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Village Urban Resort Chester St David's - Ewloe, Deeside
St David's Park Ewloe - Deeside
Looking for a Deeside spa hotel? Village Urban Resort Chester St David's is a great choice as it's located in the Ewloe area, is near a train station and offers free Wi-Fi to all its guests!
Viva Urban Spa is the place to be for rest and relaxation, offering aromatherapy, body scrubs, body treatments, body wraps, as well as massages, facials and massage/treatment rooms. Wake up to a nice breakfast or enjoy an evening meal at this 4 star Deeside hotel as it has its own restaurant. Don't forget to pack your swimwear as this hotel features an indoor pool. There is also a bar/lounge where guests can enjoy drinks after a long day. Knowledgeable staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide express check-out.
Planning a meeting? This hotel has 8 meeting rooms, as well as a business center. The lobby offers a TV, free newspapers and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Other amenities include dry cleaning/laundry, ATM/banking and an elevator (lift).
Stayed in several hotels on family holiday over the last two weeks with this one b...Venere Guest, Ireland
These reviews have been left by customers who actually stayed at this hotel
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Breakfast at Village Urban Resort Chester St David's
Breakfast is available between 7 AM and 9:30 AM for a fee.
Facilities at Village Urban Resort Chester St David's
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Conference room
- Bar
- Restaurant/Dining
- Cafeteria
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Room service - limited hour
- Pets accepted
- Dogs allowed
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Gym
- Indoor swimming pool
- Newspapers
- Front desk - safety deposit box
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Luggage room
- Health club
- Sauna
- Steam bath
- Massages
- Spa/Wellness Centre
- Hydromassage Jacuzzi
- Internet/Email services
- TV Lounge
- Free parking
Know before you go
- Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Check-in: after 3 PM.
Check-out: before 11 AM.
PolicyExtra-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.
City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Breakfast fee: GBP 9.95 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: GBP 15 per pet, per night
- Early check-in fee: GBP 15
- Late check-out fee: GBP 20
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
- Facilities fee: GBP 5.00 per person, per stay and includes use of:
- Fitness facilities
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Village Urban Resort Chester St David's reviews
- August 2014
- Venere Guest
- Family with young children
- Ireland
Stayed in several hotels on family holiday over the last two weeks with this one being by far the most expensive. Enjoyed the stay but will not be revisiting unless rates are more competitive.
- April 2014
- Venere Guest
- United Kingdom
only problem lack of chester draws hanging space for clothes,booking incorrect as told by agents could book treatment whne arrived found out this is not the case, this could have spoiled the weekend if it had not been foe staff hotel pulling all the stops out for us as this was the first time us booking a spar
- March 2014
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- United Kingdom
We had a great stay at st David's, only minor problems were....swimming pool too small for anything, steam room didn't get warm and the bedroom walls appear to be made from paper. Could hear everything from next door. For anyone booking here I highly recommend walking out to the crown and liver gastro pub.
- June 2012
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- United Kingdom
Hope to stay there again before too long
- June 2014
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- United Kingdom
- May 2014
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- United Kingdom
Village Urban Resort Chester St David's reviews by TripAdvisor
Room Details
Book your spa accommodation at Village Urban Resort Chester St David's, offering 140 guest rooms with iPod docking stations and climate control. Guests can kick back at the end of a busy day and enjoy 32-inch flat-screen televisions with satellite channels. Business travelers will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access as well as desks and phones during their Deeside visit.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with shower/tub combinations and complimentary toiletries. Irons/ironing boards, coffee/tea makers and hair dryers can be found in each room to accommodate basic traveling needs. Additional comforts include blackout drapes/curtains.
Accommodation Services
- Telephone
- Coffee and tea maker
- Hairdryer in each room
- In-room ironing facilities
- Desk
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- Satellite TV
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Village Urban Resort Chester St David'sDeva Stadium - 8.5 km / 5.3 mi
Chester Golf Club - 9.7 km / 6 mi
Chester Racecourse - 10.1 km / 6.3 mi
University of Chester - 10.2 km / 6.4 mi
Chester City Walls - 10.6 km / 6.6 mi
Dewa Roman Experience - 10.6 km / 6.6 mi
Chester Castle - 10.6 km / 6.6 mi
Grosvenor Museum - 10.7 km / 6.6 mi
Chester Town Hall - 10.7 km / 6.6 mi
St Peter's Church - 10.7 km / 6.6 mi
Chester Cathedral - 10.7 km / 6.7 mi
Northgate Arena Leisure Centre - 10.8 km / 6.7 mi
Old Dee Bridge - 10.8 km / 6.7 mi
Eastgate Clock - 10.9 km / 6.7 mi
St Mary's Church - Handbridge - 10.9 km / 6.8 mi
The preferred airport for Village Urban Resort Chester St David's is Liverpool (LPL-John Lennon) - 20.9 km / 13 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile.
Transportation services Village Urban Resort Chester St David's
- Free parking
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RFK's daughter acquitted of drugged driving
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Kerry Kennedy (center) leaves the Westchester County, N.Y., courthouse with Rory Kennedy in White Plains, N.Y., on Feb. 26. Kennedy was acquitted Friday of drugged driving after she accidentally took a sleeping pill and then sideswiped a truck in a wild highway drive she said she didn't remember.
Kennedy hugged and clasped hands with her lawyers as a six-person jury cleared her of driving while impaired, a misdemeanor. It had carried the potential for up to a year in jail, though that would be unlikely for a first-time offender.
"I'm incredibly grateful to the jury for working so hard on this case ... and to my lawyers ... and to my family and friends and so many other people who supported me," Kennedy said afterward. "I'm happy justice was done."
A human-rights advocate, Kennedy is a scion of one political dynasty — a daughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and niece of President John F. Kennedy — and a onetime member of another, as the former wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Her 85-year-old mother, Ethel Kennedy, and other members of their famous family attended the trial, which drew so much attention that it was moved from a small-town courtroom to a bigger courthouse in White Plains.
Prosecutors and Kennedy's defense lawyers agreed the 54-year-old took the sleeping drug zolpidem unintentionally, mistaking it for her daily thyroid medication, before heading off to her suburban New York gym on July 13, 2012. The trial centered on whether or not she realized she was impaired and should have stopped.
Despite the pill mix-up, "she is responsible for the chain of events that happened after that," prosecutor Doreen Lloyd said in her summation. She argued that Kennedy shrugged off the symptoms because she was busy.
Kennedy's defense said what happened was an accident, not a crime.
"The DA never should have brought this case in the first place," defense attorney William Aronwald said afterward. "Kerry Kennedy has the resources" to defend herself, he said. "What about the person who doesn't?"
Kennedy said she didn't remember anything that happened as she drove her Lexus on a New York interstate — swerving out of her lane, hitting a tractor-trailer, blowing a tire and continuing to the next exit, where she was found disoriented and slumped at the steering wheel, according to witnesses. Police said she failed several sobriety tests at the scene but passed several tests a few hours later at a police station.
"If I realized I was impaired, I would have pulled over," Kennedy testified.
A few days later, Kennedy said her doctors believed it was caused by a seizure, stemming from a brain injury early in her life. Then blood tests found a small amount of zolpidem, sometimes sold under the brand name Ambien.
Kennedy's defense introduced a medical journal article saying that people who take zolpidem frequently don't recognize their impairment, and even the prosecution's toxicology expert acknowledged the medication could lead to someone "sleep-driving" without knowing it. Kennedy's lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, said the drug "hijacks your ability to make decisions."
But the prosecutor said Kennedy's testimony contradicted science showing the drug works gradually. And Lloyd spotlighted Kennedy's shifting explanations of the episode, suggesting Kennedy was worried about her image.
Her family's storied and sorrow-filled history crept into the trial when Lefcourt asked about her upbringing.
"My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8," she said. "He was killed when he was running for president."
But Lefcourt told jurors in his closing argument that Kennedy was "not seeking advantage because of her family."
The trial, he noted, was "not a TV call-in program. This is an American court."
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MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines hopes to avoid being put on a blacklist of money-laundering havens after President Benigno Aquino signed a new law boosting safeguards against such crimes, his spokeswoman said Saturday.
The law brings the country up to international standards as required by the inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force which threatened to blacklist it, spokeswoman Abigail Valte said.
"We're very hopeful that, with the passage of this particular law, the FATF will see we are really serious in our commitment to fight money-laundering," she told reporters.
Officials of the Philippine anti-money laundering council will leave soon for an FATF meeting in Paris to show that Manila was complying with their conditions, she said.
The law is aimed at preventing terrorists, corrupt officials, drug syndicates and human-traffickers from using the country as a hiding place for their ill-gotten gains, Valte said.
As demanded by the FATF, it broadens the definition of crimes covered and expands the businesses to be monitored for money-laundering beyond mere financial institutions such as banks.
The FATF had previously placed the Philippines on its "dark grey list" of jurisdictions deemed not to be making sufficient progress in fighting money-laundering and threatened to blacklist it in early 2012.
It called for greater state powers to make it easier to scrutinise bank accounts, as well as casinos, foreign exchange traders and other non-bank entities.
While the Philippines previously passed two crucial anti-money laundering laws in June, it only passed the third law sought by the task force this month.
The new law, signed by Aquino late Friday, also still spares casinos from coverage for fear this would scare off investors, lawmakers said.
The Philippines recently opened Entertainment City, an $4 billion Manila casino complex aimed at rivalling Macau, Las Vegas and Singapore as a gaming hub.
Asked if omitting casinos might have a negative effect, Valte said "we will make an evaluation first and then we'll move forward from there".
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With the rout of the Taliban from Kabul and other cities and, in the same week, halting steps toward a new strategic bargain with Russia, the new Powell doctrine of diplomatic opportunity seems all the more plausible. Whether it survives the frustrations of imposing stability in Afghanistan -- which could mean, among other things, winning a guerrilla war -- or the ultimate test of our allies' competing self-interests remains to be seen. You can find many within the administration and outside it who believe that the Powell view is naïve or amoral in a dangerous world. But one man who appears to share Powell's fresh sense of opportunity, who talks about the world with the same tone of bright promise, is President Bush.
On Sept. 11, Powell was sitting down to breakfast in Lima with Alejandro Toledo, the president of Peru, when an aide handed him a note saying that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. ''Oh, my God,'' he said to his host. ''Something terrible has happened.'' It would be 10 hours before he could get through to President Bush, who was being ferried around the country by a nervous Secret Service.
Until that point, the conventional wisdom about Powell was reflected in an end-of-summer Time magazine cover that asked, ''Where Have You Gone, Colin Powell?'' The new secretary of state had endured a series of minor humiliations -- over North Korea, over the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, over the American peacekeeping commitment in the Balkans. Moreover, he seemed invisible, which in Washington is taken to mean impotent. ''We've had our little hiccups,'' he said a couple of days after that issue of Time appeared.
Even by then, however, Powell's influence had been steadily growing. He had negotiated a relatively unacrimonious end to the administration's first international crisis, the collision of an EP-3 spy plane with a Chinese fighter, opening the way for a less prickly relationship with China, which President Bush has now embraced. He had reassured the Europeans that despite the Bush camp's belittling talk of nation-building in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Americans who went in with the allies would not leave without them. Bush had, almost impetuously, abandoned his campaign suspicion of Russia. And despite the administration's scorn for Bill Clinton's personal diplomacy in the Middle East, the president had agreed in a National Security Council meeting, the conclusions of which were later artfully leaked, to reaffirm American support for Palestinian statehood and authorize a more active American role in the region. In all of this, the president was following the instincts of his secretary of state.
By Friday, Sept. 14, when Powell helicoptered to Camp David for dinner with Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, crucial preparations for war were already under way. Powell's most trusted deputy, Richard Armitage, had already called in the Pakistani intelligence chief to lay the foundations of a military squeeze on Afghanistan. Armitage, a Vietnam vet with a bodybuilder's imposing bulk, was once decorated by the government of Pakistan for helping arm Afghan rebels in their insurgency against Soviet control. Now he delivered a seven-point, with-us-or-against-us ultimatum calling on the Pakistanis to close their border with Afghanistan, open their intelligence files and provide access for American forces. The Pakistani diplomat left and returned the next day with Musharraf's unqualified concurrence, and Powell cinched it in a phone call to the Pakistani leader. The bombing was still three weeks away, but the group that gathered at Camp David quickly came to the conclusion that the American response would be military and that it would be careful and methodical.
''There is always the pressure to go back and smack somebody right away,'' Powell, who likes to quote Thucydides on the military virtue of restraint, told me the following week. But, Powell went on to say, the question was ''who that somebody was, one, and how to do it so that you were hitting that someone or some group and not just hitting for the sake of hitting.''
Over dinner, the foursome kept the conversation light, but the next morning they were joined by the president, George Tenet, the C.I.A. director, and an array of deputies in a Camp David conference room. For four hours they turned over the options, the risks, how to make the declared war more than a figure of speech. They ran through the Soviet experience in Afghanistan, the genesis of the Taliban, the question of how far to trust Pakistan. They talked about whether the initial phase of the war should extend beyond Al Qaeda to target terrorist groups with popular backing in the Middle East, like Hamas and Hezbollah, and whether it should encompass sponsoring states -- Syria, Iran and especially Iraq.
''What was kicked around at Camp David was, You have a lot of other countries in the world that support terrorism,'' said one participant. ''What are we going to do about them? Obviously there's Al Qaeda and there's Afghanistan, but we don't want to send a message that there's good terrorism and bad terrorism. You know, you can't be against Al Qaeda and then support Hezbollah.''


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Students at Jurong Secondary School do sums to perfect the right amount of ingredients for ice cream, then conduct scientific experiments to find out the fastest way to freeze it.
Such methods are typical of how Secondary 1 students in its Normal (Technical) stream are taught subjects such as maths, science, and food and consumer education.
Their projects were exhibited yesterday at the Ministry of Education's ExCEL Fest, an annual event to showcase and share innovative efforts in school.
Teachers at Jurong Secondary plan lessons around a theme - in this case, ice cream - to make the different subjects more integrated and interesting.
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It's Not Easy Being Casspi
My brief encounter with Israel's first NBA player
Wednesday at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the Nets pulled out a victory—a convincing one, in fact—over the Sacramento Kings, bringing their record to 8-63. They have 11 more games this year; if they win none of them, then I will have witnessed the final victory of the worst team in the history of the National Basketball Association.
But I wasn't there to see history happen. I was there to see Omri Casspi, the Kings' rookie forward, who is the first Israeli ever to play in the NBA. Casspi (CASS-pee), not yet 22, is already a mini-juggernaut: private meeting with NBA Commissioner David Stern; Sports Illustrated profile; Nike ad. The whole megillah, as we like to say.
I don't buy the theory that Jews (and really Jewish men) are especially obsessed with Jewish athletes to compensate for deep-seated insecurities: Jews know they can play sports (Hank Greenberg, Mark Spitz); and win a war in spectacular fashion (1967); and even, failing those, succeed without any trace of virility (Woody Allen). I think it's more just the old-fashioned hobby of Jew-spotting. And that's why I was there: following the New York Knicks' successful Jewish Heritage Night, which they held when the Kings came to Madison Square Garden, Wednesday night at the Izod Center was Jewish Family Night. I would get to meet Casspi, as well as featured guests Dmitriy Salita (boxer—and Tablet Magazine contributor!) and Dolph Schayes, the legendary (and actually really good!) American Jewish NBA player in the 1960s.
But Casspi's more than Jewish: He's Israeli. The Israeli Tourism Ministry was the event's sponsor. The flags that the conspicuous number of observant Jews in the stands flew bore Stars of David, not and Stripes. Wednesday night was about a more specific brand of Jewish pride. A brand I'm not sure I understand.
A friend and I spent much of the game in a comfortable suite just above the lower level of the arena. The kosher food was trucked in from the Supersol in Lawrence, New York. According to a concessioner, there were three Glatt kosher hot dog stands spread out throughout the place, instead of the usual single one; at half-time, we were regaled by the Hazamir Choir of Manhattan. But mostly, it was a typical game. Except, y'know, for the fact that the Nets didn't get crushed.
It was a typical day for Casspi, too; actually, a less than typical one. The kid is averaging over 10 points a game this year, but Wednesday managed only 2 (he didn't get his usual minutes, but then again, he hasn't been lately). Toward the end of the third quarter, he got the ball on the wing and drove in for a dunk, only to be totally stuffed by a Nets big man against the backboard—one of those blocks where it doesn't even occur to you to complain that the refs should've blown the whistle. The groans from the crowd, which had momentarily gotten so excited, was a unified chorus of disappointment, and was the loudest it got all night.
By the fourth quarter, the game was clearly over—the Nets wound up winning 93-79, which is roughly like seeing that some team won a football game 12-6—and the players were playing as though no one was watching. (The arena could not have been at more than one-third capacity.) We were escorted down to a room adjacent to the locker rooms, along with a lot of kids and their parents—almost uniformly, their fathers—most of whom were clad in the totems of Jewish observance: yarmulkes, tallit, payis in some cases; long skirts on the girls.
About 10 minutes after the game was over—"Well at least the parking lot will be cleared out" I heard one father mention to another—Casspi came in. Let me tell you: 6'9" is even taller in person. Casspi is also quite good-looking, and possesses a totally intangible, magnetic aura that only the word "charisma" could define. I was not glad that he was beat-up and sad, as he clearly was, but at the same time, I was glad he was: there are surely plenty of NBA rookies who could lose an inconsequential late-season road game to an atrocious team and really not give a damn.
"It was a really rough night for me and for our team," he said. We had been told no autographs or interviews—he had a bus to catch; the Kings are playing in Boston tonight (a bloodbath, no doubt)—but a few kids shouted out questions anyway, in English and Hebrew. Bedraggled, he managed brief responses in between impromptu autographing. Finally, it was time to leave, and he moved out of the room, slowly, the kids and adults surrounding him semi-attached to him, like looser egg white around a sturdy yolk.
A representative of his country, a screen onto which his fellow-people project their ethnic excitement, a professional athlete: and not yet 22. It can't be easy being Omri Casspi.
I want to say that I simply don't understand why these kids are so enamored with Casspi. Israel has that pull; I think it probably always will, so long as it sticks around. But I don't fully understand it, and particularly as far as yeshiva kids go. Casspi isn't especially religious; he doesn't wear a kippah, for example, and he plays on Saturdays. Culturally, he probably has more in common with secular American Jews, or even secular American Gentiles, than he does with these kids, who in turn have upbringings probably more like those of religious American Christians.
Moreover, these kids are not Israeli: they're American Jews. Why are they shouting, "OM-RI CASS-PI" at Kings games, but not, "JOR-DAN FAR-MAR" when the Los Angeles Lakers come to town and Farmar, the Jewish guard who is just as decent as Casspi, gets his workmanlike seven points and two assists? Jewish Family Night had become Israeli Celebration Night, and while I certainly don't begrudge the Israeli Tourism Ministry's marketing, I wondered just how much this night had to do with Jewish families. Then, I remembered that Dolph Schayes was supposed to appear, but I asked around, and he wasn't there.
Related: Omri Casspi Is Ready For Primetime [Tablet Magazine]
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SOURCE: "Tales from Isabel Allende's Passionate, Magical World," in Quill and Quire, Vol. 56, No. 11, November, 1990, p. 25.
Urquhart is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer whose works include Changing Heaven (1990). In the following mixed review of The Stories of Eva Luna, she states that "what one takes away from this collection is a sense of the richness of life with all its attendant mysteries, celebrations, and miseries."
This collection of fabular fictions [The Stories of Eva Luna], which is a kind of surrealistic spin-off from Isabel Allende's last novel, Eva Luna, opens with the photographer/journalist Rolf Carlé making a request. He wants Eva, who has become his lover at the end of the previous book, to tell a story just for him.
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As might be expected, the human beings that inhabit these landscapes are most often slaves to their own passions and obsessions and highly susceptible to the lightning strike of romantic love. An 11-year-old girl falls in love with her mother's lover; a Colonel falls in love with a woman who sells words; a reformed guerrilla fighter falls in love with a woman he has raped during one of his bloody campaigns; and Rolf Carlé himself falls in love with a pathetic little girl who is buried up to her chest in mud. Wars, social injustices, and natural disasters pale beside the fury of these romantic fires which, in Allende's world, either cleanse or kill, leaving the men, especially—often ruffians and desperados—shaken right down to their spurs.
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Brandon Voss is a journalist and entertainment writer living in New York, NY, United States. He is a regular contributor to The Advocate, a national gay news magazine. He currently interviews mainstream celebrities for the monthly "A-List" column. He also reviews New York theater for the monthly "Seat Filler" column on Advocate.com.[1]
In December 2006, it was reported that Voss was promoted from features editor to editor-in-chief of the now-defunct free New York-based LGBT weekly HX Magazine.[2][3] In September 2008, it was reported that Voss had stepped down from his position at HX after nearly four years with the publication to pursue freelance writing opportunities and to write a novel. He continued as HX theater critic until June 2009.[4][5]
For Advocate's "A-List" column (new as of January 2009), in which celebrities relevant to the LGBT community are interviewed, Voss has conducted Q&As with Chris Evans, Toni Collette, Nathan Lane, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Maya Rudolph, Hugh Dancy, Tyra Banks, Christina Hendricks, [Fergie (singer)]], and Julianne Moore. [6]
For Advocate's now-retired (as of January 2009) "Big Gay Following" column, in which celebrities with large LGBT fan bases were interviewed, Voss conducted Q&As with Chelsea Handler, Adrien Brody, Brandon Flowers, Denis Leary, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Thandie Newton, Molly Shannon, Milo Ventimiglia, Jon Hamm, Anna Faris, David Duchovny, Alanis Morissette, Patrick Dempsey, Morgan Spurlock, Martha Plimpton, Moby, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Janet Jackson, Seth MacFarlane, Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Jason Bateman, Amy Adams, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bobby Cannavale, Matthew Broderick, Rosario Dawson, Justin Theroux, Aaron Eckhart, Kyra Sedgwick, Adam Levine, Gina Gershon, Pete Wentz, Will Arnett, Sarah Silverman, Paul Rudd and Cameron Diaz.[7] His first cover story for Advocate was an interview with Cheyenne Jackson in April 2008.[8]
For online exclusives at Advocate.com, Voss has interviewed such celebrities as Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Joel McHale, Randy Harrison, Tabatha Coffey, Cheyenne Jackson, Rufus Wainwright, Jason Schwartzman, Leslie Jordan, John Stamos, Kristin Cavallari, Debi Mazar, Miss Cleo, Jeff Whitty, Kathy Najimy, Laura Leighton, Rita Moreno, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Gavin Creel, Jonathan Slavin, Isabella Rossellini, Dave Salmoni, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Stephan Elliott, Nora Ephron, Margot Kidder, Rachel Dratch, Haaz Sleiman, Patricia Field, Justin Bond, Wendy Williams (radio host), Jonathan Scarfe, David Greenspan, Chandra Wilson and Charles Busch.[9]
Voss was mentioned in the Page Six column of The New York Post and in The Huffington Post for his Advocate "Big Gay Following" interview with Denis Leary.[10][11]
Voss' "Big Gay Following" interview with Adrien Brody sparked mild controversy: While some readers felt Voss' line of questioning was inappropriate, others felt that Brody lacked a sense of humor.[12][13][14][15] DNA Magazine Online conducted a poll asking whether or not Voss "went too far."[16]
Voss' August 2008 interview with Lady Gaga for HX was the pop artist's first cover story and the first interview in which she publicly discussed her bisexuality.[17][18][19][20][21]
Voss received a notable amount of attention on the blogosphere for his exclusive HX interviews with Jason Preston, former rentboy and longtime boyfriend of fashion designer Marc Jacobs.[22][23][24][25][26]
After he asked a question about Ashlee Simpson's then-alleged nose job, Janice Dickinson called Voss "an asshole" and abruptly hung up during a June, 2006, phone interview for HX. Voss says he considers the incident "a career highlight."[27]
Voss is from New Orleans, LA. He was born on February 16, 1978. He attended Tulane University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in theater[28][29], and where he performed in a number of stage productions.[30][31]
Selected articles originally published in HX and its sister publications
- Voss, Brandon (Jul 2005). "R U Ready 4 This?". HX. http://crazysexycooldestiny.tripod.com/p63.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Band TLC (band).
- Voss, Brandon (Apr 2006). "Alive and Kicking". HX/South Florida Blade. http://www.floridablade.com/2006/4-29/arts/cover/pink.cfm. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Singer Pink.
- Voss, Brandon (Jul 2006). "We Want Candy". HX. http://www.jerriblank.com/amy_hx_071406.html. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Actress Amy Sedaris.
- Voss, Brandon (Jul 2006). "Newly Hatched". PrideSource.com. http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=19549. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Singers Dixie Chicks.
- Voss, Brandon (Aug 2006). "Way Over the Rainbow". HX/South Florida Blade. http://www.floridablade.com/2006/8-19/arts/film/gaymovie.cfm. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Film Another Gay Movie.
- Voss, Brandon (Oct 2006). "Prime Cuts". HX/InLA Magazine. http://www.inlamag.com/918/features/918_rws.html. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Film Running With Scissors.
- Voss, Brandon (Feb 2007). "Tainted Love". HX/South Florida Blade. http://www.floridablade.com/2007/2-16/arts/music/waters.cfm. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Filmmaker John Waters.
- Voss, Brandon (Mar 2007). "Ice Queen". HX. http://www.amy-poehler.net/a/hx.html. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Actress Amy Poehler.
- Voss, Brandon (Jun 2007). "Full 'Release'". HX/David Atlanta. http://www.davidatlanta.com/2007/6-6/cover/coverstory/1201.cfm. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Singer Rufus Wainwright.
- Voss, Brandon (Jul 2007). "Know & Tell". HX/David Atlanta. http://www.davidatlanta.com/2007/7-11/cover/coverstory/1281.cfm. Retrieved 2009-02-11. Subject: Singer Enrique Iglesias.
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"Written by a performer and teacher with years of hands-on experience, this is much more than a tutor or set of rules; it is a dialogue with musicians of the past that provides modern performers - both sixteenth-century specialists and those just entering the field - with a technical, artistic, and cognitive framework for singing and playing this eminently expressive music." —Bruce Haynes, Université de Montréal, Senior Fellow of the Canada Council and author, The End of Early Music
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 Skylanders Giants U.S. Sales Surpass Domestic Holiday Box Office for Top Kids' Films

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Skylanders Franchise Reaches More Than $500 Million in U.S. Retail Sales08:30 EST Friday, January 11, 2013 SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Business Wire) -- Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), announced today that, according to data from the NPD Group, the Skylanders franchise crossed $500 million in retail sales in the U.S., inclusive of accessory packs and figures, and reached this milestone faster than any other kids' gaming property. Additionally, together Skylanders Giants™ and Skylanders Spyro's Adventure® figures have outsold the top action figure lines in the toy category in the U.S., outselling such popular toy lines as Beyblades, WWE and Star Wars.1Tree Rex from Skylanders Giants (Photo: Business Wire) Skylanders Giants, the sequel to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure – the #1 best-selling kids' game of 20112 – generated more than $195 million in U.S. sales, inclusive of accessory packs and figures, in 2012.3 Additionally, Skylanders Giants eclipsed domestic box office sales for each of the top holiday kids' feature films including "Wreck-It Ralph" and "Rise of the Guardians" in 2012.4 "Just a year ago, the concept of bringing toys to life in a virtual world was an untested play pattern that Activision and Toys For Bob believed in. Now the category has been established in the market and embraced by parents and kids everywhere," said Joshua Taub, Vice President, Product Management, Activision Publishing. "We're humbled by the continued support and acclaim from parents, kids and critics alike, but more importantly, it's gratifying to see kids excited about the adventures that await them both in the digital and physical worlds." In addition to achieving critical acclaim, Skylanders Giants was awarded the National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval, the National Parenting Publications Awards and the Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval, among others. The game was also featured in coveted "hot holiday gift" lists including the 2012 Toys"R"Us Holiday Hot Toy List, the Toy Insider's "Hot 20 Toys for the Holidays," and Time to Play's "Holiday 2012 Most Wanted List." Skylanders Giants is also nominated in four categories for the coveted Toy Industry Association "2013 Toy of the Year (TOTY) Awards" to be announced on February 9 in New York City, including "E-connected Toy of the Year," "Boy Toy of the Year," "Property of the Year," and "Game of The Year." The franchise is supported by a robust licensing program that includes more than 120 licensees worldwide in categories including Plush, Apparel, Home Décor, Bed and Bath, Party Goods, Board Games and Back to School, among others. "Even before the concept was fully formed, we were immediately taken with the charm and magic behind the Skylanders property and following the highly successful introduction of Skylanders Spyro's Adventures, we knew that Skylanders Giants would be a top-seller in 2012," said Richard Barry, Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer, Toys"R"Us, Inc. "We believe that Skylanders is one of the most innovative and exciting toy properties to hit the market and are thrilled to continue our strong support of the brand." Skylanders Giantsis developed by Toys For Bob, an Activision studio located in Novato, California. Skylanders Giantsis rated Everyone 10+ by the ESRB. For more information, visit www.skylanders.com. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, mainland China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website, www.activision.com. SKYLANDERS GIANTS is a trademark, and SKYLANDERS SPYRO'S ADVENTURE, and ACTIVISION are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. 1 According to The NPD Group Data from January through November 2012 2 According to The NPD Group, Gfk Charttrack, and internal estimates. 3 According to The NPD Group 4 According to boxofficemojo.com Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/multimedia/home/20130111005087/en/Activision, Inc.Kerstine JohnsonSr. Director, firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com


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Serving as more than an artist on Jay-Z's Roc La Familia roster, rapper Tru-Life has defended his boss's honor. In doing so Tru-Life stepped into the middle of numerous feuds between Jay-Z and artists Cam'ron and Jim Jones. Hard to believe it will get his album date pushed forward, but is has thrown him into the mainstream spotlight. Collaborating with board-men Neo Da Matrix and Swizz Beats, Tru comes hard on the cut I Can Believe, off his upcoming self-titled album. If he has more material like this, it won't be long before everyone will believe as well.
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Raëlian Church gives left-wing historian its weird cult-y prize
The Raëlian Church—which believes, briefly, that humanity was created by extraterrestrials called Elohim (wonder where they got that?), and agrees with Judaism and Christianity that the Messiah will appear in modern-day Israel; there's also lots of sex stuff—awarded Ilan Pappé, a prominent left-wing Israeli "New Historian" who now teaches in Britain, its Honorary Guide of Humanity title. "Pappé's views about the situation in Palestine are in full agreement with those expressed by Raël," said a Church spokeswoman (oh right, Raël, he's like the leader, and is also a "racing-car driver" and a "singer-songwriter"). "They include the solution of a one-Palestine state where Jewish and Palestinian people would live together peacefully; the need to grant Right to Return to Palestinians; asking for recognition by the international community of racist crimes committed by the state of Israel."
She added, "The world has been manipulated far too long by the Jewish community. It uses guilt and fear to paralyze the public so people don't denounce the obvious genocide Israel is perpetrating." She did not, however, also blame the Jews for manipulating the public so as not to accept the obvious creation of mankind by extraterrestrials, so we've got that going for us. "There was only one reason to create the state of Israel," she concluded. "To gather around the Messiah people who have the mission of peacefully welcoming those who created us."
I reached Professor Pappé for comment. He declined. Which was probably the smart thing to do.
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A 20-year review of the NBA draft's No. 15 overall pick
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Fox Sports South offers a 20-year capsule review of the NBA draft (1994-2013), specifically tracking the No. 15 pick in Round 1 -- the Atlanta Hawks' top selection for Thursday's draft.
Actual pick: SG Eric Piatkowski (Nebraska), L.A. Clippers (traded from Pacers)
Hindsight pick: SG Aaron Mckie (Temple)
BREAKDOWN: Piatkowski (career average: 7.5 points) hung around the NBA for 13 years and buried 865 three-pointers. So, the Clippers were hardly in the wrong for acquiring Piatkowski, via trade, one day after the Pacers selected him at 15.
However, the Clippers might have been better off in the long run with Aaron McKie (more diverse talent) or point guard Charlie Ward (four seasons of 4.6 assists or higher).
But we're splitting hairs here, since the '94 talent pool became quite shallow after Jalen Rose fell off the board at No. 13 (Denver Nuggets).
Actual pick: SG Brent Barry (Oregon State), Denver Nuggets (draft-day trade to Clippers)
Hindsight pick: SG Michael Finley (Wisconsin)
BREAKDOWN: Brent Barry (14 NBA seasons) had an interesting professional legacy: He averaged double-digits scoring seven times, played on two championship teams (2005 Spurs, 2007 Spurs) and captured one Slam Dunk Contest title (1996).
However, Finley -- a two-time All-Star and three-time NBA leader with minutes played -- would have been a more dynamic figure for the attention-starved Clippers in the 1990s.
From 1997-2004, Finley was one of the NBA's most complete players, posting strong numbers with points (eight consecutive seasons of 16-plus) and flirting with averages of 5 rebounds/5 assists just about every year.
Actual pick: PG Steve Nash (Santa Clara), Phoenix Suns
Hindsight pick: PG Steve Nash
BREAKDOWN: This is a perfect example of the draft being an inexact science and isolated proof that ANYONE can be a personnel executive at the NBA level.
In 1996, future pedestrian performers like Samaki Walker (No. 9 overall -- Mavericks), Todd Fuller (No. 11 -- Warriors) and Vitaly Potapenko (No. 12 -- Cavaliers) all went ahead of Kobe Bryant (No. 13 -- Hornets), Peja Stojakovic (No. 14 -- Kings), Steve Nash (Suns), Jermaine O'Neal (No. 17 -- Blazers) and Zydrunas Ilgauskas (No. 20 -- Cavaliers).
For reasons that cannot be explained, the Cavaliers drafted two slow Eastern European centers (Potapenko, Big Z) in the first 20 selections ... but had no interest in a European shooting star (Stojakovic) or two high-end prep talents (Bryant, O'Neal).
To be fair, Cleveland gets a lukewarm free pass on the latter issue, since NBA teams were reluctant to draft prepsters in the early to mid-1990s.
In fact, if the "one-and-done" college rule had been in place back then, it would have been interesting to see if the San Antonio Spurs would have taken Tim Duncan or Kobe with the first pick in the 1997 NBA Draft.
Actual pick: C Kelvin Cato (Iowa State), Portland Trail Blazers (post-draft trade with Mavericks)
Hindsight pick: PG Brevin Knight
BREAKDOWN: The Portland Trail Blazers cannot be blamed for falling in love with Cato during the 1997 NCAA Tournament, when the athletic, rim-protecting center played a key role in helping Iowa State advance to the Sweet 16 round (losing to UCLA by a single point).
In the pros, Cato was a top-notch contributor on the rebounding end for five of his 10 NBA seasons.
But Cato's offensive game never really developed after college, which might explain why he bounced around to five different clubs (Blazers, Rockets, Magic, Pistons, Knicks) during his career.
Brevin Knight, on the other hand, was a high-functioning point guard for his first 11 NBA seasons, often handling bigger guards for sustained stretches of play and occasionally flirting with triple-doubles.
(At Stanford, Knight nearly pulled off a quadruple-double in a game.)
Actual pick: SF Matt Harpring (Georgia Tech), Orlando Magic
Hindsight pick: SF Rashard Lewis
BREAKDOWN: The Magic did OK with this choice, even though Harpring wouldn't maximize his true pro potential until joining the Utah Jazz in 2002.
As a Plan B, though, the Magic could have landed a certifiable star at No. 15, Rashard Lewis (two-time All-Star), if the franchise hadn't been so reluctant to invest in a high-school phenom.
(Orlando wouldn't select a prepster until 2004 -- Dwight Howard at No. 1 overall.)
The club might have saved some money in the long run, as well, given that Lewis (seven consecutive seasons of 18-plus-points from 2002-09) would eventually ink a mega-sized free-agent deal with Orlando in 2007 ($90 million).
Actual pick: C Frederic Weis (France), New York Knicks
Hindsight pick: SF Andrei Kirilenko or SG Manu Ginobili
BREAKDOWN: This might go down as one of the biggest blunders in draft history. The Knicks passed on productive talents like Ron Artest, Andrei Kirilenko, Jeff Foster, James Posey, Devean George and Hall of Fame lock Manu Ginobili at No. 13 ... just for the, uh, thrill of landing a middling French center who would never play a single minute in the NBA.
To make matters worse, Weis garnered much fame (or infamy) during the 2000 Summer Olympics -- after American high-flyer Vince Carter leapt over the 7-2 Frenchman to execute a thunderous dunk.
Actual pick: C Jason Collier (Georgia Tech), Houston Rockets (draft-day trade with Bucks)
Hindsight pick: SF Hedo Turkoglu
BREAKDOWN: The 2000 NBA Draft wasn't exactly knee-deep in future stars, so the Rockets shouldn't be disparaged too much for taking a reasonable flier on the 7-foot Collier (career scoring average: 5.6 points).
What's the old NBA adage about the draft? If you're going to make a mistake, do it with a big man.
That aside, the Rockets would have enjoyed more team success if they had opted for Hedo Turkoglu (No. 16 -- Kings), Desmond Mason (No. 17 -- Sonics), one-time All-Star Jamaal Magloire (19 -- Hornets), Morris Peterson (No. 21 -- Raptors), DeShawn Stevenson (No. 23 -- Jazz) or Michael Redd (No. 43 -- Bucks).
Houston actually missed out on the high-scoring Redd (career average: 21.4 points) twice in that 2000 draft.
Actual pick: C Steven Hunter (DePaul), Orlando Magic
Hindsight pick: PF Zach Randolph, PG Tony Parker or PG Gilbert Arenas
BREAKDOWN: Thirteen years later, it's easy to proclaim that Randolph (two-time All-Star, career averages: 17.2 points, 9.4 rebounds) should have been the redoubtable choice at No. 15.
But let's also remember Randolph was only a part-time starter at Michigan State ... and that a number of NBA clubs had "character concerns" about the Indiana native with the somewhat checkered past (as a youth).
On the flip side, Steven Hunter never developed into anything outside of a dependable shot blocker and Kirk Haston (the No. 16 overall pick) was out of the NBA after two fruitless seasons.
Instead of investing in marginal-at-best talents, the Magic and Hornets could have had their run of Randolph, Gerald Wallace (No. 25 -- Kings), All-Stars Gilbert Arenas (No. 30 -- Warriors) and Mehmet Okur (No. 37 -- Pistons) ... or Tony Parker, the final pick of Round 1 (Spurs).
Heck, even point guard Earl Watson would have been a more prescient pick than Hunter or Haston. Ouch.
Actual pick: SF Bostjan Nachbar (Slovenia), Houston Rockets
Hindsight pick: PF Carlos Boozer
BREAKDOWN: The 2002 NBA Draft was full of sound and fury, prospects-wise, but ultimately signified very little in the "game-changers" department.
Yes, Yao Ming (No. 1 overall -- Rockets), Amare Stoudemire (No. 9 -- Suns) and Caron Butler (No. 10 -- Heat) enjoyed great NBA careers. But the same cannot be said for Jay Williams (career derailed by a motorcycle accident), Nikoloz Tskitishvili (remember the lame draft-night video of him shooting in an empty practice gym, at half-speed?) and Bostjan Nachbar, who never averaged double-digit scoring in six middling NBA seasons.
The real draft gems, after Stoudemire and Butler, involved Tayshaun Prince (No. 23 -- Pistons) and Carlos Boozer (No. 35 -- Cavaliers). Either one would have been a great complement to Yao Ming in the rebuilt Houston frontcourt.
Actual pick: SF Reece Gaines (Louisville), Orlando Magic
Hindsight pick: PF David West
BREAKDOWN: Gaines scored a grand total of 123 points in the NBA, generously spread over three empty campaigns (2003-06).
And yet, some NBA exec once believed Gaines had more ability or upside than top-notch talents like David West (No. 18 -- New Orleans Hornets) and Josh Howard (No. 29 -- Mavericks) ... or even productive assets like Boris Diaw (No. 21 -- Hawks), Carlos Delfino (No. 25 -- Pistons), Kendrick Perkins (draft-day trade to Celtics), Steve Blake (Round 2 -- Wizards) and Mo Williams (Round 2 -- Jazz).
On the positive side, Gaines tallied more career points than Timberwolves first-rounder Ndudi Ebi, who spurned college ball in 2003 to collect 40 total career points at the NBA level.
Actual pick: PF Al Jefferson (Mississippi prepster), Boston Celtics
Hindsight pick: PF Al Jefferson
BREAKDOWN: The Celtics get dual credit here: One for landing Jefferson out of high school; and two for using him as trade bait in the franchise-altering deal with Minnesota, bringing Kevin Garnett to Boston.
(The Celtics would claim the NBA title in 2008.)
Since the 2006-07 season, Jefferson has been a certifiable force in the paint, averaging 19.2 points, 10.2 rebounds and 1.5 blocks with the Celtics, Timberwolves, Jazz and Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets).
All told, Big Al should have been the No. 2 or No. 3 pick in 2004, behind Dwight Howard (another prep star at the time) and maybe Andre Iguodala.
Actual pick: SG Antonie Wright (Texas A&M), New Jersey Nets
Hindsight pick: PF David Lee or SF Danny Granger
BREAKDOWN: On the heels of a stupendous junior season at Texas A&M (2004-05) -- leading the Big 12 Conference in three-point percentage and finishing fourth in scoring (17.8 per game) -- Antoine Wright certainly had the look of a long-term NBA contributor on draft night.
But Wright essentially fizzled out after the 2011 season, leaving Nets fans to ponder snubbed options like David Lee (career averages: 15.2 points, 9.8 rebounds), Danny Granger (averaged 21.6 points/5.4 boards from 2007-12) or even second- round flier pick Marcin Gortat (13.3 points/6.9 boards/1.5 blocks with the Wizards last season).
And if the Nets truly had their hearts set on a shoot-first, ask-questions-later scorer in the '05 draft, they could have selected Monta Ellis (No. 40 -- Warriors) over the limited Wright.
Actual pick: SF Cedric Simmons (NC State), New Orleans Hornets
Hindsight pick: PG Rajon Rondo
BREAKDOWN: In 2006, the Hornets were still riding high from the draft acquisition of Chris Paul (2005); so, it's not like the rebuilding club was desperate to take another point guard.
That aside, the alternative of passing on Rondo (a top-5 NBA point guard, when healthy) and investing in Cedric Simmons (163 career points from 2007-09) was a monumental error in judgment.
But let's not assign total blame to the Hornets: Picks 15-20, leading up to Rondo's selection at No. 21 overall, were all shameful:
Simmons (15), Rodney Carney (No. 16 -- traded to 76ers), Shawne Williams (No. 17 -- Pacers), Oleksly Percherov (No. 18 -- Wizards), Quincy Douby (No. 19 -- Kings) and Renaldo Balkman (No. 20 -- Knicks).
Actual pick: PG Rodney Stuckey (Eastern Washington), Detroit Pistons
Hindsight pick: C Marc Gasol
BREAKDOWN: As a Detroit native, I can't find too much fault with this pick ... even though Marc Gasol would have infused an aging Pistons frontcourt six or seven years ago.
Citing the last six seasons, Stuckey has averaged 14.3 points (on 44-percdent shooting), while also possessing the unique gift of routinely getting to the basket off the dribble (83 percent from the charity stripe).
The only downsides: Stuckey has been a dismal shooter from beyond the arc (29 percent) and hasn't been a difference-maker in helping the Pistons collect more wins, from year to year.
Here's something to celebrate (sort of): Of the players taken from No. 15 in Round 1 all the way through Round 2, Detroit arguably landed two of the three best talents in that cluster -- Stuckey, Arron Afflalo and the aforementioned Marc Gasol, an All-Star pivotman who has averaged 14.4 points, 8.0 boards and 1.6 blocks over the last three seasons (2012-14).
Actual pick: C Robin Lopez (Stanford), Phoenix Suns
Hindsight pick: C Roy Hibbert
BREAKDOWN: It's fair to ask whether the up-tempo Suns would have ultimately benefited more with Hibbert patrolling the paint, compared to the more athletic Robin Lopez (two-year averages: 11.2 points/7.1 boards/1.6 blocks)?
The converse of that speculation: Phoenix might have enjoyed a quicker rebuilding, if it had committed to an offense centered around Hibbert, a two-time All-Star with averages of 11.9 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks from 2010-14.
Two other great alternatives: The size-starved Suns could have opted for Serge Ibaka (No. 24 -- Thunder) or Nicolas Batum (No. 25 -- traded to Blazers).
Actual pick: SF Austin Daye (Gonzaga), Detroit Pistons
Hindsight pick: PG Jrue Holiday
BREAKDOWN: Five years ago, the Pistons were happy to grab an NBA legacy (Daye's father, Darren, played for the Celtics in the 1980s) who was once projected to be the draft's top prospect (between his freshman and sophomore campaigns at Gonzaga).
Detroit would have been wise to pass on Daye, in hindsight. The 6-foot, 11-inch small forward has been nothing but a warm body in the pros, averaging 5.4 points over five pedestrian seasons.
As a sound Plan B, the Pistons could have selected Jrue Holiday (career averages: 13.5 points/6.0 assists/3.6 rebounds) as their point guard of the future.
Actual pick: PF Larry Sanders (VCU), Milwaukee Bucks
Hindsight pick: SG Lance Stephenson
BREAKDOWN: Personal quirks aside, Sanders has been a productive asset for the talent-deficient Bucks, averaging 9.3 points and 8.9 rebounds over the last two seasons.
Overall though, Sanders' defense-focused talents might invariably fall short of diverse assets like Stephenson (NBA leader in triple-doubles last season) or even Eric Bledsoe (No. 18 -- draft-day trade to Clippers) and Avery Bradley (No. 19 -- Celtics).
Actual pick: SF Kawhi Leonard (San Diego State), San Antonio Spurs (trade with Pacers)
Hindsight pick: SF Kawhi Leonard
BREAKDOWN: We'll keep this capsule review of the 2014 NBA Finals MVP short and sweet: NAILED IT!
Actual pick: SF Maurice Harkless (St. John's), Philadelphia 76ers (eventual trade to Magic)
Hindsight pick: PF Andrew Nicholson or SF Draymond Green
BREAKDOWN: The early returns suggest that Harkless (a one-and-done prospect at St. John's) has the athleticism and versatility to be a longtime NBA factor.
That aside, Harkless may have already been eclipsed by current Magic teammate Andrew Nicholson, who was snagged by Orlando three picks later in Round 1.
On a positive note, Harkless (career average: 7.8 points) is three years younger than Nicholson and Green.
Actual pick: SF Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece), Milwaukee Bucks
Hindsight pick: SF Giannis Antetokounmpo
BREAKDOWN: The Antetokounmpo kid, who doesn't turn 20 until early December, has absurd athleticism and possesses the down-the-road traits of a prolific scorer and/or rebounding wiz.
In other words, the Bucks (15-67 last year) were wise to draft a raw talent with off-the-charts upside. The club just needs to stick to their eminently patient approach to constructing a viable playoff roster from the ashes.