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I am hoping to get an N97 very shortly. Can anyone say definitively if the BBC iplayer is preinstalled, or at least if it is supported, on the N97 as it was on the N96?
I have asked Nokia Support but they said it was 'for the BBC to decide - ask them'. I can't see how the BBC could decide to preinstall software on Nokia phones though? I have seen some early reviews by third party magazines which indicated that the iplayer was, in fact, on the phone, but now it is shipping in the UK can anyone confirm this?
Many thanks!
17-06-2009 8:49
It certainly is available for the UK N97 as a download. I do not know if it is pre-installed.
See this article for confirmation:
17-06-2009 9:27
Thanks for the reply - the link you gave does seem to show it running on the N97 OK! The BBC site, on its 'Can I access BBC iPlayer on my mobile phone?' does NOT list the N97 as being a supported phone (perhaps its too new, and not yet on general sale in the UK, although it does list the iphone, and has for some time). Since the Nokia 5800 is also listed I assume that is the same version as the N97!?
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I'm sure the BBC will officially add it once it is released in the UK (19th in London & Online, 26th elsewhere and selected networks).
It does use the same version as the 5800xm and has the same features. As with all other versions it is limited to to wi-fi only unless you are on the 3 network which also allows streaming over 3G, this is at the request of the networks. Vodafone may also allow it but I am not sure.
You can trust all about symbians word on this, they are one of the more professional phone sites out there.
17-06-2009 10:02
Thanks for the confirmation. Re. streaming, I currently have the N96 with a Vodafone SIM and can confirm that they do allow streaming over 3G and it works fine.
Thanks again - topic now seems to be resolved.
17-06-2009 10:12
Cheers for the confirmation about voda, I wasn't sure.
Hope you enjoy the N97 when you get it!
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Most UK networks block the iplayer from working over there internet due to bandwidth restictions
To streem or download programmes you need to connect via a wireless network
28-06-2009 23:35
The answer to the original question is yes, The UK version of the n97 does come with BBC iPlayer pre-installed.
I got mine on pre-order on the 19th & it's definately on there. It's also supported in the home screen widgets.
I'm assuming this will be the case for all generic versions of the handset but i can't say what the story is with the branded one's
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I got my N97 on the 27th June and I've had trouble with the BBC iPlayer too.
To answer your first question - if you're with vodaphone, it does come with the iplayer pre-loaded straight out of the box. (You have to bear in mind that different networks pre-load different software - i.e. 3 is the only network to allow, and subsequently pre-load, skype).
As for the iPlayer - it does NOT work through 3G, with vodaphone, all of the time.
You can connect through WiFi fine, I'm using it to watch Top Gear right now; although that's not really the point...you want to use it on the move, right?
Vodaphone are having trouble rolling it out across with 3G. I know this because I went into the shop and asked the guy behind the counter. He said it could take anything up to 6 MONTHS but it will eventually get sorted.
He said that I won't need to download any upgrades to the iPlayer software, it's just a problem with the phone masts (presumably in coping with the bandwidth involved).
I guess it's not the end of the world, you have to expect teething problems with a brand new phone, but hopefully this'll fix itself once Vodaphone get on top of things.
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Family and friends gathered to pay their respects to a Rowan County fire fighter shot in the head during a burglary at his home.
Marcus 'Marco' Kauffman was laid to rest Monday. The Memorial Service was held at Mac Grey Auditorium at Statesville High School.
"God is good through everything" said family friend Matt Yoder. "It's one of the best funerals I've ever been at. One of the most touching funerals."
Yoder, who has known the Kauffmans from when the family lived in Maryland, said the touching part was "just how real He is to the family, and those involved, and those that prayed and believed God for his healing."
Yoder added "God didn't heal him the way we thought he would but for the family to come out and say God is still good and they're still smiling through their tears - that speaks volumes."
In the program for the Memorial Service, the family wrote "Marco leaves behind a gaping hole in our hearts, but we look forward to the day when we will be reunited, wrapped once again in his tight hug."
The family said 'Marcus worked for the family business building drawer boxes with his father and brother. He was a volunteer fire fighter, an avid Panthers fan, a member at Cleveland Believers' Fellowship, part of a prison ministry choir, and deeply in love with his beautiful wife and unborn son."
At the end of the program, they wrote "we cannot thank you all enough for your care, support, and prayers through this difficult time. We have tasted in a real way the body of Christ carrying each other's burdens. Thank you."
Marco's wife is expecting the couple's first child in a couple of months.
The Kauffmans say "Maryann will need abundant Grace as she faces bringing their dear little boy into the world, and raising him without Marco by her side. Please continue to lift her, and all of us, to the Lord."
"It's very mixed emotions because as sad as it is to see the grief the family is going through - it is as much joy as there is because of how good God is" said Yoder.
After the service, a long line to cars followed the family and the hearse to Cleveland Believers Fellowship Church in Woodleaf, where Marco was buried.
Visitation took place there Sunday. Hundreds of people came out in the rain to pay their respects.
Kauffman died Friday after being taken off life support when doctors could no longer find any brain activity.
Police have arrested four men in connection to his shooting. Two men, 23 year old Khari Mclelland and 19 year old Jeland Turner, are now facing first degree murder charges.
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Location-based services - you can check in anytime you like but you can never leave?
Over the past several months, I've loaded up my iPhone and iPad with the latest location-based services applications to better understand how these services can help marketers further leverage the emerging local/social/mobile space.
Today we'll focus on the "check-in" space and, more specifically, Foursquare.
For the folks unfamiliar with this genre, check-in apps are mobile social-gaming applications that provide users with the opportunity to share their location with their friends and blend the experience into a game-like environment where people compete for badges or stamps. This is accomplished by earning points for their total number of check-ins, for checking in to the same place repeatedly, or for checking in to many places in a single night. In Foursquare, the user who checks in to the same "place" the most times becomes the "mayor" of that specific place.
As users continue to use the service, they're rewarded with additional badges, which creates a competition between friends to see who has visited the most places. The below screen capture shows some of the badges and categories that are awarded.
As an example of one of my latest earned badges; last week, I needed to board a plane back from the West Coast in the wee hours of the morning and Foursquare awarded me the "School Night" badge for checking in after 3 a.m. on a school night. When I was younger, I would have been proud of my accomplishment of an "all nighter"; now I just get cranky at having to be up so early.
From a users' benefit perspective, Foursquare allows users to write "tips" for restaurants, bars, retail stores, and other places they check in to for most of its 15-month existence. This information tends to be a loose form of ratings and reviews on the location, helping users narrow their selections based on these tips.
In addition to your friends who subscribe to these apps viewing your whereabouts, via Facebook Connect, pretty much all of your Facebook friends or Twitter followers can track your every move, meal, and resting place.
Cute, but What Does This Mean for Marketers?
While it's still early in the game, Foursquare has taken a leadership position with 1.7 million users, up from about 750,000 in March, according to Dennis Crowley, co-founder and chief executive of Foursquare.
Recently, we've begun seeing advertising featured in some geographies hinting at a potential monetization strategy:
To date, however, these ads have been limited to geographic targeting. In the case illustrated above, I checked in to a hotel in New York City and was promoted with a special offer for a moving company - not the best targeting. Conversely, Starbucks has been running an offer of a discounted drink for anyone who becomes a mayor of one of its locations, which seems to be a much more logical promotion for the service.
For marketers, my advice is start with the basics - your business listing. One major issue with services like Foursquare is their listings database. While there appears to be a limited database of business locations that it has purchased from one of the business-entity database providers, many of the listings are user-generated content.
For example, if you search for a place that you're about to check in at and you don't see it on the list of places nearby, you're promoted to add that specific business or place. This has led to many duplicate and miscategorized listings.
So, the first best practice is: search for your business and ensure that the physical location address and additional details are correct. Second: monitor any dialogue about your business to see if there are ways to leverage this information to improve your business or offering. Third: if your business category is very developed, consider a trial offer to see if it moves the sales needle.
Crowded Market?
Foursquare may have the early lead, but trust me; there are many other check-in applications (e.g., Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt, Booyah), as well as other media trying to join the check-in craze. Here's a quick glimpse of the big players in the space and Foursquare's attempts to stay ahead of the game.
Yelp.com, typically known for its exceptional user ratings and reviews, now features a check-in feature for its users.
Twitter, known for its 140-character status updates, now offers geo-targeting and local place pages where you can find others in the near vicinity.
Facebook has yet to come out with a check-in feature, but has announced that it will offer location-based services soon.
In the final analysis, I'll be interested to see how this space continues to develop. Honestly, it seems like a great feature to add into a more developed social/local platform.
Interestingly, there's been a lot of press recently that Foursquare is seeking funding to develop its business as a standalone after rumors of interest from Facebook and Yahoo. Only time will tell if users find value in the service and sharing their movements.
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Using the iPad in your teaching -- two two-hour workhops
iPad Workshop Series
Curious about the iPad? Come and use one at CLT's hands-on instructional iPad workshops to learn more about ways to use it in your teaching.
In this two-part series, you'll review a variety of apps designed to support your use of the iPad in teaching and you'll discuss the concept of storytelling as an instructional activity.
In the first session, A Sampling of Teaching Apps for your iPad, you'll learn about iBooks, iThoughtsHD, Evernote, PDF Expert, Keynote, Numbers, Educreations, Dropbox, iTunesU, Dragon Dictation, Flipboard, Ted, Skype, Adobe Connect, and FaceTime, many of which offer unique ways to engage and enrich your students' learning experience.
In the second session, Storytelling with Your iPad, you will review several apps designed to allow you (or your students) to design and produce a three- to five-minute digital story related to your course content. Participants will record audio video segments and use still images to illustrate their narrative. Apps include IdeaSketch, iMovie, Creative Book Builder, Sonic Pics, Explain Everything, and Total Recall.
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Republican Jim Sailors faces a challenge from Democrat Timothy Banter Sr. in a race for District 2 county commissioner.
The Pharos-Tribune posed two questions to the candidates. Those questions and the candidates' responses follow:
What do you see as the issues in this campaign?
Banter: There are numerous issues but these are ones most disturbing:
A. The present ambulance service is substandard without proper radio communication between ambulances, Hospital, Fire department, and Police. The E.M.T.s are using cell phones, and the ambulances are not equipped with GPS. This leaves the citizens of Cass County in the hands of an emergency service dependent upon cell coverage, which is poor to nonexistent in some parts of the county, and is many times unable to find locations in sufficient time. Most of the E.M.T.s are not locals and many residents have witnessed them pulled to the side of the road with their lights on looking at maps while on a call.
B. France Park has been neglected for years, resulting in an exodus of patrons. This park could be an asset and bring in sorely needed revenue into Cass County.
My opponent has approved a work for rent policy for those renters staying during the winter. Who determines what the value of each job will be, and how does this bring in the needed revenue this park desperately needs?
Sailors: Economic development is a large issue in Cass County along with all the counties along the new Heartland Corridor, and we are in competition with all those other counties. The county can only grow with more development from industry and agri-business since we are in an agricultural county. We used to have several factories in our county, and we are down to a handful, which lessens our tax base, putting more of a burden on the individual residents of the county. A new economic development person has been hired who will help with that development.
All of the small towns in Cass County are facing issues with septic systems and in some, water issues. We are in the process of working with the utilities to come up with funding to provide those services to those small towns. We have at least 15 little towns in our county and in most cases, if their septic systems go bad; they have no place to install another system.
We need to be selective in the use of TIF districts, which could be a large issue for schools and other entities that receive tax dollars. Growth is important, but so is maintaining our services for the community.


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RESIDENTS and businesses in Church Hill are facing a parking nightmare after the number of spaces in the new district centre were cut by two thirds.
The design of the £3.55million centre was slated at a recent PACT meeting where residents said having only 36 spaces compared to 114 at the old shops, was causing major issues for those parking there.
Disruption while new homes and a road are built and a lack of parking for parents dropping their children at the two nearby schools were also cited as problems.
Some said they were having issues getting to and from the new medical centre and shops on foot as delivery lorries and other vehicles were blocking access routes while others alleged drivers were parking at the centre then getting the bus elsewhere, further reducing the amount of spaces available for shoppers.
Ian Johnson, Church Hill PACT vice-chairman, said: "We had 114 car parking spaces before they changed everything, we have now got 36. That is one hell of a drop, no wonder people are parking anywhere they can.
"Some of the 36 are being taken up by the doctors themselves. They have got allocated spaces but while delivery vehicles are there the doctors can't get their vehicles out and they're on call."
Coun Pat Witherspoon added the development was privately owned meaning the borough council had little say over what happened there, adding volunteers were needed for a walking bus to Abbeywood First and Church Hill Middle Schools which would alleviate some of the issue.
"If you look around the town, most of the schools have got the same sorts of parking difficulties and unfortunately it's the way of life unless we can educate people to not come in their cars. Most of them could walk but won't."
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The chance to play in the 2012 Rose Bowl against the Oregon Ducks is a big deal for every one of the Wisconsin Badgers.
However, it could be an extra-special experience for one player in particular, even if he won't play (via the Sacramento Bee).
Greg Russo originally attended UW-Whitewater ('03 - '04) before joining the National Guard and deploying to Iraq for two tours. He enrolled at Wisconsin last year and joined the Badgers as a walk-on in the spring. He was deemed ineligible by the NCAA but won an appeal and the linebacker got his first chance to play against Penn State in the season finale.
Russo doesn't expect to play in the Rose Bowl but expects the atmosphere to be pretty memorable on the sidelines.
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Saison Special Eindejaar - KleinBrouwerij De Glazen Toren
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Reviews by Doppelbockulus:
4/5 rDev -3.1%
07-30-2013 23:47:54 | More by Doppelbockulus
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4.05/5 rDev -1.9%
On tap at the Beer Table. This beer caught me a bit off guard, it tastes traditional, or I should say it easily fits within the style, but the feel is light. It almost felt watery, but overall it was still a satisfying beer. There was a herbal mix of lemon and coriander-like Belgian spice - a lovely blend of Euro hops and peppery saison yeast character.
03-14-2011 00:54:17 | More by tempest
3.95/5 rDev -4.4%
A yeast milkshake, but a good one. Must have been getting down to the bottom of the keg, but still quite good. Lots of citrus notes up front with citrus and perhaps a bit of cassis flavor? Very smooth, almost milky with the quantity of yeast in suspension. Almost cracker-like crisp snap to the finish, peppery bitterness. Very tasty and very rare (apparently.) Served in its own glass.
03-15-2009 03:39:13 | More by marcobrau
4/5 rDev -3.1%
07-27-2014 21:09:49 | More by DrBier
4.4/5 rDev +6.5%
750ml bottle. Had been looking for some De Glazen Toren products for quite a while. When i saw this bottle of Saison D'Erpe Mere at my local beer store i decided to give it a try despite it's surprisingly high price. I realized only later that this was the Special Eindejaar version
A- Hazy golden with a splendid large-bubbled but still dense and frothy head that shows great retention and leaves tons of lacing
S- Not as strong as i expected. Moderately sweet but quite grassy (from the hops) and earthy (yeast?) aroma, with some floral notes and a faint spiciness
T- Perfect balance of sweet malts and grassy bitter hops, which are strong but never get too assertive; A classic earthy saison taste gets bigger than in the aroma and even bigger in the finish. An amazing range of undernotes brings balance and variety: floral notes, pear, lemon, pepper and coriander all show up and they give great complexity to this beer
M- Incredibly smooth and creamy in a big assertive body: somehow this beer feels both strong and delicate. Carbonation is high but never gets too strong, thanks to the everlasting smooth head
O- Despite it's great complexity, drinkability is awesome and the beer has the ability to feel refreshing despite it 9%ABV, which is definitely well hidden
What you would expect in a good saison and still much more than just that. A great beer
05-12-2011 09:05:07 | More by Cozzatoad
3/5 rDev -27.4%
02-12-2012 17:05:15 | More by Antnyd82
New Jersey
4.28/5 rDev +3.6%
Served at Max's 72 Hours of Belgium.
Appearance: clear yellow in color with a 1" head that lasts a while. Nice lacing develops on the glass.
Smell: lemon zest, floral hop bitterness, and some yeast are easy to pull from the glass.
Taste: this had a slightly bready profile. Yeast, peppercorns, lemon zest, and some mild alcohol tones are most noticeable. The bitterness is more floral and quite strong for the style.
Mouthfeel: medium bodied beer. Crisp to start and lightly crisp and mildly dry at the finish. Aftertaste is very long as the citrus, yeast, and drying hop bitterness lingers on the tongue.
Drinkability: this was easy to consume but more than two or three may be a bit much. I was told this is an end of year saison - I hope to see this again next year.
03-01-2009 17:09:32 | More by Gavage
3.5/5 rDev -15.3%
02-12-2012 00:55:14 | More by Axelbay
4.65/5 rDev +12.6%
This "special end of the year" beer pours a cloudy honey gold with a gigantic head that stays, leaving copius lacing on the glass. The nose is citrus, spicy, and hoppy. This is one full, buttery, butterskotchy, hoppy, spicy Saison. It has alot going on, yet is wonderfully smooth and well balanced. The mouthfeel is full and creamy, a delight to the tongue. It is a very drinkable, delightful session beer.
03-20-2009 01:57:14 | More by Beerenauslese
New Jersey
4.15/5 rDev +0.5%
Paper wrapped and stickered, capped 750ml bottle with a seemingly normal Saison De Erpe label beneath the wrapping, ha.
Pours a cloudy golden/copper color with a large fluffy white head. Some herbal wintergreen notes, a grassy aroma, floral hops, some light lemon skin and a bready yeast character in the nose. Delicate, well hopped and with great balance, very enjoyable and crazy drinkable. Outstanding texture and carbonation, so soft in the mouth. This is a special saison, a must try for fans of the style.
01-15-2010 23:48:15 | More by ATPete
4.38/5 rDev +6.1%
One of the best Saisons I've had.
Lemon floral aroma but not overly citrus.
Liqhtly sweet and zesty taste that is full bodied without being overpowering.
Great mouthfeel. Long, dry finish that is more peppery than sour.
Very well balanced. An excellent, high gravity saison.
07-28-2011 19:48:57 | More by PrinceDarren
4/5 rDev -3.1%
Poured a cloudy, hazy gold with good head/carbonation and bubbly lace that just clung to the glass. The floral, bitter hops are mixed w/ some nice spices and I also get a touch of sour funk (the brett? as some people say) w/ tart citric fruit. Light and berry like when it first hit my tongue along w/ spices and some funkiness. Goes down smooth although the hops give the mellowness a pronounced edge as I pick up mild flavors of not only tropical or grape and tart cherries but a bitter citric twinge (wouldn't call this beer acidic or anything though). Just a touch of sweet and bready malt round out beer. A real easy to drink beer that shocked me when I actually found out ABV.
03-30-2011 15:59:07 | More by clayrock81
4.5/5 rDev +9%
11-15-2011 00:54:16 | More by JAHMUR
4/5 rDev -3.1%
The Trappist. Served in a De Glazen Toren glass. Classic looks, bright hazy summer yellow and a dense pure white head.
Aroma is classic yet restrained saison, the funk while present is tame. Notes both floral and citrus, hoppy funk.
Taste somewhat surprises in that is round and mild. Unfairly I was expecting a more challenging flavor, not one so balanced. Hops contribute significantly to the flavor but little bitters. Aftertaste evaporates fairly quick. Light crisp prickly mouthfeel.
06-21-2011 01:04:44 | More by impending
4.58/5 rDev +10.9%
Appearance: Murky yellow straw. Volumious, creamy, and crystaline bubbled head which quarters very quickly leaving meringue-esque lacing on one of my large Duvel tulips.
Smell: Give it a good swirl and i get a subtle rose-esque floral nose right away with some resiny hops, earthy funk, citrus, fresh grains and gummy bears.
Taste: Creamy with citrus(Ruby Red grapefruit especially), juicy/run down your arm Georgia peach, ETOH(my bottle label says 9%ABV) and fresh sliced pear. Lovely medley of Spring scents and flavors in proto bloom.
Mouthfeel: Very BIG and creamy. Lush.
Drinkability: It's like one foot on the brakes and one on the gas here. So good you can't stop yourself, but you must and slowly savor every delightful sip!
Another welcome addition to Belgian Ales that i will gladly come back to when available in my local bottle shop.
04-24-2010 07:05:00 | More by libertygrails
South Carolina
4.25/5 rDev +2.9%
07-14-2013 16:47:53 | More by WOLFGANG
4.33/5 rDev +4.8%
I was a bit skeptical when I saw it listed as an "Imperial" Saison but I was super stoked to find it so well balanced.
Very pretty sunny yellow with some haze but not the cloudiness I associate with some Saisons.
Smells like brown grass on a hot day... a bit sweet and dusty, but fresh and clean. Some lemon in there too.
Tart, but not dominantly. Big hefe grain without too much ripe fruit. Some of the lemon from the nose and good hop flavor with just enough bitterness to clean your palate on the way out.
I think this is a great farmhouse. It has the funk that I hope for from Saison with an added sour flavor that makes you really thirsty for more!
08-20-2011 04:11:14 | More by JimmyTango
District of Columbia
4.5/5 rDev +9%
very nice, and exactly what it promised to be; a bigger, hoppier version of their already fantastic saison. pours a hazy, glowing, white-gold color with a white head that holds and leaves tons of lace. nose is hoppy, herbal and slightly honey-sweet with soft and delicate notes of lemon, citrus, herbs/wildflowers, fruit, honey and spice. taste is all of the above in fantastic balance on a velvety medium body. alcohol is masked extremely well, and this beautiful elixir just slides down all silky like. way too easy to drink for a beer this big, and a real treat to get the year kicked off in proper fashion. this one's a winner.
01-19-2011 12:28:10 | More by timtim
4/5 rDev -3.1%
08-24-2013 18:31:23 | More by imperialking
Saison Special Eindejaar from KleinBrouwerij De Glazen Toren
89 out of 100 based on 19 ratings.


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The elections and the future of South African politics - will there be real democracy or just another election farce?
South Africa faces the epic struggle of achieving a just and democratic society. Its beginnings were sketched out in 1994. And, although the promise exists, it has gone through rounds of betrayal and hope in the last fifteen years.
As anticipated, on Monday 6th April the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dropped all charges against Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, who will now be able to take up the highest post in the land without fear of the sword of Damocles.
From the start, the manner by which Zuma's case has been dealt with – from his dismissal, to his indictment, the withdrawal of charges against him and the reinstatement of the NPA's right to prosecute – gave a window into the workings of power in South Africa. It was a lesson on how the perception of right and wrong depends on which side you sit.
There has been lots of interference from both sides – that is – Zuma's and Mbeki's. The latest in the Zuma-Mbeki saga just points to the potential demise of South African politics: becoming less about the interests of citizens than about men utilising state resources and institutions to settle scores.
If, Mbeki had not interfered, the thinking goes, then Zuma and his camp may not have mounted such a concerted assault on the judiciary and led the successful charge to disband elite crime fighting unit the Scorpions. It seems the one has justified the means to an end of the other.
There are clearly no Chinese Walls when it comes to high stakes, and political pressure exerted by the executive has all the chances of compelling the legislature and judiciary to do its bidding. When it comes to the question of power, there are no boundaries – everything is fair game.
The problem is that if we try to find angles – we are likely to find none or very few. Both political and private power show concerning signs of deprivation and excess. It seems to be a universal challenge for democracies around the world.
There is nothing peculiarly African about the problem of mutually corrupting influences when political and business interests converge or have to meet each other.
We have seen wanton abuse of power when 'public' and private interests become one and the same thing.
The asymmetry between citizens, their vote and those in power means that regardless of state lines, we seem to receive the same brash treatment. In South Africa as elsewhere there is the nervous waving of the ballot card: Who does one hand the key of power to? Who will restore trust in the system? Who could save our democracy?
This in summary is what South Africa's 2009 election is about: trust and the pursuit of limitations on the monopoly of power. Many parties are jockeying to reduce the dominance of the ANC, or, in some provinces, completely displace it and seize its command.
Everybody that is not ANC – including its former members, those who backed some of the ANC's controversial policies and turned a blind eye to the infestation of corruption – are now parading their credentials hoping to re-emerge as political saints.
The reincarnation of ex-ANC stalwarts in the form of the Congress of the People (COPE) seems to have energised election campaigning – but whether COPE will transform our politics is still to be seen. While it is certain that they will stiffen the competition and capture some of the ANC's votes, it is not yet clear whether they will constitute a worthy opposition. Only time will tell.
Regardless of the final score, South Africans are certain that Zuma will be president, even if the ANC does not win its two-thirds majority. It is a fact to which we have resigned ourselves.
People are asking what then? Will he be what former British Minister of State Anthony Nelson described as a 'doughty champion of human and civil rights?'
Some commentators are already throwing aspersions to the contrary. Discussions of Zuma's 'secret life' as the ANC's intelligence chief in exile and his alleged role in the killing of Thami Zulu – a promising ANC commander in the ANC's military wing – a doing the rounds.
But is our situation with Zuma any different from elsewhere? Are there not replications of this frivolity of power elsewhere in the world that teach us that we should not only put trust in the ballot box, but find ways to expand the scope and range of citizens' power beyond its narrow remit?
Let's take the example of Berlusconi in Italy because there are so many parallels with Zuma.
Most recently in the London Review of Books (29 February 2009) Perry Anderson could well have been describing South Africa, but he was writing about Italy, portraying Berlusconi as having 'embodied a conflict of interests felt to be intolerable in other democracies, controlling at once a private empire and public power, each at the service of the other'.
Andersen points out that Berlusconi interchanged politics and business so regularly that his one of the primary aims of his ascent to power was to protect himself from prosecution.
When he first came into power he hastily passed three laws: to block evidence of illegal transactions abroad, the de-criminilisation of the falsification of accounts, and allowing defendants to change judges by changing the jurisdiction. In 2008, when Berlusconi was re-elected, he set out to complete unfinished business.
Within hundred days of his election, Berlusconi rushed through a bill for his immunity from prosecution. Berlusconi also bullied the equivalent of the NPA in Italy and cut their budget so as to reduce their investigative capacity.
As Andersen concluded: 'After protecting his person, came protecting his empire' – and if asked why he did it, Berlusconi would reply, like Clinton once did: 'Because I can'. And, the same can be said about Zuma – both him and the ANC can. They have proven they can. When they are in power they can do as they please.
But there are differences between Zuma and Berlusconi.
Zuma looks like third rate amateur, a picaninny, compared to Berlusconi. For one Zuma is penniless and is always the beneficiary of somebody else's 'gifts' – his court battle is financed by the State and friends.
Zuma owns no business empire, he is dependent on the ANC and the Alliance to see himself into power, and his corruption charges seem to pale against his own colleague Carl Niehaus.
Zuma, at least, is only a suspect of corruption. Niehaus, by comparison, has admitted to his crimes – which included forging the signatures of ANC colleagues.
Zuma may well be a victim of a large conspiracy that goes back to the arms deal.
If anything, Zuma was merely a proxy to a business empire that Schabir Shaik was busy building. Zuma's weakness was that he spent more than he could afford, while Shaik settled the accounts without question – allowing him to extract as many favours as he could from Zuma. Zuma, as court papers revealed, ran a tab of just over R4.2 million (approximately Euro 350 000) on Shaik's account.
What the Zuma saga potentially shares with the story of Berlusconi is how a country's or party's entire focus can be subverted to assisting an individual to evade the law. It misdirects state energy into vexatious pursuits.
This redirection of state focus to the protection of a single person from the law and the settling of scores can be seen in the way cell-phone calls were secretly intercepted and taped by intelligence agencies between Mbeki, Bulelani Ngcuka (former director of public persecutions) and Leonard McCarthy (his deputy and head of the Scorpions) and others.
The state's entire security apparatus has been focused on a feud involving two men rather than the ensuring the proper management and the security of its citizens. The bleeding and bloodletting within the establishment is throughout the body politic and state institutions. It involves the legislature, judiciary and the executive.
This includes the ongoing purges of 'Mbekites' and the troubling saga of reigning in the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in favour of the interests of the Zuma camp; especially its board whose members were appointed by Mbeki.
A key state resource whose independence had for long been contested, it was not long before the broadcaster also fell to an internecine struggle for control by different ANC factions.
In order to wrest control of this powerful media from the 'Mbekites', the post-Polokwane and pro-Zuma parliament amended the Broadcasting Act giving itself right to remove the Board. The Act is still to be signed by the care-taker president Kgalema Motlanthe.
This dispute has tarnished the SABC and has disrupted its functioning and provision of public services. The question of the SABC will now only be resolved after the election as the ANC does not want to be distracted from its campaigning.
Another saga of concern is that of prominent judge John Hlophe. Judge President of the Western Cape, Hlophe is the subject of a Judicial Services Commission hearing. He is accused of breaking the code of impartiality when he allegedly tried to influence two Constitutional Court judges presiding over matters related to Zuma's trial to conclude in Zuma's favour.
He seems to have taken things into his own hands. He was no doubt trying to curry favour with Zuma – presumably seeking for himself a future in the post of the highest judge in the land.
What we can learn from all of this is that voting people into power in itself does not translate to moral politics. Our country may well continue to go on the way it has for the 300 odd years of colonialism and apartheid – in which both private and public powers conspired to determine the fate of citizens.
The structure and rules of this game have not changed – just the colour of the characters and their names. There has never been a citizens' revolution nor popular democracy in South Africa – power has been managed on citizens' behalf through various institutions and agencies. Voting is the only occasional form of direct participation – or is it?
The political establishment have always understood this, and they have always had the resources to manipulate outcomes. They see no threat from voters – the ballot becomes 'the farce that everyone has to perform', as French poet Rimbaud once wrote about life in general.
Politics will be yet another theatre in which both saints and dubious characters will seek to outshine each other.
What we shouldn't fail to understand is that a political system is not an outcome of the vote alone but the relation of power between different social forces and classes within that system.
Strong countervailing forces are always necessary to bring about a moral and just order. It won't come through the party political machinery and ballot box alone. We have seen the world over, time and again, that voters always stand to be betrayed.
The voters will vote, leave and then come back in five years to meet yet another campaign trail passing through their village.
And, maybe, just maybe, some things will have changed.
Saliem Fakir is the Head of the Living Planet Unit at the World Wildlife Fund South Africa. The Unit's work is focused on identifying ways to manage a transition to a low-carbon economy. Saliem Fakir was previously (2007-2008) a senior lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Planning and associate Director for the Center for Renewable and Sustainable Energy at the University of Stellenbosch. Saliem previously worked for Lereko Energy (Pty) Ltd an investment company focusing on project development and financial arrangements for renewable energy, biofuels, waste and water sectors. He also served as Director of the World Conservation Union South Africa (IUCN-SA) office for 8 years. Saliem's qualifications are: B.Sc Honours molecular biology (WITS), Masters' in Environmental Science, Wye College London, and he did a senior executive management course at Harvard University in 2000.
Related Articles
- Steven Friedman, Zuma saga evidence of problems in our politics, in: Business Day, 25 March 2009
- Carol Paton, ANC and Business: Soul for Sale, in: Financial Mail, 19 January 2007
- Mandy Rossouw, ANC's dodgy funders, in: Mail & Guardian, 21 March 2009
- Eusebius McKaiser, Moral dilemmas wherever one turns on election day, in: Business Day, 20 April 2009


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(Admin note: Thanks for poll! The multiple answer option was selected which would have enabled uses to vote both YES and NO. Which wouldn't make sense for this excellent question. Intent I am sure was to select one response, that Guerrero has done enough OR needs to beat a top five welterweight. The poll answering has been changed to allow only one response.)
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Personally I don't want to see this matchup. However I think if you add Guerreros story plus Floyd's mouth it equals a million PPVs. I think Guerrero could be marketable. As I said before he has a great story, plus he's Mexican American, he speaks perfect English, and is a handsome dude, no homo. You could stick him on ESPN with Skip and Steven A., ala Manny and JMM, and make his story national. I think Floyd would have to play the angry black man but it could work. Your thoughts?
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floyd dominated cotto. some ppl only gave cotto 2 rounds. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
guerrero is taller...and a little rangier/faster than cotto. add the southpaw stance....there's a strong chance he does better than cotto.
I think guerrero is too sloppy and doesn't have the boxing skill of cotto..
Cotto has had very calculated attacks with his very impressive trainers help
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The sheriff's department dispatch center will soon be operated by the county's 911 call center. It is a move to streamline the county's response time to emergencies. Officials say it's a move forward for the community, but it will cost some people their jobs.
Seven people who currently run the Lauderdale County Communication Center are losing their jobs as a result of the switch.
Sheriff Ronnie Willis said the decision was difficult to make but necessary to provide better care for the citizens of Lauderdale County.
"When somebody's hurt, seconds count," Willis said.
Starting on June 18, all emergency calls for the county will be answered by the 911 call center.
Willis said the move is a way for him to streamline his department and effectively serve the community by eliminating one step of the process.
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Officials say transferring calls can slow the process in emergency situations when seconds count.
"We've heard a lot of citizens talk about it: 'Why do we have to talk to two different people? Why do we have to answer those questions again if we have a husband laying here dying that's been shot and why wasn't it recorded for court?'" said Willis.
The 911 center is equipped with state of the art technology to help record and save conversations for future reference if needed.
"We want to take care of our citizens, but we also want to take care of officer safety for our deputies," said Willis. "Our phone lines and also radio lines at 911 are recorded so that helps us with officer safety."
He said he hates the switch will cost some people their jobs but said it's what's best for the county.
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Starting off the bottom of the fifth, David Murphy came off the Rangers bench and replaced Nelson Cruz in left field. No immediate reason was given, but it has since come out that Cruz was batting tightness in his left hamstring.
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EDMONTON - Should you get a speeding ticket for going 10 km/h over the speed limit?
I've been digging into this question since I got an unwelcome letter in the mail this week. The Government of Alberta had sent me a $78 photo radar ticket for travelling 60 km/h in a 50-km/h zone on Feb. 15. I was driving my son to a weekend minor hockey game in St. Albert, travelling up Groat Road toward 107th Ave. It's a major, two-lane, northbound artery.
The ticket surprised me. My own understanding — based on years of driving and on something that an Edmonton city police officer once told me in an official capacity — was that the authorities would not give out a speeding ticket unless you were going more than 15 km/h over the speed limit.
In 1996, I interviewed city traffic officer Const. Neil Armstrong about photo radar, back when many folks, including then Premier Ralph Klein, wanted to scrap the enforcement program. They saw it as major cash grab that did little to slow down the worst speeders.
Armstrong assured me that drivers in the flow of traffic were given the benefit of the doubt and that police rarely gave out tickets to drivers unless they were going more than 15 km/h over. "Most people are doing the speed limit. It's just the diehards we're catching.''
Soothing words, the kind that satisfied people that photo radar was no government cash grab so we shouldn't axe it.
Since that time, I've followed Armstrong's guidelines. I have received a few photo radar tickets, but only if I ever went over that 15 km/h buffer.
Then came this new ticket. The rules have changed, it would seem, and this follows the city taking over photo radar duties in 2012.
Earlier this week, a local man, Travis Watt, asked Mayor Don Iveson on Twitter why Watt's wife had received a ticket for going 10 km/h over on a major road.
"So, she was speeding, right?" Iveson shot back, then added. "Just having a bit of fun. The speed is set by the context — often (unseen) pedestrian safety is an important factor."
Watt sent me a note saying he got a lot of abuse on Twitter for his complaint to Iveson. "It was like I was condoning driving drunk at 50km/h over the speed limit.
"My honest opinion is that photo radar isn't designed or set up to catch dangerous drivers. If it was, it would be set at a minimum of 15km/h over the speed limit. The tickets are used to generate cash flow for the city."
When I asked Gerry Shimko, the city's executive director of traffic safety, if there was now any tolerance for speeding, he said even one km over can get you a $57 ticket. "The answer to me is we should have zero speed tolerance," he said: "The law is the law."
Many agree with Shimko, including Renate Van Dorsser, who posted on my blog on the issue: "What is it with our society that we think that the rules do not apply to us? Someone, probably a traffic engineer, has determined the safest speed limit for a given road ... I think the best way to deal with the 'cash grab' is to follow the rules of the road and quit whining."
Shimko argued that if we lower speed on a road, you get fewer collisions, saving many millions and many lives. That's the crucial point in this debate. It's why almost everyone, including me, supports reasonable speed limits and tries to follow them.
But if the city is going to now rigidly enforce speed limits, then the real rules of our city roads have changed. The old buffer is gone.
Little wonder that the number of photo radar tickets has gone from 139,963 to 1995, when officers like Armstrong ran the show, to more than 300,000 last year.
On our website, more than 1,300 respondents took a poll Thursday, with 70 per cent saying a driver should not get a ticket for going 10 km/h over the speed limit.
If this new kind of enforcement is going to get public support, the city has got to raise the speed limit on a number of major Edmonton roads. Either that or bring back a reasonable, unofficial buffer.
If neither of those things happen, people will have every inclination to complain about city authorities engaging in a photo radar cash grab.


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THE decision to postpone Oxford United's game against Fleetwood Town on Saturday may help the club in the long run, according to manager Chris Wilder.
Prolonged heavy rain left the playing surface at the Kassam Stadium waterlogged and referee Ollie Langford had no hesitation in calling the game off after an 11.30am inspection.
With a lengthy list of players either out injured or not fully fit, Wilder is optimistic of having a stronger squad to select from when the fixture is rearranged in the new year.
He said: "When you have a fully fit squad everybody is buzzing and you want to play game after game.
"But when you're in a situation like ours, where there are players not at 100 per cent and others we can't select from, then I suppose (a postponement) is favourable, because you'd like to think that when the game does get rearranged you'd be stronger.
"But it was a decision made by the referee and with the weather that came down there was no option for him."
It also helped that most of the other games in npower League Two were also rained off.
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In four minutes, everything on the field changed.
Cherry-Valley Springfield held a 1-0 lead on Davenport for nearly 30 minutes, but goals by Mike Libby and Cody Wamsley in rapid succession led the Wildcats to a 2-1 victory over the Patriots in the Section Four Class D semifinals at the Wright National Soccer Campus in Oneonta on Wednesday.
"That's the game I guess," CV-S coach Terri Adams said. "Flukes happen, balls get through."
Wamsley's game winner with 14:32 left in the second half came on a second effort after the Patriots stopped a shot by Josh Davi. However the ball never got to CV-S goalie Jeremy Pickett, who was blocked from it by several fallen players, including two of his own defenders. Wamsley was then able to poke the ball away and kick it high into the goal.
"It was just one of those things in the moment," Wamsley said. "There was a lot of obstruction. The keeper came out, and I was able to get the ball out and put it over his head."
Davenport coach Deb Moorby said that she had told her players at halftime to do a better job of following their shots.
"He was kind of there at the right place at the right time," she said. "I told them at halftime to follow everything. It just paid off."
Four minutes and ten seconds earlier, Libby tied the game when he collected a long throughball from Kyle Moorby, tapped it away from a defender and then put it in the goal.
A minute after his goal, Libby made a long run on another throughball, but instead of getting the game winner, he ended up in a collision that left him injured with what appeared to be a separated right shoulder.
"That's kind of the story of our season," Wamsley said. "We all just wrote 'Mike' on our shoes because of what he has meant to us."