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Clippers and the NBA Development League today announced that the Clippers have acquired the right to own and operate an NBA D-League team that will begin play in Ontario, Calif. For the 2017-18 season when the league will be called the NBA Gatorade League. The team’s name will be the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario. The team is named for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, a federally recognized Tribe located in Palm Springs, Calif. The Tribe owns and operates the Agua Caliente Casino Resorts, which includes the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage and Spa Resort Casino in downtown Palm Springs. Agua Caliente Resorts is the Clippers’ Presenting Sponsor as well as the team’s Official Tribal Casino partner.
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With 31,500 acres of reservation lands that spread across Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage and into the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains, the Tribe also owns Tahquitz and Indian Canyons recreational areas, and two 18-hole championship golf courses. With today’s announcement, the NBA D-League grows to a record 26 teams for the 2017-18 season, all of which are owned or operated by an NBA club. “This is another exciting day for the NBA D-League as we add a record 26th team and continue to move closer to our 30-team vision,” said NBA D-League President Malcolm Turner. “Today’s announcement is the latest example of the value NBA teams place on developing young talent on and off the court.
I’m thrilled to welcome Steve Ballmer and the Clippers, in partnership with the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, to the NBA D-League family.” The Clippers’ new D-League affiliate will play its 24 home games at Ontario’s Citizens Business Bank Arena, which is located 40 miles east of Los Angeles. Opened in 2008, Citizens Business Bank Arena is the largest arena in the Inland Empire and is also home to the Ontario Reign AHL ice hockey, concerts and family events. “This is a great day for the Clippers,” said Clippers President of Basketball Operations and Head Coach Doc Rivers. “Having our own development team in the Inland Empire is another example of the dedication and investment to winning and creating a first-class organization that Steve Ballmer brings to this franchise. We now have a place close to home where our young players and staff members have the ability to develop and gain important experience.” The NBA D-League recently completed a landmark season, establishing records for unique NBA players assigned with 92 and players on end-of-regular-season NBA rosters having NBA D-League experience with 199 (44% of NBA players). “We are proud to team-up with the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians to bring highly competitive professional basketball to the Inland Empire,” said Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker.
“This region has already demonstrated enormous passion for the Clippers. Locating our team in Ontario allows us to reward that enthusiasm and continue to build a deep connection with these fans by offering affordable, family fun right in their backyard.” “We’re very excited about this partnership with the Clippers in the formation of a new basketball team,” Tribal Chairman Jeff L. “Having a sports team named after our people is a great honor that recognizes the relevance of our history and culture as well as our existence today. Naming a team after a Tribe is a first for the NBA and the D-League.” Season tickets are available for as low as $14 a seat per game, and fans interested in purchasing season tickets can call 909-406-9090 or visit: For ticketing questions, e-mail: Two current Clippers have NBA D-League experience. Brice Johnson appeared in six games last season for the Salt Lake City Stars over two assignments with averages of 12.2 points and 6.5 rebounds in 19.3 minutes of action, while Diamond Stone appeared in 13 games with the Stars and Santa Cruz Warriors averaging 16.2 points and 7.0 rebounds in 21.7 minutes of play. For more information on the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario, visit: The Clippers’ new D-League affiliate is currently looking for talent to staff our new team. Please click to view full-time opportunities with the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario.
These downloads will update all English-language Vectorworks 2008 products (Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Machine Design, Fundamentals,. VectorWorks 2008 design software released. VectorWorks comes in different versions depending on whether you’re a designer, architect, landscape architect, engineer or set designer.
About the NBA Development League The NBA Development League is the NBA’s official minor league, preparing players, coaches, officials, trainers, and front-office staff for the NBA while acting as the league’s research and development laboratory. Featuring 22 teams with direct affiliations with NBA franchises for the 2016-17 season, the league offers elite professional basketball at an affordable price in a fun, family-friendly atmosphere. An all-time high 38 percent of all NBA players at the end of the 2015-16 season boasted NBA D-League experience. In fostering the league’s connection to the community, its teams, players and staff promote health and wellness, support local needs and interests, and assist in educational development through NBA D-League Cares programs. About the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians is a federally recognized Indian Tribe located in Palm Springs, California, with 31,500 acres of reservation lands that spread across Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, and into the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains. The Tribe owns Tahquitz and Indian Canyons recreational areas and operates two 18-hole championship golf courses, and the Agua Caliente Casino Resorts, which includes the Spa Resort Casino in downtown Palm Springs and the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage. For more information about the Tribe, visit www.aguacaliente-nsn.gov.
About CITIZENS BUSINESS BANK ARENA: Citizens Business Bank Arena, built and owned by the City of Ontario, operated by SMG, includes 9,500 fixed seats with additional “portable” seating risers to accommodate capacities of 11,089 for concerts, 9,736 for ice hockey or arena football and 10,832 for basketball. The 225,000 square foot venue features 36 luxury suites located on two levels and a continuous concourse hosting a variety of refreshment stands, merchandise kiosks, a VIP club and other fan amenities. Citizens Business Bank Arena hosts ice hockey, arena soccer, arena football, and a variety of other sporting competitions, concerts, family shows, special events, conventions, school and community activities as well as private events.
The Arena is home to Ontario Reign, an AHL Hockey Team and Ontario Fury, a Major Arena Soccer League Team. Citizens Business Bank Arena is the biggest and most modern arena within the Inland Empire, an area with over 4.2 million people. It is located in the City of Ontario, on a 37-acre parcel located between Haven Avenue and Milliken Avenue, Fourth Street and the I-10 Freeway. For more information and future updates please visit: CBBankArena.com.
VectorWorks has been one of the premiere CAD (computer-aided design) programs for the Macintosh for many years. Combining a powerful 2-D drafting environment with integrated 3-D modeling functionality, VectorWorks can take your project from planning to simple drafting to complex, photorealistic rendering. VectorWorks 2008 improves on and expands this already impressive array of capabilities. VectorWorks comprises six modules aimed at specific types of professional users. The slate of professionally targeted modules in the latest version is the same as in years past, but for each module, numerous enhancements make the program more user-friendly and powerful. VectorWorks Fundamentals includes most of the program’s core 2-D and 3-D CAD functions, but leaves out advanced rendering capabilities as well as many profession-specific features.
VectorWorks Architect, aimed at architects and similar design professionals, has loads of specialized tools such as space planning, door, wall, and window tools. VectorWorks Landmark is designed for landscape architecture and planning. VectorWorks Spotlight targets the entertainment industry, including theater, event planning, and exhibition. VectorWorks Machine Design is aimed at mechanical engineers.
RenderWorks, a high-end rendering module, can be added to and used with any VectorWorks module. VectorWorks Designer combines all of the modules into one huge package. A VectorWorks screen showing three externally referenced files. With VectorWorks 2008, Nemetschek has dropped its previous version-numbering scheme and plans to update the application on an annual basis from now on. (The company continues to periodically update the program with service packs and bug fixes; the latest Service Pack is 2.) Most of the interface improvements in VectorWorks 2008 apply to all of the modules.
That’s in addition to a slew of new features for selected versions. We’ll concentrate mainly on major new features that apply to all or most of the modules. Heads-up display In a wide-reaching interface overhaul, VectorWorks 2008 debuts a new floating data bar (also known as a heads-up display) that shows the dimensions and angles of your drawing in a floating display that moves with your cursor. This allows you to focus on your drawing without having to refer back to a palette or display on another part of the interface. You can configure the floating data bar so that it’s visible all of the time, none of the time, or only when you call for it, and it can provide various levels of basic or detailed information. Better presentations Non-rendered 2-D and 3-D elements in VectorWorks 2008 are no longer limited to the Mac’s system colors (or my favorite technique: mixing colors using the foregrounds and backgrounds in fill patterns). You can now choose from an unlimited number of colors.
In addition, VectorWorks 2008 includes color swatches from Pantone, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, and other paint vendors, which is convenient for architects and a big improvement over the previous versions when it comes to producing presentation drawings. This new version also gives you full control over opacity on an object-by-object basis. This allows for varying degrees of transparency for your drawing objects, which is very handy for presentations. If your version of VectorWorks includes RenderWorks, you’ll find that improved bump shaders (which simulate textures) give a more realistic effect to textured surfaces.
Playing nice with the competition VectorWorks 2008 adds import and export capabilities for the popular AutoCAD format—the industry standard—through the 2007/2008 formats. Nemetschek is doing a good job of keeping VectorWorks updated to work with the latest versions of AutoCAD. VectorWorks 2008 also has a new file format, so opening an existing file in 2008 will prompt you to save a new version in the new format. Export functions let you go back to VectorWorks versions 12, 11, and 10, if necessary.
Rotatable 2-D views All versions of VectorWorks 2008 except for Fundamentals simply and elegantly solve the problem of drawing areas or sections of your plans that are set at different angles from each other—for a house with a wing set at 60 degrees to the rest of the layout, for instance. When you want to work on parts of your drawing located in these different areas, you can temporarily rotate your plan and continue to draw at 0 and 90 degrees relative to your view on the screen. You can rotate your plan back to your original view at any time. New workgroup features VectorWorks 2008 has made workgroup management much easier by allowing you to manage content, resources, and preferences in external custom folders where managers can control where object libraries, symbols, details, textures, and hatches are stored, and who has access to them. This makes it easier to upgrade or add CAD stations to your office.
Also, once a project is underway, the additional resources such as symbols and library objects that are inevitably created specifically for that project are initially stored only in the specific project file. VectorWorks 2008 makes it easier to export these project resources back to the standard office-wide library file where all workgroup members will have access to them. Design layer viewports Viewports is a page-layout feature that lets you create sheets showing multiple views of the same model or drawing. Each view can have an independent scale, orientation, rendering, layer, and class visibility setting. These views are automatically updated when you change the master drawing.
You can add notes and dimensions to viewports and they can display information at different scales, making them a good way to show details or close-ups of your project. All versions of VectorWorks 2008 except Fundamentals expand on viewports by allowing them to reference external VectorWorks files and images so you can display them from within your drawing. The referenced files remain separate; they’re not imported into your drawing and therefore do not increase the size of your file. Allowing viewports to display external files is very important for mid-size and large offices where various people are working on the same project. Different people can work on referenced files individually while the master file can be updated at any time incorporating the entire workgroup’s progress. This feature is also useful for any office that is using standard details, product spec sheets, schedules, or documents provided by team members from remote locations. Referenced files can be VectorWorks files, PDF files, or image files in formats such as PSD, JPEG, or GIF.
VectorWorks’ interface for viewports has always been a bit confusing, but in the 2008 version, it has been streamlined; getting in and out of the feature is easier, and there are other useful additions as well, such as the ability to create associative dimensions (so that when an object is changed, its dimensions automatically change) and flipped text. VectorWorks viewports are still complex, but the improvements in 2008 are a step in the right direction. An improvement I would like to see is the ability to have multiple viewports referencing external files on the same layer, even if they are of different scales. Currently, if I am assembling a page of details made up of viewports, I’d need to create a separate layer for each detail that has a different scale. Two Way worksheets New for 2008 (again, in all versions except Fundamentals) is a feature called Two Way worksheets, which lets you edit an attribute within a spreadsheet so that it is reflected in the actual model. Worksheets—something VectorWorks has had for years—are basically spreadsheets that are linked to the CAD drawings and can perform calculations as well as return and display information about a model, including areas, dimensions, and specific types of objects or symbols. Architects, for instance, might use worksheets to create window or door schedules where the total number of each kind of door is displayed with a key number, dimensions, and a manufacturer.
This great new feature syncs your drawings and other project information in real time. Walls in 3-D If you’re working with the Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, or Designer modules, a new modeling capability enables you to edit wall components in 3-D. Prior to 2008, wall components had to be edited in the 2-D Plan view. Now, from within any 3-D view, such as the Isometric view, you can create, move, join, and edit walls. The VectorWorks interface gives you visual clues while you draw to help ensure that your wall is placed where you want it. You can also place and edit symbols and objects such as doors and windows from within any 3-D view. There’s also an expanded object library that includes a Herman Miller Furniture library, an updated Marvin Windows and Doors library, and a new Sub-Zero and Wolf appliance library.
Landmark VectorWorks Landmark users get an improved Plant tool that treats plant objects more like VectorWorks symbol objects and offers more control over individual plant attributes. They’ll also have an easier time importing plants from other projects and editing both 2-D and 3-D views of plant objects. Another nice addition for Landmark is a plant database of over 1,000 plants, including characteristics, colors, uses, and growing zones. The database is a separate file that can be launched from within Landmark, but it also runs as a standalone FileMaker Pro database (FileMaker is not required) and can access the Web automatically to call up images of the plants in the database. You can also transfer data from the plant database to your VectorWorks file, which aids in placing selected plants.
This integration is currently about a six-step process in Landmark. I would like to be able to select a corresponding symbol object right from the database and start using it in VectorWorks with proper records automatically filled in from the database.
The Landmark version has been able to import shape files (.shp)—used for mapping and planning—for some time. Landmark 2008 adds support for geo-referenced image files—raster files (such as GIF or JPEG) that have an associated World file. The World file stores scale, location, and rotation information about the image file. By importing geo-referenced image files, Landmark can now automatically align these images over shape files. For instance, you can now import aerial photography (if available as geo-reference images) on to your plan and have the images automatically scaled and aligned with each other and the underlying plan.
Spotlight Spotlight 2008 adds advanced beam geometry, including elliptical light sources and support for shutter cuts in both wireframe and rendered modes. You can also control the light source in a lighting instrument with the Visualization palette, accessing the brightness, spread, color, and fall. Macworld’s buying advice Considering only the improvements common to all of the VectorWorks 2008 modules (that are available in Fundamentals), this new version is extensive and its additions significant. I wish the Rotate Page and Design Layer Viewports (for referencing external files) were also part of the Fundamentals package. If you’re in a profession specifically targeted by one of VectorWorks’ design programs—Architect, Spotlight, Landmark, or Machine Design—VectorWorks 2008 is a great CAD program that provides a great value for the price. If you just want a basic CAD program for drafting, VectorWorks 2008 Fundamentals can handle that with ease. But there are less expensive alternatives for basic drafting.
With VectorWorks, you will want to leverage 3-D modeling, rendering, and workflow tools. I recommend taking advantage of the free training videos on the Nemetschek Web site, and even the more advanced training CDs available online. Greg Miller is an architect and an interactive software and Web developer specializing in new media for the architecture, engineering, construction, and publishing markets.