee, which oversees Metro's safety, says a passing train nearly struck two workers who were checking tracks between Vienna and Dunn Loring on February 5. He says the workers didn't expect to see the train and the train operator was apparently unaware that the workers would be there.
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AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer Bob Hansen, 93, has died. The racer, tuner and team manager was inducted into the Hall in 1999.
Hansen was a key figure in motorcycle racing during the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for running the American racing teams for Honda and, later, Kawasaki. Under Hansen's direction, Honda won its first Daytona 200 in 1970 with Dick Mann at the controls of the CB750.
Born in Racine, Wis., on Oct. 15, 1919, Hansen first became interested in motorcycles when he was in high school. His first bike was a 1931 74-cubic-inch Harley-Davidson totally disassembled in a bushel basket. Hansen never completed the restoration, but he got close enough that a Racine Harley-Davidson dealer allowed him to trade in the partially completed bike on a newer 45-cubic-inch model.
Hansen joined the local motorcycle club and started racing. Within two years, Hansen was competing in just about every form of motorcycle racing, from hillclimbing to TT and flat track races.
Hansen started tuning, and by 1960, he had opened a motorcycle dealership in Racine and was one of the first dealers in the Midwest to sell Honda motorcycles. Hansen became a Honda dealer and was soon asked to set up a regional parts warehouse, which he did in Racine. For a time, Hansen was in charge of setting up many of the earliest Honda dealerships in the Midwest.
When Honda introduced its revolutionary CB750, it wanted to prove the speed and reliability of the new machine by racing in the 1970 Daytona 200. Hansen headed up the successful effort and just a few months after that victory, he accepted an attractive offer to work for Kawasaki. Under Hansen's guidance, Kawasaki won its first AMA national with Yvon DuHamel, and became a powerhouse in U.S. racing.
While at Kawasaki, Hansen also served as vice president of the AMA's competition committee, the rules-making body for racing. Hansen was also the U.S. delegate on the F.I.M. road racing committee.
By the mid-1970s, Hansen had moved out of the motorcycle industry. After a short stint with the Italian manufacturer, Laverda, Hansen made his living in real estate.
When inducted in 1999, Hansen kept up with his interest in motorcycles by restoring collector bikes and acting as a consultant for Heritage Racing, Honda's vintage racing division. He also is in demand at various racing gatherings to give talks on his days in racing.
The AMA and the American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation, which oversees the Hall of Fame, offers sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the Hansen family and friends.


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I planted a couple perennial poppies two years ago in front of my house which faces east Im in zone 4, Last winter which was the first winter for them, they stayed green all winter and kept growing. This year they bloomed, but they never died back, Now it is October, and they are growing still. I planted poppies before in my last house, they always died down and came up in the spring, these ones have never died down, I guess my question is: Is it harmful to keep on going and never have the die down? Is it because they are close to the house? Im confused.
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I've had perennial poppies for years and they alway show new growth in late August and stay green all winter with no side effects.
Here is a c/p from the National Gardening Association regarding the Oriental poppies:
[/Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability.
About This Plant
A favorite subject for artists, Oriental poppy flowers are the focal point in the garden when they are in full bloom in late spring to early summer. The plant's huge flowers may be up to 6 inches across on stems up to 4 feet tall. Colors include red, salmon, orange, crimson, and white. Oriental poppies perform poorly in regions with hot summers, and the flowers may need staking to keep from flopping over when in full bloom. The plants go dormant after blooming.
Special Features
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Plant in spring, spacing plants 2 to 3 feet apart, depending on the variety. Prepare the garden bed by using a garden fork or tiller to loosen the soil to a depth of 12 to 15 inches, then mix in a 2- to 4-inch layer of compost. Dig a hole twice the diameter of the pot the plant is in. Carefully remove the plant from its container and place it in the hole so the top of the root ball is level with the soil surface. Carefully fill in around the root ball and firm the soil gently. Water thoroughly.
Apply a thin layer of compost each spring, followed by a 2-inch layer of mulch to retain moisture and control weeds. During the summer months, when plants are dormant, watering is needed only during periods of drought. [b][In autumn, poppies will resume foilage growth until frost and these green leaves will remain over winter. After soil has frozen, apply a 4- to 6-inch layer of protective mulch to prevent heaving during periods of temperature fluctuation. When the weather warms up in spring, gradually remove the winter mulch. Plants can be divided in early spring or summer.
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My sister gave me some seeds from her pernnial poppy - pale pink with a light grey-green foliage. I'm not sure if I should start the seed inside in the early Spring or direct sow in the garden. Does the perennial poppy come back from the plant or does it reseed every year? I'll have to mark the planting so I remember what's coming up every Spring.
Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
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hHi Ruby! Direct Sow is best for Perennial Poppies. Believe it or not..NOW! Perennial Poppy Seeds need real cold germination. So saying that, sow where you want them to grow next Spring. They do come back from the plant, however they will self seed, but they can carefully be removed when young to not cause over crowding. The self seeding with the Perennial variety isn't invasive. Hope this helps. Snipping off the seed pods once the flowers are done prevents them from reseeding
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Oh - thanks Linda! Thanks for the info - I will get them planted tomorrow!!
Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
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Pharm Exec's Finance Roundtable 2009, a hot ticket scheduled for March 3, was scuttled by a surprise snowstorm too treacherous for travel. Though we were disappointed to miss out on what is always a spirited debate, a weather-borne paralysis seemed all too appropriate at a time when the financial markets have collapsed like a house of cards (or credit default swaps). Alas, we had to make do with phone interviews of our 13 would-be guests, a diverse mix of professionals representing every link in the M&A supply chain—biotech heads and pharma business developers, experts in the strategy and execution of transactions, Wall Street analysts, and private equity firm investors—plus one Harvard Business School professor for critical mass. We asked this brain trust not only to identify trends in the increasingly complex science and art of drug industry dealmaking, but also to share their own strategies—and, of course, make predictions.
Which biotechs will survive the credit crisis? Can Pfizer get megamerging right this time around? Which businesses will which pharma gain or shed? What's the latest in risk sharing and alternative funding? These were just a few of the questions we asked our experts. And then, just as we were concluding the interviews, lightning struck twice more: the Merck-Schering and Roche-Genentech deals were announced, possibly changing the game entirely—and forcing us to bother our experts again.
As you might expect, there's no consensus on whether bigger is better. The one thing everyone agrees on is that between the financial crisis and healthcare reform, pharma is going to be acting—and transacting—as fast as it can.—Walter Armstrong, Senior Editor
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It's no secret that pharmas have a number of challenges—patent expirations, getting drugs approved, drier pipelines, and payer pushback over prices. There is also a general feeling that they need to diversify. Consolidation gives the Pfizers and Mercks the ability to quickly address some of these challenges.
There is definitely a strong rationale for each of the three mergers. Wyeth provides Pfizer critical mass, especially in the area of vaccines, and allows it to shift its focus away from blockbuster primary-care products. Genentech gives Roche full access to its oncology portfolio and the ability to improve coordination on product development. Merck gets Schering's anti-clotting drug and its women's health and respiratory treatments clinical program, but also helps diversify its revenue with the 70 percent of Schering's revenue that comes from outside the US.
The three deal structures are different from the debt deals we've seen in the past. They all had a decent-sized equity component—Merck put up 44 percent in cash. This is a trend we expect to continue.
I think these three megamergers are just the tip of the iceberg. There are still a number of other pharma companies with a fair amount of cash on their balance sheets, and M&A is a logical path to pursue, as it's often cheaper to buy than build. You also don't want to be left out of the game—more companies will join forces to ensure they stay competitive.
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CGEM Declination axis shift
Posted 27 August 2012 - 10:31 AM
Any idea on how to fix this. I check all the allen heads and they were tight.
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Last night I noticed a slight shift or rocking in my dec axis. It is locked down tight but I am able to rock the axis back and forth a slight, very slight, amount. I noticed this when looking at the moon last night. As I was focusing, the scope would the slight distance with the pressure from my fingers. The moon moved 1/2-way across the eyepiece before the slop was gone.
Any idea on how to fix this. I check all the allen heads and they were tight.
A slight amount isn't going to hurt anything. Leave it alone is my advice.
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I found that the gear in my declination axis is not perfectly round. If I adjust the slop out on one side and rotate it 180° I then have a small amount of slop. If I adjust the slop out on that side then when I rotate it 180° it will make noise telling me it is too tight.
Measure your slop and then rotate the scope 90° and measure again. Keep going all the way around and you may notice the amount of slop varies with position. Note that you have to move the scope with the motor. If you just release the clutch and move the scope by hand you haven't moved the main gear relative to the worm gear.
After doing the hypertune I had to make the final adjustment which gives the amount of slop you end up with. I had no scope or counterweights attached. The thing moved around and then suddenly stopped. My heart sank. I thought that it had binded the gears. I was able to move in the direction I came from but it wouldn't move past that one point. It didn't make any sound like something was wrong, it just stopped at this one place. Soon I realized that it was the firmware doing that as part of the protection from allowing your camera to smash into the tripod. All I had to do was turn off the mount and turn it back on. Then I could continue moving in that direction.
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What you have to do is loosen some allen bolts and then make an adjustment with other allen bolts. Then tighten the allen bolts. You have to spend some time doing this because when you re-tighten things change and you have to start over.
The point I was making is that by doing the hypertune myself I knew what was inside and could comfortably make the adjustments.
I was originally worried that the hypertune job would be too big for me. When you order the kit you get beautiful photos / diagrams showing all the internal workings. You also get two DVDs where Ed Thomas shows you step by step how to do the entire hypertune (except for the cleaning of the grease part). You will need to buy some tools and that can take some time trying to find them. It also adds to the expense. Also, it takes much longer to perform than advertised, in part because you have to go buy tools you didn't know you needed until you open things up.
Posted 06 March 2013 - 01:13 PM
Sometimes this means you cannot torque down the worm blocks enough and this causes slop.
The solution is to replace all the M6 hex head bolts that hold the worm blocks with longer ones; I used 25mm ones and they still clear the internal parts. Since these bolts protrude slightly into the mount housing, they engage all the threads and are far more secure.
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I installed Heli-Coil inserts in all of the worm gear housing bolts on both axis, for both the motor mounting bolts, and Keensert repair sleeves in the ALT adjusting screw threads. This was a much more proper fix to the problem than the use of longer bolts that would only strip out the already damaged and weakened threads at a later time. I found the casting of the CGEM main body to be very brittle. I found the use of a specifically for aluminium cutting fluid was required to do the job properly. I no longer have to handle the threads with kid gloves or worry about further thread damage.
Beautiful! I had heard about Heli-Coil inserts but not Keenserts. I found these YouTube videos that show how to install them if anyone is interested.
Thread Repair Using A HeliCoil Insert
Thread Repair Using a Keensert Insert
Posted 06 March 2013 - 06:02 PM
I installed Heli-Coil inserts in all of the worm gear housing bolts on both axis, for both the motor mounting bolts, and Keensert repair sleeves in the ALT adjusting screw threads. This was a much more proper fix to the problem than the use of longer bolts that would only strip out the already damaged and weakened threads at a later time. I found the casting of the CGEM main body to be very brittle. I found the use of a specifically for aluminium cutting fluid was required to do the job properly. I no longer have to handle the threads with kid gloves or worry about further thread damage.
How do those inserts work? If you had an M5 aluminum hole and stripped out the threads what would be the procedure to fix it?
Posted 06 March 2013 - 06:32 PM
I already had the size kits that I need to do the repair with in my tool box. Otherwise this repair would be very expensive to preform. You can take your mount to a machine shop and have the work done professionally, but this too can be very expensive.
Posted 07 March 2013 - 04:35 PM
for the given screw size you want to replace.
You would have to make sure you have enough material to tap a larger hole.
Posted 07 March 2013 - 04:59 PM
What I need to fix is a part on my lawnmower's aluminum deck.
Posted 07 March 2013 - 06:12 PM
So for a 5mm existing hole that is damaged, if you wanted the new hole to also be 5mm, then you have drill out to 5.5mm? 6mm? 6.5mm? 7mm? Just trying to figure out if there is enough room to do this. I guess I could go to a smaller bolt.
What I need to fix is a part on my lawnmower's aluminum deck.
The biggest problem with using inserts for the mount is not the area available for a larger hole, but the thin metal of the aluminum housing to start with. Inserts are generally designed for either blind holes or holes in metal that is 1/2" think or more. The relatively thin (<1/4") thick cast aluminum housings are not a ideal place to use inserts. In general it would be easier and probably better to do a better job of drilling and tapping a larger hole that to try to use an insert.
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I have installed a lot of thread repair inserts. They all require drilling out the original threaded hole oversize. Some applications do not have enough material to permit this. I do not know if this is a problem in this specific instance. It sounds like it is variable among samples.
I would say that there is probably sufficient space diameter wise (but it might be close). Thickness is the problem though. There is just not much metal there for the insert to grab onto and it has to be completely below the surface for things like the worm housing bolts. I just replaced a worm housing adjustment set screw and it was a lot easier to simply drill it out and tap it to the next size up using tapping/cutting oil that trying to install a thread insert would be (not to mention the small size of that one). I agree that thread inserts are also not a job for everyone. You could easily make matters much worse since there isn't much metal to work with in the first place.
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I've have installed the inserts on the worm gear housing mounting threads for 8 mounts so far. All have turn out perfectly well. The use of SS thread inserts in aluminum castings is a very common practice. From an engineering standpoint it makes much more sense than just drilling and tapping the aluminum to a larger size. Although drilling and tapping to a larger size is a much more simple procedure, in my opinion it just isn't the right way to solve the problem of weak aluminum threads.
The problem with the original threads is not the aluminum but how it is threaded. Most mounts are just fine, but you can tell when they either used a dry tap or a worn tap because the threads are not good and smooth and sometimes even pop out. Cast aluminum taps poorly with a dry tap. If done correctly, the cast aluminum taps just fine and I have never seen anything to suggest weak threads when a good tap and lubricant is used and I have done this a fair number of times now. The threads are always clean and strong. The only time when things might be questionable is if the holes happen to be located in an area with significant casting bubbles but I have not encounted this personally.
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Spicy salmon, tuna-avocado and California rolls compete for space in a display case with less-common fare such as pollo picante, made of grilled chicken, bell peppers and jalapenos rolled in rice and seaweed and topped with eel sauce and sesame seeds. As passengers scurry to afternoon flights at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, a few stop to grab a bite and check their cellphones. Leaning against the counter is a man who is neither hungry nor in a hurry.
Wearing a suit jacket, jeans and sneakers, Philip Maung chats with the chefs, who are dressed in black. Every time I go into a sushi bar, I enjoy meeting all the people, the customers, he says. I love to talk. Hes not a gadfly, and unlike the cuisine, hes not Japanese. Maung is from Burma and of Chinese extraction. He has kept close tabs on this place since it opened nearly two years ago. Sales, he knows, are growing fast.
He owns this sushi bar, plus another one that recently opened on the international concourse, his first forays into airport restaurants. Then there are his 400 or so sushi kiosks, most in high-end supermarkets across the country. About 400 employees and independent contractors work for Hissho Sushi, which had sales of $43.6 million last year, up 26% from 2010 and nearly 61% from 2009. Driven by a dream, he is always probing, looking for ways to grow, to expand. Hissho is Japanese for certain victory, his brash prediction for a business he started 14 years ago in his Charlotte living room with $100,000 borrowed from family, friends and credit cards.
Hes very charismatic, very approachable, and hes very intelligent, says Mark Allison, dean of culinary education at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte. Theres another key to his success: He hit at just the right time on a great idea. For the last two years, Hissho Sushi has been on Inc. magazines list of the 5,000 fastest-growing American private companies, ranking among the top 100 in the highly competitive food-and-beverage sector, and was No. 18 last year on the inaugural North Carolina Mid-Market Fast 40, compiled by Cherry, Bekaert & Holland LLP, a Richmond, Va.-based accounting and consulting firm. In 2009, Maung was Ernst & Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southeast. In the nations gloomy economy, such success has not gone unnoticed.
Last summer, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx and his Republican challenger, Scott Stone, both visited the companys Queen City headquarters. Then the White House started calling, and Maung, 45, flew to Washington, where he sat in the same row as Michelle Obama during the presidents high-profile jobs speech to a joint session of Congress in September. Also in this section of invited guests were the American Express chairman, the GE chairman. They all sat in back. AOL owner Steve Case sat in back, he says. Nobody knows who I am.
He cant help but laugh. Growing up on the other side of the world, Maung Phone Lwin would lie in bed, exhausted from scraping fat and plucking hair off pig skins, staring at the moon through holes in the roof of his house. Now he has basked in bright lights, below the Capitols iconic dome, two seats away from the first lady of the United States.
The airport setting makes sense, considering that sushi was one of the original fast foods. A lot of people think sushi is going to be all raw fish, which, in fact, it is not, Allison says. Its just anything rolled in rice thats been fermented. Its origins go back thousands of years to when Southeast Asian farmers stored fish in slowly fermenting rice to keep it from spoiling. Later, a faster way to get the same flavor was devised dousing it with sugar, salt and rice vinegar. In the 1800s, Japanese street merchants sold sushi rice topped with fish as a quick eat.
It came to America after World War II, when sushi bars opened in Los Angeles Little Tokyo section. There, in the late 60s or early 70s, a Japanese chef invented the California roll, filled with crab, cucumber and avocado and wrapped with rice rather than seaweed on the outside. That helped establish sushis popularity, but only in the last two decades has it gone mainstream, propelled by diners seeking alternative, healthier ways to eat. Suddenly, sushi didnt seem so strange, and sushi bars began popping up everywhere. In 2005, there were about 9,000 Japanese restaurants in the U.S., according to a Japanese government estimate, up more than twofold in a decade. Not all were sushi bars, but it was clear that sushi was on the rise.
Supermarket sushi, Maung figured, would be the next big thing. What could be more convenient than to pick up some tuna rolls along with the bread and milk? Sushi had made inroads in supermarkets out West, but Maung had a plan in 1998 when he founded Hissho: He would beat the trend East, before competition became intense. Our program is a turnkey project for the retail grocer, he explains. The supermarket provides a display case, freezer, cooler and storage area, and Hissho supplies everything else, from the chefs who prepare sushi on-site to the bar-code labels on the trays. Customers see a case filled with trays, often with a chef behind it, rolling sushi on his mat.
The supermarket takes its cut off the top. Anything that goes through their cash register, they get a portion. We take care of the shrink, and they dont have to worry about the training, hiring, firing, managing. Its a big plus for them. Maung targets upscale retailers, and his customer base includes small chains such as Martins in Virginia, part of Carlisle, Pa.-based Ahold USA, and Lunds and Byerlys in Minnesota, part of Edina, Minn.-based Lunds Food Holdings Inc. He has also picked up business from such big chains as Winston-Salem-based Lowes Food Stores Inc., a subsidiary of Hickory-based Alex Lee Inc., and Cincinnati-based Kroger and from nongrocery customers such as Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. Hisshos footprint spans 28 states coast-to-coast.
The company supplies those far-flung kiosks from its headquarters in an industrial section of southwest Charlotte. The former home of a vending-machine supplier has been renovated into sushi central. Behind the modern office is warehouse space that stores everything needed to start and run a sushi bar: boxes of miso soup and bags of rice, shelves filled with knives, measuring cups, signs, menus, mats for rolling sushi. Two walk-in freezers hold boxes of fish shipped from around the world. Supplies are packed onto refrigerated trucks that deliver to each location every few weeks. Though his workforce is a diverse lot, most are Burmese.
In the professional kitchen with six big rice cookers, chefs prepare sushi for local customers. Next to it is a kitchen with a different purpose: to train chefs. About three to 10 new hires usually cycle through the program each month. Seasoned chefs can complete training in two weeks. For the inexperienced, it can last seven to 11 weeks. First comes book work. The training kitchen opens up into a wide space with bright red couches, desks and a projector. Students learn the logistics of running a sushi bar how to stock it, handle the accounting and promote sales. Then they turn to food safety, particularly crucial in the risky business of serving raw fish. Chefs study to become certified by ServSafe, a National Restaurant Association training program, and must meet specific standards that vary by state. The company follows a detailed hazard analysis and critical control point HACCP plan and regularly inspects its operations.
Then students are ready for the kitchen. Under the tutelage of a seasoned chef, they learn to slice fish with the curved blade of a sushi knife and pack tight maki rolls. The training room has its own full sushi bar, and on many Fridays employees pull up stools and play customer. They taste students concoctions and ask questions a trainer has slipped them things the chefs might hear from their supermarket customers such as What else can you use this sauce with? and Can you customize rolls? The interaction is important, corporate trainer Lu Ann Vang says. We have a lot of Asian chefs, and sometimes in Asian culture they are quite shy, not speaking until spoken to. We try to break them out of that shell, give them more confidence to let them know they are not just sushi chefs they are salespeople, as well.
As the business has grown, so has Hisshos headquarters. A year after starting the company, Maung moved it from his living room to a 5,000-square-foot plant, then, three years later, to a 16,000-square-foot space. Its current home, bought in 2005, is 46,000 square feet on 12 acres. Maung wanted plenty of room to expand, which it will need to do soon. He plans to add another freezer and more office space by early next year.
A small country southwest of China whose narrow tail extends down the coast of the Andaman Sea along the border of Thailand, Burma, blessed with fertile land and abundant natural resources, was once known as the rice basket of Southeast Asia. That and its highly educated population prompted Maungs Chinese grandparents to leave their impoverished homeland to seek their fortunes there. But Burmas promise didnt pan out. The end of British occupation in 1948 unleashed a civil war and eventually a military takeover. Years of fighting and failed economic policies impoverished the country, which its leaders renamed Myanmar in 1989. Like many, Maung still calls it Burma.
Life was rough for his parents, who married when they were about 18, before they could finish their educations. My father had a business, but he was never successful. He was always struggling. The fourth of six children, Maung worked after school for his father making crispy pork rinds. Everything was done by hand. He and his siblings would go to a butcher shop every day to pick out skins. They scraped off the fat and plucked bristly hairs, one by one. The work, dirty and difficult, sometimes lasted until midnight. But he did get a tiny taste of a different way of life. His father was an Elvis Presley fan and avid consumer of Western culture who took his son to see Hollywood movies such as Kramer vs. Kramer and The Godfather. Thats when Maung began dreaming of a way out. I was very determined that I wanted to become someone. I didnt want to carry this poverty into another generation.
He excelled at his studies and read American bestsellers at night to sharpen his English, along with self-help tomes such as Dale Carnegies How to Win Friends and Influence People. He was among 500 chosen to attend an elite medical school, but after only a few months, government authorities kicked him out because his parents were ethnic Chinese. Even though my parents were from Burma, and I was born in Burma, they never considered us full citizens. They treated us like foreigners. He started work toward a chemistry degree at a university, then got a scholarship to study in Taiwan. Here, finally, was his chance to get away. But Maung, who spoke little Chinese, struggled and soon dropped out. Determined not to return to Burma, he scraped together enough money from family and friends for a plane ticket to Los Angeles, arriving in 1989 at the age of 22.
His papers and passport listed him as Maung as all young Burmese males are addressed Phone Lwin. Since U.S. government forms listed last names first, he became Phone Lwin Maung. He had no bankroll and no prospects, but he quickly fulfilled one of his dreams: He went to McDonalds. I had always wanted to eat there. The only person he knew was a Burmese UCLA student a med school classmate who let Maung bunk in his dorm room. When roommates kicked him out, he spent a week sleeping in his friends car. He found a room to rent and a job loading boxes at a clothing factory. Six months later, he paid $1,000 for his first car, a 1980 Toyota Corolla. Reading business books, he became intrigued with Donald Trump and his real-estate exploits. Surrounded by L.A.s beautiful houses, he decided he would like to live in one, so he studied for a real-estate license while working long shifts at gas stations. But once in the business, he didnt find the success he was looking for. It was 1991, the economy was in recession, and his heart just wasnt in it.
Thats when he started thinking about the food business, something he knew a little about. He didnt grow up eating sushi, but he had taken to it in America and saw its popularity growing. He calculated that, if he focused a sushi business on supermarkets rather than restaurants, he wouldnt need as much capital and could expand quickly. But the first step would have to be learning to run a sushi bar.
In Japan, apprentice chefs can spend years just cooking rice and chopping vegetables. Maung needed a faster track. He approached Rancho Dominguez, Calif.-based Advanced Fresh Concepts Corp., a big player in sushi kiosks, and asked to open some on the East Coast. Let me work behind the counter. I can learn everything in a week, he said. It was hard, but it beat plucking hairs out of pork skins. Im more focused on the customer relationship. Its about selling the service. Soon he was opening kiosks for AFC in supermarkets in Orlando, Fla. 10, he says, in a matter of months.
By then, he had developed a network of friends. They made plans to start their own company in Charlotte. Its status as a banking center would make it easier, Maung hoped, to get financing. Soon, though, they started disagreeing about money, and the partnership broke up. I was back at square one. He had no financing banks werent willing to lend money to someone with no track record and no manpower. He went back to AFC, offered to open kiosks in Charlotte and won the business of Matthews-based Harris Teeter Inc., which remains an AFC customer.
Two years later in 1998, using money he had saved and borrowed, he started Hissho with the help of his new wife, Kristina Tong, also from Burma, whom he had met at a Burmese festival in New York. Maung is sole owner of Lwin Family Co., which does business as Hissho Sushi. In the beginning, he worked out of his living room with a slow dial-up Internet connection. Lots of sleepless nights, he recalls, thinking, When will the money run out? He had reason to worry. He finally got an appointment with a potential customer in Indianapolis. It was his first presentation, and he needed business cards. To economize, he printed out the cheapest ones he could find. I went to the meeting, and the guy looked at me like, Are you sure you have a business? He didnt get the account.
Disappointment faded, and business started trickling in. Maung picked up Dean & Deluca, Reids Fine Foods and Cosmos Cafe in Charlotte. In South Carolina, he put kiosks in Piggly Wiggly supermarkets. Then came his big break. My son saw one of his sushi shops, says Norman Mayne, CEO of Dorothy Lane Market, a grocery chain based in Dayton, Ohio. The Maynes liked what they saw. We know better tuna when we see it, and we know better products when we see them, says Mayne, who dropped his sushi supplier and brought in Hissho.
Mayne was sold by more than Maungs sushi. He treats his customers like we treat our customers. If weve ever had an issue, we make a phone call, and someone is there the next day from the corporate office. Getting Dorothy Lanes business wasnt a major revenue boost the chain has only three stores but its chief executive was well-connected in the industry and introduced Maung to other grocers. The company made another leap in 2002 when it got the Lund Food Holdings business. The Minnesota-based company operates a chain of two high-end stores, Lunds and Byerlys, in and around the Twin Cities. Hissho is in 21 stores there. That was a major breakthrough, Maung says.
The companys first 10 years was a frenzy of growth. We hired people left and right. But when Maung finally had time to step back, he realized something wasnt right. A lot of the people we hired did not even share our values. Because of that, the company started seeing division. What Hissho needed, he thought, was one voice and one culture. Inspired by Good to Great, Jim Collins book about exceptional companies, he urged his managers to submit ideas for what the core values should be. That list was hewed to 11, which are displayed on the office walls. Some are expected: Great Hissho service, high speed and high touch, for example, and Create synergy. Others less so: Simple, hip and chic, Generate fun. Potential hires are evaluated on how their values align with the companys.
Maung devotes a lot of attention to corporate culture. Employees work together on charity projects. They get together after hours for poker games, movie nights and supper clubs. He has set up a small library with business books he loves, some in Burmese and Chinese. Making the culture right is very important, taking care of employees, making this a second home, he says. If we do the culture right, the rest comes naturally.
On the second floor of a red-brick building in Charlottes Plaza-Midwood neighborhood is a small restaurant and bar called Soul Gastrolounge. Behind the counter are bearded cooks and bartenders and Joe Thu, a slender, dark-haired sushi chef wearing a dotted bandana. He slices thin strips of white tuna from a plastic-wrapped block on the counter and drapes them over the roll hes pressed into place with his mat, then drops on dollops of wasabi mayonnaise and Sriracha hot sauce.
Thu, 32, had worked in his familys tea shop in Burma and studied chemistry in college before emigrating to Charlotte in 2001. A friend introduced him to Maung, who put him to work. He needed labor, and I needed a job. He sharpened his skills in Charlotte, Minnesota and places between, working for Hissho on and off through the years. If Philip needs me, I always help him. Through Hissho, Thu learned to manage a sushi bar, handle food safely and make good sushi. He strives to create a unique plate. People want new things. They want me to surprise them. I try to do that as much as I can. Hes not sure where hell end up, maybe in a restaurant of his own one day. Im always thinking about whats next.
So is Maung. Chefs are a very rare commodity these days, he says, and Hisshos growth depends on finding, training and retaining good ones. One way to do that, he has found, is to sign on independent chefs. Hissho has close to 200 chef partners, as it calls them, in addition to its 200 employees. Rather than wages, the independent chefs earn a percentage of sales. That way, Maung says, they make more money and are easier for us to recruit. However, that relationship will soon undergo another transformation. Maung wants to set up a franchise system he hopes to have in place within a couple of years. The current structure is only good for a limited amount of growth. In order to properly grow nationwide or expand to other countries, we have to franchise.
There are challenges on other fronts, including increasing competition from players entering the market. They try to undercut Hissho by offering retailers higher commissions, but he is determined to compete on quality and customer service. We need to keep changing our game and let our competitors keep guessing what we do. Theres no guessing, though, about his priorities.
A U.S. citizen for eight years, Maung travels often to visit his two sons, ages 8 and 10, who are in school in Singapore. He has set up an office there, so with the 12-hour time difference he can work all night. We want them to understand how the rest of the world functions. We want them to see how poor people live, how they struggle. He wants the boys to learn Chinese. But in a year or two hell bring them back to the U.S., the country where he had always dreamed he would succeed. This is a country that gives you lots of freedom, that encourages people to do well. If you work hard, if you have focus and determination, a guy like me can do it.


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Posted by: lori on Aug 16, 2010
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Mooresville, NC (08-16-2010) – Todd Bodine went into Saturday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race with a sincere 'understanding' of the track "Too Tough to Tame" and also hailed as the "Lady in Black." Darlington Raceway, located in Darlington, SC, has been a part of NASCAR's history for years and Bodine had scored one win there and more top-ten finishes at Darlington than any other NASCAR track. Saturday night, Bodine added another historical statistic to his championship-winning Truck Series career. Bodine put the No. 30 Germain.com Tundra out front in the "Too Tough to Tame 200" for the final 47 of 147 laps. He took the win, his second victory at Darlington and his 35th NASCAR career win.
"It's awesome. The history behind Darlington and the great drivers that have raced here... The list of drivers is incredible and to be part of that and to be able to be in victory lane here again – I was fortunate to get one win in Nationwide – and now we got one in the Germain.com Tundra. It's incredible. It's a great feeling to be able to win at Darlington, for sure," said Bodine, who leads the 2010 Truck Series championship standings and has amassed 20 of Germain Racing's 21 victories.
Bodine says his years of experience working with the "Lady in Black" helped on Saturday, but noted that the youthful drivers of the Truck Series did just fine.
"Experience here is a huge advantage, but with that said, look at Justin Lofton. He was having a great run. I gotta stop helping him. I told him the trick to getting around here and he learned it too well. Unfortunately he got caught up in a wreck," said Bodine, tipping his cap to up and coming fellow Tundra driver Lofton. "Timothy (Peters) is another great example. He did a lot of testing here but he's never raced here. To come out here and be able to do what he did tells you what kind of driver he is. Experience of knowing the little things that make you go fast and the little things that make you go slow, that means a lot. Timmy (Peters) had a good truck that allowed him to go fast. But, yes, experience is definitely a big part of running well at Darlington, along with great Toyota race trucks."
This season, the No. 30 Germain.com Tundra team has had only three "bad" weekends. This consistency, earning three victories, eleven top-fives and twelve top-tens in 15 races has been the driving force behind Bodine's lock-down on the series championship standings since May. However, the 2006 Truck Series title-winner is quick to point out, that there are too many variables to count this 2010 "title match" as over, despite his 231-point lead.
"There's just too many variables in racing. Too many things that you can't control that can take you out of it. Here at Germain Racing, we concentrate on controlling our own fate of what happens within our grasp. You can't control everybody else's truck and where you are on the track if you get caught up in somebody else's mess. It's never over. We're not going to approach it that way. We gotta keep doing the things we know how to do and control the things within in our control and try to control our destiny," said Bodine, who has driven for Germain Racing's No. 30 team for all of his 20 Truck Series wins, including the 2006 championship.
If you blink, you'll miss it. Bristol Motor Speedway is next on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule – Wednesday, August 18th. Watch the coverage live on SPEED! Follow Germain Racing on Twitter @GermainRacing or on the web at Germainracing.com or become a Facebook fan.
When shopping for your new or used car or truck, head directly to Germain.com to find the perfect vehicle or visit your local Germain dealer in Ohio, Florida, or Arkansas. Germain.com is part of Germain Motor Company, a top-25 automotive retail network with 21 dealerships and more than 60 years of experience.


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JOCKEY JUAN HERNANDEZ, CITY BY THE BAY, WINNER: "She was training really good before this race. The trainer did a good job getting her ready. I thought she could win this race, but I didn't think it would be easy. She broke a little bit slow, so I just found a spot behind the leaders. I didn't want to go head-and-head early. I asked her a little before the quarter-pole because I didn't want the leader to try and get away from us. This was my filly's first time here, so I had to make sure to really get after her so she knew when to go. She responded really well. I was worried that we might finish second because the filly on the inside looked like she was never going to give up, but my horse didn't quit. It's really beautiful here at Emerald Downs. Someone told me down at Golden Gate that it was really nice up here, and they were right. It is nice."
NOTES: City by the Bay ($3-3-0-0-$97,670). . .This was the first Emerald Downs mount, win and stakes win for Juan Hernandez. . .This was the first Emerald Downs starter, win and stakes win for Billy Morey. . .Next for 3-year-old fillies: $50,000 Irish Day Handicap, one mile, Sunday, June 29.


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The rodeo continues Friday night and Saturday night at 7 p.m. at the Neshoba County Coliseum.
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HANCOCK, MI - The Finlandia University Finnish American Heritage Center, Hancock, has announced its fall 2012 community enrichment classes and Nordic films.
Three Finnish language classes will begin the week of October 1. The fee for each 10-week class is $50.00 per person; pre-registration is recommended.
Beginning Finnish, co-taught by Liisa and Kevin Manninen, will meet Tuesdays from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Intermediate Finnish, taught by Anna Leppänen, will meet Mondays from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Advanced Finnish, taught by Hannu Leppänen, will meet Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The Nordic Film Series will open its fall season Thursday, October 11, with the Finnish film "Hella W," which is about famed Finnish playwright Hella Wuolijoki. On Thursday, November 8, the film series will feature the Norwegian film, "Max Manus," which is about the Norwegian WWII resistance fighter of the same name.
Screenings of the films take place at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. The films are free and open to the public.
The Finnish American Heritage Center is located at 435 Quincy St. in downtown Hancock.
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Montpellier, France (Sports Network) - Former world No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko
was a second-round upset victim Wednesday at the Open Sud de France tennis
Left-handed Finnish veteran Jarkko Nieminen upended the fifth-seeded
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A pair of seeds posted opening-round wins on Day 2, as No. 6 Julien Benneteau
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Great River Regional Library is taking part in the Big Library Read Feb. 17 through March 5. It's an international program that gives library patrons simultaneous access to "Keys To The Kitchen" in digital format, creating a virtual, global book club. You can create a dish from the book at the same time as your friend overseas or out of state, and then join virtual book discussions on Facebook and Twitter.
"Keys To The Kitchen" is available to Great River Regional Library cardholders during the Big Read without wait lists or holds through our Digital Library. You can check it out, and so can your sister, your neighbor and all the members of your dinner club at the same time.
The Big Library Read program is an initiative of OverDrive, a company that provides the platform for Digital Library programs at more than 20,000 libraries around the world.
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Our hotel's location in Houston is ideal for business travelers, as we're near area companies like Shell, Halliburton and Sysco. If you are in Houston visiting the Texas Medical Center, the hotel's location is also perfect for you. We offer shuttle service to major medical institutions such as MD Anderson, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor Clinic.
For relaxation and family fun, enjoy a picnic or visit the zoo in nearby Hermann Park, or take part in a yearly tradition at the Livestock Show and Rodeo at NRG Stadium. Love to learn? The Museum District a few miles away can keep you busy for days. The convenient access to the Stella Link Shopping Center and the opulent Galleria makes it easy to enjoy the best shopping in Houston.
You'll find it easy to stay on top of your exercise routine in the 24-hour Fitness Center. You can rest without a care at the Gazebo Grill. With the Candlewood Suites® Houston Medical Center hotel's free guest laundry facilities, affordable Candlewood Cupboard store and free coffee bar, you'll feel right at home. Come enjoy one of the most convenient hotels in Houston as our guest!
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- Check In: 3:00 PM
- Check Out: 12:00 PM
- Minimum Check-In Age: 21
- Late Check Out Available
- Parking: Free
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- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
- Standard Wireless Internet service is free for all members
- On-site Fitness Center Available
It's hard to leave your best buddy at home when you're traveling for extended periods, so we provide a pet friendly experience. Restrictions and fees apply.
Whether you are booking suites for a family reunion or suites for your company's training needs, Candlewood Suites hotels can accommodate your group.
Workout whenever you want: Candlewood Gym always has an open door and lots of aerobic and cardio equipment to make it easier to stick to your exercise routine, no sweat.
The IHG Green Engage system is an online tool that gives our hotels the means to measure their day-to-day environmental impact.
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Overall Experience
Great Service
April 19, 2016
The staff at Candlewood took good care of us. They always met us with a smile and attended to whatever our need was as quickly as possible.
Decent Value for the Area
April 01, 2016
We have stayed at this Candlewood before and appreciate the discount pricing for M.D. Anderson patients. The rooms were very clean with an unusual but nice layout for the kitchen, bed and HD TV. Refrigerator was large and bed was comfortable. Front desk staff were very friendly and helpful.
However, we had several cons: We needed to bring our small dog on this trip and were shocked by the added pet fee (3X of normal fees). The room air conditioners in both rooms were very noisy. The common hallways needed to be vacuumed. Access to the hotel is bizarre. It is hard to find since it is set well off Main street which is divided and VERY busy. Leaving the hotel on Main street northbound (toward M.D. Anderson) is a challenge because of the extremely heavy northbound traffic. Accessing the hotel southbound requires cutting through a Taco Bell parking lot. Strange, but OK once you get the hang of it.
Servicio excelente
March 31, 2016
Desde el 2006 cada vez q llego a USA inteto llegar a un CandleWood, el mejor hotel tipo "extended stay" en el q haya estado
Hotel stay
March 30, 2016
Candlewood Suites Medical Center is a great hotel to stay at. My only complaint is you cannot turn off the kitchenette ceiling light without turning off the lights in the whole suite or vice-versa. Please put the kitchenette ceiling light on a separate switch. Thanks.


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I need to change a large batch of calendar folders from having a "b" flag ( exclude from free/busy list ) to not having that flag set. I can't seem to spot the command to do it. These calendars are linked to an ical feed programmatically generated and unique for each user, so I could just blow away the existing one and recreate it with the correct flag, but I'd rather not do that if I don't have to.


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Identity released of man found Sunday in woods
Published: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 4:23 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 4:23 p.m.
The body of a man found dead in the woods on Sunday off of South Pine Avenue was identified Monday as Bruce Charles Hetzel.
The 41-year-old man had several health conditions and died of natural causes, said Sgt. Angy Scroble, Ocala Police Department spokeswoman.
The man, who was homeless, had a campsite behind a Pinch A Penny Pool Supply store off Southwest 10th Street, just west of South Pine. He and another man lived in the area, Scroble said.
The second man noticed that Hetzel didn't seem to be moving on Sunday morning. He was on his way to call police when he ran into a deputy, who then called police to the scene. Hetzel was reportedly vomiting the night before, according to reports.
Hetzel is believed to be originally from the Key West area.
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Seeds of hope
Myanmar | Myanmar pastors see positive signs of a changing political landscape
"Seeds of hope" Continued...
YANGON, Myanmar (Burma)-Sung San Suu Kyi, the "Great Lady" of Myanmar and a global icon of democracy, arrived in Bangkok on May 29-her first trip abroad in 24 years. Fifteen of those years were spent under on-again, off-again house arrest at the hands of Myanmar's military dictatorship, but even during her seasons of freedom she elected to remain in her home country, more popularly known as Burma, rather than cross the border and risk not being allowed to return home.
Suu Kyi attended the World Economic Forum in Thailand last month, hearing speakers and panelists address political and economic issues affecting Asia and the globe. She remained in listening mode throughout each session, refraining from speaking to the media or submitting questions to panelists-even when the topic for discussion was her own country and the cause of freedom she herself has come to symbolize.
Before mixing with powerful diplomats and business leaders at the forum, Suu Kyi ventured out to visit the town of Mahachai, home to the largest population of migrants from Burma living in Thailand. She listened to migrant workers describe some of the daunting problems they face-poverty, mistreatment by employers, trafficking, child labor, and lack of legal standing to defend their rights. Brokers with ties to gangs and corrupt government officials lure many Burmese into Thailand with false promises of a better life, and the migrants find themselves unable to return. Addressing a crowd of thousands from a community center balcony, Suu Kyi offered words of encouragement and-as a newly elected member of parliament-promised to try to help them.
Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), captured 43 of 45 parliamentary seats in special elections in April. The party wields a popular influence far greater than its numerical strength in the 600-member assembly, which remains dominated by the pro-military ruling party. President U Thein Sein, a former general, has surprised many observers by taking significant steps toward democratizing the authoritarian regime and liberalizing the state-run economy. He has also released hundreds of political prisoners and negotiated cease-fire agreements with major armed ethnic rebel groups.
Visiting leaders like British Prime Minister David Cameron and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon applaud such progress, and the European Union, along with Australia and Canada, rewarded the government by voting to suspend long-term sanctions. Japan has also agreed to forgive some $3.8 billion in outstanding debts and resume development loans to Myanmar. The Obama administration has taken a more circumspect approach, upgrading diplomatic ties and easing sanctions, but-with pressure from Congress-has refused to lift sanctions until further reforms are made. Thein Sein appears ready to loosen the grip of military dictatorship, but the military itself remains a powerful ruling force.
On a recent visit to Myanmar, I was eager to talk to citizens on the ground and hear their views of these developments. My previous visit in November 2010 had coincided with the release of Suu Kyi from house arrest. At that time I felt very conspicuous as I joined the crowd gathered to hear her speak outside NLD party headquarters, and my Burmese pastor friend was clearly nervous about government security personnel seeing him there.
This time another pastor friend (who is not named for security reasons) drove me through Yangon while pointing out infrastructure improvements and newly opened businesses. (Driving in Burma is very disconcerting, as nearly all the vehicles are Japanese models built for driving on the left, and unsuited for traffic that flows on the right as in the United States.)
We drove by Suu Kyi's home, where a newly erected brick and concrete wall separates it from the road, and wide new sidewalks line both sides of the street. What other changes under the new government are taking place? I asked the pastor.
"Practically speaking, one of the best changes has been the availability of electricity. In summers past, we often had power only four hours a day. This year, we have power almost 24 hours a day." He also pointed to a newly opened automobile dealership, where used cars that had once sold for nearly $100,000 now are selling for $30,000.
The pastor said he believes Thein Sein is "a good man" and that ordinary people, along with democracy advocates like Suu Kyi, trust him. The government also is loosening restrictions on tribal minorities, allowing them to celebrate their traditional festivals. "For Chin people like us," the pastor said, "that means we can hold Christian services without having to hide."
Last year a committee with representatives from five different denominations planned and held a public gospel concert in Yangon. The event took place over four nights in a sports arena, and the crowds grew to 5,000 on the last night, said the pastor. The government TV station even sent a crew to cover it.
But with the changes, persecution remains. "It is still very difficult to get a building permit for a church. Christians in the army are passed over for promotion. And the government actively promotes Buddhism," said the pastor. The government has financed a new Buddhist monastery in Chin state and paid monks to go there. "But things are definitely better than before, and we are hopeful they will continue to improve," said the pastor.
From my perspective as a foreigner, one big change is no longer having to secure a visa in advance from the Myanmar consulate: I worked through an online travel agency to obtain a visa on arrival. Access to money remains a problem, as there are no ATMs to withdraw funds from foreign banks. And to fund projects or support orphanages in Myanmar, we cannot wire funds from abroad to a local bank account but must work through a private agent who manages to get the money to our contacts inside the country.
On this visit I ventured outside Yangon for the first time, taking a domestic flight about 620 miles northwest to Kalaymyo to teach at a pastors' conference. While the international terminal of Mingaladon Airport in Yangon is clean, spacious, comfortable, and efficient, the domestic terminal is anything but. With no computers in sight, all check-ins are done by hand.
And despite the positive changes, certain areas of the country remain off-limits to foreigners or require special permits to visit, particularly states such as Chin and Kachin where tribal groups are engaged in armed conflicts with the government-and where persecution of Christians continues.
At the pastors' conference in Kalaymyo, the hotel offered free wi-fi access, and authorities have eased internet restrictions-like access to Google. About 200 pastors and local believers attended the conference. Some had walked for two days, then took bus rides of 12 to 15 hours in order to get there. Most were from the neighboring Chin State, where the population is 95 percent Christian.
Many of the pastors operate homes for abandoned children, a severe problem in Myanmar. Most children in the homes have similar stories: after one parent died, the other remarried but the new spouse did not accept the child. Usually the parents are from different tribes, so that other family members are unwilling to take in the children. Some children are orphans, others come from homes where one or both parents were incapacitated by drug use.
Expressive worship and intense prayer characterized the Kalaymyo conference. Years of struggling with poverty and injustice under a corrupt and oppressive regime have not robbed the pastors of their faith in God or their joy in serving Him. Many of the pastors take courage and hope from former dissidents like Aung San Suu Kyi, and many of the pastors at the conference were equally hopeful about the future, seeing recent changes as the beginning of God's answer to years of prayer for freedom, justice, and prosperity for Myanmar.
-Russell Board is a writer in Saitama City, Japan


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Today Sony's CEO Andrew House has officially announced the PlayStation 4 / PS4 console and DualShock 4 controller (similar to the prototype) at PlayStation Meeting 2013!
The Sony PlayStation 4 console will come with 8GB of RAM (additional specs HERE and below) and also include a sleep function allowing gamers to pause PS4 games at any time and resume them from where they left off whenever they wish.
The Sony DualShock 4 controllers will offer a touch pad on the front, a light bar to set apart players alongside a Kinect-style camera to keep track of all connected controllers.
Here are the official Sony Press Releases for those interested:
To quote from News10.net (linked above): "Today marks a moment of truth and a bold step forward for PlayStation as a company," said Andrew House, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment.
Along with this comes the official unveiling of PlayStation 4 - a platform designed to bring new innovations to gamers. The platform is being touted as a powerful and accessible system that will define the evolution of gaming itself.
"PlayStation 4 had ignited [developer's] creativity to create new experiences that up until now they can only dream of," commented Michael Denny at Sony's Worldwide Studios.
Taking cues from the PC world, it's eight-core CPU runs on the X86 architecture with a highly-enhanced PC GPU using GDDR5 memory capable of producing more than one-million movable objects as shown in a live-demo during the press conference.
It will also be able to create models with more than 30,000 polygons as shown by David Cage of Beyond developer Quantic Dream. As for system memory, the PS4 is being equipped with 8GB of high-capacity memory backed by a local solid-state hard drive.
"The PlayStation 4 is a much functional gaming platform its CPU and GPU processing power are extremely high," said Yoshihisa Hashimoto of Square-Enix. "Players will be enthralled by the evolution of gameplay that will be on the PS4."
As for its new controller, the Dual Shock four looks very much like the prototype that had been leaked not too long ago. It includes a touchpad, a headphone jack, and a light bar to identify players. It can also be paired with a 3D camera for motion controls. They system also appears to have support for the current motion control scheme, PlayStation Move.
Other new features include the ability to suspend a play session at the press of a button, allowing gamers to pick back up where they left off. It also has a secondary chip to manage uploads and downloads, even with the main power off.
Furthermore, downloadable titles on PlayStation 4 will be playable while its download is in progress. Gamers can also seamlessly upload gameplay video to the internet via the PS4's one-touch sharing feature or provide a spectating experience by live-steaming and can even provide real-time feedback and assistance in return.
On the social side of things, PlayStation 4 is focused around interacting with real-life friends through not only the system's user interface, but also on other parts of the overall PlayStation family of systems and other third-party platforms such as smartphones and tablets. Personalization is also a key thing about the PlayStation 4. The system will learn its users' likes and dislikes and will eventually cater to them.
Cloud gaming is also a bit part of PlayStation 4 via PlayStation Network. With the Gaikai-branded cloud gaming technology, gamers can check out streaming demo versions of games right from the PlayStation Store to allow gamers to immediately experience the game before they buy it. Furthermore, PS4 users can share the games they try out and/or buy via social networks such as Facebook.
"What we're creating is the fastest, most powerful network for gaming in the world," stated David Perry, CEO of cloud gaming company Gaikai. "Our vision is to create the first gaming social network with meaning."
Announced Titles for the PlayStation 4 Include: (PS4 Video Game Trailers)
- Knack, a quirky and charming-looking title featuring a small robot.
- Killzone: Shadow Fall, a first-person shooter game that takes place in a dystopian future where all heck breaks loose.
- Driveclub, the next racing game from Evolution Studios where players drive as part of a team against user-controlled in-game driving clubs from all over the world.
- iNFamous Second Son, a game from developer Sucker Punch that features an underground of superhumans fighting to bring the social liberties and freedoms that have been (as some might say) compromised in Western society.
- The Witness, a colorful open-world puzzle-based game from indie developer Jonathan Blow.
- Beyond, the previously-announced title from developer Quantic Dream starring Katie Holmes.
- Deep Dawn, a new title running on Capcom's new engine designed specifically for PlayStation 4.
- A new Final Fantasy title to be made on Square-Enix's Luminous Engine that the company will debut at the 2013 E3 Expo in June.
- Watch Dogs, an open world action-adventure game from Ubisoft.
In addition to the PS4-named titles, Perry mentioned the possibility of providing past PlayStation titles dating back to the original PlayStation One as live-streamed, playable games. That stated, no word was given as to the PlayStation 4's backwards compatibility capabilities.
Furthermore, Sony has confirmed the support of most every major third-party game developer and publisher as well as collaboration plans with a variety of smaller independent game studios.
One of those third-party publishers/developers, Capcom, unveiled Panta Rhei. It's a new gaming engine designed specifically for the high-end graphics and processes of which the PlayStation 4 is capable. Another another of the third-party developers, Square Enix, will be using its high-end Luminous Studio engine to create its PS4 titles.
Along with the announcement of PlayStation 4 is Sony's announcement of expanding its handheld gaming platform, PlayStation Vita, into the living room - a domain dominated by traditional home consoles. This includes the expansion of remote play, allowing PS4 owners to transfer gameplay from the television to the PlayStation Vita a-la the Wii U does to the Wii U Gamepad.
Remote play capabilities will extend beyond games to include services like Netflix and Sony's own Music Unlimited and Music Unlimited. While no further details were supplied about this topic, House revealed that the company will provide more details on the future of the Vita later this year. An official street date and price for PlayStation 4 have yet to be announced."
From GamesFiends.com also comes an overview of the Sony PlayStation 4 / PS4 features, as follows:
PlayStation 4 / PS4 Features:
- PlayStation 4 – Yes that's correct Sony went with the obvious and named the system PlayStation 4. Plenty of talk about PlayStation Orbis, The PlayStation have been cast aside and Sony have shrugged off the apparently superstitious links with the number 4 also.
- Based on enhanced PC infrastructure the system will indeed have 8GB of system RAM. The system memory uses GDDR 5 memory which will greatly increase the speed of operation – this stuff is usually kept for higher end graphics cards.
- New Dualshock 4 revealed
- Dualshock 4 controller has a share button, a light bar at the front (thin the glowing ball from PS Move, better triggers, a small touch bar that looks like the material on the back of the PS Vita, a headphone/mic jack
- Dualshock 4 will tie up with a new stereoscopic camera – this will then track the new controller through three dimensional space – again a lot like PS Move
- PS4 downloads from the store are instantly playable after a very small download – the rest will download in the background as you play
- Seemless uploads of gameplay – uploads as you play after choosing from past few minutes of play
- Browse friends live video feed as they play
- Remote assist from friends via your PSN list
- Real names and pics – probably taken from current social networks
- Games loaded by favorite types/developers... demos auto downloaded based on previous latest
- Instant "Try it now" using Gaikai will allow you to instantly try a game demo rather than download it first
- UStream footage live multicasting
- Remote play via a second screen
- Remotely transfer your game from PS 4 to PS Vita to continue your game on the remote system.
- No backwards compatibility BUT PS1, 2 and 3 titles playable in the future via cloud services
- The console will release for Holiday Season 2013
Sony has also released the official PlayStation 4 / PS4 specifications today (available via GamingBolt.com) below, to quote:
"PS4 is equipped with 8 GB of unified system memory, easing game creation and increasing the richness of content achievable on the platform. GDDR5 is used for this memory, giving the system 176 GB/second of bandwidth and providing a further boost to graphics performance. The end result for gamers is new games with rich, high-fidelity graphics and deeply immersive experiences that shatter expectations.
The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has been enhanced in a number of ways, principally to allow for easier use of the GPU for general purpose computing (GPGPU) such as physics simulation. The GPU contains a unified array of 18 compute units, which collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops of processing power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two. Sony have released the complete specifications of the PS4."
Sony PlayStation 4 / PS4 Specifications:
Main Processor
- Single-chip custom processor
- CPU : x86-64 AMD "Jaguar", 8 cores
- GPU : 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon based graphics engine
Hard Disk Drive
- Built-in
Optical Drive (read only)
- BD 6xCAV
- DVD 8xCAV
- Super-Speed USB (USB 3.0) AUX
- Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
- IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth 2.1 (EDR)
AV output
- Analog-AV out
- Digital Output (optical)
*Specifications are subject to change without notice.
Sony DualShock 4 Specifications: (via Sony Press Releases)
- External Dimensions Approx. 162mm x 52mm x 98mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)
- Weight Approx. 210g (tentative)
- Keys / Switches PS button, SHARE button, OPTIONS button,
- Directional buttons (Up/Down/Left/Right),
- Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square),
- R1/L1/R2/L2 button, Left stick / L3 button, Right stick / R3 button, Pad Button
- Touch Pad 2 Point Touch Pad, Click Mechanism, Capacitive Type
- Motion Sensor Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer)
- Other Features Light Bar, Vibration, Built-in Mono Speaker
- Ports USB (Micro B), Extension Port, Stereo Headset Jack
- Wireless Communication Bluetooth Ver2.1+EDR
- Battery Type Built-in Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery
- Voltage DC3.7V (tentative)
- Capacity 1000mAh (tentative)
Sony PlayStation 4 Eye Specifications: (via Sony Press Releases)
- External Dimension Approx. 186mm x 27mm x 27mm (width x height x depth) (tentative)
- Weight Approx. 183g (tentative)
- Video Pixel (Maximum) 1280 x 800 pixel x 2
- Video Frame Rate 1280x800 pixel @ 60fps
- 640x400 pixel @ 120fps
- 320x192 pixel @ 240fps
- Video Format RAW, YUV (uncompressed)
- Lens Dual Lenses, F value/F2.0 fixed focus
- Capture Range 30cm
- Field-of-View 85 degrees
- Microphone 4 Channel Microphone Array
- Connection Type PS4 dedicated connector (AUX connector)
- Cable Length Approx. 2m (tentative)
From GenGame.net also comes word on the first Sony PlayStation 4 / PS4 pre-order details, as follows to quote:
"GameStop management has confirmed that the retailer has opened a "first to know" waiting list for the PlayStation 4. This isn't a true pre-order SKU (that will come a little later) but you can go to GameStop now to have your name put on a call list for when new information about the console releases, and you will be notified when the system officially becomes available for pre-order."
Here's a list of developers/publishers confirmed working for the PS4:
- ACQUIRE Corp.
- ASCII MEDIA WORKS Inc.
- Bethesda Softworks, LLC
- Chara-Ani Corporation
- CyberConnect2 Co.,Ltd.
- D3 PUBLISHER Inc.
- Dimps Corporation
- Electronic Arts Inc.
- FromSoftware, Inc.
- GANBARION Co., Ltd.
- Genki Co., Ltd.
- Granzella Inc.
- GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
- IDEA FACTORY Co., Ltd.
- Index Corp.(ATLUS)
- Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
- LEVEL-5 Inc.
- MAGES. Inc.
- MarvelousAQL Inc.
- NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
- NAMCO BANDAI Studios Inc.
- Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
- O-TWO inc. (peakvox)
- PlatinumGames Inc.
- SEGA Corporation
- SPIKE CHUNSOFT Co.,Ltd.
- SQUARE ENIX Co., Ltd.
- SystemSoft Alpha Corp.
- TECMO KOEI GAMES Co.,Ltd.
- tri-Ace Inc.
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- XING Inc.
- YUKE'S Co.,Ltd.
- BLUESIDE Inc.
- Ratloop Asia Pte Ltd
- Red Hare Studios
- XPEC Entertainment Inc.
- 17-Bit
- 5th Cell Media LLC
- Activision Publishing, Inc.
- Armature Studios
- Behaviour Interactive
- Bethesda Softworks, LLC
- Blind Squirrel Games
- Certain Affinity, Inc.
- Darkside Game Studios, Inc.
- Devolver Digital
- Disney
- Double Fine Productions, Inc.
- Double Helix Games
- DrinkBox Studios Inc.
- Edge of Reality, Inc.
- Electronic Arts Inc.
- FarSight Studios
- Gaijin Games, Inc.
- Gearbox Software
- HB Studios Multimedia
- Heavy Iron Studios, Inc.
- High Voltage Software, Inc.
- inXile Entertainment Inc.
- Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC
- JETPACK Interactive Entertainment Ltd.
- Klei Entertainment Inc.
- Lab Zero, Inc
- LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company
- Metanet Software Inc
- Minority Media Iinc.
- Nicalis, Inc
- Panic Button, LLC
- Psyonix Studios, Inc.
- Slant Six Games
- Sony Online Entertainment LLC
- Spark Unlimited
- Spry Fox LLC
- SuperVillain Studios
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- Telltale, Inc.
- Tribute Games Inc.
- Turtle Rock Studios, Inc.
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- vBlank Entertainment Inc.
- Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
- WayForward Technologies, Inc.
- Zombie Studios, LLC
- IO Interactive
- Starbreeze Studios
- 2K Games
- Zen Studios
- keen games
- Splash Damage
- Stainless Games Ltd
- Sumo Digital
- Codemasters
- TT Games
- Avalanche Studios
- Blitz Games Studios
- Bohemia Interactive
- CD Projekt RED
- Hello Games
- Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd.
- Deep Silver
- Lucid Games Ltd
- MercurySteam
- Ninja Theory Ltd
- Nixxes Software BV
- Paradox Interactive
- Rebellion
- Saber Interactive
- Creative Assembly
According to SCEE president, Shuhei Yoshida, the upcoming PlayStation 4 will be able to display video in 4K resolution, but games would be presented at a lower resolution.
Current PSN purchases and game saves will NOT made the transition to PlayStation 4. According to Shuhei Yoshida, SCEE boss, this is due to the architecture between PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 is so different.
Update: Sony Europe has now revised it's list of PS4 developers in half, with the updated one below as follows:
- Avalanche Studios
- Blitz Games Studios
- Bohemia Interactive
- CD Projekt RED
- Climax Studios
- Hello Games
- Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd.
- Deep Silver
- Lucid Games Ltd
- MercurySteam
- Ninja Theory Ltd
- Nixxes Software BV
- Paradox Interactive
- Rebellion
- Saber Interactive
- Creative Assembly
- IO Interactive
- Starbreeze Studios
- 2K Games
- Team 17 Digital LTD
- Yager
- Zen Studios
- Keen games
- Splash Damage
- Stainless Games Ltd
- Sumo Digital
- Codemasters
- TT Games
Finally, when it comes closer to launch (currently slated for Holiday 2013) we will be ready with www.PS4News.com and have also secured www.PS5News.com assuming Sony continues their PlayStation-branded trend well into the future of video gaming.
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Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - James Neal scored twice and added an assist
as the Pittsburgh Penguins took a 4-2 win over the Ottawa Senators on
Wednesday. Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists, while Pascal Dupuis also
scored for the Penguins, who snapped a two-game slide. Marc-Andre Fleury made
27 saves in the win. Jim O'Brien and Stephane Da Costa each scored for the
Senators, who have lost five of seven. Craig Anderson made 26 saves in the
loss. Ottawa also lost defenseman and reigning Norris Trophy winner Erik
Karlsson in the game and possibly for the season with a cut to his left
Achilles. Late in the second period he got clipped by the skate of
Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke when the two were going for a puck. He had to be
helped off the ice as he was unable to put any pressure on the leg. The team
announced on its Twitter page that he will have surgery and is out
Final Score: St. Louis 4, Detroit 3 (OT)
Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Alex Steen scored just 52 seconds into overtime
to help the St. Louis Blues take a 4-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on
Wednesday. In the extra session, Barret Jackman threw a hard shot on net
from the left side that hit off of Jimmy Howard and popped out to the right.
Steen was able to grab the puck and jam it in for the win. Chris Stewart had
a goal and an assist while Patrik Berglund and Vladimir Tarasenko each
scored for the Blues, who snapped a five-game slide. Jake Allen stopped 15
shots in the win. Pavel Datsyuk, Drew Miller and Tomas Tatar all scored for
the Red Wings, who had a three-game winning streak stopped. Howard made 21
Final Score: Calgary 7, Dallas 4
Calgary, AB (Sports Network) - Mike Cammalleri notched his fifth career hat
trick and added an assist as a big first period helped Calgary take a 7-4 win
over Dallas on Wednesday. Roman Cervenka had a goal and an assist while
Jay Bouwmeester, Curtis Glencross and Jiri Hudler all scored for the
Flames, who snapped a two-game slide. Leland Irving gave up four goals on 34
shots in the win. Brenden Morrow tallied two goals with Cody Eakin and
Eric Nystrom also lighting the lamp for the Stars, who had a four-game
winning streak stopped. Richard Bachman gave up six goals on 22 shots in the
The Sports Network