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Grab a bite at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include a business center, audiovisual equipment, and secretarial services. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and banquet facilities. Parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Crowne Plaza Orlando-Universal is located on Universal Boulevard, less than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Universal Studios Florida and a quick walk from the world-renowned International Drive. The hotel offers complimentary shuttle service to SeaWorld, Aquatica, Wet 'n Wild, and the Disney® and Universal Orlando theme parks.
This smoke-free Orlando hotel offers a heated outdoor pool and fitness center. A business center offers computer access and fax and copy services; high-speed wireless Internet access is available throughout (surcharge). The hotel provides multiple conference and meeting rooms, banquet facilities, wedding service, concierge, luggage storage, and event catering. Exhibit space is available and audio-visual equipment is on hand.
Cafe de Sol serves a full breakfast buffet with made-t-order omelettes, as well as a la carte items and entrees. Elements Bar & Grill is open for lunch and dinner. The Aqua Pool Bar serves a full menu and drinks, weather permitting.
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- Air-conditioned public areas
- Total number of rooms - 400
- Number of floors - 15
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- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Valet parking (surcharge)
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- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 7
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- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
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Room service is available 24 hours a day.
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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- Breakfast fee: USD 16.95 per person (approximately)
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- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
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Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, is the new executive director of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education. With his appointment, the Alliance's office has moved to his home town, Birmingham, AL. The new address is Suite 208, Southcrest Bldg., 1025 Montgomery Highway, Birmingham, AL 35216. The new telephone number is (205) 824-1355. The Alliance has ended its relationship with the Sherwood Group, which managed the association during the tenure of Executive Director Frances Maitland. "We are assembling a full-time staff, and expect the Alliance to be fully autonomous for the first time in its 22 years," Bellande says. "The 1997 meeting will be managed by the Southern Medical Association (SMA); the in-house staff will plan and run the 1998 meeting." The transition should be relatively smooth, since Bellande was already program director of the 1997 meeting while director of education with the SMA. His successor at the SMA is Dave M. Barzler.
Now that the Alliance is in Birmingham and its office is less than a mile from that of the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), can we expect to see a closer relationship? "Yes," says Bellande. "I have been to visit with Bill Myers and Roy Evans to explore some possible collaborative ventures."
Meanwhile, outgoing executive director Frances Maitland, who has seen it all in the CME business, got a high-tech send-off from members of the Society of Medical College Directors of Continuing Medical Education, who inundated the organization's listserv (an automated e-mail distribution service) with farewells and good wishes.
If the AMA can do it . . . The New York City-based American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has begun offering a Geriatrics Recognition Award (GRA), similar to the Physicians Recognition Award (PRA) offered by the American Medical Association. To receive a GRA, a physician must take 150 hours of continuing medical education in geriatrics, and at least 100 of those hours must be from programs sponsored, cosponsored, or endorsed by the AGS. With the first baby-boomers turning 65 in 2010, there will be need for more physicians with geriatric skills, says Elaine Wong, AGS director of membership and professional services. "We actually introduced the concept at our annual meeting in May, and our members were very receptive," she says. Not a bad way to encourage attendance, either.
If the name Jennie Lindheim sounds familiar, perhaps you heard her interviewed on National Public Radio last summer during a series on doctor/patient relationships. Lindheim's workshop, "Role-playing your most difficult patients and situations," has been a popular draw at an increasing number of medical association meetings, including the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting, held in Boston in late October. She now has a partner, Steven Shama, MD, a dermatologist from Los Angeles. For more information, call Lindheim, who is based in Brookline, MA, at (617) 277-2488.


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Jennings had surgery on Nov. 1 for what's referred to as a core muscle injury, rather than a groin injury or sports hernia. While Jennings wouldn't share his target date for playing in his first game since Week 4, he did say Dr. William Meyers' timetable for Jennings to begin full-speed running is three weeks from the date of surgery.
"He's more of the cautious type, which he has to be," Jennings said on Monday. "Myself, I'm like, 'Let's go.' I'm more of a speed-up-the-time (guy). I feel great. Again, I haven't run, I haven't done all that stuff because they won't let me. … It's like a little kid you let taste a piece of candy. Now you try to feed him vegetables again, it's not really going to happen. They've experienced the candy, they want candy. I've experienced working out, now it's like, 'Just let me go.' My mind-set is, 'Let's take the harness off and just go free and see what happens.'"
Entering the final year of his contract and with a big payday seemingly on the horizon, Jennings has had a miserable season. In two-and-a-half games, he's caught 12 passes for 78 yards and one touchdown. Boasting a career average of 15.9 yards per reception in his first six seasons, Jennings' longest catch this year covered just 13 yards.
Now, the hope is Jennings can contribute for the stretch run. If Jennings follows Meyers' timetable and waits until Nov. 22 to start sprinting, he hypothetically could practice the following week and play on Dec. 2 against Minnesota. Or, the team could give him two weeks of practice and put him on the field on Dec. 9 against Detroit. Either way, Jennings potentially could be available for the final four or five games.
"I was thinking long-term (by having surgery)," Jennings said. "This potentially could be the end (of the season) after the surgery. Everyone knew that going in. With the guy we went with, his track record of putting guys back on the field of play was rather impressive. With that being said, we went that route and we have a shot. Everyone's been great – not putting me on IR, giving me an opportunity to come back. My goal is to get back out there and perform."
The Packers do not have to release an injury report until Wednesday. During the one hour that reporters were allowed to watch practice in the Don Hutson Center, cornerback Charles Woodson (collarbone), outside linebacker Clay Matthews (hamstring), right tackle Bryan Bulaga (hip; injured reserve), Jennings and defensive end Mike Neal (ankle) did not participate. Returning were fullback John Kuhn (hamstring), cornerback Sam Shields (ankle), receiver Jordy Nelson (ankle) and defensive end Jerel Worthy (concussion).
Matthews was put through a challenging rehab workout on Monday, coach Mike McCarthy said. Could he play on Sunday at Detroit?
"We'll see what happens," McCarthy said. "Let's see how he responds to rehab today and tomorrow."
-- McCarthy, on rookie linebacker Nick Perry's season-ending wrist surgery: "Nick Perry's wrist is obviously more severe than we anticipated. It's a very similar injury to both Nick Barnett and A.J. Hawk. If you recall the time with both of those, one required surgery during the season and one after. So, it's something he was actually working through and playing with. It really continued to bother him so we went with the second opinion and we felt this was the best route for him because this, especially being such a young man, you're dealing with a wrist. It is intricate as far as the number of different bones in there. That's why we took the path that we did with Nick. So, it's obviously in his best long-term interest."
-- The team's new starting left guard, Evan Dietrich-Smith, will square off against Ndamukong Suh. Last year at Detroit, of course, Suh was ejected for stomping on Dietrich-Smith. "I don't even think about it anymore. I think writers and stuff try to make more about it than it was, but no it's not really on my mind."
-- Desmond Bishop was back in Green Bay to meet with the training staff. He had been gone for a few weeks rehabbing his surgically repaired hamstring in San Diego. He said "it's going good" and is hoping to be "close to 100 percent by February."
-- If the season were to end today, the Packers would be the No. 5 seed and play at the No. 4 New York Giants in the wild-card round.
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Our agency handles a good bit of B2B work, and while it's hard to find, there are people out there who go crazy about B2B blogs. It's not nearly as large a field of potential links, but on the other hand, you also have a lot less competition. How many companies are there building industrial welding machines, for example?
We've found that a great place to start is the employees. Find out where they are online and what they're doing. Talk to them and ask them what THEY would like to see written. Start at the bottom, because those are going to be the most socially active people online. Make it personal for them (to an extent, of course) and get them to contribute if you can. A great tactic we've used to good effect is a monthly or weekly "Meet the team" feature, where we will actually sit down with a team member and interview them and really build an interesting piece about who they are, what they do outside of work, and why they like what they do. With content like that, you can get their friends, family members, etc. to link to it. With a little bit of SEO coaching, you can get the profiled employee to hook up the links with the right anchor text, and all of a sudden, your network has grown.
A good rule of thumb to remember, and something that I learned in publishing: names sell newspapers (or links in this case).
I think people are vastly over-rating the time comitment required to succesfully aplly this strategy. As an SEO, especially if you are an SEO that is in charge of content creation, you should already be following sources for whatever industry you're writing about. I allocate a period of an hour and a half 3 times a day to check into relevant industry blogs, twitter feeds, facebook pages, and other related forums (Quora, wikipedia, etc.). 4.5 hours, some of it on personal time. It's only an extra couple of minutes to take that time and throw up a useful comment or two.
I also like keeping Twitterfall open in the background all day and add people who seem interesting/interested as well as periodically send out messages and retweets if something catches my eye. If you retweet enough things by a legitimate person, they'll notice, and the odds of you getting a retweet are much higher. Again, minimal time comitment up front.


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Departed senior Brock Wright did a lot for the Wildcats. On offense, he ran the dive and pitch in the option, and he caught passes. On defense, he covered as a safety and walked up to play the run like a linebacker.
On special teams, Wright returned punts.
Harmon must pencil a lot of names in those slots this preseason, which means he's replacing a special player.
Then again, White Plains' program has progressed in his two-plus years, so it doesn't rely upon one player to do so much anymore.
"We've got more answers at different positions," he said.
White Plains enters Harmon's third season with 44 players in grades 9-12, up from the low 30s a year ago and closer to his goal of 45 in grades 10-12. The growth comes despite a dearth of juniors.
Within those numbers are answers for all of the questions left by losing Wright, who did much to help the Wildcats through their first two years under a new coach.
Harmon first must replace Wright's leadership.
"He was just a good vocal and example leader, just the way he practiced, going hard all the time," linebacker Tyler "Dirt" Jones said.
Jones and quarterback Konnor Amis look to step in, Amis as the lead-by-example guy. Jones is the vocal guy and "a little crazy," Harmon said.
The more Jones talks, the more he stokes others — and himself. He once got so fired up at a pep rally that he pulled a belt from a teammate's waist and used it to make his full-throated, raspy-voiced point.
Harmon said he likes Jones' fiery approach.
"It's always appropriate, and it's never fake," he said.
As for Wright's many places among the Xs and Os, Harmon will look to young talents such as freshman Dylan Randall in the slot and C.J. Burns at fullback.
"Dylan Randall is a guy, to me, that you would look at that could do it all," Harmon said.
Harmon said he also sees potential with Jonathan Bradshaw in the slot and Jones at fullback.
The change in personnel around a veteran quarterback could mean a different balance for White Plains' offense.
"I think coach Harmon wants to try to pass it a little more this year," Amis said. "We passed it a lot more in the spring game than we did last year. Hopefully, we'll get to do that this year, too."
On defense, Harmon will look to sophomore safety Zach Cunningham, a baseball standout and newcomer to the football team.
"When we first saw him, we put some pressure on him because we kind of immediately thought, 'That's going to be our Brock,'" Harmon said.
Bradshaw and Randall also look to play big roles in the Wildcats' defensive backfield.
As for kick returns, Harmon is looking at Randall to return punts and Burns to return kickoffs.
White Plains looks to continue to improve after going 2-8 in Harmon's first year and 5-5 in 2009. The Wildcats came one win shy of the playoffs.
"Just make the playoffs and do the best we can," Amis said. "It's really the same goal as last year, since we didn't fulfill it. We're going to strive even harder this year to make the playoffs."
Joe Medley is The Star's sports columnist. He can be reached at 256-235-3576.


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Indiramma Kalalu - a dream come true is the formal launch of the SCSP/TSP annual plan for 2013 which has been formulated under the newly enacted legislation namely the Scheduled Castes Sub Plan and Tribal Sub Plan (planning, allocation and utilization of financial resources) Act of 2013. The program envisages visits to all the SC/ST habitations to identify individual and community needs. The period commences from the birthday celebrations of Shri. Babu Jagjeevan Ram to the Birthday celebrations of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. However, being the first of its kind, the launch will continue until the end of April 2013.
Under the Program, The District Administration will constitute Mandal/Municipal level teams under the overall supervision of a Nodal Officer, with all concerned officials to visit all the SC/ST habitations in all the Gram Panchayats in the Mandal. Thus all the tribal and scheduled caste habitations with sizeable population will be covered and have an extensive interaction with the SC/ST population and the Mandal/Municipal Team.
The Team will gather its prioritized recommendation of community and individual needs in a village team report and upload it to this website. Sanctions will be given by the Minister in-Charge of the District during the month of May 2013. This will be the first time, that the nodal departments namely the social welfare and tribal welfare department will be responsible for the conduct of the program and administration of the SCSP and TSP funds respectively.
The Indiramma Kalalu program envisages creating of the awareness of the SCSP/TSP act, and takes a direct feed back at individual and community needs. All needs are expected to be computerized and put up in a detailed MIS format on this website. Detailed instructions for the conduct of the program are being from time to time by the government.
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New for 2013, and just in time for its 50th anniversary, company houses may be reserved at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park through a new online service. Online reservations to rent company houses are being taken now, but reservations also continue to be taken by telephone.
"There are 20 of the company houses in town that have been renovated as vacation housesThe online reservation system has been in the works for about two years and included installation of additional communication lines, computers, program purchase and programming, staff training and associated support services, all of which came to a completion in April.
"Moving from a paper-based reservation system to a computer database and online system and having a 50th anniversary in the same year are milestones," said Sovine.
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Converted company houses at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park are available for reservations and rental.
Tickets to ride the train at Cass Scenic Railroad are not available online, but remain available by calling the park by telephone.
Cass Scenic Railroad joins eight other state-operated parks with online services. Parks with lodges that also have cabins with available online reservation services include Pipestem, Twin Falls and Cacapon resorts; and Chief Logan, Hawks Nest, North Bend, Tygart Lake and Blackwater Falls state parks.
To access online services, visit www.wvstateparks.com, and click "Reserve Online" or visit the individual park website and click "Online Reservations." To discover Cass Scenic Railroad, visit www.cassrailroad.com or call 304-456-4300.


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Real estate and gentrification post 9/11Jueves, Septiembre 8th, 2011
By Ed Morales
Jaime Estades, a lawyer and community activist who has lived in Williamsburg for 22 years, felt the effects of gentrification hit home when it began to affect Public School 84, the school his children attended. "About four or five years ago, when I began sending my children there, it was about 90-95% black and Latino," he said. "Then all these parents started coming from the Midwest. Then they hired a lawyer to sue that we shouldn't have the Three Kings' celebration because of separation of church and state.
"The South Side of Williamsburg, what we used to call 'Los Sures,' is completely gentrified, nothing like what you saw five years ago," Estades said. "The pressure from landlords is intense. It's not like something where people have time to think for awhile to figure out where to move."
Rolando Guzman, assistant director for Community Preservation at St. Nicks Alliance in Brooklyn agrees. His organization is advocating for a client, Mercedes Miranda, a 36-year-old single mother with a disabled child from the Dominican Republic, who says she is being harassed by her landlord to leave her Section 8 apartment on Messerole Street in East Williamsburg.
"They told me that I have to leave, that they don't want any Hispanics here anymore," Miranda said. "I've been living here for 25 years, but one by one my neighbors have moved away."
Guzman says an increasing number of Latinos in Williamsburg have relocated to the East New York area of Brooklyn and beyond. "The landlords begin with harassment like not repairing their apartments," he said. "Once you give up a rent-stabilized apartment, it's impossible to get one in the neighborhood."
Estades and Miranda are feeling the heat of neighborhood change because all across the city, historically black and Latino areas have been disappearing despite the fact that across the city overall, whites have been unseated as the majority population in New York.
According to a mapping study done by the Center for Urban Research, longtime Latino enclaves like East Harlem, Williamsburg, and Washington Heights all show considerable decline in Hispanic population, ranging across these neighborhoods from 8 to 14 per cent over the last 10 years.
"The Bloomberg administration has been focused on development, on creating an image of New York that attracts big investors," said Clara Irazabal Zurita, professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University. "It is a top-down approach that has shifted resources and attention from the areas that would benefit Latinos the most, like education, housing, and job creation."
For its part, the Bloomberg administration has long contended that the development policies it has pursued has always provided for an allocation of affordable housing, even though critics say it's not enough. And just last month, the mayor announced a $127.5 million-dollar plan funded from his own money, as well as that of philanthropist George Soros, to improve the lot of the city's black and Latino young men, who are disproportionately undereducated, incarcerated, and unemployed.
Still, the impact of large-scale development on neighborhoods like Williamsburg is one of the hallmarks of the Bloomberg administration. It has overseen a massive rezoning of the city to allow for new housing construction intended to accommodate an influx of people who have the income to resuscitate New York's economic base.
Director of City Planning Amanda Burden has rezoned about 23 per cent of New York.
Rezoning a neighborhood can have different effects: "upzoning" a neighborhood allows for larger buildings to be built, usually resulting in high rise development, while downzoning limits development to preserve the architectural or historical quality of a neighborhood.
Neighborhoods where blacks and Latinos live have been upzoned. While rezoning is not a new approach to development, the Bloomberg administration aggressively implemented this policy on a large scale as a result of the immediate aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. For Latinos – the vast majority of who rent in NYC— this has had significant consequences.
A new mayor's plan for a shattered city
The very election of Michael Bloomberg as mayor was the result in a rapid change in the city's political landscape. Carlos Vargas Ramos, a political analyst from the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, said that in the aftermath of the attacks, shell-shocked New Yorkers became most interested in electing a mayor they perceived as who was capable of reconstructing the shattered city.
Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer had been highlighting as he put it "The Other New York", or communities that had been neglected during the Rudy Giuliani years.
Ultimately, his opponent Mark Green won the Democratic bid but lost to Bloomberg. "Bloomberg's private sector background and self-assured demeanor allayed many fears among the New York electorate," Vargas Ramos said.
One of Bloomberg's first moves was to hire Dan Doctoroff as deputy mayor of economic development. Doctoroff, whose background was in private equity investment, had been pushing since the mid-1990s to organize New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
"Doctoroff commissioned urban planner Alex Garvin to develop a plan for using the Olympics as a catalyst for redeveloping blighted areas across all five boroughs," said Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
With the failure of the Olympic bid in June of 2005, Doctoroff looked in another direction to keep in place the massive real estate development he had lined up. "The intense interest the Bloomberg administration displayed in the Olympic bid morphed into developing the Far West Side into a mixed-use commercial office district," said Hope Cohen of the Regional Plan Association. From there, the city embarked on a massive rezoning plan that focused on waterfront neighborhoods like Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
Development at what price?
In the months after 9/11, there was clearly a negative effect on the business and residents of the immediate area around the World Trade Center. In the first year after the attacks, the population in the immediate WTC area decreased by 50%, from 20,000 to 10,000. This helped create a buzz among real estate agents, apartment seekers and residents of uptown communities like East Harlem that younger apartment seekers, who were not battle-tested by the vicissitudes of living in New York, were looking to move uptown, scared off by the general uneasiness about downtown.
In addition, the fact that the land to be used for World Trade Center reconstruction was controlled by the Port Authority meant that development would be dominated by the state and Governor George Pataki, not the city and Bloomberg.
Because the administration would not play a significant role in development of downtown Manhattan, it set its sights on where it could have influence– uptown and the rest of the boroughs. Although the migration away from downtown was temporary, and the area would eventually rebound strongly, the shift in focus created momentum to push development out to northern Manhattan and the outer boroughs.
The irony of what has happened in Williamsburg in particular and other Latino neighborhoods in general, is that community groups like Guzman's argued to prevent rezoning's averse effects on their neighborhoods. So, over Doctoroff's objections, community associations and the city worked out an "inclusionary rezoning" plan that mandated developers to include affordable housing, which would retain some of the original character of the neighborhood.
But inclusionary zoning has been strongly criticized as ineffective. "First of all, the recession has made it very hard to construct high rises. Then you have thousands of people applying for 100 apartments at places like the Edge in Williamsburg," said Guzman. "The city promised 30% affordable housing but by our estimates they have only provided about 15%. The city has failed on its promise."
And people like Mercedes Miranda and her daughter will have to continue to fight legal battles to stay in neighborhoods they've lived in for decades to avoid the fate of many of their old neighbors.


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Despite being competitive with the top teams in the country throughout the season, the Georgia Bulldogs women's club lacrosse team failed to make the 16-team 2012 Division I WCLA national championship tournament field.
On another busy day for the Bulldogs, the Diamond Dogs completed a sweep of their opening baseball series against Presbyterian, while the Georgia men's and women's lacrosse teams closed out tournaments before returning home to face Florida next weekend.
On a busy Saturday for the Bulldogs, the Georgia baseball, women's gymnastics, and women's lacrosse teams all carded impressive intercollegiate victories over Presbyterian, Kentucky, and UCLA and Michigan, respectively.
The Georgia men's and women's lacrosse teams wound up on opposite ends of identical 9-7 scores on Friday night, with the men beating South Carolina in the Southern Shootout and the Lady Bulldogs falling to Pittsburgh in Santa Barbara.
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One of the real pleasures of Thailand is its delicious cuisine and Sandalwood Restaurant, under the guidance of renowned local chef, specialises in creating authentic regional dishes with a modern twist.
The menu has been designed to offer a real range of Thai flavours, from aromatic soups to the wonderfully spicy curries; each and every dish is cooked to order using the very finest fresh local ingredients.
Complimenting the exotic flavours and aromas, the restaurant is situated on a covered terrace and offers spectacular views of the Gulf of Siam and Chaweng Bay. The location is truly stunning and makes a beautiful setting for a romantic candle lit dinner.
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By Brandy L. Simms
The Montrose Christian basketball program is synonymous with excellence.
The Mustangs are an annual staple in the national rankings and captured top honors in the 2011 ESPN Rise National High School Invitational tournament.
The tiny Rockville private school has also produced various players who have gone on to play Division I college basketball and a handful who are currently playing in the National Basketball Association.
NBA superstar Kevin Durant is the program's most prominent alumni.
The Oklahoma City Thunder forward is among the league's top players.
The list of Montrose Christian players in the NBA also includes Toronto Raptors forward Linas Kleiza, New Orleans Hornets guard Greivis Vasquez and NBA slam dunk champion Terrence Ross who also plays for the Raptors.
"What school in the country can have the leading scorer in the NBA, have the second or third leader in assists in the NBA and then have somebody that's entering the dunk contest? I don't think anybody in the country can make that statement," Montrose Christian head coach Stu Vetter said the other week.
Durant is the league's scoring leader and Vasquez is among the NBA's assist leaders. Both players were once high school teammates at Montrose Christian during the 2005-2006 campaign.
Montrose Christian can also boast more than a dozen former players competing at the Division I college level.
During the 2008-2009 season, the Mustangs roster featured various players who would go on to play Division I basketball including Ross who spent two seasons at the University of Washington before declaring early for the NBA Draft last summer.
Former Mustangs center Jordan Omogbehin, a 7-foot-3 Nigeria native, is currently a redshirt freshman at the University of South Florida and Tyler Hubbard is a redshirt freshman guard at Loyola University in Baltimore.
Earlier this season, Hubbard, a high school sophomore during the 2008-2009 campaign, became the first Loyola player in nearly a decade to score ten or more points in his collegiate debut.
The Loyola sharpshooter also averaged 10.3 points per game during a three-game stretch in November and was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week for his efforts.
Virginia freshman guard Justin Anderson has also been impressive in his first season on the college hardwood. Anderson has been a fan favorite with his highlight reel dunks. During a two-game stretch in early February, Anderson averaged 15.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals in Virginia's wins over Clemson and Maryland.
Anderson scored a career-high 17 points and tied a career-best with nine rebounds in an 80-69 road win in College Park. His performance at Comcast Center helped Anderson earn the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Week honor.
Tyrone Johnson, a former All-Sentinel Player of the Year who helped lead the Mustangs to the ESPN RISE National High School Invitational tournament championship, began his college career at Villanova but has since transferred.
"He's going to South Carolina to join Michael Carrera," said Vetter. "He's real excited about that. He'll be a good player for them."
The list of former Montrose Christian players competing at Division I college programs also includes Carrera, Isaiah Armwood (George Washington), Doug Browman (Virginia), Dadrian Collins (Howard), Mouphtaou Yarou (Villanova), Josh Hairston (Duke), Carmelo Betancourt (Akron), Bruce Beckford (North Carolina A&T), Cedric Blossom (Morgan State) and Kevin Larsen (George Washington).
The list will continue to grow next season when Montrose Christian senior Ishmail Wainright joins the basketball program at Baylor.
"It's fun to be able to sit down on a Sunday and Saturday and watch your former players play," said Vetter.


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Half an hour's drive from Panama City is a tropical world of green: Soberania National Park. This rainforest is the habitat of hundreds of animal and plant species and is best known for the 525 different species of bird. Day trips from Panama City are easy to arrange, but those whole really want to experience the rainforest will need to spend a few days and nights there.
One of the best known places in the world among bird watchers is Pipeline Road, a seventeen- kilometre long road through dense jungle. The first couple of kilometres are fine to cover on foot, but a Jeep is a better option for the whole route. By the side of the road platforms have been erected where bird watchers sit with their binoculars and watch for bearded cuckoos, motmots, trogons and collared cotingas, to name just a few. If you'd first like to acquaint yourself more with these tropical bird species then visit the Panama Rainforest Discovery Centre. This also has a 40-metre high observation tower offering great views over the rainforest.
Although it is mainly animals that live in the rainforest, there are also a few indigenous Indians. The Embera Indians are one of the seven authentic tribes of Panama and can be visited with a guide. In long, narrow boats visitors travel along the Chagres River deep into the rainforest. The Indians here once lived by farming, but that has been forbidden since the rainforest became a national park. Their most important source of income is now from tourism. The village Indians are clothed in traditional costumes and give visitors a taste of their ancient customs and way of life.
Another special experience is Monkey Island, home to a large colony of Capuchin monkeys. The journey here takes you across the Panama Canal to the man-made Gatun Lake. The monkeys with their characteristic white faces can often be seen swinging above the water. They can be a bit cheeky too and sometimes even leap onboard the boat for a piece of orange. You may also spot caimans and crocodiles during the boat trip.
It's at night that the rainforest really comes alive when the silence is broken by mysterious noises, howling monkeys and chirping crickets. In the rainforest you have two possibilities for spending the night: The luxurious Gamboa Rainforest Resort and the smaller scale Canopy Tower. The latter hotel is situated in an old American radar tower. The rooms are very high up and provide guests with spectacular views.


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A regular file card just wont do when you are using the precision files used in fret work and nut work! This really gets the small dust out of the fine teeth! YOU NEED THIS!
This is a handy little brush with a reasonable life use. The price is a little stiff, but its a well made product
This is a tool that I had never considered. After observing their uses and use it myself I realized that it is very necessary to have the clean files. I'm satisfied with the product and its applications.
This file brush is perfect! It cleans smaller fret files, as well as regular files better than the bigger file cards do for sure! It really gets between the file teeth to clean out the finer filings that the regular file cards just cannot get!
Another great solution from stew mac. Cleans pearl dust from needle files well. The brass bristles are loose in the metal sleeve and slide away from your work. I crimped both ends. They still slide a little but maybe that's not so bad. I intend to slide them out as they wear and roll up the sleeve like a toothpaste tube.
...as others have mentioned. Other than that, it's well made and cleans well too. Worth having one.
I'm not sure why so many others seem to have been having problems, I've had mine for around 5 years now, in a professional shop, and have not had any problems losing bristles. Also, I haven't been able to find another this size, and it's perfect for the files I use regularly, so I actually appreciate the small size.
yes its very effective in cleaning files, but the bristle's come loose easily. . . but a little suggestion "hammer the plate that bundle the bristle" ..it holds the bristles.
It gets the job done-but the brass bristles come loose easily, and it's really small.
It was smaller than I imagined and loses bristles easily. At this price I didn't think they would be an item I'd have to replace frequently. A little dissapointing.
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I have to say long live Fauja Singh! What's your secret to having a strong and healthy body despite your age? Congrats btw!
World's Oldest Marathon Runner Completes Final Race At 101
So what have you done today?
Every excuse you've ever used to not get out of bed and run in the morning has just been trumped.
Fauja Singh, at the ripe old age of 101, finished the Hong Kong marathon's 6.25-mile course Sunday with a time of 1 hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds. It was the last race for the world's oldest marathon runner.
"I will remember this day. I will miss it," he said shortly after crossing the finish line.
The Indian-born Singh, at 100, became the oldest man to run a full marathon when he finished Toronto's waterfront marathon in 2011. Guinness World Records didn't recognize his accomplishment because he didn't have a birth certificate to prove his age, despite holding a British passport with his birthday as April 1, 1911. Indian government officials have said birth records weren't kept in 1911.
Singh, who earned the nickname the Turbaned Torpedo for his distinctive saffron headdress, reflected on the end of his journey before the race with the help of his coach and interpreter, Harmander Singh.
"I am feeling a bit of happiness and a bit of sadness mixed together," he said in a pre-race interview. "I am happy that I am retiring at the top of the game but I am sad that the time has come for me to not be part of it."
For all the good that has come out of the great-grandfather's running career, allowing an illiterate farmer to travel the world, meet dignitaries and stay in five-star hotels, his entry into the sport was decidedly dark.
Singh began running at the age of 89 as a way to combat depression after his wife and son died in quick succession.
"From a tragedy has come a lot of success and happiness," Singh said before the race. He also hopes his good run continues past retirement and that people will continue to invite him to events "rather than forget me altogether just because I don't run anymore."
He thanks being vegetarian http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2011/10/18/vegetarian-centenarian-sets-marathon-record.aspx
Just think if you get beat by a guy that's OVER 100 years old.
Technically speaking, the headline is correct: this man is the world's oldest marathon runner, and he is running his last race. That race does not necessarily have to be a marathon.
Still a tremendous accomplishment for someone his age. Awesome.
A marathon is 26.2 miles. He ran a 10K race, which is 6.2 miles. Big difference. Two totally different races and distances.


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Modern icon overlooks Bay, adjacent to Embarcadero
Steps to waterfront
The 17-story Hyatt Regency is located on the Embarcadero waterfront, across from the Ferry Building Marketplace, close to the Embarcadero Center, Union Square, and Moscone Convention Center.
Cylindrical glass elevators rise above the 17-story atrium showcasing dramatic architecture and water sculptures. Eclipse Restaurant in the atrium serves California cuisine including salads, steak, and seafood.
Premium bedding
Sliding glass doors open onto city or bay views in the 802 guestrooms, which also feature wireless and wired Internet access, iPod docking station, earth-tone decor, and the signature Hyatt Grand Bed with pillowtop mattress.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
- General
The Hyatt Regency San Francisco stands at the base of Market Street, across the street from the Ferry Plaza and the Bay, and adjacent to the upscale Embarcadero Shopping Center.
The hotel offers 35 meeting rooms with 67,000 feet of space, as well as a business center with computer stations, copiers, fax machines, and shipping service (surcharges). Wired and wireless high-speed Internet access are available (surcharge). A station at the front desk allows guests to print airline boarding passes.
The complimentary 24-hour fitness center contains stair steppers, treadmills, exercise bikes, and weights. Guests also enjoy discounted access to a health club with pool and spa two blocks away.
A lobby café serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner; the adjacent bar is open only at night.
Parking is available nearby (surcharge).
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Total number of rooms - 802
- Number of floors - 17
- ATM/banking
- Audiovisual equipment
- Ballroom(s)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge desk
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Currency exchange
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Event catering
- Exhibit space
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Medical assistance available
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Secure parking
- Parking (surcharge)
- Parking garage
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Parking nearby
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Street parking (metered)
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 6225
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 35
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 67000
- Security guard
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in lobby
- Tour assistance
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Wedding services
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless Internet access - surcharge, Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Parking
Parking (surcharge), Secure parking, Street parking (metered), Valet parking (surcharge), Parking garage, Parking nearby, Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Refrigerator
- Premium TV channels
- Video-game console
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Climate control
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Pillowtop mattress
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- iPod docking station
- Daily housekeeping
- Dining
Eclipse Restaurant - Located in the atrium lobby. California menu that includes salads, pasta, sandwiches, steaks, and seafood. Open morning to evening.
- Recreation
The Hyatt Regency's complimentary 24-hour fitness center includes stair steppers, treadmills, exercise bikes, and weights. Guests also enjoy discounted access to a health club with pool and spa two blocks away.
The hotel is adjacent to a waterfront jogging path, and is near a tennis and swim club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Swimming nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Boat launch nearby
- Pilates classes/instruction nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- In-room accessibility
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 64 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 100 per room (varies based on length of stay)
- Pet deposit: USD 75 per day
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
- Additional Details
Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work.
Awards & Affiliations
- Details
- A Green / Sustainable Property - Third Party CertifiedThis property participates in Green Key Eco-Rating Program, a third-party certification program that has been independently certified. Third-party certification measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. An objective assessment of a company's sustainable tourism practices has been performed at this property by an auditor who is independent of the third-party certification program.
- This property is affiliated with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) and welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) guests.


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STEUBENVILLE - Donald and Debbie Bickar of Steubenville announce the engagement of their daughter, Caitlin Dawn, to Cain August Noble, son of Fred Noble of Dillonvale and Donna Noble of Wheeling.
The bride-to-be graduated from Edison High School in 2005 and from West Liberty University in 2009 with a degree in elementary education and a master's degree in education in 2011. She is employed as a teacher in the Edison Local School District.
Her fiance is a 2000 graduate of Buckeye Local High School and a 2005 graduate of Fairmont State College with a bachelor's degree in 2005. He also received a master's degree in education in 2007 from FSU. He is employed as a teacher with Harrison Hills City School District.
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A wedding is planned July 7 at Bell Chapel United Methodist Church.


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- 6 beds
Apartment, rooftop terrace, 70qm - non refundable
- 4 single and 1 sofa bed
Apartment, 2 bedrooms, 100qm - non refundable
- 2 beds
Family-friendly apartment in the city center, in Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)
This family-friendly apartment is located in Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg), close to Kollwitzplatz, Volksbuhne, and Aquadom. Also nearby are Hackesche Hoefe and Schonhauser Allee Arkaden.
Property Features
Amenities at Old Town Apartments Metzer Strasse include multilingual staff, tour/ticket assistance, and express check-out.
Room Amenities
In addition to kitchens and complimentary wireless Internet access, guestrooms feature refrigerators along with microwaves and separate dining areas.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
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Old Town Apartments Metzer Strasse features tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and express check-out. The property has a front desk available during limited hours. A total renovation of this property was completed in May 2010.
Old Town Apartments Metzer Strasse is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 12
- Number of floors - 5
- Elevator/lift
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Multilingual staff
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Offsite parking reservations required
- Street parking (metered)
- Year Built 1900
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Cell phone/mobile rental
- Express check-out
- Parking nearby
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Street parking (metered), Parking nearby, Parking nearby (surcharge), Offsite parking discounted rates available, Offsite parking reservations required
- Room Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Housekeeping - once per stay
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Microwave
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator
- Kitchen
- Free Wi-Fi
- Extra towels/bedding
- Hair dryer
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Separate dining area
- Stovetop
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- In-room accessibility
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time ends at 7 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 1 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check in: Mon-Fri 9 AM-7 PM, Sat/Sun 10 AM-4 PM. For arrivals outside office hours, please call the office in advance.
Contact details can be found on the booking confirmation.
Old Town Apartments Metzer Strasse is located within the environmental zone. All cars must have a green sticker to drive in this area. Alternatively, guests may park at no cost outside of the environmental zone and travel by public transportation the short distance to the apartment building.
For more information please contact the property using the details on the booking confirmation.
The city of Berlin imposes a city tax of 5%. Business travelers with proof of business-related travel are exempt from this tax. Guests can contact the property using the information contained in the confirmation received after booking.
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Late check-in fee: EUR 20 for check-in after 9 PM
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 15 per night
- Additional Details
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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'Gran Turismo 6' $300 million launch focuses on PS3December 6, 2013: 5:00 AM ET
Sony's Gran Turismo racing franchise celebrates its 15th anniversary with sales of 70 million copies and revenue of over $2.5 billion, but is ignoring the PS4 (for now).
By John Gaudiosi
FORTUNE -- While Sony (SNE) is pushing its new PlayStation 4 hardware this fall, the PS4 won't be getting Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo 6. Sony is focusing on the 80 million PlayStation 3 global gamers for its newest internally developed racing simulation, which drives into worldwide retailers on Dec. 6.
The franchise is celebrating its 15th anniversary with sales of more than 70 million copies around the globe. This year, Gran Turismo 5 surpassed 10 million units sold for PS3 since its November 2010 launch, making it one of the best-selling PS3 franchises ever. The critically acclaimed racing game has grossed over $2.5 billion for Sony, and video game analyst Peter Warman of research firm Newzoo believes GT6 will drive strong sales this fall and beyond.
"We estimate Sony's game software revenues have totaled $1.6 billion in the first six months of 2013, down 11% compared to the same period last year," said Warman. "The $300 million that GT6 brings in this year will generate approximately 10% of Sony's game software revenues."
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Despite having stiff competition on the racetrack with Electronic Arts' (EA) Need for Speed Rivals and Microsoft's (MSFT) Forza Motorsport 5, GT6 has a strong following in the U.S. According to Newzoo, there are 45 million Need for Speed franchise gamers in the U.S., 36 million Gran Turismo gamers and 24 million Forza gamers. Warman said of these GT players, 35% are men ages 21 to 25 and another 35% are female.
Like Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto V, developer Polyphony Digital is pushing the capabilities of the PS3 to the limit with GT6. The game launches with over 1,200 cars, including 120 brand new to the franchise such as the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 15th Anniversary Edition, the 2007 Ferrari FXX and the 2012 Tesla Model S Signature Performance.
"Whenever there are new developments by automobile manufacturers and new technology is introduced, we have to work to recreate that in the game," said Kazunori Yamauchi, CEO of Polyphony Digital and producer of Gran Turismo. "When there's a new drive system like all the hybrids use -- and there are a lot of different types of hybrids out there, we have to make sure that we can be compatible with all of them. There are all sorts of four-wheel drive systems out there, as well. We really work hard to match what's out there in the automotive industry and properly simulate everything."
GT6 features 37 locations, including the new Matterhorn and Gran Turismo Arena, and 100 track layouts, including circuits such as Ascari, Spain and the Silverstone, Goodwood, and Mount Panorama tracks. Every aspect of the game, from the way each vehicle handles on the road to the grooves on the asphalt of Laguna Sega, has been meticulously detailed to bring an authentic racing experience for purists. Of course, the game can also be played in a more mainstream arcade mode, which lets players put the pedal to the medal without the challenges of a hardcore simulation or epic career experience. And anyone can appreciate the real variable weather, daytime and astronomical simulations that bring an experience like Le Mans 24 Hours to life just as it occurred in 2013.
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"GT6 will continue to evolve over time," said Taku Imasaki, U.S. producer for GT6. "Gran Turismo 5 came out three years ago but after 30 patches, it's a totally different game. The same thing will happen with Gran Turismo 6, where we're going to continuously feed our fans with new cars and more innovative projects like the Vision GT program."
Sony and Polyphony Digital have enlisted 20 car manufacturers -- including Volkswagen, Peugeot, Aston Martin, BMW, Honda (HMC), Infiniti, Audi, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz -- to create their dream concept vehicles. Each of these cars will be released as a downloadable vehicle in GT6, beginning with the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision GT. Hubert Lee, the creative director of the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studio in California, was able to construct a supercar without worrying about things like government EPA restrictions, crash tests or fuel economy. And at the Los Angeles Auto Show last month, the car made its official real-world debut as well.
"As cool as it is to see this car in person, it doesn't drive," said Lee. "It's not a real car. It's a mock-up. But in the game you can actually drive it like the real car. Mr. Yamouchi told me that he drove it through Nurburging (Germany) in the game, and he said it was pretty cool to drive it and it was pretty fast."
Sony had the Vision GT drivable in a pair of sit-down simulation "sleds" at the Mercedes-Benz booth in Los Angeles, right next to the full-size concept car. There were also two driving sleds at the Nissan booth with GT Academy branding. Sony and Nissan have partnered over the past three years to offer video game racing enthusiasts the opportunity to become a professional race car driver.
"This year we had over 400,000 gamers competing online and we cut that down to 32 based on their performance competing against each other and those 32 went to New York to compete on sleds head-to-head," said Jon Brancheau, vice president of Nissan Marketing. "We narrowed it down to 16 drivers and sent them to Silverstone Raceway in England, one of the most famous racetracks, to get trained for a week racing GT-Rs and 370Zs. We filmed the entire thing and turned it into a reality TV show on Spike, and the winner ends up being trained by Nissan."
2011 GT Academy winner Bryan Heitkotter and 2012 winner Steve Doherty have transitioned well from virtual to real racing. Heitkotter earned a pole position and a 3rd place finish in the Continental Challenge Series at Road America this year and earned a podium finish at Dubai 24 Hours last year. Doherty earned the Sunoco Hard Charger Award in the Pirelli World Challenge Series race at Mid-Ohio and had a second-place finish in the Blancpain Endurance Series race at France's Circuit Paul Ricard.
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"Playing Gran Turismo you just naturally learn how to drive, and it's actually not so much of a surprise for me that the players of Gran Turismo are actually doing really well in racing once they're out there," said Yamouchi, who is a professional racer himself. "I think there are a lot more players out there that have this innate skill for racing still buried in the crowds and I'm really interested in seeing how these people will eventually change the racing world from here on out."
Polyphony Digital is also inspiring innovation in the automotive world beyond the Vision concept cars. The game makers are working with Toyota (TM) and its subsidiary Denso to allow Japanese gamers to take a PS3 memory stick and plug it into the Toyota 86 GT. When they race a lap on any real-world track featured in the game, the data is captured on the card and when plugged into a PS3 that lap is replicated virtually in the game. While this technology is currently confirmed for Japan, Imasaki hopes it expands to the U.S. gamers around the world will have the option of connecting the real world with the virtual through a new Gran Turismo app.
And this cutting-edge technology is focused solely on PS3. The Gran Turismo franchise will be heading to PS4 in the near future. Yamouchi said his studio has released two games for PS2 and now two for PS3, which means the next two games will race exclusively on PS4.


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Four WindsView Properties
Destination: Orange Beach
Type: Condo/Villa
Number of Floors: 10
Bedrooms: 1-2
Baths: 1-2
Located in the heart or Orange Beach and yet away from the hustle and bustle of the world, the Fourwinds Condominium complex in Orange Beach, Alabama offers the best of both worlds — making it a perfect place for a vacation to Alabama's Gulf Coast. Surround yourself with fantastic beach views and cozy island living. Sitting on the sugar white sand beaches of the Alabama Gulf Coast, guests are treated with spectacular views from their private Gulf front balconies, on location parking and a private guest boardwalk straight to the beach.
Vacationers looking for Alabama vacation rentals on the beach will find Four Winds' location most appealing, and will also love the fact that this medium rise complex is close to restaurants and entertainment.
An outdoor pool, children's pool and hot tub offer alternatives to the waves of the Gulf and game room will keep the entire family active during your getaway. Plus, onsite beach equipment rental and a grilling area means you can leave the car parked the entire day!
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|Complex Features
|Parking Features
|Services Available
|Closest Airport: PNS
|Nearest City: Pensacola
|"Four Winds" Check-In Office
|Check-In Information
|Check-In Office Name: Gulf Shores Office
1557 Gulf Shores Parkway
Gulf Shores, AL
Check-In Time: 3:00 PM
Check-Out Time: 10:00 AM
Open: Monday - Sunday 8:00AM - 8:00PM
251-968-6868 (check-in line)
251-968-6868 (office)
After Hours Check-In Procedure:
Pick up telephone next to office door. Telephone automatically rings to after hours call center. Customer service agents assists with check-in via lock box next to telephone.
888-217-1509(after hours phone)
Four Winds - by Wyndham Vacation Rentals
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