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|Sacramento Kings
The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Franchise history
The franchise that would become the Sacramento Kings initially started in the city of Rochester, New York, as the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League.
At the conclusion of World War II, the United States lacked a major professional basketball league. The National Basketball League decided to fill that void by stepping up from a regional semi-pro league into the nation's premier professional basketball loop. One of the top professional teams in the country was the Rochester Pros, an independent barnstorming team run by Lester Harrison. They were invited to join the NBL for the 1945–46 season. The team, which had long been known as the Seagrams before briefly adopting the nickname "Pros", held a name-the-team contest and selected the nickname "Royals".
Success for the Royals was almost immediate. Founded in 1945 by owner/coach/general manager Les Harrison (Hall of Famer) and his brother and co-owner/business manager Jack Harrison, the team won the NBL championship in 1945-46. The team was led by Bob Davies, Al Cervi, George Glamack, and Otto Graham, a future NFL Hall of Famer, who, in his only season in professional basketball, won a league championship before moving on to football and leading the Cleveland Browns to ten straight championship games, winning seven.
The following season, NBL Governors voted that the regular season "Pennant Winner" would be declared as the official NBL Champion, and the post-season would consist of a separate, non-championship tournament. The Royals finished 31–13 (.705), capturing their second NBL Championship in as many years, but lost in the post-season tournament finals to the Chicago American Gears.
The following season the NBL scrapped their one-year "pennant" experiment, and from that point forward the post-season playoffs would determine the NBL Champion. The Royals again finished with the league's best overall record at 44–16, but lost to George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers 3 games to 1 in the NBL Finals.
In 1948, the Royals moved to the Basketball Association of America along with the Fort Wayne Pistons, Minneapolis Lakers, and Indianapolis (Kautskys) Jets. A year later, the BAA merged with the NBL to become the National Basketball Association.
The Royals won the NBA title in 1951 by defeating the New York Knickerbockers 4 games to 3. It is the only NBA championship in the franchise's history to date.
The Royals' twelve-year stay in Rochester featured the services of nine future members of the Basketball Hall of Fame, one member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a Hollywood Walk of Famer: Al Cervi, Bob Davies, Alex Hannum, Les Harrison, Red Holzman, Arnie Risen, Maurice Stokes, Jack Twyman, Bobby Wanzer, Otto Graham, and Chuck Connors.
In 1957, the Royals were moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, by the Harrison brothers. Despite winning the NBA title in 1951, the Royals had drawn poorly and lost money for five straight years in Rochester and were under pressure to seek a larger market. Cincinnati, which had a strong college basketball fan base and no NFL franchise to compete with, was deemed the best choice. The fact that local college stars Jack Twyman, Dave Piontek and Tom Marshall were on the roster helped make fans quickly.
During the team's first NBA draft in Cincinnati, the team netted future Hall Of Famer Clyde Lovellette and former star guard George King. They teammed with the 1-2 punch of Maurice Stokes and Twyman to produce a budding contender in the team's very first season in the Queen City. Injury to Marshall and the loss of star guard Si Green to military service dropped the team into a tie for second place in the NBA Western Division during the 1957-58 season's second half.
In the season's finale, All-Pro star Maurice Stokes struck his head when he fell after pursuing a rebound. He shook off the effects of the fall, even as he had briefly been unconscious. After Game One in the playoffs three days later, Stokes' head injury was greatly aggravated by airplane cabin pressure during the flight back to Cincinnati for Game Two. He suffered a seizure and was permanently hospitalized, a tragedy that greatly shook the team. Stokes, a tremendous talent who could play center, forward and guard, was 2nd in the NBA in rebounds and 3rd in assists, a double-feat only Wilt Chamberlain has matched for a full season. Without Stokes, the team nearly folded.
Fellow All-Star Twyman rose to All-Pro level the next two seasons for Cincinnati, even as the team posted two 19-win seasons. The 1958-59 Cincinnati team featured five rookies, with Lovellette, King and other key players having left the team in the wake of Stokes' tragic injury. The Harrisons, under pressure to sell to a local group, sold to a local ownership headed by Thomas Woods. The fact that Stokes was simply dumped by the team and the new ownership infuriated many.
Jack Twyman came to aid of his teammate and even legally adopted Stokes. Raising funds for Stokes' medical treatment, Twyman helped his fallen teammate until his death in April, 1970. The 1973 feature film Maurie, which co-starred actors Bernie Casey and Bo Svenson, later dramatized their story.
Shootng often for the beleaguered team, Twyman was the second NBA player ever to average 30 points per game for a full NBA season. Both Twyman and Stokes were later named Hall of Famers. In 1960, the team was able to land local superstar Oscar Robertson. Robertson led a team that included Twyman, Wayne Embry, Bob Boozer, Bucky Bockhorn, Tom Hawkins and Adrian Smith over the next three seasons. The Royals reversed their fortunes with Robertson and rose to title contender. An ownership dispute in early 1963 scuttled the team's playoff chances when new owner Louis Jacobs booked a circus for Cincinnati Gardens for the week of the playoff series versus the champion Boston Celtics. Jacobs, an aloof owner, would prove no ally to the team's title hopes.
In late 1963, another local superstar, Jerry Lucas, joined the team. The Royals rose to second-best record in the NBA. From 1963-66, the Royals contended strongly against Boston and the Philadelphia 76ers, but fell short of their title hopes. The team's star players throughout the 1960s were Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas. Robertson met with individual success, averaging a triple-double in 1961-62 and winning the Most Valuable Player award in 1964. Robertson was a league-leading scorer and passer each season. Lucas was Rookie Of the Year in 1964, led the league in shooting, and later averaged 20 rebounds per game over three seasons. Both were All-NBA First Team selections multiple times.
The Royals were an also-ran throughout the era anyway. The team failed to keep promising players and played in the tough NBA East division, dominated by the Boston Celtics, even as a Baltimore team played in the West Division for three years, denying the team likely visits to the NBA Finals.
In 1966, the team was sold to a pair of brothers named Max and Jeremy Jacobs. That same season, the Royals began playing some of their home games in neutral sites such as Cleveland (until the Cavaliers began play in 1970), Dayton & Columbus, which was the norm for the rest of the Royals tenure in the Queen City.
New coach Bob Cousy, a loyal Boston Celtic, traded Lucas in 1969. Robertson was traded to Milwaukee in 1970, where he would immediately win an NBA title. The declining franchise left Cincinnati shortly thereafter, moving to Kansas City in 1972.
Kansas City/Omaha
The Royals were renamed the Kings because Kansas City already had the Royals baseball team. The basketball team agreed to change its nickname, even though it had used the name for 25 years before the baseball team was established. The team initially divided its home games between Kansas City and Omaha until 1975, when it abandoned the Omaha market. During that time the team was officially called the "Kansas City-Omaha Kings". The team netted a new superstar in Nate Archibald, who led the league in scoring and assists.
While still in Cincinnati, the Kings introduced a most unusual uniform design, which placed the player's surname below his number. The design remained intact through the first several seasons of the team's run in Sacramento, even when the shade of blue on the road uniforms was changed from royal blue to powder blue, and the script "Kansas City" which adorned the road jerseys was scrubbed after the move in favor of a repeat of the "Kings" script on the home shirts.
The Kings had some decent players throughout. Tom Van Arsdale, the shooting forward, "Jumpin" Johnny Green, and Matt Guokas helped Archibald in the first year in Kansas City. Toby Kimball was a fan favorite. Jimmy Walker teamed with Archibald as the Kings made the playoffs the second year. Sam Lacey, an effective passing center, became one of the most dependable players in the league. Archibald became the first player to lead the league in scoring and assists in the first season in Kansas City. However, the management traded Archibald, and wasted high draft picks. Bob Cousy gave way to Phil Johnson, who was fired midyear in 1977 and replaced by Larry Staverman, a player on the team on two separate occasions when it was in Cincinnati and who later became the Cleveland Indians groundskeeper.
The Kings finally achieved some success in their new home when they hired Cotton Fitzsimmons as coach. Coach Fitzsimmons won the Midwest Division in 1978-79 with rookie point guard Phil Ford. Kansas City was led by shooting guard Otis Birdsong, strong on both offense and defense, all around shooting forward Scott Wedman, and passing center Sam Lacey, who had a trademark 25 foot bank shot. They also drew an average of 10,789 fans to Kemper Arena that season, the only time during their tenure in KC that average attendance was in five figures. The Kings made the playoffs in 1979-80 and again in 1980–81, despite finishing the regular season at 40–42. The Kings made a surprise run in the NBA Playoffs, reaching the Western Conference Finals. Big Ernie Grunfeld played the point in this run, as KC used a slow half court game to win the first two rounds. Power forward Reggie King had a remarkable series, dominating the opposition.
However, a series of bad luck incidents prevented the team from building on its success. Ted Stepien, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers lured Wedman and Birdsong away with big contract offers, the roof literally fell in at Kemper Arena because of a winter storm, forcing the team to play most of the 1979-80 season at Municipal Auditorium, and the ownership group sold the team to Sacramento interests for just eleven million dollars. The general manager was fired in a bizarre scandal in which he was found to be reusing marked postage stamps. When the Kings rehired Joe Axelson as general manager, they brought back the man who had previously traded superstars Oscar Robertson, Norm Van Lier, Nate Archibald and Jerry Lucas, and used the third pick in the ABA dispersal draft on Ron Boone. Axelson would stay on after the Kings left Kansas City where, in their last game ever, fans wore Joe Axelson masks. Axelson later would say he hoped his plane would never touch down in Kansas City.
Axelson later would be the first general manager in the history of sports to fail with the same franchise in four different cities: Cincinnati, Kansas City, Omaha and Sacramento. He would not be fired for good until he rehired as coach Phil Johnson, whom he had fired in midseason in Kansas City ten years before. The Kings also had the misfortune of entering this period competing with the Kansas City Comets for the winter sports dollar, when the Comets were led by marketers - the Leiweke brothers. Their final season, 1984-85, resulted in a dismal 31–51 record as fans stayed away from Kemper Arena in droves, with average attendance of just 6,410. The writing was on the wall for Kansas City.
Move to Sacramento
The Kings moved west to their current home of Sacramento, California, in 1985. Much of their early tenure in Sacramento was spent in the NBA's cellar, and the team made the playoffs only once between 1985 and 1995. Some of their failure was attributable to unimaginable misfortune, such as the career-altering car crash suffered by promising point guard Bobby Hurley and the tragic suicide of Ricky Berry; some was attributable to poor management such as the over-long tenure of head coach Garry St. Jean and the ill-fated selection of "Never Nervous" Pervis Ellison with the first overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft.
Cellar Dwellers (1991–1996)
The early 1990s were not kind to the Kings. Sacramento was known for having strong fan support, which helped them win over 60% of its home games. But it never had a good team and always struggled on the road, going 1–40 on the road in one single season alone, and its owner James Alford Thomas rarely paid for top talent. The Kings squeaked into the playoffs in 1996 largely due to the effort of star player Mitch Richmond, but they did not distinguish themselves in the postseason. Eventually the team was sold to the Maloof Family, who finally changed the direction of the team.
Ownership Change (1997–1999)
The Kings emerged from years of mediocrity with the draft selection of Jason Williams, the signing of Vlade Divac, and the trade of Mitch Richmond for Chris Webber prior to the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season. These acquisitions coincided with the arrival of Peja Stojakovic, who had been drafted in 1996. Each of these moves was attributed to general manager Geoff Petrie, who has won NBA Executive of the Year several times.
Following these acquisitions, the Kings rose in the NBA ranks, becoming a perennial playoff contender. Led by new head coach Rick Adelman, and aided by former Princeton head coach and Kings assistant Pete Carril, their so-called "Princeton offense" turned heads around the league for its run-and-gun style and superb ball movement. Some criticized the Kings for their poor team defense, Williams's "flash over substance" style of play with its many turnovers, and Webber's failure to step up his game in important matchups. Still, they quickly became NBA darlings, garnering many fans outside of California, and even around the world, many of which were enthralled by Williams's amazing passing abilities and Webber's sharp all-around game. Despite their tremendous successes, they were still a young team, and were ultimately defeated by more experienced teams in the playoffs, losing to the Utah Jazz in 1999 (in a thrilling five-game matchup), and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000.
Missed Chances (2000–2005)
Following the 2000 season, the Kings traded starting small forward Corliss Williamson to the Toronto Raptors for defensive shooting guard Doug Christie, opening a starting spot for sharpshooter Stojakovic. Stojakovic and his dead-eye long range shot served as the perfect complement to Webber's smooth inside game, taking the Kings' already-potent offense to new heights. With their continued success on court came their continued rise in popularity, culminating in their gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated in February 2001, with the title "The Greatest Show On Court". In 2001, they won their first playoff series in the Webber era (and their first in twenty years), defeating the Phoenix Suns 3–1, before being swept in four games by the Lakers, who went on to win the NBA championship.
In July 2001, Petrie traded starting point guard Jason Williams to the Vancouver/Memphis Grizzlies for point guard Mike Bibby. The trade solved needs on both sides: the Grizzlies, in the process of moving to Memphis, wanted an exciting, popular player to sell tickets in their new home, while the Kings, an up-and-coming team, sought more stability and control at the point guard position. Although questioned by some Kings fans at the time, NBA officials and experts proclaimed Bibby as the better player in the deal, as well as a better leader, having led the Arizona Wildcats to an NCAA championship in 1997. This move was complemented by the crucial re-signing of Webber to a maximum-salary contract, securing the star power forward for years to come.
With the addition of Bibby, the Kings had their best season to date in 2001-02. The team finished with a league-best record of 61-21, going 36-5 at ARCO Arena, and stormed through the first two rounds of the playoffs. The Kings then faced the L.A. Lakers, the two-time defending champions in the western conference finals. In what has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest playoff series of all time, the Kings were able to jump out to a 2-1 lead. Just when it appeared the Kings would be heading back to Sacramento with a 3-1 series lead, Lakers forward Robert Horry burried a game-winning three-pointer (to win the game 100-99)on a play where Vlade Divac batted the ball to get it out from under the rim. Needless to say, the play backfired. However Game 5 saw Mike Bibby return the favor with a game-winning shot of his own with 3.7 seconds left, the Kings won 92-91. In a highly contested game 6 at the STAPLES Center, the Lakers bested the Kings by four points in a seemingly one-sided game. A statistic of note in this game was that the the Lakers shot 27 fourth quarter free throws compared to the Kings 9.
The seventh and final game is considered by many to be one of the NBA's all-time best game 7s. No team gained a double-digit lead in the game. But it was particularly poor free throw shooting that would doom the Kings; missing 14 of their 30 free throw attempts (53.3% shooting). This Kings team wouldn't get a better chance to get to the NBA Finals.
After winning another division championship by going 59-23 in 2002–03, the Kings lost Webber to a knee injury in the playoffs, ultimately losing to the Dallas Mavericks in a seven game series. Webber's knee required major surgery. Although he would return mid-season in 2003–04, he had lost much of his explosiveness and athleticism. The Kings would end the season with a playoff defeat to the Minnesota Timberwolves in seven games.
The 2004–05 season marked another season of dramatic change for the Kings, who lost three of their starters from the 2002 team. In the offseason of 2004, Divac opted to sign with the rival Lakers, giving Brad Miller a starting spot at center. Early in the season, Christie was traded to the Orlando Magic for shooting guard Cuttino Mobley. But the most dramatic change came in February, when Webber was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for three relatively unheralded forwards: Corliss Williamson, Kenny Thomas, and Brian Skinner. The Kings ultimately lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Seattle SuperSonics. The 2005 offseason continued the team transformation, with the Kings trading fan favorite Bobby Jackson for Bonzi Wells and acquiring free agent forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim.
Rebuilding (2005–2008)
The 2005-06 season started off poorly, as the Kings had a hard time finding chemistry in the team. Newcomers Bonzi Wells and Shareef Abdur-Rahim made major contributions early in the season, but both fell victim to the injury bug and missed a significant number of games. As the Kings' dismal season continued, the Maloofs decided to make a major move.
Popular sharpshooting small forward Peja Stojakovic was traded for Ron Artest, long known for his volatile temper. With this trade, the Kings begin the Artest era until its ultimate end. With Artest in the lineup, the Kings had a 20-9 record after the 2006 NBA All-Star Weekend, which was the second best post-All-Star break record that season. The Kings finished the regular season with a 44-38 record, which placed them 4th in the Pacific Division. The Kings obtained the 8th seed of the Western Conference playoffs, and were matched up in the first round against the San Antonio Spurs in a seven-game series. The Spurs beat the Kings in the first round 4-2.
The 2006 offseason was started with the announcement that head coach Rick Adelman's contract would not be renewed. The Kings named Eric Musselman as Adelman's replacement as head coach.
In 2006-2007, the disappointing play of the Kings had been coupled with the distraction of legal troubles. Coach Eric Musselman pleaded no contest to DUI charges early in the season, while star Ron Artest got in to trouble for neglect of his dogs, and was later arrested for domestic assault. The Kings dismissed Artest of basketball duties, pending more investigation in to the matter, and was later reinstated. The Kings finished the 2006–07 NBA season with an overall record of 33-49 (their worst in 9 years) in which they were 20-21 at ARCO Arena for the first time since 93-94 and 13-28 on the road; fifth place in the Pacific Division. This season record included a seven game losing-streak that started on January 4 and ended on January 19. Consequently, the Sacramento Kings went on to miss the 2007 NBA Playoffs, the first time in eight seasons. Coach Eric Musselman was fired on April 20, 2007. The Kings' future appears to rest on the shoulders of breakout star Kevin Martin, who was a leading candidate for 2007 NBA Most-Improved Player of the Year. The 2007 off season was a time of change for the Kings. Kings coach Eric Musselman was replaced by former Kings player, Reggie Theus for head coach. Fans and sports analysts were puzzled by the hire, especially with Larry Brown expressing great interest in coaching the team. On [June 28, 2007, the Kings selected center Spencer Hawes as the 10th overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.
In addition to these changes, the Sacramento Kings acquired center-forward Mikki Moore from the New Jersey Nets. Kevin Martin signed a contract worth $55 million, extending his period with the team for five more years.
However, the Kings also lost some key players over the offseason, with backup point guard Ronnie Price leaving for the Utah Jazz, and Corliss Williamson retiring.
The team claimed fourth-year point guard Beno Udrih off waivers from Minnesota. Udrih quickly assumed the starting point guard job, as Bibby was injured.
It was announced on February 16, 2008 that the Kings had traded longtime point guard Bibby to the Atlanta Hawks for Tyronn Lue, Anthony Johnson, Shelden Williams, Lorenzen Wright and a 2nd round draft pick. The move was done mostly to clear cap space for the future. Bibby was the last remaining original player that got the Kings to the Western Conference Finals back in 2002.
The Kings improved by 5 games and finished the 07-08 season with a 38-44 missing the playoffs by a much bigger margin (12 games) than the previous season (8 games). They went 26-15 at home and 12-29 on the road. After selling out every home game since 1999 the Kings only sold out the three home games (against the Celtics and Lakers) during the 07-08 season averaging 13,500 fans per home game, almost 4,000 below capacity. Many home games struggled to put 15,000 in with empty seats common.
Following a quiet 2008 offseason, it was confirmed on July 29, 2008 that the Kings would trade forward Ron Artest and the rights to Patrick Ewing Jr and Sean Singletary to the Houston Rockets in exchange for former King Bobby Jackson, Donté Greene, a future first round draft pick, and cash considerations [1].
Rebuilding (2008-present)
With new pressures on the Kings to rebuild and return to their glory days, General Manager Geoff Petrie is assembling a new younger more talented squad to hopefully carry the team. With the youthful faces of Kevin Martin, who averages over 20 points and is known for his consistent shooting, and the likes of Francisco Garcia, Bobby Brown, and Beno Udrih, the Kings are optimistic for their future.
A main concern at the moment is their coaching position with the firing of Reggie Theus earlier in the 2008-09 season. With Interim Head Coach Kenny Natt, the Kings have continued to struggle, which leaves the franchise with many questions on the coaching role for next season.
Along with many of the NBA teams, the 2010 free agent market will be of great importance and interest with many big names on the list like Lebron James, Chris Bosh, and Paul Pierce. The Kings will definitely need another key player to lead them back into the playoffs and possible championship title.
New arena
In light of declining attendance at ARCO ArenaTemplate:Fact, and also in light of the increasing obsolescence of the building compared to newer NBA venuesTemplate:Fact, there was a campaign to build a new $600 million facility in downtown Sacramento, which was to be funded by a quarter cent sales tax increase over 15 years. In 2006, voters overwhelmingly rejected ballot measures Q and R[1], leading to the NBA publicly calling for a new arena to be built at another well-known Sacramento facility, Cal Expo, the site of California's state fair.[2] Negotiations between the Cal Expo governing board and the NBA (serving on behalf of the Maloof family) are ongoing; the Cal Expo board is looking for improvements to the entire facility (including $40 million in deferred maintenance) as well as a new arena. The NBA promises that no public money will be used for the project; the Cal Expo board has long sought state legislation that would allow Cal Expo to form a joint-powers authority to issue bonds and lease land to developers, it is thought that negotiations for an NBA arena will more quickly bring this to fruition.
The arena talks with Cal Expo broke down. The new target became the rail yards in downtown Sacramento. Estimates came in at just below $400 million. Meanwhile, the Maloofs looked at moving the Kings for the 2011-2012 season. NBA commissioner David Stern confirmed during the All-Star break in Orlando during the 2010-2011 season that the Maloofs were currently talking to officials about moving to Anaheim, specifically the Honda Center. The Anaheim city council even voted for improvements to the Honda Center to better present an NBA team. When the news broke, Kings fans along with Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnsnon started showing massive support to keep the Kings in Sacramento. During the NBA Board of Governors meeting in New York, both the Maloofs and Kevin Johnson made their cases: the Maloofs wanted a new arena for the long term stability of the Kings and mayor Kevin Johnson wanted the Kings to and presented his plan to build a new arena. After a long wait and a few deadline extensions, the Maloofs decided to stay in Sacramento at least one more year.
The Kings, Maloofs, and the city of Sacramento coninued to work towards a solid deal. Finally, they reached a deal: arena building contractor AEG would pay $50 million, the Maloofs would pay $75 million, and the rest would come from leases on parking structures in Sacramento along with selling land. The deal was approved by the Sacramento city council. On February 28, 2012, Kevin Johnson and the Maloofs stood center court during a Kings home game and the Maloofs declared a new arena for Sacramento would come in 2015. The happiness was short lived. In April, the Maloofs backed out of the deal. The Maloofs didn't want to pay for the $200,000 bill for the pre work for the arena and didn't feel confident that the plan was financially stable. The Maloofs could back out because no official agreement had been made. AEG dropped out in July as well.
The relocation talks died down, but not for long. On January 9, 2013, a tweet leaked that the Maloofs were in talks with the Hansen group in Seattle to move the team to Seattle. If the deal went through, Seattle would probably rename the Kings "SuperSonics" like their prior team was named before it was moved to Oklahoma City in 2008 and became the Thunder. Multiple reports came out throughout the day, including that the Maloofs denied the deal to that the Maloofs had made a solid "handshake"deal and the Kings had been sold. Mayor Kevin Johnson broke his silence, saying that the city of Sacramento had been in the same situation with Anaheim and they would put off a big fight to keep the Kings in Sacramento. He reminded people of Anaheim and even the Giants, who almost moved to Florida from San Francisco in the 90s. Amid the uncertainty, Kings fans still came out on the 10th to see the Kings take on the Mavs. To many, that was the most electric crowd of the season. Kings commentator Grant Napear also gave an emotional intro during the opening of his radio show about how great the Kings are to the city of Sacramento and its fans. The Maloofs continued to be secretive about their discussions, but the NBA confirmed that the possible deal was spoke about to the NBA Board of Gorvernors. Kings fans organized the Here We Buy campaign, considering that this is the first indication that the Kings were for sale. An online petition was started. Kevin Johnson also said he had come up with many investors interested in buying the Kings and had $400+ million available to make a counter offer, which would include the guarantee of a new arena. AEG also reported that they were still interested in helping build an arena in Sacramento. With these things in mind, NBA Commissioner David Stern decided that this plan could be presented by Johnson in front of the Board of Governors. Sacramento is now officially in its "six week sprint" to save the Kings from moving to Seattle before the relocation request deadline on March 1st.
Current Roster
- 35 - Marvin Bagley III
- 88 - Nemanja Bjelica
- 8 - Bogdan Bogdanovic
- 00 - Willie Cauley-Stein
- 3 - Yogi Ferrell
- 5 - De'Aaron Fox
- 32 - Wenyen Gabriel
- 20 - Harry Giles
- 24 - Buddy Hield
- 25 - Justin Jackson
- 41 - Kosta Koufas
- 7 - Skal Labissiere
- 10 - Frank Mason
- 23 - Ben McLemore
- 50 - Zach Randolph
- 9 - Iman Shumpert
- 19 - Troy Williams
- ↑ Kelly Johnson (2006-11-08). "Railyard arena backers will keep trying". Sacramento Business Journal. http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2006/11/06/daily20.html. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
- ↑ Kelly Johnson (2007-09-21). "Cal Expo board agrees to consider arena, mixed-use project". Sacramento Business Journal. http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2007/09/24/story4.html?f=et183&b=1190606400^1524469&ana=e_vert. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
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1949 & 1950
|NBA Champions
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Herman Paul's Neogrammarian Conception
The main book that has generalized neogrammarian ideas was by Herman Paul "Principles of Language History" first published in 1880 to which the author refers the following: emphasized historism, individual psychologist, empirism and inductivism, the refusal to consider too extensive and general questions. The first phrase of the book is, "As any product of human culture, language is the subject-matter of historical studies". Historism as an indispensable condition of any of the humanities for H. Paul is a postulate not requiring any arguments. At the same time he stressed, that besides history of any concrete language there must be "a special subject, studying general conditions of life of historically developing object and studying the essence and effectiveness of factors equally represented in all changes". That is, the question is about General Linguistics. One may see that in this wording General Linguistics is understood not only as a historical, but also as empirical and purely inductive science. Paul himself defines more exactly his approach by saying, "There is no reason to oppose this general part of Linguistics to historical and empirical. One of them is as empirical as inferred only from the facts observed (directly or indirectly through the reconstructed facts).
The whole science about language Paul, divided into descriptive grammar and historical grammar (the term "grammar" is here used in its strict antique meaning covering Linguistics in general); comparative grammar was considered as a part of historical. It was pointed out that "historical grammar originated from old purely descriptive grammar and inherited many things from it".
Descriptive grammar registers all the grammatical forms and rules used in a given language community. The content of such a grammar consists not of facts but only of abstractions elicited from the observed facts. For various periods in the given community development these abstractions will turn out to be different. Their comparison demonstrates that changes have occurred in a language. It may seem that "descriptive grammar" is the same that after F. de Saussure was called synchronic linguistics. This is true from the point of view of object but not from the point of view of the place in linguistics. Paul recognizes that a language historian cannot avoid the description of the states but for him this is only a stable basis for historical investigations. Descriptive grammar has no its own value, the term itself shows that it only "registers" things that occur in a language without explaining anything.
However, the scholar himself often touches upon questions which are not directly connected with language history not always confining himself with a pure description of facts. It is well observed in characters devoted to morphology, where the author touches upon "eternal" grammar questions. The whole chapter "Classification of the Parts of Speech" is quite synchronic and devoted to dealing with traditional (usually going back to the time of dominating "descriptive grammars") classification of parts of speech, working out criteria for their apportionment, and learning the properties of certain word classes in different languages, above all in Latin and German. In the chapter on word-formation synchronic derivation in Modern German and derivation occurring in its historical development is strictly delimited. Historism is necessary, in Paul's opinion even in the case, when an investigator is not directly engaged in history but goes out of the framework of a pure registration of facts: e.g. interchange studying or revealing of an inner word form requires explaining how they came into being.
Speaking about general regularities of language behaviour, Paul as other neogrammarians proceeded from the individual psychologism. Psychological language conceptions began to be formed among scholars, sharing Humboldtian tradition, who by the end of the XIX century already dominated in Linguistics altogether. Having refused to deal with such notions as "spirit of language", "spirit of people", neogrammarians could find a theoretical approach nowhere but in psychologism.
Abandoning "the spirit of a people" and other a priori explanations of collective language character led Paul to absolutization of an individual in a language. He wrote "We must recognize, as a matter of fact, that there arc as many individual languages in the world as individuals". All the rest is only a linguist's abstraction. "Communication is the only thing that produces the language of an individual. Only the language of an individual is reality and this reality is psychological.
The principle of association was of primary importance for Paul "The representations of sounds following one another associate with movements of speech organs performed one after another making up an integral series. Sound series and articulation series associate with each other. These series in their turn associate with ideas for which they serve as symbols, – besides, not only the ideas of syntactic relations, not only separate words, but also long sound series, the whole sentences directly associate with the thought content available in them". Each language unit, each language phenomenon observed have their own psychological correlate and everything is connected with one another through associations.

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Paul McCartney Reworks His Christmas Classic
Paul McCartney's busy week continues. First he showed up for a couple of impromptu performances. Then he made a new video with some famous friends. Oh, and he also released an album -- his best in 30 years.
And now the superbusy ex-Beatle has remade his 1979 holiday single, 'Wonderful Christmastime,' with the a cappella group Straight No Chaser. The song shows up on their upcoming EP 'Under the Influence: Holiday Edition,' which will be released on Oct. 29.
According to Rolling Stone, Straight No Chaser's Don Nottingham said the collaboration is a dream come true. "The list of musical living legends starts with Paul McCartney," he said. "If you'd asked me five years ago – or even five months ago – what collaboration would be totally unfathomable for me, I would have said McCartney. To have him on a song with us is totally unbelievable and a true honor."
The new version basically replaces the primitive synths of McCartney's original song with a chorus of voices filling in for the instruments. McCartney, once again, takes lead on 'Wonderful Christmastime.'
Rolling Stone is also offering an exclusive listen to the reworked version of the holiday classic, if you want to take a listen.


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Market Overview of the Money Remittance Market in Southeast Asia (SEA)
Top Remittance Corridors and Strategic Positioning for the Remittance Industry
Published: 20 May 2015
The study outlines the key trends in the migration and remittance market in Southeast Asia. The Philippines and Vietnam together contribute to more than half of the region's remittances. North America and the Middle East are the top regions remitting funds into Southeast Asia, while China and India are the two largest recipients of remittance from Southeast Asia. The market provides attractive opportunities for investors in the near future during the period 2015–2018.
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Government housing allowance ignores market realities
One of the economic countermeasures adopted by the previous administration of Taro Aso that has been retained by the Democratic Party of Japan was the allowance for people who had lost their housing as a direct result of having lost their jobs. In most cases, the reason they lost their housing was because the place they were living in was either owned or subsidized by their employers. The DPJ plan originally earmarked ¥70 billion for this allowance, and an additional ¥30 billion has been set aside for it in the supplemental budget.
Local governments started accepting applications for the allowance last October. Rent subsidies last for six to nine months and the amount of the allowance depends on the location and other factors. For Tokyo residents, it comes to ¥69,000 a month for a "family" and ¥53,700 a month for a single person. The allowances would be handled by the welfare ministry in collaboration with local governments.
The ¥70 billion that has been set aside was calculated to cover 320,000 people. However, during the first three months that applications were accepted only 11,518 people applied and about 7,900 of them have so far qualified for the allowance. Local governments blame poor communications for the low demand, but there's another, more significant reason why people aren't flooding welfare offices to apply: They know it won't mean anything.


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- New To Our Superyacht Fleet
With the increase of sales through Burgess in the 30-90m bracket over recent months, including a week with a significant yacht sale every day, the market is now offering leaner pickings for buyers, as confirms Burgess broker Richard Lambert.
The market-wide depletion in brokerage inventory has brought about some pricing increase for newer yachts built by yards with a strong pedigree, which in turn has given a number of owners the confidence to take their yacht to market.
Although the global brokerage inventory continues to diminish, Burgess has recently signed nine interesting and very attractive CA listings of superyachts between 35m and 77m, the majority of these being in the 35-50m range.
Four of the nine new CAs hail from Italy, including the classic 50.0m (163.9ft) Benetti ALEXANDRA, delivered in 2002; 42.6m (139.8ft) KATE from CRN (2010); the pioneering and eye-catching 40.0m (131.2ft) COLUMBUS 40S HYBRID and the sporty trideck 45.5m (149.3ft) MANGUSTA OCEANO 46.
Built by Palumbo, the COLUMBUS 40S is a striking modern vessel with a host of innovative features. Asking EUR 15,500,000, this yacht has the added benefit of full warranties.
The MANGUSTA OCEANO 46m is a new design from the renowned Overmarine shipyard. Offering generous interior and deck areas, this project has an attractive 12 month delivery time.
The never-before-owned VICEM 46M, built by the Turkish yard with design from Frank Mulder, is also available to purchase newly delivered from the shipyard and is currently in the Mediterranean.
The new build opportunity, the 77.0m (252.6ft) U-77, was recently listed with Burgess. Built by Chile-based Marco Yachts, it represents outstanding value for its size, with a listing price of US$24,900,000. More new build opportunities >>
Sailing superyachts continue to represent a smaller proportion of the vessels in the global fleet, and hence are scarcer on the brokerage market. Burgess recently secured the CA listing for Dubois-designed GANESHA 1, a 38.8m (127.3ft) Fitzroy build that is regularly seen on the Bucket regatta circuit.
For those who prefer the lines and hand-crafted wooden paneling of a classic motoryacht accompanied by 21st Century technology, our new CA listing 46.1m (151.3ft) SYCARA IV is a fantastic opportunity to acquire a modern gentleman's motoryacht with Ken Freivokh interiors.
For sale and also available for charter is our new CA listing, 68.2m (223.6ft) SYCARA V, with a weekly rate of EUR 585,000 (both Mediterranean and Caribbean seasons). SYCARA V will be on display with Burgess at the upcoming Monaco Yacht Show, where we have the largest selection of superyachts on display.
To arrange an inspection, or to find out more about any of the yachts on display in the autumn boat show season, please contact a broker now or get in touch with one of our offices directly: London, Monaco, New York, Miami, LA or all other locations.


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Tuesday, 24 July 2012
melbourne on film
I'm sitting here fumbling around with my fancy new Canon DSLR and I'm starting to panic! I'm so in love with shooting film on my very beautiful and very uncomplicated Nikon FM2 that I think I may struggle getting to know this new medium!
I'm trying to keep in the same headspace of shooting with my Nikon – after all photography has always been about aperture, shutter speed and ISO all carefully balanced to create correct exposure... now, if only I could find those buttons!
Here are few things I've shot around Melbourne using film. Perhaps the next post will be about my love of my new digital camera!
Monday, 23 July 2012
winter in the park
Its cold and the trees are naked but the light is soft. Time to take a break, keep warm and regroup...
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Mozart: A Life (Hardcover)
Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music
As he's done in "Napoleon," "Churchill," "Jesus," and "Darwin," acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson's focus is on the music Mozart's wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation.
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it.
In addition to his many insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships. Always engaging, Johnson offers readers and music lovers a superb examination of Mozart and his glorious music, which is still performed every day in concert halls and opera houses around the world.
About the Author
Paul Johnson is an acclaimed historian and author. In addition to his many biographies, his books also include "A History of the American People" and "Modern Times." He has contributed to "Forbes," "The Wall Street Journal," "The New York Times," and many others. He lives in London.
Praise For…
Praise for Mozart by Paul Johnson:
"Historian Johnson lauds everyone's favorite composer so as to pique the interest of every reader. . . . Johnson starts debunking myths on the first page . . . [and] they all crumble under his commonsense presentation of evidence. An altogether excellent primer on possibly the most complete musician who ever lived."
—Booklist (starred review)
"Most satisfying . . . A highly accessible initial foray into an astonishing, and inexhaustible, subject."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Impassioned . . . Johnson captures the depth of Mozart's achievement with a scholarly fan's . . . enthusiasm. . . . A compact and knowledgeable portrait of genius."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Johnson packs a great deal of information into these pages . . . and his grasp of Mozart's musical output is astounding, his description of Mozart's works comprehensive and enlightening. . . . This is a solid, and often fresh, introduction to the life and work of the composer." —Publishers Weekly
"The perfect stocking stuffer . . . A portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that will give pleasure to and increase the understanding of old Mozart hands as well as those reading for the first time about the man . . . Like his latest subject, Johnson never strikes a false note."
—The American Spectator
"Excellent . . . A delightful, concise read. It's fun—like listening to Mozart is. . . . To learn about the life of such a remarkable musician is a treat and a privilege. Paul Johnson has made Mozart's story accessible and rewarding."
—Washington Independent Review of Books
"This short, pithy, intelligent book will appeal to music lovers and general readers."
—Hudson Valley News


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Saturday, March 1, 2008
The Big One
I've started it. The Big One. The Monster-Huge Applique Project.
I bought this lovely book at the CreativFestival (what's with the absent "e"?), and I've been wanting to do an intensive hardcore applique project for a while now. I thought removing the design-angst would be a good idea. Look at this beauty...
Here's Block #1 from the book, and my start on it. I have my palette all picked out- aquas, greens, indigo, mustard, light and dark neutrals. It's gonna take a while...
Posted by Johanna Masko at 10:58 a.m.
2 comments:
- Marnie said...
clearly, you are insane :-)
- 10:02 a.m.
- meg said...
I agree with marnie and good luck!
- 1:18 p.m.
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pablo baudet
see: pablo baudet's photos. so many great photographers out there, wish i could take photos as good as them! maybe someday... p.s. i just got back from melbourne; few highlights of the trip coming soon. happy (belated) australian day for you aussies and congratulations america for your new president. hope you all have had a great weekend!


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About the PA | Member Index
1993 - Present, President, Intuition
Network. The Intuition Network is a nonprofit (non-membership)
organization focused on helping to create a world in which all people
are encouraged to cultivate their inner, intuitive abilities. From
1993 through 1995, the Intuition Network functioned under the
nonprofit umbrella of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. This
organization brings together hundreds of leaders in the field of
intuition training, research and practice. These individuals are
highly diverse, come from many different backgrounds, and offer
expertise based on inner experience rather than external credentials.
1987 - Present, Chairman, Thinking Allowed
Productions. Thinking Allowed Productions is a corporation that
has produced and broadcast hundreds of television interviews, shown
via satellite on public television stations throughout North America.
Over 400 colleges and universities use videotapes produced by Thinking
Allowed. In 1988, IONS agreed to serve as a sponsor for the first
satellite uplink of the Thinking Allowed television series.
1999 – Present, Dean of Programs, University
of Philosophical Research. The University of Philosophical
Research is approved by the State of California to offer masters
degrees in consciousness studies and transformational psychology
through a distant learning program. Among the courses taught is Psi
Research. This course is also available to ministers in training with
the United Church of Religious Science through the Holmes Institute.
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Master of Criminology, University of California, Berkeley, 1972.
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"Steps Toward a Scientific Theory of Consciousness," with
Saul-Paul Sirag. In Trish Pfeiffer and John Mack (Eds.), The
Primacy of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Center for Psychology
and Social Change, to be published.
"Intuitive Principles Put to the Test."
Online Journal of Psychology and Social Change. (Article
originally posted to the Intuition Network's Inpresence e-mail
list on September 11, 2001.)
"Interpretive Introduction." In F. W. H.
Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.
Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2001.
The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over
Matter. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2000.
"Appendix: Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey
Mishlove, A Televised Interview." In Huston Smith, Cleansing the
Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants
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But I tell you, people were really nice, welcoming, they smiled (apart from the drug dealers, who were probably just wondering whether we were looking to score some [we weren't], or whether we were really stupid 'undercover' cops), helped us with finding a parking spot, and apart from waving at us or shaking our hands, did everything in their power to make us feel welcome.
So take that downtown Joburg, you will no longer qualify as the big scary monster in my nightmares. Didn't even see nothing of the protests going on at the moment. people just smiled at us (note: NOT laughed at us).
However, as something was bound to happen, I seem to have gotten sick. And when I get sick I don't just get a fever and sleep for a few days. No sirree. Even in illness I have to feel special and different.
And you can forget about me going to the doctor. I just might be the worst hypochondriac in existence: I constantly think I'm dying of some horrible disease, but I refuse to go to a doctor, because that might mean... well... that they might just touch me. I'm a Finn, we don't take kindly to that sort of behavior. And based on a year of me walking around with a grape size stone in my gallbladder and a fair week with an infection before emergency surgery at 2AM I'm pretty good at ignoring a pain if it also means avoiding going to the doctor.
You know, the doctor might have wanted to stick one of them popsicle sticks in my mouth and look at my tongue. Shudder. I'll take severe pain any day now over such a horrendous experience.
But this time around I think I need Dr. House to diagnose me, because Google is not doing it's usual part.
My symptoms include but are not limited to:
- One bright pink eye.
- Stiffness of second joint of left pinky
- Pain and stiffness in left middle finger
- Stiffness of right pinky around the joint that attaches the finger-dealio to the palm.
- One numb toe on right foot.
- Pink spots on my tongue.
I see a connection forming here. Don't try and reason with me - I'm already off.
Right now, I'm somewhere between P!nk, gout, scurvy and something called a Besniec-Boeck-Schaumann disease.
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[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Strata blog.]
Data analysts have long lamented the amount of time they spend on data wrangling. Rightfully so, as some estimates suggest they spend a majority of their time on it. The problem is compounded by the fact that these days, data scientists are encouraged to cast their nets wide, and investigate alternative (unstructured) data sources. The general perception is that data wrangling is the province of programmers and data scientists. Spend time around Excel users and you'll learn that they do quite a bit of data wrangling too!
In my work I tend to write scripts and small programs to do data wrangling. That usually means some combination1 of SQL, Python, and Spark2. I've played with Google Refine (now called OpenRefine) in the past, but I found the UI hard to get used to. Part of the problem may have been that I didn't use the tool often3 enough to become comfortable.
For most users data wrangling still tends to mean a series of steps that usually involves different tools (e.g., you often need to draw charts to spot outliers and anomalies). As I've pointed out in previous posts, workflows that involve many different tools require a lot of context-switching, which in turn affects productivity and impedes reproducability.
"We are washing our data at the side of the river on stones. We are really in the early, early ages of productivity technology in data science."
Joe Hellerstein (Strata-NYC 2012), co-founder and CEO of Trifacta


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Arts Paris with Terrace
Holiday Apartments Paris : Boasting a private terrace, this luxury rental in Paris is ideal for families or groups of friends. Sleeping seven, the property has four bedrooms. The master one has a queen-size bed, two further bedrooms are outitted with twin beds (90 cm each) and the fourth one has a single bed. There are three bathrooms. The firts one has a bathtub with a shower faucet, the second one boasts a freestanding bathtub and a walk-in shower and the third one has a walk-in shower. All the bathrooms have wc. The living room benefts from views over Paris and features a seating area with a TV, a DVD, an iPod dock, a Blueray player and a fireplace and a dining area. The kitchen is totally equipped for a carefree stay. There is a coffee maker, a coffee mahcine, a fridge freezer, a nicrowave, an oven, a hob, a kettle, a toaster, a blender, a raclette machine, a dishwasher, tableware and kitchenware pieces. The laundry facilities include a washing machine and a dryer, an iron and an ironing board. The luxury holiday apartment in Paris benefits from a wonderful terrace overlooking the city.
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4th place for Adi in 4NCL Harrogate Congress
Adi Munshi had a fine run of form after an earlier setback, sharing the prize for equal fourth in the Open, held from January 19th-21st.
Fourth place put him on an equal score with GMs and IMs! Despite losing round 2, he then won the next 3 games to leapfrog his competitors and finish on 3.5/5. He won £80.
Some other West Nottingham juniors were also taking part. Also in the Open, Jonah Willow finished on 3/5 and Anita Somton on 2/5.
In the Major section, Armaan Gogia scored 2/5, including a win against an up-and-coming player called Sunil Munshi...
Well done to the Adi, and we are sure the other competitors gained valuable experience from this FIDE-rated event.
Full results and a list of prizewinners can be found on the 4NCL website.


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Dear Patient ad Friends of APM Spine and Sports,
As you may have heard, we are going through a transition period as two of our physicians leave to pursue other options. Like it or not, change is the norm in healthcare today.
That said, effective May 29, 2018, APM Spine and Sports Physicians will consolidate all clinicians into our Norfolk Office on a full-time basis. This means that for now, our physicians, PA/NPs and physical therapists will only be seeing patients in our Lowery Road location. We will continue providing a full range of services in the Norfolk Office.
Although this Virginia Beach office is closing, we recognize that many of our patients live in Virginia Beach and we do plan to re-open a satellite office in Virginia Beach along the First Colonial Road corridor by the end of the year, if not sooner.
It is our sincere desire to continue to provide each and every one of our patients with the outstanding care you have become accustomed to receiving. We hope that everyone will adjust easily to these changes, and we promise to continue to work very hard to provide you with the very best care.
We will certainly keep everyone posted about our progress, and apologize for any inconvenience this change may cause you or your family. If you need any assistance in rescheduling your future appointments, please ask our staff for help.
To assist you in getting everything you need during this time, we have set up a special e-mail address for our patients, this way we can address your concerns in a timely manner.
Please e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you need additional assistance or have any concerns you need addressed
Thank you for you loyal patronage!
Lisa Barr, M.D., Bonnie Nock, D. O. and Robert Spear, D.O.
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On 1/30/12 10:40 AM, Bronislav Klučka wrote: > img1 = document.getElementById("my-image"); > img1.src = URL.createObjectUrl(myBlob); > img2.src = img1.src; > should work like a charm and the URL and blob will be released as soon > as all references will be 0 (destroying the image) No, it won't. As currently specced it will be released when the document goes away or when the url created via createObjectURL is manually revoked. That's precisely the problem. -BorisReceived on Monday, 30 January 2012 15:56:34 UTC
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I've had this on my "to-do" list for years, I think. I've been keeping my clothespins in a cute little drawstring bag, which is a pain in the butt for actually hanging out clothes or taking them in. Since I don't expect to be growing a 3rd or 4th arm anytime soon, I whipped this up. I based this on some pictures of vintage aprons I've seen online.
I think it really only needed to be half as wide as I made it.
I felt like it needed a little something extra, and I thought the horseshoes kind of went well with the gingham. They're from Sublime Stitching's "Country Cool" transfer set.
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Locked out in Jan. 2009 by Quebecor, journalists at the Journal de Montreal finally settled a deal last night (Feb. 26) that will see 61 keep their job, out of 253 locked out. The rest get severance. So, once again a mogul decides to cut costs by cutting staff in a newspaper newsroom. Admittedly, the union had a good contract, which is what unions are supposed to do. Still, here's another example of a wealthy corporation, buoyed by cable monopolies, cutting costs for the sake of costcutting instead of worrying about the journalistic quality of the product they're producing. Well, guess it's not for nothing that Peladeau bought the Sun chain, which is losing readers dramatically as its understaffed newsrooms recycle QMI stories instead of create their own.
Montreal Gazette, Feb. 27 20111
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Okay, the Caps lost last night. For Caps fans like me, the game was disappointing. I refuse to whine about the officiating, I admire that so far as I can see no one in the Caps organization is doing so. Sure other bloggers and a few of my own comments on blogs, etc. indicate my real feelings after thinking about it for some time today. It was a great game, the officiating left a lot to be desired on/for both sides, and the game given the quality of play deserved a better ending than the one that occurred. That is not to say that means the team I root for needed to be or necessarily would have been the one to win. Okay so that's all I'll say on that subject.
The Caps have their work cut out for them, who knows these guys seem to thrive when their backs are against the wall. Ovie said it well and I'll paraphrase - the Caps need six periods IN A ROW where they play their best hockey, six periods like the first and second period of last night's game. Oh and don't, I repeat DON'T expect the Penguins to get frustrated, play stupid or just fold up and go home. For the record so far this series there have been 5 games, four out of the five have been one goal games and the other was a two goal game in which the Caps scored the first goal and Sergei Federov had two other good scoring chances before the Pens rattled off three in a row and never looked back. Simple fact, these are two very talented teams who play all out, new style hockey; they match up well to each other and so far the Pens have found a way to win three times, while the Caps have only found a way to win twice.
In the end it really probably is that simple. Speaking of simple, hopefully the Caps will keep it that way. I have no doubt when each of these two teams is eliminated from the playoffs, or if the hockey gods shine on them one of them wins the Cup, we'll learn there were more guys "ding'ed" up than anyone suspected. That said, none of that matters. At the end of the game tomorrow night either the Penguins will advance or both teams will be headed back to Verizon Center for Game 7.
As a Caps fan, I'm hoping to get a chance to see another game 7. I also hope if we get that chance the following things happen in no particular order of precedence:
a) All 18, 277 in attendance listen to the announcement for our National Anthem and indeed join in and sing it respectfully rather than desecrating it with that "O" stuff and even that "RED" stuff.
b) If Sergei Gonchar plays we applaud his return to the ice once and then forget that stupid Larry Murphey "whoop".
c) No matter what the Pens fans do on Monday when Ovie touches the puck, we continue to NOT boo every time Crosby touches the puck.
d) We continue to take advantage of the advantages Caps ownership have given us to pack our building with Caps fans clad in read and we continue to see precious few "baby blue" or "black & gold" sweaters "in our house."
and last but possibly most importantly:
e) No matter how stupid or frustrating the officiating is or isn't to us we do NOT throw things on the playing surface.
Now for Monday night I'm hoping the Caps just play simple, straightforward,GREAT hockey and kick some flightless bird butt. They can do it, they've shown that but they need to turn up and keep up the intensity. There is no doubt the Penguins will want to finish this series at home. Don't kid yourselves no one who has a chance to finish and end a series in Game 6 wants to play Game 7.
So folks we have them right where we want them, they are visible on all sides, our options are simple and obvious in front of us - we shall attack, attack and drive to victory. We shall ask no quarter nor shall we offer such to our opponents. There is no option, it's either victory or the embarrassment and ignominy of digging our golf clubs out of that cobweb ridden corner in our garages. So sharpen your skates, tape your sticks, adjust your pads and leap, leap my loyal band of brothers into the breach screaming that cry that elicits fear from the hearts of your worthy opponents --- "NO PRISONERS!!!!!"
Sunday, May 10, 2009
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Now, if you're reading this blog, chances are, I'm preaching to the converted... however, if, like me, you have an insatiable appetite for music, particularly music you may have never heard before, there are multitudes of amazing music blogs that offer free, and usually legal, mp3 downloads.
If you're familiar with my other blog, which posts weekly mixtapes of a variety of music, will know finding new sources of musical inspiration is a big necessity.
Most musicians these days understand the value of giving away remixes or sample singles to their fans for free. Their songs get written about, talked about and played to no end... which is generally great for PR, and in turn, record sales and especially ticket sales.
There's millions upon millions of these blogs, many of them specialized, so one of the best ways to discover your favorite sites is to visit The Hype Machine, which aggregates blogs which post music, allows you to play the track and then gives you the link to the blog from which the post came - as well as links to purchase the track if you were feeling so inclined.
Generally these mp3 links are completely legal and actually sent to the bloggers by record companies/musicians as promotional material. However, I should note that not all the tracks found on blogs are legally put there... anyone dubious about downloading music, I've written my opinions about it on this blog in the past.
Some of my favorite spots to listen to and discover new music are here:
Nialler9 - Dublin-based music blog & podcasts... ahsome new music
Winnie Cooper - Canada based blog that posts great music new & old
Funky 16 Corners - Links to lots of great classic soul 45s
Garage Hangover - Garage! As in, 60s garage 45s
NME Daily Download - new promotional hyped up mp3s every day
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A character taps on your TV screen from the inside to get your attention. Yes, that's right — someone is Breaking the Fourth Wall by touching it!
As Technology Marches On, the "screen glass tap" sound effect is still in use despite being an Artifact due to the rise of flat-screen LCD's not made out of glass, though some uses now feature a "dull thump" sound effect instead to compensate for this change.
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- Rix Fm ran a commercial in which the host tapped the screen of an iPhone.
- Mr. Opportunity from Honda commercials.
I'm Mr. Opportunity, [knocks on glass] and I'm knockin'!
- In radio ads featuring Mr. Opportunity, he taps on the microphone twice.
- In a TV spot for Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Sly taps the screen with his cane and asks "So, uh... you in?"
- In 1991, after Bo Jackson broke his hip, Nike ran a new "Bo Knows" commercial showing him training to get back into shape. Denis Leary, the narrator, ends the commercial with a reference to his MTV promos by saying "I think you hear me knocking, and I think I'm coming in, and I'm bringing Bo and his big bad hip with me" before knocking on the screen twice.
Live Action TV
- Channel 4 played with this trope in its promos in the early 1990s. (At 14:14)
- The first series of Victor Lewis-Smith's Ads Infinitum opens with an animated Victor proclaiming "Good evening, my name is Victor, I am a TV critic, and I live inside your television set." He then taps several times on the screen with his remote control, accidentally smashing it on the last tap, making him say "Oh, f-".
- After five days of "X days to go" promos for the Series 8 premiere of Doctor Who, there was one in which the Twelfth Doctor tapped cracks in the viewer's screen that formed the word "TODAY".
- The Microsoft Office paper clip assistant, Clippit.
Video Games
- Hugo The TV Troll has a habit of doing this when you die in the games.
- The Scout of Team Fortress 2 does this in "Meet The Scout". As a neat detail, his screen-poke leaves a greasy smudge that stays on-screen for the rest of the short.
- This trend is carried on in both "Meet The Medic" and "Meet The Pyro", albeit being a bit of a fake-out (the "screens" he runs into ends up being a window and a camera, respectively). Even though the "Meet The Director" comic establishes that these cameras exist in-universe, it's still in line with Scout being a Fourth-Wall Observer (i.e. acknowledging that he's a character class, referring to the base as a "map", and teasing his opponents about ragequitting).
- Bubsy, at least in the first of his games, knocked on the screen as one of his Idle Animations. In a nice little touch, the screen even ''shook'' when he did it.
- In Limbo of the Lost, the hero will tap the screen to get your attention if you spend too much time doing nothing. Justified in that, unlike most video games, you are actually a character: his guardian, who is guiding him.
- In Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, Pac-Man will tap the screen if you leave the game paused for too long.
- Banjo does this in the opening theme of Banjo-Kazooie.
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: In one of his countless fourth-wall breaking moments, Deadpool taps and shakes the screen while calling out the player for their laziness after winning a fight.
- If the player idles for too long in Ken Griffey Junior's Winning Run, the umpire will turn around, tap the screen with a baseball, and say "Play the game, kid."
- Simon the Sorcerer, Simon does this to show the player he is 'getting bored' when the player does nothing for too long.
- In the Virtual Villagers spin-off Virtual Families a sick character will tap on the screen to get the player's attention if they haven't noticed the illness.
- The main menu of LEGO Racers has a LEGO character (specifically the next circuit champion you have to beat) on it, dancing around. If you wait long enough, the character will bang on the screen in a sort of Continue Your Mission, Dammit!.
- Protagonist Rincewind does this after a few minutes of inactivity in Discworld. The screen shifts to an extreme close-up of him, and he shouts "HELLOOOOO!!" while tapping the screen and looking around for the player.
- In Playstation All Stars Battle Royale, one of Jak and Daxter's introductions involves Daxter tapping on the screen while Jak stands in the background.
- In the patient select screen of Die Anstalt, Lilo will sometimes tap on the screen with one of his blocks.
- The titular character from Zapper does this on the title screen after a randomised amount of time (sometimes not doing it at all before the game enters Attract Mode).
- Whenever the fourth wall in An Epic Comic is messed with enough, it begins to crack up.
Web Original
- Strong Bad, in a bid to escape the 'tiny box,' actually 'breaks' your screen at the end of many of the "Podstar" versions of the episodes.
- The Wiimote does this in Super 78 Studios' Wii - Hold on Tight! 2, presumably to test its durability after the previous video.
Western Animation
- Tino from The Weekenders sometimes does this at the beginning of an episode, and even does it during the theme song.
- Daniel Tiger Jr. will nuzzle the screen in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. You can hear it. Also, in "Mad At the Beach," when Daniel and Elena splash each other at the beach, they also splash the screen.
- WALLE did this in one of his movie's promos, accidentally cracking the screen.
- The German long-running micro-series Aeffle und Pferdlenote did this often... sometimes with Aeffle banging on the screen demanding that the viewers wake up, and once with Aeffle trying to wash the screen with a squeegee, only to have Pferdle admonish him that he's risking getting water in the viewer's TV.
- Used to horrifying effect in Rejected, where a stickman desperately bangs on the paper as the animated world around him collapses. It's to no avail, as he is consumed by the Dream Apocalypse.
- At the end of "Staying Within the Lines" on Dragon Tales, Max ends the show by scribbling black across the screen.
- In the Arthur episode "You Are Arthur", Buster asks Arthur is there is someone inside his head watching everything he does on a TV screen, and he knocks on the screen producing a glass sound.


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For those that want a final taste of our recent trip to Asturias, check out the photos here, and the video from the Cares Gorge below…
For those that want a final taste of our recent trip to Asturias, check out the photos here, and the video from the Cares Gorge below…
Gorges are always beautiful, there's usually lots to see and they make you feel very small!
What beautiful place Asturias is. Was the temperature appreciably cooler than Madrid?
The family I will be staying with Madrid is in Asturias right now for the summer. You can see why… I felt like melting just watching the weather reports from Madrid!
Thanks for including a couple of food photos. I always love these. They help heighten the longing to visit.
I've walked the "Garganta" twice. What an incredible place. At the end on the Asturian side you can walk up a very steep trail to a little nothing of a village called Bulnes. Well worth the effort since the town is inhabited by a couple of shepherds, and you get the sense there that time has stood still. For the really adventuresome types, you can cross over the mountains to Fuente De in Cantabria. The whole area up there, the Valdeón, is some of the most striking and amazing landscape I have ever seen. I lived for a month in Posada de Valdeón (back in '91) and was blown away with the beauty of the mountains, how clean the air was, and how tranquil life can be.
Hola B/M,
My novia and I walked the Cares gorge and arranged for a 4×4 to carry us back to Potes over a pass in the Picos. Walking both directions is for the young and very strong; we are both in our 60's.
I would like to add that Potes is also a beautiful town with a great restaurant/hotel called Casa Cayo. The restaurant is quite busy at night as the locals believe it is the best in Potes. Their hotel rooms are modest as it is a 1-star but in 2004 it cost 23 euros a night. Bed and bath were fine.


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Thursday, July 2, 2015
His Frozen Heart - Nancy Straight/ Thriller Thursday
Romantic Suspense
For best friends, Candy and Libby, money is tight with hardly enough to cover their living expenses. When they are desperate for grocery money, the girls bet on their pool playing skills to add to their income.
A simple wager on a quiet winter evening has devastating results, with a stalker determined to kill them both. With Libby in the hospital after a vicious attack, and Candy being pursued by the same stalker, she vows to find Libby's attacker.
What she finds is Dave, an old friend with a secret past filled with misfortune. Will Dave's past provide the answer to all of Candy's problems or will it become Candy's worst nightmare realized?
His Frozen Heart is an incredible romantic suspense that will have you on the edge of your seat from page one. Candy gets drawn in to Libby's scheme and ends up in a whole mess of trouble. However, that whole mess leads her to Dave, a hottie mctottie from high school. He'll do anything to protect Emma even walk right into danger. I was engrossed in their story and enjoyed learning the history of their friendship and "watching" the relationship grow. If you're looking for a "sweet" romantic suspense that will give you a huge book hangover this is definitely the book for you.
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It has been incredibly hot hasn't it? The kind of weather that makes photography difficult. If you haven't done what you want by lunchtime you are better off waiting till early evening as the light is so harsh during the early afternoon.
On one day out this last week or so I took over 130 frames. With the exception of about 5 or 6 all were deleted on my return home due to not looking quite right.
It's been a few weeks of butterfly and dragonfly photography with a few other bits thrown in.
4 spotted Chaser,
Black Tailed Skimmer,
Banded Demoiselle,
and finally, Emperor.
On the butterfly front I added.
Small Skipper,
and Meadow Brown.
I have taken a few bird shots just recently too. I was at Burton Mere RSPB reserve hoping to do dragonflies when this little beaut popped up infront of the hide.
I was also out one evening with the dog, again looking for dragonflies which were none existent. But decided to have a go at the House Martins that were sweeping over the corn. I only had the 70-200mm lens with me but I'm quite pleased with the results.
The highlight of this posting though isn't wild birds, dragonflies or butterflies. Its captive birds. The village had its annual fete on sat 13th and this year there was a bird of prey display. Absolutely fabulous, I even got involved. I had the glove on and the Harris Hawk came to me. Its a fabulous experience the Harris Hawk is quite a large bird. Very intimidating.
The display involved getting the Harris to take food thrown to it in mid flight. I managed the two following shots.
I'm still not sure of the rights or wrongs of keeping such birds in captivity, but still a fabulous occurrence.
Lets hope the weather continues for a while yet.
On the personal front, I am on the move again. Hopefully on or very near to the 26th July. It's a move back to Hereford. At least for 6 months. So forgive me if there isn't a post for a couple of weeks now.
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It's obvious that Deron Williams wasn't exactly ecstatic when the Utah Jazz traded him to the lowly New Jersey Nets.
And now Williams is once again hinting at the fact that he has NO plans to stick around when the Nets re-brand themselves and move into their swanky new arena in Brooklyn next season.
Here's what Williams told Marc Spears of Yahoo! Sports, emphasis ours (via Pro Basketball Talk):
"I didn't ask to be here. I got traded. I didn't come here being a free agent. This is the first time that I'm a free agent in my career."
Although Williams claims the Nets are still in the mix once he hits free agency this summer, those comments completely refute that idea.
Williams wants to remind everyone that he already said how much things completely changed when Dwight Howard decided to stay with the Orlando Magic.
"I've already made it known that if he would have come I probably would have stayed."
Nets general manager Billy King has made it no secret that Williams has been consulted with EVERY decision regarding the team's makeup.
Having that "assistant GM" title, as Yahoo!'s report calls it, clearly hasn't made an impression on Williams, however.
And why would it?
Without Dwight Howard, the Nets and Deron Williams are NOTHING.
Would Brook Lopez, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, and Gerald Wallace convince you to stay?
All of this is sure to make Williams' hometown Dallas Mavericks and their owner Mark Cuban very excited.


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FRIDAY 27th JULY 2018
Alexander Bone is a 21 year old saxophonist, pianist, composer, arranger and producer based in the UK. In September 2015, he performed to millions on The Last Night of the Proms, broadcast on BBC Two.
In 2014 he was crowned the first ever winner of the BBC Young Musician – Jazz Award, and in 2016 he was voted the winner of the British Jazz Awards "Rising Star" by members of the public.
Recently, Alexander has worked with global superstars Kylie Minogue and Dannii Minogue, pop/disco legend Nile Rodgers and chart-topping producers Rudimental. He's performed live with internationally-acclaimed artists including Newton Faulkner, writing an exclusive arrangement of his hit song 'Indecisive'. Other artists include the Gwilym Simcock Trio, Dave Holland, Liane Carroll, Gary Barlow & Jean Toussaint.
He's performed across the globe, being flown as far Hawaii to perform at events. British venues and festivals including the Royal Albert Hall, The Barbican, London Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Manchester Jazz Festival and Wigan International Jazz Festival.
Alexander was born into a musical family, his mother a singer and his father a saxophonist. At the age of 2, Alexander began attending his parents' music course "Groovin' High", playing improvised keyboard and harmonica solos, as well as drums.
He began playing saxophone when he was 6, taught by his father. He started on soprano as alto was too big. Within a month and a half, he had passed his grade 1.
Alexander achieved his grade 8 jazz saxophone at the age of 10, and during his teens acquired all four diplomas for jazz saxophone, finishing with the Fellowship Diploma (FLCM) at 18. He also passed his grade 8 jazz piano with a distinction at the age of 13 just before he was awarded a place to attend Chethams School of Music. Here, he studied with Iain Dixon, Les Chisnall, Steve Berry & Richard Iles. He was a member of the Greater Manchester Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Collective.
As well as performing, Alexander is passionate about electronic music production and currently releases electronic music under the alias 'Xan Boney'. His debut single Stain was released in April 2017. He is receiving requests from highly respected international artists to remix their material and produce their records. He has had remixes released on Parlophone Records, Spinnin' Records and Freemaison Records, the record label of DJ's The Freemasons. He also releases bootleg remixes available for free download on his social media and is currently working on his own original electronic songs.


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