488 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
It's the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest . Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . . takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes; nuances in word meanings; textual analysis, authorship, structure, and other skills for reading fiction and nonfiction; and writing arguments, informative texts, and narratives. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK(tm) series is built on a simple and irresistible conceit--borrowing the notes from the smartest kid in class. There are five books in all, and each is the only book you need for each main subject taught in middle school: Math, Science, American History, English Language Arts, and World History. Inside the reader will find every subject's key concepts, easily digested and summarized: Critical ideas highlighted in neon colors. Definitions explained. Doodles that illuminate tricky concepts in marker. Mnemonics for memorable shortcuts. And quizzes to recap it all. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOKS meet Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and state history standards, and are vetted by National and State Teacher of the Year Award-winning teachers. They make learning fun, and are the perfect next step for every kid who grew up on Brain Quest .
English language -- Study and teaching (Middle school).
Haberling, J., & Stanton, K. J. (2016). Everything you need to ace English Language Arts in one big fat notebook: the complete middle school study guide. New York: Workman Publishing.
Haberling, Jen and Kevin Jay, Stanton. 2016. Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide. New York: Workman Publishing.
Haberling, Jen and Kevin Jay, Stanton, Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide. New York: Workman Publishing, 2016.
Haberling, Jen,, and Kevin Jay Stanton. Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide. New York: Workman Publishing, 2016. Print.
|a Everything you need to ace English Language Arts in one big fat notebook : |b the complete middle school study guide / |c borrowed from the smartest kid in class ; double-checked by Jen Haberling ; illustrator, Kevin Jay Stanton.
|a English Language Arts in one big fat notebook.
|a 488 pages : |b color illustrations ; |c 22 cm.
|a Language arts (Middle school).
|a English language |x Study and teaching (Middle school).
|a Haberling, Jen, |e contributor.
|a Stanton, Kevin Jay, |e illustrator.


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package com.google.javascript.jscomp;

import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import com.google.javascript.jscomp.NodeTraversal.AbstractShallowStatementCallback;
import com.google.javascript.jscomp.NodeTraversal.Callback;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.IR;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.JSDocInfo;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.JSDocInfoBuilder;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.JSTypeExpression;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.Node;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.Token;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.jstype.JSType;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * The goal of this pass is to shrink the AST, preserving only typing, not behavior.
 *
 *
To do this, it does things like removing function/method bodies, rvalues that are not needed,
 * expressions that are not declarations, etc.
 *
 *
This is conceptually similar to the ijar tool[1] that bazel uses to shrink jars into minimal
 * versions that can be used equivalently for compilation of downstream dependencies.

 * [1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/third_party/ijar/README.txt
 *
 * @author blickly@google.com (Ben Lickly)
 */
class ConvertToTypedInterface implements CompilerPass {

  static final DiagnosticType CONSTANT_WITHOUT_EXPLICIT_TYPE =
      DiagnosticType.error(
          "JSC_CONSTANT_WITHOUT_EXPLICIT_TYPE",
          "/** @const */-annotated values in library API should have types explicitly specified.");

  private final AbstractCompiler compiler;

  ConvertToTypedInterface(AbstractCompiler compiler) {
    this.compiler = compiler;
  }

  @Override
  public void process(Node externs, Node root) {
    NodeTraversal.traverseEs6(compiler, root, new PropagateConstJsdoc(compiler));
    NodeTraversal.traverseEs6(compiler, root, new RemoveCode(compiler));
  }

  private static class PropagateConstJsdoc extends NodeTraversal.AbstractPostOrderCallback {
    private final AbstractCompiler compiler;

    PropagateConstJsdoc(AbstractCompiler compiler) {
      this.compiler = compiler;
    }

    @Override
    public void visit(NodeTraversal t, Node n, Node parent) {
      switch (n.getType()) {
        case EXPR_RESULT:
          if (NodeUtil.isExprAssign(n)) {
            Node expr = n.getFirstChild();
            processName(t, expr.getFirstChild());
          }
          break;
        case VAR:
        case CONST:
        case LET:
          if (n.getChildCount() == 1) {
            processName(t, n.getFirstChild());
          }
          break;
        default:
          break;
      }
    }

    private void processName(NodeTraversal t, Node nameNode) {
      Node jsdocNode = NodeUtil.getBestJSDocInfoNode(nameNode);
      JSDocInfo jsdoc = jsdocNode.getJSDocInfo();
      if (!isInferrableConst(jsdoc, nameNode)) {
        return;
      }
      Node rhs = NodeUtil.getRValueOfLValue(nameNode);
      if (rhs == null) {
        return;
      }
      JSDocInfo newJsdoc = getJSDocForRhs(t, rhs, jsdoc);
      if (newJsdoc != null) {
        jsdocNode.setJSDocInfo(newJsdoc);
        compiler.reportCodeChange();
      }
    }

    private static JSDocInfo getJSDocForRhs(NodeTraversal t, Node rhs, JSDocInfo oldJSDoc) {
      switch (NodeUtil.getKnownValueType(rhs)) {
        case BOOLEAN:
          return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, "boolean");
        case NUMBER:
          return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, "number");
        case STRING:
          return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, "string");
        case NULL:
          return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, "null");
        case VOID:
          return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, "void");
        case OBJECT:
          break;
        case UNDETERMINED:
          if (rhs.isName()) {
            Var decl = t.getScope().getVar(rhs.getString());
            return getJSDocForName(decl, oldJSDoc);
          }
          break;
      }
      return null;
    }

    private static JSDocInfo getJSDocForName(Var decl, JSDocInfo oldJSDoc) {
      if (decl == null) {
        return null;
      }
      JSTypeExpression expr = NodeUtil.getDeclaredTypeExpression(decl.getNameNode());
      if (expr == null) {
        return null;
      }
      return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, expr);
    }

  }

  private static class RemoveCode implements Callback {
    private final AbstractCompiler compiler;
    private final Set<String> seenNames = new HashSet<>();

    RemoveCode(AbstractCompiler compiler) {
      this.compiler = compiler;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean shouldTraverse(NodeTraversal t, Node n, Node parent) {
      switch (n.getType()) {
        case FUNCTION: {
          if (parent.isCall()) {
            Preconditions.checkState(!parent.getFirstChild().matchesQualifiedName("goog.scope"),
                parent);
          }
          Node body = n.getLastChild();
          if (body.isBlock() && body.hasChildren()) {
            if (isConstructor(n)) {
              processConstructor(n);
            }
            n.getLastChild().removeChildren();
            compiler.reportCodeChange();
          }
          break;
        }
        case EXPR_RESULT:
          Node expr = n.getFirstChild();
          switch (expr.getType()) {
            case NUMBER:
            case STRING:
              n.detachFromParent();
              compiler.reportCodeChange();
              break;
            case CALL:
              Node callee = expr.getFirstChild();
              Preconditions.checkState(!callee.matchesQualifiedName("goog.scope"), n);
              Preconditions.checkState(!callee.matchesQualifiedName("goog.forwardDeclare"), n);
              if (callee.matchesQualifiedName("goog.provide")) {
                Node childBefore;
                while (null != (childBefore = n.getPrevious())
                    && childBefore.getBooleanProp(Node.IS_NAMESPACE)) {
                  parent.removeChild(childBefore);
                  compiler.reportCodeChange();
                }
              } else if (!callee.matchesQualifiedName("goog.require")) {
                n.detachFromParent();
                compiler.reportCodeChange();
              }
              break;
            case ASSIGN:
              processName(expr.getFirstChild(), n);
              break;
            case GETPROP:
              processName(expr, n);
              break;
            default:
              if (expr.getJSDocInfo() == null) {
                n.detachFromParent();
                compiler.reportCodeChange();
              }
              break;
          }
          break;
        case VAR:
        case CONST:
        case LET:
          if (n.getChildCount() == 1) {
            processName(n.getFirstChild(), n);
          }
          break;
        case THROW:
        case RETURN:
        case BREAK:
        case CONTINUE:
        case DEBUGGER:
          n.detachFromParent();
          compiler.reportCodeChange();
          break;
        case FOR_OF:
        case DO:
        case WHILE:
        case FOR: {
          Node body = NodeUtil.getLoopCodeBlock(n);
          parent.replaceChild(n, body.detachFromParent());
          Node initializer = n.isFor() ? n.getFirstChild() : IR.empty();
          if (NodeUtil.isNameDeclaration(initializer)) {
            parent.addChildBefore(initializer.detachFromParent(), body);
            processName(initializer.getFirstChild(), initializer);
          }
          compiler.reportCodeChange();
          break;
        }
        case LABEL:
          parent.replaceChild(n, n.getSecondChild().detachFromParent());
          compiler.reportCodeChange();
          break;
        default:
          break;
      }
      return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void visit(NodeTraversal t, Node n, Node parent) {
      switch (n.getType()) {
        case TRY:
        case DEFAULT_CASE:
          parent.replaceChild(n, n.getFirstChild().detachFromParent());
          compiler.reportCodeChange();
          break;
        case IF:
        case SWITCH:
        case CASE:
          parent.addChildrenAfter(n.removeChildren().getNext(), n);
          n.detachFromParent();
          compiler.reportCodeChange();
          break;
        default:
          break;
      }
    }

    private void processConstructor(final Node function) {
      final String className = getClassName(function);
      if (className == null) {
        return;
      }
      final Node insertionPoint = NodeUtil.getEnclosingStatement(function);
      NodeTraversal.traverseEs6(
          compiler, function.getLastChild(), new AbstractShallowStatementCallback() {
            @Override
            public void visit(NodeTraversal t, Node n, Node parent) {
              if (n.isExprResult()) {
                Node expr = n.getFirstChild();
                Node name = expr.isAssign() ? expr.getFirstChild() : expr;
                if (!name.isGetProp() || !name.getFirstChild().isThis()) {
                  return;
                }
                String pname = name.getLastChild().getString();
                String fullyQualifiedName = className + ".prototype." + pname;
                if (seenNames.contains(fullyQualifiedName)) {
                  return;
                }
                JSType type = name.getJSType();
                JSDocInfo jsdoc = NodeUtil.getBestJSDocInfo(name);
                if (jsdoc == null) {
                  jsdoc = getAllTypeJSDoc();
                } else if (isInferrableConst(jsdoc, name)) {
                  jsdoc = maybeUpdateJSDocInfoWithType(jsdoc, name);
                  if (type == null) {
                    compiler.report(JSError.make(name, CONSTANT_WITHOUT_EXPLICIT_TYPE));
                    return;
                  }
                }
                Node newProtoAssignStmt =
                    NodeUtil.newQNameDeclaration(compiler, fullyQualifiedName, null, jsdoc);
                newProtoAssignStmt.useSourceInfoIfMissingFromForTree(expr);
                // TODO(blickly): Preserve the declaration order of the this properties.
                insertionPoint.getParent().addChildAfter(newProtoAssignStmt, insertionPoint);
                compiler.reportCodeChange();
                seenNames.add(fullyQualifiedName);
              }
            }
          });
    }

    enum RemovalType {
      PRESERVE_ALL,
      REMOVE_RHS,
      REMOVE_ALL,
    }

    private RemovalType shouldRemove(Node nameNode) {
      Node jsdocNode = NodeUtil.getBestJSDocInfoNode(nameNode);
      JSDocInfo jsdoc = jsdocNode.getJSDocInfo();
      Node rhs = NodeUtil.getRValueOfLValue(nameNode);
      // System.err.println("RHS of " + nameNode + " is " + rhs);
      if (rhs == null
          || rhs.isFunction()
          || rhs.isQualifiedName() && rhs.matchesQualifiedName("goog.abstractMethod")
          || rhs.isQualifiedName() && rhs.matchesQualifiedName("goog.nullFunction")
          || (rhs.isObjectLit()
              && !rhs.hasChildren()
              && (jsdoc == null || !hasAnnotatedType(jsdoc)))) {
        return RemovalType.PRESERVE_ALL;
      }
      if (jsdoc == null
          || !jsdoc.containsDeclaration()) {
        if (seenNames.contains(nameNode.getQualifiedName())) {
          return RemovalType.REMOVE_ALL;
        }
        jsdocNode.setJSDocInfo(getAllTypeJSDoc());
        return RemovalType.REMOVE_RHS;
      }
      if (isInferrableConst(jsdoc, nameNode)) {
        if (nameNode.getJSType() == null) {
          compiler.report(JSError.make(nameNode, CONSTANT_WITHOUT_EXPLICIT_TYPE));
          return RemovalType.PRESERVE_ALL;
        }
        jsdocNode.setJSDocInfo(maybeUpdateJSDocInfoWithType(jsdoc, nameNode));
      }
      return RemovalType.REMOVE_RHS;
    }

    private void processName(Node nameNode, Node statement) {
      Preconditions.checkState(NodeUtil.isStatement(statement), statement);
      if (!nameNode.isQualifiedName()) {
        // We don't track these. We can just remove them.
        removeNode(statement);
        return;
      }
      Node jsdocNode = NodeUtil.getBestJSDocInfoNode(nameNode);
      switch (shouldRemove(nameNode)) {
        case REMOVE_ALL:
          removeNode(statement);
          break;
        case PRESERVE_ALL:
          break;
        case REMOVE_RHS:
          maybeRemoveRhs(nameNode, statement, jsdocNode.getJSDocInfo());
          break;
      }
      seenNames.add(nameNode.getQualifiedName());
    }

    private void removeNode(Node n) {
      if (NodeUtil.isStatement(n)) {
        n.detachFromParent();
      } else {
        n.getParent().replaceChild(n, IR.empty().srcref(n));
      }
      compiler.reportCodeChange();
    }

    private void maybeRemoveRhs(Node nameNode, Node statement, JSDocInfo jsdoc) {
      if (jsdoc != null && jsdoc.hasEnumParameterType()) {
        removeEnumValues(NodeUtil.getRValueOfLValue(nameNode));
        return;
      }
      Node newStatement =
          NodeUtil.newQNameDeclaration(compiler, nameNode.getQualifiedName(), null, jsdoc);
      newStatement.useSourceInfoIfMissingFromForTree(nameNode);
      statement.getParent().replaceChild(statement, newStatement);
      compiler.reportCodeChange();
    }

    private void removeEnumValues(Node objLit) {
      if (objLit.isObjectLit() && objLit.hasChildren()) {
        for (Node key : objLit.children()) {
          Node value = key.getFirstChild();
          Node replacementValue = IR.number(0).srcrefTree(value);
          key.replaceChild(value, replacementValue);
        }
        compiler.reportCodeChange();
      }
    }
  }

  private static boolean isInferrableConst(JSDocInfo jsdoc, Node nameNode) {
    return jsdoc != null
        && jsdoc.hasConstAnnotation()
        && !hasAnnotatedType(jsdoc)
        && !NodeUtil.isNamespaceDecl(nameNode);
  }

  private static boolean hasAnnotatedType(JSDocInfo jsdoc) {
    return jsdoc.hasType()
        || jsdoc.hasReturnType()
        || jsdoc.getParameterCount() > 0
        || jsdoc.isConstructorOrInterface()
        || jsdoc.hasThisType()
        || jsdoc.hasEnumParameterType();
  }

  private static boolean isClassMemberFunction(Node functionNode) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(functionNode.isFunction());
    return functionNode.getParent().isMemberFunctionDef()
        && functionNode.getGrandparent().isClassMembers();
  }

  private static String getClassName(Node functionNode) {
    if (isClassMemberFunction(functionNode)) {
      Node classNode = functionNode.getGrandparent().getParent();
      Preconditions.checkState(classNode.isClass());
      return NodeUtil.getName(classNode);
    }
    return NodeUtil.getName(functionNode);
  }

  private static boolean isConstructor(Node functionNode) {
    if (isClassMemberFunction(functionNode)) {
      return "constructor".equals(functionNode.getParent().getString());
    }
    JSDocInfo jsdoc = NodeUtil.getBestJSDocInfo(functionNode);
    return jsdoc != null && jsdoc.isConstructor();
  }

  private static JSDocInfo getAllTypeJSDoc() {
    JSDocInfoBuilder builder = new JSDocInfoBuilder(false);
    builder.recordType(new JSTypeExpression(new Node(Token.STAR), ""));
    return builder.build();
  }

  private static JSDocInfo maybeUpdateJSDocInfoWithType(JSDocInfo oldJSDoc, Node nameNode) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(nameNode.isQualifiedName());
    JSType type = nameNode.getJSType();
    if (type == null) {
      return oldJSDoc;
    }
    return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, type.toNonNullAnnotationString());
  }

  private static JSDocInfo getTypeJSDoc(JSDocInfo oldJSDoc, JSTypeExpression newType) {
    JSDocInfoBuilder builder = JSDocInfoBuilder.copyFrom(oldJSDoc);
    builder.recordType(newType);
    return builder.build();
  }

  private static JSDocInfo getTypeJSDoc(JSDocInfo oldJSDoc, String contents) {
    return getTypeJSDoc(oldJSDoc, new JSTypeExpression(Node.newString(contents), ""));
  }
}

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2. "Mah Nishtanah/What is the difference..." -- Tonight is reviewed/repeated (nishtanah) our attachment to Moshe Rabeinu/the Tzadik haDor, who is MaH, as it says, " וְנַחְנוּ מָה/ve'nachnu MaH/we are what"? (Ex. 16:7) This also permutes as נחמן הוו/Nachman haVaV -- Nachman is the Vav, i.e. the Tzadik Yesod Olam. MaH -- Mem He -- Take our water, take our Torah. MaH -- Me-Hei -- from the Hei -- al pi kabbalah the middle matza, seen as a letter Hei, is broken into a smaller piece shaped as Daleth and a larger piece shaped as Vav, the latter being hid as the Afikoman. Seems to me this is Moshe Rabeinu from shevet Levi, i.e. the Tzadik haDor (as is known, the the three Matzot stand for Kohen, Levi, Yisrael). Moshe Rabeinu is the secret, he is hidden, his grave is hidden, the Tzadik is still hidden. But he's coming back, so the Afikoman comes back -- Az Yashir Moshe -- Then, in the future (to sing the new song Y YK YKV YKVK, Tikunei haZohar #21, daf 51b; hinting to the Resurrection, Sanh. 91b, Mechilta, and as brought by Rashi in Ex. 15:1).
And this goes with the pshat of the Ramban et. al. that the afikoman is a commemoration of the Korban Pesach, as it has already been counted that Pesach=148=NACHMAN. And indeed, TZAFUN, BAREKH, HALLEL -- when the hidden Moshe returns, we bless and sing! So may we merit to the New Song speedily in our days.
Happy Pesach! N NH NHM NHMN.
P.S. Overheard in a conversation here... "..Which Rebbe?" "There is One Rebbe. Hashem is One? So there is One Rebbe."


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Main reason of the rebuild was to incorporate the Blackout integrated PCB board with leds.
And to replace the Open Pilot CCD with an AcroNaze32 which I find to fly better, at least in my hands.
For the first time a drone has flown through (part of) the 9.7 km long Noord/Zuidlijn, a new underground North/South subway line that is now under construction in Amsterdam.
The drone, fitted with an HD-camera, flies from the north of Amsterdam under the river IJ, the Central Station and the historic center of Amsterdam.
You can't miss this video by YouTube iser Buddhanz1 in which a DJI Phantom quadcopter is taken down by an angry ram, who did not like the invasion of his privacy.


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WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Abdel Nader
Rob Gray, Mar 08 •	0 Comments
Former Cyclones star Abdel Nader (4) shoots over Iowa Energy players Sunday, March 5, at Wells Fargo Arena. Nader scored 14 points and helped the Maine Red Claws win, 110-82. (Rob Gray photo)
DES MOINES — His long, powerful legs bent awkwardly, uncomfortably.
Abdel Nader's utterly out of place — physically — in economy class, where legroom vanishes as he contorts his 6-foot-8 frame into the tiny space.
Zero glamour. Zero perks. But the former Iowa State star's doggedly pursuing a dream, and both the struggle and the promise reside in his well-plotted NBA D-League journey that, on Sunday, touched down briefly in Des Moines.
"Oh, you're squeezed on those planes, man," said Nader, who's averaging 21.4 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists in his first season as a pro. "It's tough. It's not like you're flying first-class or anything, either. It's a grind — and that's just one thing, you know? From practices to all those things, you have to be mentally prepared."
Nader's life emerges as a study in the art of mental and occasionally emotional preparation and adaptation.
His family moved to the U.S. from Egypt when he was three. His first college choice — Northern Illinois — didn't work out, and he almost cut short his stay at ISU, too, when his first coach, Fred Hoiberg, left prior to his senior season to coach the Chicago Bulls.
Enter Steve Prohm, who sprang into action to keep Nader on campus.
"I went and saw his mom and then just sitting down with him after a couple weeks of being here I think he felt like he was in a better place," Prohm told Cyclone Fanatic. "And ever since that last meeting with him, I think he was as good of a guy as a coached that year, from being an everyday guy, to being really coachable and just doing the right things every day."
Nader's mind doesn't wander. It stays squarely in the moment, neither looking back, nor fixated on the future — though by all accounts, his shimmers.
"Iowa State did great things for me," Nader said. "The fans, the whole basketball program, the school, the university — grateful to it. I'm happy I stayed."
That decision helped land the Cyclones in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the second time in three seasons. It also allowed Nader's bond to deepen with fellow seniors such as Georges Niang and (medical redshirt) Naz Mitrou-Long.
"He grew a love for the game and a habit that I completely relate to, which allowed us to just become brothers," Mitrou-Long told me last year. "Duley's going to be one of my best friends until the day I die, man. He'll be at my wedding, I'll be at his. Throughout life, man, it's going to be a special relationship that we have. Blood couldn't make us any closer and I mean that."
Nader said it's hard to be down when Naz is around.
"He just brings energy to a room," Nader said. "He's one of a kind individual. There's some guys that are going to come into a room and they suck the energy out. He's the complete opposite. He just comes in there and gets the team ready to go to work every day."
Feb 29, 2016; Ames, IA, USA; Iowa State Cyclones forward Abdel Nader (2) dunks over the top of Oklahoma State Cowboys forward Mitchell Solomon (41) at James H. Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones beat the Cowboys 58-50. Mandatory Credit: Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports
Nader approached last June 23 just like any other NBA Draft night. Sure, he was eligible to be selected, but he felt resigned to going the undrafted free agent route. So Nader gathered with his mom, dad and girlfriend at home in Chicago. He celebrated when Niang was tabbed by the Indiana Pacers with the 50th pick. Then several selections later, his phone rang.
"The day before I had just worked out for the New Orleans Pelicans," Nader said. "Just got back home. It was a long, long pre-draft process for me. I worked out for 17 teams, so that was the end of it. I was beat and I was at home with my mom, my girlfriend and some other people, just watching the draft. Next thing I know I get a call from Boston, like three picks before I'm about to get drafted and they tell me they're going to pick me up. … I had no idea. Some teams had said they had some interest in drafting me. I'd had a pretty good pre-draft, but I didn't think anything of it."
Surprise! The Celtics took Nader with the 58th pick and another journey began — this time, through the D-League, where Boston planned to stow Nader in hopes of grooming him for the big club in 2017-18.
"They wanted to invest in me and that's what they did," Nader said.
Red Claws coach Scott Morrison said Nader's success at the next level hinges on improving on the defensive end and cutting back on turnovers. Scoring and getting to the rim are Nader's strengths, as well as crashing the glass and finding open teammates when driving lines are closed off.
"I think maybe three games ago he flirted with a triple-double," Morrison said. "He's had two or three games where he's come close to getting a triple-double. When he goes out there and plays like that, its more than I would have expected of him, more than probably everyone expected. For him to go out there and get like 28, 9, and 8, pretty impressive at this level and the way he does it is also impressive. He can get to the rim and finish with his left hand, he can get into the paint and use his mid-range game and he can knock down 3's with the game on the line. He's an excellent scorer, excellent offensive player and if we can get his defense caught up to that, he'll have a long career in the NBA."
Prohm saw it coming. Upon arriving in Ames, he noticed Nader's skills and attributes and felt they'd translate well to the pro game.
"When I got here, you knew Niang, you knew (Jameel) McKay, you knew Monté (Morris)," Prohm said. "And then I'm watching this kid, Abdel Nader, and I'm like, 'I think he's a pro. I think he's got a chance to be a pro.' And the more I watched him, the more I thought that it was a possibility, because the one thing Abdel has — obviously the ability to shoot, but he has the size and the athleticism that gives him a true position at the NBA level, on that wing spot. So that's what I thought really gave him a chance."
Abdel Nader (4) leads the Maine Red Claws in scoring this season at 21.4 points per game. (Rob Gray photo)
Nader played in the D-League All-Star game this season and NBADL.com considers him next season's third-best NBA prospect. Prohm said they hadn't been in contact for a while until Nader texted him recently.
"Just checking in and saying congratulations on the regular season," Prohm said.
Nader's ties to Ames remain extensive. They encircle both the place and the people. What's grown from it forms a pillar of mutual respect and deep appreciation for what was, what is, and what may be.
"I love it, man," Nader said of the Cyclones' 20-win season and tied-for-second-place Big 12 finish. "I love the run they went on. They lost a tough one (Friday at West Virginia). I'm really proud and I think they won six in a row and yeah, man, I'm just excited. I hope they go on a big run."
While they attempt to do just that, starting this week in Kansas City, Nader will continue making big strides in cramped spaces. He just disembarked from a long bus ride to Chicago for tonight's 8 p.m. game against Windy City. The plan's progressing and the dream's within reach, but Nader will lace up his sneakers tonight thinking only of the next 48 minutes. The present, however compartmentalized, is almost perfect — and it's all he has for now.
"It's nice to be wanted," Nader said, "Anytime you're wanted it's a good thing. I think that's helped me a lot, just knowing that, because the D-League season is a long season. It's a grind. Travel sucks. Almost everything sucks about it except actually playing, so it would be hard to do if the Celtics organization didn't have my back like they do right now. Like I said, I'm grateful for everything."
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Mattie Do, Laos' Sole Female Director, Scares Up Attention With Dearest Sister
Nathan Mattise
The filmmaker's second feature isn't just a genre festival darling—it's a rare look inside a nation many people simply aren't familiar with.
Mattie Do at a Dearest Sister screening at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016.Jack Plunkett
The world of genre movies can be an insular one, with low budgets and distribution difficulties that hinder even well-regarded projects. But what might seem like constraints to another filmmaker are for director Mattie Do a world of possibility. When Do, who is from Laos, premiered her horror movie *Dearest Sister *at Austin's Fantastic Fest in September, it was her home country's 13th film—not of 2016, but ever.
Laos has operated under a strict Communist government since the 1970s, and non-propaganda filmmaking only started there in the last decade. That makes Do, who was born in Los Angeles to Lao parents and moved to Vientiane in 2010, not just one of a small handful of filmmakers in the country, but the only horror director—and the only woman. She's responsible for two of the country's 13 features thus far, and already has plans for a third piece in her ongoing trilogy. (Where her debut, *Chanthaly, *addressed a Lao woman's place in family, and *Dearest Sister *explores a Lao woman in her society, the third film will examine Lao women in foreign society.)
"Everyone knows about Japanese film or about films from Korea and India, but who the hell has seen a Lao film? No one," Do says. "If you go research Laos, you find very little. And whatever you see is from the lens of some traveler who's only been there a week or two, someone who finds poverty charming. The portrayal Westerners have of my country is a sham, and that's why I wanted to portray it." After its Fantastic Fest debut, *Dearest Sister *has spread to festivals across the globe. It was selected as the opening-night feature for October's inaugural Brooklyn Horror Fest, and screenings have popped up in Europe, Asia, and South America.
The movie follows Ana and Nok, two cousins on opposite ends of Laos' class structure. When Ana starts to go blind, her husband sends for Nok, who leaves her family in rural poverty and goes to the city to care for Ana, hoping to earn some money for her struggling relatives in return. But as Ana's condition worsens, she seems to be having visions—and only Nok is around to interpret the numeric messages that will dramatically change their relationship.
While a genre like comedy doesn't necessarily resonate outside of the culture it was created within---Do has tried to show *Arrested Development *to non-Americans without success---Do found that horror was uniquely well-suited to translation. And when an audience can connect to Dearest Sister's plot, they're primed to pick up on its uniquely Lao cultural depictions. "They can understand it as a genre film, but they really start to see it as a snapshot of what's happening in modern day Lao," Do says. "Because genre is so universal, horror so thrilling, a lot of people will go and watch it. When they see there's social drama, they seem to think that's really cool, too."
As such, *Dearest Sister *shows viewers more about Laos than any documentarian or travel blogger ever has. Throughout its increasingly eerie slow burn, Do explores Lao family dynamics, class divides, gender politics, and superstition surrounding luck and death. But it's much more than a socio-academic exercise: It plays with your expectations, draws out the tension of its most suspenseful plot thread, and unleashes beautiful but horrifying sequences.
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Do doesn't possess any formal background in filmmaking; she used to work in ballet and makeup, though as a child in California she soaked up films with her dad that might not have been entirely age-approporiate (think *Terminator *before 10). Now, those influences are pushing their way out of her, even if the process is completely unbounded. "I'm making stories that are floating around in my head, in environments I'm around, but I have no context of what a story should or can be," she says.
This inexperience proves to be an advantage in Laos' work-in-progress film infrastructure, as Do improvises solutions where others might meet frustration. She enlists her screenwriter husband to help her put ideas onto the page. She's crowdfunded and worked with a Lao brewery to back her productions, within which a luxurious crew might be 10 people (major US films will have a bigger crew than that just to be camera operators). And throughout Do's filmmaking, she's used her home as a setting, cast her own dog in a role, and trained actors on-set. Seeing the results, you'd never guess *Dearest Sister *stems from such a non-traditional process.
Perhaps best of all—better than her budding career, better than her new kick-ass thriller, *maybe *even better than pushing Lao film forward—Do wants others to be able to follow her path. She's insisted on hiring interns at fair wages during her productions, even when finding such work in Laos period isn't always possible. And when her first film became a favorite of piracy site EZTV, Do decided to put the raw footage online in the public domain and allow other aspiring filmmakers to peek behind the curtain.
"I had no one teaching me besides my husband, I had no film school," she says. "You can't just knock on a filmmaker's door and say, 'Teach me,'" she says. "There are all these hopefuls out there that don't know what a film looks like behind the scenes, but if they have all the pieces, they can do what I did and blunder through it, too." The real horror here? If *Dearest Sister *is Do just blundering through, the final piece of her trilogy is going to be downright frightening.
Dearest Sister continues to screen at film festivals across the globe, with its most recent dates listed on its Facebook page. The film was recently added to Shudder, a streaming site for horror, in the UK.
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Gösta Ehrnberg var son till garveridirektör Alfred Ehrnberg och brorson till Gustaf Ehrnberg. Han genomgick Malmö tekniska skola och utbildade sig därefter genom praktik och resor utomlands till fackman inom lädertillverkningen. 1913–1916 och 1919–1922 besökte han Danmark, Tyskland, Belgien, Storbritannien och Frankrike. 1922 blev Ehrnberg VD och 1939 styrelseordförande i Ehrnbergs & Sons Läderfabrik med dotterbolag i Simrishamn. Förutom den tidigare tillverkningen av bottenläder och grövre ovanläder togs under Ehrnbergs tid upp tillverkning av möbel-, bil- och bokbinderiläder och andra färgade lädersorter. Gösta Ehrnberg var fullmäktig i Svenska arbetsgivareföreningen, Sveriges industriförbund och Skånes handelskammare samt styrelseordförande i Svenska garveriidkareföreningen, ordförande i Simrishamns sparbank, vice ordförande i Skånska sparbanksföreningen med mera. Han gjorde betydande insatser inom den skånska kulturminnesvården, och innehade framskjutna förtroendeposter där. 1936 erhöll Ehrnberg Vitterhetsakademiens silvermedalj och Hazeliusmedaljen, blev 1942 korresponderande ledamot av Vitterhetsakademien och var 1920 stiftande ledamot av Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund. Han skrev bland annat Garvareskrået, gamla garvare och garverier i Simrishamn (1929).

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Mahathir: Israel is a state of thieves
Dubbing Israel as "a state of thieves", Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamed on Friday said his country enjoys friendly relations with every country in the world except for Israel.
"We are not against Jews, but we cannot recognize Israel because of its occupation of the Palestinian land," Mahathir said in his remarks, aired by local broadcasters, during his three-day visit to Pakistan on Friday.
"You cannot seize others' land, and establish a state on it. It's like a state of thieves", he went on to say.
His remarks came one day after US president Donald Trump said it was time for the US to recognize Israel's control of the Syrian Golan Heights.
Malaysian PM Mahathir: Israel 'a state of robbers'
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has dubbed Israel as "a state of robbers", saying his country enjoys friendly relations with every country in the world except Israel.
"We are not against Jews but we cannot recognize Israel because of its occupation of Palestinian land," Mahathir said in remarks aired by local broadcasters during his three-day visit to Pakistan.
"You cannot seize others' lands, and form a state. It's like a state of robbers," he added.
His remarks came a day after US President Donald Trump said it was time to recognize Syria's Golan Heights, occupied since 1967, as Israeli territory.
Trump's announcement came ahead of a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States next week.
Netanyahu has been pressing Washington for years to recognize Israel's claim to the occupied Golan Heights.
Earlier this month, the US State Department changed its usual description of the Golan Heights from "Israeli-occupied" to "Israeli-controlled" in an annual global human rights report.
Washington's recognition of the Israeli-occupied area would mark a major shift in US policy. The United Nations emphasizes Syria's sovereignty over the territory.
In 1967, Israel waged a full-scale war against Arab territories, during which it occupied a large swathe of the Golan and annexed it four years later, a move never recognized by the international community.
In 1973, another war broke out and a year later, a UN-brokered ceasefire came into force, according to which Tel Aviv and Damascus agreed to separate their troops and create a buffer zone in the Golan Heights.
Syria said last month that it is ready to go to another war with Israel in order to free its occupied territories.
Shaked Sprays Herself With 'Fascism' Perfume in Campaign Ad
Screen capture from campaign ad by Hayamin Hehadash party.
A new Israeli election ad reportedly features Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in sultry poses, spraying herself with a perfume labeled 'Fascism,' according to Israeli media.
A new election ad for the far-right Hayamin Hehadash party, featuring Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in sultry poses, spraying herself with a perfume labeled "Fascism," has the look and feel of a satiric sketch, echoing a 2017 "Saturday Night Live" send-up of Ivanka Trump in a mock commercial for the scent "Complicit."
But, according to Israeli daily Haaretz, the Shaked ad was no send-up: The images are accompanied by the seductively whispered phrases (in Hebrew) "Judicial reform," "Separation of powers" and "Restraining the Supreme Court" — all meant to highlight her efforts to weaken the activist courts and give more power to the legislative branch.
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Far-right party turns cannabis into key Israeli election issue
Moshe Feiglin on the campaign trail in Sderot
Ultranationalist Moshe Feiglin formed Zehut after his extremist views saw him kicked out of Likud; but is his stance on marijuana distracting from policies that would be less palatable to young secular voters?
A fringe party led by an ultranationalist libertarian with a criminal record who vows to legalize marijuana seems to diverge dramatically from the long list of candidates of the past who have drawn attention to their improbable runs for the Knesset.
For starters, Moshe Feiglin's Zehut party has a real shot of getting elected and could even emerge as a kingmaker in a tightly contested race for prime minister. But his seemingly liberal civic platform, which has generated a strong hipster following, could be masking a far more polarizing agenda.
Feiglin, who got pushed out of Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party four years ago for his extreme right-wing positions, has taken the campaign by storm, putting cannabis high on the national agenda and forcing the front-runners to take a stand on the issue. He's also one of the few party leaders to refrain from endorsing either the prime minister or his top challenger, retired IDF chief Benny Gantz.
"We are in nobody's pocket," Feiglin told Army Radio recently. "Legalization is the condition for us joining any government."
The message seems to be catching on, ironically, in the first election in 20 years that the single-issue Green Leaf party has refrained from running. In response to what has been dubbed the "Feiglin effect," Netanyahu this week boasted about increasing the availability of medical cannabis and approving its export, making Israel just the third nation in the world to do so. He also promised to "examine" the issue of legalization for recreational use.
Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay said he was in favor of legalization, calling cannabis less dangerous than alcohol. In a radio interview, he then disclosed he had smoked it himself in the past. And the dovish Meretz party, seeking to reclaim what would seem to be its natural electorate, issued a reminder that it was the first party in parliament to promote the issue while others were now merely catching up.
But Feiglin, an observant Jew and West Bank settler who doesn't smoke marijuana himself, has been the one cashing in, finding an unlikely audience among urban youngsters drawn to his message of personal freedom and domestic policies, which, besides legalization, include an anti-labor union platform that promotes school vouchers, animal rights and free market economics. Feiglin's wife, Tzippy, has used cannabis to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, from which she suffers.
With his skullcap, trim beard and small round-frame glasses, the 56-year-old Feiglin hardly cuts the image of an iconoclast. But he's become an internet sensation with viral animated online hipster memes portraying him as a cool gangster with sunglasses and a joint hanging from his lips.
It's a stunning makeover for a man who first made his name in Israel for orchestrating raucous protests against the Oslo Peace accords in the early 1990s. A recent cartoon in the Maariv daily poked fun at the irony of his drawing liberal supporters. Cast as the pied piper, Feiglin is shown leading a slew of smiling, glassy-eyed voters following the trail of smoke from a joint he is holding in the air, while Ynet cartoonist Guy Morad depicted him as dressing as a "stoner" in the upcoming Purim holiday.
"Feiglin is a revelation to young, secular supporters of the center-left," explained Ynet commentator Yaron Dekel. "He emphasizes that he is primarily liberal when it comes to the issue of religion and state, and a staunch supporter of the legalization of marijuana, but is hiding an extremely hawkish platform in every other arena."
The political manifesto of Feiglin's Zehut -- Hebrew for identity -- party includes canceling signed agreements with the Palestinians, making Israeli Arab citizens pass a loyalty test and offering financial incentives to them to emigrate elsewhere if they refuse to accept Jewish sovereignty over the land.
He's also spoken out against women, gays and Reform Jews. In 1995, shortly before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, his Zo Artzeinu (This is our Land) movement blocked dozens of major intersections that wreaked havoc throughout the country. The Supreme Court later sentenced him to six months in prison for sedition against the state, which was later commuted to community service.
Feiglin, who refused an Associated Press interview, has downplayed his past as an ultranationalist activist and insists he is currently focused on civic issues alone. In reinventing himself, he has managed to create the latest iteration of a regular Israeli election ritual of obscure and offbeat lists offering an entertaining diversion to those voters despairing over Israel's weighty issues.
Previous parties have included a faction calling for the establishment of a national casino and a group led by a fishmonger and puppeteer that tried to abolish bank fees. An offshoot of Green Leaf aligned with elderly Holocaust survivors to make a run in 2009 and four years later its castaways ran as the Israeli Pirate Party, offering a platform promoting a variety of personal freedoms, including the right to sail the high seas.
Should Zehut manage to cross the electoral threshold, it would join the likes of the Israeli Pensioners Party that managed to win seven seats in the 2006 election and joined former prime minister Ehud Olmert's cabinet. Seen largely as the recipient of protest votes against the system, the group of retirees led by an octogenarian former spymaster disappeared in the next election.
Feiglin's Zehut party, however, could prove to have a greater impact if it eventually has a say in who forms the next government. Columnist Shmuel Rosner called its emergence a "deliberate, cunning distraction" that reflects the dire state of discourse and overall disgust with mainstream politics.
"It is the proof -- and not the first -- of the difficulty the public has in addressing complex issues that require expertise and in-depth study," he wrote Thursday in Maariv. "Everyone has despaired and only wants to be given something to dull their senses. It could be that the marijuana in the campaign is simply medical cannabis to relieve pain."
'IDF will shoot African infiltrators,' Israeli official tells shocked activists
Angry residents of south Tel Aviv tell Ynet that a UN plan to resolve the issue of African migrants in Israel has been secretly revived, and recount a shocking conversation they had with the head of the Population and Immigration Authority
A United Nations plan to resolve the issue of African migrants in Israel has been secretly revived by the government, Ynet has learned. The renewal of the plan was leaked by activists from South Tel Aviv who are furious at the prospect of around half of the almost 40,000 migrants being allowed to remain in the country.
Even more shocking, the activists say, is a call by the head of Israel's Immigration Authority for the IDF to open fire on any Africans who subsequently sail to Israel seeking asylum.
Exactly a year ago, the issue of African migrants in Israel topped the public agenda. But since an expulsion plan agreed with the United Nations fell through, the issue has dropped from the headlines. With a few weeks to go until the April 9 elections, no party has taken a stand on the issue, and no solution seems to have progressed in the past year.
But behind closed doors, efforts have been made to revive the UN plan to absorb about half of the African migrants in Western countries, and grant residency status in Israel to the rest. As of January 2018, there were some 38,000 African migrants in Israel, primarily from Eritrea and Sudan, with many claiming refugee status. In Israel, politicians and activists opposed to their presence call the migrants "infiltrators," rather than less charged terms commonly used around the world.
The south Tel Aviv activists who supported the expulsion, led by Sheffi Paz, were clandestine partners in this renewed process, in the hopes that they could be persuaded to support the improved agreement and grant it legitimacy among right-wing voters.
Now, for the first time, these activists have provided Ynet with details, supported by recordings and documents, of what happened over the past year in the backrooms of the Prime Minister's Office and the Population and Immigration Authority. The activists revealed the plan out of fear that after the elections it would be too late for their demands to be met.
At the beginning of May 2018, South Tel Aviv activists who backed deportation for the migrants formulated an alternative plan titled, "Employment Ban, Not Jail." They sought to present the outline to Netanyahu and were invited to his Jerusalem residence. Present at the meeting were Netanyahu, Sheffi Paz and her political advisor David, National Security Council chief Meir Ben Shabat, and Netanyahu's bureau chief Yoav Horowitz.
The prime minister told Paz and David that he agrees with them that all foreigners from Africa, including those with families in Israel, should leave. Smiling, Netanyahu then turned to Meir Ben-Shabat and asked: "Why can't we find a poor country in Africa and pay them enough money to take them?"
Netanyahu expressed an interest in what led David to join the campaign to expel the Africans, and David said that he began his political career out of shock at the way the High Court of Justice was handling the petition against the 2005 plan to leave Gaza. Again Netanyahu smiled as he said: "You expected justice from the courts? That is the last place to seek justice."
'The UN outline is all there is'
Benjamin Netanyahu and Sheffi Paz in south Tel Aviv (Photo: South Tel Aviv campaign against African migrants
Paz and David presented their plan, in which the migrants would be permitted to live in housing projects where their basic needs would be provided once they surrendered their work permits.
A surprised Netanyahu replied: "I love it. I think I'm going with it."
About two weeks later, Paz and David were invited to meet with the director-general of the Population and Immigration Authority, Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, who had a different approach.
"At the moment, all that remains is the UN outline," Mor-Yosef said. He presented them with the details of the updated UN plan, which included small improvements in the timetable for the departure of foreigners, the number of departures and the type of sanctions that could be imposed on those who remained in Israel.
Paz and David were furious at the prospect of half of the African migrants being allowed to stay legally in Israel.
"What happens when rumors spread in Africa that the infiltrators are being granted status here and they start arriving here in boats?" they asked.
Mor-Yosef compared such a scenario to the IDF response to violent clashes on the Gaza border.
"You believe our soldiers would fire Palestinians at the fence?" he asked them.
"Do you see IDF soldiers firing at infiltrators who come in boats?" Paz and David asked in response.
"Yes," Mor-Yosef replied.
"If that happens, I will volunteer as a human shield," a shocked David told him.
The Population and Immigration Authority and the prime minister both sought Sheffi and David's approval for the improved UN plan, but the talks broke down.
Two months passed and nothing progressed until Sharon Harel of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Israel met with David in December 2018. She expressed confidence that it would be possible to restart work on the improved outline, and tried to allay his fears. The activists stick to their opposition, however, fearing that after the elections, Netanyahu — if he held on to the post of prime minister — would implement the UN outline.
The Population and Immigration Authority said in response that it had held talks with a range of interested parties in order to formulate a plan to resolve the issue.
"As part of its handling of the issue of infiltrators, representatives of the Population and Immigration Authority met with various groups to advance the matter, including with representatives of residents of South Tel Aviv," the Authority said.
The UNHCR gave a similar response: "UNHCR representatives met with all the parties involved, including supporters and opponents of the outline, in order to explain the quality of the plan and its many benefits." The Prime Minister's Office, however, denied any agreement with the UN on the issue.
"At this stage there are no contacts with the UN regarding the infiltrators; the contacts have been completely halted. The prime minister and the National Security Council are examining the various possibilities regarding the removal of the infiltrators, and we do not relate to the claims that were made, whether they were made seriously or in jest."
Netanyahu's Likud party also rejected the claims of the south Tel Aviv activists.
"The residents of south Tel Aviv are very important to Prime Minister Netanyahu, and just as he completely stopped illegal infiltration into Israel by building the fence in the south, he will also reach the best solution regarding the removal of infiltrators in the country," the Likud said in response.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu is examining the various possibilities for removing the infiltrators from Israel, and any other claim about the matter is untrue."
Adalah calls on UN to condemn Israel's Nation-State Law
Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to condemn Israel's Nation-State Law, on Thursday.
According to an Adalah press release, Adalah's Attorney, Myssana Morany, spoke during an Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues in Geneva and appealed to the UN body to demand that Israel repeal the law due to its racially discriminatory impact on Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Morany said, "There is no democratic state in the world that defines its constitutional identity on exclusive racial grounds, and as serving one ethnic group."
Following an appeal by Adalah, four UN Special Rapporteurs, including on minority issues, sent a joint communique to Israeli authorities in November 2018 demanding clarification of potential human rights violations resulting from the law.
Morany stressed, "The Nation-State Law contains no commitment to democratic norms or equality, and no prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, nationality, or ethnicity. For these reasons, this law bears the distinct characteristics of apartheid as defined under international law."
He continued, "Just last week, opposition to the Nation-State Law was exploited as a justification for disqualifying an Arab political list from the upcoming Israeli national elections – so this is clearly not a theoretical or symbolic issue. This racist law has direct and immediate implications for the human rights of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line."
Morany added, "The Israeli prime minster even commented this week that Israel is not a country for all its citizens, specifically citing the Nation-State Law to support his claim. This rightly made headlines around the world precisely because what is taken for granted in every democracy – equality for all citizens – is considered a subversive and hostile idea in Israel."
The controversial law, which was passed by the Israeli Knesset in July, enshrines the status of the State of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and includes legally preserving Israel's "democratic" character, its state symbols (national anthem, flag, icon), Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Hebrew as the official language and the right of return for Diaspora Jewry.
Meanwhile, the Arabic language will receive a "special status" as Israel's second official language. The law, however, would not require making state services accessible in Arabic.
Critics of the law raised concerns that it will permit the exclusion of various populations, based on nationality or religion, and allow the illegal establishment of Jewish settlements and communities only.
South Africa to Downgrade Israel Embassy Status
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says his country is planning to downgrade the status of its embassy in the occupied territories, in response to Israel's violation of Palestinians' rights.
Speaking to the parliament in Cape Town, Ramaphosa said South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was working on implementing a decision by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party to lower diplomatic ties with Israel.
At the end of a conference in December of 2017, the ANC decided to downgrade its diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv to a liaison office, in an expression of "practical support" for the oppressed Palestinian people, warning Israel that it should pay the price for its "human rights abuses and violations of international law."
Ramaphosa stressed the South African government's resolve to go ahead with the ANC's decision.
"The South African government remains seized with the modalities of downgrading the South African Embassy in Israel and we will communicate once the cabinet has fully finalized on this matter," he said.
"In implementing this conference resolution, we are mindful of South Africa's responsibility to continue engaging with all parties to the conflict, to see where we would be able to provide assistance," he added.
The South African president further noted that the decision to downgrade the embassy in the occupied lands is driven by Israel's violations of the rights of the Palestinians and the regime' failure to enter negotiations on the so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
PNN further reports that, last May, South Africa withdrew its ambassador to Tel Aviv in protest at Israel's deadly crackdown on anti-occupation rallies in the Gaza Strip.
South Africa established close ties with the Israeli regime during the apartheid era, but after the collapse of the discriminatory system, the African country began to lean towards Palestine.
Most South Africans have historically supported the Palestinians due to similarities between the Israeli occupation and South Africa's apartheid rule.
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It is in that spirit that I embarked upon this challenge once again.
gather together nationally or as regions or as individual chapters.
All of us should intentionally and repeatedly use this song to motivate and encourage our congregations, audiences and other people to support our cause.
Mission School Principal, now mission superintendent and others who speak for the school, hospital and the entire mission station can take this song with them on their tours and have the congregations and audiences they speak to, sing it as they seek support for the work at Ganta. Again, Persons who have previously served in the Mission Field at Ganta under the auspices of the General Board of Global Ministries, in any capacity, may appreciate such gesture of gratitude from us.
If possible, the song can be introduced to the students and faculty at Ganta. Maybe, very many of them may be encouraged and inspired to choose their vocations or professions with intention to return and contribute their quota like many of us have done within the United Methodist Church, serving at Ganta, Gbarnga, CWA, J. J. Roberts Elementary School, the Coastal areas, the Churches, and all places where UMC works are performed in Liberia. I am open to your suggestions critiques and comments in regards to the song.
Know that we are a grateful and appreciative people.
National and International persons in mission.
and in every endeavor in this partnership in mission.
willing to face that challenge and do our part.


Compared to New York, Milford has a very low population density. Milford is perfect for those who like a quiet city.
With a quality of life rating of 7/10 and an overall value of 6/10, there are many things to love about Milford, DE, but there are also a few factors that may not be the best fit for everyone. Most homeowners will be happy in Milford, but be sure to visit first to make sure it's the best place for you.
Population density is a way of determining how crowded an area is. Milford has a population density of 1,395, with 7,760 current residents.
Out of the 7,760 current residents, 47% are male and 53% are female. 49% of the residents are married and 51% are single.
As for living in Milford, the air quality is 25% and the weather, on average, is 55% sunny, 45% rainy, and 14% snowy. The average temperature is 57°F.
Whether you're looking to buy or rent a home in Milford, you should know that 45.1% of homes are owned while 47% of homes are rented, and 7.9% of homes are vacant. The median price of a home is $167,210, the median age of homes is 35 years, the annual home appreciation is -2.83% and the annual property tax is 4.43%.
When looking at the community of Milford, it's important to determine the crime rate. Milford's crime rate is 9 total number of crimes reported per 100,000 total population. The average age of residents in Milford is 35 years and the breakdown of political affiliations is 45.24% Democratic, 53.82% Republican, and 0.93% Independent.
When looking at Milford, it's important to understand employment statistics. 8.30% of residents are unemployed in Milford (which does not include the percentage of residents who are no longer in the labor force). Of the employed Milford residents: 10.2% of employed residents work in the management and business field, 19.71% are in the arts and sciences field, 15.4% are in the customer service field, 24.7% are in the sales field, 0.77% work in farming, fishing, and forestry, 9.9% of employed residents work in the construction field, and 19.3% work in production. When it comes to education, the ratio of teachers to students is 1:16. The percentage of residents who have graduated high school is 77.03%, 6.39% of residents have an associate's degree, 12.36% of residents have a bachelor's degree, and 6.51% have a master's degree.
If you plan on commuting to work in Milford, you should be aware that the average commute time is 22 minutes, compared to the national average commute time of 26 minutes. When it comes to commuting, residents of Milford have a few different options. 76% of commuters use their own cars, 15% of commuters carpool, 1% of commuters use the transit system, and 3% of residents work from home.


SWASTIK PLYWOOD LIMITED is a public Company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 having its registered office at "Shyam Towers", EN-32, Salt Lake City, Sector V, Kolkata-700091 with Limited by Shares which is Incorporated on 2nd March, 1985.
The Company is an Investment Company and is duly registered as a NBFC with the Reserve Bank of India. The Equity Share Capital of the Company are listed on The Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE). It is a Listed Non Banking Financial Company having an Authorised Share Capital of Rs. 50 Lakhs and Issued, Subscribed and Paid up share Capital of Rs. 24 Lakhs. The Scrip Code on CSE is 29456. Company shares are dematerialised in NSDL.
Main Business of the Company is to take or purchase, acquire, hold and dispose of or otherwise deal in and invest in any shares, debentures and other securities in or any company or companies either out of its own funds or out of funds that it might borrow by issue of debentures or from bankers or otherwise however or in any other manner whatsoever and to subsidise or otherwise assist any such company and to promote, form or acquire any company and to take, purchase or acquire shares or interest in any company and to transfer to any such company any property of this company.
Chitralekha Merchants Limited & Panchshree Tie-up Limited are wholly owned subsidiary Companies.
Know about NON BANKING FINANCIAL COMPANY.
Fair Practices Code For Swastik Plywood Limited.


A range of shops and services are situated in the Yelloh! Village.
Every day, Chef Aïssa prepares a range of take-away meals (salads, pizzas and grills) to enjoy on your own pitch.
Brigitte and Serge, have (nearly) all the international newspapers, ice-creams, post cards, beach toys etc.
In the middle of the old traditional buildings, there are 10 washing machines and 2 dryers to save you the chore of the washing by hand.
Murielle is a professional who will give you the best advice and style your hair for your holiday, Some aesthetic care is also offered.
You're in the south, the weather's beautiful, it's the perfect opportunity to taste exotic fruits.
If you like the decoration of the Yelloh! Village, then you'll want to visit Evelyne in her boutique!
Euzé and his team stock an excellent range of products so you don't need to waste your holiday time in the traffic jams at the supermarkets.
First job in the morning is to visit the on-site bakery for freshly baked break, croissants and a wonderful range of pastries etc. Gisèle and Vanessa do all their own baking and are justly proud of their bakery.
Dominique will advise you on the best cuts of meat for your bar-b-q or other meals.
Nadine takes pleasure in helping you to choose and enjoy the best fish and shell-fish.


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Q: How do I call tagit("destroy") to remove tags? On clicking the Clear Query Box link (id clearQueryBox) I want to call the tagit("destroy") method to empty the tags. This is because sometimes users are copy and pasting about 10 tags at a time to do a search so will be easier for them if they can clear al tags at once rather than backspacing twenty times or clicking the mini x ten times. I've got this:
$('#query').tagit({
    select: true,
    allowNewTags: true,
    triggerKeys: ['enter', 'comma', 'tab'],
    placeholder: '',
    tagsChanged: function () {
        $("#clearQueryBox").click(function () {
            $("#query").tagit("destroy");
        });
    }
});

I keep getting the error 'cannot call methods on tagit prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'destroy''. I am using Halewood's jQuery tagit (https://github.com/hailwood/jQuery-Tagit). It defines tagit("destroy") as a method.

A: Now i know this probably a little late, but this is maybe for any incoming viewers.
$("#query").tagit("removeAll");

reference link here .

A: To remove all the tags on Jquery could use jQuery remove () Method
$(selector).remove(selector) or $(selector).hide(selector)
implementation in your code
$("#query").tagit("tags").remove();

or
$("#query").tagit("tags").hide();

I hope this is what you need.

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A lot of interesting facts to be learned by the audience from an exciting documentary series called the BBC. History of ancient Britain. Popular host Jeremy Paxman will tell in detail the history of the great state, its political influence on all countries of the world. After all, Britain once became the first, the largest colonizer, which owned almost a quarter of our huge planet. An incredible fact, but it really confirms a lot of historical, archival documents. What has become of this majestic country that it has sharply decreased in its areas. It is about this and many other no less significant events to be heard in a fascinating program. Together with Jeremy, we will explore the foggy Albion, discovering a lot of exciting moments. This territory remained unexplored for mankind for many centuries. Today we will experience fantastic, unforgettable emotions, looking into archival documents and learning the truth, becoming part of the greatest epic. We will finally find out what heights the invincible state has reached and what caused the loss of such a huge amount of land.


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Arts in the Park
The tradition of Arts in the Park will continue at Bruce Park in New Martinsville from 1-4 p.m. Monday. Carman Harman, playing Uncle Sam, will serve again as master of ceremonies. Arts and crafts demonstrations and exhibits by artists and crafters from Wetzel, Tyler and Monroe counties will be featured.
The Sarah Hays Band will perform throughout the afternoon. Games for children will be coordinated through the New Martinsville Parks and Recreation Commission, which will provide free soft drinks and ice pops. Other food items will be offered for sale by the Magnolia High School band boosters. Balloon artist Miranda Rogers of BalloonOvations will make free, twisted balloon creations. All activities throughout the day are free.
The festivities are under the sponsorship of the New Martinsville Parks and Recreation Commission, Monroe Arts Council and ArtsLink. For more information, call Barbara Vincent at 304-652-2939.
Lunch With Books
The next entry in the Neighborhood Nostalgia Series will be offered at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St., Wheeling, at noon Tuesday with "Out the Pike, Stop 3: Pleasant Valley Memories." Area residents may share favorite memories and photographs of this Wheeling neighborhood.
Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Attendees may bring a bag lunch; complimentary beverages are provided.
Big "I" Study Group
The Big "I" Study Group of the National Imperial Glass Collectors Society will meet in the Imperial Glass Museum, Bellaire, at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Anyone interested in learning about Imperial Glass may attend. Dennie Green will lead a study on Jamestown bottles. Bill and Kathy Turner and Fred Ottoson will serve refreshments.
The Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, 700 Fifth St., will present the animated film, "Kung Fu Panda 3," rated PG, at noon Wednesday as part of the summer reading program aimed at children and showcasing special events. This film showing is free and open to the public. Participants may bring their own snacks and seat cushions or floor pillows if desired.
Healthy Life Workshop
Eric Wilson, director of the Emergency Management Agency in Harrison County, will lead a free Healthy Life Workshop in the cafeteria at Harrison Community Hospital, 951 E. Market St., Cadiz, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday. He will provide information and resources about preparation for sudden, unexpected, life-threatening events such as an explosion, chemical spill, tornado, wildfire or flood.
Coffeehouse Series
ArtsLink's Summer Coffeehouse Series continues at 7 p.m. Thursday with guitarist John Michael Shreve performing on the lawn at the Francis Creative Arts Center, Maple Avenue and Washington Street, New Martinsville. Light refreshments are available. The summer series is sponsored by Doolin Security Savings Bank.
Shreve, who grew up in Hannibal, began playing guitar in college and started giving guitar lessons in the early 1990s.
He started a band with a former student and played classic country shows in assisted living centers in central Ohio. He moved back to Monroe County in 2000. He continues to give lessons, write songs and form bands.
Sands of Time will perform classic country and oldies at the Greater Weirton Senior Center from 7-10 p.m. Thursday. Doors will be opened at 5 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the center. Free refreshments will be available.
Sunrise Seniors
The Toronto Sunrise Seniors' summer picnic will be held at Stratton Park on Friday. Meat and drinks will be provided. Dinner will be served at 5 p.m., but members are encouraged to arrive early and play games.
Yard, Bake Sale
Community of Christ Church, Belmont County 214, Bellaire, will hold a yard and bake sale beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. Lunch will be available.
Quarter Auction
Vietnam Veterans Post 1 of Bridgeport will hold a quarter auction at the Martins Ferry Recreational Center at 1 p.m. Saturday. Doors will be opened at noon. A 50/50 drawing and chance auction also will be held. Refreshments will be available for purchase. For more information, call Teresa Phillips, 740-312-4751.
The summer reading program at St. Clairsville Public Library, 108 W. Main St., will feature two events for teens on Saturday: Chess Club at11 a.m. and Comic Book Club at 12:30 p.m. Children's activities will include events for preschoolers at 1 p.m. Wednesday and for elementary students at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Genealogical Society
The Cumberland Trail Genealogical Society will meet at the Stillwater (Quaker) Meeting House in Barnesville at 2 p.m. July 10. This meeting will be a joint picnic and field trip with members of the Monroe County and Belmont County chapters of the Ohio Genealogical Society.
After a picnic luncheon, Marie Bundy, Stillwater Meeting House representative, will present information on the meeting house. She will also take attendees through the Heritage Room, which is a Quaker historical room.
Cholesterol Screening
Total cholesterol screenings are being offered by Wheeling Hospital at the Howard Long Wellness Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. July 11. The screenings have a nominal cost. For more information, call 304-242-9355.
Blood Pressure Screening
Free blood pressure screenings, provided by Wheeling Hospital, will be offered at the Howard Long Wellness Center from 12:30-2:30 p.m. July 11, July 18 and July 25. For more information, call 304-242-9355.
Look Good Feel Better will be held at Wheeling Hospital's conference room D at 5 p.m. July 11. The free service is designed to teach female cancer patients proper beauty techniques to help them restore their appearance, self-image and self-esteem during chemotherapy and/or radiation.
Beauty professionals teach about makeup, skincare and options related to hair loss. Each participant receives a free cosmetics kit donated by several national companies. To register, call the community education and outreach department at 304-243-3339.
Church Women United
Church Women United will not have a July luncheon because of members' vacations.
Compiled by Linda Comins


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Jessie woke up in considerable pain for the second time in the same day. At least she hoped it was the same day. The last thing she remembered was some sort of bolt of magical power being thrown at her then the world was just gone.
She tried to localize the pain and found it difficult. Everything hurt at least a little. She eventually decided the catalog in order of worst to best was: her head, which felt like it was going to split in half. Her ribs, a couple of which might well have been broken. Her neck and arm, which were filled with pins and needles and would surely ache screamingly bad as soon as they could be fully felt. Finally, the remainder of her body which all seemed to have a dull throb like she had a bad fever. She tried to open her eyes and found they were stuck shut with some sort of goop.
I've really got to quit waking up like this, she thought.
She managed to get one eye open and look around the room. It was a sort of generic looking space. The walls were beige, the ceiling was acoustic tile, and there was a faux wooden cabinet in the corner. The ceiling held several powerful fluorescent lights and there was a computer on a stand to one side of her running some sort of program which was probably reporting on whatever data it was getting from the wires that trailed to her chest.
Yikes! I'm not wearing a shirt!
Jessie raised her head and tried to get a look at her chest. She couldn't lift her head that far. She got a picture of something white and plastic on her chest. It could have been almost anything medical. She felt fairly certain she was in a hospital and that was comforting. Maybe they'd fix her head. She wondered if being in a hospital meant she'd escaped from her captors. That seemed likely, which made her think she wasn't really in a hospital. There was no way she'd escaped.
"Sir, the patient is awake." Jessie turned her head toward the voice. At the far side of the room, there was a woman in scrubs. She was by an open door and she spoke to someone outside of it.
"That's good. Is she reporting any discomfort?" The voice came from outside the room. It was warm and friendly, and probably inspired confidence in people who hadn't just been kidnapped. It didn't sound like the voice of a prison doctor, or some underworld medical practitioner stripped of his license for dipping into his own painkillers.
"She only just started to move. I'm checking her now." The woman, a sort of nurse Jessie assumed, bustled over. Once she was properly in view Jesse saw she was older with a strong chin and a serious expression. She pulled a small light out of her pocket and flicked it in both of Jessie's eyes. "Can you follow this?" She moved the light side to side, Jessie followed. "Good."
A man walked in to view. "How is she?"
"Responsive, good pupil dilation, her blood pressure and pulse seem fine. The imager is just finishing up now."
The man turned and looked at the image on the computer. Jessie looked at him. He was in his late 40's or early 50's. He was balding, but he wore a bushy white beard. He had a dark tan, a strong chin, and was sort of broadly heavyset without really looking fat. There were smile lines around his mouth, and laugh lines around his face. "Recovering nicely, I'd say." He looked down at her, "You've taken several significant shocks in a very short period. Nothing terribly dangerous all by itself, but we wanted to double-check. How are you feeling?"
"Sore. Head hurts, ribs hurt, and body hurts." Her voice came out rough and quite.
"The pain in your head and body are typical of the spell that rendered you unconscious. It's actually a common side effect of unconsciousness spells in general. A great many of them somehow mess with human nerves. A few of them go away instantly, but most tend to linger and your neural tissue reports pain after the event."
"Aspirin?"
"Let's hold off on that. I don't trust modern drugs so much as most people. Besides, I have something that will work much more quickly. Nurse, are the needles around here somewhere?"
"Yes, Thomas." The nurse walked back to the cabinet and retrieved a box that Jessie assumed held needles. Not that she was particularly focused on the box. Could the man leaning over her be Thomas the Illusionist?
Maybe. She knew he ran some sort of medical operation. She'd assumed he'd hired other magi to do the actual spell casting, but he wouldn't have to. The Archmagi were the definition of universal experts in magic. No doubt, Thomas knew all manner of healing spells. If he had hired other magi they were probably ones he'd taught personally.
"Don't try to speak now. It will tend to make you shift and the more neatly I can do this, the better. Just relax, you'll feel better shortly." The nurse had set up a rolling tray, but Jessie couldn't see it well. "I'm going to be using acupuncture, and a small amount of magic, to see to some basic pain relief as well as speed up the healing process."
By that point, Jessie had gotten to the place where she could wiggle her toes and move her feet a bit. Running away wasn't really an option. She really wished it was. She wasn't fond of needles in any case, and having them used on her in conjunction with magic, by a guy she'd been actively plotting to destroy the last time she was awake seemed like a bad idea.
The nurse moved over and picked the white things off Jessie's chest. As they came up, Jessie got a better look and decided it had probably been a multi-spectral imager of some sort. The ordinary doctors had used that sort of thing a lot on her mother. Unfortunately, the nurse didn't do anything about Jessie's shirtless state. Clothing probably would have gotten in the way of the needles.
Next, Thomas moved to the center of her limited field of vision and held up a needle. It was very thin at least; so thin it had a small rectangular wooden handle for Thomas to hold it. "People new to acupuncture always ask if the needles will hurt. They do, a bit, but they're very thin so you're most likely to experience a small sting as they go in followed by a dull ache. If anything continues to hurt let me know. It means we tapped something we really didn't mean to."
Jessie nodded slightly using the motion to test how well her neck was recovering. She hadn't made much progress.
Thomas spoke to the nurse, "I'm going to need to access a fairly broad array of meridians here. Could you help me shift her to her side?"
The nurse didn't reply, but she did move to shift Jessie. Both Thomas and the nurse were wearing gloves. That seemed surprisingly professional for an underground hospital. Once the nurse had stepped back Thomas moved in. He took one long breath in and amber light sparked behind his eyes, it also seemed to glow under his skin. Jessie had never seen that with Kyle before, and she'd never seen him pull in power that fast. A bit of amber traveled down Thomas's hand and into the needle. What looked like Chinese characters on its handle lit.
Thomas let her look at the needle, "The interesting thing about Acupuncture, really, is how little magic it requires. That's why it's used so widely, most people just poke the needles in without doing any spell and it's still somewhat effective. There was very little useful medical knowledge before the modern era. People knew they could eat various plants to get a certain result, but it wasn't part of a system. Acupuncture almost upsets that. It's far from perfect, but I think someone who knew what they were doing was part of creating it." Then he poked the needle in. It did hurt a bit, but the small pain was instantly overshadowed by what felt like a vice unclamping from her head. She hadn't realized exactly how much she hurt until it was suddenly cut in half. Several more needles got charged up and placed in her neck which felt perfect by the time the last one went in.
"Feeling better," Thomas asked.
"A lot." Jessie answered. Then she had to wonder why Thomas was helping her. Could they have been wrong about the man?
Thomas worked silently for a bit running needles down her back. Her muscles relaxed and all the pain went out of them. He had her move various parts of her body. She could move everything easily. Only her chest still hurt, but it hurt more since she could focus on it.
"You have several cracked ribs. The report I got on what happened was jumbled, but it seems Kyle kicked you. I believe it was an accident, but it was hard. I'm going to anesthetize the area." The pain was in her lower ribs beneath her right breast. The needles went in, in a wider pattern around the entirety of the right side of her ribcage, then another tighter pattern around the actual injury.
"There are several Meridians I'm blocking off here. There's a big one along the center of your body, a second along the right hand side, and then another that zig-zags across the chest." He paused and thought about that, when he continued talking there was a bit of laughter in his voice. "I should say 'there was thought to be' in regard to those Meridians. I'm actually tapping into endorphin glands and the neural system, but it's located in much the same place, and the magic doesn't care about the accuracy of what the caster bound it to. Qualify everything I say that way. How's the pain?"
"Basically gone." Jessie could see these needles. They were glowing, some were red and some were blue, light leaked down into her body and there was a faint tracery of light across her chest.
"Very good. Now then, I'll immobilize you and get the ribs fixed."
Jessie almost jumped off the table at the 'I'll immobilize you' bit, she would have, in fact, but she didn't react fast enough. Even as Thomas said it he poked a needle in high up near the top of her spine and Jessie lost most of her control of her legs, he leaned around her and put two in near her neck and whatever ability she'd had to move was just gone.
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Thaumaturgical_Support says:
So has anyone been following the Hugo Awards controversy? I have… obsessively. Which is odd, because I don't really have a "side" in the whole thing.
I tend to think things that win awards are dull. That might put me on the side of The Campaign to Prevent Puppy Sadness, except I also think I understand why award winners tend to be stuffy. I think when people vote for book awards (and movies, and music, and everything else) they tend to vote for things they think are "important". "Fun" gets shut right out of "important" for the most part and so it's all weighty tomes and politicized pieces.
The thing is, I don't think you can change that. It's just inherent to human nature: fun is nice and all but we do fun things because they're fun and important things because they're important, and we want to be seen doing important things. It also doesn't require an insider cabal. Over time an organization is going to acquire a character, it's going to attract like-minded people, they're going to end up thinking the same sorts of things are "important", and they're going to end up voting for the same sort of stuff all the time.
That being said, I think some trench warfare in the process of assigning an award is a good thing. It'll shake things up and maybe break up the group think a little. At the very least it'll get the participant's blood racing and they'll feel a little more alive. With only around 2000 people voting during the nomination process of one of the most important awards in sci-fi the whole thing was at more risk of dying from apathy than infighting.
On that note, I'd like to reach out to the *insanely popular* authors arguing about this. If anything *I've* said is offensive please please please tell all of your tens of thousands of readers how badly I suck. It'll be *great* for my traffic….
Addendum: Another thing I find entertaining about this controversy is the *massive* posts the authors involved are writing about it. You load up their sites and it… just… keeps… scrolling….
OK, yeah, you just wrote over ten thousand words off the cuff on this one single topic – TODAY. I can sortta see how you also manage to write full length novels.
Actually I don't know anything about the controversy. Tried looking it up but everything was dated last year. Any links I can follow?
This is about as neutral a starting point as you're likely to get: http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/2015/03/aisfp-289-larry-correia-brad-r-torgersen-sad-puppies/ The audio is an interview with the guys who started the whole thing, and then down below that they've got some links to both pro and opposed author blogs. There's also been some fairly under-informed mainstream coverage: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/06/hugo-award-nominations-sad-puppies (that retraction is just plane funny: Sorry, our bad, the first version of this article sucked… ), and a lot of unhinged ranting from all corners.
the leaking pen says:
The hugos, as fan awards, were always more fun. Isaac asimov edited a volume for several years where they had most of the winning shorts and some exceprts from the novels every year, and it was always a great read. The thing is… from what i've seen, sci fi and fantasy authors have always had a tendency to be politically polar, lots of liberals, lots of conservatives, few medians. At this kind of event, the authors have long been able to play nice, but in the increasing stratification of US political culture, that is no more. which is the worst part of the whole thing.
That could certainly be a big part of it. though politics has been pretty ugly as long as I remember. I'll date myself here, but Reagan was going to kill us all with the ozone hole and he ignored the aids crisis, and Clinton was pursued aggressively enough that I know things I really wish I didn't about his genitalia . However, recently, it might have spilled down to the average voter to a greater degree. Now private citizens are going to kill us all with global warming or they want to disarm their next door neighbor.
Either way, I think SciFi has a long history of politicization. When you're talking about the future, you almost can't help it.
Mike G. says:
Can't wait to see what happens next… Going into withdrawal, and it's only been 2 weeks 🙂
irrevenant says:
"Maybe, she knew he ran some sort of medical operation.". Full stop after "Maybe".
Whew! Just got all the corrections! Thanks again for those.
The Beginners Guide to Magical Site Licensing
In which a man with a headache does a spell
In which a man with a headache falls over
Our hero's headache is vanquished
Employee Handbook Section 12.5.27B
An Implausible Conspiracy is Introduced
Late! Late for a very important… class
We continue the story of a Dodgy Dojo
Epic Skills are on Display
A New Character Appears!
ReJUV is liquid energy! (Always 100% caffeine free.)
Working in Retail
Shoplifting is not a Prank
The Federal Penitentiary White Glove Treatment
A Really Cool Tree House
Look, but don't look like you're looking.
At Least he Doesn't Have to Fix Her Printer
Why Magic is Hard
Not an Alley
Definitely an Alley
The Main Street isn't Much Better
Something Salable
At The Prime Meridian
Even More Exciting than Falling Over a Chair
Jessie Can't Find A Job
A Live Demo
An Offer You Can Refuse
More Questionable Business Dealings
Just Some Drunks
Going All-In
Pitch Meeting Part 1
Interview with a Ylfe
Kyle's Situation
Second Meeting
First Day on the Job
Security Takes a Certain Mindset
Dragon!
How Our Story Ends
An Explosion of Savings
Abandoned Highways
Santa Sells Cars pt 1
Probably Just Some Kids
An Old Friend Returns
Just Looking for Some Bud
Old Mine Amphitheater pt1
Smurf Village
You're Going to Have to Sign a Waiver
Summoning the Registrar
The Secrets of the Archmagi
Focused on the Wrong Thing
More Fleeing
The Cover Art is Explained
False Trail
Empty Public Spaces are Creepy
The Good Scotch
The Closest Knife
Narrow Escape
Misplaced Loyalty
Wizard Casts Superior Darkness
Jessie Captured
It's Basically a Fort
Help Arrives
Attacking Trees and Hams
Path of the Sage
Training Montage
Plural of Manticore
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
Breakfast in the Garden
The Big Office
Gathering Evidence
Jessie Released
Round One: Victory!
A Spell Kicks In
Intermezzo pt1
Ch1: Rumble In Pando pt1
Ch2: Apprentice Illusionist pt1
Ch3: Ninja Training pt1
Ch:4 Children of Atlantis pt1
Ch5: Going Undercover pt1
Ch5: Going Undercover pt10
Ch6: New Friends pt1
Ch7: Super Spies pt1
Ch7: Super Spies pt10
Ch8: Triple Double Agent pt1
Ch8: Triple Double Agent pt10
Ch9: Hidden Doors and Impossible Rooms pt1
Ch 10: The Guardian pt1
Ch 11: A Plan Comes Together pt1
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A cornerstone in the vampire movie genre.
I had this movie on VHS and must have watched it more than 10 times. Recently my current streaming service suggested it and I had a happy reunion with it. Even though it has a few discrepancies with my opinion of vampire lore, it is still a very good vampire movie (and it was made way before glittery sparkly vampires were popular).
The plot is very simple with no twists at all and you know exactly how it is going to end, I still think it is a good action movie.
Wesley Snipes is perfect as Blade. He is solem, slightly angry, does not have too many long lines and very action packed. The challenge is clearly the martial and acrobatic prowess and not acting skills, which suits him perfect.
Kris Kristofferson is good as whistler. The same goes for Stephen Dorff as Frost and Udo Kier as Dragonetti.
When the movie came out in 1998 I remember being impressed with the effects when the vampires evaporated after some loving care from Blade, and I still think it looks rather cool. I also remember being appalled at how poor the animation of the flowing blood during the ritual was. They should have done that part differently.
In general the soundtrack is quite suiting for the movie. I remember how popular the son Confusion from New Order became due to movie and also how people went amok on the dance floor when they played it in clubs. Today I still get a small kick from hearing it.
If you like vampire movies or hard hitting fantasy action movies, this is absolutely one to watch.


I would like to share my experience with Mintys Pretoria in the attempt to warn people to avoid their horrific service and possibly endangering your family's life by trusting them with your vehicle. Two weeks ago I bought new rims and Dunlop at3s, after two hours thirty minutes they finished installing the new wheels.
On driving home 110kph+ I experienced a violent shudder throughout the whole car on the highway. I then called the owner and said I think possibly they may have forgotten to balance one of the wheels.
2 days later I arrive and mintys and after about 40 minutes the mintys is owner tells me rims required spigot rings, he has measured and will order them for me. Another 20 minutes pass and I approach the car to find out why it's taking so long to refit one wheel.
I see the technician has snapped one of the bolts on the wheel hub and also scratched the brand new rims badly in the process.
The owner tells me he will order the spigot rings and fix the snapped hub bolt when I return. Over a week later eventually I'm told the spigot rings have arrived. An hour after arriving I am told the rings are fitted however they cannot fix the broken hub bolt and I should take it to Mitsubishi and they will pay for the replacement. Oh and also the previous bolts they fitted were not correct so they changed all of them.
Yet again on driving home I get a violent shudder in the car. This time having lost all faith in Mintys and wanting a car that's actually drivable I take my car to Tiger wheel & Tyre Silverlakes, on arrival I give the instruction I'd like to balance all 4 wheels. 15 minutes later I'm told buy one of the management that my car is not fit to be on the road and is a danger.
The reason my car was shaking violently is that 3 bolts one on one front wheels was spinning and could not be tightened due to it being stripped.
I ask the manager of Tiger wheel and Tyre to speak to the owner of mintys to confirm this with him, Mintys then tried to put the blame on Tiger wheel and Tyre and hung up.
To summarize I have a vehicle with 7 completely stripped bolts, 1 wheel which cannot be removed due to the bolts just spinning, 1 snapped bolt and scratched rims.
Thankfully I don't deal with Minty's. Thanks for the warning!
I also had a run in with Mintys Bedfordview many years ago with my BMW . Bad balancing , wrong bolts and bad alignment . Never used Mintys again .