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The Morlock Market
UNIX is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly complied oral history of the hacker culture. It is our Gilgamesh epic. UNIX is known, loved and understood by so many hackers that it can be re-created from scratch whenever someone needs it. This is very difficult to understand for people who are accustomed to thinking of OSes as things that absolutely have to be created by a company and bought.
I've been reading and rereading In the Beginning Was the Command Line, a small book by Neal Stephenson who is better known as the best-selling author of the novels Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon (the full text is also widely available on the Web). In a general way, IBCL is about the real-world verities of command-line computing: its practical authenticities, its meritocratic culture, its best-tool-for-the-job approach to building and fixing stuff; and how much the GUI-using majority fails to comprehend even the existence of a better, more fundamental way to use (and not just "interact" with) computers.
But it's also about prophesy. There is an arc to Stephenson's story, one that ends where it began, with the command line. Command-line computing is not simple, he says. Nor is fixing a car or building a house. "Life is a very hard and complicated thing," he concludes. "No interface can change that; and anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and if you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own."
For the last fifteen years, the majority of the computing population has chosen to let Microsoft make their choices for them. Personally I believe Microsoft gets far too little credit for the many positive aspects of this. The fact that they turned extremely complicated processes and functions into moderately complicated but extremely appealing products is a marketing triumph of the highest order. Today it is no more possible to do business in the world without touching Microsoft products than it is to find transportation without internal combustion engines.
Worse, these products' frequent failures are legitimized by ubiquitous acquiescence. Jeff Rankin says, "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
Stephenson isolates at least two Faustian reasons for this. One is humanity's fondness for mediated experiences. Witness the success of Disney, which "does mediated experience better than anyone," Stephenson writes. "If they understand what OSes were, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two." The other is that "we are way too busy, nowadays, to comprehend everything in detail. And it is better to comprehend it dimly, through an interface, than not at all."
The key word is "everything". Personal computing was born with ambitions that far exceeded its abilities. Because it could do just about anything, it should do just about anything. And, amazingly, there was more than sufficient demand for enough of "just about anything" to justify and attract venture funding for software start-ups by the multitude. But in the long run (which, again, hasn't really been very long), only one company seemed to understood exactly how much of everything could practically be handled by a PC, and how to minimize the inherent complications for the largest percentage of everybody. However awful Microsoft may have been in other ways, this comprehension alone is an achievement of Roman dimensions.
The cultural result is what Stephenson calls "a two-tiered system, like the Morlocks and the Eloi in H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, except that it has been turned upside down". Here is his explanation:
In The Time Machine, the Eloi were an effete upper class, supported by lots of subterranean Morlocks who kept the technological wheels turning. But in our world it's the other way round. The Morlocks are in the minority, and they are running the show, because they understand how everything works. The much more numerous Eloi learn everything they know from being steeped from birth in electronic media directed and controlled by book-reading Morlocks. So many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've evolved a popular culture that is almost unbelievably infectious and neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands.
Morlocks, who have the energy and intelligence to comprehend details, go out and master complex subjects and produce Disney-like sensorial interfaces so that Eloi can get the gist without having to strain their minds or endure boredom.
To be fair, Stephenson goes on to credit the positive social effects of mediated experience:
The spectra of a policy controlled by the fads and whims of voters who actually believe that there are significant differences between Bud Lite and Miller Lite, and who think that professional wrestling is for real, is naturally alarming to people who don't. But then countries controlled via the command-line interface, as it were, by double-domed intellectuals, be they religious or secular, are generally miserable places to live.
The desktop is Eloi territory. Apple conceived it, Microsoft owns it, and most of us populate it. The server is a bit of a mix. It's a Morlock business, but with a lot of Eloi sensibilities. This is why Linux and Windows NT/2K are both growing in absolute numbers and market share (and I want to be sure not to insult the countless Morlocks who hack righteously both on and with various Windows products). The embedded world is all Morlock. It always was, and always will be.
It turns out that Linux, by virtue of its small size, modular form, familiarity and open-source code, is ideal for an infinitude of single purposes. It's also exceedingly practical. This is why the Morlocks will soon be hacking away at everything that can conceivably benefit from Net-connected embedded intelligence. Since this includes a vast amount of stuff, we can expect the Morlock population to quickly grow in number, diversity and power. The result will be a revolution far more profound and important than personal computing.
For the suits among us, the most important question might be, How long before Linux, which manifests as practical specialization, makes personal computing as we know it obsolete? In other words, when will it be easier and faster to hack together (or buy, or both) a point-of-sale system that runs on Linux, rather than cope with a third-party package that has to run on crusty old Windows98? Or an accounting system that does accounting and little more, but connects to the rest of the world over TCP/IP and runs on reliable generic hardware?
Let's put it another way. How long before nobody gets fired for specifying Linux because too many of the suits are Morlocks?
Here's a good place to start: it's already that way at IBM.
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Winds estimated to 85 mph severely twisted the walkway to Shady Creek Marina, and damaged several boats and the marina's building and roofs.
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Spilled fuel floats on the surface of El Dorado Reservoir Tuesday morning. The spill had been confined to the marina's cove.
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People manipulate the twisted walkway leading to Shady Creek Marina, which was damaged by high winds Monday night.
A 40-plus foot houseboat was swamped by waves Monday night at El Dorado Reservoir. Here, it's riding much higher after more than five hours of pumping.
"Bertha" a barge owned by Shady Creek Marina was busy Tuesday morning, cleaning up storm damage.
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An absorbent boom in place to keep spilled fuel from reaching the main body of El Dorado Reservoir.
Metal from a fallen roof litters the boat, "Fair Winds."
Fuel pumps that the marian's main office building were turned 90 degrees during Monday's storm.
High winds turned the dock that holds the building at Shady Creek 90 degrees. The sign that normally faces south, was facing west.
Tyler Burt, of El Dorado State Park, surveys damage to Shady Creek Marina.
Metal from a roof at Shady Creek Marina on two boats.
Boat owner Lonnie Owens, orange shirt, and others push to free his boat from the dock at Shady Creek Marina.
"Fair Winds," a houseboat at El Dorado Reservoir was covered in roofing metal after Monday night's storms.
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Buick LeSabre Steering/Suspension
I have a 2005 Buick Lesabre with less than 10,000 miles. The car has a consistent vibration at highway speeds even though we have tried a new set of tires and a complete rotation and balancing of the tires. The dealer indicates there is no problem with the car; however, the vibration persist. Is anyone else having this problem?
Which size wheels and tires do you have? The 60 series tires tend to be stiffer. The problem is a known problem due to lack of tire quality and the lightness of the suspension parts and the rigidity of the car chassis-someone told me it's based on the original Aurora and Riveria.
The tires needed to be Road Force balanced using a Hunter 9700 balancer. If your dealer doesn't have one, find a dealer who does. This adjusts for the uneveness in the tire's rolling height when under pressure. In other words, many tires don't roll round; even if they're balanced they crush differently on one part than another under the car's weight. So they essentially roll as if they are not round.
Park Avenue and some LeSAbres and Sevilles went to Michelin tires (Symmetry) to get away from tire imperfection. The company swapped tires on Park AVenues to put on Michelins to fix the problem.
Also, the wheel alignment affected my 03 with 16 wheels and Michelin symmetrys that it came with. I had a good service manager who used the vibration analyzer to be sure it was wheel and tire speed related. I told him that after he had really carefully balanced them, it seemed to oscillate on uphill pulls but not ont he downhill pulls o smooth interstate in Tennessee. He felt the alignment wear on tires and took it in. The rear were out of toe and the front also. He set them to what he considered the middle even though they were within tolerance. GM paid for alignment touchup up to 12000 miles. So get back with alignment complaint andget them to print it out. Also do Force Balancing.
Fixed it. Ain't perfect, but no car is. They stayed balanced until 35K and I paid to have them rebalance @ $7.50 each.
What tires were on the car and what ones did you replace with?
The filter was omitted after 02 with little fanfare. You can buy the plastic skeleton holder which snaps into the heater box and it comes with a filter. You might try aftermarket but the skeleton is probably a dealer only item. The filters are about $18? at PepBOys-Purolator.
shoshm Posts: 1I have a 2004 Buick LeSabre with the same problem. I have been to the dealer again and again. Sometimes they tell us we are nuts, there is no problem; sometimes an honest technician says, yeah, this car has that problem and we don't know how to fix it. They have even tried new Michelin tires. I have initiated a Lemon Law complaint with our state attorney general's office. BBB Autoline (Better Business Bureau) has a website that can help you get started. I would encourage you to stick it out; I test drove a used Buick before purchasing mine and it's vibration was even worse - probably a testament of what is to come. Unfortunately I had no idea this was a consistent problem with the LeSabre, or I never would have bought mine. Good luck. :sick:
Which Michelin tires were put on?
Was the car aligned correctly?
Has the car been driven with the vibration analyzer attached to various parts to diagnose the vibration type?
Were the wheels force-balanced on Hunter 9700 by someone who knows what they're doing? Preferably a GM dealer who knows what's needed for trouble-shooting the vibrations in the stiffer frames with lighter parts in today's modern cars?
dshepherd3 Posts: 194Mys 2003 Les with cheap Goodyears has no problem, there are tsb's out there about the issue relating to this being more prevalent with the lite weight suspension components, as mentioned a road force balance is important and there is even a suggestion of replacing front hubs and bearings.Even a slight runout is felt in the car.
tres99 Posts: 1I am driving Lesabre 2001. It made 36K with no problems and no other maintenance than oil and air filter change. While oil change service the shop recommended fuel injection cleaning, and transmission power flush. User manual does not mention this at all. Should I go ahead with this recommendation?.
Only if you don't mind donating to the shop owner's summer vacation home fund or for the college fees for his kids.
The injectors are kept clean by the detergents in quality gasolines, which is most brands. Use a few tankfuls of only a top tier http://www.toptiergas.com/retailers.htmllink title
The transmission probably benefits from a drain and filter change between 36 and 50K. But the shop manual doesn't recommend that early a change; I think it's 100K unless you use it in hillclimbing, taxicab service, etc.
The flush concept is another money maker in my opinion. They don't take the pan off and drain the fluid in the pan and change the filter. That's the preferable method even though it drains about 60% of the fluid that way. I doubt that the flush method which means easily connecting a nice machine that pushes fluid through is better at getting all the old fluid out.
I drain and change my own fluid and do it about 36 K just for preventative maintenance. Find a local, reputable established local shop from friends or family. Pay them to drop the pan, change the filter, and refill with Dextron III. Cost of filter at PepBoys $18; fluid, $15+; the old gasket is reused because it's rubber and contains metal to conduct heat to the bottom of the pan to help cool the transmission.
jw1981 Posts: 1Hello. I have a 2001 LeSabre with roughly 37000 miles on it. I bought it used 6 months ago and hadn't had any problems until fairly recently. In late January I started noticing a front end vibration in the car. It's intermittent and doesn't appear to be specific to any particular speed (it happens at most speeds) but sometimes I'll go for days without it happening at all.
Now I am noticing that the steering wheel is tighter than normal. I can still make turns with no problems but something doesn't feel right (in addition to the vibration).
I've had the tires balanced and aligned so now I'm thinking it might have something to do with the steering/suspension but I'm not sure as I don't know much about cars.
Any help would be appreciated.
auddie13 Posts: 2Hello! I have a 93 Buick Lesabre that has been leaking power steering fluid for some time now. About every other day i need to put more power steering fluid in. My husband looked under the car and seen that it was leaking from a thing called a cooler tubing. Does anyone know anything about that, he said the box thing that is there is real rusty, hes hoping he could by pass the tubing some how, if anyone understands what i'm talking about and can help please let me know thank you audra
skeenan Posts: 1Hello,
My LeSabre has been in the dealer's shop several times and they can't seem to find what the issue is. The Stability Sensor light comes on and off periodically and the front end while making turns, in either direction, makes a stretching sound. Almost like a rubber band being stretched too far.
I had another mechanic look at the front ens suspension and he said it was NOT the struts and the front end looks good. I am wondering since it is when turning, if it's something with the steering or could it be the idle arms, u joints, stability bar or something else they may be related to the steering housing.
Help!!!I can't continue to let my child drive this car like this worrying that they will break down somewhere.
twohundred Posts: 5I recently changed my rear struts on my 1995 Buick Lesabre. I replaced my springs also. On one side of my car the bottom of the tire is tilted out and the top is tilted in. How do I go about fixing this. I have to do most of everything myself because I am financially strapped at this time.
Thank you,
Can't find the parts on rockauto.com
gmpartsdirect.com has
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Identify the part or parts and look in their listing under rear suspension.
I'd sure do some asking for parts at local advanceauto and autozone and others. The replacement brands should work just as well.
Good luck. What happened to yours?
I replaced the front inner and outer tie rods.I was looking at the back ones.I found out today that the rear inner tie rods are replaced,not pressed in.Just as I suspected.I took off the mini boot that is on it and greased them up and put the boot back on and then replaced the outer tie rods on them.The inners are good for
another 10-20000 milkes.I was lamenting to Medley's Alignment(after I did the front end inners and outers and rear outers I had to get it aligned)he said he could get
them for me for $80 apiece.Heck of a lot better than $128.By the way it drives like
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I just got a mail from my Chase Freedom® Visa recently. They were offering a deal where if you redeem your ultimate rewards points for an iPod (classic, touch, shuffle or nano) (valid until 30th June 2010), you will receive a $25 gift card. I logged into my account, and lo behold, the deal was splashed across their home page.
I then checked to see if it was actually worth redeeming my points for.
For the latest iPod Touch (32GB), you need 27,700 points. The Apple website showed that it would cost $299 (not including tax). Plus if you redeem your points for it, you get a $25 iTunes gift card. It looks like in this instance, it may actually be worth doing it if you have enough points.


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Henrico's Top Teachers – Krista Hodges
Rivers Edge E.S., first grade
After an accident in infancy left Krista Hodges with three partially missing fingers, she was self-conscious about raising her hands and doing finger plays in elementary school.
She never forgot the kindness of her teacher, who sensed her discomfort and always called on her to be a helper or perform some other job during finger play time.
Nor can she forget the middle school teacher who gave Hodges her own jacket to wear during class after she spilled milk all over her shirt and pants during lunch.
Neither incident in itself made Hodges want to be a teacher, but both reinforced what she intuitively knew all along.
"As long as I can remember . . . I always wanted to be a teacher," says Hodges. "I have always loved working with children, from keeping the nursery at church, to being a 'mom's helper,' to babysitting, to working in a child care center."
And work with children she does – 25 first-graders, to be exact, whose math and language arts abilities range from kindergarten to sixth grade levels.
With such a variety of students, says Hodges, it takes some juggling to plan activities that will engage and challenge each individual learner and make each proud of his or her "personal best."
One way Hodges sets the tone is to begin and end each day with hugs, telling the children that she loves them and that they are "terrific and magnificent."
"From the first day of school," she says, "I make sure [my students] know they have become a member of my family. . . and that I will be watching out for them and keeping track of them, even when I'm 100 years old."
One of her most rewarding moments as a teacher, she says, is having former students come back as student interns, student teachers and even parents, and to remember that "Mrs. Hodges thinks they are terrific and magnificent!"
Hodges also strives to provide an environment that fosters mutual respect and celebrates each child's uniqueness, and says she finds her reward in her students' triumphs and the challenges they overcome.
"Some days it may be that 'ah-ha' moment when blending sounds to form words suddenly means 'I'm reading!'," she says. "Some days it may be a high five and big hugs for a little one who made it through the day using super behavior. And some days it may be spending a little one-on-one time with a little six-year-old that misses Mommy."
Parents who wrote to nominate Hodges as a top teacher said that she has a "gift and a talent" for recognizing what a child needs, and for nurturing every child's talent and "letting it shine."
To the child who needed to read more chapter books, for instance, she provided an opportunity to read part of one out loud to the class. To the student who was anxious about starting the new school year, and to the student who had a sister undergoing surgery, she gave gentle, caring support.
One parent whose son came to Hodges after repeating kindergarten said he has done "a complete 180" under her guidance. "She is so positive with him," she wrote, "and recognizes his strengths and what to do to help his deficiencies."
"She has turned my son from a regular mis-behaver to one who listens and respects her," wrote another parent.
"Her students are ready to give their 130 percent," wrote another.
Parents also appreciate that Hodges stays in constant touch with both parents and children, sending messages even when she is sick or has a day off to let the children know she is thinking of them.
"As a middle school teacher, I would be hesitant to give students my telephone number," wrote one parent, recalling that Hodges provided her cell phone number at the first conference, with instructions to call any time with questions or concerns.
"I knew then," said the parent, "that her job didn't end at 2:00. She is committed to my child and his success."
And always, always, Hodges stays positive and upbeat. More than one parent said that she makes a tough job look effortless.
"Her enthusiasm for teaching is palpable," wrote a parent. Rather than seeing school days as a chore, Hodges' students view their lessons – even their homework, in some cases – with pleasure.
"She teaches them in such a fun way that they do not even realize that they are learning," said another parent. "My son comes home from school every day and says, "Today in school I learned. . . "
Many parents wrote to praise the way Hodges instills confidence in her students, whether through personal notes full of loving and empowering messages, or emails over the weekend to let them know she is excited about the week ahead.
"She builds them up every single day," said one parent. "Just last night, she sent an email for my daughter to read letting her know she's sorry she got teased by another student and that she loves her."
"My son," said another parent, "came and told me one day that 'I can do anything I like because I am magnificent.'"
Almost all of the parents who wrote to nominate Hodges mentioned that whenever their children are on break from school, they miss their teacher as they would miss a family member.
"I have heard time and time again," said a parent, "that kids that have her for first grade are sad to go to second grade for one reason – and it's because they will miss Mrs. Hodges."
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden raises admission $1
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's admission has increased by $1 across all categories. Admission is now $12 for adults; $11 for seniors ages 55 and older; and $8 for children ages 3–12. Admission remains free for children ages 3 and younger and for members.
The last price increase was in 2011, before the Garden consistently hosted Butterflies LIVE! (which is included with admission). > Read more.
Garden tails
The threat of bad weather didn't keep visitors away from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden July 10 for the facility's weekly Flowers After 5 event (which pairs music and food with a chance to stroll the garden) and its monthly Fidos After 5 (which allows dog owners to bring their pets with them to enjoy the evening). > Read more.
Western Henrico Rotary helps fund Midwives For Haiti Jeep
Thanks in part to a $10,000 gift from the Western Henrico Rotary Club, another bright pink Jeep modified to travel extremely rough terrain has been delivered to Midwives For Haiti so that more pregnant women in the quake-ravaged country will have access to prenatal care and a greater chance of surviving childbirth.
The funds were raised at the annual casino night held in February, club president Adam Cherry said. The Rotary Club also helped purchase the Virginia-based charity's first pink jeep three years ago. > Read more.
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'Top Chef' finalist to open Willow Lawn restaurant
A finalist in the Bravo television show Top Chef is bringing one of his four restaurant chains to Henrico County.
Bryan Voltaggio, who was the runner-up of the sixth season of Top Chef, (finishing second to his brother, Michael) and his business partner, Hilda Staples, will open their third Family Meal restaurant, at Henrico's Willow Lawn shopping center. The restaurant is expected to open early next year. > Read more.
US Army Field Band to perform in Henrico Aug. 3
The United States Army Field Band will present a free public performance at Deep Run Park in Henrico on Sunday, Aug 3 at 3 p.m.
Members of the band are soldiers who also serve as "musical ambassadors of the Army" and perform for schools and communities nationwide.
The Concert Band will be performing along with the Soldiers' Chorus. > Read more.
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Get up and dance – square dance, that is – with the Tuckahoe Square Dance Club tonight! More musical events this weekend include family-friendly karaoke at Aunt Sarah's Pancake House, the United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus Concert and the Henrico Teen Theatre Company's production of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Men's Hockey Splits, Still Top of WCHA
SCSU's men's hockey team wrapped up their final regular season home stand of the season with a pair of WCHA meetings against Michigan Tech over the weekend. St. Cloud State was victorious on Friday night 5-3. SCSU went one for three on the power play in the contest, scoring during the first man advantage of the game. Drew LeBlanc made the game 1-0 early in the first period and from that point on SCSU dominated. The Michigan Tech Huskies made an attempt at a comeback in the third period, scoring three goals but were unable to get anymore pucks past goaltender Ryan Faragher. Faragher made 42 saves in the contest.
Saturday night was senior night, featuring a ceremony that honored the careers of Taylor Johnson, Ben Hanowski and Drew LeBlanc prior to puck drop. (Listen to KVSC's Senior Salute from the broadcast here.) The night proved to be an emotional turmoil for the SCSU as they fell to the unranked Huskies of Michigan Tech 5-1. Michigan Tech wasted no time scoring in the game notching their first goal at the :28 mark of the first period to take a 1-0 lead that they never gave up. St. Cloud State took 37 shots in the contest but only one was able to get past MTU's goaltender Jamie Phillips. Jimmy Murray scored the lone goal for SCSU with just under three minutes remaining.
St. Cloud State does remain in the top spot of the WCHA with a two-point lead over Minnesota and North Dakota. With the win Friday the Huskies secured a home ice spot for the first round of WCHA playoffs March 15-17th. St. Cloud State dropped in USCHO polls this week to eighth place and is now tied for tenth place in the all-important PairWise rankings.
The Huskies will battle for the MacNaughton this weekend when they round out the regular season in Madison, WI for a pair of games with the Badgers. Wisconsin is coming off a sweep last weekend at Nebraska-Omaha and is still in the hunt for a home ice spot. The KVSC Sports Department will provide live coverage from Madison, WI all weekend long. Listen on KVSC 88.1 FM both Friday and Saturday night, coverage begins at 6:45 p.m. The puck will drop at 7:07 for both games of the series. Stay up to date on the latest news by following us on Twitter.
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Bill Friday was entirely too decent, and too fond of the university from which the University of North Carolina system grew, to take any vindictive pleasure in the humiliation now being visited upon the Chapel Hill campus.
Yet Friday was entitled to a grand "told you so" for his warnings, down the years, that the college sports colossus was a beast on the loose, threatening to make a mockery of academic standards.
Of all the places for that beast to rampage: proud UNC-Chapel Hill, the nation's oldest public university, the place that more than any other gave North Carolina its 20th-century reputation as the most forward-thinking among the Southern states.
But the siren song of sports glory was too seductive. Basketball championships masterminded by Dean Smith and his devotees weren't enough, nor was the Tar Heels' own perfectly respectable football tradition. The sights would be set on the football stratosphere – national rankings, premier bowl games, plentiful exposure for the UNC brand (as if sports prowess really matters).
Maybe it would be harder for a promising football recruit to gain admission to Carolina, and maybe he couldn't be expected to keep pace with all those out-of-state valedictorians who managed to claw their way in – but once here, that "student-athlete" would benefit from a high-powered academic support system aimed at making sure his grades were good enough so that he'd remain eligible to play.
That's where the fraud commenced. As to just how it happened that the chairman of the African and Afro-American Studies department ended up as the instructor of record in a passel of phony courses seemingly catering to athletes, it hasn't yet been explained. And it's fair to wonder at this point if it ever will be.
The university was sufficiently chagrined by findings aired largely in this newspaper that Chancellor Holden Thorp commissioned an investigation headed by former Gov. Jim Martin, bolstered by an auditing firm.
Martin, besides sterling political credentials as a two-term Republican governor and six-term congressman, has the higher education chops to wade into an academic scandal and pass credible judgment. The former Davidson College professor has a Princeton doctorate and still refers to himself as a chemist.
When he visited The N&O last week for a helpful status report, there was no leaping to conclusions. But it was hard not to sense, in his understated, wry tone, a disdain for the irregularities he's been asked to explore.
A faculty member who apparently oversaw courses that didn't meet and had no actual instruction, simply a required term paper, to suit the needs of some football and basketball players? And with nobody in the academic hierarchy picking up on the scam – or worse, if they were aware, declining to act?
"It's pretty ingenious he was able to get away with it," said Martin. As in, how could they have let him?
The prof in question, Julius Nyang'oro, lost his chairmanship and was allowed to retire. With prosecutors also sniffing around, it's not surprising he's gone mute. Martin indicated he thought it was futile even to try to question him.
Let's hope the governor and his auditing team have better luck with other, still serving members of the AFAM faculty and with students, athlete and non-athlete, who took the bogus courses. Whose bright idea was this, after all? And if the investigators flush out any similar patterns in other departments, let them bore in until every party to the fraud is identified.
Friday spoke for years against the tendency of major college athletics like a parasite to sicken its host. But for all his stature, his warnings could not keep the college sports industry – an auxiliary, truth be told, of the TV industry and the professional leagues – from swelling to absurd proportions, as compared with campus endeavors that have nothing to do with entertainment.
It's one thing for the football factories – we know where they are – to brush such concerns aside. But for the university in Chapel Hill to have done it – disrespecting the prophet on his home turf?
The praise heaped upon Friday at his death was copious, heartfelt and totally deserved. Through his leadership, the UNC system became a keystone in North Carolina's civic architecture. Those who have used a low cost, high quality college education obtained in this state to pave the way both to good careers and to good citizenship must number in the hundreds of thousands.
Friday now will be conspicuously absent as a panel to which he'd been appointed calibrates the system's direction for the future. He would have been a voice both for high standards and for maximum opportunity, as determined not by the needs of business but by the aspirations of students and scholars and the needs of society at large.
Let his monument be public universities that refrain from embracing athletics as an industry and that resist all the forces that would constrict their mission and tarnish their honor.
Editorial page editor Steve Ford can be reached at 919-829-4512 or at email@example.com.


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Steele will coach the inside linebackers while defensive coordinator Kirby Smart will move to the secondary
Alabama offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier nominated for Broyles Award
Alabama to practice one more time in Miami
Two division champions to meet in the Georgia Dome
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Coaching Profiles: Kirby Smart
Kirby Smart, the 2012 AFCA Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2009 Broyles Award winner as college football's top assistant coach, is in his seventh season with the Alabama football staff and sixth as defensive coordinator. A former standout defensive back and scholar-athlete at Georgia, Smart is one of the nation's most respected defensive coordinators.
Smart retooled the Alabama defense in 2012, molding a unit that lost six starters to the NFL after the 2011 season. The Tide led the nation in total defense (250.0 ypg), scoring defense (10.9 ppg) and rush defense (76.4 ypg) while ranking seventh in pass defense (174.3 ypg) and pass efficiency defense (103.72). The Alabama defense featured two first team All-Americans in cornerback Dee Milliner and linebacker C.J. Mosley. Milliner was a finalist for the Thorpe Award, presented to the nation's top defensive back, after making 54 tackles, with a nation-leading 20 pass deflections, two interceptions and four tackles for loss. Mosley was a finalist for the Butkus Award and led the team with 107 tackles while making seven tackles for loss, four sacks and intercepting two passes. The 107 tackles for Mosley are the second most in the last 25 years by an Alabama defender (Demeco Ryans had 126 in 2003).
The 2011 defense led the nation in all five major categories including total defense (183.6 ypg), scoring defense (8.2 ppg), rushing defense (72.2 ypg), passing defense (111.5 ypg) and pass efficiency defense (83.69 rating). Dont'a Hightower (a finalist for the Lombardi Award, Lott Trophy, Butkus Award and Bednarik Award) led the team in total tackles with 85. The first team all-SEC selection also recorded 11 tackles for loss, four sacks, eight quarterback hurries, one interception and a blocked kick. Hightower became the latest in a line of first-round linebackers produced at Alabama, selected by the New England Patriots with the 25th pick of the first round in 2012.
Smart's rebuilding job in 2010 was impressive, as the Tide remained one of the nation's elite defensive units while replacing nearly the entire defense (nine starters). Alabama led the SEC and ranked third nationally in scoring defense (13.5 ppg) and fifth nationally in total defense (286.4 ypg). The Tide also ranked first in the SEC (sixth in the NCAA) in pass efficiency defense. Safety Mark Barron and defensive lineman Marcell Dareus earned first team all-SEC honors while Hightower, safety Robert Lester and cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick were second team all-SEC selections.
The 2009 season was a special one for Smart, as he not only helped lead Alabama to the national championship but also took home the Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in the country. The Alabama defense again was regarded as one of the top units in the country, leading the SEC and ranking second nationally in scoring defense (11.7 ppg), pass efficiency defense (87.7), rush defense (78.1 ypg) and total defense (244.1 ypg).
In the 2010 BCS National Championship game against Texas, the Tide recorded four interceptions and scored a defensive touchdown. Three players on Smart's defense earned first-team All-America honors - linebacker Rolando McClain, cornerback Javier Arenas and nose guard Terrence Cody - while Barron was a third team Associated Press All-American. McClain captured the Butkus Award and Cody was a finalist for several national awards.
The 2008 Alabama defense was rated among the nation's best. The Tide finished third in total defense (263.5 ypg) and seventh in scoring defense (14.3 ppg). Senior captain Rashad Johnson earned first team All-America honors at safety as well as first team all-SEC recognition after intercepting five passes, including two that were returned for touchdowns. Alabama snagged 15 interceptions in 2008 and brought back four of those for scores.
Under Smart's guidance in 2007, Johnson led the SEC with six interceptions and earned first team all-SEC honors along with cornerback Simeon Castille. A third member of the Alabama secondary, cornerback Kareem Jackson, was honored at the end of the season as a second team Sporting News Freshman All-American.
Smart joined the Tide after spending the 2006 season as safeties coach with head coach Nick Saban and the NFL's Miami Dolphins. Prior to his stint with the Dolphins, Smart spent six years on the collegiate level with Georgia (1999 and 2005), LSU (2004), Florida State (2002-03), and Valdosta State (2000-01).
As the running backs coach at Georgia in 2005, Smart's Bulldogs unit averaged 162.2 yards per game, third in the SEC. Smart spent the 2004 season as defensive backs coach under Saban at LSU, where he tutored two NFL draft picks: Corey Webster (2nd round, New York Giants) and Travis Daniels (4th round, Miami Dolphins). That season, LSU allowed 157.2 passing yards per game to rank second in the SEC and fifth nationally.
Smart was a graduate assistant coach under Bobby Bowden and Mickey Andrews at Florida State in 2002-03, having served as defensive coordinator/linebackers coach (2001) and defensive backs (2000) coach at Valdosta State the previous two seasons. He began his coaching career as an administrative assistant at Georgia in 1999.
As a player, Smart was a four-year letterman at defensive back for Georgia, where he was a first team all-SEC pick as a senior. He finished his career with 13 interceptions, fourth in Georgia annals, and led the Bulldogs with six interceptions in 1997 and five in 1998. A four-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll, Smart earned his undergraduate degree in finance from Georgia and his master's degree from Florida State in 2003.
A native of Bainbridge, Ga., Smart is married to the former Mary Beth Lycett of McDonough, Ga. The couple are the proud parents of twins Weston and Julia and son Andrew.


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By Mac Cerullo
Staff Writer
---- — AMESBURY – The School Committee will seek roughly $2.3 million in spending increases for the upcoming school year to keep up with a rising student population and steep increases in special education costs.
Specifically, the committee wants to add new teachers to help bring down class sizes, hire a full time band teacher and bring on additional assistants, counselors and paraprofessionals on top of the $1.506 million needed in order to maintain the current level of service and keep up with rising special education costs.
The School Committee unveiled its new $28 million budget during its meeting last night, and it is expected to vote on the budget on April 2.
Following the presentation of the budget, numerous parents and teachers spoke up in support of the budget increases, and the overwhelming sentiment was that class sizes were growing too high, particularly at the third grade level.
"These aren't additional needs, they are primary needs," said Elaine Bucher, a local resident who teaches in another district. "These are things that need to be funded so our students become well-rounded individuals."
Among the new increases being requested are four to six new teachers in the high school, new special education classrooms at the high school and middle school, a new third grade teacher at the Amesbury Elementary School, a new literary paraprofessional at the Cashman school, a new full-time band teacher at the high school and an out of district and programmatic special education facilitator, among other things.
If all of the new budget increases were to be approved they would add up to $751,200 to $865,000. The remaining $1.506 million being sought would be to maintain the school's current level of service, and nearly half of that increase can be directly attributed to special education.
Between the two elementary schools, the middle school, the high school and district-wide costs, Amesbury will see a $685,311 increase in total SPED costs, good for 46 percent of the total level service increase. The remaining $820,870 in increases was driven by a variety of other things, but mostly by contractually obligated teacher salary increases, employee health care and district benefits.
Within the individual school budgets, special education costs were the dominant factor in the level service increases. All four schools could attribute at least a quarter of their level service increases to SPED salaries, and three could point to more than half.
Cashman Elementary was the most glaring example. Out of a total level service increase of $127,092, $120,995 of that was a result of SPED teaching salary increases.
The school that could have the biggest overall budget increase is the Amesbury High School, which could see an increase of $369,077, or 9.66 percent over last year. That doesn't include an additional $14,460 increase in the athletics budget, which is up 5.53 percent.
The only area that is slated to decrease this year is curriculum spending, which would only go down by $2,291 to $303,233, constituting a 0.75 percent budget decrease.
While some of the increases may seem unpalatable to the many residents who have expressed dismay about the tax rate at recent city council meetings, those in attendance argued that by not at least maintaining the current level of service, the city would be letting its children down.
"I appreciate that you run this like a school and not a business and that we're here for the children," said John Lyman, a science teacher at AMS. "We've gone through multiple years of level funding, and that doesn't necessarily carry the services that the children need from year to year. A lot of the items we're dealing with are mandate driven, safety driven and there's no fluff there."
Tim Angerhofer, who teaches math at AHS, followed on that by describing the school budget as a "human balance sheet" that dealt with things much bigger than numbers on a piece of paper, and he argued that allowing the existing school workforce to become overburdened would be a costly mistake.
"We've seen a lot of increases in the workload, from the polling, legislation, data collection and reporting, expansion of MCAS, reporting out school improvement plans and evaluations, meanwhile during that time our staffing has decreased," Angerhofer said. "Under that kind of environment the education will get compromised, and children will bare the brunt of it"
After the audience was finished making its comments, the School Committee members thanked everyone for coming but cautioned that it would be a difficult proposition to get all the increases they want approved by the City Council.
"Our list was much larger than this, but given the current economic climate, we were forced to narrow our list down," said committee member Gale Hanshaw.
Aware that the political climate in Amesbury right now is against budget increases of any kind, committee member Stanley Schwartz closed the public hearing by urging those in attendance to call their city councilors and legislators, and offered some fighting words to those who would prefer to shut their door, complain about taxes and then complain again when the fire department takes too long to get to their house.
"They can't have their cake and eat it too," Schwartz said. "So which community is it? The community you see here? Or a community that shuts its door and says 'let me go read my Ayn Rand book, leave me alone, don't bother me with the taxes and go fix my street.'"


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By AMANDA GRAY
With Goshen City Council President Tom Stump headed to Elkhart County Council, a vacancy will need to be filled as of Jan. 1, according to Stump.
He will resign the city council office via a letter to Elkhart County Republican Party Chairman Dale Stickel, he said. His resignation will be effective Dec. 31.
"I'm excited for County Council," Stump said Wednesday. "It presents new challenges."
Stump won with more than 38,000 votes, as did Republican incumbents John Letherman and David Ashe. He said he decided to run for office because he wants to see more efficiency in government.
"I'm looking for efficiencies to suggest," Stump said. "I'm excited about that."
Goshen Mayor Allan Kauffman said Stump has been a good asset to City Council.
"We disagreed on a lot of things, but we've probably agreed on more than we've disagreed on," he said. While Stump has been a conservative voice on City Council, his time spent on Redevelopment Commission has been more progressive, Kauffman said. No matter where he serves, Stump has an ear open, Kauffman said.
"He still listens to people, and he's willing to change his mind," Kauffman said. "Sometimes he'll oppose an idea when he first hears it, but after he listens to more details, sometimes he'll think about it. He's not afraid to express his own ideas or listen to others."
Stump's replacement will be selected through a process in December, he said. Once Stickel has received his resignation letter, he will call a caucus of the Goshen City Precinct Republican committeemen.
This caucus will hear from interested individuals, and then they will vote for Stump's replacement. All of this will take place sometime in December, Stump said.
Local Republican Brett Weddell said he's very interested in the possibility of being on City Council. Weddell ran against Councilman Everett Thomas in a Nov. 8, 2011, election, but lost.
"I'm definitely interested in being on the city council," Weddell said.
If elected by the caucus, Weddell said he would like to spend time getting used to the council position before attempting to lead any ideas to the council.
"My first goal would be to get accustomed to the position," he said. "I wouldn't want to make any large moves."
Weddell also took time to congratulate Stump.
"I was very happy to see that Stump won," Weddell said. "...Tom is a great individual, and he's got huge shoes to fill."
Stump said he will miss Goshen's City Council.
"I will have been there 21 years by the end of December," Stump said. "But I expect to still be part of the city."
Also up for grabs is the City Council President position. Stump said that will be handled in January, though he doesn't know who will become the next president. Kauffman said he was also unsure if the Republican members of the council, who hold a majority, would vote for a Democratic council president with more experience or a Republican president with less experience.
Stump said he'll still be present at some city meetings, and that he believes Kauffman will continue his appointment to the Redevelopment Commission.
"I have ideas (for the Commission)," Stump said with a laugh.
For more information on Goshen City Council, visit www.goshenindiana.org/content/city-council.