news The Australian Federal Police (AFP) raid on the Department of Parliamentary Services yesterday was possibly illegal, according to Senator Stephen Conroy, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Special Minister Of State.
The AFP search was "intended to access the emails of Labor staff members", Conroy said, and related to "alleged unauthorised disclosure of Commonwealth information relating to the NBN Co", according to an AFP statement made before the raid.
The Labor senator said the raid was a "shameful attempt" by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to "hide his incompetent administration of the NBN".
"It is an extraordinary attack on the Parliament and its constitutional duty to hold the government of the day to account," he added.
Conroy further claimed that NBN Co has "initiated this investigation" based on a claim that it is entitled to special protections from disclosure of information about its operations because it is part of the Commonwealth.
This is contrary to its own enabling legislation, according to Conroy, which he said "clearly and unambiguously" states that NBN Co is "not a public authority, not part of the Commonwealth and not entitled to any of the immunities or privileges of the Commonwealth".
Conroy stated that NBN Co should explain how the AFP search has "any legal justification".
He further suggested that NBN Co "initiated" the raid to "cover up Malcolm Turnbull's gross mismanagement" of the NBN.
No arguing with Conroy's points…even Fifield didn't argue the legal case, all he said was that the AFP should be the only ones who can determine what cases they can take. That would make us a police state, yes?
This government is illegal. They are the rule of law I believe.
Poor Conroy, his bullying not working on the AFP. Coming from a Senator that believed in his ""unfettered legal power" his latest position is surprising. Red undies headwear anyone?
AFP chose to take up the investigation after NBNCo made their compliant. Appears they will conduct one. Conroy wants such investigations for us regular citizens only (plenty of company in parliament).
Conroy's right about the NBN cost blowouts (sorry Murdoch we don't need to wait to completion). However he's less forthcoming about his own;-) The policy folly a disaster; Conroy its instigator.
The whiff of political interference in due process is massive!
There's no "certainty" pertaining the illegality or otherwise of the search.
Why do you believe NBNCo had "no legal standing" to report the leaks?
The same reason they rebuffed Mr Conroy back when he enquired about the same questions about leaks… except they were embarrassing to the previous Labor government as opposed to these fresh new leaks which are painting the current government in a bad light?
IIRC NBNCo basically said "nope can't do anything, hands tied" when pressed by the Senate about those leaks.
And yet now all these bonds have mystically gone away?
@rm I'm all for as many leaks as possible (stated in comments when Renai covered them). They offer a valuable insight into this massive waste of taxpayers money (all models).
Enjoyed the wikileaks as well. They publicly exposed the contempt for the general public most in high office hold (like Conroy's $4.7b NBN policy: "not a cent more").
You know that the $4.6 Billion was for a way-way-back then, FTTN build,(not the later design & future-proof FTTP build to 93% of the population) as a contribution to the builder & for the builder to properly & fairly allow isps upon building the nodes access at decent,(non-rippoff) prices.
After having no acceptable fttn build offers the Labor government then took advice from thier ACTUALLY INDEPENDENT EXPERTS,(unlike Coalition bias-shill supposed experts) to do a nationwide FTTP NBN build for around 90% of the population. With a few more figures tweaked they decided they could get to 93% & so began the REAL NBN.
Later to be a clusterfvck when Malcolm went mtm on nbn.
TLDR – Richard's knowingly being a deceitful knobhead… AGAIN… As usual.
Not true, anyone can make a report to the AFP.
The search was conducted using a lawfully obtained warrant making it legal. The use of any evidence found and/or any potential prosecution is not up to the AFP anyway.
(1) A person who, being a Commonwealth officer, publishes or communicates, except to some person to whom he or she is authorized to publish or communicate it, any fact or document which comes to his or her knowledge, or into his or her possession, by virtue of being a Commonwealth officer, and which it is his or her duty not to disclose, commits an offence.
@c search warrants are issued by a judge or magistrate (not the AFP). The warrant was legally obtained, your claim "It most certainly was an illegal search…" is not correct.
NBNCo is also allowed to report to the AFP.
The use of any evidence obtained can be contested, as it already is with Conroy claiming parliamentary privilege (surprising given he claims the warrant is without validity).
Please link to the warrant online.
@c thank you. The warrant link is for the prior search executed in May 2016.
NBNCo is allowed to report it, AFP can refuse to investigate.
Performing services for or on behalf of sufficient and not exclude by my reading of NBN ACT 2011 SECT 95 given the commonwealth has funded everything and two ministers the only shareholders.
Investigate what? There is no crime even suggested at that is within the pervue of the AFP. The warrant was legally obtained, but illegal as it assumes NBN falls under Section 70.
Assuming Section 95, then only the MINISTER may refer to the AFP, not NBNCo…so no, no uncertainty.
By untrue facts I mean that they are facts that were not and are not in dispute, nor are they obscurred…so the Magistrate should never have signed it, and the AFP should never have asked.
In the first warrant; Crimes Act 1914 Section 70.
Right so the search was legal. As to any evidence obtained it'll require ruling by a court.
Assuming what? Definition of a "Commonwealth officer" pretty broad (therefore Section 70).
Section 95 seeks to exclude the NBNCo GBE from many things (I wonder why?). However it isn't "certain" it excludes their employees from the Crimes Act, the warrant issuing judge or magistrate disagreed with your "facts".
Say what? It defines the nature of NBNCo…and it is quite unambiguous.
Yep, essentially if the warrant was illegal, pretty much any evidence found under those warrants is then ruled out isn't it?
So even if they do turn up "illegal" activity the fact that the warrant was acquired illegally calls the whole situation into doubt. I know there have been criminal cases that have been lost due to incorrect handling of warrants and searches.
I think Conroy's point is that the AFP are there to investigate Commonwealth crimes and, as the enabling legislation points out, NBN is not a Commonwealth entity.
So why are the AFP investigating a non Commonwealth entity ?
exactly. this is a jurisdictional issue; NBN(tm) can certainly report to AFP. but where the item is not within AFP jurisdiction – again as expressly noted in the enabling legislation – AFP should have pushed it back across the desk and asked for a more appropriate legal theory to underpin the raid. mere reporting of an issue does not make it incumbent on the AFP to act, there must be appropriate basis to go through with it.
the fact that the warrant was issued is immaterial – as noted above many cases have gone to court with warrant sought material that was subsequently invalidated by a fault with the legal underpinning authorising the warrant. that material then becomes inadmissible.
those invalidated warrants were signed off on by a judge/magistrate as well….the warrant actions still went ahead; just because there was a process followed of obtaining, serving and executing a warrant, there is no automatic conferring of legality to that action. R, please stop insisting that because it was served and executed that there must be some 'there' there – as the old song goes it "aint necessarily so".
@nm I'm not insisting "there must be some 'there' there".
Just pointing out there is less "certainty" re illegality or otherwise of the search. Indeed stated the results of any search may never be used.
@tm Definition of a commonwealth officer for purposes of the crimes act is much broader than many, including Conroy, believe.
Please tell me how that could possibly be a commonwealth officer???
@c seriously, read the definition of commonwealth officers in the crimes act (provided)!
If the AFP haven't done the right thing by Labor, the Commissioner Andrew Colvin's position is toast when Labor get in at the next election.
Yes Richard, the AFP certainly were 'compliant' when NBNCo's masters arranged their complaint.
So, is the ALP fighting the AFP raids in court? Surely it's an open-and-shut case if the warrants have been issued based on incorrect legal foundations? If that's the case, is there a legal case being brought against the judge who illegally issued the warrant? Is there also an anti-corruption and internal affairs investigation into the activities of the AFP?
I don't know if there's anything to challenge yet…it is obviously only a bad attempt at a smear campaign to try and obfuscate the poor management of NBN.
I don't think there will be any legal challengers because none of the material taken by AFP will see the light of day and the media coverage (attacking the media as well) will work more in Labors favor than the Coalition. So far the Coalition have fucked up the NBN, they called a double DD election and that stuffed up for them with a one seat majority and a more hostile senate. They won't get anything through the senate and they will try to blame Labor for it and the rag tag senate which they created. Now they are blaming the unemployed, part-time workers because they don't pay enough tax. As far as the Coalition is concerned, governing would be easy if they didn't have to put up with you useless voting citizens.
Whether or not a case is brought, the fact is the AFP did conduct a raid, so irrespective of what is done with the data/evidence they collected their actions can still attract a legal response.
What's the point of these raids anyway and what a waste of taxpayer's dollars. So nbn co can find the whistle-blower/s and the libs can cover there backside and not be found out.
We are stuck with this crap version of the nbn aka adsl 3, let's just wait and let these lib fools have enough rope to hang themselves in the next 12 months. I'd rather the AFP use our money to lock up the next terrorist and catch the bad guys if I'm honest and spend anymore money on this rubbish.
The point of the raids is that the LNP don't know who is doing the leaking. Even if no charges come from it(which is looking when they have no evidence to use) they hope to find the source and then silence that person somehow. Just having a finger pointed a person would be enough to either sack them isolate them from important information or manage them out of a job.
"The point of the raids" we all know the point; however it isn't meant to be something which is in the AFP purview.
This is basically a private company using the AFP as their internal private security force because something embarrassed a political party.
Man they like to beef it up with pretty pictures don't they….
Basically, FTTN has to generate the same or more ARPU than FTTP has to date…don't see it happening.
Fewer users on FTTN, and wholesale revenue capped at $16 (according to Malcolm Turnull last week), means that FTTN will not cost recover." Costs also lower, less to recover (hence lower wholesale price).
The HFC CPP increase was explained as resulting from the lead-in switch from demand drop to build drop model (deja vu). With costs (again) increasing they'll be hoping their revenue forecasts are realised.
ARPU (CP17p51) is forecast to increase from $43 (FY16) to $52 (FY20). This represents a small increase over past actuals ($37 (FY13) to $43 (FY16)). You correctly state the past ARPU trend is for FTTP, FTTN introduced 11 mths ago so early adopters likely skewing those speeds higher than longer term average (as we've seen with FTTP declining from 39 (FY13) to 31mbps (FY16)).
ACCC data shows FY16 average provisioned AVC speeds of 28.54mbps (FTTN) & 32.65 (FTTP). There's a material (14%) difference between the two technologies. Average FTTN speeds are likely to will remain under FTTP (although more urban customers will help), therefore AVC revenue likely to be less for FTTN.
Therefore CVC growth the target for growing NBNCo revenue. At just 1.09mbps there's the same capacity for growth regardless of technology. At the very least they'll need to force RSPs to disclose their contention ratios to create a market for differentiated offerings (currently a race to lowest price).
By FY20 they're expecting 8.1m activations (CP17p50). $5b / ((6.9m+8.1m)/2) / 12 = $55 / mth. Given activations is exponential, not linear, its ballpark their ARPU forecasts. Whether it'll be realised (rollout, uptake, ARPU) will be watched closely.
The most concerning part for me was the prescence of NBN staff during the original raid on Conroy's office. No civilians should be present on any police raid regardless of the reason.
My guess is that for section 70 to apply in this latest AFP raid (on the Department of Parliamentary Services), it may be suspected that Commonwealth Officers had passed on information obtained from NBNCo, whatever the real reason for the search (such as weeding out the source of the NBNCo leaks).
You'd think so, but the gov't clearly wanted to maintain the perception it had nothing to do with the raids. Section 70 doesn't seem to preclude anyone from requesting the investigation, just who can be investigated.
"Kelly O'Dwyer, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, said she would not rule out a US-style system of rewards for whistleblowers.
So, when the AFP track down the NBN whistleblower, he or she could be in for a government reward.


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The last two weeks have been absolutely surreal. Watching Cody Martin and Jordan Caroline play in the Las Vegas NBA Summer League has been one of the greatest feelings you could have as a coach. As much as these two accomplished in college, it has been extra special watching them compete at the next level. It is great to see how Jordan's toughness and competitiveness has translated to the NBA. For Cody, seeing his competitiveness and defense translate to the next level has been fun to watch. Caroline averaged 16 PPG and 3.5 RPG during the Las Vegas Summer League and Cody averaged 8.6 PPG and 3.6 RPG. Knowing how hard these two have worked over the past several years makes it extra special to see it paying off. We are very excited to continue following these two in their professional playing careers.
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Hogs Take to HIIT Workout
With crossfit last week and high intensity interval training this week our players are getting the message that passion and energy are a huge component of how our team will not only work out but also play.
HIIT Workouts take interval training concepts and apply them to total body exercises. This increases the heart rate for our players quickly and then amplifies the effect of their strength workout.
This week we also had a special guest, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Hunter Yurachek. He was pushing through to stay stride for stride with them throughout the workout. It was great for our players to see how supported they are by our AD.
Another awesome workout that capped another week of progress for the Razorbacks!
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Our Friday workout this week involved a change of pace as our players were put through a grueling crossfit workout. Crossfit focuses on "high intensity" exercises that push athletes to maximize their potential. Additionally, by constantly mixing up different exercises our players were pushed out of their comfort zones.
Many people have probably heard the claim, "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" and there actually is compelling scientific research to back up this idea within a team context. The authors of one study called shared discomfort a "social glue" and highlighted the idea that going through a challenging task as a group helps bonds the group together.
Not only does crossfit provide an opportunity for an exhausting workout, but by sharing in that exhaustion, our players embody togetherness. All summer the emphasis has been to not only continue to get better physically, but also to gel from a chemistry standpoint. This latest Friday workout accomplished both.
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Jimmy Whitt
Jimmy Whitt Jr., who began his career at Arkansas before transferring to SMU, returns to the Razorbacks for the 2019-20 season as a graduate transfer.
For his three-year collegiate career, Whitt has played in 95 games, starting 73, while scoring 910 points (9.6 avg.) with 417 rebounds (4.4 avg.), 268 assists (2.8 avg.) and 123 steals (1.3 avg.).
2018-19 (Jr. at SMU): Started all 30 games he played, missing two due to a shoulder injury … Averaged 12.3 points (25th AAC) … Led team in rebounds (6.4 avg., 8th AAC),; offensive rebounds (2.1 avg., 12th AAC), assists (4.0 avg., 9th AAC), assist/to ratio (2.7 avg., 2nd AAC & 25thNCAA); and steals (1.4 avg., 10th AAC)… Only player in AAC rankings for points (30 ranked), rebounds (20 ranked), assists (15 ranked) and steals (15 ranked) … Was one of 26 in the nation with at least one triple-double and had five double-doubles … Scored double-digits 20 times with seven games with 8-plus rebounds, 11 games with 5-plus assists and 7 games with 3-plus steals … Made the AAC Weekly Honor Roll four times (Dec. 3, Dec. 24, Jan. 7 and Jan. 14) … Triple-double included 12 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists, with three steals, in the win vs McNeese State (first triple-double at SMU since 1999 and fifth time in program history) … Recorded career highs of 24 points and 12 FG made against #23 Cincinnati in the AAC Quarterfinal … Had 23 points against UCF (2/10) … Notched 20 points with six assists and six rebounds against #17 Houston (1/16) … Recorded fifth double-double of the season and third in a row with 10 points and 10 rebounds in win over Tulsa (1/12) … Scored 20 points and pulled down 10 rebounds at UConn (1/10) … Recorded a then career-high 22 points (all in the first half) with six rebounds, four assists and three steals in the win versus Cornell ……Had 18 points on 9-10 FGs, including the game-winner with 4.2 seconds left, in the 77-76 win versus Wright State … Pumped in 20 points (8-13 FG) with six rebounds, five assists and a steal versus Lipscomb.
2017-18 (RSo. at SMU): Started all 33 games … Averaged 10.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists (8th AAC) and 1.8 steals (3rd AAC) … His 2.1 assist/turnover ratio ranked third in the AAC … Named to the AAC Weekly Honor Roll twice (Dec. 18 and Jan. 29) … Scored 10+ points in 16 games … Had 16 points with six assists and five rebounds versus #12 Wichita State … Grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds with nine points, three assists, two blocks and two steals at Tulsa (2/1) …Totaled 18 points (9-14 FG) and a career-high five steals (including 4 straight possessions) in the win vs Tulane (1/20) … Had 16 points (8-9 FG), four rebounds, three steals and two assists in win versus Boise State … Posted career highs of 19 points and eight assists with six rebounds and three steals versus New Orleans …Added 14 points, four rebounds and three steals in the win vs #14 Southern California … Had eight points, six rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block in 36 minutes in the win versus #2 Arizona.
2016-17 (So. at SMU): Sat out due to NCAA transfer rules.
2015-16 (Fr. at Arkansas): Played in all 32 games, starting 10 … Averaged 6.1 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 0.6 steals … Converted 79.2 percent of his free-throws … Scored a season-high 15 points in 20 minutes against Missouri, going 7-for-11 with three rebounds and one steal … Pulled down a season-best five rebounds against Charleston Southern … Finished with nine double-digit scoring performances, including five in his first six collegiate games.
High School: A three-time All-State selection … Rated as a No. 55 overall prospect and 4-star recruit by Rivals.com … Ranked No. 1 in the state of Missouri by 247Sports.com and ESPN.com … Nominated to play in the 2015 McDonald's All-American game … Scored 825 points during his senior year, averaging 30.6 per game … … Ended his high school career with a school-record 2,411 points and 399 steals … As a junior, participated in the USA Basketball Men's Junior National Team mini-camp … Attended the NBPA Top 100 Camp.
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Connor Vanover
Connor Vanover, a Little Rock native who played one season at Cal, transferred to Arkansas for the 2019-20 season
2018-19 (Fr. at Cal): Averaged 7.5 points and 3.0 rebounds during his freshman campaign … Played 28 games and started 15 … Came on strong to end the season as he averaged 12.8 points and 5.0 rebounds over his final 10 games … Included in the 10-game span was a career-high 24 points versus Stanford and eight boards against Southern California … Led the team with 35 blocked shots and shot 35.5 percent from 3-point range (27-of-76).
HIGH SCHOOL/PREP: Began his high school career at Arkansas Baptist Prep before transferring to Findley (Nev.) Prep for his senior season … At Findley, he was a teammate of current Razorback Reggie Chaney and averaged 8.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists in 1.3 steals. He helped the Pilots to a 32-5 record and a No. 26 national ranking … At Arkansas Baptist Prep, Vanover led the Eagles to a three-year record of 82-21 with three league crowns and back-to-back Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) Class 4A state titles (2016 and 2017) … Tallied more than 1,000 points, 700 rebounds and 300 blocks while being a two-time USA Today All-Arkansas selection (2016 and 2017), the 2016 Arkansas Class 4A State Tournament MVP and a three-time Arkansas 4A All-State pick (2015, 2016 and 2017) … Vanover was a member of Team USA's U16 and U17 squads and captured a gold medal at the 2015 FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Argentina after averaging 3.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in four games.
PERSONAL: Vanover has two older brothers, twins Brandon and Justin. Brandon, is 7-0, rising junior and plays basketball at Central Arkansas while Justin is a 7-1 and plays saxophone with the Alabama Crimson Tide marching band. His mother, the former Robyn Irwin, was a member of the University of Arkansas women's basketball squad from 1986-89 and led the Razorbacks in blocked shots three times.
JD Notae
(pronounced No-Tay) played in 60 games in two seasons at Jacksonville, totaling 929 points (15.5 avg.), 328 rebounds (5.5 avg.), 163 assists (2.7 avg.) and 101 steals (1.7 avg.).
2018-19 (So.): Voted second team All-ASUN after averaging 15.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.4 assists; all team highs … Scoring average ranked fifth in the ASUN while ranking fourth in assists, fourth in steals (1.6) and 10th in rebounding … Posted 24 games in double figures, including nine 20-point games, with nine games of five assists or more and three games with at least 10 rebounds … Had three double-doubles, including a triple double at Kennesaw State (15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists … First double-double was the game prior to triple double, posting 12 points with 13 rebounds versus Lipscomb … Other double-double came versus Stetson as he scored 16 points and grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds … Scored a career-high 40 points, adding eight rebounds and five assists, versus Florida Memorial … Made 16-of-22 shots from the field and 5-of-6 from 3-point range … Had 29 points and five assists in the regular-season finale versus Florida Gulf Coast … Versus Indiana, posted 15 point and rebounds.
2017-18 (Fr.): Named ASUN Freshman of the Year after averaging 15.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.8 steals while shooting 41 percent from 3-point range … Started all 28 games he appeared in until injuring his foot and missing the final five games of the year … Scored 432 points, the second-most by a Dolphin freshman in a season … Scored a then career-high 30 points vs. Middle Georgia State … Scored 20 or more points seven times, four times in ASUN play … Knocked down a season-best five three-pointers twice (at UAB, at Michigan) … Hit two free throws with one second left to lead the Dolphins to a win at Stetson … Led ASUN freshman in scoring (15.4 ppg), minutes (31.4 mpg) and steals (49) … Was the ASUN Player of the Week once and Newcomer of the Week twice.
HIGH SCHOOL: Was a four-year starter at Newton High School … Averaged 22 points, 5 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game … Led his team to the 2016-17 7A Elite 8 with a 26-2 record … 2016 GACA All-State member, Region Tourney Player of the Year and All-Region 2 AAAAAA team … In AAU ball, was named the Atlanta Lightning MVP in 2014, 2016, and 2017.
Jeantal Cylla
(Pronounced GENE-tall SILL-uh) comes to Fayetteville as a graduate transfer from UNC Wilmington.
Cylla played one season with the Seahawks after beginning his career at Florida Atlantic. In addition to his collegiate experience, Cylla played on the Haitian National Team in the summer of 2018.
In his three-year collegiate career, Cylla has averaged 10.25 points (984 total) and 3.78 rebounds (363 total), making 40.3 percent of his field goals (336-833), 31.2 percent of his 3-pointers (100-321) and 78.5 percent of his free throws (212-270) with 47 assists, 48 steals and 42 blocked shots.
2018-19 (R-Jr. at UNCW): Ranked 61st in the NCAA and fourth in the Colonial Athletic Association in free throw percentage at 84.8 percent (106-of-125) … Played in all 33 games, starting 32 … Averaged 13.7 points and 4.6 rebounds while making 31.1 percent (33-of-106) of his 3-point shots … Scored a season-high 24 points at Elon and at James Madison … Overall, led the team in scoring 11 times including 24 at James Madison, 24 at Elon, 23 versus Elon, 22 versus Gardner-Webb, 20 versus East Carolina, 19 versus Northeastern, 16 at #14 North Carolina, 16 at Delaware, 16 at Hofstra and 14 versus Stanford … Reached double figures in 22 of his 33 games … Recorded third career double-double with 19 points and tying his career-high with 10 rebounds at Mercer … Was the Preseason CAA Newcomer-of-the-Year pick by Blue Ribbon Yearbook.
2017-18 (Junior at UNCW): Sat out at UNC Wilmington due to NCAA transfer regulations.
2016-17 (So. At FAU): Started all 26 games in his second year with Owls … Averaged 7.1 points and 3.4 rebounds … Had a double-double, scoring 10 points and pulling down a career-high 10 rebounds versus Webber … Scored in double figures 11 times, including a season-high points 16 versus Florida Gif Coast and Florida International.
2015-16 (Fr. At FAU): Appeared in all 33 games for Owls and made 24 starts … Averaged 9.7 points and 3.5 rebounds in rookie year … Closed out his first season by scoring in double digits in three of last four outings … Led team in Conference USA games with 12.5 ppg … Scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds versus Wagner … Registered back-to-back, 20-plus scoring games with career-high 25 points at UTEP and 22 points at UTSA … Posted first career double-double with 24 points and 12 rebounds in a win over UTSA.
HIGH SCHOOL: Three-time All-State and All-Conference selection … Scored 2,678 points at Lake Worth (Fla.) High School (Sr.) and Lake Worth Christian School (Fr.-So.-Jr.) … Averaged 27.0 points and 11.0 rebounds during his senior campaign for Trojans … Ranked 38th nationally at small forward position in Class of 2015.
Our message last week to our players came from the Chicago Cubs via our new trainer Mark O'Neal. Joe Maddon preaches Level 5 buy in to his team every year. He claims that if he can get all of his players to Level 3 then they can make moves, Level 4 and they are in the hunt for something big, and then when his team gets to Level 5 they are dangerous.
We challenged our guys to evaluate themselves and decide which level they are at right now. What would it take to go up a level? What would it take to get to a Level 5 team?
The Level 5 shirt now hangs in our locker room for our guys to look at everyday.
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During the Summer we want our guys to love the weight room, we want them to push themselves out of their comfort zone. Before our first team weight session our strength & conditioning coach tested our guys like they were at the NBA combine. We tested Height, Weight, Wingspan, Bench, Reach, Vertical, Max Vertical, and Lane Agility. We have these numbers displayed around our facilities and we will post the comparison at the end of the summer. Our goal is for the players to see their hard work paying off.
Strength and Conditioning is so important for our players. Not only does it help them get stronger, but it helps with injury prevention. Check out the video to learn more about Coach Rich
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Bear Bryant Was A Houndstooth Hat Brim Away From Becoming a Hog
Not only that, but Bryant, an Arkansas native, briefly briefly attended an Arkansas university.
By Evin Demirel@evindemirel Oct 10, 2015, 10:00am CDT
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The "Taxidermy" line
Look at this picture. That hog and that elephant - now those animals are a man's-man beasts, none of the cute, cuddly and sanitized fluff you see running around at your local Razor Fest or Prince of Tides Fest of whatever it is Alabama fans do. No, these things represent the truth - straight from the wild and hungry, raw, powerful.
Not unlike Bear Bryant himself, who hailed from just about the most hardscrabble background of any legendary coach we know of. He did the normal hardscrabble things like peddling vegetables, not graduating high school on time, running around without shoes and being one of 12 children.
He also straight WRESTLED A BEAR.
That little tussle cost him a hunk of shoulder, but he came out of it with a nickname and a helluva story. The great ones, after all, are always great storytellers. That's certainly what one of Bryant's graduate assistants at Alabama learned, as I wrote in my most recent piece for Whole Hog Sports:
Larry Lacewell had heard plenty about Alabama head football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant growing up. They share the same small Arkansas hometown, Fordyce, after all, and Lacewell's father had been Bryant's close friend. As teenagers Bryant and "Chink" Lacewell had hopped boxcars on wild adventures taking them as far as Cleveland.
Lacewell learned more about his dad's imposing 6-foot-4 friend in 1959 when he took a Crimson Tide graduate assistantship under Bryant. Bryant hooked Lacewell up with a dorm room and made sure he earned his keep. With a chuckle, Lacewell recalls duties that included being Paul Bryant, Jr.'s "babysitter" and a "real good gopher."
So it came as no surprise when Bear Bryant needed someone to drive him home to Fordyce from Tuscaloosa, the 22-year-old Lacewell was the man for the job. On that roughly 280-mile trip they talk about many things, including Lacewell's experience as a football player for the Boll Weevils of what is now the University of Arkansas-Monticello.
It was then, just after they had stopped to put in a call to Lacewell's mother, that Bryant shared a Boll Weevils story that made Lacewell "about fall out of the car."
Lacewell recalls Bryant asking: "'Boy, you didn't know I went to school over there, did you?'
"I said 'What?'"
Lacewell already knew Bryant had left Fordyce High School before graduating and early on had a hard time figuring out how to succeed in life. Ultimately, an Alabama booster in nearby Pine Bluff played a big role in routing him to Tuscaloosa, just as he had with wide receiver Don Hutson, a Pine Bluff native and future NFL superstar.
In his memoir, Bear, Bryant recalls Crimson Tide rosters were filled with many Arkansans "because of the influence of Jimmy Harland, who ran a poolroom in Pine Bluff where the school kids hung out. He had adopted Alabama. A self-appointed scout. After Huey Long came to power in Louisiana, Harland did some recruiting for LSU, too, but when Long got shot he went back to pushing Alabama full-time. Our 1935 Rose Bowl team was loaded with Harland recruits—Don Hutson, Charlie Marr, Bill Young, Happy Campbell, Leroy Goldberg, Joe Dildy, Dutch King, me."
Before arriving in Alabama in the fall 1931, though, Bryant moved to Monticello to enroll at the Arkansas Agricultural and Mechanical College, which in 1971 became part of the University of Arkansas System.
"He said he went to work for some guy who worked a drug store in Monticello," Lacewell recalls. "He said he didn't get the money he thought he deserved at the end of the week, so he packed up and left to go back home."
Bryant's legacy is now irrevocably tied to the Crimson Tide, but before he became Alabama's head coach in 1958 he twice came close to joining the University of Arkansas.
Read more about those episodes - which included a seriously lucrative offer by Little Rock businessman Jack Stephens - in the rest of my Whole Hog Sports article here.
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Cricketer Rohit Sharma to launch NFT collection on FanCraze
BL New Delhi Bureau | New Delhi, December 24 | Updated on: Dec 24, 2021
The collection will be inspired by memorabilia like the ICC Golden Bat from the 2019 ICC World Cup that Sharma won
Faze Technologies has announced on that India's white ball skipper Rohit Sharma, will be exclusively launching his personal NFTs on FanCraze, the company's consumer facing brands.
Anshum Bhambri, CEO, FanCraze said, "We view marquee athletes as artists who create their best moments of art on the field of play. We are very excited to partner with Rohit Sharma, a pure cricketing genius, to build the new paradigm of engagement between the athlete and the fan."
"I am looking forward to sharing some of the best moments of my career with my fans. The team at FanCraze is building the next-generation of consumer experiences, and I cannot wait to check out the super-cool HitMan NFTs and 2D/3D avatars that they will be dropping in the months ahead ," Sharma added.
Also read: Yuvraj Singh to launch NFTs collectibles
The collection will be inspired by memorabilia such as the ICC Golden Bat from the 2019 ICC World Cup and the ball used to pick his first IPL hat-trick for Deccan Chargers in 2009 against Mumbai Indians.
Nikhil Bardia, Head of Sponsorship Sales and Talent, RISE Worldwide, said, "This gives Rohit's fans a chance to own a piece of history from his personal collection ."
FanCraze has already inked a three-year deal with the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the rights to its catalogue of video and audio clips, which goes back to 1975. It is creating thousands of NFTs linked to specific clips, which cricket fans will be able to buy in packs and trade on a secondary market, the statement added.
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Rhapsody of Philosophy
by Max Statkiewicz
This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato's dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to overcome this opposition. Paradoxically, Plato then becomes an ally in the attempt "to overturn Platonism," which Gilles Deleuze famously defined as the task of modern… (more)
This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato's dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to overcome this opposition. Paradoxically, Plato then becomes an ally in the attempt "to overturn Platonism," which Gilles Deleuze famously defined as the task of modern philosophy. Max Statkiewicz identifies a "rhapsodic mode" initiated by Plato in the dialogues and pursued by many of his modern European commentators, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Irigaray, Derrida, and Nancy. The book articulates this rhapsodic mode as a way of entering into true dialogue (dia-logos), which splits any univocal meaning and opens up a serious play of signification both within and between texts. This mode, he asserts, employs a reading of Plato that is distinguished from interpretations emphasizing the dialogues as a form of dogmatic treatise, as well as from the dramatic interpretations that have been explored in recent Plato scholarship—both of which take for granted the modern notion of the subject. Statkiewicz emphasizes the importance of the dialogic nature of the rhapsodic mode in the play of philosophy and poetry, of Platonic and modern thought—and, indeed, of seriousness and play. This highly original study of Plato explores the inherent possibilities of Platonic thought to rebound upon itself and engender further dialogues.
Non-Fiction Human Science Language arts & disciplines Rhetoric Philosophy Aesthetics Criticism History & Surveys Ancient & Classical
Publisher: Penn State University Press (October 01, 2009)
Collection: Literature and Philosophy
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Research field: Nutritional and diabetes epidemiology

Lesson topic: Version control (Git)

Lesson content URL: https://github.com/UofTCoders/studyGroup/tree/gh-pages/lessons/git/intro/

Intro to Git slides (2015): https://github.com/UofTCoders/studyGroup/tree/gh-pages/lessons/git/intro/slides.Rmd

Philosophy of Git slides (2016): https://github.com/UofTCoders/studyGroup/tree/gh-pages/lessons/git/intro/philosophy_of_git.pdf

Lesson video stream (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbUeTXP05XQ

Preface:

Version control is a system that manages changes to a file or files.
These changes are kept as logs in a history, with detailed information
on what file(s) was changed, what was changed within the file, who
changed it, and a message on why the change was made.  This is
extremely useful, especially when working in teams or for yourself 6
months in the future (because you will forget things)!

To understand how incredibly powerful version control is, think about
these questions: How many files of different versions of a manuscript
or thesis do you have laying around after getting feedback from your
supervisor or co-authors? Have you ever wanted to experiment with your
code or your manuscript and need to make a new file so that the
original is not touched? Have you ever deleted something and wish you
hadn't? Have you ever forgotten what you were doing on a project?  All
these problems are fixed by using version control (git)!

We are going to go over a typical workflow.  This could be either a
solo workflow or a collaborative workflow.

Checklist:

Configure your git

Create a folder and create a git repository (git init; the saved
history of the folder and files) in that folder

Create a file and track it with git (git add), saving it to the
history (git commit)

Write a short bio in the file

Check what's going on in the folder (git status)

Compare the file with the one in the history (git diff)

Add the tracked file to the 'staging' area (git add; this is an
area before going into the history)

Save the file in the history (git commit)

Look into your history (git log)

(If we have time):

Create a GitHub account and create a repository

Set the URL of the new GitHub repository to your repository on your
computer (git remote; the command is usually provided from GitHub)

Upload your repository on your computer (called local repository)
up to your GitHub repository (called the remote repository; use git
push)

Download from the remote to the local repository (git pull)

Tips:

Make use of TAB-completion in the terminal!

Up arrow on the terminal goes to the previous command you entered.

Lesson topics and commands

For configuring your git, follow the "Initial setup" I've put
together:

http://codeasmanuscript.org/lessons/git/cheatsheet/

Create a folder and create a git repository (which is the stored
history) in that folder. (Note: ## is a comment, not a command).

cd ~/Desktop ## Move to your desktop
mkdir playing ## Create a folder (aka directory)
cd playing
git init ## Create the repository (init = initialize)

Now, create a file, get git to track it, and save it to the history.

touch bio.txt ## Command to create a file called bio.txt
ls ## Check that you created the file, ls = list files
git add bio.txt ## Track the file
## Save the file to the history with a message (-m)
git commit -m "Initial commit"

Now, open the bio.txt file and add:

Your name

Your program and year

Your progamming language/statistical language of choice

Then:

git status ## Check the activity
git diff bio.txt ## Compare to the one in the history
git add bio.txt ## This sends it to the staging area
git commit -m "Added my bio" ## This sends it to the history

For a description on what the different stages are (working directory,
staging area, and committed history) see the below links:

Description: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Git-Basics

Image: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/book/01-introduction/images/areas.png

Then, to see what has happened in your history:

git log ## View the log of your history

If we have time, we'll create a GitHub account, create a GitHub
repository (a remote repository), and upload the repository on your
computer (called the local repository) onto the remote repository
(GitHub):

git remote add origin https://github.com/yourusername/playing.git
git push origin master
git pull

Now you know about a typical workflow!  There are lots of commands
and options in git, you really can do almost anything.  However,
these are the basic tools that are used most frequently.  If you have
any questions, please check out
StackOverflow for
literally any question on or about Git!!  Or just google it! Google
usually shows answers from StackOverflow.

Resources:

Glossary:

cd - change directory

directory - the same thing as a folder

ls - list the files and folders in a folder

touch - create an empty file

repository - the saved history of a folder and files, used by git.

init - start or initialize a git repository

add - put a file into the staging area, so that git starts
tracking it

staging/index area - where files are stored before going into the
history

commit - send files in the staging/index area into the history
(the git repository)

status - check the status of the folder and the git repository

diff - compare a file to the a file in the history

log - view the commit history in the git repository

Links:

Here are a few great resources (excluding StackOverflow) to use if you
ever need help:

Hands-on tutorial, with web-based terminal

Official git documentation

Simpler first-steps guide

Reference pages for all git commands

Interactive, visual tutorial on branching

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UK's Released Detainees Allege Torture
Both the UK's Observer newspaper, Revealed: the full story of the Guantanamo Britons, and the UK's tabloid Daily Mirror, My Hell in Camp X-Ray describe charges of torture and inhuman treatment at Guantanamo levvied by UK citizens returned to England after two years of detention in Guantanmo.
Outside independent review — ideally judicial review — is essential either to rebut these claims convincingly or to root out and punish those responsbile if the uglier charges are at all true.
From the Observer's story:
Three British prisoners released last week from Guantanamo Bay have revealed the full extent of British government involvement in the American detention camp condemned by law lords and the Court of Appeal as a 'legal black hole'.
Shafiq Rasul, Ruhal Ahmed and Asif Iqbal, the so-called 'Tipton Three', speaking for the first time since their release at a secret location in southern England, have disclosed to The Observer the fullest picture yet of life inside the camp on Cuba where America continues to hold 650 detainees.
After more than 200 interrogation sessions each, with the CIA, FBI, Defence Intelligence Agency, MI5 and MI6, America has been forced to admit its claims that the three were terrorists who supported al-Qaeda had no foundation.
The existence of a secret super-maximum security facility outside the main part of Guantanamo's Camp Delta known as Camp Echo, where prisoners are held in tiny cells in solitary confinement 24-hours a day, with a military police officer permanently stationed outside each cell door. The handful of inmates of Camp Echo include two of the four remaining British detainees, Moazzem Begg and Feroz Abbasi, and the Australian, David Hicks;
That they endured three months of solitary confinement in Camp Delta's isolation block last summer after they were wrongly identified by the Americans as having been pictured in a video tape of a meeting in Afghanistan between Osama bin Laden and the leader of the 11 September hijackers Mohamed Atta. Ignoring their protests that they were in Britain at the time, the Americans interrogated them so relentlessly that eventually all three falsely confessed. They were finally saved – at least on this occasion – by MI5, which came up with documentary evidence to show they had not left the UK;
That their first interrogations by British investigators – from both MI5 and the SAS – took place in December 2001 and January 2002 when they were still being held at a detention camp in Afghanistan. Guns were held to their heads during their questioning in Afghanistan by American soldiers, and physical abuse and beatings were rife. At this point, after weeks of near starvation as prisoners of the Northern Alliance, all three men were close to death.
Ahmed described an interrogation session which took place before he left Afghanistan by an officer of MI5 and another official who said he was from the Foreign Office: 'All the time I was kneeling with a guy standing on the backs of my legs and another holding a gun to my head.
From the Daily Mirror:
Jamal al-Harith, 37, who arrived home three days ago after two years of confinement, is the first detainee to lift the lid on the US regime in Cuba's Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta.
The father-of-three, from Manchester, told how he was assaulted with fists, feet and batons after refusing a mystery injection.
He said detainees were shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in hand and leg cuffs with metal links which cut into the skin.
Their "cells" were wire cages with concrete floors and open to the elements – giving no privacy or protection from the rats, snakes and scorpions loose around the American base.
He claims punishment beatings were handed out by guards known as the Extreme Reaction Force. They waded into inmates in full riot-gear, raining blows on them.
Now Jamal bears the scars of Guantanamo. He stoops into a hunch as he walks because the shackles that bound him were too short.
As a punishment, inmates would be confined so tightly they would be forced to lie in a ball for hours. During lengthy interrogation, they would be tethered to a metal ring on the floor.
Jamal said: "Sometimes you would be chained up on the floor with your hands and feet actually bound together. One of my friends told me he was kept like that for 15 hours once.
"Recreation meant your legs were untied and you walked up and down a strip of gravel. In Camp X-Ray you only got five minutes but in Delta you walked for around 15 minutes."
Jamal said victims of the Extreme Reaction Force were paraded in front of cells. "It was a horrible sight and it was a frequent sight."
He said one unit used force-feeding to end a hunger strike by 70 per cent of the 600 inmates. The strike started after a guard deliberately kicked a copy of the Koran.
Rice and beans was the usual diet and the water was "filthy". Jamal added: "In Camp X-Ray it was yellow and in Delta it was black – the colour of Coca-Cola.
"We had it piped through with a tap in each 'cage' but they would often turn the water off as punishment.
"They would shut off the water before prayers so we couldn't wash ourselves according to our religion.
"The food was terrible as well, up to 10 years out-of-date. They would open a hatch and shove it through a section at a time.
"We had porridge and something they called 'like-milk', which was disgusting and 'like-tea' and a piece of fruit. The fruit had been frozen and pounded with chemicals. An apple might look red but there was waxy white stuff all over it and inside it would be black and brown.
"They would play tricks on people by denying them things – you might be the only person on your block who didn't get any bread. I prided myself on never asking them for anything. I would not beg." Jamal said they were told they had no rights. "They actually said that – 'You have no rights here'. After a while, we stopped asking for human rights – we wanted animal rights. In Camp X-Ray my cage was right next to a kennel housing an Alsatian dog.
"He had a wooden house with air conditioning and green grass to exercise on. I said to the guards, 'I want his rights' and they replied, 'That dog is member of the US army'.
I have to say that several aspects of the Mirror's account are hard for me to believe. I do not believe the US would starve detainees or feed them spoiled food. Would it? And the stuff the Mirror repeats about the use of prostitutes to shock sensitive Muslims with naked bodies and menstral blood sounds just too weird — more like the propaganda of a person who has been held illegally in hard conditions for two years and wants his revenge.
One of the many bad consequences of the secrecy of the detenetions and the decisions to set up camps outside the law is that it makes it hard for the US to rebut this propaganda effort even among those who want to trust it…much less those who do not.


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Museums, Thailand, Travel
Mystery and Silk: Jim Thompson House
Stepping out of the air-conditioned van into the humidity of Bangkok, I realized this experience would be different from the rest of my time in there. The noise of cars and motorbikes had disappeared to be replaced by the sounds of boats in the canal nearby. Walking down a gravel path past the gift shop and restaurant, the giant plants of the garden almost obscured the house from view. Having arrived before opening, I took the time to walk around the garden to explore. Plants seemed to grow to extreme sizes due to the humidity and rain. Giant coy fish also appear to have developed unencumbered in their pond.
Knowing little about the man who's house I was about to explore, I was glad when the tour started for the Jim Thompson House. But this is also where the mystery begins. Jim Thompson revived the silk trade in Thailand in the late 1940s after World War II ended. During the war, he had served in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. After the war had ended, he was assigned to set up the OSS office in Bangkok. In 1946, he was discharged from the army, and he returned to Bangkok to work on the Oriental Hotel, but after some disagreements with other shareholders, he turned his attention to Thai silk.
Jim Thompson started his own company to export Thai silk and had great success. He even provided the Thai silk for the movie production of "The King and I." Jim Thompson was also an architect and designed and built the house. He noticed many of the old style Thai houses were still in excellent condition and decided to create his own in the Thai style along with some western touches, such as an internal staircase.
After much success and opening a physical store on March 21, 1967, Mr. Thompson took a holiday to the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia. Five days later Mr. Thompson disappeared and has never been seen again. Many theories abound as to what happened to Jim Thompson. Was he kidnapped? No ransom has ever been asked for. Was he killed? No body has never been found. Was he a double agent about to be exposed and he deliberately disappeared? There was a supposed sighting of him in Tahiti a few months after the disappearance, but nothing sense. Did he get lost or die of starvation or was attacked by an animal? This is highly unlikely as he was trained in jungle survival as a part of his OSS training. Was he still a spy and he was captured? No government has ever claimed to be his abductors or asked for a prisoner trade for him. Adding to this mystery is that his sister was murdered six months later in her home in the United States.
Eventually, people stopped looking for Jim Thompson, and his house became a museum. His company still runs and produces the bright Thai silk that he made famous. The house is basically untouched from when he left for his trip to Malaysia. While his disappearance was only briefly mentioned on the tour, it hung in the air while the tour continued around the house. You could almost sense that his possessions were awaiting him to walk through and sit down on the silk divan to take his regular nap.
How to Visit the Jim Thompson House: The Jim Thompson House is conveniently located less than a five-minute walk from the BTS Skytrain National Stadium stop. The hours are 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, however when we were there, I think they opened at 9:30. The entrance fee is 150 Baht for adults and 100 Baht for students under the age of 22. The guided tour is mandatory, and your shoes must be removed to tour the house. Photography is not allowed inside the house.


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Summary of events:
Nineteen terrorists hijack four airliners in the eastern United States.
Two planes crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, one in each tower. Both towers completely collapse, due to the intense flames.
One plane crashes into the Pentagon.
One plane crashes in central Pennsylvania after a passenger rebellion. It was thought to have been targeted for Camp David, Maryland, the Capitol building, or the White House.
All air traffic is grounded and all airports closed across the United States; international flights are diverted to Canada. Financial markets are closed.
U.S. skyscrapers and most government and public complexes are evacuated, and American armed forces worldwide are placed on high alert.
The prime suspect is Osama bin Laden, who denies involvement.
Testimony From the Joint Intelligence Committee
Full text from the testimony by the directors of FBI and CIA before the joint House and Senate select intelligence committee investigating the Sept. 11 attacks. New York Times, US.
Snopes.com: Rumors of War
Rumor control site. Examination of claims regarding the attacks and aftermath, including examples, origins, references, and related links.
Guardian: Terrorism in the US Interactive Reports
September 11: how it happened, attack on the Twin Towers, the flight paths, Manhattan skyline before and after, floor-by-floor graphic guide to the companies in the Towers.
Library of Congress Minerva - September 11 Web Archive
U.S. Government provides archived sites grouped into categories by producer name, type, country, language or subject.
USGS Spectroscopy Lab - World Trade Center USGS Environmental Assessment
Analysis of the fires, soot and dust generated by the collapse of the WTC.
9/11 Attacks As Viewed From Space
Offers interview and photos by the astronauts experiencing the incident from the International Space Station.
Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
Collection of original materials including prints, photographs, drawings, poems, eye-witness accounts and personal reactions, headlines, books, magazines, songs, maps, videotapes and films.
The September 11 Digital Archive
The Archive uses electronic media to collect and present the history of the attacks. Provides extensive coverage including multimedia, possibilities to contribute and a link collection.
Refdesk.com - America Responds Resources
Features breaking news, government resources, charitable organizations, how to cope, and resources for parents and teens. Includes links.
After 9/11, a Torrent of Money, and Anger
Detailed report on the distribution of the money provided by the federal government for disaster relief and rebuilding. New York Times [free registration required]. (December 30, 2002)


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Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by fascists, new documents
Federico Garcia Lorca: 5 Poems from Poet in New York
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) From Poet in New York
In his prefatory remarks before an audience assembled for a reading of Poet in New York in Buenos Aires in 1933, Garcia Lorca said, "I bring you a bitter and living poetry to lash your eyes open." [1]
Born June 5, 1898 near Granada, Federico Garcia Lorca's mother was a pianist [2] and school teacher. [3] His father was a landowner with interests in the sugar trade. [4] Garcia Lorca spent summers in the countryside of Granada. When mature, he wrote, "I love the land. All my emotions tie me to it. The first memories I have are of the earth." [5] He was first interested in music. He started writing after the death of his piano teacher, [6] and first wrote poetry before he was twenty. [7]
He had been interested in Andalusian folk music and incorporated it into his writing. But he was concerned about becoming "typecast" as a "gypsy poet." [12]
Garcia Lorca studied law in Madrid. He became interested in surrealist and experimental art and published with other avant garde artists known as Generation of 1927. [10] While in the Madrid, he befriended Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, with whom he was interested in becoming intimate. Dali declined Garcia Lorca's advances, and Lorca became dispirited and estranged from Dali. [9] He fell in love with sculptor Emilio Aladren, but became depressed once again, when the affair ended. [11]
Garcia Lorca sailed for New York. He arrived at the time of the stock market crash of 1929. In his introduction to the Grove Press edition of Poet in New York, Angel Del Rio suggests, "if we bear this in mind, it is not difficult to understand how the loneliness that he brought with him found a perfect counterpoint in the disruption and lack of direction… the city forced upon him." [13] Del Rio says Garcia Lorca walked throughout New York, but only had relationships with other Spanish speakers. [14]
Garcia Lorca had returned to Spain by the time the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936. Though he had no political affiliations, [15] he was known as a homosexual and a friend of leftist intellectuals. He was taken into custody by Nationalists August 16, 1936 . It is believed he was tortured and shot the next day. He is believed to have been buried in a mass grave, but his body has never been recovered. [16]
Poems Read: (Note: I read from translation by Ben Belitt from Poet in New York, Grove Press, 1955
Back from a Walk (not available on line)
Landscape of the Vomiting Multitudes
Dawn …
Cow (not available on line)
Death (not available on line)
[1] Alfredo de la Guardia in Garcia Lorca: persona y creación, (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sur, 1941) from Poet in New York, Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Ben Belitt, Grove Press, New York, 1955. P. 183
[2][9] Wikipedia: Garcia Lorca
[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [10] [11] [12] [15] [16]BooksFactory: Garcia Lorca, Federico
[13] Angel Del Rio, Introduction: Poet in New York: Twenty-Five Years After, in Poet in New York, Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Ben Belitt, Grove Press, New York, 1955.p. Xxiii
[14] page xvi
By Alejandro López in Spain:
Documents confirm fascists murdered Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca
Two police reports published for the first time by Cadena Ser radio station show that one of the greatest poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), was executed by right-wing fascist forces in the summer of 1936.
The report, written in 1965 by the Regional Brigade of Social Investigation of the Police Headquarters of Granada, directed to the civil governor of the province, is the first official admission that fascist forces murdered Lorca, whose remains have yet to be found. It describes Lorca as a "socialist," a friend of the Socialist Party leader Fernando de los Rios, and a "freemason belonging to the Alhambra lodge" who engaged in "homosexualist [sic] and abnormal practices."
The report details how, in late August 1936, four weeks after Franco's fascist army rebelled against the democratically-elected Popular Front government, the "Glorious National Movement surprised [Lorca] in the capital [of the province] where he had arrived days before from Madrid (where he had his regular residence)". After his house was registered, "feeling fear, he hid in the house of his friends, the Rosales brothers, Falangist members […] where he stayed until the moment of his arrest".
"From that moment onwards," continues the report, "the information that we were able to collect is very confusing and the only thing that we have been able to clarify is that the detainee was taken away from the Civil Government [where he was under arrest] by forces which depended on the latter and was taken by car to Viznar (Granada) […] together with another detainee whose personal circumstances are unknown, executed after having confessed, and buried in that location, in a very shallow grave, in a ravine." Hours before, his brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the Socialist Party mayor of Granada, was shot.
The document was written at the request of the French Hispanist and friend of Lorca, Marcelle Auclair, who addressed the Spanish Embassy in Paris in June 1965 to request information. The embassy then passed it on to the Foreign Minister Fernando María Castiella, in favour of responding to the request. Information and Tourism Minister Manuel Fraga, future founder of the right-wing Popular Party (PP), currently Spain's ruling party, was also informed of the facts.
Another document released by Cadena Ser is a letter from Castiella to interior chief Camilo Alonso Vega. It states that Fraga had said that it was "extremely advisable to look over the matter and find out whether we can or cannot open our archives about the García Lorca episode". However, Auclair never herself received any response, probably because the document exposed the false claims made by Franco himself, who said that "The writer died while mixing with the rebels, these are natural accidents of war."
Ian Gibson—an authoritative biographer of Lorca, who led an unofficial investigation into his death in the 1970s under Franco and has written multiple books on Lorca's murder—told the daily El País: "It demonstrates that it was not a street killing, that he was taken out by the civil government to be murdered. They themselves say it."
The police report published by Cadena Ser is a rarity in modern Spain. Historians still do not have full access to documents from the army, the church and the public administration that would help establish the number of victims of fascist murder during the Spanish Civil War, and the identity of those responsible for the killings.
The ruling class is determined to cut workers off from historical knowledge of the working class revolutionary struggles against capitalism in the 20th century. … The fascists received an amnesty and a tacit "pact of forgetting" about their crimes.
The PP, whose origins lie in Franco's National Movement, cut the budget for the Law of Historical Memory, forcing organizations dedicated to recovering the remains of victims of the Civil War to rely on donations. Together with the Socialist Party (PSOE), the PP has refused to extradite to Argentina former Franco officials responsible for crimes against humanity. They rejected UN recommendations to ensure that families of the disappeared receive official help in locating their relatives' remains.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defence continues to repatriate the remains of the Spanish volunteers of the Blue Division that fought in the German Army's war of annihilation against the USSR during the Second World War.
The revelations of Lorca's murder cut across this reactionary rewriting of history aimed at downplaying the crimes of fascism. The killing of this great artist was part of a systematic terror campaign by the fascists against the organized working class and anyone suspected of opposition.
In May 1936, General Mola, one of the leaders of the coup two months later, gave the following instructions to military bases: "The action must be extremely violent as soon as possible to reduce the enemy, which is strong and well-organised. Of course, we will arrest all the leaders of the political parties, associations or unions that are not affiliated with the [National] movement, applying exemplary punishment to those individuals in order to strangle rebel movements or strikes."
On July 17, 1936, Franco led a military uprising from Spanish Morocco to overturn the Popular Front government, calling on all military garrisons to rise up against the Republic. Workers responded by forming rank-and-file antifascist militias. In the areas they seized, the fascists enforced a policy of systematic mass murder of political opponents.
Granada, where García Lorca was captured, was one of the first to fall. According to the historians Rafael Gil Bracero and Maribel Brenes, around 4,000 people from Granada alone where executed, including "red intellectuals" whom the fascists hated for "predicating Marxism and democracy".
José María Bérriz, a lawyer and sympathiser of the fascists, hailed the repression in Granada in a letter to right-wing bankers on holiday in Portugal: "The army wants to extirpate from the root the bad plants that were destroying Spain. I think they will achieve this. The army courts work day and night and the sentences are very severe. The executions of trade unionists, teachers and doctors continue; they fall in the dozens. The city is happy."
It is estimated that approximately 10,000 bodies are still buried in 57 mass graves around the province.
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Walton Goggins Wife, Height, Net Worth, Family, Is He Gay?
Home Actors & Actresses Walton Goggins Wife, Height, Net Worth, Family, Is He Gay?
Walton Goggins possesses one of those faces in Hollywood that is well known by film and television fans but whose name just isn't one on everyone lips. The talented actor has starred in some of the best projects in recent years and has a filmography that any aspiring actor would be proud to have. The Alabama-born actor has an Academy Award and an Emmy nomination for his work so far. Simply put, he may not be the go-to pretty face to headline a film project, but his talents as an actor are unquestionable. There is so much to learn about the life of the actor and we talk about a few of them below. Read on.
The son of Janet Long and Walton Sanders Goggins Snr. was born on the 10th of November, 1971. He was born in Birmingham, a city in Alabama but was raised in a farmhouse in Lithia Springs, Georgia. Walton, during the early days of his life, had a formal education, attending Lithia Springs High School, then graduating to then attend Georgia Southern University. He, however, abandoned his college education after a year at Georgia Southern to move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a career in acting, a passion he has had since he was a child.
When he got to Los Angeles, with no real support in the city, he found a job as a valet for various restaurants and also sold cowboy boots as a side hustle. He got his first acting role in 1989 in a television show, In the Heat of the Night. He starred in three episodes of the show but landed his big break in the television film, Murder in Mississippi as Lyle. Not only did Murder in Mississippi elevate Goggins actor profile, but he also met Ray McKinnon, who was a co-star on the film and the two have established a partnership that has produced several successes for Goggins ever since.
After the success of Murder in Mississippi, Goggins has appeared in multiple films and television shows, starting with Mr. Saturday Night in 1992 to the most recent, Ant-Man and The Wasp in 2018. In between, he has managed to build a filmography that contains iconic films such as Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Cowboys & Aliens, Predators, Lincoln and many more. In television, he has credits in over 30 television projects including shows and movie. He has appeared in episodes of Sons of Anarchy, Vice Principals, The Shield as Detective Shane Vendrell, Criminal Minds, Justified, and many others.
His career thus far has seen him come up from a young man who sold cowboy boots to survive to win an Academy Award, getting nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, Critics Choice Television Award, Television Critics Association award and a few others. He was notably described by Mike Hale, a critic for The New York Time to have a 'habit of being the best thing about the television shows he's in'.
Walton Goggins' career has netted him a net worth of $10 million. He has over 33 television projects and over 20 films to thank for his considerable riches. He is also a co-owner of a production company.
Walton Goggins' suffered the unfortunate tragedy of losing his first wife to suicide in 2004. His first wife, Leanne Kaun, who was the owner of a Laurel Canyon in California was married to Walton from 2001 until her death in 2004. It took a few years for Walton to get over the death of his wife, but he eventually did and found love again with Nadia Conners, a filmmaker who he married in 2011. The couple gave birth to their first and only child so far, Augustus in February 2011.
Walton Goggins once played a transgender prostitute on Sons of Anarchy. His performance on the show as Venus Van Dam was well praised and unfortunately also led to rumors that he was gay. However, Walton Goggins isn't gay. He is a heterosexual man who has been in heterosexual relationships. He is just a really good actor.
Walton is 5 feet and 10 inches tall. His relatively small status is not reflective of the magnitude of a career the Alabama-born actor has had. He also has a 67 kg. He has dark brown hair and hazel eyes.


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Shelby County Schools Coronavirus Tennessee Reopening
Even as Gov. Lee insists on reopening classrooms in two weeks, Shelby County Schools delays again
By Laura Faith Kebede
Superintendent Joris Ray did not share a new target day to reopen classrooms.
Courtesy of Memphis-Shelby County Schools
Superintendent Joris Ray is delaying students' return to Memphis classrooms for a third time, despite the governor asking him to offer in-person instruction by mid-February and legislators threatening to cut state funding.
Leaders of Shelby County Schools, Tennessee's largest district, had planned to reopen classrooms to kindergartners-fifth graders on Feb. 8 and sixth-12th graders two weeks later. The 90,000 students in district-run schools have been all-virtual since August. Now, Ray doesn't know when the district will offer in-person learning.
"There are multiple factors, and I and our dedicated [school] board are weighing all of them." Ray said in a statement Friday. "Schools are safe to open, but only if we all work together to reduce the infection rate in our community."
Ray's continued refusal to reopen classrooms to protect teachers and students puts him in direct conflict with Gov. Bill Lee's urging to offer in-person learning — escalating an already tense debate between the state and leaders in Memphis and Nashville on how to educate students during the coronavirus pandemic.
Ray said the virus' spread in Memphis is still too high to reopen classrooms, though he has not specified a threshold that would allow students to begin a safe return. COVID-19 cases in Memphis have declined in recent weeks, but are still high. Ray said that policies to mitigate the spread in the broader community, such as restricting indoor dining, would help prevent transmission in schools, citing a recent medical journal article.
A Wisconsin study said spreading COVID-19 in schools was uncommon when students and staff wore masks and practiced social distancing — even when the virus' spread in the community was high.
Still, Ray noted the local health department acknowledged the district's decisions have played an "essential role in helping our community save lives and reduce the spread of the virus."
"We've come too far by faith to turn our backs on safety now," he said. "Now is not the time to deviate from our successful course of action. For those who say we need to get back to school, we say school is in session."
Unlike other large city districts across the nation, Ray has not had to wade through fights with teacher unions skeptical of school officials' ability to carry out safety measures to keep infections low. He gave the district's 6,500 teachers the option to continue working remotely when classrooms reopen, and more than 80% took him up on the offer. District leaders plan to reassign teacher assistants, behavior specialists, and central office staff to supervise students where teachers are working from home.
Ray also said he wants to see inoculations of Memphis teachers begin soon, which the state delayed to prioritize senior citizens because they were filling up hospitals. But he stopped short of saying the delayed vaccinations were the reason he pushed back the return to school buildings.
Since the beginning of the school year, Lee has pushed districts to offer parents the option of sending their children back to classrooms. Lee spoke with Memphis and Nashville school leaders this week and urged them to offer an in-person learning option to families by Feb. 15.
"The governor has expressed his concerns about a lack of in-person options, his deep concerns about low-income students and the overwhelming data that supports promptly getting kids back to the classroom," said Laine Arnold, a spokeswoman for the governor.
Adding to the pressure, a bill that state lawmakers may consider after they reconvene on Feb. 8 would require districts to provide an in-person learning option to elementary students for at least 70 days this school year or risk losing state dollars. That means Shelby County Schools would have to reopen classrooms by early March and stay open the rest of the school year, which ends in mid-June.
In Nashville, the state's second largest district, Director of Schools Adrienne Battle curated local health statistics to develop a benchmark for determining when to reopen classrooms. She said Friday that she anticipates offering an in-person option for students soon based on recent lower rates of COVID-19 cases.
"The Nashville community has made great progress in slowing the spread of COVID-19," she said in a statement. "I've made a commitment to our families, students, and staff that we would offer the in-person option when it was safer to do so based on our community spread."
In Memphis, even if students do eventually return to classrooms, the district's plan calls for online learning to continue so parents don't feel they are missing out on a better learning experience if they aren't ready to send their children back to school.
But students in school buildings will have in-person access to school staff to help work through any issues with online assignments and keep them on task.


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Q: 2 pictures not entirely side by side I am using the following command to get two pictures side by side but my problem is that sometimes they are not.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{./bla}
\caption{Management of cultural differences}
\label{fig:management cultural}
\end{minipage}
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\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\linewidth}
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\caption{Employees leaving}
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What do I mean? Normally the would be exactly side by side -> O O but sometimes they are offset: one picture is "higher" than the other and the are not aligned anymore...

A: Or alternatively, you could try something like this, using the overpic package to annotate both images, using only one caption for both.

\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{overpic}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
    \newcounter{subfig}\setcounter{subfig}{0}
    \renewcommand\thesubfig{\textbf{\alph{subfig}}}
    \begin{figure}[ht]
        \centering
        \begin{overpic}[width=0.5\linewidth]{./bla}
            \put(10,10){\color{white}\stepcounter{subfig}\thesubfig}
        \end{overpic}%
        \begin{overpic}[width=0.5\linewidth]{./bla}
            \put(10,10){\color{white}\stepcounter{subfig}\thesubfig}
        \end{overpic}%
        \setcounter{subfig}{0}%
        \caption{\protect\stepcounter{subfig}\thesubfig{} Management of cultural differences, and \protect\stepcounter{subfig}\thesubfig{} Employees leaving.}
        \label{fig:employee leaving}
    \end{figure}
\end{document}

A: You can use [t] on the minipage so they align on the images at the top rather than on the possibly varying caption.
If you do use [b] put \label in the caption not after it so that the \write node does not affect the bottom alignment.

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#pragma once

#include "Element.h"
#include <memory>
#include <wtf/BloomFilter.h>
#include <wtf/Vector.h>

namespace WebCore {

class CSSSelector;

class SelectorFilter {
public:
    void pushParentStackFrame(Element* parent);
    void popParentStackFrame();

    void pushParent(Element* parent);
    void popParent() { popParentStackFrame(); }
    bool parentStackIsEmpty() const { return m_parentStack.isEmpty(); }
    bool parentStackIsConsistent(const ContainerNode* parentNode) const;

    template <unsigned maximumIdentifierCount>
    inline bool fastRejectSelector(const unsigned* identifierHashes) const;
    static void collectIdentifierHashes(const CSSSelector*, unsigned* identifierHashes, unsigned maximumIdentifierCount);

private:
    struct ParentStackFrame {
        ParentStackFrame() : element(0) { }
        ParentStackFrame(Element* element) : element(element) { }
        Element* element;
        Vector<unsigned, 4> identifierHashes;
    };
    Vector<ParentStackFrame> m_parentStack;

    // With 100 unique strings in the filter, 2^12 slot table has false positive rate of ~0.2%.
    static const unsigned bloomFilterKeyBits = 12;
    CountingBloomFilter<bloomFilterKeyBits> m_ancestorIdentifierFilter;
};

template <unsigned maximumIdentifierCount>
inline bool SelectorFilter::fastRejectSelector(const unsigned* identifierHashes) const
{
    for (unsigned n = 0; n < maximumIdentifierCount && identifierHashes[n]; ++n) {
        if (!m_ancestorIdentifierFilter.mayContain(identifierHashes[n]))
            return true;
    }
    return false;
}

} // namespace WebCore


The increasing use of computers in the work place has led to computer literacy being a necessity in a large majority of professions. A sound understanding and knowledge of computer applications and programs is becoming more and more important in working life1.
On the occasion of the e-skills week2, which will take place from 26-30 March 2012, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, publishes data on university graduates in computing3 and computer skills of individuals4. The European e-Skills week 2012 is a European campaign focused on raising the interest of young people in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) as well as showing people how to get jobs and e-skills for life in the digital age.


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Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education
Vygotskian Praxis and the Research/Practice Divide
James P. Lantolf
Matthew E. Poehner
Published February 21, 2014 by Routledge
Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education: Vygotskian Praxis and the Research/Practice Divide
Explicating clearly and concisely the full implication of a praxis-oriented language pedagogy, this book argues for an approach to language teaching grounded in a significant scientific theory of human learning—a stance that rejects the consumer approach to theory and the dichotomy between theory and practice that dominates SLA and language teaching. This approach is based on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, according to which the two activities are inherently connected so that each is necessarily rooted in the other; practice is the research laboratory where the theory is tested. From the perspective of language education, this is what is meant by the 'pedagogical imperative.'
• Elaborates a new approach to dealing with the relationship between theory and practice—an approach grounded in praxis—the dialectical unity of theory and practice
• Presents an analysis of empirical research illustrating praxis-based principles in real language classrooms
• Brings together cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theory ─ the former provides the theoretical knowledge of language required of praxis and the latter furnishes the theoretical principles of learning and development also called for in a praxis approach
• Offers recommendations for redesigning teacher education programs
Its timely focus on the theory-practice gap in language education and its original approach to bridging it put this book at the cutting edge of thinking about Vygotskian sociocultural theory in applied linguistics and SLA.
Chapter 1 Theory/Practice Gap in Applied Linguistics
Chapter 2 Sociocultural Theory and the Dialectic of Praxis: An Alternative to the Theory/Research-Practice Gap
Chapter 3 Psychology of the Social Environment
Chapter 4 A Theory of Developmental Education
Chapter 5 L2 Systemic Theoretical Instruction: Experimental-Developmental Studies
Chapter 6 L2 Systemic Theoretical Instruction: Intact Classroom Studies
Chapter 7 The Zone of Proximal Development and Dynamic Assessment
Chapter 8 Dynamic Assessment and L2 Development
Chapter 9 Conclusion
James P. Lantolf is the George and Jane Greer Professor in Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Penn State University, USA.
Matthew E. Poehner is Associate Professor and Program Director of the K-12 teacher certification program in World Languages Education and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State University, USA.
"This book's up-to-date, detailed exposition of L2 SCT research, concepts, and pedagogical practice is certain to appeal to experienced and curious SCT researchers." —Applied Linguistics
ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
English & Literacy/Language Arts