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Jurnee Smollett-Bell's Husband Josiah Bell
January 18, 2020 by L.A Girl
Josiah Bell is the musician husband of TV/film actress, Jurnee Smollett -who will be appearing next in the Suicide Squad spin-off titled, Birds of Prey.
Josiah's wife is well known as one of six siblings who starred together in the 90's ABC sitcom 'On Our Own.'
Born Jurnee Diana Smollett-Bell on October 1, 1986; she and her siblings -Jussie, Jake, Jazz, Jojo and Jocqui -all pursued careers in modeling, acting and music. The children of parents who campaigned for civil rights, the Smollett's have also been outspoken politically.
Jurnee made her mark as an actress by the age of 10, with the 1997 film, Eve's Bayou. She later had a role in the Tyler Perry film Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor and also had recurring television roles as Lisa Tyler in The Defenders and Jess Merriweather in Friday Night Lights. In 2016, she appeared in the WGN drama, Underground.
Most recently she was cast as Black Canary in the Suicide Squad spin-off Birds of Prey -in which her hubby was hired as a vocal producer.
Jurnee and hubby, Josiah have been husband and wife since 2010. They are proud parents to a son, Hunter -who was born in 2016.
Josiah Bell who is originally from Canada, was born December 28, 1982; he is credited as a singer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist.
Bell began his career in his teens working with gospel legend Vickie Winans. Since then he's either work as a co-writer, writer, producer or performed with the likes of Smokie Norful, CeCe Winans, Michelle Williams, Michael Bolton, Estelle, Nick Cannon, Melissa Polinar, Toby Mac, Krystal Meyers, and other.
Most recently he co-wrote and produced the single "Summertime in Paris" on Jaden Smith's 2019 album ERYS. He also was hired as a vocal producer on Birds of Prey.
Bell has also contributed to film and television scores and soundtracks. Some of the TV and Film projects he has participated include, HBO series "Lovecraft County," Marvel's "Cloak & Dagger", OWN's "Greenleaf", Sony TV's "Underground"
As a performer he released his debut EP, 'P.S. I Still Love You' in 2019. Other songs include "Smoke and Mirrors" and "Down." His music video for "Love Moon" has over 17,000 views on YouTube.
Find Josiah Bell on Instagram here.
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PTH Exclusive: Interview with J. Jawwad Khawaja
Posted by Raza Rumi
We are grateful to Babar Mirza who has translated an interview given by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja to Sohail Waraich in June 2007 which is recorded in Waraich's book 'Adlia ke Arooj-o-Zawaal ki Kahani'. The interview is a must read for all those who are interested in Pakistan's politics and institutions. A biographical note is also available for those who wish to know more about the life and times of J. Khawaja. The latter resigned when J. Iftikhar Chauhdry was illegally deposed by the Musharraf regime. Later, he was part of the lawyers and judges movement and he was re-inducted into the Supreme Court after J. Chauhdry was restored as the Chief Justice in 2009. The interview also explains why Justice Khawaja took oath unde the 2000 PCO during the Musharraf regime.
Just as in any other part of the world, Punjab too has its share of stigma. Leaders from other provinces and many historians allege that the people of Punjab are not brave or courageous. Only time will establish the truth or falsehood of this allegation, but, in the recent judicial crisis, only one judge in Pakistan resigned from his office and that judge was a Punjabi from the Lahore High Court, Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja. Perhaps this was why Sindhi nationalist Rasool Bux Paleejo had to admit that Punjab's strong stance in the judicial crisis had compensated for her many misgivings in the past. The Punjabi judges who decided to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry have further helped clear the judiciary of many an allegation and perhaps the mistakes made by Punjabi judges in the past would now be remedied. Bold and fearless though the role of judiciary has been, the first drop of rain was Justice Khawaja and that will always remain to his credit.
Justice Khawaja is a very private person. He shies away from the world of fame. Perhaps this is why he did not give any interview or try to gain prominence after his resignation. Had any other judge resigned in similar circumstances, he would have justifiably lead protests, presided over meetings or at least given interviews to newspapers and television channels. But the reclusive nature of Justice Khawaja kept him away from all that. He felt the reference against the chief justice to be a burden on his conscience and resigned to free himself from that burden. Continue reading →
Filed under Activism, Judiciary, Justice, Law, lawyers movement, movements, Pakistan
Tagged as Ayub Khan, 'Adlia ke Arooj-o-Zawaal ki Kahani', Bhutto, Chief Justice, General Pervez Musharraf, independent judiciary, Interview, judges, Judiciary, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, lawyers movement, Musharraf, Pakistan, Politics, Sohail Waraich, Supreme COurt
by YLH | April 22, 2009 · 9:23 pm
The House of Bilquis: Tales of Pakistani Diaspora
From the Wall Street Journal
By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG
In Azhar Abidi's new novel, "The House of Bilqis," the Pakistani-born author raises a series of difficult questions: What are the consequences of leaving home and marrying outside one's culture? And how does one address familial obligations, never stated but always present, that demand sacrifices grown children don't want to make?
Tagged as Azhar Abidi, Expat Pakistanis, House of Bilquis, Interview, Literature, Review, Wall Street Journal
by Raza Rumi | June 22, 2008 · 9:15 am
Interview- Pakistan's Ambassador to US
Incredible interview (in Urdu)! Husain Haqqani, the professor he had become, lectures Kashif Abbasi and most TV anchors, about maintaining an emotional and uninformed attitude about USA. He traces the history of Pak-US relations and quotes Mohammad Ali Jinnah from 1948 when questioned how will Pakistan survive to which Jinnah [allegedly] responds "Pakistan will survive economically with US help". He tells the anchor about the nature of relationship, about power politics, about realpolitik. What comes out clearly is how unprepared Kashif Abbasi was in interviewing Ambassador Haqqani. Shaheryar Azhar, moderator of The Forum
http://pkpolitics.com/2008/06/19/off-the-record-19-june-2008/
Filed under Pakistan, USA
Tagged as ambassador, Hussain Haqqani, Interview, Pakistan, US

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Posts tagged '"last days"'
The last days are not a future period of time leading up to the rapture of the church and the end of the world. Nor are the last days describing the full contemporary Christian era. It hardly seems consistent to associate the term "days" with two millennia of years! A closer look at the New Testament usage of the term will reveal that the last days represented a now historical period of time. It was a fitting description of the final days of the Old Covenant, a period lasting a little over forty years. The first century earthly ministry of Jesus ushered in these last days. In this way, the "last days" of the New Testament were actually the "first days" of the New Testament church.1
The prophet Joel described some miraculous activities that would characterize the last days (Joel 2:28-31). The apostle Peter used the prophetic words of Joel to explain the miraculous events that were ocurring at that time (Acts 2:16-17). The fact that those events were ascribed as being a fulfillment of the words of Joel indicated that the last days had arrived. If the inspired prophet was referencing the entire Christian era from Pentecost until the present, would we not expect these same miraculous activities to still be genuinely ocurring — "in the last days"?2
It is sometimes said that the whole period between the incarnation and the end of the world is regarded in the New Testament as 'the end of the age.' But this bears a manifest incongruity in its very front. How could the end of a period be a long protracted duration? Especially how could it be longer than the period of which it is the end? More time has already elapsed since the incarnation than from the giving of the law to the first coming of Christ: so that, on this hypothesis, the end of the age is a great deal longer than the age itself.3
Those Last Days Now Past
"God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…" (Hebrews 1:1)
A video presentation by a prominent creationist ministry, which promotes a biblical view of the earth's age over and against the uniformitarian "millions of years" view, takes in to account the catastrophic effects of the global flood as recorded in the book of Genesis. However, the impact of the otherwise excellent production is weakened as the presenter states that today's secular scientists whom disregard Scripture's record of the Genesis flood are examples of the "scoffers" which the apostle Peter wrote would come in "the last days" (cf. 2 Peter 3:3-6). The devastating problem with this statement is that the inspired apostle wrote those words in the 1st century when the last days of the old covenant were at hand; so that the last days referred to were then, not now.
This is a major interpretive error made by modern-day Christians, which has become well ensconsed in many hearts and minds, especially with the high volume of book sales along with seminary teachings by authors and professors based on the misapplication of the past to our present and near future. It is as if someone were to write in broad, non-specific terms about the last days of the Obama federal administration when they were (thankfully) nearing, and someone were to read it two thousand years or so from then, and assume the dynamics of the situation described to be directly applicable to the reader there and then, instead of relevant to the U.S.A. in the year of our Lord 2016.
When it comes to the Holy Bible which is the word of God, surely there is far-reaching application as well as eternal truth to be gleaned, but the correct interpretation must be gathered based upon the historical context and the understanding of the original audience. The last days from two thousand years ago cannot be the same last days today, or they would not have been the last days then. The realization that the "last days" were in the past, and that much of Bible prophecy (not all!) was fulfilled in the 1st century is key to sound discernment of the Scriptures.
Holy writ indeed informs us that the Lord Jesus Christ is reigning now. Peter also quoted Psalm 110:1 and said Jesus is exalted at God's right hand (position of authority), to rule from the Majesty on High (cf Acts 2:34-36; Hebrews 1:3). Jesus Himself said, just prior to His ascension, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth" (Matthew 28:18). Hence, He is now King at God's right hand, just as the Psalm prophesied. The apostle Paul further expounded that He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death (1 Corinthians 15:25-26). This has not happened yet, and of course we cling to the blessed hope of the resurrection of the body when the end comes and Jesus returns in final judgment and to usher in the eternal state. Until then, the almighty, Triune God we serve is certainly to be victorious in time and history.
So the Messianic kingdom has already been established, i.e. we are in the "millennium" now. The last days of the old covenant, including the great tribulation prophesied in Matthew chapter 24, were the days leading up to and including the destruction of the temple, the city of Jerusalem and apostate Israel when the Son of Man "came" with judgment in A.D. 70. "The last days" are now in the past, and followed from the work that He "finished" in A.D. 30 (cf John 19:30). The once for all sacrifice of the Lamb of God has superceded the old system of animal sacrifices, and now its up to the church, with steadfast faith in the power of the Holy Spirit, to look forward to and work towards the building of the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven… for, also as it is written, the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14).
The effectiveness of biblical apologetics as well as the fruitfulness of Christian cultural engagement efforts will be greatly increased by our faithful witness to the truth that the last days are in the past. The long haul to triumph will likely extend beyond the relatively short lifetimes of those of us alive today; there's no time to waste. Let's get busy using our talents in good and faithful service to our King (cf Matthew 25:23), leaving an example for future generations to follow. Keep the faith. Stand strong in the Truth. The worst is past and the best is yet to come.
1 John M. Buttrey II, The Book of Revelation – A Brief Commentary and study Guide
3 James Stuart Russell, The Parousia – The New Testament Doctrine of Christ's Second Coming*
*Russel's work teaches that Christ's Second Coming took place in 70 AD, at which time the dead saints were resurrected and caught-up to Heaven, and the living saints were bodily caught-up to Heaven :-o. Even while not concurring with that startling conclusion, one can appreciate the many astute observations he makes such as the above on what is indeed the "manifest incongruity" of the "end of the age" being longer than the age of which it is the end of; akin to the "last days" lasting for thousands of years.
Tags: "Christian Reconstruction", "last days", A.D. 70, apologetics, ascension, Bible, faith, hermeneutics, Hope, Jesus, judgment, kingdom, last, Messianic, millennium, past, Postmillennialism, preterism, prophecy, reign, Scriptures
Noun: End [end]
-the point in time at which something ends;
-the concluding parts of an event or occurrence;
-the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates
behavior intended to achieve it
In Acts 2:17ff the apostle Peter declares the fulfilment of what was uttered by the prophet Joel: "And in the last days it shall be, God declares…". The events foretold happened in those "last days." The spectacular fire baptism by the Holy Spirit, daughters prophesying, etc. along with all the cosmic judgment language depicting the then at hand destruction of old covenant Israel all happened then, and is now over and done with. Your daughters are not prophesying any more, for example. As those last days ended and are in our past, I believe that we are not now still living in the last days.
Amillennialists such as James White maintain a concept of "this age, and the age to come", that this age we are living in now is a continuation of the "last days" spoken of by the apostles, and the age to come is the hereafter, i.e. final glory. Surprisingly, postmillennialist Ken Gentry agrees that the last days, which began in the first century, continue through now and on into the future, which understanding requires that the "last days" have now lasted for approximately 2 millennia, so far. One wonders if Dr. Gentry, who anticipates a long period of Christian prosperity before the second coming, assumes that the "last days" will be in effect all that time until then. That there will be a triumph of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ manifesting in time and history should be the Christian's faithful hope, according to His word; but it is a result of His first coming which ended the last days of the old covenant. "In that He says, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away" (Hebrews 8:13).
The patriarchal age was from Adam to Moses, the old covenant age was until Christ. Christ brought in the new creation, such that Dr. White's "this age" was actually the old covenant age, which was passing away when the New Testament was written; and his "age to come" is actually the here & now of the new covenant, the Messianic reign of the Lord Jesus Christ, the millennium of Revelation 20, the new Jerusalem, the new heaven & earth (in an already/not yet sense). Final glory is not an age in time & history, rather it comes after the end of the ages for us. The end of the ages for the New Testament writers was then.
The Greek word aion is commonly translated as world, as in Hebrews 11:3 which the NKJV renders: "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." The Greek word there translated as worlds is aionas (plural of aion). This passage describes our faith in the providence of God in the works of creation. However aion can also mean "age", and application of the wrong connotation can be the cause of considerable misunderstanding.
The apostle Paul, in referring to the old covenant, wrote "Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come" (1 Corinthians 10:11). While Jesus' first advent marked the beginning of the new covenant age, the old covenant age was finally swept away in AD 70. There was a transitional period of about 40 years (a generation) from AD 30 to AD 70 in which the two ages co-existed. Those were the "last days". It was towards the end of this period when the apostle Peter wrote "The end of all things is at hand…" (1 Peter 4:7).
The writer of Hebrews confirmed this in contrasting the types & shadows of the old covenant with redemption through the blood of Christ: "For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer Himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then He would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself (Hebrews 9:24-26).
Jesus Himself mentioned the ages when he said "And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come" (Matt. 12:32). Surely the age He distinguished as "this age" had to be the old covenant age, under which He was born and was ministering; while the "age to come" was a reference to the new covenant gospel age which He came to bring in. The "age to come" as a reference to the final state makes no sense because at that point everyone's state is fixed and it is too late for repentance and forgiveness for any sin.
Here's Matthew Henry's commentary on the unpardonable sin passage: What the sentence is that is passed upon it; It shall not be forgiven, neither in this world, nor in the world to come. As in the then present state of the Jewish church, there was no sacrifice of expiation for the soul that sinned presumptuously; so neither under the dispensation of gospel grace, which is often in scripture called the world to come, shall there be any pardon to such as tread underfoot the blood of the covenant, and do despite to the Spirit of grace: there is no cure for a sin so directly against the remedy.
Even so, in Luke 20:34-36 Jesus says "The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage. But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." The KJV properly renders aion as "world" in each instance where it appears in this passage, which is obviously preferred over "age" as in modern translations (see NKJV).
We must let context determine the correct connotation of words for sound interpretation of God's infallible word. The sooner Christians embrace by faith that we are living under the better blessings of the new covenant age as distinct from the last days of the old covenant, which have ended, the sooner we will put off the expectation of defeat; and, walking by faith and not by sight, will trust, obey, pray, think and act accordingly towards advancing the kingdom of our reigning King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus Christ, towards that end. Amen.
[See "Last Days" tab/sub-tabs above for timeline and graphical representations of the two-age model, with commentary beneath each]
Tags: "age to come", "aion", "end of the ages", "final glory", "gospel age", "King of kings", "last days", "Lord of lords", "Messianic reign", "new covenant", "this age", "time & history", age, Christ, end, Jesus, millennium


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Q: Laravel welcome.blade.php doesn't load propery I've just started learning laravel from laracasts, but there's something wrong with the welcome.blade.php page.
I have tried to start new projects, but the result hasn't changed. Somehow the browser sees the laravel code (@...) as html.
I realized this problem in this video - https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-from-scratch-2017/episodes/5 .  When I try to echo out

Hello, <?php echo $name ?>

and in the web.php page do exactly like Jeffrey says
  Route::get('/', function() {
     return view('Welcome', [
     name=>'World'
   ]);
  });

I still get undefined value error. Do I need to change something or is there a way to reinstall laravel?
Please see screenshot.
and this is the default page code for welcome.blade.php - I didn't touch anything.
<!doctype html>
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        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

        <title>Laravel</title>

        <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:100,600" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

            @if (Route::has('login'))

                    @auth
                        Home
                    @else
                        Login
                        Register
                    @endauth

            @endif

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A: Use blade syntax , double curly braces like so:
{{ $name }}

Also remove double semi-colon from your return statement.

A: Judging from the screenshot, the URL indicates that these pages are not being served by an HTTP server. Make sure you are serving all php source from an HTTP server. You could use Laravel's simple server by running:
php artisan serve

You'll be able to access your work, hopefully on http://localhost:8000.
May I also draw your attention to your welcome route definition. Given your file is welcome.blade.php. I believe it should look like so:
Route::get('/', function() {
    return view('welcome', [
       'name' => 'World'
    ]);
});

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Q: x and y key value pair must match, find in array array (size=9)
 0 =>
  array (size=2)
   'x' => int 1
   'y' => int 4
  1 =>
 array (size=2)
  'x' => int 1
  'y' => int 5
  2 =>
 array (size=2)
  'x' => int 1
  'y' => int 6
  3 =>
 array (size=2)
  'x' => int 1
  'y' => int 7
 4 =>
array (size=2)
  'x' => int 1
  'y' => int 8
 5 =>
 array (size=2)
  'x' => int 4
  'y' => int 9
 6 =>
array (size=2)
  'x' => int 5
  'y' => int 9
 7 =>
array (size=2)
  'x' => int 6
  'y' => int 9
 8 =>
 array (size=2)
  'x' => int 7
  'y' => int 9

The above is an array of x and y coordinates where I have battle ships plotted, I want to search the array and return true when the x,y I send matches the x,y pair of arrays.  I can do it if I choose just x on it's own, or y on it's own, but having trouble searching both x and y.
function searcharray($value, $key, $array) {
    foreach ($array as $k => $val) {
        //echo $val[$key];
        if ($val[$key] == $value) {
            return TRUE;
            //$val[$key];
        }
    }
    return null;
 }

$array;
// both these must match

$key='y';
$value=9;
$key2='x';
Varlue2='5';

$result = searcharray($value,$key,$array);

echo $result;

A: You can calculate an intersection of 2 arrays. If they have a common element, the result would be true, otherwise false. However, because you are comparing multidimensional arrays, you need to use custom function for comparison thus the intersection should be calculated using array_uintersect():
$haystack = [['x'=>'1','y'=>'1'],['x'=>'2','y'=>'1']];
$search = [['x'=>'1','y'=>'1']]; // NOTE: this must be a multidimensional array

$result = (bool)array_uintersect($haystack, $search, function($a, $b) {
    return strcasecmp($a['x'].$a['y'], $b['x'].$b['y']);
});

TEST

A: function isArrayEntrySet($array, $x, $y) {
    return (boolean) count(
        array_filter(
            $myArray,
            function ($value) use ($x $y) {
                return $value['x'] == $x && $value['y'] == $y;
            }
        )
    ) > 0;
}

$x = 9;
$y = 5;
if (isArrayEntrySet($array, $x, $y)) {
    echo 'BANG!!!';
}

A: There's several ways of achieving what you want, here's a small function to help you do that:
function identical_values( $arrayA , $arrayB ) {
    sort( $arrayA );
    sort( $arrayB );
    return $arrayA === $arrayB;
}

Basically we first sort both arrays and then compare if they are equal ===
Equal arrays will return TRUE while different return FALSE.

Example:
$array1 = array("x" => "green", "red", "blue", "red");
$array2 = array("x" => "green", "red", "blue", "red");

if(identical_values( $array1 , $array2 )){
echo "arrays are equal";
}

DEMO


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The Warsaw ghetto was the largest of the Jewish camps during the Nazi eraImage: picture-alliance/ dpa
New Holocaust revelations
06/12/2009 June 12, 2009
Researchers in the US have found that there were around 20,000 Nazi prisons, ghettos and camps in World War II, even stretching beyond Europe. The project director has told DW they were crucial for the Nazi war effort.
https://p.dw.com/p/I7Sv
The Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945 aims to catalogue most of Adolf Hitler's Nazi concentration camps, POW camps, prisons, and other persecution sites used during the Second World War. Project director Geoffrey Megargee of the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC told Deutsche Welle that the first surprise he encountered in this endeavor was realising how far the network stretched.
"When the project started we thought we were dealing with perhaps 5,000, perhaps 7,000 sites. But as we started to get into the research for the encyclopaedia we started to see the numbers go up and up and up, and within a couple of years we were up around 20,000," he said.
Not the upper limit
Megargee also said that there were even more than 20,000 detention centers that the Nazis used, citing the infamous Gestapo prisons, which were present in "every town of any size", as an example of an area that the encyclopaedia will not be able to cover extensively.
Ausschwitz held prisoners of all agesImage: APTN
When you think of Nazi detention centers, the big names usually come to mind, concentration and extermination camps like Ausschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen. The first volume of the encyclopaedia deals with exactly this category. However, there was an entire network of prisons, labour camps and other places of persecution that were central to Adolf Hitler's war effort.
"We have almost 1,100 entries in volume one alone, then the remaining six volumes deal with other categories of camps, the big ones would be, for example, POW camps, forced labor camps, ghettos," but even these are just the tip of the iceberg, according to Megargee.
"Wehrmacht [German military] brothels for example, there were about 500 of those, where women were forced to serve; so-called Germanization camps, where Polish children were evaluated for their racial characteristics and - if approved - were given to German couples to raise; the so-called euthanasia centers, where the Nazis killed the handicapped from their own countries and people from the concentrations camps, too."
A part of the war
The report states that the Nazis began setting up their network in Germany as soon as Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. By the end of that first year, over 100 camps had been established across Germany, run by paramilitary groups like the Waffen SS and the police. The encyclopaedia's introduction explains how the camps were designed to "detain and abuse real and imagined enemies of the regime."
There was little or no talk of the camps in publicImage: dpa
Adolf Hitler's regime continued to expand its network as the years went by, setting up many more camps in its occupied territories in Europe and beyond.
"Every place where the Germans and their allies controlled, from North Africa to Norway, from the coast of France almost to Moscow and down into the Ukraine, there were camps and ghettos all over the place," says Megargee.
"A lot of people do ask: 'How could they have put so many resources into this camp system when they were trying to run a war?' Well, it was one and the same for them. The things that were going on in the camps were a part of their war effort, whether it was producing munitions, using forced labor or concentration camp labor or POWs for that matter, whether it was exterminating the Jews..."
All-inclusive report
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum concentrates primarily on the Nazi's systematic, industrialised mass-murder of six million Jews during the course of their reign. However, the encyclopaedia includes all manner of persecution camps, some of which targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, resistance fighters, prisoners of war, and communists - a group that, by the Nazis' definition, included practically any political opponent of the regime.
Megargee says they wanted to cover the whole Nazi system, saying that filtering out the camps which did not hold Jews would have represented the same research task, just without publishing the information.
"What we're doing is simply trying to catalogue each one of the sites for which we can find information, so we're asking questions about each site such as: When did it open and close? How many prisoners did it have, and of what kind? What kind of work did they do? Who guarded the camp? Who commanded it? How did people live there? How did people die? Were there trials for perpetrators after the war? These kinds of things."
English-language reference work is goal
Megargee says that the idea for the project is to provide a reference work in the English language with details that were scattered around the world in a number of different languages.
"Information on these camps up until now has only been available to people who had the linguistic expertise and the time to go to archives all over Europe and to look at the records themselves, or to look at published accounts of some of these places."
The research team felt that a project like this would help to elucidate the crimes of the Nazi era, especially as Holocaust denial becomes ever more prevalent in the modern world, and as those of the last generation that remember the period, or even suffered at the hands of the Nazis, are growing older and taking their knowledge with them to the grave. Megargee says that the facts on this subject are already slipping away.
"There were well over a million who passed through the concentration camps alone, and that's not including the million or so, for example, that were killed at Auschwitz pretty much on arrival. I just wouldn't have a figure for all of the people that went through all of the different kinds of camps."
Author: Mark Hallam
Editor: Chuck Penfold
Deutsche Welle's Carl Holm interviews project director Geoffrey Megargee.
englisch: Megargee + lead + back anno - Produziert: 11.06.2009 - 14:08:43 von hallam
06/11/2009 June 11, 200905:02 min
Gunman kills guard at Washington Holocaust museum
Officials say an 88-year-old gunman with an anti-Semitic past opened fire inside the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington Wednesday, killing a security guard before being shot by return fire. (11.06.2009)
Obama condemns Holocaust deniers on Nazi camp visit
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Global Graphics appoints Peter Kushnieruk
The new manager of OEM sales for the Americas joins Paul Hagen to strengthen the US team as part of expansion plans for North and Latin America.
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Global Graphics Software has appointed Peter Kushnieruk as manager of OEM sales for the Americas. He joins Paul Hagen to strengthen the US team as part of expansion plans for North and Latin America. Kushnieruk has over 30 years' experience of print technology.
While at companies such as AGFA, Fujifilm and Kodak he gained experience in direct, channel and OEM sales, as well as in vertical markets where print and the products to create it were the main technology. He then branched out to EFI, X-Rite/Pantone, JYBE and Valli Information Systems, where he gained knowledge and experience of enabling technologies for print applications and other manufacturing processes.
Peter Kushnieruk comments, "I look forward to expanding the reach that Global Graphics has in the Americas for its award-winning technologies. I have always been committed to helping the customer first and aligning resources to provide the best possible service and support. I am looking forward to building a positive impact on turnover and the company's bottom line as we expand our business in the Americas."
Kushnieruk reports to Jeremy Spencer, Global Graphics Software's VP of business development, who adds, "Innovation inside our technology portfolio with Harlequin Direct, SmartDFE, and PrintFlat has driven Global Graphics Software to expand our team in the USA. We are delighted to bring Peter on board. His experience with complementary technologies along with his industry knowledge will be invaluable to our growth plans."
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Real Political Hardball
By Ed Henry
Posted April 5, 2004 at 6:08pm
Columnist George Will took great pains to cover all of the ideological bases at his annual party celebrating the start of the Baltimore Orioles' season.
Staking out right field at the Saturday night affair at Will's Chevy Chase home were Lynne Cheney and Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), while left field was covered
by Orioles owner Peter Angelos, a major campaign donor to Democrats, and Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.
Center field, meanwhile, was taken up by moderate Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa).
Will is a member of the board of the Orioles, and the party came just 24 hours before the Birds took the field against the Boston Red Sox for this season's first game on American soil. The New York Yankees and Tampa Devil Rays officially kicked off the season last week in Japan.
Some of the most interesting bipartisan chatter at the party revolved around the conversation between conservative radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham and Christine Pelosi, daughter of the House Minority Leader and chief of staff to Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.).
Pelosi told HOH: "Laura and I did note that most Americans don't focus on the presidential race until after the World Series, so it's safe to say that thanks to the bipartisan hospitality of the Will and Angelos families, we're all friends at the ballpark — at least 'til the playoffs!"
Occupational Hazard. Did somebody at the Bush-Cheney campaign play a practical joke on GOP lobbyist Henry Gandy of the Duberstein Group?
Or maybe Gandy is just going to have pay a bit closer attention to the details the next time he contributes to the re-election committee.
Gandy's employer is listed as the "Doberstein Group" in Federal Election Commission filings for his recent contribution to the Bush-Cheney camp.
Even worse is the fact that his occupation is listed as "Sycophant," according to the folks at PoliticalMoneyLine.com, who first noticed the snafus. Gandy and the Bush camp did not respond to calls seeking comment on Monday.
"Webster's defines 'sycophant' as 'a person who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or influence; parasite; toady,'" noted the Web site. "Webster's defines 'toady' as 'one who does distasteful or unprincipled things in order to gain favor.'"
Car and Driver. Democratic lobbyists Vic Fazio and Tom Jolly are using some unorthodox fundraising tactics to help Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) reach the $100 million mark for his presidential campaign.
Fazio, the former Congressman from California, was negotiating to buy a new Acura for his wife at a D.C.-area dealership when the car salesman starting railing against President Bush. The salesman, whose son was a military man serving in Iraq, said he was angry at Bush and wanted to register as a Democrat and donate to Kerry's campaign.
"You're talking to the right guy," responded Fazio, who now hangs his hat at Clark & Weinstock.
When Fazio returned to pick up the vehicle, the salesman wrote a $1,000 check that the lobbyist plans to turn in at Kerry's big D.C. fundraising dinner on Wednesday night.
Jolly, meanwhile, jumped into a cab to attend the recent unity dinner that Kerry had with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter at the National Building Museum. The driver asked for a favor as Jolly arrived at his destination, and the lobbyist was in such in a hurry that he thought twice about stopping.
But then the cabbie, who knew that Jolly was heading to the fundraiser, promptly wrote a $100 check and asked that it be given to Kerry. "I think it's an example of how the working people feel about how we need to elect a Democratic president," Jolly told HOH.
But Fazio found out that this method only goes so far. "The downside is when I asked my chiropractor he said, 'You're talking to the wrong guy,'" he recalled. "I said, 'What the hell, I'm on a roll.'"
On the Lamb. Looks like C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb, who goes out of his way to keep a low profile during his anchoring duties, was a big hit with the sorority gals at Purdue University.
During an online chat at washingtonpost.com last week, Lamb was surprised to hear from a fan in Reston, Va., who mentioned telling his parents about how he enjoys seeing the host on the "Washington Journal" program.
"My mother spit out 'Brian Lamb? I knew a Brian Lamb at Purdue,'" revealed the fan, adding: "I'm almost too embarrassed to say it, but apparently one of her sorority sisters was quite taken with you! In any case, she said she always thought you had been destined for great things and was glad to see that you've done so well."
The single CEO wrote back: "I am intrigued by who your mother is. Please contact me independently."
While HOH thought this Internet romance had some potential to bloom, a C-SPAN spokeswoman said Monday that Lamb hasn't been contacted. Yet.
The Old College Try. Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) turned more than a few heads during the recent House debate over the budget resolution.
It became pretty monotonous as Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.), ranking member of the Budget panel, yielded the floor to about a dozen female Members who — one after the next — lambasted the GOP with snappy one-liners.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) rose to oppose the budget "because it cuts women's education programs." And Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) charged that the budget "provides virtually no hope for the 20 million women without health insurance in this country."
That got pretty boring until Watson declared, "I rise against the Republican budget because it would place my USC girls' number one volleyball team, who were here at the White House yesterday, at risk."
House Budget Chairman Jim Nussle (R-Iowa), who had stayed silent during the barrage, had finally had enough.
"I certainly have enormous respect for people's opinions, but I have to say I do not see a volleyball team anywhere in the budget that was mentioned, that we cut a volleyball team," Nussle said as he waved the GOP budget in the air. "And I am looking through here, and I just do not see it."
Turning to the Democratic plan, he added, "My guess is that there is not a volleyball team funded in any of the other alternative budgets either, and if there is, I hope to God that it does not pass."
Nussle added of Watson, "If she can find volleyball or the Women's Athletic Act or anything in this budget, I would be glad to yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman if she can find that for me in my budget."
He's still waiting.


Not big on taking responsibility for his actions.
In the past several days, several mostly local news stories have explored the steep human costs of the Trump administration's brutal policy of separating parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border, searing the issue further into the national consciousness. The Arizona Daily Star ran a painful story featuring reporting from the federal courthouses where the new rules are being carried out; the Houston Chronicle published one about the difficulty parents and children face in reuniting once they're torn apart. Those accounts helped inspire the social-media resurrection of a New York Times piece from a month ago, which reported that the Department of Health and Human Services had lost track of almost 1,500 children it had placed into foster care after they had attempted to cross the border unaccompanied. The Times story quickly ricocheted around Twitter and Facebook, causing a belated-but-justified generalized furor about the desperate state of American immigration law, which encompassed the missing children, the separation policy, years-old ICE abuses revealed in an ACLU report released this week, and more. The hashtag #wherearethechildren was the number one trending topic on Twitter Saturday afternoon.
Under pressure from their liberal base, several Democratic lawmakers began to speak out more forcefully about the moral catastrophe at their doorstep.
On Saturday morning, the outcry caught the attention of internet denizen President Trump. His response: blame Democrats for a policy that he personally directed, then accuse them of being in thrall to a criminal gang.
This weapons-grade nonsense goes well beyond the usual Trump lies.
Sessions also announced that the Trump administration would aim to prosecute 100 percent of border crossers, in an effort to end "catch and release" policies that freed undocumented immigrants while their cases played out in court. Both counted as dramatic changes from previous administrations, which typically allowed families — either those seeking asylum or those captured crossing illegally at the border — to stay together while they awaited their fates.
Even before separation became official U.S. policy, the Times reported that at least 700 children had been taken from their parents since October.
The strategy Trump employed with his Saturday tweet is similar to his playbook on DACA: create a crisis, then blame his political enemies for failing to solve it. In the case of DACA, Trump attempted to end the Obama-era program altogether — again enlisting Sessions to tell the press about it — then complained that Democrats didn't care enough to fight for it in the context of a larger immigration deal. (In reality, Democrats offered Trump a favorable, DACA-for-border-wall deal, and he turned them down.) Though he has not previously mentioned the family-separation policy in the context of an immigration bill, the president appears to be attempting the same trick this time around: holding young people hostage and using their plight as a political bargaining chip.
There's another parallel here. When kids are involved, Trump appears to have the capacity — at least momentarily — to feel something approaching guilt over his actions.
But Trump's' pangs of conscience, if they even rise to that level, never translate into any better treatment for the people he's hurting. Instead, his cruel, racist instincts win out over empathy every time. And the reality distortion field that is his brain convinces him that the humanitarian crisis he has created is anyone's fault but his own.


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I sat in the movie theater with my head down.
You can know that if in the first five minutes of a movie it's swearing at you or assaulting your eyes with immorality, that it's just not going to get any better.
I should have known better, but I had wanted to hang out with friends so I went.
I should have left the theater, but I didn't. I just sat there with my head down for most of the movie, vowing to not do this again.
I knew my conviction wouldn't be popular, but keeping my heart in right standing with God was more important.
Choosing to hold convictions that others may not understand is sometimes a hard and lonely road.
1. Sometimes they are temporary.
In Numbers 6 we see the requirements for a Nazarite vow. A Nazarite vow had a beginning and end. During that time the person was not allowed to drink wine, grape juice, eat grapes or even raisins. They couldn't be near a dead person, and they could not cut their hair, or even trim it. But when the vow had come to an end they were free from these requirements.
There may be a time when God will ask you to give up a certain activity in order to free your heart so you can be more dedicated to Him. This doesn't mean that you will have to forfeit that activity forever, it just means that for a certain time you need to give Him more room in your life. Perhaps it has a stronger hold on your heart than it should, or perhaps it takes up time that God wants you to dedicate to Him.
2. They are personal, not for everyone.
We see that the Nazarite vow wasn't a vow that the entire nation of Israel took and the requirements for the vow were not required of everyone, only of those who chose to take the vow.
We must be careful that if God has laid a certain conviction on our hearts that we don't become judgmental of those who don't hold that same conviction. Yes, there are certain standards all believers should have; there are things the Word of God tells everyone to flee from, but in those areas where we can't find chapter and verse, we must conclude that it is a personal conviction and it should remain personal between us and God.
3. Some people will not understand us.
I imagine that there must have been those who – despite knowing the requirements of a Nazarite vow – still felt hurt when one who had taken the vow refused to attend the funeral for their relative or parent.
There will be those who will know about your personal conviction and on the surface may even agree with your decision, but when it affects them personally would almost want you to violate it for them. They may not understand the importance of your devotion to what God has told you.
4. Violating a personal conviction is sin.
"Others may, I can't". It was a phrase that I grew up rehearsing. I knew that there were certain standards our family kept that were meant only for us. It wasn't a sin that others didn't keep those standards, but for us it was. Why?
When God asks us to abstain from a certain activity and we vow to do that, we enter into a covenant of devotion to Him. To violate that personal conviction is to disobey the Lord's command and to break our vow to Him. That is sin!
Likewise, to pressure a fellow brother or sister to violate a personal conviction they hold is literally pressuring them to sin.
Has God been speaking to your heart to enter into a new level of devotion and consecration? Is He calling you to raise your personal standards? Is He asking you to give Him more time so you can draw nearer to Him?
Don't turn a deaf ear to His voice.
Perhaps this is a season, perhaps this will be a lifelong commitment, as the Levites were consecrated for a lifetime; but one thing is certain, there is nothing on earth that can ever compare with the satisfaction of knowing that we are in the very center of God's will for our lives!
These are great truths. I especially love #2. I think if we could all understand and embrace this one there would be less disagreement in the body. People are at different places in their walk with God and we have to be mindful of that fact. Great post!
I agree, there's be a lot less disagreement in the body if we'd respect each others' convictions and level of maturity.
I think #2 really stood out to me. They are personal not for everyone. I think sometimes our tendency is to elevate our personal convictions and impose them on others. As if we're trying to be the Holy Spirit in their lives. This was a really interesting read and I liked the Nazarite comparison.
I'm reminded of this quote too.
Yes – #2 is so important, because you are right – we do have a tendency to elevate our personal convictions to biblical standard. It's hard sometimes to respect others' convictions and level of maturity.
All 4 of these are right on target! I have done the same thing, instead of standing on my conviction I caved in! So easy to do but we/I must always stand for what I believe to be right. Your right if I do not it is sin!
Thank you, Lisa! Yes – it is easy to cave under pressure, isn't it.
I understand so well about the wanting to be with friends YET, not being able to because what they were doing was wrong.
I am isolated here in Florida. Both my husband and I are. Mainly by choice. We choose not to hang around anyone who doesn't bring anything to our "Table". I couldn't think of a better work than table.
Early on living here at the park, I was often invited to socialize with the other ladies there. Co- workers and or their wives/girlfriends.
I wanted to so badly until I heard what they were planning. Men Bashing. Drinking at the bar across from the park.
Danny and I have been to the bar. A Number of times. Usually in the afternoons when no one else was there. We'd turn on the Jukebox and dance slowly. We haven't been in over a year. We will not go without the other.
I will not BASH Danny. I may share a vent about us but I am not doing it for fun or to harm him. I do it out of love. I do it to survive and get past the anger I often feel.
To get together with co-workers and putting down or telling personal stories about anyone is just wrong. To talk about someone they work with is WRONG.
I am so sorry that you are so isolated. That is hard, and yet sometimes we just have to cut the ties with those who threaten to drag us down. I like your standard for not bashing your husband. You are a real treasure to him. That is so rare today.
Thanks for sharing these are 4 simple truths about conviction. We as believers need to be very careful not to present things that are our personal convictions as necessary for all believers, and we need to be careful to respect the convictions of other brothers and sisters. Great topic!
Yes we do need to be so careful to respect each person's conviction, and also level of maturity.


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NBA Daily: Grading The Offseason – Memphis Grizzlies
Spencer Davies resumes Basketball Insiders "Grading The Offseason" series with an overview of the Memphis Grizzlies' shift in direction to start anew.
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With another week gone by, we've officially flipped the calendar over to August. Preseason football is starting up, as is Team USA Basketball practice, which signals that fall is right around the corner. It also means NBA Training Camps are somehow only a month or so away. Can you believe it?
So what better way to get you ramped up for the return of the association than by revisiting Basketball Insiders' "Grading The Offseason" series? We've already covered 12 teams to this point, so let's get back to it with a breakdown of the Memphis Grizzlies.
Coming into the 2018-19 campaign, questions surrounded the organization: When is Memphis going to finally end the Grit-N-Grind era? Are Mike Conley and Marc Gasol really going to want to stick around for a rebuild?
The chatter was fair. This would be the Grizzlies' third season in four years with a new head coach. J.B. Bickerstaff officially was named head coach after taking over interim duties the previous year.
The organization could be described as anything but stable. Other than being loyal to the city that took them in, there was reason to believe those two All-Star-caliber franchise cornerstones would desire greater things than another portion of their careers being spent at the bottom of the standings.
When the Grizzlies got blown out in their opener, it looked like the season would be a long and strenuous one. It ironically turned out to be a small blip early, as they had a respectable 13-8 record through November. Gasol commandeered the offensive load while Conley ran the sets and rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. showed why he was the fourth overall pick of his draft class. Garrett Temple proved to be one of the better veteran pickups of the summer. Things were looking up for a brief moment.
It didn't last, though. Unfortunately, those four made up the majority of the Grizzlies' attack…literally. They got stops often and did a solid job on the defensive end of the floor by forcing their slower pace on the opposition. The problem was they couldn't keep up if those teams figured out a way to break that strategy—which tended to happen more often than not.
Going into the New Year, Memphis sat at 18-17, but January derailed whatever glimmer of hope the team had of salvaging a successful turnout. Eventually, then-general manager Chris Wallace moved Gasol in a trade deadline deal with the Toronto Raptors. The same fate awaited JaMychal Green and Temple, who were sent to the Los Angeles Clippers. Shelvin Mack was also dealt to the Atlanta Hawks.
New acquisitions like Delon Wright and Jonas Valanciunas came in and immediately injected some fresh life into the team. Avery Bradley produced his best numbers since his last stint in Boston. Conley stayed put and played the rest of the way, perhaps putting forth some of the best efforts until he was rested from March 31 to the end of the season.
Originally signed to a 10-day contract, Bruno Caboclo vaulted himself into a multi-year deal. Ivan Rabb received valuable experience as a second-year big man trying to learn the league. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, Joakim Noah had a career resurgence that Grind City won't soon forget.
While the 33-49 season wasn't a complete waste, it was, again, one with a head coach who is no longer there and a front office structure that is no longer in place.
The Grizzlies had some major turnover right off the bat this summer. Owner Robert Pera reshaped the front office with sweeping changes.
With Wallace demoted to a role in the scouting department, Jason Wexler and Zach Kleiman were named president and executive vice president of basketball operations, respectively. Moreover, Memphis brought in two former NBA general managers to assist Wexler and Kleiman—Rich Cho as vice president of basketball strategy and Glen Grunwald as a senior advisor.
The brand new executive combination quickly canned Bickerstaff as head coach and replaced him with a relatively under-the-radar candidate, Taylor Jenkins. He was a top assistant under Mike Budenholzer in Milwaukee and Atlanta, as well as a former head coach and assistant with the Austin Toros (Spurs G League affiliate) before that.
What was the new regime's first priority on the list? Trading Conley. They struck a deal with the Utah Jazz, with the Grizzlies receiving Grayson Allen, Kyle Korver and Jae Crowder in return. In addition, they acquired the No. 23 pick in the draft and a protected 2020 first-rounder.
According to David Cobb of The Commercial Appeal, the selection will only convey in '20 or '21 if it lands between No. 8 and No. 14 in one of those drafts. He predicts it will convey in '22 when the pick is top-six protected.
Re-signing Jonas Valanciunas was next on the docket following his opt-out, and a verbal agreement came quickly on three-year, $45 million terms at the end of June.
The NBA Draft followed, and it sure looks like Memphis set its path forward with two impressive young additions.
At No. 2, the organization pegged exciting Murray State sensation Ja Morant as its next "guy" to usher in the new era of Grizzlies basketball. Later in the first round, they traded the Jazz pick and a future-second rounder to the Oklahoma City Thunder and moved up to take Brandon Clarke, a highly-touted prospect who had an impressive single season at Gonzaga following a transfer from San Jose State.
Memphis continued the transformation of its roster soon thereafter.
C.J. Miles was traded to the Washington Wizards for Dwight Howard. Prior to his contract guarantee date, Avery Bradley was waived in correspondence.
The Grizzlies decided to make another change, too. Despite their high hopes for Delon Wright, they elected to sign-and-trade the 27-year-old guard to the Dallas Mavericks for a pair of future second-rounders and the rights to Satnam Singh. Instead of Wright, the front office inked restricted free agent Tyus Jones to a three-year, $28 million offer sheet, which the Minnesota Timberwolves declined to match.
There was also a trio of trades that occurred in July.
Maybe one of the more overlooked deals this summer, Memphis acquired Josh Jackson, De'Anthony Melton and two more future second-round picks in exchange for Korver and Jevon Carter.
The franchise finally found a taker for Chandler Parsons and his albatross contract in the Atlanta Hawks, who sent back Solomon Hill after absorbing his hefty deal from a previous trade with the New Orleans Pelicans. Miles Plumlee was also included in the return.
Perhaps the best get, however, was Andre Iguodala. The Golden State Warriors had to pick someone to move in order to create enough flexibility salary-wise and make a D'Angelo Russell sign-and-trade – in addition to other moves in the offseason – work for them. The Grizzlies stepped up as the ones to take on Iguodala, plus a top-four protected 2024 first-round pick. All they had to do was send Julian Washburn to the Bay Area.
To fill a two-way contract slot, Memphis agreed with John Konchar during NBA Summer League. Last week, the team signed international guard Marko Guduric.
Monday morning, Jenkins announced his coaching staff. There are a number of notable hires – Niele Ivey, who spent 12 seasons as one of Muffet McGraw's top associates at Notre Dame and as a former player, will join the Grizzlies as an assistant coach. Ohio State director of player development Scoonie Penn will come aboard, too. Vitaly Potapenko returns to help in development with a specific focus on his old playing position at center.
Furthermore, the organization named Jason March as the head coach of the Memphis Hustle, the team's G League affiliate.
As you can plainly see, there is a tide turning from the top down on Beale Street.
PLAYERS IN: Jonas Valanciunas (re-signed), Ja Morant, Brandon Clarke, Dwight Howard, Andre Iguodala, Tyus Jones, Grayson Allen, Jae Crowder, Josh Jackson, De'Anthony Melton, Solomon Hill, Miles Plumlee, Marko Guduric, Satnam Singh (draft rights) John Konchar (two-way)
PLAYERS OUT: Mike Conley, Justin Holiday, Avery Bradley, Chandler Parsons, Delon Wright, Tyler Dorsey, C.J. Miles, Julian Washburn, Jevon Carter
A brand new direction. Consider it intriguing that we're going to see the first iteration of Gasol/Conley-less Grizzlies basketball for the first time in over a decade. Yes, it's really been that long.
They've got the a couple of veterans to pave the way. Iguodala will prove to be incredible in the locker room and, in spurts, on the floor. If he's kept around, Howard has been around the block enough to be a guiding voice. You can certainly say Valanciunas, Crowder and Hill are well-seasoned having been in the league for six to seven years.
Those guys can set the table, but it will be the "kids" turn to take over now. We only got a taste of what JJJ is capable of last season. With a core of fresh faces to grow next to, the best is most definitely yet to come for the soon-to-be 19-year-old forward.
Morant's resume spoke for itself in college. He is capable of the flash and the fundamental, a deadly combination to have as an IQ with so much more to learn as it is. Clarke wowed those in attendance in Las Vegas at summer league with his tenacity on the glass and finishing at the rim.
Think about the players aching for a fair opportunity, too. Jones had dealt with inconsistent playing time for all but his fourth year with the Wolves. Allen, albeit controversial on the floor with his questionable temper, hasn't really gotten real experience at the pro level. Melton displayed moments of promise when the Suns were looking for production out of their backcourt. One could also argue that Jackson – also coming from Phoenix – has an opportunity to soar in his third year with a concrete role. Granted, he needs to figure things out off the court, first and foremost.
Despite being an all-around jack-of-all-trades player, Kyle Anderson will need to bring a more consistent offensive effort if he wants to get the playing time he desires. There will be a flat-out competition internally with the abundance of forwards this team has.
Jenkins will have his work cut out for him in year one as head coach. The roster is filled with youth and guys who mostly haven't been a part of this organization. At the same time, it's exciting to think about doing things basically from scratch.
Grit-N-Grind is officially in the past. It takes a village to start anew.
Let's see what Jenkins and these players can do with the opportunity.
OFFSEASON GRADE: B-
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Spencer Davies is a Deputy Editor and a Senior NBA Writer based in Cleveland in his third year with Basketball Insiders. Covering the league and the Cavaliers for the past five seasons, his bylines have appeared on Bleacher Report, FOX Sports and HoopsHype.
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Buy Or Sell: Southwest Division
Like all divisions, teams of the Southeast Division have their specific preferences pertaining to players they'd like to move from their rosters. Drew Maresca identifies six players he feels teams might move before the Feb. 6 trade deadline.
Drew Maresca
With the trade deadline only a few weeks away, teams are zeroing in on potential deals. Some teams hope to improve for a playoff push, while others are looking to capitalize on the urgency of contenders. Whichever side of that equation your favorite team finds itself on, they are surely weighing all of their options.
Basketball Insiders' Trade Targets series has already examined the Northwest, Southwest and Central divisions. Now, we turn our attention to the Southeast Division, where we identify six players who should be moved before the Feb. 6 deadline. To be considered a trade target, a player must either add value to a contender, represent a salary dump or have been featured in rumors, now or in the past. Rumors and/or speculation factored into our trade targets, but we identified players who we feel should be moved regardless if they've been named in rumors or not.
The Southeast Division has its share of mediocrity. In fact, the Miami HEAT are the division's only winning team as of Thursday. But don't be fooled — all five Southeast teams are likely to be relatively active come the trade deadline. While the HEAT may be the division's lone buyers, the other four have players they'd like to move for salary purposes and/or prefer to swap for assets. And many of those players can still play a real role elsewhere. So let's jump in with the most interesting of the bunch:
Aaron Gordon – $19,863,636
This one won't sit too well with Orlando Magic fans, but it's practical. The Magic have a relatively young team. And they have too many big men for all to get a good amount of playing time.
Big man or not, Gordon is among the Magic's best trade piece – he's only 24 years old and has probably yet to reach his prime. Further, he's on a relatively affordable deal through 2022 and can profoundly impact the game on both ends of the floor.
This isn't the first time Gordon finds himself in trade rumors, but it might be the year they come to fruition. Gordon is in his sixth season with the team. While he's actually regressed this season in terms of points per game (13.5 points per game), he's still a dynamic offensive weapon and one of the team's best defenders. His trade value won't get too much higher; but losing Gordon doesn't hurt as much this season considering the arrival of Jonathan Isaac as a defensive stopper — and the fact that the team signed Nikola Vucevic to a 4-year/$100 million deal last Summer.
And it's not as if the Magic don't have other areas to address. They still lack an elite point guard and need help offensively – they're 25th in offensive rating and 24th in assists. They should check in with any teams looking to offload high-end guards. While Markelle Fultz has shown flashes this season and Evan Fournier has played at an All-Star level, they don't have a difference-maker in the backcourt. Swapping Gordon for a floor general or elite scoring guard might be their best bet at securing one.
Justise Winslow – $13,000,000
The Miami HEAT need help. Provided, they're playing better than anyone thought they would in the 2019-20 season. But they need more to do more and become real contenders this year.
I know what you're thinking – Justise Winslow has been hurt for much of this season. And when healthy, he's an above-average defender, playmaker and shooter. And that's right. But the HEAT need help, and they need it now.
The HEAT badly want to add star power, and they need to improve defensively to compete with the best in the East in a seven-game series. Winslow cannot be shipped out for a one-year rental. He's far too talented for that, but the alternative is even less likely. The HEAT will not part with Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro, Kendrick Nunn or Jimmy Butler. Duncan Robinson, who is also unlikely to be dealt, wouldn't return nearly as much, anyway. And what's more, the HEAT are limited in their ability to add talent; their 2021 and 2023 first-round picks are owed thank to past trades. So if the HEAT are serious about upgrading their roster soon, Winslow is the obvious sacrificial lamb.
Besides, the team is 21-8 without Winslow and 7-4 with him. So while he's clearly productive, he's also expendable.
But the HEAT can't move too quickly. Winslow is only 23 years old, adds borderline elite two-way backcourt skills and is signed for a relative bargain through 2022 (3 years/$39 million).
While the HEAT would obviously benefit from a healthy Winslow, they may prefer to swap him for a player who's more likely to contribute this season, as well as in the future. And if Miami really believes it can win this season, trading Winslow likely returns a major asset without shipping out players who have developed chemistry with one another and who have been contributors for the current iteration of the team.
Davis Bertans – $7,000,000
Let's be clear – the Wizards have not made Davis Bertans available. But they should listen to offers for anyone on their roster not named Bradley Beal – and they should be open to moving him, too, for the right – albeit ridiculously high – price.
Bertans is in the middle of a breakout season, which includes scoring 15.3 points per game on 43.4% three-point shooting (after scoring 8 points per game in 2018-19), and we know that shooters become increasingly popular around the trade deadline. Bertans is even more attractive considering he is in the final year of his $14 million deal – so he's affordable and carries no long-term salary implications.
Despite recently returning from an injury, Bertans has played well enough to attract serious interest. According to Chase Hughes of NBC Sports Washington, as many as five teams are interested in Bertans: the Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers.
And while the Wizards have appeared against the idea of moving Bertans, they should start entertaining it. Sure, he's in only his fourth season in the league, but he's already 27 years old and eligible for a new contract this offseason. Meanwhile, the Wizards have a long way to go before they should consider dedicating serious cap room to veteran role players with whom they won't seriously compete.
The Wizards should gauge the market for Bertans and pull the trigger on a deal that adds young, unproven talent and/or unprotected first-round picks. What ultimately happens pertaining to Bertans is anyone's guess; but if the Wizards can add a younger, unestablished player with a higher upside, they have to do it.
Marvin Williams – $15,006,250
The Hornets need to establish an on-court identity. They added Terry Rozier this past offseason and boast young, high-upside players in Miles Bridges, rookie PJ Washington and breakout star Devonte' Graham. But everyone else should be available for the right price.
The first Hornet who should be traded from Charlotte is Marvin Williams, a true three-and-D guy who is shooting a near career-best 52.6% on two-pointers and 37.7% from three-point range. Williams is someone who plugs into just about all contending rosters. And since his contract expires following this season, there would are no long-term salary implications.
The Hornets might be deceived into thinking they can make a run at the playoffs, but they shouldn't be. They are currently in 11th place in the Eastern Conference and trail the Nets – current owners of the eighth seed – by five whole games. And while the Nets have their share of issues to solve, they just recently returned Caris LeVert and Kyrie Irving from injuries and should play better from here on out.
And even if the Hornets could sneak into the playoffs, what good would a quick exit do for a team that has only a select few building blocks on its roster? The Hornets should be proactively engaging other teams to determine what Williams could return. But a deal seems even more likely if the Hornets drop farther out of the eighth seed before Feb. 6.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist – $13,000,000
Speaking of the Hornets, they should look to move out from under the contracts of more than just Marvin Williams.
Until last season, head coach James Borrego's first in charge of the Hornets, Kidd-Gilchrist was a key player in the Hornets rotation. He was a 25 minute per game guy through his first six seasons with the Hornets. Last season, he dipped to a career-low 18.4 minutes per game. This season has seen another substantial step back to 13.3.
Clearly, Borrego prefers playing younger players in hopes of organic growth. That means that representatives for guys like Kidd-Gilchrist must begin looking elsewhere to secure their players' playing time and opportunities.
Kidd-Gilchrist is still an above-average defender. Rookie Cody Martin stole away some of his minutes as a defensive stopper, but his utility on the defensive end should result in spot minutes off the bench for a contender looking to throw bodies at guys like James Harden, Jimmy Butler, etc. And while he's never been an effective shooter, Kidd-Gilchrist posted a career-high 34% on three-pointers last season.
A change of scenery is probably Kidd-Gilchrist's best bet. And with unrestricted free agency ahead in 2020, Kidd-Gilchrist should hope to land on a team that allows him to demonstrate his ability to defend and, to a degree, shoot while not overburdening him offensively.
Chandler Parsons – $25,102,512
The Atlanta Hawks have five or so players around whom they hope to build their team in the coming years. They are all 22 years old or younger. Veterans are not on that list. And with Allen Crabbe being moved on Thursday for Jeff Teague, there's one fewer vet who entered the season on the Hawks roster still around.
And that brings us to Chandler Parsons – someone who this writer hopes to see get an opportunity elsewhere. Despite it seeming as though he's been around for decades, Parsons is only 31 years old. After fighting his way back from a number of knee injuries, he's now healthy and able to contribute. Only no one outside of Atlanta seems to notice.
With the Hawks playing their younger players – and rightfully so – Parsons clearly lacks a role with the team. He's appeared in only five games in 2019-20 so far despite being healthy for the majority of it, and he hasn't logged 17 or more minutes in any game thus far.
But that does not mean he can't contribute– especially to a team looking to add scoring punch off of the bench. According to Adrian Wojnarowski and Tim MacMahon of ESPN, Parsons impressed the Grizzlies coaching staff and team in five-on-five scrimmages last season, and he told Bryan Kalbrosky of HoopsHype: "Obviously, I want to play. I want to help. I'm healthy and I'm in a contract year, so I want to show the team that I'm healthy and I can play and I can definitely help this team win."
And what's more, Parsons' contract is an expiring one. So teams looking to add scoring, without affecting their future salary cap, should consider Parsons. Once upon a time, Parsons was a borderline All-Star who topped out at 16.6 points per game back in 2013-14. No one is under the impression that he'll contribute anything near 16.6 points, but he's an established scorer who's been resting for much of the past few seasons. He's a career 37.3% three-point shooter, and he adds good length as a true 6-foot-9 forward. Hopefully Parsons gets another chance to prove his worth.
With less than a month to go until the trade deadline, teams are almost certainly circling in on deals. And with so few trades being made so far this season, observers are waiting patiently for the first shoe to drop. But trade deadline deals hit us like a snow squall — quickly and with little warning. So everyone should hunker down and get ready for the mid-season main event.
The Southwest Division offers many intriguing options heading toward the annual trade deadline, Ben Nadeau writes, but how the chips fall is still anybody's best guess.
Ben Nadeau
The NBA landscape is oddly unfamiliar at this point in the season.
The Milwaukee Bucks are ruthlessly destroying everything in sight, the Golden State Warriors are headed toward a top-five draft pick in June and the New York Knicks are struggling to keep their heads afloat after a mid-season coaching change. OK, fine, that last one might ground us in reality, honestly — but things are looking up, at long last!
And yet, that one constant looms large: Feb. 6 and the annual trade deadline. Buyers, sellers — or wherever your favorite franchise might be — now is the time to push all-in, press the eject button or purchase a super-rare opal from a sketchy diamond salesman that may or may not give a player improved basketballing prowesses.
But if such an uncut gem is unavailable to front offices across the league, then they could do worse than to move for these Southwest Division-based players ahead of next month's all-important deadline.
The Soft Resetters
Courtney Lee — $12,759,670
Solomon Hill — $12,758,781
E'Twaun Moore — $8,664,928
Marco Belinelli — $5,846,154
All four veterans total nearly 40 combined NBA seasons, offering experience, shot-making abilities and locker room leadership. Further, to some, they could represent cap relief. If a team is a deadline seller — the aforementioned Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers or Detroit Pistons, for example — then these contract-ready players could help them tread water, shed longer deals or gain draft pick collateral. So for the Marcus Morris, Kevin Love and Andre Drummond-type contributors on the market, they won't come without some deal-matching gymnastics — that's where players like Lee, Hill and Moore can come in handy, too.
Hell, it's also why the Houston Rockets got in trouble earlier this year for giving Nene a two-year deal worth $20 million in bonuses, thus making the long-time man the ideal trade fodder. Instead, the NBA voided the deal, ruling that any trade with the Brazilian would only be worth $2.6 in outgoing salary. The Rockets, in salary cap hell, would've loved to use Nene in a mid-season deal — perhaps for a name further down on this list, Andre Iguodala — but their creative deal-making was ultimately stymied.
Elsewhere, Moore, 30, has started 29 games for the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019-20 — at a steady 10.2 points per contest, nonetheless — but with Zion Williamson set to return next week and a full youth movement underway, he's expendable. Better, he's affordable for those looking for a perimeter punch (39.1 percent from three-point range) or a more cap space in the summertime.
Lee, on the other hand, has struggled to find time in a backcourt led by Luke Doncic. With he has a massively-expiring deal and a fantastic reputation behind-the-scenes, it's not hard to imagine Lee moving elsewhere in the next 20 days as the Mavericks try to bolster their postseason chances.
Belinelli, 33, has been less effective in his older age, but boasts 65 career postseason games and a low-risk contract. Should the San Antonio Spurs pull the plug — head coach Gregg Popovich likely feels strongly otherwise — then Belinelli and others could be intriguing trade targets.
As for Hill, who has labored to stay healthy in recent seasons, he has another bloated expiring deal — although he'll likely be most valuable to Memphis as freed up cap space come June.
The Calculated Risks
Andre Iguodala — $17,185,185
Jae Crowder — $7,815,533
The time has finally come: Free Andre Iguodala, you cowards!
Since the former NBA Finals MVP was dealt to the Grizzlies last summer, he's been stuck in the mud. In an old fashioned standoff, Iguodala hasn't appeared yet for the rebuilding franchise, while Memphis hasn't budged from their first-round-pick-or-no-deal mindset from the offseason. Will they budge? Which teams will blink first?
The Los Angeles Lakers, always in need of more playoff-poised athletes to put next to LeBron James, might be willing. Houston, still in luxury cap hell, probably can't finagle adding $17 million in cap space without obliterating its already-teetering-off-the-edge-of-the-abyss built roster.
Last time Iguodala was featured for the Warriors, the 35-year-old averaged just 5.7 points and 3.7 rebounds, but his defensive abilities and postseason record speaks for itself. The expectation is that Iguodala will be moved — but to whom and for how much? Well, that's the six-month-old question on everybody's mind, even today.
Iguodala, of note, will be an unrestricted free agent come June.
Crowder, 29, is on his fifth team since 2012 but, by and large, he's impressed at every stop thus far. In 2019-20, the veteran standout has started all 38 games for Memphis, tallying 10.4 points and 6.1 rebounds per contest on a paltry (and expiring) $7.8 million dollar deal. Should the Grizzlies clear the deck, Iguodala included, Crowder has 50 games of postseason experience and won't come with an outrageous price tag — both in regards to outgoing cost or future commitments.
The Leap Of Faiths
DeMar DeRozan — $27,739,975
Jrue Holiday — $26,131,111
This would be the all-in push. The all-or-nothing swing. The so-called leap of faith. Two stars in two different places in their careers — both equally excellent trade candidates for different reasons.
DeRozan, 30, is still chugging along as the leader of San Antonio, and he'll likely finish with an average over 20 points per game for the seventh consecutive season. Healthy as they come, the high-flyer has played in 72-plus games during every campaign since 2014-15 — and he still knows how to enact a healthy dose of revenge, too. DeRozan won't be a cheap option for many franchises, but might he be the final missing piece somewhere?
Such a move, naturally, would have to come with Popovich's blessing and acceptance that the Spurs aren't postseason-bound for the first time since 1997. At 17-22, San Antonio currently ranks 9th in a stingy Western Conference with five teams within three games of them as of Jan. 16. Betting against Popovich is a sin, but those odds, for the first time in a long time, aren't looking fantastic for the perennial stalwarts.
Should the Spurs look to jumpstart a mini-rebuild — Dejounte Murray, Derrick White, Lonnie Walker and Keldon Johnson in tow — then there will certainly be suitors for DeRozan.
As for Holiday, he's the division's big-ticket item — if he's still available, of course. Last the world had heard, the Pelicans had retreated from the offseason position of an unmovable Holiday, the new leader and cornerstone post-Anthony Davis. And yet, the Pelicans are one of those teams within breathing distance of the Spurs and a postseason trip for their budding core, so moving Holiday may not behoove them anymore.
Given Williamson's assumed presence in the season's second half, Brandon Ingram's rise to stardom and Lonzo Ball's newfound settledness, Holiday might be best served to stay put. Still, David Griffin, New Orleans' executive vice president of basketball operations, is no stranger to the wheelin' and dealin' nature of February, and everybody has a price.
Holiday — 19.6 points, 6.5 assists and 1.7 steals per game, plus a back-to-back member on an All-Defensive Team — would elevate any roster in the league. If the 10-year veteran is, in fact, on the table, Griffin has likely been fielding offers for quite some time already. Should Williamson's introduction to the rotation go seamlessly and the Pelicans firmly cement themselves as postseason contenders, however, then Holiday will be the perfect player to get them there.
With less than a month to go before the NBA's trade deadline, the proceedings will only get wilder from here. While the entirety of the Southwest Division is still involved in a hectic playoff chase, far too much could change over the remaining weeks. Who will push all-in? Who will pull back? Are the Spurs going to concede their historic streak of postseason appearances? And how will the Pelicans look with Williamson in the fold?
These are questions without answers at this point.
In another month, we'll have seen the future and then some — but which way it falls now is still anybody's best guess.
Jordan Hicks recently caught up with RJ Barrett near the end of a grueling road trip for the New York Knicks, discussing poise, confidence and dealing with injury.
The New York Knicks have struggled out of the gate, again. In fact, they haven't had a season in the last five-plus years that you'd consider commendable. If there was even more salt to rub in the wound, the Knicks haven't reached the Eastern Conference Finals since the 1999-00 season.
It's safe to say there have been much, much better days in Madison Square Garden — but fortunately for Knicks fans, they finally have something to look forward to.
RJ Barrett – a product of Duke University – was selected with the third overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. After averaging 22.6 points, 7.6 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game in college, Barrett would have been the hottest commodity had he not played side-by-side with Zion Williamson, one of the most captivating prospects in the last 20 years.
Highly-touted coming out of college, Barrett was ranked as one of the top options from all major publications. And those rankings weren't simply a guaranteed-star-is-born type deal – but the key intangibles have always been there. The New York-savior has a solid frame, smooth shooting stroke and the ability to get to the basket. He's lengthy at 6-foot-7 and, combined with his agile demeanor, it allows him to comfortably create his own shot on offense.
Barrett hasn't consistently shown Rookie of the Year-worthy flashes this season, but much of that can't be placed solely on his shoulders.
So far, he's tallied a respectable 14.1 points per game but doing so on an effective field goal percentage of just 43.5 percent. Those shooting percentages were a tad higher in college, however, it's a facet of his game that he'll strive to improve upon so that he can live up to the expectations of the Knicks' franchise.
As he continues to develop his game and become more comfortable with the pace of the NBA, there's little doubt his shooting will improve. At 31 minutes per game, Barrett is proving durable and capable, he just needs to see the ball go in the bucket more often and build up confidence.
Recently, New York was wrapping up a brutal road trip in which they finished against the Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, then a back-to-back against the Utah Jazz. Still, despite the trials and tribulations, Barrett is taking things as they come.
"[I learned] just how to play hard no matter what," Barrett told Basketball Insiders. "We are in the mountains, can't breathe, still gotta play hard. It doesn't matter."
And that effort definitely showed.
Against Utah, the Knicks were without Julius Randle and Marcus Morris, their top-two scorers. Rather than simply fold, Barrett toughed out 10 points and two rebounds, despite feeling tired from the previous night's game.
With the way the Jazz have been playing, facing the struggling Knicks on a back-to-back was almost a guaranteed win, but Barrett still learned a lot from his opponent.
"Experience is really an advantage, a team that has been together for that long you can tell," Barrett said. "They know where each other [is], they're knocking down shots, cheering for each other.
"A team like that, you hope one day we could get something like that too."
The Knicks' latest retool is still in its infancy stages, but with a few more draft picks and signings — added to a suddenly-budding core of contributors and expectations will rise quickly. But, until then, Barrett can only take his lumps, push to grow and adapt to the much more challenging NBA landscape, both on the court and on the road.
"I be chilling, to be honest, I've kind of learned that, you know, the game is just going to be the way it is and you can't force it or you can't get too down, can't get too high," Barrett told Basketball Insiders.
"Stay even-keeled every game. I've been more poised, more calm — it's been working out a little better for me."
From there, the conversation turned toward his former college teammate and close friend, Zion Williamson. When asked about how he feels about Williamson's injury situation, he offered some sterling advice.
"I hate seeing him hurt. I hate not seeing him be able to play the game he loves, but at the same time, I think, we are 19, so he has a long career ahead of him," Barrett said. "At this point I really just want him to continue to get better and get healthy and not try and rush back but, just come back when he's ready."
Wise words from someone who is only, as he said, 19 years of age. Together, although now apart, both have so much room to grow professionally. Even better, the former allies have used each other as a springboard half a coastline away.
"We keep in touch from time to time, picking each other's brains a little bit," Barrett continued. "The one thing I like is that he's happy, he doesn't get too down on himself, he knows he has a long career ahead of himself, just gotta get healthy."
Barrett mentioned the season is almost halfway over and, luckily for the Knicks, he's been playing with more and more confidence. Preparation is key in the NBA, obviously, and the sooner players like Barrett can evolve, both mentally and physically, the better off his career will be.
"Just being more poised," Barrett reiterated to Basketball Insiders about his new-found confidence. "[Knowing] how the defenses are going to play me so I'm just trying to figure out how to play within that."
Needless to say, the Knicks have a slog ahead of them before they can rejoin the playoff conversation. Still, Barrett, prospect and skill-set wise, is about as good of a start as they come. Of course, he's young and extremely raw in some categories — but he certainly doesn't lack confidence and he has plenty of attributes necessary to be a star in the league.
When asked what needs to be done for the Knicks to get back on the right track, Barrett quickly responded, "Go home, feel good again, regroup, get back to it."
With Barrett continuing to improve by the day, New York, finally, might have found the leading hands they so desperately need.