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2012: An All-MIAA performer and All-Region honoree as a junior, Benton was one of the Lions top runners in 2012 finishing 9th on the 8k course in 25:50.75 at the MIAA Championships while finishing 13th at the Central Regional finishing the 10k course in 30:43.10...Was the Lions fourth finisher at the NCAA DII National Championships where he finished 105th overall in a time of 31:34.20...Was named a Cross Country All-America Academic Honoree....Finished 7th overall at the Missouri S&T Jackling Jocks Invite helping the Lions take home the team title...Finished 14th overall at the Southern Stampede finishing the 8k course in 25:43.49.
2011: Was once again the top runner for the Lions as a sophomore, Benton earned All-MIAA honors with a 7th place finish at the MIAA Championships where he covered the 8k course in a career-best 24:28.55...Followed that performance with a 24th place finish at the South Central Regional Championship, covering the 10k course in 32:32.10, earning All-Region honors....Took 5th at the Missouri S&T Jackling Jocks Invite covering the 5-mile course in a time of 25:54, helping lead the Lions to the team title...Was the Lions top finisher at the Arkansas Invitational, placing 8th in the 6.6k course in a time of 21:05.06....was named to the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team
2010: Was a top runner for the Lions in his freshman season... At the UCM Mule Run was the top runner for the Lions with a 10th place finish in 21:53.96 for the 6.4k run... Ran a season best 8k in 25:40.62 at the Greater Louisville Cross Country Classic... Helped the Lions to a runner-up finish at the MIAA Championships, placing 18th... Was the second finisher for the Lions and the top freshman finisher at the South Central Regional Championships, placing 19th, covering the 10k course in 32:59.70; Indoor: Competed in the mile, 3k, and 5k runs... Had a season best performance in the 5k at the Iowa State Classic, placing 15th with a time of 15:22.72... Ran the 3k and 5k at the MIAA Championships with a 11th and 5th place finish, respectively.
In High School - a four-year letter winner in both cross country and track for coach Matt Steinhoff at Ft. Zumwalt North High School. He was the conference and district champion in cross country his senior year, as well as a conference champion in the mile, two-mile, and the 4x800m relay team. He was also the district champion in two mile and 4x800m. He holds the school record in the two mile and the 4x800m relay.
Personal - a health promotions and wellness major...born March 26, 1992 in St. Louis, Mo...son of Mike and Tammie Benton...has one younger sibling, Jordan.Personal Records: 8K (XC): 24:28.55 10/22/11 10K (XC): 30:43.10 11/03/12 1 Mile (I): 4:36.51 02/19/11 3000m (I): 8:56.79 02/27/11 5000m (I): 15:22.72 02/11/11


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The WoW tournament will only run for a couple hours tonight, then continue all day Sunday. Notable teams competing are Nerdstomper Blue, the winners of MLG Raleigh, and their sister team Nerdstomper Black. Also in attendance are Arenapwnage, Evil Geniuses, Complexity Red and Black, Skill Capped, and Penguin Smash.
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- toffick obeng
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What is the purpose of going to school?
Is it to expose us and give us in-depth understanding of the things around us in order to make good use of them for the sake of the land in which live? OR
Is it, to see that knowledge and expose gain from education as a weapon against the land that thought it wise to set and finance such academic institution for the benefits of its citizenry ? OR
To come out and take advantage on our innocent brothers and sisters whom through no fault of their has paid taxes and continue do same for the sustenance of our academic institutions ? OR
To be among the elite group, and join the few foreigners to lute our our resource?
Oct 19 2013: Toffick, I just read through the replies and your responses ... I may be wrong but no one has hit the nail on the head for your question yet.
You state that the educational system only teaches us to be slaves ... You are upset about something and are seeking a specific answer to a general question. Please tell us what you are mad about so that we may respond to that issue more directly.
I am in the USA and am not knowledgeable of Ghana but will work to find a answer for you.
Oct 19 2013: thanx Bob, here in Ghana and most developing countries. our EDUCATION SYSTEM focus on only academic knowledge and not ones interest. again. most of what we learn here in Ghana are theories or books written by developed world which does not fit in our system. therefore most of those who come out from such system can practically do nothing on their own. they can gve you good analysis but in reality those analysis cant work in our environment. the only choice such people have is to work for Employers na din most case travel to work outside Ghana.
with such system. what is the fate of ghana. and what is our educational system adressing. most government officials and to some extent some president dont even school here. do they really understand our system. high rate of illiteracy is among our problem here and the so called elites even makes it worse.
Oct 19 2013: The "Land of the Warrior King" is experiencing growing pains but is doing well economically as the GDP is one of the fastest growing in the world. Having declared Independence only 50 some years ago your country has come a long way and seems to be on a good path for success.
To address education. Corporations who arrive to mine or farm your resources always bring their own management and technical personnel and much of the labor force. The headquarters will always be in the political centers to court the powers that be. They will invite few "locals" into that circle. Most locals will be in middle or lower management and the majority in the manual labor force.
The literacy rate would be in the developed areas ... cities and shipping centers. The rest of the country is rural and will be illiterate.
Historically schools are based on the assumption that the student will be going to college and is designed to prepare him for higher education. In developing countries the solution ... in my opinion would be to have dual purpose .... college prep academies and manual trades centers. Trade schools would open the opportunity to have a solid education and a career enhancing education that would lead to ownership of a business.
I must also advise that the trades people should never stop learning ... use this as a stepping stone to greater heights. College is now considered a opportunity for the elite ... by working your way up through the trades route you have joined and even surpassed some as a business owner and entrepreneur.
Your country is going through great changes. Harness your anger and work through the system to achieve your goals and then work to make a difference for others.
I wish you well. Bob.Oct 19 2013: History tells us that mass education is a relatively new concept and was initiated by the Industrial Revolution, a time when there was a sudden huge need for people that could read, write and do simple math in order to build the factories, run the machines and, especially, maintain the records of commerce. But the only ones that had access to those skills at the time were the aristocracy and the priesthood and they were not inclined to toil at such mundane tasks.
Consequently mass education was created with the mantra of the three R's, reading, w'riting and a'rithmatic as the principle focus of that education. Now here we are, some 300 or so years later and that 3R's mantra still drives the world's educational institutions and is all about making people employable - namely exploitable by employers - and little else.
That is to say, mas education today offers very little in the way of understanding the political, economic and social systems that will dominate the students life. But imagine a generation or two whose core educational curriculum involved effective communication skills, the knowledge of the different forms that governance and economics can take along with the pros and cons of each and the hands on opportunity to practice them throughout their education? Of course, such a curriculum would be extremely empowering of the students and might very well be too challenging to those who seek to rule rather than to lead.
Oct 19 2013: Why wasn't I told any of this while I was studying to be a teacher?
Oct 19 2013: Perhaps because teachers are encouraged to focus on critical thinking and reasoning, fostering skills for lifelong learning, building students communication skills orally and in writing, and cultivating the habit of considering questions and problems from different perspectives? Does that sound more like the program through which you got your training and certification?
Oct 20 2013: Do you agree with what William says?Oct 19 2013: what is it everyone expects a student to do after graduation? Get a job or perhaps a career. This is the principle goal of education everywhere. All the other "stuff" schools provide runs a distant second to "getting a job".
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Granted, many parents and teachers alike seek to bring more personal and empowering learning into our schools. And many work hard at promoting those goals. But at the end of the day - or the schooling - "the job" is what is deemed most important. What do all politicians use to rally the troops? the "jobs" mantra and then they truck out the "skills and trades training" carrot and stick routine.
You will never see a politician or the core curriculum of a publicly funded school insisting upon developing a better informed, or politically empowered student. Nor a proficient user oft effective communication skills, or problem solving skills, or critical thinking processes. .
Oct 20 2013: But even politicians study......they just do not one day say "I'm going to be a politician".
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They study political science or major in law and so forth.
William, what do you suppose the world would look like without schools?Oct 20 2013: I meant critical thinking as a focus in mass schooling.
It is interesting how different schools are and people's experiences with, or recollections of them.
One of the things I love about the Fall is seeing the school groups in the park from a variety of local schools having these kinds of experiences and the obvious energy and enthusiasm overall at my son's school. These are mostly secondary schools, but also some younger groups.
I learned a great deal about different ways of thinking throughout my schooling and, as you did, thereafter in professional life and volunteering as well as in self study. It is, and should be, a life-long enterprise.Oct 20 2013: I don't know enough about schools in other countries to make a sweeping statement. You have written elsewhere that literacy is a great priority. This is true not just for employment but for daily life and civic participation.
I would need to verify this, but I believe there has been free public education in this country for both boys and girls since the 19th century, even during times when girls were typically expected to be working inside the home rather than as employees heading out to a job. So it cannot have been only about employment-readiness.
The focus on developing critical thinking is more recent than that, but the requirement of education in civics and government is not recent. There has been concern in recent years of a shift away from the real emphasis until very recently on social studies, particularly in the lower grades. This recent shift concerns many people.
Here is a relevant article on the need to swing education back more toward social studies: http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/162-the-state-of-civic-education-teaching-the-citizens-of-tomorrow.gs
Oct 20 2013: I would suggest that 'teaching' critical thinking was central to the teachings of Aristotle and Plato eons ago and probably is even older than that because it would have also been central to learning how to be effective hunters and gatherers for our early hominids.
While the Industrial Revolution helped formalize the institution of the "school" as a building where information and knowledge may - or may not - be disseminated, as a student myself I found it a poor vehicle for my own learning processes.
Some years ago I was amazed to run into 3 mothers and sundry children exploring a Pacific shoreline one day near where I lived. They informed me that they where home schooling their kids and this experience was part of today's lesson plan. For me, the joy and enthusiasm being expressed by the children during this learning process offered a stark contrast to the uniform and constrained environment we find in the 'school' building.
While I have had the opportunity to obtain university degrees in my life the 'learning' that truly enriched my life was found in the decade or so of volunteerism that I shared with a variety of local agencies where I was able to employ much of the 'ologies' (sociology, psychology, criminology) knowledge I gleaned at the university.
In other words, students such as myself need individualized hands on experience and practice for the "learning" experience to be meaningful and relevant in our lives. Something those who design our learning institutions are unable or unwilling to provide. Instead we are stuck with the assembly line method - grade 1 a happens, grade 2 b happens, and so on - that works well in the factories 'making things' but is far from adequate for the vast variety of interests and needs of individual human beings.Oct 18 2013: It depends from whose point of view you are looking at school/education.
The "system" might have a purpose.
The "teacher" might have a second purpose.
The "student" might have a third purpose.
The "parents" might have a fourth purpose.
Whose point of view do you think will prevail in the end Toffick?
The answer is entirely up to the individual learner.
Oct 18 2013: can you help me with the view point of the student and that of the system?
Oct 18 2013: Most education systems are put in place to remove illiteracy.
Advance education exists to train individuals in different fields. Once a student graduates, they may then turn around and help their community.
This is just generally speaking of course.
I would imagine that regardless of where in the world you live, these two main reasons for education exists.
As for the view point of the student, I couldn't begin to give a reason.
It is personal......each student pursues a career for different reasons.
Is it higher education you are speaking about? College and University?
Oct 19 2013: well, will like to go with college. reason being that, as an accounting student in college. i was forced and its compulsory to learn integrated science. if you fail in int. science. you wont graduate. whats the need of specialisation then?Oct 20 2013: Sometimes all it takes is ONE voice to change the way things are done.
You know, your comment reminds me of a TEDmed talk I heard a while back from the US Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin.
She begins her talk with words that may help you..
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Oct 18 2013: Hello, Mr Obeng.
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I think in the near future nobody will get resources from your country.
Because cars will run only water or sunlight. (like this)
I think the future could be better, so you should not be so disappointed.
Many people are doing efforts to help Africa, it is true.
(I will be a little helpful for your country, I promise.)
Oct 18 2013: well, but what are africans themselves doing to help their brothers and they themselve.
Kumiko K
Oct 19 2013: Sorry, I totally misunderstood..
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I hardly know about education in your country.
But, I think Education needs to help children to indipendent economically and thinking logically by themselves. Then, make young people to think like discutton or write essayies, not pushing teacher's idea too much.
The porpose might be teaching how learning is important and interesting.Oct 15 2013: What do you hope to gain from your education?
Oct 18 2013: thats exactly the issue, the education system does not adress what one wants to gain or societal problem but rather teaches us to be slaves thus employees. kindly ellaborate more on this
Oct 18 2013: I do not know anything about the educational system in Ghana. Are you saying the leaders in your country, the employers and the innovators in your country do not go to school or go to school in a different country? If your leaders and innovators did go to school, as I am guessing they did, how do you reconcile this with your position that school teaches students "only to be slaves and employees?"
Oct 19 2013: from all indications, Ghana as a country is failure. a country rich in oil, gold, cocoa, timber, bauxite etc. and can do nothing. who do you blame here. the leaders. they are failures.
and yes most of the leaders schools outside Ghana. corruption is the number one key. so what is our educational system in place for?Oct 19 2013: Now that you write this, I remember reading about a long history of corruption in your country by those who assume positions of leadership. There is another thread about what to do about corruption in the developing world, and there are talks on this, but I don't know that values and codes in this area can be traced to schools.
If your education has been in Ghana, you are the one who knows what the focus and climate is in the schools you attended. I will look into it as well..Nov 11 2013: The Purpose of education should be to provide you with knowledge that is relevant to achieve success. there are allot of assumptions here: what is relevant. what is success. when have you achieved it. knowing facts will not help you much. I dont know what you learn in school there but i dont think learning africas history will help. i dont think learning americas history will help. I dont think learning about capitalism will help. I think that developing your character is what matters most right now, because you're in a nation that's plagued by despair. Being a leader goes a long way. Providing relevant information goes a long way. Your education should entail being very creative and finding the best ways to add value to your local area. it might not be capital, it might not be motivation. But noone has the answers for Africa. You're culture holds the answer.Oct 20 2013: Here is a quote from a Chilean writer, Paulo Freire in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed::
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."


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SO we traded away a player that you say we shouldn't have traded for anyway, and your mad that we didn't replace him?
Like what, get rid of one headcase and replace him with another headcase...
IMO, you can't rant and rave about how we never should have traded for marshall in the first place, than piss and moan that egnew, after one year, doesn't or probably won't have the "career" brandon marshall had... IF his career is so great, that why be pissed that traded for him in the first place... if he's a headcase than why be pissed we traded him for 2 3rd rounders..
which is it... He's a good player and has a good career, OR is he a headcase that shouldn't be on the team to begin with?
let me see u could draft a friggin wr or sign one thats not a head case lol. We traded him because he is exactly who we knew he was. Marshall was more trouble before we traded for him and we gave up two second rounders for him and made him one of the highest paid receivers in the game. He produced on the field and was the very same headcase maybe slighlty less so than he has always been. We then trade him for third round picks so wasted money and draft picks just to get less. Also the odds that Egnew could produce anywhere near what Marshall has are almost one in thousands .
Marshall is and always will be a a top receiver and he is and always will be trouble to deal with. Im not the hypocrite that traded for this guy then traded him for being the same thin he has always been.
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Killian's Adult Workshop (for actors with agents) in February
I am registered for Tuesday nights but I have a conflict on the first night . Is there anyone who is registered for Adult Workshop who would like to switch my Tuesday night for another Feb Adult Workshop class?
though I'm wary of Saturday b/c I may have an acting conflict on one Saturday (fingers crossed).
I am really looking forward to this class and hope I can take it in Feb.
|Jack Nicholson
If you talk to them you can just take that one class the next session.
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thanks! I was thinking of asking them that - I'd prefer to be able to switch to a class where I wouldn't miss the first session - so I'm still hoping to see what happens with being able to switch to other nights.
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Definitely talk to Killian, he might have a solution for you. He's a super nice guy.
My agent took me bc I had Carolyne Barry and improv experience. Agent currently also promotes Killian as well.
Met some great classmates at Carolyne.
All good info thanks guys. I have taken classes with Scott Wissner which I liked very much. Also, as an all around acting class and new to the L.A. area, ACT CLUB with Ryan Williams is pretty awesome.
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The problem is classes are structured for different curriculum so I don't know if he'll like that but maybe he'll do it for you if you insist.
From personal experience I really recommend Carolyne Barry's commercial classes. I took the intro and the intermediate classes and I think it really helps me in the audition room - I feel like I know what I'm doing and how to comfortably show the authentic me. Since finishing the second class I have been getting called back for nearly everything I go out for and have been put on avail multiple times. Hope this helps!
Thanks I will be setting up classes With Carolynes school.
Just don't let her talk you into signing up for other classes within her school.
I'm sure the teachers teaching the other classes are qualified, but NO single school is known for everything. There are better places to study Meisner and an improv class from a Big 4 Improv school will benefit you more.
A few months ago, I took Megan Foley Marra and Chuck Marra's one day commercial class because I wasn't getting too many commercial auditions with them.
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I think John Sudol is overpriced and full of shit. He's trying to turn acting into a science by placing importance on ones facial expressions. We DON'T think about our facial expressions when we have normal conversations! So why should we when we're being filmed? If you are thinking about that shit, you're self aware and will have trouble being a truthful actor.
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I looked on Megan and Chuck's website. Is the Friday class $200? Worth it?
I did the Saturday 9-5pm class for $150. I thought it was worth it and if you think about it 4 2-3 hour classes are $200-300. The Saturday class is like 2 classes
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Ehrlichia chaffeensis (HME) Antibody, IgG, Serum
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Ehrlichiosis is an emerging zoonotic infection caused by obligate intracellular, gram-negative rickettsia that infect leukocytes.
Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis and is transmitted by the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum. The deer is believed to be the animal reservoir and most cases of HME have been reported from the southeastern and south-central region of the United States.
Infectious forms are injected during tick bites and the organism enters the vascular system where it infects monocytes. It is sequestered in host-cell membrane-limited parasitophorous vacuoles known as morulae. These can be readily observed on Giemsa- or Wright-stained smears of peripheral blood from infected persons. Macrophages in organs of the reticuloendothelial system are also infected. Asexual reproduction occurs in WBCs and daughter cells are formed which are liberated upon cell rupture.
Most cases of ehrlichiosis are probably subclinical or mild, but the infection can be severe and life-threatening; there is a 2% to 3% mortality rate. Fever, fatigue, malaise, headache, and other "flu-like" symptoms occur most commonly. Central nervous system involvement can result in seizures and coma. Leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and elevated hepatic transaminases are frequent laboratory findings.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
As an adjunct in the diagnosis of ehrlichiosis and/or in seroepidemiological surveys of the prevalence of the infection in certain populations
Ehrlichiosis is sometimes diagnosed by observing the organisms in infected WBCs on Giemsa-stained thin blood films of smeared peripheral blood (morulae). Serology may be useful if the morulae are not seen or if the infection has cleared naturally or following treatment.
Serology may also be useful in the follow-up of documented cases of ehrlichiosis or when coinfection with other tick- transmitted organisms is suspected. In selected cases, documentation of infection may be attempted by PCR methods.
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
A positive immunofluorescence assay (titer >or =1:64) suggests current or previous infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis. In general, the higher the titer, the more likely the patient has an active infection. Four-fold rises in titer also indicate active infection.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Serology for IgG may be negative during the acute phase of infection but a diagnostic titer usually appears by the third week after onset. Previous episodes of ehrlichiosis may produce a positive serology although antibody levels decline significantly during the year following infection.
Performance characteristics have not been established for hemolyzed or lipemic specimens.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
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By Dawn Cooke
Lately, I have had some cynical views toward the state of tattoo culture and pop culture in general and I have had to apologize for affecting sensitivities. So I have been researching, writing and thinking about why I feel this way. The phenomenon of counter-culture becoming popular culture has been written about quite a lot. If you are interested in this topic the book, Nation of Rebels is a good one. What I see, is that we have an overly competitive narcissistic consumer culture that has really negative effects on individuals and on society as a whole. A person can get swept away by the tide if they aren't careful. I have come dangerously close too many times personally…
Media in Western culture is so biased that you never know what's truth or fiction anymore. There's something wrong when marketing and media catch phrases are reality, handmade and artisan. And suddenly those words mean nothing at all. People have been starved for authenticity since before I was born! Real isn't something you will find on TV or the Internet… If you want a real experience you go out into the world and find one in-person right? Hollywood can't create real for you, but they damn sure try to create the illusion!!! Hollywood creates people like Charles Manson and Roman Polanski…
Real people DO shit; they don't sit around watching it on TV or become consumed by Facebook. Why is there this huge obsession with fame and celebrity? Because that is what we are fed from the time we can sit up in a bouncy chair. Are we being fed a lie? If people spent more time living their dreams and less time fantasizing about it there might be more peace in the world. But people believe that they need all these possessions and money to make things happen.
Here's an idea, couldn't we make the things we use here in our own country? Are we really the LAZY and ENTITLED Americans our critics say we are? Are we a nation of fat slobs who just want to be entertained? And YET so many other countries try to be like us. Hey world, "We the people…" aren't the government! We think we deserve everything with minimal effort, the rest of the world is watching and they are like, "Screw you America, we need a piece of the pie." And then what do we do? We (the government) stage a coup or just go bomb people and take what they have. Do we really give a shit about the human atrocities going on around the world? I can't believe that we (the government) do because we (the people) keep letting it all happen and turn the other cheek to watch Miami Towing, Ink Master, The Greatest Model Cupcake Chef. We want a spectacle like the Romans did, but unlike the Romans we can't stomach real blood and guts!
On the lighter side, I kind of like the idea that I can now walk down the street without being looked at like a criminal or a freak. It does feel good to be mildly accepted by society. I experienced a shadow of how it used to be today while I was at the gym. I went for a swim and these two older ladies (age 70 or so) both looked at me like I was going to eat them. I smiled and said hello and they both turned their noses up at me. I have to say, in a way that was refreshing. I wonder how strange the world seems to that generation. What sucks about my generation and younger one is; everyone thinks that there's this magical cloud that takes you to the top, or that you have to claw your way there stomping everyone in the wake. Once we figure out there's no substitute for hard work maybe we'll all be better off. That's the secret! Image doesn't have too much to do with it.
When I started getting tattooed in the late 90s, which wasn't all that long ago, it was still a subversive culture. A lot has changed in that short amount of time. Tattoos totally play into our vanities as a society right now. But if you know anything about history you will know that tattooing popularity comes and goes. I'm telling you the truth when I say that it was never acceptable to be a heavily tattooed woman in society in the 80s and 90s, and even before.
It was never fashionable and now we have girls calling themselves models with tattoos all up onto their hands and necks and faces. To me that is interesting because what was once an anti-social statement is now a fashion statement. But what are those individuals all going to do when tattoos aren't in fashion? Tattoos are permanent and fashion is constantly changing. I got tattooed as a rebellion against society's ideals about beauty. So when tattoos aren't fashionable I'll still be glad I did it. I hope everyone will feel the same way!
When old people ask me what I'm going to do when I'm 80 with all these tattoos, I say, "I'm going to be ugly either way! At least now I'll have some pretty colors on me."
If you want, take the narcissism personality disorder quiz just for fun!!! If you want to help me do a study about narcissism e-mail me with your results, age and how many tattoos you have. I'll post my findings and keep individuals anonymous of course! I took it and scored an 8…
Ironically I doubt anyone who reads my blogs is a narcissist…What can I blog about to attract a narcissist? "Hot fake breasted women, here to do your bidding." Or how about "How to paint on the perfect eyebrows." Ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!
Related TAM Blog Post:
Dawn Cooke: Why a Tattoo Is Not a Painting, and a Painting Is Not a Tattoo
Dawn Cooke: 13 Female Tattooers You Should Know About
Dawn Cooke: 32 Great Tattoo Artists Everyone Should Know
Dawn Cooke: What is a Tattoo? 6 Other Artists Who Get It!


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- Jake Frackson
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If we didn't educate students in "batches", how would their social development differ?
If we stopped educating students in "batches" (a reference from Sir Ken Robinson's "Changing Education Paradigms" TED talk), how would their sociological development change? Rather than classifying them by "date of manufacture" what if we organized them according to learning styles and abilities depending on the subject, how would that affect them socially in comparison to students currently? Would students be embarrassed to be in a class with younger and/or older peers? Would the differences in level of maturity and range of social skills make learning in this kind of model more difficult? Would this system help students to be more open with their peers, no matter their age? Would it also help reduce agism in the education system and possibly the world? Ultimately, would it be a worth while investment to experiment with this model on a larger scale?
Additional questions, answers, opinions or any other sort of comments are welcome! I'm a Canadian high school student who is curious about education and I would appreciate anything you have to offer on the topic.
Cheers, Jake Frackson
Aug 30 2012: Education by groups is based on a cost-benefit analysis. It is like eating junk food.Aug 29 2012: Fascinating Jake!
I think if education was more ranged it would make the world a more social environment one group of students at a time. I do think that age oriented classrooms are very much creating dissent among other age groups, where we know it as ageism. There is also wisdom to be shared among different age groups all residing in a classroom. I think, though, something needs to be addressed about an age cap or maybe a sexual harassment seminar needs to be held at the beginning of each class, just in case the ages differ that much. BTW, did you have a specific range of grade levels in mind? I think colleges are prime examples of this model of schooling because you can sit in a classroom with a 12 year old child prodigy and also have an 80 year old widower sitting in the same classroom, then imagine a peppering of ages in between and that is a college setting. You get to learn so much from the college dynamic, but just learn to filter your surroundings quickly.
Thanks for reading my thoughts.Aug 28 2012: I think I can address social development and education all at once. Develop a master course map that identifies all subjects with pre requisites. Develop modules and successful completion of a module (based on competent / non-competent tests) would allow you to progress at your speed of learning while staying with your peer group for social development. If you really excell at math then you could complete high school requirements in maybe two years and go to the college level modules. Computer monitoring would monitor you module completion and guide you into a balanced course management. All math and no english or science does not make a rounded student.
If this were an accepted educational system then the merge of high school and college could .. could ... occur. There is a need for labs and interaction among students at specific levels . age is not a consideration ... you earn your place in the labs or practicums.
We have the technology to make this occur through on line, and computer resources.
I have mapped this out and have had it evaluated and accepted as a valid educational application. The problem was to assign rubricks to each module that would incorporate college standards and academic requirements. That would require that all course modules to be approved to the highst levels.
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Bob.Aug 28 2012: Awesome! :)
Well, it depends on students' personalities, if you ask me.
But for me, I would definitely love to be with older or younger students in a class.
I'm going to college next year--in Canada :) , btw
Even though I have to study with same age group, I wish I could study with more various age group.
Of course, there would be some pros and cons...
As for the 'cons' part...
1 It could be a little awkward to make boyfriends or girlfriends on campus.
2 It could be less vitalizing if the age gap among students are huge compared to the original college model.
However, we, youngsters, can learn lots of valuable lessons from our older peers.
And the class would be ironically more dynamic.
With new educational experiment, the college members could get amazingly fruiftul outcomes.
I really love your idea!
We should make that kind of college in the near future. :)
chop, chop!Aug 27 2012: I'm glad to see a lot of positive feedback for this question. I'd like to now suggest looking at it from a different angle: In the development of a new born there is a vital time in which he/she needs to learn how to crawl. If the child is moved directly from sitting to standing to walking, they will not be given the opportunity to fully develop those particular motor skills. Do you think this might transfer to education? If a student shows the ability to move on, should we allow them to at their own pace, even if it means that some of the social skills that come with it may not be fully developed (i.e. ability to collaborate, a basic understanding of ethics, etc.)?
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putting kids into batches may be helpful for some, but it may be detrimental to others. Also, one student can be very curious about one subject and want to move ahead of the class, while another is bored to death with it and simply does enough to get by.
I think that if you put a cross segment of students in the cafeteria at the same time, that they will group themselves as they feel most comfortable. I remember wishing that I was in the class ahead of me because I was more in-tune with them and felt no connection with my own class. Who would have been harmed by my being part of a group that was 2 years older than me (I started school early) - even if I was studying things that my own class was studying.
Technology will allow us to do that now, since Kahn Academy discovered how a couple of tutorials for his nephews posted on YouTube for convenience was so appreciated by so many who WANT on-line learning.
I trust people to make the best decisions in that regard, and do not have as much disrespect for students as teachers do.Aug 27 2012: Perhasps, that's a little simple. Once you have the code e.g. read at sixth grade level you can run wild.Aug 27 2012: idealism is lovely but here are the three real issues that need to be sorted in education before there is space for a renaissance:
1. cost - it's got to be cheap, sorry, we don't like spending money (even tax dollars) if there's no financial return.
2. politics - for most political parties, education is just leverage to get votes/money.
3. commerce - schools are a dependable market so we are starting to see a lot of companies targeting schools and either getting parents to buy their products in order to 'be in to win' some sports gear or else the govt funding is just being funneled straight into IT company coffers in order to pay for the huge expense of digital tech/comms.
Get those three big elephants down to size and maybe we could approach education from an idealistic/altruistic angle..
Aug 27 2012: Valid point, to make it even possible for a mixed age model to be used these points would have to be addressed. However, for the purpose of experimentation, philanthropy still exists.Aug 27 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk
I believe Salman Kahn talks about mastery based advancement per student. He mentions that we all digest information at differnt speeds and comprehend / learn things if different ways. Kahn suggests that the faster students are free to help others grasp concepts that they may be experiencing problems with.Aug 27 2012: Hi, Jake. There is a lot of experience now with mixed grade classrooms in some countries, including the United States. It can be a little hard on someone who is the lone 8th grader in a 6th grade class, but if there are a few older kids rather than just one, it often won't matter. My son was in a Latin class with many kids a year or two younger than he was. It was no problem. He will be in a different class this Fall with kids two and three years older. I expect there will be no problem there either.
When I taught secondary school, I don't remember ever teaching a class that was not mixed grade. We had no problem. A smile comes to my face when I recall the hen-like pleasure my eighth graders had when the sixth graders left early to go to "their first dance."
Aug 27 2012: It is similar with Canada's system; there is a small amount of mixed grade classrooms in elementary and middle schools but in secondary school the practice is more common. I view these examples as a scaled down version of the possible fully mixed school model but I like what I see so far with some of the results and feedback. Fritzie, what is your opinion on scaling up from this level of the experiment and trying a more mixed model. For example, where all classes (not just some of the sciences and other subjects, but everything from language, to math, to science, to art) in school are taken at student pace, so if a student is excelling at a course in one semester he/she can take the following course the next semester rather than waiting until the next year. Or even having accelerated courses that a student could complete in a shorter frame of time. Do you think this would be a more efficient use of student time and more importantly do you think it would be an effective teaching model?
Aug 27 2012: At my son's high school and where my daughters went (public school), math, languages, science (except 9th grade biology) and art/music were all mixed. It works fine. No one cares about age differences.
Both those high schools also have accelerated versions of courses or courses offering a more intensive option.
I think these are time-tested approaches that serve students well.
Aug 27 2012: I'm glad to hear that. I think that model would serve my regional school system well. Now what do you think about extending this to younger ages, such as k through 8? Do you think the model would translate well or do you think it would disrupt social development?Aug 27 2012: We already talked about how grades 6-8 often have some blending of ages as well as variants of courses that move at different paces.
I am less familar with curriculum and instruction for lower grades, other than of course that there are lower grades programs that proceed in every subject at a faster pace and with greater depth. than a regular class for students who are ready for that. Lots of big city and suburban public schools in the US offer such options. Maybe in Canada also?
But there should also be plenty of research on blending ages in lower grades for some subjects. Decades ago when I was in grade school in a very giant and diverse California school district, kids moved to reading classes based on reading level rather than age. Those were lets just say ancient times.
So the idea is far from new! And there are certainly samples now of schools, more private perhaps than public, that blend ages in grade school.
Usually the research in education is highly searchable, so if no one here has any specific references about the experience in blending ages at grade school, an internet search should help. One big clearinghouse for research articles in education is called ERIC. here is a start; http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2009/RAND_WR685.pdf
Aug 27 2012: Thanks Fritzie I'll research the topic some more with that. Another follow up question to some of your previous responses, are you basing the effectiveness of these models on the number of students using the opportunity to take higher level or accelerated courses? Also, do you have any opinion on how sociologically these students may be affected by being in these classes?Aug 29 2012: My elementary experience was similar to this. Many students at my school spoke little no English, making "no child left behind" an outrageous proposition. What happened was each student would periodically take tests on their reading levels and the library would help that student find books in their reading range. While we were all the same age, we got to experience literature at our own pace.Aug 27 2012: Here is a page with lots of links for you: http://www.multiage-education.com/multiagelinks/index.html
I have not done formal research myself on this. I am sharing anecdote only from my experience in education.
In secondary grades, I think the variation in maturity within students of one age likely swamps the variation across grades. I have not noticed any issues, provided the teacher knows how to accomodate the differences that exist. For example, the first week of school, I would seat the younger kids in front to let them get comfortable rather than having them possibly intimidated to be in class with kids a foot taller than they were. That meant when they were new at school, sixies first sat with other sixies.
For social effects at grade school, you will need to follow up research leads. I cannot help you.
I was evaluating the effectiveness of mixing grades/ages only by how well students demonstrated they learned the material at hand and the sense of friendship and comraderie that developed in the classroom. I was not judging by the number of students who were in accelerated courses, though I do think that effective differentiation of instruction works best when there are accelerated courses for students who learn faster than average.


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Birmingham Royal Ballet's Head of Creative Learning, Lee Fisher, spoke last week about Freefall's recent activity.
'Spring turned out to be another busy season for Freefall,' he said. 'With two performances at the Patrick Centre of their new full length piece Freefalling from Outer Space, four local schools, vips, new and loyal fans of the company enjoyed a piece described by David Bintley as 'Wonderful funny, touching and thought provoking'.
'In the weeks following the performance, Freefallers led dance workshops in four special schools across the City. The work will culminate with the schools sharing their own dances along side Freefall in the Patrick Centre on 18 June.'
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The company has been invited to perform at Birminghams Town Hall on the 25 June for the Artsmark Celebration Event.
Performing at Fox Hollies School as part of the Kings Health Floral Trail on 4 July.
Freefall will perform Nightshade to open Youth Sport Trusts first ever dance conference at Walsall Football Ground on 10 July 2009.


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Some builders frustrated; county trying to get rid of bottlenecks
by St. John Barned-Smith
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It took the Buffingtons six years to build the family's new commercial real estate office and Bennigan's restaurant in Clarksburg.
"It was extremely difficult, almost mission impossible. It was really tough," said Bette Buffington, the owner of the building and restaurant.
The Buffingtons' experience is one example of the challenge some developers are facing in Clarksburg.
The Buffingtons ran into trouble coming up with a design that the area's historic commission would approve, Bette Buffington said.
Other developers have gotten snarled in the area's special exceptions, designed to protect its valuable environmental assets, such as the Ten Mile Creek.
The county, meanwhile, says it is trying to help developers along. County officials say the special exceptions are necessary to protect the area's environmental assets, and they have made progress simplifying the development process and working on other methods to make it more navigable and customer-friendly.
The Buffingtons said building on Frederick Road took six years and cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars more than they expected in engineering, attorney and other mitigation fees.
"If Clarksburg is to develop, it's going to have to become more economically feasible to do it. If you make it so expensive for you that you can't ever see making a profit on your investment, no one's going to come," she said.
If they had known how difficult it would be, she said, "Oh, definitely, we wouldn't have done it."
Their frustration was with the Historic Commission, she said. The first design they submitted was too big, they were told, Bette Buffington said.
After resubmitting their design several times with little progress, she said, "it got to a stalemate" that was resolved only after her family sued the county. They dropped the suit after the county decided to work with them, she said.
The Historic Commission submitted a counterproposal to their design, which the community rejected, she said.
The Buffingtons' situation was due in part to their decision to develop a space in the Clarksburg Historic District, which has many small buildings, said Scott Whipple, a historic preservation supervisor for the county.
"It was a more complicated project to come in and try and develop a large commercial development inside the Historic District, and so that took a thoughtful review, and there was more redesign that was necessary to come up with a plan that was compatible with the historic district," Whipple said.
He said "there were other layers of review that this project had to go through," from other agencies.
"Eventually, they worked with us," Buffington said. "It's just, the process took too long."
Clarksburg has a population capacity of 43,000 people with nearly 15,000 dwelling units covering about 10,000 acres, according to the 1994 master plan.
In 1994, there were just 866 existing residential units and 106,576 feet of commercial square footage, planners say. Since then, the area has swelled to 5,282 residential units and more than 757,530 commercial square footage, Planning Department spokeswoman Valerie Berton said in an email.
According to Planning Board documents, 304,000 square feet of additional commercial space is approved but not built in the Town Center and Newcut Road areas.
The Pulte Group has been planning since 2009 to build roughly 1,000 homes on 500 acres there, said Charlie Maier, a Pulte Group spokesman. But the company is waiting to see the results of the Montgomery County Planning Board's work on a limited amendment to the Clarksburg Master Plan.
Development in Clarksburg is managed by a staging plan that balances development with infrastructure, such as roads and schools. The staging plan highlights the need to undertake significant environmental monitoring before allowing development in the Ten Mile Creek watershed, Berton said. Work on an amendment to the Master Plan that would address development in Clarksburg Town Center and the Ten Mile Creek area began last fall and should be completed later this year.
"From our perspective ... they have to make up their minds politically for what they want for that area," said Stephen Collins, director of entitlements for the Pulte Group Inc.'s Mid-Atlantic region.
Montgomery County is "one of the more difficult places to get things done," Collins said. The problem is due in part to the different entities that developers have to satisfy — the Office of the Executive, the County Council and Park and Planning, he said.
By contrast, he said, in Virginia, the supervisor is elected, and "everybody answers to them," Collins said. "You have a better sense of what they want."
When Ross Flax, head of the Goddard School, first began planning a preschool on Frederick Road in Clarksburg, he was told it would take about 18 months to get to construction, barring traffic or community concerns.
More than four years later, the building process is finally beginning, he said, and that was the team of specialists Flax assembled to help to navigate the county's development process, he said.
"You have to navigate from one department to the next," dealing with entities such as the State Highway Administration and the Department of Permitting Services, he said. Responding to those requests makes costs "absurdly high," he said.
He has faced everything from having to pay for special exemptions to having to have a law modified for the project to go forward, he said.
"If we knew now what the time delay and cost would be for all the things the county holds us accountable to, there would not be a Goddard School coming to Clarksburg," he said.
Flax said his experience in Howard County is a different story.
"We will absolutely start and have building permits inside of nine months," he said.
County officials acknowledged the challenges businesses are facing trying to develop in Clarksburg.
"I agree that this is an area where we have to get really, really aggressive," County Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist.4) of Silver Spring told editors at The Gazette earlier this year.
"Some of those stories we have heard are just absurd," she said, adding that solving the problem might require an outside perspective.
"This isn't just a matter of bureaucrats sitting on appeals in Silver Spring or Rockville. That rarely happens," said Royce Hanson, former chairman of the Montgomery County Planning Board.
Diane Schwartz-Jones, head of the county's Department of Permitting Services, said, "We want individual economic interests met, county economic interests met, but development has to be balanced with policy requirements as it relates to environment."
A lot of development has proceeded quickly, she said, mentioning the fast approval process for the area's new grocery store.
"We're pretty tickled with Clarksburg right now," said David Flanagan, the developer building the grocery store that Schwartz-Jones mentioned.
"We've come through a very tough recession, and most of our leaders understand jobs are important," he said.
Still, Schwartz-Jones said, "people need to be willing to submit their plans in accordance with design requirements already established."
"If you're going to ask for something different, it's going to take longer," she said.
But the county is trying to make the process more efficient, officials say.
The county recently undertook a multi-agency effort to analyze the entitlement process and identify "bottlenecks, duplication of reviews, inconsistent positions and process inefficiencies."
Released this year, a draft of the review helped identify more than 60 county processes that, if streamlined, could shave weeks or months off various building and permitting processes, on everything from bonds to site plans to special exceptions.
And last month, the county's Planning Department announced it had created an E-Filing system that would help streamline the department's planning application process.
Now, instead of having to send multiple copies of the same document to more than a dozen agencies around the county, the ePlans system keeps those documents available for different departments digitally, Berton said.
"On our end, it's a lot more efficient to share things online and review comments online," Berton said.
"It's really helpful," she said.


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1/24/13: It looks like the Kings are actually leaving this time. The Maloof family agreed to sell the team to an investment group that plans to move the franchise to Seattle and resurrect the Super Sonics nickname. The original Seattle Super Sonics left Seattle for Oklahoma City a few years ago, and have gone on to great success with Kevin Durant and James Westbrook. The Kings and the City of Sacramento could never agree on a deal for a new arena, and now it looks like the California capital will lose its only pro franchise to a more populous town.
1/10/13: The Sacramento Kings have languished in the state capital for a number of years, avoiding relevancy like cats avoid water. The team, owned by the Maloof family, has not been able to reach a deal with the City of Sacramento on building a new arena. The two sides came close last year, but negotiations fell through, leaving the team in limbo. Now, investor Chris Hanson has a deal to build an arena in Seattle and has reportedly contacted the Maloofs about purchasing the Kings to move them to the Emerald City. Tough news for Sacramento fans, but good news for the City of Seattle.
12/27/12: The Kings benched and suspended center DeMarcus Cousins over the weekend, then reinstated him on Monday. Cousins and head coach Kieth Smart exchanged words at halftime on Friday in a game against the L.A. Clippers. Smart benched Cousins for the second half and suspended him for "unprofessional behavior and conduct detrimental to the team". Cousins apologized to his teammates and admitted he was wrong in the altercation. The Kings ended the suspension after one game. It was his third suspension this season for his conduct, which has become a constant theme for the 22 year old in his young career.
11/29/12: Sacramento was expected by many to make a move this season. They have developed and acquired quality talent and looked poised to win. But they are only 4-10 to start the season. The offense is struggling due to poor ball movement which is not generating quality shots. The team can not seem to rebound and they take too many fouls. But perhaps the biggest issue a lack of team chemistry. It is still early in the season, so fortunes can change, but if the rest of the season continues this way then the Kings are in line for a lottery pick.
11/22/12: Sacramento sits at 3-8 and last place in the Pacific Division. But any win over the Lakers is sweet. While the rest of the basketball world is fretting over the Lakers' poor start, coach firing, and controversial hiring of Mike D'Antoni, there are still other teams out there who are playing games. The Kings put together a strong team effort, playing well on both sides of the court and supplemented by competent coaching. The final result, a comfortable 113-97 crushing that ended a five game losing streak and should give the team confidence that they can play with anyone in the West.
11/15/12: DeMarcus Cousins is in the news, and again it is not for his talent or play. The NBA gave Cousins a two game suspension for an altercation with San Antonio announcer Sean Elliot. Cousins has already served the suspension, but of course the NBA Players Union is appealing the punishment to get Cousins paid the $70,500 he lost. Cousins has been labeled immature throughout his career, and this latest incident is turning fan sentiment against him - possibly to the point where the Kings may trade him so they will not have to deal with these types of issues anymore.
11/8/12: A couple of weeks into the season and the Kings are 1-3, trailing the Warriors and Clippers by one game. Tyreke Evans has been the team's most complete player so far. His scoring ability is not questioned - he can generate points. But his defensive improvement has been outstanding. He guarded Luol Deng well in the opener and had two blocks and three steals against Indiana. On the other hand, DeMarcus Cousins has room to improve. He is averaging 15.3 points and 8 rebounds a game, but this is a player who has the opportunity to join the NBA elite.
11/1/12: Reports (such as the one by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports) are surfacing that the NBA is pressuring the Maloof family to sell the Kings, possibly to a group including Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) in order to move the team to Seattle. Seattle has been without an NBA team since the Sonics moved to Oklahoma City a few years ago, and the city is currently building a new arena to house an NBA and/or NHL team. The Maloofs backed away from a deal with the City of Sacramento for a new deal and have resisted pressure to move to Anaheim. There is no deal yet, and the Kings are still in Sacramento - but this is a story worth keeping an eye on.
10/18/12: The Triangle Offense may have been popularized and perfected by Phil Jackson and his Bulls and Lakers teams, but elements of the system actually goes back at least to the Harlem Globetrotters in 1943. The Triangle promotes movement and ball sharing. And Kieth Smart now will try to incorporate the Triangle into the Kings offense this season. Sacramento has loads of talent, maybe what they are missing is a comprehensive ball control system to get the most out of Tyreke Evans, Marcus Thornton, DeMarcus Cousins, and Thomas Robinson. With a full offseason to work on it, hopefully the team can put it to use successfully this season.
10/4/12: The first sign of the injury bug has arrived, and second year forward Tyson Honeycutt will miss the next three to four weeks with a stress fracture in his right fibula. The regular season is still a few weeks away, so this is no time to worry. The Kings are trying to improve upon a dismal 22-44 record last season, which was shortened due to the lockout a year ago. But the main personnel, particularly Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins are healthy. And the team needs those two young men to really step up if they are going to compete in the West.
8/16/12: Not often are the words 'optimism' and 'Golden State Warriros' mentioned in the same sentence, but that is exactly the situation in Oakland. Many fans were upset when Golden State let the popular Monte Ellis go in a move to build around Stephen Curry. Curry, of course, missed 41 games with a sprained ankle and is still rehabbing. Howeve, Curry let his ankle heal, rather than again rushing himself. Now he claims that he is finally recovering from the ankle pain that has plagued him for the past two years. He is optimistic that he can play without any restrictions by October 31, which is what the Warriors sorely need.
8/2/12: Not too long ago, the Lakers and Kings had epic postseason battles to determine who was the best in the West. While the Lakers have continued their excellence, Sacramento has fallen on hard times. But the rivalry will be renewed, albeit in preseasson form. Of the Kings seven preseason games, three are against the Lakers. This is actually pretty important, because it will give the young Kings a good test as they prepare for the new season and hope to escape the Lottery Process. Maybe the hardest part for the Sacramento coaching staff will be on October 19th, when they team plays LA in Las Vegas, and all the trouble that comes with such a venue.
7/26/12: Sacramento signed first round pick (5th overall) Thomas Robinson to a four year deal. The power forward from Kansas was the Big 12 Player of the Year last season, averaging 17.7 points and 11.9 rebounds per game as a junior. Robinson is already making his presence know as a vocal leader in the Summer League, and claims he wants to show that he is more of an overall player than what he showed in college. The Summer League is beneficial to Robinson and the Kings, and allows the young man a chance to adjust to NBA-level play before the start of the new season.
The Sacramento Kings went with size for their first round selection in Thursday night's NBA Draft, taking the 6'9" Thomas Robinson from Kansas with the fifth overall pick. Robinson averaged a double-double in his junior season at Kansas, with 17.7 points and 11.9 rebounds and should be a perfect fit to jump in and immediately make an impact in Sacramento, a team that sorely needs a strong presence in the paint. The Kings went for a shooting guard with their second round pick, taking Orlando Johnson from UC Santa Barbara with the 36th overall pick.
5/22/12: The Golden State Warriors are getting a new arena. Plans are all but finalized to put a new stadium in LA. And yet plans for a new arena in the state capital remain in neutral. Most will agree that ARCO Arena is outdated and can not really support an NBA franchise. However, a 22-44 record does not give the Maloof brothers much leverage or sympathy. The Maloofs have previously threatened to move the team, possibly to Southern California, but agreed to stick around at least another year. In the meantime, negotiations between the city and the club have grown bitter, and next season may well be the last in Sacramento.
5/15/12: A new arena for the Sacramento Kings remains elusive, as the team and city officials continue a particular nasty debate which may encourage the Maloof brothers to move the team out of the state capital. As the Kings sit out of the playoffs for the sixth consectutive season, the NBA began handing out its regular season awards. Isaiah Thomas, the 60th pick in the 2011 draft, placed 7th in Rookie of the Year voting. Thomas earned a starting role, averaging 25.5 minutes, 11.5 points, and 4.1 assists per game, as well as Rookie of the Month in February and March.
5/11/12: The Kings did not enjoy the success they envisioned and missed the playoffs for the sixth consectutive season. Sacramento fielded the youngest roster in the league, and it showed with bouts of erratic play and indecisiveness on the court. One thing the Kings may have gotten right was replacing coach Paul Westphal with Kieth Smart early in the season. Smart was able to get more scoring out of the team, averaging a respectable 99.3 points per game. However, the Kings also allowed a league-high 104.6 points per game. The key to improvement is obvious, the Kings need defensive help in the offseason.
5/3/12: The Kings ended the season with 22 wins versus 44 losses, finishing one game out of last place in the West. Sacramento has missed the playoffs for the past six years, and once again looks to the draft for help, where they will have the fifth overall selection - thanks to winning a tie breaker with the New Jersey Nets. Just as frustrating as their play has been the negotiations between the team and government about building a new areaa. The Kings have threatened to move without a new arean, but the issue is at a stalemate and may be completely dead.
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