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"Operation Serval" -- the rapid French advance through Mali -- is in some ways reminiscent of the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. "Mission accomplished" in short order, cities secured, no great resistance.
But although the scale of the French operation is far smaller than that in Iraq, there may be less welcome parallels in the weeks to come. The first suicide bomber has struck; jihadists have melted away.
Putting Mali back together again will be an altogether tougher job. The second phase of the French campaign -- restoring the territorial integrity of Mali -- is far more challenging than bombing Islamist hideouts, and involves complex political, social and economic dynamics.
In short order these include a Malian military with little credibility and discipline, political institutions that have atrophied, Tuareg separatism, continuing tensions between north and south (including allegations of human rights atrocities), vast uninhabited areas that could be bolt-holes for militants, and a refugee crisis.
Fighting broke out in the capital, Bamako, Friday between soldiers loyal to the president deposed last year and troops who supported the coup against him.
In addition, as the French look to scale back their presence, the African security force due to replace them is far from fully-fledged -- an uncomfortable mix of English and French-speaking contingents with different military cultures and levels of experience. A Nigerian general is in charge; his deputy is from Niger.
Of some 5,000 troops due to arrive, about 2,500 are so far on the ground -- among them Chadian, Nigerian, Burkinabe and Nigerien soldiers. But the force has no airlift capability of its own. Nor does most of it have the mobility to root out scattered pockets of resistance, although the Chadians have experience in desert warfare.
And on a broader canvas the fundamental regional problems remain as deep-seated as ever. As a senior national security official in the Obama Administration put it recently: "What we're seeing across North Africa and parts of the Middle East is an extremist threat that is fueled by the reality of porous borders, ungoverned territory, too readily available weapons, increasing collaboration among some of these groups, and, in many cases, a new government that lacks the capacity and sometimes the will to deal with the problem."
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When Michael Vick came to the Philadelphia Eagles, he came as a man with a cloud over his head.
He'll leave in much better shape.
By Chris Murray
For the Chris Murray Report
When Michael Vick left the field with a concussion in the Philadelphia Eagles home loss to the Dallas Cowboys back in November, I knew that his time as the Birds starting quarterback was over even before Andy Reid announced his decision to bench him for the season earlier this week.
Between the league's concussion protocols and the fact that the 2012 Eagles are going to be watching the playoffs at home with the rest of us, Reid did Vick a favor by shutting him down and allowing him to preserve himself for a potential opportunity elsewhere in the NFL.
Now that Vick's time in Philadelphia is likely done, how will he be remembered? If you're accentuating the positive, you'll remember him as a guy who revived his career after serving time in a federal penitentiary and was a model citizen off the field.
Despite protests from animal rights groups, Vick did everything to atone for his sin of leading a dog-fighting ring in Virginia. Even when people felt like it wasn't enough, Vick didn't have anything bad to say about those who doubted his sincerity. He went out into the local community and became a spokesman against dog-fighting.
For a lot of young kids in Philadelphia, Vick is a role model for coming back from difficult circumstances and making something positive out of their lives. I remember when Vick had the undivided attention of kids at an event at the Franklin Institute back in 2010 when he told them not go down the path he took with his life.
"He's made a commitment to be headed in the right direction. I think we ought to cheer him and provide with as much support as possible," said James Brown, host of CBS NFL Today, .in an interview I did with him at that event.
More recently, he donated $200,000 to the North Philadelphia Aztecs youth football team to fix their playing field as a part of the Hunting Park Revitalization Project. The field will be ready by 2013.
On the football side, we will remember the Vick that electrified the NFL in 2010 with 21 touchdown passes including engineering that spectacular comeback against the New York Giants. He passed for 3,018 yards that season and completed more than 60 percent of his passes.
Vick's time in Philly hit a great big thud in a 2010 home game against the Minnesota Vikings that ended up being played on a Tuesday because of a snowstorm. Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier devised a scheme of blitzes and defensive line stunts that totally confused Vick. The Vikings sacked him six times in that game and intercepted one pass.
That scheme became a blueprint to stop the Eagles offense. For some reason neither Vick or the Eagles offensive coaching staff has been able to counter it. Some critics point to the lack of adjustments from the Eagles coaching staff while some pointed to Vick's inability to recognize the blitz. He has won just 10 of his last 23 starts since that start against the Vikings.
In 2011, Vick threw 18 touchdown passes, but also threw 14 interceptions and also had four fumbles. He passed for 3,303 yards. He was sacked 23 times and missed three games due to injury.
In just nine games this season in 2012, Vick was sacked 27 times and was hit numerous times behind an injury-riddled offensive line. He threw nine interceptions and lost five fumbles.
But in Vick's defense this season he managed to win three games in come-from behind fashion and put the team in position to two others. Ever since the last-second loss to Pittsburgh, the Eagles defense hasn't done much to stop teams.
I believe that if you're going to say Vick bears some of the responsibility for his refusal at times to slide to get out of harm's way or even recognize certain blitz packages, you also have to look at the injuries in the offensive line and Reid's stubborn refusal to utilize the running game at times to take the pressure off of him.
Vick's issues as a quarterback were not from a lack of effort or hard work on his part. His teammates and coaches will tell you that he was a warrior on the field.
"I will always be appreciative of what Mike did for me and what he did for this locker room," said wide receiver Jason Avant. "He's inspired so many people with his personality and who he is as a player."
Even with his turnovers, I still think Vick gave his all here in Philadelphia on and off the field. It was spectacular at times and it was ugly at other times. He didn't throw his coaches or teammates under the bus when things were going bad for him. He maintained his dignity and kept fighting until he couldn't fight anymore
More than being just a better quarterback, I think Vick should be remembered during his time in Philly because he became a better man and that's something bigger than any accolades he could ever receive on the field.
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If you drive by the Eagles NovaCare practice facility in South Philly and you're hearing Nicki Manaj or "What is Love," a song made popular by a Saturday Night Live skit, you're not driving by a nightclub, nor is there a special on Margaritas.
Despite being the best prospect in the Phillies organization and lacking in significant league experience, more than a few people called for the team to cut ties with Brown. But so far this season, Brown is making the most of his chance to play on a regular basis.
"My shoulder was bothering me," Halladay said. "I woke up and I really didn't think anything of it. I thought it was regular soreness. It kind progressed over the last two weeks or so. ..I felt good all spring, I felt good all year. It was after that start against Pittsburgh, I had soreness in there and I wasn't able to get rid of it."


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TORRINGTON >> Two children reported missing Thursday night were returned home safely by their aunt Friday morning after a Silver Alert was issued by state and local police.
But the aunt, 27-year-old Jennifer Wheeler, was arrested by Torrington police and charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor, two counts of reckless endangerment and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police Lt. Bruce Whiteley said 25-year-old Melissa Sturz reported that her sister, Wheeler, had failed to pick her up at work in Canaan as planned. Sturz also told police her two children, Ariana, 5, and Savannah, 3, were in her sister's care. Sturz said she last heard from her sister around 5 p.m., when she called to say she was on her way to Canaan.
Sturz told police Wheeler suffers from a drug addiction.
After Sturz reported her children missing, a silver alert was issued. Police were able to "ping" Wheeler's cell phone and learned she was in the Waterbury area. Police there assisted in the investigation.
Around 9 a.m. friday, Sturz called police again and told them Wheeler had returned to Sturz's Torrington home with her children. Police responded to the scene, and found a crack cocaine pipe and other drug paraphernalia on Wheeler, Whiteley said.
An ambulance was also sent to the house and the children were taken to Charlotte Hungerford Hosptial for a precautionary examination, though they appeared fine, Whiteley said.
Detectives said Wheeler spent the night at a friend's home in Waterbury, with the children, after injesting cocaine to the point she was not capable of driving.
Wheeler was taken into custody and transported to police custody. She was held on $75,000 bond and later arraigned at Bantam Superior Court.
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As you all know Lizzy and I love love love Revlon's Photoready Liquid Foundation. We love it so much we won't stop talking about it and have pretty much forced everyone we know to start using it. So when Revlon introduced their Photoready Airbrush Mousse Makeup, of course I had to try it!!
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In 1961, the Freedom Riders, a brave group of men and women, black and white, young and old, boarded buses, trains and planes headed for the deep South to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in all interstate public facilities. They found violence in Alabama and were jailed in Jackson, Mississippi. Read their story.
The 1961 Freedom Riders 40th Reunion will be held on Veteran's Day Weekend, November 8th-11th, 2001, in Jackson, Mississippi. For Freedom Riders, their families, friends and supporters.
For the 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Freedom Rides in 2011, see other web sites (as below.)
For the 40th Anniversary Reunion of the Freedom Riders, this site preserves the history of, and the research prepared for, the 40th Reunion, held at Tougaloo College, Jackson Mississippi, on Veterans Day, November, 2001 (just days after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attach on the US World Trade Center.)
See particularly the Proclamation by the then-Governor of Mississippi, Ronnie Musgrove, issued at the request of the 40th Anniversary Reunion Committee, based on a text prepared by the Chair of the Reunion, Carol Ruth Silver.
Contributions made on this web site are tax deductible and will be used for the 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Freedom Riders in 2011, and beyond, to honor the deeds and the memory of the Freedom Riders.
For the 2011 commemoration of the 50 years since the 1961 Freedom Rides, there are numerous web sites, blogs, videos, events, and activities. See, for example, the PBS Special airing 16 May 2011, www.pbs.org/freedomriders , and the 22 May 2011 Jackson, Mississippi gathering of the Freedom Riders, http://ms50thfreedomridersreunion.org.


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Paul Fleetwood opening for Pittsburgh Track Authority and Kirk DeGiorgio for Humanaut's "Out of Order" monthly event series. 2-11-12. Tracklisting N/A
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The fifth installment of your monthly disorderly throwdown is a focus on the otherworldly sounds of Bleepsequence. Founded and managed by Humanaut's own Revy, the netlabel serves as an oasis in the abyss of digital debris, providing its listeners with unique open minded techno and experimental media at no cost. To celebrate two years and twenty releases of bleepy brain bending fun, we've lined up a set from recent blpsq inductee and all around ultrawizard Relative Q, an elusive live pa from Revy himself, and the mind warping beats of Alex Falk.
ALEX FALK [PILTDOWN SOUND] (Knoxville, TN)
[Proper Trax, Bleepsequence, Woods N Bass]
Alex's DJ selections and original productions are as inspired by stark, warehouse oriented techno and industrial music as they are influenced by the psychedelic sounds of full moon gatherings and outdoor festivals. An electronic music adherent and experimenter since childhood, Falk has applied his outer space aesthetic to a variety of projects, organizing regional events and travelling across North America to DJ and perform live. Now collaborating with longtime friend Joel Cox as 'Piltdown Sound', their recent crop of hypnotic & loop-driven techno productions have already recieved support from a variety of well known DJ/producers including Norman Nodge, Adam Jay, Seph, Mekas, Deepchild, Truncate, Samuli Kemppi, Dubfire, Pig & Dan, DJ Psycho, Anderson Noise, and Paco Osuna. 2011′s busy release schedule featured digital and 12″ releases on Proper Trax, Landed Productions, Release Musiq, and SubSensory Recordings which precede projects slated for 2012 release on Bleepsequence, Woods N Bass, Herbst Und Musik and Nude Photo Music.
Free Piltdown Sound release on Bleepsequence: http://bleepsequence.com/
w/ REVY (live)
[Humanaut, Bleepsequence]
and RELATIVE Q
[Humanaut, Bleepsequence, Ultrawizardsword]
visuals by CASEY HALLAS
[Rocking Horse Artspace]
- Four-corner Impact Audio sound rig.
- The bleep drops at 9pm.
- $5 cover starts at 10pm.
For month four, we shift gears as Humanaut hands the keys over to one of the most respected music men in Pittsburgh: CUTUPS (AKA Geoff Maddock). Over the years, Geoff has worked tirelessly to bring a huge variety of cutting-edge music through this city. Join us as he highlights some of the best artists from the region in another round of Belvedere's dance floor punishment.
"When Humanaut crew asked me to plan an instance of their new but already smashing Out of Order night, I jumped at the chance. They always bring a high production value to their shows and have commanded alot of respect among the informed dance music crowd in pittsburgh. It was fun to put together a lineup that would rep my own tastes, but also be a hit at a Humanaut party.
Jason Burns immediately came to mind as somebody I'd like to play this night. He's one of Cleveland's originals in the dubstep scene, both as a dj for regular nights and one offs, a producer who's been getting play all over ("Back 2 You" was one of XLR8Rs top 100 Downloads of 2011), and co-promoter bringing in top acts in the genre for more than a few years. His style leans heavily to the deeper, soulful end of the spectrum, but he doesn't really limit himself to one style or mood, other than just playing top notch tunes.
Vasculator is a long time fan, electronic hardware geek, and producer of techno and left field electronic music, but has existed mostly on the fringes of pittsburgh's scene. He's been a collaborator with the Technoir Audio crew doing live techno, toured doing modular synth work with
industrial act Prometheus Burning, and played blistering original breakcore live sets in Detroit and the west coast. This time he's doing and all new stripped down techno live set that combines his digital and analog gear.
I was looking for one more guest to round out the night, when I remembered that Jose "Mr. Hamilton" was looking to put together a classic IDM set. You may know him from his live sets as Mr. Hamilton or as part of Ekofield, or his deep house sets at various spots around town, but he's also a big fan of left field electronic music and will be opening up with a set of 90s/ early 2000′s selections.
Jason Burns [Savory Audio, Brapdem, Cleveland]
Vasculator [live] [Lightwork, Void]
Cutups [Wrecked, Fuzz, Lazercrunk, Illusions]
Mr. Hamilton [Cosmic Mafia, 90's IDM set]
- Four-corner Impact Audio sound rig.
- The beat drops at 9pm.
- $5 cover starts at 10pm.
- The night ends at 2am.
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Episode 23 of the Humanaut Sustainable Podcast comes to us from one of our favorite locals, Jose Luis. Pittsburgh via San Juan, Puerto Rico. His unique style of house brings the deepest jams and we are proud to have him on board for this latest installment. Keep you eyes peeled for the March version of Out of Order, where Jose will be pulling out his Mr. Hamilton moniker to set the tone of the night with a special 90′s IDM set.
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With the love you've shown us the first two months, and with the help of Iron City Beer, we're pleased to announce that we can bring our headliner Out of Order acts to you for $5, starting with London's Kirk Degiorgio on February 11th. So drink up and enjoy another low-cost, high-quality night of great music!
Event info is now on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/199439420152390/
On December 10, 2011, Humanaut launched a monthly series of parties focused on quality dance music from the best local, regional and international talent. Each event will be curated by different Humanaut members as well as occasional guest-curators.
For month two, Humanaut has asked everyone's favorite internet personality Tom Cox to take the reigns of the night. Tom's decision: an all-vinyl night featuring the crew of the widely read Infinite State Machine blog. Always full of opinions and great music, ISM has become a fixture both in Pittsburgh and in the dance music world.
Frank Glazer (ISM | NYC)
Jwan Allen (ISM | Technoir Audio)
Thomas Cox (ISM | Pittsburgh Track Authority)
Chris O'Connor (Technoir Audio)
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- The beat drops at 9pm.
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- The night ends at 2am.
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This weeks podcast is brought to you by Takasi Nakajima. Takasi is the other half of Different World (opposite Claude Young), who both played a more intimate Humanaut show at the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern last month. Below is some more info on Takasi….
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Humanaut Sustainable Podcast Series 021 brought to you by Jose Bec.
Jose Luis Sagastegui Becerril, a.k.a. Jose Bec, was born and raised in Mexico City. His love of music began by listening to classic rock with his father. When he was 12, Jose discovered the world of electronic music through a radio show broadcasting European Techno beats and he knew he wanted to be a DJ. After bringing beats to people at parties and bars in Mexico, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in 2006.
Since arriving in Pittsburgh, Jose has refined his mixing techniques by immersing himself in the Pittsburgh and International "Underground" scene. He has built on what he used to mix in Mexico and forged his own non-commercial style.
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By Kelley Chambers, firstname.lastname@example.com, @KelleyChambers7 on Twitter
Area residents gathered Thursday to learn more about an aging, heavy-crude pipeline running through their backyards that could double in capacity if a second, parallel line is built.
The meeting, which was organized by residents and took place at the O.E. Carlyle Civic Center in Farmersville, attracted a full house consisting of landowners, city officials, environmental activists and county representatives.
Attendees wanted to know more about the company behind the venture, Enbridge, Inc. The Canadian corporation purchased the Seaway Pipeline in 2011 from ConocoPhillips. In May 2012, it re-purposed the 36-year-old line to reverse its flow direction, allowing it to transport crude oil from Cushing, Okla. to coastal refineries near Houston. Of the many communities in between, the line runs through Grayson, Collin, Rockwall and Kaufman counties.
In reversed service, the Seaway Pipeline line has a capacity of 150,000 to 180,000 barrels per day (BPD). By early 2013, a twin line running parallel with the existing line is expected to increase Seaway's capacity to about 400,000 BPD of crude oil, according to the website for Seaway Crude Pipeline Company LLC, which is the 50/50 joint venture between Enbridge and Enterprise Products Partners LP.
"This is definitely not a political meeting," Farmersville Mayor Pro Tem Jim Foy said. "We're not opposed to pipelines in general, we're simply concerned about the safety of this particular pipeline that runs through Farmersville."
Rita Beving of Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., outlined the risks behind transporting the diluted bitumen, or tar sands crude, and how it could threaten local wells and waterways, including Lake Lavon.
"It's not your granddaddy's West Texas crude," Beving said. "Tar sands is mined, it's not drilled like conventional crude. So it actually looks like asphalt."
To push the solid material through a pipeline, it is mixed with heavy dilutants, is 70 times more viscous and up to 20 times more acidic than conventional crude, Beving said. Tar sands is also highly corrosive due to its sandy nature, so the wear and tear on a pipeline due to pumping at high pressure, coupled with high heat due to friction in the line of up to 158 degrees, increases the potential for rupture, Beving said.
"It's like pushing peanut butter through a pipeline," she said.
Beving also emphasized Enbridge's not-so-favorable reputation.
In July 2010, Beving said, an Enbridge tar sands pipeline ruptured, spilling more than 1 million gallons of diluted bitumen into Michigan's Kalamazoo watershed, making it the largest onshore spill in U.S. history. The company is still recovering from the spill, as the EPA directed the company to perform further cleanup efforts earlier this month. To date, the spill has caused $850 million in damages, Beving said.
The Michigan disaster involved a 43-year-old pipeline similar to the one being used in Texas, said Beving, who said she was afraid there could be potential for a similar disaster in Collin County.
"There are risks for what gets airborne as well as what goes into the water," Beving said. "And when it does hit water ... the heavier parts are going to sink like a stone in a river. It's like paving a creek."
Milton Titus resides just outside of Farmersville near Lake Lavon and is angered by the surveyor flags in his yard. He never gave permission for anyone to come onto his land but said he knows someone climbed his fence while he wasn't looking. With the existing pipeline going through his property, Titus has already seen warning signs and is afraid a second line will degrade his property even more.
"The water comes in and it's already carved out the existing pipeline before," Titus said. "People ask me, 'What's that?' and I say, 'Sludge.' I can only imagine what another line is going to do to my property value."
Concerns among the Farmersivlle City Council began with the reversal of the pipeline because of the material it would be transporting and their fear that few safety inspections had been done on the aging pipe to ensure it could carry the tar sands crude.
Foy said he could not say whether Enbridge has begun transporting tar sand crude. He met with Enbridge representatives Thursday afternoon and said he was told even they did not know what was currently going through the pipeline. Company representatives were notified of Thursday's public meeting but were not in attendance. Foy said representatives are expected to answer questions on the project at the city council's next meeting on Nov. 13.
"These are big issues," Beving said. "But it just takes a few people getting it started before you can make it into something bigger to protect your community."
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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ONEIDA — Oneida's girls volleyball team has been in rhythm for much of season en route to winning its first 10 games.
In Wednesday's match against Chittenango that routine was disrupted, but Cyndi Bobo's squad still found a way to beat Chittenango 22-25, 25-13, 25-19, 17-25, 25-20 without setter Erica Kristan.
"It makes a huge difference," said Bobo of playing without Kristan. "I have a team that's so used to routine, having the same two setters. It was an adjustment and the kids had to realize they could do it."
Outstanding offensive play by Marissa Smith and Katherine Clarke helped Oneida (5-0, 11-0) remain unbeaten. Smith finished the match with 31 assists as the primary setter and Clarke had 16 kills in the victory.
It was Clarke's play at the net that helped the hosts pull away in that final game. She made a pair of kills to go with a Mary Sheridan block and a Kati Relyea ace that put Oneida up 7-1. The teams exchanged a few points before Oneida went on another run, again keyed by two Clarke kills. The hosts stretched the lead to 14-4 before Chittenango (6-2, 8-6) rallied. Claire Charde led the way for the Bears, making four kills and a block to cut Oneida's lead to 20-17. Clarke took over from there, making two kills on Oneida's final three points to clinch the victory. The senior had seven kills in the decisive game.
"I'm just trying to spike it down and keep my team going," said Clarke. "It feels really good. I kept building off of each kill."
It was a hard-fought match to get to the fifth game. Chittenango took advantage of early Oneida mistakes to jump out to a 12-4 lead in the first game. The hosts rallied behind three aces by Smith and two by Relyea to take a 21-17 lead, but Chittenango regained momentum with two aces by Emily Gibbons to win the first game.
"It was a big adjustment," said Smith on playing without Kristan. "We're used to her (being on the court)."
Oneida began to make its adjustment early in the second game. Taylor Armstrong had two blocks followed by two Relyea aces which enabled the hosts to open up a 17-5 lead. The Bears made a run to cut the lead to 19-12 highlighted by Katrina Farsaci's sliding dig that Oneida couldn't get to. However, it was as close as Chittenango would get and Oneida closed the game out with two more aces by Relyea.
The third game went back-and-forth with neither team scoring more than four straight points. Oneida had the game's best stretch thanks to Clarke. She made two kills and had an ace during a 6-2 run that put Oneida up 12-9. The Bears rallied to tie it at 12-12 before the hosts went on a 7-2 run capped by another Clarke kill to put the game out of reach.
Scoring went back and forth after each team made an early run during the fourth game. The score was tied 13-13 when Chittenango went on a 10-2 run thanks to kills by Maddie SeGuin, Gabby Loftus and Brianna Koegel. SeGuin made another kill moments later to give the visitors the game. SeGuin and Charde finished with eight kills apiece to lead the Bears' offense.
"They just lost momentum at the beginning (of the fifth game)," said Chittenango coach Amy Simmons. "They came back but couldn't get all the way there. It was amazing the way they came back in the fifth game."
Sheridan had 27 digs to lead Oneida's defense.
"This group has an amazing work ethic," said Bobo of her team. "I'm happy for them. I'm very pleased the girls did it together as a team."
Chittenango (6-2, 8-6): Claire Charde 8k, 3b; Brianna Koegel 2k; Meg Arnold 1ac, 1k, 8as; Emily Gibbons 2ac, 1k, 13as; Gabby Loftus 2ac, 7k, 1as, 1b; Maddie SeGuin 8k.
Oneida (5-0, 11-0): Taylor Armstrong 5k, 2d, 3b; Katherine Clark 1ac, 16k, 2d, 3b; Rachel Labrecque 2k, 6d; Summer Lancette 1ac, 3k, 14d, 1b; Emily LaSalle 3k, 10d; Kati Relyea 10ac, 2k, 1as, 17d; Mary Sheridan 3ac, 8k, 27d; Marissa Smith 3ac, 2k, 31as, 15d.


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IN MEMORY: Young Buddhist monks chanted during a candlelit rally at Tergar Monastry in Bodhgaya, in the Indian state of Bihar, on Sunday. The boys were gathered for a memorial to the 23-year-old victim of the Dec. 16 gang rape that has shaken Indian society.
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text: A summer programme designed to encourage responsible behaviour in New Zealand fisheries is proving to be a great success, says Acting Fisheries Minister David Carter. The Ministry of Fisheries' "Every Fish Counts" campaign was launched in December to promote the idea of "4 million guardians" of our unique ecosystem. "All the statistics point to the campaign having had a big impact," says Mr Carter. "We have access to one of the world's most abundant and well managed fisheries and it's great to see most Kiwis respecting this."Increased awareness of fishing rules and less tolerance of the few who flout them was illustrated by record numbers of calls to the 0800 4 POACHER hotline. Some of these led directly to fisheries thieves being caught red-handed. There were 667 calls to the hotline in February, a 20 percent increase on February last year, and well over 2,000 calls in the December to February period.The number of inspections of recreational fishers carried out nationally from December to February came in at 14,239, a 12 percent increase on the same period in 2008-09. This showed a compliance rate of 93 per cent, with Northland, North Shore, Waikato/Bay of Plenty/Coromandel, Canterbury/Westland and Otago exceeding this compliance rate average. In our commercial fisheries, Opotiki and the Chatham Islands achieved a 100 percent compliance rate, and the Canterbury/Westland region as a whole 99 percent. Mr Carter says educational and promotional contacts with the public have almost doubled in the last four years. "I applaud the efforts of vigilant members of the public and the work of Fishery Officers and Honorary Fishery Officers at our favourite fishing spots. The Government is committed to ongoing support of their efforts, with more staff out and about over the next two years." For the latest recreational rules, see www.fish.govt.nz/en-nz/Recreational/default.htm


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Cinzia Oliva, a textile restorer from Turin, Italy, who specializes in mummy wrappings, puts the finishing touches on restoring the mummy Ny-Maat-Re in the Vatican Museums' collections in this undated photo. Experts have just concluded a two-year compreh ensive study on the seven adult mummies in the Vatican Museums. (CNS photo/courtesy of Vatican Museums) |
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Experts have just concluded a two-year study on the seven adult mummies in the Vatican Museums' collections.
The mummies underwent a full battery of X-rays, CT scans, endoscopic explorations, histological exams and a whole spectrum of genetic testing, leading one researcher to joke: "These mummies have gotten more medical attention now than when they were alive."
In fact, scientists can now make the kind of diagnoses ancient Egyptian doctors were probably unable to divine.
The scientific advancements in genetics, imaging technology and nano research also have brought new and unexpected discoveries with minimally and non-invasive techniques -- a far cry from the "unwrapping" autopsies of the 19th century.
For one thing, the mummy Ny-Maat-Re, "who we always referred to as 'she,' is in fact actually a man," said Alessia Amenta, Egyptologist and curator of the Vatican Museums' Department for the Antiquities of Egypt and the Near East.
The hieroglyphics on the mummy's three-dimensional painted coverings made of plaster and linen bandages -- called cartonnage -- had identified it as "the daughter of Sema-Tawi." But 3-D CT scan results from early January showed the never-unwrapped mummy is clearly male, Amenta said.
"This discovery is very recent and opens a whole host of questions we hope we will be able to answer," she said during a Vatican news conference Jan. 17.
The Vatican Museums used its own diagnostic laboratory for the first phase of tests, which included the X-rays and endoscopies.
But Amenta then turned to the EURAC-Institute for Mummies and the Iceman -- in the northern Italian city of Bolzano -- which specializes in gathering and analyzing ancient genetic and other data from mummies.
Albert Zink, scientific director of the institute, presented the results to the Vatican and the public Jan. 17.
He said histological exams on one mummy found what looks to be a small benign tumor on the scalp; if further tests confirmed the result, then "it might be the first case of this kind of tumor for a mummy," he said.
Molecular studies showed what had been invisible to the naked eye: the two mummies on public display in the Vatican Museums were "not very well preserved" and, in fact, are in worse shape than the five other specimens being kept in storage, Zink said.
"That means it's urgent the exhibition conditions be changed," he said.
The studies were a major milestone in the Vatican's Mummy Project, begun in 2007 to analyze and better preserve its mummy collection.
Mummies are unlike any other museum treasure -- be it a priceless pottery shard or prehistoric arrowhead -- because a mummy is a human being, Zink and Amenta agreed.
A mummy must be studied, moved and displayed in a dignified and respectful manner, Amenta said. "These are people who had a life, who loved, who lived, had kids, suffered from diseases and mourned like each one of us," she said.
From a conservation standpoint, it also means a mummy has special needs for storage and exhibition, especially with a climate control system to inhibit its decay and best maintain its mummified state, Zink said.
As far as research goes, mummies are a treasure trove of valuable information because everything about them -- how their teeth have worn down, the contents of their stomachs, how they were dressed and buried, what diseases or ailments they suffered from -- all provide numerous clues to the lives, customs and religious beliefs of ancient peoples, Amenta said.
Even more importantly, discovering the different forms of cancers or other illnesses in the ancient individuals provides valuable insight into today's diseases and how they evolved genetically over time, she said.
"We can reconstruct the evolutionary pathways of important diseases such as tuberculosis or malaria that are still present today and are still a major health problem," Zink said.
The tiniest bit of genetic material can provide astonishing details, he said, like when they discovered that the 5,000-year-old Iceman in EURAC's care was lactose intolerant and had Lyme disease.
"These mummies are important resources for all kinds of research and if they aren't conserved in a good way, we lose a lot of information because their protein and DNA degrades," he said.
As the Vatican Museums continues its conservation efforts, the next step will be examining the two child-size mummies, which Amenta said, might actually be mummified animals or falcons, which would not be unusual.
Examinations also began in January on the many layers of linen wrappings on a second mummy, she said.
The wrappings around the face and neck had been ripped or cut open by someone long ago -- probably looking for the precious jewels and gold often positioned under the wrappings or around the face of mummies, she said.
The woven wrappings display "splendid craftsmanship," and since they're cut rather cleanly open, experts can look for clues in the different layers, much like a geologist would.
In June, together with the Louvre in Paris and the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Vatican will host the "First Vatican Coffin Conference."
The Vatican is spearheading the initiative to study the construction and painting techniques of sarcophagi during Egypt's so-called Third Intermediate Period, which was 3,000 years ago.
It will be the first time internationally renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines will compare their research on the period's coffins, which reflect the clerical culture of the increasingly powerful Theban high priests, she said.
No in-depth, comprehensive studies have been done on the period's wood painting technique, she said, and no ancient Egyptian texts have been found explaining the process.
Scholars wonder whether they are the same techniques used in medieval times "and so we are studying these sarcophagi the same way we study medieval panel paintings."
But "we're finding out that the more we advance, the more we discover we know nothing," she added.
Copyright (c) 2013 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Experts have just concluded a two-year study on the seven adult mummies in the Vatican Museums' collections.


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Literary journalist and author.
(A version of this appeared in NNATAN magazine)
1. The Op in the Expanded Field
We vet families – and can bar them from joining the Op – but once they leave our sphere of influence, the Op must seize control and wield his kin as clandestine cover. A respectable man must have a wife, after all, and a respectable wife must be fecund and productive for her State. But the pliant, detached creatures we select for foreign assignment are not householders by nature. Would that we could destroy their defective brood; but that is an engineer's solution. And much as we suffer the consequences, as much as it might be humane to do so, we cannot simply execute children without risking international outcry and accusations of profound hypocrisy. By mandate each household must reproduce the State in miniature. When a family veers off course the community and State will apply corrective pressures to return it to a productive equilibrium. Abroad, at best the family will live on a diplomatic compound, where a network of families can provide at least a semblance of normalizing forces: a bad facsimile of State, perhaps, but at least an image of State, however blurry. Compound life is not always possible. Often a family must survive as a discrete unit, submerged in a zone of maximal contact with hostile elements, where surveillance must be assumed and proper comportment is crucial. Those families – estranged from State and saturated in alien influence – grow listless and odd.
Decades of discrete surveillance found clusters of traits evolving in families bereft of State. A male and female pair will often allow the infantile fantasies of their children to pollute their discourse and cuckold the State. And what is family but discourse? Or more accurately: what is family but programming and course correction through discourse? Transcripts reveal trained Ops referring to their families as prides of lions (which in turn fosters a base environment of sprawling), wolf packs, dolphins, and in one instance as a flock of geese. Correctives applied through official channels, specifically requests for the patriarch to intervene and introduce elements of Protocol and Doctrine into their play, yield weird and unwanted results. In the aforementioned flock of geese, a mother "goose", a father "gander" and an infant nicknamed "egg," spoke of "squawk protocol" and "big honk," performed chores in service of "the Pond." Prefrontal lobotomies were performed resulting in the usual steep drops in performance. Gentler correctives should be employed in all but the most severe cases.
Preferred methods of maintaining a semblance of separation from outside elements and a totem of State in the home include cooking meals unavailable in the assigned country. Creating such meals involve complex improvisation to substitute ingredients, or interaction with a network of countrymen- ritual trades of baking soda for dried raisins, for example, or a bottle of wine for carob syrup. Camaraderie is commendable, of course, but substitutions of any sort are worrying, and threaten to undermine the meal. The meal being the transubstantiation of State, nourishment wrest from labor applied to the homeland's soil, etc…. The amber screen went blank. The satellite feed had broken. He continued typing his report:
A ten-year-old child (male) found a six-inch diameter metal canister marked with Cyrillic script. Broke it open against a stone, spilling a pungent powder. Red welts formed on contact with said powder. Child dropped canister in public well. Well water no longer potable. Request engineering dispatch to drill down to aquifer; install pumping apparatus as appropriate. Child could not locate where canister had been retrieved from, beyond pointing toward "the Black Stork." (The Black Stork is the local colloquialism for 5615m peak at 29°17'17N 71°55'34.) Nervous system began failing during interrogation. Limb in question shook so above vague directional should not be relied upon with complete accuracy. Degeneration continued despite administration of intravenous atropine. Death by respiratory failure within seven hours. Twelve (12) villagers drank from the well before canister was discovered. Two further fatalities (three total): an 18-month-old female and a 79-year-old male. War Widow's pension in the amount of Rs. 1400/- monthly for elder's family requested. Remaining ten developed symptoms ranging from loss of motor function to chronic fatigue. The village prefect's wife – also the local schoolteacher – was among the afflicted. Disability compensation in the amount of Rs. 2500/- monthly and a replacement instructor humbly requested. Corpses destroyed by cremation. Find death certificates, pension, medico- and material requests attached in triplicate. His wife began to cough. The amber monitor began to glow again and the rest of the message began to download.
2. The Expatriate Shopkeeper as Agent
Cities with large expatriate populations have stores dedicated to foreign comestibles. It should go without saying that an Op should cultivate relationships with those who serve the expatriate community, with an eye toward recruitment. These men make excellent agents. Overheard conversations reveal compromising personal information, such as infirmity (toiletry and minor medical items such as familiar brands of bandage, lozenges, cough remedies etc. are a large portion of their trade) or – in the case of stores equipped with a lending library or videocassettes for rent – sexual deviance. The clucking of spouses is a particularly rich seam of information. But it should also go without saying one should also be wary of shopkeepers. All agencies are after them and their information is often muddled with their contact with the enemy (or entirely made up for profit, see: TINCAN where a shopkeeper in Havana supplied us with vacuum cleaner schematics he claimed were taken from a military installation and mislead us for years)
The expatriate store is a site for subtler interventions too. Britons in particular yearn for native treats with remarkable fervor, and often form a plurality of a typical store's customer base. These treats are not luxuries, far from it. Brewery slurry fermented, potted and sold as toast spread, clotted creams, tinned puddings with phallic names, curdled rose water, sultanas, carbonated fluids… securing and consuming these atrocities becomes ritual for the Briton, and in this way, he is to be emulated. His treats are cheap and their rewards extend far beyond the realm of simple consumption. Consuming native delicacies, a Briton becomes connected to his homeland. A sense of community is fostered and re-inscribed. We can appropriate this process!
Our farms produce delicacies for export and these – purely by accident – are often found in such stores. Caviar, of course, but also rinds sugared and packed with tissue in elegant tins. Dried cubes of stew meat we will call "threadies". Why don't we make a concerted effort to place our wares in expatriate kitchens? Our [commercial] agents can spread these products. Then our cuisine will become ubiquitous. Until we assist the struggle of the foodstuff, our products will struggle for shelf space among the lesser foodstuffs, among the gaudy things of the East and West, the heathen and the vulgar, cross-contaminated with the good.
RE: GEESE: A meandering contribution that stopped abruptly.
RE: ARTICLE: This "veritable goldmine of clandestine opportunity" is of highly dubious value.
*** EMBASSY PERSONNEL: A crate containing mulled wine, black currant preserves, cubes of assorted dried meats, and other delicacies from home will arrive soon. This crate will be addressed to appropriate social coordinator, vice counsel, etc. You must intercept. Contents intended as a 'sampler' for distribution to any and all stores catering to local expatriate community. Questions? Transmit: HOME OFFICE, re: Sinister Snacking. ***
RANGOON wishes to thank HOME OFFICE for another exceptional idea.
ADDIS ABBA: is appalled by this sudden lurch into arch capitalism.
PARIS: thinks the expatriate community is already well served by domestic cuisine.
LONDON: in all seriousness there are excellent British confections. Chocolate especially.
ZURICH: disagree with LONDON's opinion re: British confections.
BRUSSELS: also disagree with LONDON; wish to assert Belgian dominance in global chocolate-making arena.
ANONYMOUS: Are we under attack?
*** RE: ANONYMOUS: Do not assume we are under attack. You will be notified in the event of an attack, nuclear or otherwise. ***
October 26, 1982
3. The Ghoulish Irony of Imperialist Capital
As a political officer of quite senior rank I understand the doctrinal and moral objections to our taking a more overt role in global commerce and trade; however, I think the following example of how we are turning our enemy's greed against him might prove enlightening.
First, a history lesson: Ops allowed access to international news have no doubt noticed the perturbations at the highest levels of our enemy's government over the past ten years. For those who do not or did not, here is what happened: A politically motivated, but otherwise unremarkable intelligence gathering operation was bungled, and revealed to the public. (It really was slight, in effect seeding a rival's regional campaign office with 'devices,' standard practice for political parties all over the world.) As the agents involved were interrogated and their orders traced back to higher and higher levels of authority, their leader – Richard Nixon, a sleek sinister corporatist – resigned rather than face a trial by his peers in the senate. As his vice-president had earlier been forced out of office, the presidency was assumed by the chairman of their legislative branch; and for the first time in history the United States of America was led by an official chosen by a single state rather than the entire country. The thought that the mask might slip and reveal a fascist snarl sent shudders through the 'free' world… Of course, as is often the case, deeper issues were at play. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, long a private fiefdom, lost its founder and leader for almost forty years – J. Edgar Hoover. The White House made a play for control. It stands to reason that one of the remaining senior officials installed by the old director revealed the break-in to the press as a way of retaliating or in an attempt to blackmail the administration into letting him take over. Indeed, in the wake of Nixon's resignation there were other intensely toxic disclosures, including the revelation of Central Intelligence activities in the domestic United States, apparently forbidden by charter (how easily we forget).
Hardly the stuff of Hollywood movies, and typical of bureaucracies allowed to fester far from oversight (not unlike the children of Ops, apparently); yet regardless of why their government began to collapse, keen outside observers took this as just another sign that on a macro level the American colossus' knees were beginning to buckle. A stagnant economy and rising inflation had begun to gnaw at the pocketbooks of a populace already riven with a discontent over the unpopular, illegal war in Vietnam. Domestic production of petroleum peaked in 1970 and Americans were being forced to import a greater and greater fraction of oil from abroad. This would doom them. In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a cartel of mostly Middle Eastern Arab countries declared an embargo on oil exports. Prices of petroleum-based products soared and since monies received from petroleum are in hard currency (i.e. petrodollars), to capitalize on Western misfortune we built vast pipelines to transport oil and natural gas from our Eastern wastelands directly into Western Europe.
Not only do our pipelines give us a potent weapon in our diplomatic arsenal (in that we can shut off Europe's electricity at will) but money, billions upon billions of dollars have begun to flow back to us. And with this money we are able to secretly purchase the most advanced technological products from the West, back engineering them for our own [martial] purposes, in effect contracting our research to our enemies. Indeed, much of the technology we appropriate is actually used to transport oil and natural gas from the farthest reaches of our frontier to directly to down their gullets. One of our most important recent acquisitions has been technology capable of remotely operating our oil supply lines.
***FLASH: Details are emerging. Explosion's yield determined equivalent to a three (3) kiloton tactical nuclear blast, flash visible from low earth orbit unassisted. No trace of radiation at blast site. No sign of electromagnetic pulse. Nuclear strike ruled out. Transmit any information, most urgent priority. Carbon Copies to HOME OFFICE. ***
RE: FLASH: Has a satellite-based "Star Wars" attack been considered?
RE: RE: FLASH: A bit of Skylab fell on it.
*** RE: RE: FLASH: explosion was obviously not satellite-based. ***
RE: RE: RE: FLASH: Tunguska II?
GEESE: Can we be sure this wasn't the work of BIG POND?
RE: GEESE: Squawk protocol is insidious but deliriously exciting! Explosive in character! A mere pipeline is a nothing sacrifice for a nation enthralled by the Gander!
CUISINE: How will this affect sales of our native cuisine? After all, comrades, are we not to be considered glorified sales agents from now on?
*** RE: RE: FLASH: Industrial accident not ruled out, but the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) control monitor registered no increase in pipeline pressure, and a mere puncture would have simply leaked and caught fire, without causing such an explosion. Transmit any information or theories, most urgent priority to HOME OFFICE. Carbon Copies to CENTRAL FILES, COMMAND. ***
RE: CHILDREN: Has to possibility of a syndicate consisting of the rogue children of Ops could be responsible?
RE: RE: RE: FLASH: To create such an explosion, an operator would have had to increase the pipeline pressure beyond operational parameters without alerting the control panels. Could the chips have been sabotaged?
*** SABOTAGE: Absolutely impossible. This was on our minds throughout the process. The chips were vigorously tested in Moscow prior to installation. The computer system worked perfectly in isolation. ***
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RE: RE: GEESE AND CUISINE AND CHILDREN: Honk!
4. Social Engineering at International Trade Conventions
Our friend in the political section has addressed this to a certain extent already but it bears repeating.
How do we compete with an enemy who is able to devote many multiples more money towards technological development than we can? The answer is that we do this through subterfuge. We buy advanced technologies from him, using the proceeds of among other venues – our oil and gas exports. Of course our foe is far from stupid. In 1974 the United States banned direct sales of computer equipment, radar apparatus, machine tools and other material to the Soviet Union, and their allies have followed suit. So we are forced to trick him into selling us his microchips. Ever since the embargo, we have been forced to purchase through intermediaries. Hence the subterfuge. And international trade conventions have become veritable post-war Viennas of clandestine operations.
To a casual observer the idea that we use our Ops as purchasing agents might seem odd. But a close look at what the Op actually does, however, that is examining what his or her labor actually consists of, reveals a great deal of overlap. To take a somewhat Fordist view of our intelligence community, one might think of our work as a production line of workers assembling information. Our Ops take information in, which our analysts digest, condense and extrude as actionable intelligence for policy makers, commanders, revolutionary archivists etc. There is a feedback loop in this system to consider as well, as our analysts and their supervisors are far from passive receptacles; as information comes in our analysts and their overseers guide the attention of the Ops. This analogy is useful from an organizational point of view, but neglects the 'blade of the spade.'
Where does our information come from? Our Ops harvest it. Ops cajole information from agents. In theory there are many ways to do this, through brute force, bribery etc. but by far the most frequent technique is through an Op's sheer charm and a target's lust for human contact. Of course this lust for contact has a determined component. More than one wag has described our work as being in the business of engineering fortuitous coincidences. After all, how else does one connect with another human being than with a series of shared qualities and experiences? The bulk of our preparation in advance of a meeting involves the creation of dossiers on the principals. Should we require an introduction to a Swedish manufacturer of precision machinery, for example, and their representative enjoys ice-fishing and Norse mythology then we will book a seat beside him, and have a knowledgeable Op strike up a conversation. The skills we use to cultivate relationships with military officials and diplomats easily overlap with the commercial world. And by charming our salesmen not only do we secure the necessary items; we often do so at a bargain price.
SABOTAGE: Is it possible the chips were sabotaged?
AGAIN: Chips are put through vigorous testing. Impossible.
ARTICLE: This sounds as though the same man wrote it all. Every article in this document has the same voice.
RE: ARTICLE: Do you remember signing up for this?
RE: RE: ARTICLE: No. What is this document? Control? Respond!
5. Self Reproduction of Programmes
This talk of sabotaged computer chips has a familiar and disconcerting ring to it… Though it may seem the stuff of science fiction, of computers coming untethered from their tape drives and acting according to the whims of another, maleficent programmer's agenda; our corps of Autonomous Systems engineers – and of course their counterparts in the West – have begun to create malicious computer programs. Most varieties replicate autonomously and clog the memory banks of afflicted computer systems. However, more sophisticated and sinister variants are being developed. Software can carry a disguised payload and operate as a sort of computational time bomb, primed to execute its secret orders when a certain set of conditions arise – a certain amount of time has passed, or even a sequence is entered remotely. As autonomously controlled systems spread throughout our infrastructure we become (and our enemies become) ever more vulnerable to such an attack. Remember, it is useful to assume that any technique you employ will eventually be encountered on the other side.
ARTICLE: A malignancy in the control system. They expect us to believe this?
RE: ARTICLE: The starred remarks have gone. CONTROL RESPOND!
RE: ARTICLE: Why take credit for the explosion?
RE: RE: ARTICLE: To conceal a sloppy job?
RE: RE: RE: ARTICLE: Cast doubt on our systems?
RE: RE: RE: RE: ARTICLE: Wouldn't they want us to trust compromised equipment?
RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: ARTICLE: A Chinese plot? Sowing discontent between USA and USSR?
CHINESE? More likely a delinquent Op-ling than a Chinaman.
SOLUTION: Let's ignore the document. What action can we take? Whatever we do, we lose.
RE: SOLUTION: And if it's a test?
RE: RE: SOLUTION: It isn't a test. It never is. How many 'tests' have you encountered? They're just an excuse for covering things up, claiming cunning to conceal gross incompetence.
RE: RE: RE: SOLUTION: So it is a nuisance and we should stop responding? What about the pipeline?
RE: RE: RE: RE: SOLUTION: Leave it alone.
Going West is an adventure. Maybe not as much as was when you had to take a covered wagon and float across the Mississippi and shoot bison along the way for food, but still, it's a thrill. My wife and I decided we'd had enough of New York City. She'd been there almost fifteen years, I'd been there ten, and as ostensible creatives it seemed foolish to work 90 hours a week before we even began our "real work."


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