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In its 28th year of honoring the nation?s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, announced Brecken Biggs of Natrona County High School as its 2012-13 Gatorade Wyoming Football Player of the Year.

Biggs is the third Gatorade Wyoming Football Player of the Year to be chosen from Natrona County High School.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Biggs as Wyoming?s best high school football player.

Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Football Player of the Year award announced in December, Biggs joins an elite alumni association of past state award-winners in 12 sports, including Mark Sanchez (2004-05, Mission Viejo HS, Calif.), Wes Welker (1999-00, Heritage Hall HS, Okla.), Terrell Suggs (1999-00, Hamilton HS, Ariz.), Anquan Boldin (1998-99, Pahokee HS, Fla.) and Jerome Bettis (1989-90, Mackenzie HS, Mich.).

The 6-foot, 175-pound senior quarterback and defensive back led the Mustangs to a 12-0 record and the Class 4A state championship this past season.

Biggs passed for 1,584 yards and 19 touchdowns, completing 115 of 187 passes.

He also rushed for 697 yards and 14 touchdowns on 120 carries, adding eight interceptions on defense.

Biggs was named the Class 4A Offensive Player of the Year.

Biggs has maintained a 3.34 GPA in the classroom.

He has volunteered locally on behalf of a food pantry, the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Special Olympics.

?Biggs is a very good athlete,? said Jon Vance, head coach at Kelly Walsh High. ?He can run the ball, he passes it efficiently and he made a lot of key plays on defense.?

Biggs remains undecided upon a collegiate destination.

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport.

The selection process is administered by the Gatorade high school sports leadership team in partnership with USA TODAY High School Sports, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.

Biggs joins recent Gatorade Wyoming Football Players of the Year Jordan Roberts (2011-12, Sheridan High School), Jim Shellenberger (2010-11, Natrona County High School), Austin Woodward (2009-10, Sheridan), Tommy Earl (2008-09, Natrona County High School) and Alex Stratton (2007-08, Cheyenne East) among the state?s list of former award winners.

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Bloomberg first to deliver China Interbank FX rates globally | FX-MM

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Publication date: 29 November 2012

Tagged with: Bloomberg, BNP Paribas, Renminbi

Bloomberg today announced the first global, real-time data service that provides investors access to live interbank pricing for China?s onshore renminbi (CNY) market. This service captures currency trading activity among banks and financial institutions in China, and is provided through the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), the official interbank trading and foreign exchange (FX) division of China?s central bank.

?The addition of the CFETS data gives investors insights into real-time tick-by-tick movement, volumes and market participant information in China?s onshore interbank market,? said Tod Van Name, Bloomberg?s Global Head of FX, Economics and Commodities. ?Given the rapid internationalisation of the Chinese Yuan, this data is imperative to global markets as it provides our clients greater transparency for smarter and more timely trading, hedging and investment decisions.?

Global currency traders, corporate treasurers and institutional investors can now view executable quotes and trades on the interbank dollar-yuan spot, swap and forward markets. The CFETS data service also features the best renminbi spot prices from participating banks, historical trade sizes, and eight other renminbi currency pairs. Combined with Bloomberg?s FX suite, market participants can connect to global counterparties and liquidity, and access Bloomberg?s global FX trading community.

?The provision of real-time China interbank FX rates to international investors is yet another step in the right direction,? said Sam Phoen, head of global markets, ANZ bank (China). ?Onshore corporations and investors will benefit from real-time executable rates, while offshore players who are invested in China will have better visibility when hedging against movements of the renminbi.?

According to CFETS? publication ChinaMoney, with renminbi cross-border inflows and outflows intensifying in 2012, development of the offshore renminbi market will drive domestic financial market reform, and aid in a fair and transparent price discovery process for renminbi foreign exchange rates.

?BNP Paribas is one of the first international banks to access Bloomberg?s CFETS service,? said Julien Martin, Deputy Head of Fixed Income, BNP Paribas China. ?Offshore players can now access accurate interbank dollar-yuan rates that better reflect market conditions, providing investors with a critical edge in foreign exchange transactions amidst today?s volatile trading environment.?

This announcement follows Bloomberg?s leadership in the evolution of the offshore renminbi (CNH) market, which includes the development and adoption of the CNH code, provision of its price history and introduction of the offshore renminbi bond listing and index.

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Water and ice on Mercury: Ice and organic material may have been carried to planet by passing comets

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) ? Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, revolves around the sun in a mere 88 days, making a tight orbit that keeps the planet incredibly toasty. Surface temperatures on Mercury can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit -- hot enough to liquefy lead.

Now researchers from NASA, MIT, the University of California at Los Angeles and elsewhere have discovered evidence that the scorching planet may harbor pockets of water ice, along with organic material, in several permanently shadowed craters near Mercury's north pole.

The surprising discovery suggests to scientists that both ice and organic material, such as carbon, may have been deposited on Mercury's surface by impacts from comets or asteroids. Over time, this volatile material could then have migrated to the planet's poles.

"We thought the most exciting finding could be that this really was water ice," says Maria Zuber, the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and a member of the research team. "But the identification of darker, insulating material that may indicate complex organics makes the story even more thrilling."

Zuber and her colleagues published their results this week in the journal Science.

Mounting evidence for ice

The possibility that water ice might exist on Mercury is not new: In the 1990s, radar observations detected bright regions near Mercury's poles that scientists believed could be signs of either water ice or a rough planetary surface. However, the evidence was inconclusive for either scenario.

To get a clearer picture of Mercury's polar regions, Zuber and her colleagues analyzed observations taken by NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) mission, a probe that has been orbiting the planet and mapping its topography since April 2011.

Mapping the planet's surface is a challenging task, as the craft must weather the sun's intense radiation, which can "play havoc with electronics," Zuber says. What's more, the probe moves from pole to pole in an elliptical orbit, making for an extremely tricky mapping mission, both dynamically and thermally. Despite these challenges, MESSENGER's onboard laser altimeter has amassed more than 10 laser pulses that have been used to map topography and measure the near-infrared reflectance of the surface.

Last year, researchers analyzed the probe's topographic observations and created a high-resolution map of Mercury; they then overlaid previous radar observations. They found that the bright regions detected in radar lined up with permanently shadowed craters at the planet's north pole -- regions that never see the sun, and which are potentially ideal places for ice to survive. This finding was one more piece of evidence that Mercury might harbor water ice.

Revealing shadows

In this latest analysis of MESSENGER's observations, scientists believe they have found conclusive evidence for water ice on Mercury, although the data was at first puzzling.

The team found that the probe's reflectance measurements, taken via laser altimetry, matched up well with previously mapped radar-bright regions in Mercury's high northern latitudes. Two craters in particular were bright, both in radar and at laser wavelengths, indicating the possible presence of reflective ice. However, just south of these craters, others appeared dark with laser altimetry, but bright in radar.

The observations "threw us off track for a long time," Zuber says, until another team member, David Paige of UCLA, developed a thermal model of the planet. Using MESSENGER observations of Mercury's topography, reflectance and rotational characteristics, the model simulated the sun's illumination of the planet, enabling precise determination of Mercury's temperature at and below the surface.

Results indicated that the unusually bright deposits corresponded to regions where water ice was stable at the surface; in dark regions, ice was stable within a meter of the surface. The dark insulating material is consistent with complex organics that would already be dark but may have been darkened further by the intense radiation at Mercury's surface.

In addition, MESSENGER's neutron spectrometer detected elemental hydrogen in the vicinity of Mercury's north pole. The combination of the compositional, spectral and geometric observations and the thermal models provided a strong, self-consistent explanation for the unusual radar backscatter observations.

Paul Lucey, a professor of geophysics and planetology at the University of Hawaii, points out that MESSENGER has also revealed a number of regions where surfaces were much darker than in previous radar measurements. Lucey interprets these results as possible evidence of receding ice on Mercury's surface.

"This suggests that in the past, ice was more extensive on Mercury, and retreated to its current state," says Lucey, who was not involved in the research. "Even Mercury experiences global warming."

MESSENGER will continue to orbit Mercury, and Zuber says future data may reveal information beyond the planet's surface. "There are still some really good questions to answer about the interior," Zuber says. "I'll tell you, we're not done."

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2. Gregory A. Neumann, John F. Cavanaugh, Xiaoli Sun, Erwan M. Mazarico, David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber, Dandan Mao, David A. Paige, Sean C. Solomon, Carolyn M. Ernst, and Olivier S. Barnouin. Bright and Dark Polar Deposits on Mercury: Evidence for Surface Volatiles. Science, 29 November 2012 DOI: 10.1126/science.1229764

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Do I Really Need to Worry About My Shared File Permissions?

Dear Lifehacker,
I've followed your guide to building a home server with FreeNAS, but I'm not sure what to do with the permissions on my files. Can I just set them all to 777, or is that insecure? This stuff is like Chinese to me, help!

Sincerely,
Perplexed by Permissions

Dear Perplexed,
You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it's actually very simple! Here's why you should care, and how to understand the permissions that keep your files safe.

Note: This is a very large topic, and there's no way we could cover everything here. For now, we're going to focus on UNIX permissions?that is, permissions on Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD systems (like FreeNAS), and start with just the basics. If you're a Windows user, check out our guide to Homegroups for an easier way to share files between computers.

Why File Permissions Matter

You may think a good Wi-Fi password is all you need to keep your data from getting tampered with, but as we've shown you before, it's very easy to hack into a Wi-Fi network. So, even though it's unlikely to happen, you should make sure your files aren't out in the open for anyone to steal?especially if you have more sensitive information on your server (like backups of your computer, which can contain any number of important things).

Furthermore, if you're sharing files within a household, it's important to make sure certain family members can't tamper with files that aren't theirs. You don't want to wake up one day only to find out that your child accidentally deleted everything on your server because it was wide open for him or her to access, or that your not-so-tech-savvy spouse moved around all your movies so your home theater PC can't find your library. A little tweaking can go a long way, and make sure your files are safe from any and all horrible situations.

The Players: Owners, Groups, and the Public

For all UNIX systems (Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD?which is what FreeNAS uses), permissions work in generally the same way. Each file and folder has an owner and a group assigned to it, which decides who is allowed to access that file. The owner is the only user who can change permissions, and traditionally they have full access to the files (that is, they can read and write). Another group of users may have separate permissions (perhaps they can only read the files), and everyone else may have different permissions (maybe they can't see the files at all).

This allows you to easily dole out permissions to the household. Say you, the owner of the files, want full access, but you don't want the rest of the family to be able to write or delete those files. You, the owner, can have full permissions: you can read it, write to it, and execute it (if it's a program or script). If you want the rest of your family to only read the files, you can assign the group "Family" to those files and give it read-only permissions.

First Things First: Create Users and Groups

Before you start, you'll want to make sure you actually have users and groups on your system to which you can give these permissions. Usually, this is best done through the Users and Groups setting of your operating system?Linux, OS X, or FreeNAS. Add users for each person in your household, and create any groups you want?like a "family" group?and add the necessary users to that group. For example, if your name is Donald, you'd create a user called donald, as well as a user for your girlfriend daisy and your live-in nephews huey, dewey, and louie. All of those users would be a part of the group family.

How to Change the Owner of a File

The easiest way change permissions is through the command line (as GUI options can often be limited or confusing). Let's take a simple example. I have a folder of movies on my hard drive, located at /mnt/Media. To see who owns those files and what group is assigned to it, I can just run the following two commands:

cd /mnt/Media
ls -l

The first command moves me to that folder, and the second command lists the files in that folder and their details. In my case, it brings up something like this:

heimdall:/mnt/Media# ls -l
total 40
drwxrwxr-x 7 root wheel 512 Aug 9 20:07 Games
drwxrwxr-x 126 root wheel 17920 Nov 10 23:25 Movies
drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 2560 Aug 10 23:15 Music Videos
drwxrwxr-x 17 root wheel 1024 Nov 26 20:45 TV Shows

This shows that the owner of each folder is root, and the group assigned to each is wheel (a group reserved for administrators). Let's say I want to be the owner of the file, and I want to give a group (my family) access to those files. To do so, I'd then run chown, which stands for "Change Owner:"

chown -R donald Movies

This changes the owner of the "Movies" folder to the user donald. The -R flag makes it recursive, which means it'll also change the owner for every folder and file within "Movies" (so I also own all my movies, not just the folder they're in). To make sure it worked properly, you can always run ls -l again to see:

heimdall:/mnt/Media# ls -l
total 40
drwxrwxr-x 7 root wheel 512 Aug 9 20:07 Games
drwxrwxr-x 126 donald wheel 17920 Nov 10 23:25 Movies
drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 2560 Aug 10 23:15 Music Videos
drwxrwxr-x 17 root wheel 1024 Nov 26 20:45 TV Shows

Repeat this process for any other folders you want to own.

How to Change the Group Associated with a File

Changing the group is similar to changing the owner. Let's say I wanted to assign my family group to all of my movies (so my family could watch these movies on their own computers). To do so, I'd run the following command:

chgrp -R family Movies

This command changes the group of the Movies folder and its contents to family. Again, repeat this process for all other folders you want them to access.

The Permissions: Read, Write, and Execute

The players are only the first half of the equation. The next thing you need to worry about are the actual permissions. For a given file or folder, you have three things to worry about:

• What the owner of the file can do with it
• What its group can do with it
• What the public can do with it

Let's go back to our example of the movies folder. If we go back and ls -l to see those files, we're given this output:

heimdall:/mnt/Media# ls -l
total 40
drwxrwxr-x 7 donald family 512 Aug 9 20:07 Games
drwxrwxr-x 126 donald family 17920 Nov 10 23:25 Movies
drwxrwxr-x 2 donald family 2560 Aug 10 23:15 Music Videos
drwxrwxr-x 17 donald family 1024 Nov 26 20:45 TV Shows

See that drwxrwxr-x gibberish on the right? That's actually the list of permissions for each folder. d means the file is a directory. After that, the first three letters (rwx) are what the owner can do with that file. The second three letters show what the group can do, and the last three letters show what the public can do. r gives read permissions, w gives write permissions, and x gives execute permissions (which only really applies to programs and scripts). A dash (-) indicates that a certain permission has not been given.

So, in the above case, these files can be read and written to by donald and family (rwxrwx) , but only read by the public (r-x). We probably want to change that, since we don't want the family to write to the files, and don't want the public to see anything at all. So, we can change those permissions by running:

chmod -R 740 Movies

This changes those permissions to drwxr-----, meaning the owner can do anything (rwx), the group family can read files (r--), and the public can do nothing (---).

So how did we come up with the number 740? Each digit represents one of the players: the owner, the group, and the public. The permissions create the digits like this:

r=4, w=2, x=1, and rwx=7

Since we wanted the owner to do everything, the first digit becomes a 7. The group can only read, which is 4, and the public can do nothing, which is 0. Thus, we give the file permission "740." Make sense? If we wanted the group to be able to write and execute, but not the public, we'd instead run:

chmod -R 770 Movies

It all depends on what you want to do. Repeat this process for the other files and folders you want to tweak, and you'll be well on your way to a safer, more secure set of shared files.

Sincerely,
Lifehacker

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Apple begins selling unlocked iPhone 5 in the US, starting from $649

It's that special time of the year... that is, when Apple decides to unfetter the iPhone for US shoppers. The Cupertino crew has quietly started selling the iPhone 5 in an unlocked, off-contract form that will work on GSM, HSPA+ and (if you're in the right countries) LTE networks. There's few surprises versus what we've seen in years past, or in other regions: the unlocked iPhone 5 ships in the same capacities and colors as the carrier-bound model, and starts from $649. That's still expensive for those still used to buying on an agreement, and it won't represent as much bang-for-the-buck as a $350 Nexus 4. If you're yearning for the LTE the Nexus 4 lacks and don't mind living in an iOS universe, however, Apple is ready and waiting.

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Chestertown, Maryland Outdoor Wedding from Kristen Marie Photography

It?s time to kick off another Wedding Wednesday which means we have seven of the loveliest affairs coming your way all live long day.?Think everything from a beautiful outdoor shindig to a lovely ballroom soiree.?Up first is a Maryland affair that?s putting the ?P? in pretty in a major way. ?I?m talking a drop-dead gorgeous bride and groom, a breathtaking?Brittland Manor?backdrop and a?Sottero and Midgley?gown that is the literal definition of layered lovely. ?Kristen Marie?Photography?snapped up every moment and it?s a DIY masterpiece that you can?t afford to miss. ?See it all here.

From the Bride? Right from the start we knew we wanted an intimate wedding. We couldn?t wait to get married and were excited to get everyone we loved in one place at one time to celebrate with us.?I liked the idea of something outdoors, so I searched for a venue that had beautiful grounds, where we could have all the events in one place. I wanted our guests to just come and relax and get lost in the day. Brittland Manor was the first place we looked at?and the last. The grounds were perfect and the house was situated right along the Chester River. Our family stayed all together in the two houses on the property for the whole weekend.

The most exciting part of planning the wedding was deciding on the d?cor and style. I came up with a combination of vintage and whimsy. I wanted it to be unique (nothing cookie cutter) and I like to think I put a lot of love into the details. I gave new meaning to DIY ? from the flag bunting and the flower arrangements, the menus and the table numbers, the hanging mason jars and the escort cards. I made more trips to the craft store than I?d like to admit, but looking back, I had a lot of fun doing it. Kevin let me monopolize our one-bedroom apartment with my DIYing, bless his heart. Although he did start grumbling when I took over the entire living room floor with flag cutouts. For the record: I left a walking path!

Family and friends helped so much on the days leading up to the wedding ? checking in on us, helping to transport everything to the venue and pitching in on those last-minute finishing touches.?Our wedding was everything we wanted it to be. I really tried to take it all in ? the beautiful surroundings, the people I loved, the tastes, the feelings, the sounds, the moments with Kevin. I loved every minute!

Wedding Photography: Kristen Marie?Photography?/ Venue: Brittland Manor in Chestertown, Maryland /?Floral Design:?Fifty Flowers?(Flowers)?+ The Bride (Design) /?Officiant:?Jennifer Dustin?/?Catering + Wedding Cake:?Eat & Smile Catering?/?Ceremony + Cocktail Hour Guitarist:?Kevin Shannon?/?Music: DJ Bounce of?Scratch Weddings?/?Tent Rental + Perimeter Lighting: Dover Rent-All?/?Candles:?Candle 4 Less?/?Wedding Dress: Sottero and Midgley?/?Bride?s Veil + Blusher: Pure English Bridal Salon /?Bridesmaids? + Groomsmen? Attire:?J.Crew?+?Indochino?/ ?Bride?s Jewelry: Grandmother?s ring /?Hair:?Salon?in Chestertown, Maryland /?Makeup: DIY by the Bride /?Groom?s Attire:?Indochino

Source: http://www.stylemepretty.com/2012/11/28/chestertown-maryland-outdoor-wedding-from-kristen-marie-photography/

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Sunlight instantly turns ice water to steam using nanoparticles

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Sunlight and itsy bitsy flecks of metal or carbon are all that?s required to quickly vaporize icy-cold water, according to researchers who recently unveiled a new steam-generating process that could revolutionize industrial practices without the hangover of greenhouse gas emissions.

Steam is used throughout our world. It spins turbines to generate electricity and heats kettles used to brew beer. It is used to sterilize medical equipment and distill alcohol.?

But, generating steam typically requires tons of energy to heat and boil water. The most common sources of energy are coal, oil, and natural gas ? fossil fuels that when burned emit carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that?s building up in the atmosphere and causing the planet?s climate to change.

Researchers at Rice University unveiled a method that uses light-absorbing nanoparticles submerged in water to convert solar energy directly into piping?hot?steam. It is so effective that it can even produce the?steam from ice water.

The tiny particles heat up so quickly that they instantly vaporize water, rather than dissipating the?heat into the surrounding fluid. Precisely how this works is a bit of a mystery, according to Naomi Halas, ?director of the nanophotonics laboratory at Rice University.

?There seems to be some nanoscale thermal barrier, because it is clearly making steam like crazy,? she told Technology Review.

The process has an overall efficiency of 24 percent, compared to about 15 percent efficiency for solar panels such as those on your neighbor?s roof. But generating electricity is unlikely the first application of the new technology, which was developed with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.?

Rather, it will be used for sanitation and water purification in developing countries, helping to stem the spread of disease. To that end, the Rice University team has already created a solar steam-powered autoclave to sterilize medical and dental instruments at clinics without access to electricity.

The technology could, however, also improve the efficiency and lower the cost of large-scale solar thermal energy generating plants, which use sunlight to warm up oil that is then used to heat water and generate steam to spin turbines.?

Generating steam directly with the nanoparticles would be 3 to 5 percent more efficient and result in a cost savings of about 10 percent due to the less complex design, Todd Otanicar, a mechanical engineer at the University of Tulsa, told Technology Review.?

For more information, check out the video below. A paper on the process was published Nov. 19 in the journal ACS Nano.?

?? via Technology Review and Rice University?

John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

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Tar Sands Pipelines as Bottle-necks against the Consolidation of Power in Canada

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STORY posted on November 27, 2012 by rfvtgb yhnujm

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Perhaps more than at any other time in its history, the Canadian state has invested its future in a single massive industrial project. The Tar Sands (1) is increasingly the driver of Canada's economy, a symbol of its national identity, and central to how it seeks to position itself globally in the future. As pipeline projects advance across the continent, there is a pressing need for us to understand how, in opposing the transportation of Tar Sands oil, we have an unparalleled opportunity to disrupt the capitalist political system in this country. This is especially important in Ontario, where presently the movement against the pipelines is weakest.

Up to now, the Tar Sands oil has been largely landlocked and its price is suppressed by the glut of supply this has created in the markets that can access it. The elites in Canada see this inability to access broader markets as hurting their profits, which in turn reduces their ability to reinvest in expanding the Tar Sands. From the perspective of the powerful, Tar Sands oil must have access to ports in order for the project to expand. The Canadian government has also been finalizing free-trade deals with China and the European Union, so the buyers are lined up once the oil is available.

Opposition to the extraction and transportation of Tar Sands oil has largely been seen as an environmental issue, with an emphasis on climate change and carbon emissions. Sustained resistance by Indigenous communities has made the issues of Indigenous sovreignty impossible to ignore in the Athabasca basing and in the regions crossed by the pipelines. In the past year, struggles against Tar Sands pipelines have intensified across the Canada and the United States, and more reasons for opposing the Tar Sands have blossomed with each new community in struggle.

The Tar Sands is not just an environmental issue though, and it does not just affect the areas around its pipelines. The Tar Sands is increasingly central to how power exists in the Canadian territory. The current push to build pipelines is a crucial moment for both the financial and political systems, and for the movements that oppose them.

I don't want to be another voice claiming that one issue is the centre piece of the system of domination. However, this escalation in the movement and production of Tar Sands oil is very real and current, and it has links in almost every part of Canadian society. Here are a few examples:

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• Austerity cuts to social programs are made with the same stroke of the pen that removes environmental oversight from pipeline projects and that sends massive subsidies and incentives to oil and pipeline companies. (2)

• The government prepares for the fallout of scrapping social programs by expanding the prison system (3). Those most affected by prison will continue to be Indigenous communities and people of colour, and these communities will also continue to bear the brunt of the toxicity associated with oil refining and manufacturing related to Tar Sands production. A company owned by an Enbridge executive has already received a contract to build a new prison in Nova Scotia following the passage of Bill C-10, the crime bill (4).

• Currently, about ten thousand men from Atlantic Provinces are employed in the Tar Sands (5), being coerced through economic necessity to spend their lives in boom towns like Fort McMurray, in an atmosphere dominated by drug addiction, organized crime, and sexual violence. These social problems then travel back home with them.

• Currently, there are several pipelines (including the Pacific Trails (6)) being built to supply the insatiable Tar Sands with natural gas. However, some industry estimates still say that even with this added supply, they'll be out of gas there in less than thirty years. The state intends to respond to this by building as many as twelve nuclear power plants. This waste will likely be stored on the shores of Lake Huron (7), and this escalation of nuclear power will likely fuel a new phase of nuclear armament as powerful countries vie for dwindling resources.

• The rhetoric of Canadian oil for Canadian consumers is preparing for a global future of ever increasing inequality. Alongside assuring its ?have? status, Canada is moving to secure its borders, restricting freedom of movement and cracking down on migrants. The constitution of a national identity around privileged access to to a decisive energy resource is inseperable from xenophobic, racist policies.

• Other areas in Canada are undergoing a boom in destructive extractive industries, particularly in the north. The Ring of Fire (8) developments in Ontario and le Plan Nord (9) in Quebec are two important examples. Financially and politically, these projects are deeply tied to the Tar Sands. It is only by maintaining privileged access to oil for industry that the Canadian state can envision these projects being at all viable over the long time frames imagined for them.

• Most of the factors discussed above affect Indigenous people disproportionately, because of the long-standing racist, colonial stratification of Canadian society. Native people who resist the Tar Sands and other incursions on their land and sovreignty are increasingly being treated as terrorists by the state, with huge amounts of intelligence resources dedicated to disrupting and suppressing their movements (10).

So if we recognize that the Tar Sands is a vital chokepoint for the political, economic, and industrial systems in this country, how do we position ourselves against it?

A key strategic principle is to bring decisive force to bear against your enemy at critical times and places. For those of us who see the Canadian state and economy as our enemies, the Tar Sands pipelines are critical places, and the moment to move against them is while they are being built or repurposed. This work is being done now and over the next couple of years. We will only have one such opportunity to stop this oil from reaching ports.

Three main paths for Tar Sands oil are actively being pursued at this time. The western path is known as the Northern Gateway and would see this dirty, toxic sludge transported across the Rocky Mountains, across the headwaters of countless rivers and streams, through the unceded territory of several Indigenous nations, to reach a port in one of the world's most hazardous waterways. To the south, the oil would travel down the Keystone XL pipeline, crossing ecologically sensitive regions everywhere along its route and disposessing hundreds of people of their land.

Both the western and southern paths have encountered massive resistance, especially from Indigenous Peoples. In particular, the Yinka-Dene alliance forms an unbroken wall of Indigenous nations blocking access of Tar Sands oil to the Canadian Pacific coast. Opposition to the Northern Gateway is so strong that even the opportunistic provincial government of British Columbia has jumped on the bandwagon to oppose the federal government's plan.

Another important strategic truth is that ?an attacker willing to pay the price can always penetrate the strongest defenses.? But ?defense is the stronger form of combat? and on the west coast, the defensive mobilization is already formidable, and even the arrogant, colonial federal conservative government would hesitate to provoke such an enormous confrontation with Indigenous nations.

The sheer monstrous ridiculousness of the Northern Gateway has made the third option for moving Tar Sands oil, the eastern path, seem so reasonable by comparison that every liberal organization in the country ? from the NDP to the Toronto Star ? is rushing to support it.

The reversal of Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline through Ontario is by far the least politically expensive and logistically simplest of the three routes for Tar Sands oil. It just involves reversing existing pipelines from Sarnia to Hamilton then on to Montreal. From there, another pipeline could be reversed to carry the oil to Portland, Maine where it would have easier access to Atlantic ports. A plan identical to the current Line 9 reversals was proposed back in 2008, but was withdrawn after the economic collapse and in the face of heated opposition.

We need to stop the movement of Tar Sands oil no matter what route it takes. Though we might argue about the risks of a spill to a particular sensitive area to gain local support, it doesn't matter if it's crossing pristine mountain streams or Hamilton Harbour. The Tar Sands is an ecological and social nightmare that benefits only the elites, and it's going to get worse if its market is allowed to expand.

Tar Sands oil is coming East. To all the anarchists, radical environmentalists, and militants of any sort along the Line 9 route: we have a golden opportunity to prevent the state and capitalists from further consolidating their power. Enbridge intends Line 9 to be fully ready for Tar Sands oil by the Spring of 2014, so our time frame is tight. There will not be very many easy sites of intervention (like construction projects, for instance) so we need to be ready in our home communities to act quickly when these chances present themselves.

Some starting points to learn more about the Line 9 reversal:

https://hamiltonline9.wordpress.com

https://line9campaign.wordpress.com/

Endnotes:

1) If you haven't seen how the dirtiest oil in the world is extracted, take a minute to look it up before reading on. http://oilsandstruth.org/ is a good place to begin.

2) The 2012 omnibus federal budget bill, bill C-38, scrapped environmental assessments (and many other legal protections that were expensive for corporation) and maintained low taxes and infrastructual support for the Tar Sands. It also cut eligibility for Old Age Security, and Employment Insurance, among lots of other changes. Some more details here: http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/10-reasons-oppose-bill-c-38/11347

3) For an anarchist analysis of the current prison expansion, check out EPIC out of Kingston, https://endthepic.wordpress.com

4) J Richard Bird is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Enbridge. He also owns Bird Construction, which was handed a 38.5 million dollar contract to build in Nova Scotia the first prison stemming from Bill C-10. Follow this link for a lefty analysis: http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2012/07/05/enbridge-executives-company-awarded-first-bill-c-10-38-5-million-prison-project/

5) This paper studies the migration of workers from Nova Scotia to the Tar Sands region: www.justlabour.yorku.ca/volume17/pdfs/08_ferguson_press.pdf

6) For more information about opposition to the Pacific Trails pipeline, http://intercontinentalcry.org/pacific-trails-pipeline-drillers-evicted-from-wetsuweten-territory/

https://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/

7) The town of Saugeen Shores currently seems to be the likely recipient of all of Canada's spent nuclear fuel. http://saveoursaugeenshores.org/

8) On the Ring of Fire and opposition to it: http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/first-nations-oppose-ring-fire-mining-projects/11622

9) For updates on opposition to the Plan Nord: http://www.indigenoussolidaritymontreal.net/

10) An article about the escalation of spying against Indigenous people: http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/rcmp-spied-protesting-first-nations/9303

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DeWitt duo signs with UAM golf, softball

Arkansas County will be well represented among University of Arkansas at Monticello student-athletes next fall as two DeWitt High School seniors signed National Letters of Intent to continue their athletic careers at the Great American Conference school.

Lauren Johnson will compete for the Cotton Blossoms golf team, while Katie Cohen will join the UAM softball squad.

?It?s really an honor,? Johnson said of her signing. ?I?m very excited, and I hope I can make the town proud.?

Johnson said she chose UAM because it was close to home and she really liked the golf program coach, Heather Wall.

Johnson began playing golf during the summer of her eighth-grade year. She started working with Stuttgart Country Club golf pro Bob Ralston around two and a half years ago.

Johnson was named to the 8-4A all-district squad for four consecutive years and is a three-time district medalist, going undefeated in three conference tournaments. Johnson was named all-state for three straight years and finished as runner-up in the 4A state tournament in 2011 and earned third place in the 2012 event.

This season, Johnson was named to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette All-Arkansas Preps Top 10 and was the ASGA Player of the Year Top 10.
Johnson is the daughter of Jackie and Anthony Johnson.

Cohen was considering other schools to continue her softball career, but chose the University of Arkansas at Monticello because ?it always felt like home.?

Both of Cohen?s parents attended UAM, and she frequently attended summer softball camps at the university.

Cohen said she began playing t-ball at a young age then joined a traveling softball team at age 10.

She hopes her signing with a collegiate program will inspire other DeWitt High School players to pursue their dreams of playing softball at the next level.

Cohen is the daughter of Brad and Kelli Cohen.

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Arctic sea ice larger than US melted this year

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, a man walks past destroyed homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, New York. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, a man walks past destroyed homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, New York. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this July 26, 2012 file photo, dead fish float in a drying pond near Rock Port, Mo. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, Jerry Johnson of Ashland uses his antique 57 Ford tractor to mow vegetation around his drying pond in Ashland, Neb. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 file photo, a combine harvests corn near Bennington, Neb. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2012 file photo, corn plants weakened by the drought lie on the ground after being knocked over by rain in Bennington, Neb. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

DOHA, Qatar (AP) ? An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "before our eyes."

In a report released at U.N. climate talks in the Qatari capital of Doha, the World Meteorological Organization said the Arctic ice melt was one of a myriad of extreme and record-breaking weather events to hit the planet in 2012. Droughts devastated nearly two-thirds of the United States as well western Russia and southern Europe. Floods swamped west Africa and heat waves left much of the Northern Hemisphere sweltering.

But it was the ice melt that seemed to dominate the annual climate report, with the U.N. concluding ice cover had reached "a new record low" in the area around the North Pole and that the loss from March to September was a staggering 11.83 million square kilometers (4.57 million square miles) ? an area bigger than the United States.

"The alarming rate of its melt this year highlighted the far-reaching changes taking place on Earth's oceans and biosphere," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said. "Climate change is taking place before our eyes and will continue to do so as a result of the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which have risen constantly and again reached new records."

The dire climate news ? following on the heels of a report Tuesday that found melting permafrost could significantly amplify global warming ? comes as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggled for a third day to lay the groundwork for a deal that would cut emissions in an attempt to ensure that temperatures don't rise more than 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) over what they were in preindustrial times. Temperatures have already risen about 0.8 degrees C (1.4 degrees F), according to the latest report by the IPCC.

Discord between rich and poor countries on who should do what has kept the two-decade-old U.N. talks from delivering on that goal, and global emissions are still going up.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, urged delegates to heed the science and quickly take action.

"When I had the privilege in 2007 of accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, in my speech I asked the rhetorical question, 'Will those responsible for decisions in the field of climate change at the global level listen to the voice of science and knowledge, which is now loud and clear,' " he said. "I am not sure our voice is louder today but it is certainly clearer on the basis of the new knowledge."

Delegates in Doha are bickering over money from rich countries to help poorer ones adapt to and combat the impacts of climate change, and whether developed countries will sign onto an extension of a legally binding emissions pact, the Kyoto Protocol, that would run until 2020.

A pact that once incorporated all industrialized countries except the United States would now include only the European Union, Australia and several smaller countries which together account for less than 15 percent of global emissions. And the United States is refusing to offer any bolder commitments to cut its emissions beyond a non-binding pledge to reduce emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

"For developed country parties like the United States and the European Union, the pledges and commitments ... put forward on the table are far below what is required by the science," Su Wei, a member of the Chinese delegation, told reporters. "And far below what is required by their historical responsibility."

Developing countries have said they are willing to take steps to control emissions, but that they must be given space to build their economies. Although China is the largest carbon polluter and India is rapidly catching up, both countries lag far behind the industrial countries in emissions per person and still have huge populations mired in poverty. They don't see emissions peaking anytime soon.

"We are still in the process of industrialization. We are also confronted with the enormous task of poverty eradication," said Wei, acknowledging that the country's emissions won't peak by 2020.

"In order to eradicate poverty, to try to improve the living standards, certainly we need to develop our economy," he said. "So the emissions will need to grow for a period of time."

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Karl Ritter contributed to this report.

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With 47 percent of the popular vote, Mitt Romney may become the president of nothing more than Ironystan. Yes, the final general-election tally is trickling in and, as fate would have it, Romney's total might look more like that mythical number after all. Well, according to David Wasserman of the Cook Political report, it's more like 47.49 and dropping, which, of course rounds down to 47 ? the same percentage of Americans?he said were moochers and takers in a video?that was one of the nails in the coffin of his presidential campaign.

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Leads, director of Motown musical visit Hitsville

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2012, file photo shows Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musical based on the life of legendary Motown Records founder Berry Gordy is set to open on Broadway next year. Brandon Victor Dixon, who portrays Gordy, and Valisia LeKae, who plays its signature songstress, Diana Ross, visited the Motown Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, ahead of their upcoming Broadway musical about Motown Records. ?Motown: The Musical? begins its run of preview performances March 11 ahead of the official opening on April 14 at New York's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. (AP Photo/Vince Bucci, File)

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2012, file photo shows Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musical based on the life of legendary Motown Records founder Berry Gordy is set to open on Broadway next year. Brandon Victor Dixon, who portrays Gordy, and Valisia LeKae, who plays its signature songstress, Diana Ross, visited the Motown Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, ahead of their upcoming Broadway musical about Motown Records. ?Motown: The Musical? begins its run of preview performances March 11 ahead of the official opening on April 14 at New York's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. (AP Photo/Vince Bucci, File)

DETROIT (AP) ? The stars of the upcoming Broadway musical about Motown Records have read pretty much every book about and listened to every song from that golden era of American music.

The research only took them so far, so they decided to come and see Hitsville, U.S.A., for themselves.

Brandon Victor Dixon, who portrays the label's founder, Berry Gordy, and Valisia LeKae, who plays its signature songstress, Diana Ross, visited the Motown Museum on Tuesday, taking a lengthy tour of the two-level home that produced the soundtrack of a generation.

"I'm trying not to get emotional," LeKae said as she methodically inspected the hundreds of mementos ? posters, gold records, clothing and more ? on display at the Motown Museum.

LeKae, a Broadway veteran who has appeared in "The Book of Mormon" and "Ragtime" among others, worried about losing her composure when it came time to visit Studio A, the famed space in which Gordy and his army of artists, writers, producers and engineers signed, sealed and delivered hit after hit throughout the 1960s.

And she succeeded, descending a small flight of stairs into the square, smallish room and calmly checking out the famed studio affectionately called the "Snake Pit." LeKae marveled at an oversized black-and-white snapshot on the wall of Ross singing with a smiling Gordy looking on.

It wasn't until later, while visiting the home's upstairs, that LeKae's emotions kicked in.

Standing underneath the "echo chamber," a hole cut in the upper level's ceiling designed to create unique sounds for the recording process, LeKae belted out the first few lines of the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go."

"Baby, baby / Baby, don't leave me," she wailed, before the tears began to well up and she had to stop singing.

"This is, like, amazing," she said.

LeKae and Dixon, who earned a Tony nomination for his work in "The Color Purple" and bears more than a passing resemblance to a Motown-era Gordy, will be front and center when the show debuts this spring.

"Motown: The Musical" begins its run of preview performances March 11 ahead of the official opening on April 14 at New York's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

That gives Dixon, LeKae, Gordy (who's producing and writing the book) and director Charles Randolph-Wright four months to bring the show to the stage.

To that end, Randolph-Wright also was at Hitsville on Tuesday, seeing prospective actors during a callback session in Studio A. He's still looking for understudies and others to play smaller parts.

It wasn't Randolph-Wright's first visit to Motown's birthplace as it was for his two leads, but for the 56-year-old who proclaims that "Motown's in my DNA," it was no less special.

"What a joy to be a part of (the Motown) movement and what a responsibility to try and place that in the world," Randolph-Wright said, sitting on a piano bench in Studio A. "So, I've been very careful about trying to do that the right way."

And he has, working for the past three years on "Motown: The Musical," holding a nationwide casting call and working with Gordy and the other producers to identify which of the overwhelming number of songs from the Motown catalog to include on stage.

"The show is 15 hours," Randolph-Wright joked.

The first version had 100 songs in it, he said, and "I wanted every song."

While he said the show's decision-makers are still deliberating about which songs make the final cut, one thing is certain about the musical selections: A few numbers in the show will be Gordy originals, written specifically for it.

"It's so interesting to see him go back to being a songwriter after all these years," said Randolph-Wright, who described one Gordy-penned song as having "all the textures of what Motown is and was, but it's new."

As for the man playing the man, Dixon spent his Tuesday walking through the halls of the Motown Museum, taking in every word tour guide Eric Harp and the other docents offered and, as he put it, "soaking it all in."

At one point, he kneeled down and softly touched the cushion of a red-orange couch upstairs on which Marvin Gaye would take the occasional slumber.

Dixon burst out laughing, then leaped up and continued the tour.

Asked what was so funny, he quickly responded: "Because Marvin Gaye slept on this couch!"

All three of the Hitsville visitors spoke of their great respect and admiration for Gordy and the history of Motown and how important they felt it was to do it justice on stage.

"There's an energy here that is palpable still," Randolph-Wright said. "And it remains in this space. I think more than anything, the second I walked in here, it told me that I have to be honest" in telling the Motown story.

The first time he visited the museum, Randolph-Wright remembered walking into the gift shop, where he "bought everything," including a Temptations T-shirt that read: "Live It Again."

"I love that, because that's what we're doing," he said.

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Embree suggests he would have needed shortcuts

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ? A choked-up Jon Embree suggested Monday that the only way he could have turned around the University of Colorado's flailing football program in his two years as head coach was to take shortcuts in the classroom and on the recruiting trail.

"If you just hire the next guy and say you've got two years, keep your fingers crossed," Embree said at his farewell news conference a day after being fired.

Athletic director Mike Bohn, who fired Embree less than two years after he signed him to a five-year deal, said, "Shortcuts are not going to be an answer and we're not going to hire a coach that expects to use shortcuts."

What he does expect is a quick turnaround from a free-fall that saw the Buffaloes thumped by an average score of 48-17 in the Pac-12 during a 1-11 season that was the worst in the program's 123-year history.

In some ways, Embree's quick hook might have had a lot to do with the administration patiently sticking with his predecessor, Dan Hawkins, through five losing seasons, resulting in the proverbial bare cupboard.

Bohn bristled at that notion.

"Jon's results were extremely revealing in a very short period of time, and the prowess of the Pac-12 conference revealed it a lot faster," Bohn said.

Embree, who gets a $1.625 million buyout, suggested he got a raw deal, pointing out he only got 1? recruiting classes to turn around a program that had been down on its luck for several years.

Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano said he appreciated Embree's passion for the program but said it just wasn't working out.

"It's performance and progress. And unfortunately, this year, we didn't see either," he said.

Bohn pointed to a program that was headed in the wrong direction both on and off the field, going 4-21 under Embree, with so many blowouts leading to too many empty seats, though he insisted boosters had nothing to do with this decision.

"Our boosters' resources have never been a factor in my tenure," Bohn said. "Although the erosion of our fan base and the ticket sales certainly doesn't help."

Bohn said he had no preferred candidate in mind but acknowledged the school would have to pay more than Embree's incentive-laden deal that was worth $741,000 annually plus bonuses of up to $200,000 for reaching off-the-field goals and up to $1 million for meeting on-the-field benchmarks.

Bohn said he was still forming a search committee but wanted to make a hire as soon as possible.

Embree, a star tight end for the Buffs in the 1980s, was fired Sunday night, 48 hours after a 42-35 loss to Utah left them without a home win for the first time since 1920.

In a news conference at Folsom Field that lasted more than an hour, Embree began by addressing players who had packed the Varsity Room at the Dal Ward Center and telling them to keep up the good fight without him.

"You had the highest GPA the last three semesters that this school has ever had in the football program. You stayed out of trouble. You guys represented yourselves well," Embree said. "You set a legacy and a standard, and as I told you guys when we're going through tough times, you're not judged by the scoreboard at the end of the day.

"I was. But you won't be."

Even though he'd been stripped of his powers, Embree was still coaching his kids, using the first seven minutes of the news conference to speak directly to them.

Asked if the next coach can win in Boulder, Embree retorted, "How long does he have?"

Embree embraced dozens of his players on his way out of the room and was followed at the microphone by Bohn and DiStefano with university President Bruce Benson listening in on speaker phone while on vacation.

"Jon is a dedicated alum of the university and the Colorado Buffaloes with a passion for his students and the athletic program as a whole," DiStefano said. "And if this decision were based on passion for CU and dedication, there's no doubt that Jon would be coach for life.

"But it also has to be based on progress and results, which we simply did not see enough this year," DiStefano continued. "And so we looked at the performance on the field and did not see the development and the cohesion nor progressive strategy that gave us confidence in the future, and that's why this decision was made."

Embree said six of his coaches offered to resign in order for him to keep his job.

He said he was disappointed because had been given assurances when he was hired that he'd be given the time needed to turn around a downtrodden program. He said that support changed suddenly Saturday night in a phone call with Bohn.

"All I was told (Sunday) was the trajectory of the program wasn't what they wanted. And my response was, 'Well, what was the trajectory of the program before I was hired?'" Embree said.

Defensive end Will Pericak said the players are angry over Embree's dismissal.

"Not a fair chance at all," Pericak said. "Embree needed another year, absolutely."

Most players filed out after Embree left, but kicker Will Oliver stuck around and didn't like what he heard when Bohn spoke about the importance of a third year in turning things around, a chance he didn't afford Embree.

"It seemed like a lot of political jabber," Oliver said. "I don't know what I just listened to for 30 minutes, to be completely honest. He might figure this out. I guess we'll find out soon."

Embree had just eight seniors on this year's team, and in addition to a staff makeover, he was planning to switch to a spread offense and tweak his defense next year.

"We went up against some really good teams that we weren't quite able to match up with," Embree said. "And some of it was just physical differences. We were young. Some of it, we had injuries. But at the end of the day, there was never any quit. They fought to the last play. They did a good job of not looking at the scoreboard."

The administration, though, sure did.

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AP freelancer Monica Costello contributed.

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Syrian planes bomb olive press, many killed

In this picture taken on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, Citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels walk next to a cannon that was captured with other weapons from the 46th Regiment base which was a major pillar of the government's force, near the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian Rebels on Monday captured a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north after days of heavy clashes, carting off boxes of ammunition and notching the latest in a string of recent strategic advances for opposition fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)

In this picture taken on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, Citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels walk next to a cannon that was captured with other weapons from the 46th Regiment base which was a major pillar of the government's force, near the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian Rebels on Monday captured a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north after days of heavy clashes, carting off boxes of ammunition and notching the latest in a string of recent strategic advances for opposition fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)

In this picture taken on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, Citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels, center, stand next to weapons that were captured from the 46th Regiment base which was a major pillar of the government's force, near the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian Rebels on Monday captured a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north after days of heavy clashes, carting off boxes of ammunition and notching the latest in a string of recent strategic advances for opposition fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian warplanes bombed an olive press factory in the country's north on Tuesday, killing and wounding dozens of people, including farmers who were waiting to convert their olives to oil, activists said.

Two activist groups ? the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees ? say the factory is west of the city of Idlib. The LCC says at least 20 people were killed and many others wounded in the raid, while the Observatory said "tens were killed or wounded."

Both groups depend on a network of activists on the ground around the country.

President Bashar Assad's regime has been launching intense air raids on rebels in recent months, mostly in Idlib, the nearby province of Aleppo, Deir el-Zour to the east and suburbs of the capital Damascus.

The most recent air raids have killed hundreds of people, including eight children on Sunday in the village of Deir al-Asafir near the capital Damascus.

Olive oil is a main staple in Syria. Tens of thousands of tons are produced annually.

Fadi al-Yassin, an activist based in Idlib, told The Associated Press by telephone that dozens of people had gathered to have their olives pressed when the warplanes struck, causing a large number of casualties.

It was not immediately clear why the olive press was targeted. "It was a massacre carried out by the regime." said al-Yassin.

"Now is the season to press oil," said al-Yassin, noting that since many olive press factories are not functioning in the area because of the fighting in the region. A large number of people were at the one near the city of Idlib.

"Functioning olive press factories are packed with people these days," he said.

The Observatory also reported heavy fighting on the southern edge of the strategic rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan, captured from government troops last month.

The town is on the highway that links the capital, Damascus, with the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, a commercial center that has been the scene of clashes between rebels and troops since July.

The Observatory and al-Yassin said air raids on Maaret al-Numan killed at least five rebels.

Syria's conflict started in March 2011 as an uprising against Assad's regime, but quickly morphed into a civil war that has since killed more than 40,000 people, according to activists.

Associated Press

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