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She's a young woman on the verge of a national breakthrough, cultivating her skills while chasing her passion.
Wherever tennis ultimately takes Mallory Cecil won't be determined for some time, but 2006 could see the soon to be 16-year-old (Jan. 1) take great strides toward becoming one of best in her age class nationally.
The former Spartanburg Day School player, who honed her game at The Country Club of Spartanburg, is currently training at the renowned Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
After two years of living and breathing tennis at a place that's trained the likes of Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova, Cecil has risen to 24th in the United States Tennis Association's national 16-and-under rankings.
She closed out 2005 by teaming with Portugal's Michelle Larcher de Brito to win the 16-and-under doubles at the prestigious Eddie Herr International tournament in Florida, which boasts 1,300 participants from 72 countries. She was also a singles semifinalist.
That terrific showing came on the heels of a finals appearance at the Southern Indoor in Louisville, Ky.
Cecil was invited to come live and train at the Bollettieri Academy after receiving a private practice session with the famed coach as a 13th birthday gift. He saw potential and she soon moved with her mother and younger sister to Florida while her father continues to live in Spartanburg and visit regularly.
Her immediate plans are to play in college, but with such a strong finish to last season, who knows what might be in store for her tennis career.
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(May 2, 2013) -- Former Baylor Lady Bear Brittney Griner will be taking her talents abroad.
Griner, the number one overall pick of the Phoenix Mercury, signed her first overseas contract with WCBA's team Zhejiang Chouzhou, the team announced Thursday (via Sina).
Griner will join the squad following the WNBA season.
The All-American finished her college career as the player with second most points in NCAA history. She averaged 22.2 points, 8.8 rebounds and 5 blocked shots per game.
Last year Zhejiang won the WCBA regular season, but fell to Shanxi in the finals. Griner will replace Australian center Liz Cambage, who now will not be returning to the team due to the Chinese foreigner rules (1 non-Asian, 1 Asian foreigner allowed per team).
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Celebrated Australians, Pritzker prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt AO and novelist David Malouf - in conversation with Julianne Schultz – will explore how the world we have literally built around us shapes our lives, for better or worse.
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Since finishing Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian has continued to work with Bethesda Softworks on downloadable content for the title. It's likely the summer-bound Dungeon Siege III is nearing completion, so while layoffs are always unfortunate news, it's commonplace as projects begin to wrap up.
As initially noticed by Gamasutra, the Obsidian message boards have collected farewells, sign-offs and goodbyes from some developers affected by changes.
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The 32X version is a little smoother and more detailed, but Sega CD version has CD music, so pick your poison. Any way you look at it, BC Racers is a game which showcases the power of 32X and the prowess of Core. Now, how about an uber-version!!
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BC Racers' numerous tracks, humorous attacks and simultaneous two-player action will appeal to those looking for a lighthearted challenge. Serious racers who won't appreciate the game's humor should stick to present day speedways.
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No one would have expected BC Racers to be Daytona, but it could have played a little faster. And though it may feel more like you're pedaling than driving...well hey, it's set in the Stone Age. The Fred Flintstones-type graphics aren't quite appealing and certainly not innovative. But some of the characters are cute.
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I'm sure the developers knew the add-on was probably doomed, but that shouldn't have stopped the team from putting forth some sort of effort. This like I said is congruent to the rest of the game, and it's this amazing mediocrity throughout the game is why this game get's an even 50. It's the very definition of a functional game that is absolutely no fun.
That really sums up the game. It's graphically disappointing, the collision detection with anything is nonexistent so you can barely tell if you're going to knock into something, and crashing into too many things wrecks your bike and forfeits the game. BC Racers makes use of a couple of continues when that happens, and when you exhaust them, you get a game over. The sound is horrible, and the gameplay is as shallow as a kitchen sink. Frankly, this was a great idea for a game and could have been a cute title. But on 32X, this game can't even handle itself properly to make it amusing or fun. And even if it could, there's not enough substance to make BC Racers worth your time.
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For such a small library, the 32X had a surprising variety of games. In fact, it probably showcases every popular genre up until that point except for puzzle and RPG games. The lone cart racer is the disastrous B.C. Racers, a slightly improved (graphically) Sega CD port that's just as horrible as it was on the first Genesis attachment. With the exception of the color, nothing has been improved. The frame rate is inexcusably choppy, especially since other games like Metal Head and Darxide used fully textured polygons and maintained a better frame rate. B.C. racers uses an unimpressive mode-7 scaling effect, just a blatant rip-off of Nintendo's classic. Actually playing the game is a miserable experience.
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If this game proved anything, it's that the Sega 32X was never ready for prime time. BC Racers is basically a Mario Kart clone, but the horrible frame-rate makes it almost unplayable. This is supposed to be 32-bit technology, and it can't even duplicate a Super Nintendo game?!?! The concept was good, using funny Chuck Rock-style cavemen and dinosaurs riding prehistoric contraptions. The characters are funny looking and well-drawn, and the backgrounds sport some colorful skylines. But once the action gets underway, it's difficult to tell what's going on thanks to excessive choppiness, especially when turning. As you can imagine, the two-player split screen mode is even worse. The turbo and punch buttons are practically useless. The sound sucks also, demonstrated by the weak thunder clashes in the storm stage. It's a shame that the 32X wasn't up to the challenge.


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Much has been made of Ubaldo Jimenez and his absurd 0.88 ERA (512 ERA+!!) on the season, but Jaime Garcia is right behind him with his ERA sitting at a ridiculous 1.14 (358 ERA+).
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Bartlett boys soccer team ties Cordova
For the first half Thursday night, Bartlett didn't look like the area's undefeated soccer team. But fortunately for the Panthers, there was a second half.
Devin Malone and David Erazo scored after intermission to cancel out a pair of first-half goals from Cesar Ramirez as the host Panthers, ranked fifth in The Commercial Appeal's Super Six, escaped with a 2-2 draw against Cordova.
Bartlett is 8-0-3 heading into Tuesday's game against Sheffield.
"Lesson learned. We have to play for the full 80 minutes," said Panthers coach Robby Midyett. "At halftime, I told them 'just play.' We started off slow and this is a rivalry. Everyone wants to be the one to hand us our first loss."
Ramirez struck in the 16th and 21st minutes as Cordova attacked constantly in the opening minutes. The Wolves (2-4-3) could have gotten a third on a couple of occasions, most notably when Marlo Tejada's 40-yard free kick missed by inches.
Bartlett responded quickly after the break as John Nesbit's perfect through ball hit Malone in stride for the first goal three minutes in. Erazo tied it in the 64th minute.
Both teams had excellent chances to win in the final moments. Four minutes from the end, Joseph Henry forced a great save from Cordova keeper Javier Rivera on a well-taken free kick. And seconds from the end, Ramirez found himself unmarked in the box but shot over the bar from close range.
"The ball dropped right at his feet, but he couldn't turn around all the way in time," said Wolves coach Jarrett Smith. "He was going for the hat trick.
"Basically it was a lot of hustle and determination (from Cordova). We played together and I think we matched their physicality in the second half. They had us on our heels and we had some lax defense, but we stuck with it."
Other soccer games
Noah Destefano and Jackson Bentley scored as Collierville (9-1-3, ranked second in the Super Six) tuned up for Tuesday's showdown against top-ranked archrival Houston with a 2-1 victory over No. 4 ECS (7-2-0). ... Manuel Sauceda scored two goals as Kingsbury improved to 5-2-4 with a 4-0 victory over Raleigh-Egypt. ... Keegan Jones' first-half goal gave MUS (4-3-0) a 1-0 victory over Arlington (2-7-2).
In other events
Collierville's softball team improved to 25-5-1 and got revenge for Tuesday's one-run loss to Houston by defeating the Mustangs, 12-1. Bailey Wisher hit her 11th home run of the season and Shelby Crocker also homered for the Dragons, ranked second in the Super Six. ... Freshman Taylor Manley struck out 16 of 18 batters and allowed just two hits to lead Arlington (13-11) to a 10-0 victory over Millington.
In baseball, Weston Harville got the win and Conner Ferguson picked up his fourth save of the season as Arlington, No. 2 in the Dandy Dozen, improved to 22-2 with a 4-3 win over University School of Jackson. ... Jared Schmidt had two homers and drove in eight runs to lead sixth-ranked Houston (19-6) to a 20-4 run-rule victory over Ooltewah (Tenn.). ... Mason Ince ran his record to 6-0 and seventh-ranked Briarcrest improved to 18-1 with a 14-3 victory over Olive Branch. ... No. 9 Harding (17-6) swept a doubleheader from Northpoint, getting strong pitching performances by Jake Criswell and Austin Stewart to win 2-0 and 2-1.
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The BOLD School Board has approved the purchase of a total of 540 Apple iPad2s for the district's high school students. The total cost of acquiring the computer tablets is over $221,000, which includes 2 days of training for $9,000 and 3 iPad carts for nearly $7,800. The iPads will be used beginning next school year. BOLD chose the Fair Market Value budget plan for the devices, which allows the district to return them to Apple after the 3-year purchase ends. BOLD can also purchase them for current market value at that time, or continue to lease them.
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WASHINGTON: Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full-flowering plants by scientists in Russia, a new study has revealed.
The seeds of the herbaceous Silene Stenophylla plant, whose age was confirmed by radiocarbon dating at 31,800 years old, are far and away the most ancient plant material to have been brought back to life, said lead researchers Svetlana Yashina and David Gilichinsky of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The previous record for viable regeneration of ancient flora was with 2,000-year-old date palm seeds near the Dead Sea.
The latest findings could be a landmark in research of ancient biological material, and highlight the importance of permafrost in the "search of an ancient genetic pool, that of pre-existing life, which hypothetically has long since vanished from the earth's surface," they wrote.
The study, to appear in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, described the discovery of 70 squirrel hibernation burrows along the bank of the lower Kolyma river, in Russia's northeast Siberia, which bore thousands of seed samples from various plants.
"All burrows were found at depths of 20-40 meters from the present day surface and located in layers containing bones of large mammals such as mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, bison, horse, deer and other representatives of fauna" from the Late Pleistocene Age.
Scientists were able to grow new specimens from such old plant material in large part because the burrows were quickly covered with ice, and then remained "continuously frozen and never thawed," in effect preventing any permafrost degradation.
Failing to grow plants from mature S. Stenophylla seeds, the scientists turned to elements of the plants' fruit, described as "placental tissue," to grow regenerated whole plants.
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Win32 applications running under Windows 95 use CreateFile to open VWIN32 and then use DeviceIoControl with the VWIN32_DIOC_DOS_INT13 flag to perform low-level BIOS disk functions. The functions work on floppy disks but always fail on hard disks.
Windows 95, like previous versions of Windows, does not support calling BIOS disk functions to gain access to hard disks from Win16 and Win32 applications. The reason is that BIOSXLAT.VXD does not translate BIOS requests to hard disks from protected-mode into V86 mode, and this causes the ROM BIOS to be called with an invalid address.
To work around this problem, Win32 applications must thunk to a Win16 DLL and have that DLL call the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) Simulate Real Mode Interrupt function to call Int 13h BIOS disk functions on hard disks. When you use DPMI to call Int 13h BIOS disk functions, you bypass BIOSXLAT.VXD and call the real-mode BIOS. Note that you cannot call DPMI from 32-bit code.
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The following example code shows how a Win32 application running under Windows 95 can read the first physical sector of a hard disk, which contains the disk's partition tables. This code requires a flat thunk, so parts of it must be placed in a Win32 DLL and other parts must be placed in a Win16 DLL. The relevant code for each DLL is labeled.
Execution starts from a Win32 application calling the Win32 DLL and proceeds as follows. The Win32 DLL function, CallReadPhysicalSector1, calls the Win16 DLL's ReadPhysicalSector1 function by way of a thunk. Then ReadPhysicalSector1, which is exported by the 16-bit DLL, calls DPMI to call the BIOS Read Track function to read the first sector of the specified hard disk. After ReadPhysicalSector1 returns, the contents of the first sector of the hard disk, including the hard disk's partition table and bootstrap program, will be in the buffer pointed to by lpBuff.
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//-------------------------------------------------------------------- // Code in the 32-bit DLL // Prototype for function in 16-bit DLL. BOOL FAR PASCAL ReadPhysicalSector1 (BYTE bDrive, LPBYTE lpBuffer, DWORD cbBuffSize); /*-------------------------------------------------------------------- CallReadPhysicalSector1() Reads the first sector of the first hard disk. Return Value Returns TRUE if the first sector was read, and FALSE if it wasn't. --------------------------------------------------------------------*/ __declspec(dllexport) BOOL WINAPI CallReadPhysicalSector1() { char lpBuff[512]; BOOL fResult; // Read the first sector of the first hard disk. fResult = ReadPhysicalSector1 (0x80, lpBuff, 512); if (fResult) { // lpBuff contains the sector data. Use it here } return fResult; } //-------------------------------------------------------------------- // Thunk Script enablemapdirect3216 = true; typedef unsigned long DWORD; typedef unsigned char BYTE, * LPBYTE; typedef bool BOOL; BOOL ReadPhysicalSector1 (BYTE bDrive, LPBYTE lpBuffer, DWORD cbBuffSize) { lpBuffer = inout; } //-------------------------------------------------------------------- // Code in the 16-bit DLL // Converts two BYTEs into a WORD. This is useful for working with // a RMCS, but was not provided in WINDOWS.H. //#define MAKEWORD(low, high) \ ((WORD)((((WORD)(high)) << 8) | ((BYTE)(low)))) #define SECTOR_SIZE 512 // Size, in bytes, of a disk sector #define CARRY_FLAG 0x0001 typedef BYTE FAR *LPBYTE; typedef struct tagRMCS { DWORD edi, esi, ebp, RESERVED, ebx, edx, ecx, eax; WORD wFlags, es, ds, fs, gs, ip, cs, sp, ss; } RMCS, FAR* LPRMCS; BOOL FAR PASCAL SimulateRM_Int (BYTE bIntNum, LPRMCS lpCallStruct); void FAR PASCAL BuildRMCS (LPRMCS lpCallStruct); BOOL FAR PASCAL __export ReadPhysicalSector1 (BYTE bDrive, LPBYTE lpBuffer, DWORD cbBuffSize); /*-------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadPhysicalSector1() Calls DPMI to call the BIOS Int 13h Read Track function to read the first physical sector of a physical drive. This function is used to read partition tables, for example. Parameters bDrive The Int 13h device unit, 0x00 for floppy drive 0 0x00 for floppy drive 1 0x80 for physical hard disk 0 0x81 for physical hard disk 1 etc. lpBuffer Pointer to a buffer that receives the sector data. The buffer must be at least SECTOR_SIZE bytes long. cbBuffSize Actual size of lpBuffer. Return Value Returns TRUE if the first sector was read into the buffer pointed to by lpBuffer, or FALSE otherwise. Assumptions Assumes that sectors are at least SECTOR_SIZE bytes long. --------------------------------------------------------------------*/ BOOL FAR PASCAL __export ReadPhysicalSector1 (BYTE bDrive, LPBYTE lpBuffer, DWORD cbBuffSize) { BOOL fResult; RMCS callStruct; DWORD gdaBuffer; // Return value of GlobalDosAlloc(). LPBYTE RMlpBuffer; // Real-mode buffer pointer LPBYTE PMlpBuffer; // Protected-mode buffer pointer /* Validate params: bDrive should be int 13h device unit -- let the BIOS validate this parameter -- user could have a special controller with its own BIOS. lpBuffer must not be NULL cbBuffSize must be large enough to hold a single sector */ if (lpBuffer == NULL || cbBuffSize < SECTOR_SIZE) return FALSE; /* Allocate the buffer that the Int 13h function will put the sector data into. As this function uses DPMI to call the real-mode BIOS, it must allocate the buffer below 1 MB, and must use a real-mode paragraph-segment address. After the memory has been allocated, create real-mode and protected-mode pointers to the buffer. The real-mode pointer will be used by the BIOS, and the protected-mode pointer will be used by this function because it resides in a Windows 16-bit DLL, which runs in protected mode. */ gdaBuffer = GlobalDosAlloc (cbBuffSize); if (!gdaBuffer) return FALSE; RMlpBuffer = (LPBYTE)MAKELONG(0, HIWORD(gdaBuffer)); PMlpBuffer = (LPBYTE)MAKELONG(0, LOWORD(gdaBuffer)); /* Initialize the real-mode call structure and set all values needed to read the first sector of the specified physical drive. */ BuildRMCS (&callStruct); callStruct.eax = 0x0201; // BIOS read, 1 sector callStruct.ecx = 0x0001; // Sector 1, Cylinder 0 callStruct.edx = MAKEWORD(bDrive, 0); // Head 0, Drive # callStruct.ebx = LOWORD(RMlpBuffer); // Offset of sector buffer callStruct.es = HIWORD(RMlpBuffer); // Segment of sector buffer /* Call Int 13h BIOS Read Track and check both the DPMI call itself and the BIOS Read Track function result for success. If successful, copy the sector data retrieved by the BIOS into the caller's buffer. */ if (fResult = SimulateRM_Int (0x13, &callStruct)) if (!(callStruct.wFlags & CARRY_FLAG)) { _fmemcpy (lpBuffer, PMlpBuffer, (size_t)cbBuffSize); fResult = TRUE; } else fResult = FALSE; // Free the sector data buffer this function allocated GlobalDosFree (LOWORD(gdaBuffer)); return fResult; } /*-------------------------------------------------------------------- SimulateRM_Int() Allows protected mode software to execute real mode interrupts such as calls to DOS TSRs, DOS device drivers, etc. This function implements the "Simulate Real Mode Interrupt" function of the DPMI specification v0.9. Parameters bIntNum Number of the interrupt to simulate lpCallStruct Call structure that contains params (register values) for bIntNum. Return Value SimulateRM_Int returns TRUE if it succeeded or FALSE if it failed. Comments lpCallStruct is a protected-mode selector:offset address, not a real-mode segment:offset address. --------------------------------------------------------------------*/ BOOL FAR PASCAL SimulateRM_Int (BYTE bIntNum, LPRMCS lpCallStruct) { BOOL fRetVal = FALSE; // Assume failure _asm { push di mov ax, 0300h ; DPMI Simulate Real Mode Int mov bl, bIntNum ; Number of the interrupt to simulate mov bh, 01h ; Bit 0 = 1; all other bits must be 0 xor cx, cx ; No words to copy les di, lpCallStruct int 31h ; Call DPMI jc END1 ; CF set if error occurred mov fRetVal, TRUE END1: pop di } return (fRetVal); } /*-------------------------------------------------------------------- BuildRMCS() Initializes a real mode call structure to contain zeros in all its members. Parameters: lpCallStruct Points to a real mode call structure Comments: lpCallStruct is a protected-mode selector:offset address, not a real-mode segment:offset address. --------------------------------------------------------------------*/ void FAR PASCAL BuildRMCS (LPRMCS lpCallStruct) { _fmemset (lpCallStruct, 0, sizeof (RMCS)); }
Information on using DPMI may be found in the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) Specification Version 0.9.
Flat thunks are documented in "The Microsoft Programmer's Guide To Windows 95" topic in the Win32 Software Development Kit online documentation.
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In a ceremony Friday, February 10 at the Dominican Republic National Palace, Professor Emeritus Howard J. Wiarda was awarded the "Orden de Colon" (Order of Columbus) by President Leonel Fernandez. The Orden de Colon is the highest honor that the Dominican Republic government can bestow.
Wiarda began his academic career in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago when he wrote is MA thesis (and first book) on "The Methods of Control in the Dictatorship of Rafael Trujilo." He wrote his PhD thesis (and second and third books) on the post-Trujillo "Transition to Democracy" and the US military intervention, a prelude to Vietnam of 1965.
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DIA and national security
The orgy of bomb blasts and gun fire that rocked the ancient city of Kano last Friday and also reared its ugly head in the wee hour of Sunday in Bauchi State has again brought to the fore the noticeable failure of intelligence pervading the nation's security network. Unfortunately, for quite some time now, attention seems to have been concentrated only on the inability of the police to rise up to the internal security challenges confronting the nation.
With the recent 'escape' of a high-prized Boko Haram agent from police custody, nobody should be in doubt that the police has finally lost grip of the nation's security, if it had any before. But we all know that the police alone cannot provide adequate security for the nation. That is why there are other sister agencies with clear-cut mandates. One of these agencies which have escaped public binoculars is the Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA. It is, perhaps, one of the agencies that are in a better position to neutralise the current scourge of Boko Haram's insurgency.
Regrettably today, the DIA is a shadow of itself. But how did it get to this sorry pass? With the redeployment of Major General Babagana Monguno from the agency to the Defence Headquarters a few months ago, many of its staff breathe the air of respite. Why was it so? Monguno was appointed Chief of Defence Intelligence, CDI, in July 2009 but throughout his tenure, the agency retrogressed in terms of manpower development and relevance to national security. Monguno closed down all the offices of the agency in the states with the exception of Abuja and Lagos. Even at that, the agency's office in Lagos operates with skeletal staff, most of whom are artisans.
One of the problems confronting the agency is a sort of military oligarchy that exists in the system. It is a kind of enthroned dictatorship that has been ravaging the place. DIA was established along with the State Security Service, SSS, and the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA, in 1986. The agency was supposed to be modelled after the American Defence Intelligence Agency, comprising 30 percent of serving military personnel and 70 percent civilians. A fundamental crisis erupted when the military started seeing the agency as a "welfare ground". Those at the helm of affairs, therefore, started their own restructuring by posting military personnel to the agency indiscriminately without any recourse to the act establishing it. In no time, the agency became flooded with military personnel while the number of civilians there took a sharp nosedive. The CDI and deputy CDI have consistently been military officers.
What is happening at the agency is the promotion of military supremacy, as it has long become a custom for the military personnel posted to the agency to rub it on their civilian colleagues that they are "bloody civilians". The irony of the whole scenario is that the military personnel are visibly idle even though they enjoy the luxury and privileges of being there, including training programmes abroad which have become their exclusive preserve while the "bloody civilians" are denied this opportunity. The foreign training is like "settlement" as they never come back to put their newly acquired knowledge to work, thus leaving vital security assignments that naturally fall within DIA's orbit for other sister agencies to perform. No wonder the agency has literally been relegated to irrelevance in security matters in the country.
Not only this. Monguno's era witnessed a gradual decapitation of the agency as the total staff strength fell from about 100,000 to a miserable 10,000. Mostly affected were civilian staff, many of whom were compulsorily retired without any gratuity. As a result of this, many of the victims have dragged the agency to court. Currently, the agency operates about 11 departments. Out of these, only two departments that are less consequential are allocated to civilians. This is breeding a lot of suspicion and animosity between the military and civilian staff of the agency.
Monguno's tenure was an era of terror itself for an agency that could have easily fought the current wave of terrorism to a standstill. His professional background as an architect and someone who had no previous intelligence training must have robbed the agency of the required direction it needed during his tenure. In many instances, instead of a properly coordinated security duties, he usually resorted to ad hoc arrangements which exposed his naivety. During the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29, 2011, it was a fidgety Monguno who ordered the network providers to shut down Abuja networks for the duration of the ceremony out of fear of terrorists' strike. He also ordered the closure of the entry routes into the city. The only respite was to allow those who wanted to leave the city to do so.
Imagine the security agencies in say United States closing down Washington for a President's inauguration even after 9/11 episode. What you have there is total covert operations that have often yielded good results. Such covert operations are alien to the security agency like DIA, which is saddled with internal security network.
Monguno had the exclusive past time of putting fears in the minds of the staff, particularly the civilians, threatening and sacking them at the slightest opportunity. In addition to this, field officers were starved of funds while money was allocated for events that had no bearing with the job of the agency. For instance, during the wedding ceremony of the daughter of AVM Faloyin, his deputy, in 2011, the vault of the agency was thrown open as military officers allegedly flew Business Class to the occasion in the United States with estacodes while ordinary bulbs could not be replaced as money was not released for operations.
If we are to fight the current resurgence of terrorists activities in the country, the Presidency should take more than a passing look at the DIA as a whole so as to enable it to function as it ought to be. One way to do this is to make sure that professionalism is enthroned in the agency. It is good news that the new CDI, Major General S.Y Audu, is an intelligence officer who understands the terrain.
The tyrannical tenure of Monguno, an indigene of Borno State, may have compromised national security. This is because at the inception of Boko Haram insurgency, those who were apprehended were handled with kid gloves, as they were left in the agency's visitors' room instead of cells. This enabled them to move freely and even got to know that the agency had internal problems. It sounds unbelievable that the Boko Haram suspects were being served special meals from Mr. Biggs and others, while Monguno kept referring to them as "friends of the agency".
What is needed at this stage is a total overhaul, re-organisation and restructuring of the agency to enable it to meet the exigency of the moment. The DIA should revert to the good old days when its operatives were everywhere. The greatest problem in the security network of the country at the moment seems to be inter and intra-agency rivalry. This may have been responsible for the constant failure of intelligence in the country's security system.
The security apparatuses need to come together and work for the common good of the country. This can only be achieved through concerted efforts in the area of inter-agencies' cooperation. The plethora of security agencies too must put their house in order by engaging in confidence building, training in modern crime prevention and detection as well as provision of good working conditions for their operatives so as to encourage them to offer their best for the country.
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As well as HTC's "Come see..." teaser that dropped into Pocket-lint's inbox, Samsung has also announced a coming-soon launch event, complete with teaser site.
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As you'd expect, very little is revealed about the new device, other than an X-ray image of a handset on the teaser site (Samsung's launching a radiography phone?!) but more info is promised on the 5th, ahead of the 15 June event, so we'll keep you posted.