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When you're filming on the beaches of Hawaii, you gotta have a good body -- and "Hawaii Five-0" star Alex O'Loughlin definitely delivers!
Alex, who plays Steve McGarrett in the CBS reboot, shows some skin for the new issue of GQ Style Australia -- where he also talks about the pressure with taking on an iconic role.
"It's really important that if you're an artist involved in recreating something as iconic as this, that you find some way to step away from that," says O'Loughlin, adding "First of all, there's a lot of fans of the old show and a lot of critics who are looking to get their teeth into us. And then there's also a lot of fans and friends of Jack Lord — who played the original Steve McGarrett — and I'm an Australian. So I can't think about any of that. All I can think about is doing my work, being true and honest within the character and trying to deliver on time."
For more on the sexy star, including some behind-the-scenes video from his photo shoot, check out the GQ Style Australia website!
OH HELL YEAH!!!! Thank God for GQ!!!
I love Alex and love the show.
He is doing a great Steve McGarrett and I look forward to watching the show every week! The whole cast is awesome.
Love the new Hawaii 5 O; and I am a die hard fan of the original series. Each week, we watch some "old Hawaii 5 O with jack Lord, and some "new 5 O" with Alex and crew!
OH THANK U THANK U THANK U!!!! its a long time comin' more hot guys on tv, mags, etc............ we women r waitn n watchn and DAMN BUT Ur DOING GOOD.........
I plan my night TV watching around Hawaii Five 0 love that show, there is drama and a little comedy, always a good story line. The actors sure are not hard to look at. Please do not take this show off the air. It is one of the best show on Monday Nights.
FINALY, someone got smart and gave this perfect man a show. Loved, loved, loved him on Moonlight. Now I wait for every Monday to see him and his great castmates! He could read the phone book and I would watch him.
I can't agree more with post # 9. Finaly it looks like he's got a shoe that might stick it out for more than 2 seasons. I also LOVED Moonlight and hated it was canceled all too soon! Three Rivers wasn't too bad either. Let's hope this show last a while as he's the boom when it comes to making the roles come alive!! The eye candy doesn't hurt either.
I love the show except for one thing...too much noise and music when the stars are talking and I miss half of whats being said...anyone know where I can write and ask them to tone down the noise, when the cast are talking.
he is so hot in those pictures. i think in need a cold showers after looking at him..............
Thank you #11! I even wrote to the show about that sound stuff. Told them it seems like they are trying to tell us how to feel ( with the music, esp.,) and we just need to "get it" for ourselves. And Alex has such a beautiful voice...
I did fix the problem quite a bit, by changing some sound settings in my TV's menu...you can play with that.
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TCU Men's Tennis Defeats A&M Corpus Christi
Jan. 24, 2003
FORT WORTH, Texas - The TCU men's tennis team opened their home season with a win today at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center, when they defeated Texas A&M Corpus Christi 6-1.
The match was played indoors due to a chilly 19-degree temperature this morning.
The Frogs took the doubles point after all three TCU doubles teams won. The No. 1 team of Fabrizio Sestini and Alex Menichini def. Christophe Bergues and Oscar Roman 8-6. The No. 2 team of Rafael Abreu and Daniel Scholten def. Goncalo Figueiredo and Luis Morris 9-8 with a 7-5 tiebreaker. The No. 3 team of Toni Gordon and Jacopo Tezza def. Loren Collins and Shazeb Niazi 8-4.
On the singles side, TCU won all but one match. No. 1 Gordon was defeated by Bergues 6-4; 6-4. No. 2 Menichini def. Morris 6-3; 6-2 and No. 3 Sestini def. Figueiredo 6-1; 6-3. No. 4 Abreu def. Niazi 6-2; 6-2, No. 5 Scholten def. Roman 7-5; 6-1 and No. 6 Tezza def. Collins 6-3; 6-2.
Abreu is now 6-0 on the season.
Head Coach Joey Riv? said of the match, "I am very pleased with our start, we had tough matches today." "Our doubles teams looked good and we played some good tennis, we're off to a good start."
The Frogs take on Saint Louis Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. at the indoor courts at the Friedman Tennis Center.
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Black and White are the best titles I've seen in the Pokémon series since Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum.
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Fantasic. Now I get to listen to some mindless, lifeless morons grapple at each other's throats over the "hardcore on the Wii" thing.
...No that's not sarcasm, listening to those ridiculous hardcore debates is actually a lot of fun
We Americans have been getting decent updates for some time now. (As far as I know, as I've just been popping up here every couple of weeks now) WarioWare, Ogre Battle... and those DSi tools look pretty interesting.
O_O Great Arceus almighty, why is everyone so excited?! Pikmin isn't THAT great.
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Wow. I remember wanting this one for a long time, and then I forgot all about it when the Wii came along. Maybe I should get it sometime...
About damn time. When that game hits the American VC I am BUYING.
Not sure if I should buy it, since I own FF2...
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I'd buy the arcade versions over the NES versions.
Might buy. Might not.
Why pull the demos when WW sales skyrocketed because of them? Uncool...
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IMO, that's the SSB games.
bursts through wall OH YEAH. Thankfully I don't have the PSP version yet, because then I'd have to dig my uncomfortable-to-play PSP out of my closet, then charge it every 3 hours. I am psyched.
THANK YOU, PROSODY ALMIGHTY. This'll be useful for when my family's getting wifi.
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Pretty good week for NA. Though the UNO price tag is a turn off...
Whoa. That's all I can say. Just... whoa.
I'm too braindead to think of anything good to say about this.
One amazing week for North America.
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I'll definitely be picking up this one.
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I'm actually kind of relieved.
Some guy on VC-forums told me to get the WiiWare version, glad I haven't done it yet
Before video games, Nintendo was a card company.
Anyway. That's cool.
WHAT?! No more Wario Land here, no more BIS Down Under?
Way to be a bunch of ass clowns, Nintendo. Wario Land Shake It sells pretty well here, and Bowser's Inside Story sells amazingly worldwide.
And they're not even collector's editions. What a complete dick move.
Thankfully, my grandparents have a copy of Shake It at their house, so they'll let me steal it
Personally I found most of the BGM unbearable. Not because it didn't fit, but because I just didn't like it. >_< Not as bad as the awful music in Knuckles's SA2 stages, but still.
But what are you gonna do.
And 2010 for gaming keeps getting better.
This will be so awesome. But this one could use some improvements from the first...
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Saifur Rahman Saif, Jessore, Bangladesh: The lives of ten passengers of a night coach of Shohagh Paribahan came to an end as it met a tragic accident on Jessore – Benapole Road in the middle of Gadkhali and Beneali under Jhikargachha upazila in Jessore on Tuesday morning.
The accident took place on Jessore – Benapole Road while the sleepy driver of the night coach lost his control over the steering and crashed with a roadside tree killing 6 people including a woman on the spot at around 6:30am, said Mosharraf Hossain, officer in-charge, Jhikargachha police station.
The dead are identified as Ranjan Paul of Nawabgonj, Dhaka, Jamal Uddin of Dogair, Dhaka, Bisyut Ghosh of Goalnagar Lane, Dhaka, Momin Uddin of Tolagonj under Langolkot upazila, Comilla, Nirmal Chandra Saha and his wife Ghana Saha of Ashtagram, Kishorgonj, helper Momin Uddin of Kaliakandi village in Rajbari, Abdus Salam of Hasail, Munshigonj, Proshenjit of Goalkhali in Shariatpur and an unidentified man.
The OC added, four others died at hospital later. Of them one at Jhikargachha Upazila Health Complex and three at Jessore Medical College Hospital. At least twenty others were wounded in the accident, said locals.
Of the wounded 13 were rushed to Jessore Medical College Hospital.
Hearing the hue and cry locals rushed to the spot and rescued the victims and took them to several hospitals. The bodied were rushed to the police station later. The incident made the air heavy.
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I've said a time or two that I don't like steampunk. I find it terminally silly and I can't understand the attraction of it. At all.
I posted last week how much I liked Norman Spinrad's definition of speculative fiction, in a recent issue of Asimov's. In that essay, he also expressed a dislike of steampunk. I appreciated his dissection of steampunk, as it confirms my own distaste of the genre. I liked it so much that I decided to share it with you.
Build a past with pseudo-Victorian technology that never was, much of which could never have worked, and extend it into the present or even the future. Instead of airplanes, dirigibles. Instead of electronic computers, mechanical "difference engines." Cars and trucks running on steam engines. Maybe even gas lighting instead of electric lighting. In many cases, public domain characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Queen Victoria dragooned into story service.
Now some of this fiction can be well written and amusing, though I must admit I am generally not amused by it, because I am generally not amused by Victorian nostalgia. But what it cannot be is speculative fiction, let alone "science fiction," because it is inherently retro fiction, whose entire esthetic is a nostalgia for a past that never was and mostly could never have been. It can only be nostalgic fantasy.
Again, there is nothing wrong with enjoying the reading of such stuff, as many people do, and there is nothing wrong and much that is therefore lucrative in writing it, nor any literary reason it cannot rise to high art. What is wrong is that, commercially, it tends to be marketed as "SF," and, indeed, as often as not, even "science fiction." What is wrong with that, literarily speaking, is that the speculative element, ipso facto, is phony Victorian technology that never existed because technologically speaking, it couldn't have actually worked.
Exactly. It's not silly because it is unlikely to work or doesn't work. It's silly because supposedly science loving people are fawning over "technology" that never will work and never could work. It's not science, it's faux science. It's anti-science. That's not fun, that's just a waste of time.


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Melissa Lloyd-Jones is a native Californian, originally from the Los Angeles area. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish from the University of Redlands and a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from UCLA. While in college, she studied Spanish in Guadalajara, Mexico and Madrid, Spain, experiencing the thrill and challenge of learning a second language. Prior to working as an English teacher, she worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor helping people who had been injured at work to train for new jobs within their physical capacities. She has always loved helping people to build skills to enrich their lives and expand their opportunities, and this passion is what attracted her to teaching. She began teaching ESL in Sacramento, California in 1994. She taught in the Intensive English Program at UC Davis and at Sacramento City College. In 1997 she began teaching part-time here at MiraCosta College and Palomar College. She became a full-time instructor here in 2008. She has taught all levels of English to people from other countries; she also has experience teaching writing to people born in this country.
Melissa's highest priorities as a language instructor are to make learning interesting for students and to help meet students' individual needs as they develop their writing, reading, and speaking skills. Believing deeply in the power of education, Melissa loves her work and thoroughly enjoys the opportunity to get to know students.
Mary began her higher education as a student of Mount San Antonio Community College in Walnut, California. She then earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cal Poly Pomona University, and her Master of Science in TESOL Education from Cal State University Fullerton where she was awarded the Outstanding MS Candidate in TESOL. She also holds a Certificate in Online Teaching from the UCLA.
In the 1980s, Mary taught Academic ESL Writing, Reading, and Listening/Speaking at Cal Poly University and local community colleges in the Los Angeles area. Upon moving to San Diego in 1993, Mary joined MiraCosta Community College as an Associate Faculty member where she taught all of the ESL course offerings as well as served as the Associate Faculty Representative to the Academic Senate.
In 1999, Mary attained a full-time position at San Diego Miramar College where she taught both English and ESL. She was a faculty leader in ESL program revision and development as well as served as the Team Leader for General Education course development for SDCCD Online.
Mary was thrilled to return to MiraCosta in 2005 as the Lead Instructor for the Credit English as a Second Language Program and is dedicated to helping ESL students succeed in college and meet their academic, personal, and vocational needs.
Heather Weldele received her Bachelor's of Arts in English, Magna Cum Laude, from San Diego State University. While attending, she additionally worked as a teaching assistant for the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Department. She received her Master's in English at Queen Mary University of London, where she graduated with merit. She has also attended London Teachers' Training College and University of California Santa Barbara Extension, earning both TEFL and TESOL certificates.
After receiving her Master's degree and returning from London, she began to teach a variety of ESL courses at English Language Services, where she was also Student Advisor and Activities Coordinator. At the same time, she taught both transferable English Composition and remedial writing at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in San Diego. Currently, she teaches credit and non credit courses, from basic skills to academic ESL at both Palomar and MiraCosta.
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Mozart à la Mode
Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, and No. 21 in C, K. 467 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 22 in E flat, K. 482, and No. 23 in A, K. 488 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 25 in C, K. 503, and No. 26 in D, K. 537 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Piano Concerto No. 20
Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Piano Concerto No. 21
Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Sonata No. 12 in F, K. 332
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 26 in D, K. 537, and Rondos, K. 382 and 386
Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 23 in A, K. 488, and No. 27 in B flat, K. 595
Several complete or nearly complete recordings of Mozart's piano concertos are listed as available—though whether you will be able to find them at your local record store, or even order them, is another question. What you are more likely to find are CD reissues of famous old Mozart performances: performances by Schnabel, Casadesus, Lipatti, Michelangeli, Clara Haskil, Myra Hess, Clifford Curzon, and others, none of them much improved by digital remastering. The first to issue a complete Mozart set was Alfred Brendel, whose ten CDs span the transition from the analogue to the digital eras (1970–1984). He has been followed by Murray Perahia, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and, most recently, Malcolm Bilson.1
The Bilson series has stimulated occasional gusts of interest ever since the first disc, featuring Concerto No. 9 in E flat, K. 271 ("Jeunehomme"), was issued in 1983. The impending completion of the series allows for a comprehensive appraisal of Bilson's enterprise. As a Mozart player Bilson stands up very well, I believe, not only to his more renowned contemporaries, but also to the venerable and revered remastered masters. His achievement has a good deal to tell us about the current scene in musical performance, as I shall try to suggest later.
Most of Mozart's thirty-odd piano concertos and concerto rondos were written in the 1780s, the last decade of his life, after he had broken away from his traditional position as provincial court servant and set himself up as a freelance composer and performer in Josephine Vienna. Brillant successes were matched by depressing failures; his final success—Die Zauberflöte—came just too late and he died young, of course, in straitened circumstances. Among his earlier successes were a run of Akademien, or subscription concerts, which he was able to set up, most of them featuring concertos.
With these concertos, Mozart attempted to make the scene in music's capital city. On one level, the inner drama of concerto relationships invites a metaphorical reading as one person's effort to gain acceptance from the group. On another level, the concerto is the genre which more than any other (even opera) was fine-tuned by its composer to dazzle and delight his contemporaries.
That the Mostly Mozart audiences of today are pleased by exactly what the composer wrote to please his own paying public must count as a mysterious circumstance, possibly even an ominous one. Our special empathy for these works is much less easy to understand than the lack of interest in them during the nineteenth century. Only one concerto survived in the repertory for very long after Mozart's death, the turbulent Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, and it has had to pay a price for its solitariness, as Charles Rosen observed:
The D minor Concerto is almost as much myth as work of art: when listening to it, as to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, it is difficult at times to say whether we are hearing the work or its reputation, our collective image of it.2
The canonization of Mozart's other concertos is attributed primarily to the activity of two great pianists, Artur Schnabel and Edwin Fischer, in the 1930s and 1940s. Connoisseurs have been known to prefer the interpretations of Fischer, who specialized in Bach and Mozart—Schnabel favored Beethoven and Schubert—and who actually founded his own chamber orchestra to present the concertos in a "historical" fashion. But Schnabel was the more important international figure, and his recordings have never been allowed to remain out of circulation for very long. A new CD series, Mozart and Schnabel, transmits six of his concerto recordings, along with his famous performance of the Rondo in A minor, K. 511, and several sonatas.
A CD changer with repeat function makes it a simple matter to compare Schnabel and Bilson in, let us say, the opening piano solos in movements of the D minor Concerto. (This kind of comparison doesn't speak to the nature or quality of their interpretations as a whole, of course, but at least it speaks with some specificity.) In the first movement, the piano enters some time after the orchestra, as always happens in classical concertos; here—and this happens rather rarely—the piano enters with a completely new, notably expressive theme. Schnabel does a number of little things with tempo and dynamics in order to make this entry theme into something assertive and particularly characteristic.
There are six tiny phrases—two plus two plus two—in the entry theme (see score on facing page). Schnabel is renowned for his impeccable molding of melodic lines; by speeding up the tempo a little at the start, he tints the line with urgency and disquiet. Playing phrases 1–3 more and more intensely and freely, with increasing volume and rubato, results in a precipitous emotional climax at the end of phrase 3. But then Schnabel is more or less forced to play phrase 4—the highest so far—more quietly, and it trails away.
The solo persona projected by Bilson seems to be thinking less about the presence it is going to establish than about the theme it has just heard in the orchestra (as well it might: it is an astonishingly tormented theme). Slowing the tempo slightly, Bilson plays phrases 1–2 and 3–4 in a straightforward soft/loud (piano/mezzo forte) pattern. Besides reflecting the inherent paired structure of the phrases, and their register, which is low/high in each case, this brings the music out at a mezzo forte so that phrases 5–6, which are the highest of all, can soar beautifully. Notice how Bilson glides through the grace note in the last measure. Certainly he underplays phrase 3—and gains a quiet pinch of pathos without having to work for it. Distinguish this from Schnabel's underplaying of phrase 4, which has to be called sentimental.
All the phrases are linked by repetitions of a single four-note figure in the left hand. Bilson (like most other pianists) plays these calmly and consistently—a reasonable reading, since the very neutrality of the figure serves to anchor the wide-ranging, emotional span of the right-hand melody. By accenting the figure in various different ways, Schnabel destroys this anchor; his concept of this entire entry passage as basically disruptive is easier to accept than the arbitrary measures he takes to achieve the effect.
But if Schnabel is more idiosyncratic and Bilson more restrained in the first-movement theme, attitudes are reversed in the finale. Within the angry, impacted rondo theme a number of little fragments repeat themselves almost obsessively, and Schnabel makes no effort to distinguish these one from another. However stormy, his playing seems ultimately bland compared to Bilson's, where the entire theme mounts in intensity, fragment by fragment, driving from a percussive trajectory at the beginning to a furious climax at the very end.
On paper, this may seem like a very "unclassical" strategy for a Mozart theme. But it sounds thrilling, and it suits both the aberrant theme itself and also the deeply unclassical movement which that theme launches. Usually, once a rondo theme has been played by the soloist, the orchestra repeats it and so appropriates it; not so in the D minor Concerto. After the first offer of the piano theme, the orchestra can't get even the music right for more than three measures, and when it attempts to develop the theme rather than repeat it, the orchestra simply gets lost. The second offer of the theme throws it into a virtual panic. After the last offer, which now begins to sound uncharacteristically like a challenge, the orchestra declines to deal with the initial theme at all—it literally changes the subject. Bilson's explosive interpretation helps to rationalize the orchestra's utter failure to cope, both technically and emotionally.
Exhausting analyses of this kind can be carried out with other discs slipped into the CD changer; and the comparison is not always so clearly to Bilson's advantage. The pendant to the D minor Concerto, Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467, is the vehicle for some of Schnabel's finest playing. Bilson's performance may be preferable as a whole—it is certainly less erratic—but he does not quite capture the verve with which Schnabel projects the opening piano entry in the first movement, or the piano entry after the main theme in the finale, or many of the bravura passages. Also in the finale Schnabel finds a perfect combination of wariness and charm for the delightful passage of mock uncertainty that starts the development section. Phrases in the celebrated slow movement are molded with a pensive grace that is almost unbelievable, especially in view of the slow tempo (more than half again as slow as Bilson).
Bilson does, however, have an in-built advantage in playing Mozart concertos on an eighteenth-century instrument—the so-called "Mozart piano," or fortepiano—together with an orchestra of period or period-style instruments. The fortepiano he uses is a beautiful reproduction by the American maker Philip Belt, and the orchestra is conducted, very well indeed, by John Eliot Gardiner.
The Bilson-Gardiner enterprise represents, in fact, another major foray by the early-music movement into the later reaches of the canonic concert repertory: first Bach and Handel, now Mozart and Beethoven. Moreover, Roger Norrington has already conducted period-instrument concerts monstres of music by Berlioz, and Bilson will soon record the Schumann Piano Concerto on a piano of 1838. Small wonder that the old dispute among musicians about so-called "historically authentic" performance has flared up once again.
The action may be viewed at a safe distance in an anthology called Authenticity in Early Music, edited by Nicholas Kenyon.3 Not much of intellectual substance remains to the idea of "authentic" performance after Richard Taruskin, in an explosive essay, has challenged its historical plausibility, denied its desirability, and mocked the pretensions implicit in the loaded term itself. His own term, "authentistic," is handily backloaded, "authentistic being to authentic as Hellenistic was to Hellenic." At times Taruskin writes as though the whole early-music movement were a scam in aid of the recording companies, similar to the hoax that Joseph Horowitz claimed the mass-culture industry perpetrated around "authentic" versions of symphonic classics by Toscanini.4 This is a lot less convincing than Taruskin's argument that the true ideological basis of "authentistic" performance is not really historical reconstruction at all.
Is not—or was not. For some time after World War I, it is certainly true that both historical performance and "traditional" performance tended toward the impersonal, the objective, and what T.E. Hulme called the "geometrical," as opposed to the "vitalistic" in nineteenth-century art. Indeed, the original impetus behind the early-music movement was the revulsion against romantic emotionality endemic to early-twentieth-century modernism, the modernism of Pound, Eliot, Hulme (who admired "the dry hardness which you get in the classics"), Ortega, and Stravinsky. Historicism became important only later. Stravinsky is a key figure, with his astringent music of the neoclassical period, his influential polemics against musical expression in the Harvard lectures The Poetics of Music, and his likewise influential piano performances (as in an almost unbelievably mechanical Mozart recording of 1938).
Brendel and Perahia have recorded all twenty-seven concertos for one or more pianos and orchestra, Perahia adding Mozart's early concertos arranged from works of other composers. Ashkenazy has recorded sixteen, and Bilson will have reached twenty when his final disc containing the Concertos in C minor, K. 491, and B flat, K. 495, is issued later this year.↩
Charles Rosen, The Classical Style (Norton, 1972), p. 228.↩
Oxford University Press, 1988. Taruskin's essay, "The Pastness of the Present and the Presence of the Past," appears on pp. 137–210.↩
Joseph Horowitz, Understanding Toscanini (Knopf, 1987).↩
Brendel and Perahia have recorded all twenty-seven concertos for one or more pianos and orchestra, Perahia adding Mozart's early concertos arranged from works of other composers. Ashkenazy has recorded sixteen, and Bilson will have reached twenty when his final disc containing the Concertos in C minor, K. 491, and B flat, K. 495, is issued later this year.↩
Charles Rosen, The Classical Style (Norton, 1972), p. 228.↩
Oxford University Press, 1988. Taruskin's essay, "The Pastness of the Present and the Presence of the Past," appears on pp. 137–210.↩
Joseph Horowitz, Understanding Toscanini (Knopf, 1987).↩


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Jacob Zuma won the Presidency of South Africa, but neither as narrowly as the opposition predicted nor by as large as a margin as the ANC formerly enjoyed. All Africa focused on the setbacks inside of Zuma's victory.
Cape Town — The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won South Africa's national election with a slightly reduced majority, narrowly failing to achieve the two-thirds majority that would enable it to change the country's Constitution unilaterally. Although the party lost votes across the board in most provinces, the losses were largely offset by a dramatic leap in support in KwaZulu-Natal, home province of the ANC's leader, Jacob Zuma – at the expense of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
But in the Western Cape, centred on Cape Town, the ANC suffered as calamitous a setback as did the IFP in KwaZulu-Natal, losing control of the province to the official opposition, the Democratic Party.
The Online Times noted however, that opposition scenarios predicting an ANC meltdown did not eventuate. "The ANC's victory was never in doubt, but most pundits expected widespread voter disgruntlement to result in a sharply reduced majority. In the event, the share of the vote was down – from 69.7% in 2004 to 65.9%, just short of a two-thirds majority – but the lead was decisive."
The South African Times, in a post election editorial, articulated the concerns on both sides. "We hope he will quickly stamp out the nascent personality cult building around him … For the third of South Africa that did not elect the ANC, the challenge is to put aside past resentments and judge the Zuma government on its actions, and accord his high office the respect it demands. As the new executive begins to submit policy proposals, the opposition must assess them fairly, criticise as necessary and support as appropriate. This newspaper denies none of its concerns about Zuma's ascent, but respects the will and judgment of the majority. We will monitor the new government with the same rigorous scrutiny that has underpinned all our reporting and analysis."
And: is Jacob Zuma Mr. X?
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I must confess to being rather out of the loop on this one. In an effort to catch up, I've been reading the Wikipedia page on Jacob Zuma, and the man is certainly some piece of work. What are the pertinent geopolitical issues and/or combinations we need to worry about vis-à-vis South Africa?April 25, 2009 - 3:59 pm Link to this Comment
2. Mad Fiddler
The literacy and grace of the quote from the "South African Times" are stunning.April 25, 2009 - 4:07 pm Link to this Comment
3. mac
South Africa is screwed. Anybody paying attention has noticed that more than half of the whites who voted out the apartheid government have since left the country. Crime is out of control, the government apparently has little interest in stopping even that bit it could, and the country is on the fast slide to middle Third World status. When I was last there in 2005 every white person I spoke to was either already prepared to emigrate or thinking seriously about doing so.
My money says the 2010 World Cup ISN'T held in South Africa.April 25, 2009 - 4:10 pm Link to this Comment
4. Kinch
The elephant in the room, not mentioned directly in the article is that Zuma is a Zulu, Natal/KwaZulu is the Zulu stronghold. Both Mandela and Mbeki are Xhosas. Xhosas and Zulus generally do *not* like each other. In a big way.
The ANC, whilst officially multi-racial, is effectively the Xhosa Ascendancy. However, some effort to date has been made to be at least a bit inclusive.
Buthelezi is, of course a Zulu, and in fact Zulu Royalty. It's not surprising that his Inkatha Freedom Party has lost some votes since it's natural that Zulus might want to vote for their guy to have a chance at the top.
Elsewhere, South African Blacks probably voted as much for the ANC as for Zuma himself.
He's definitely a Nut Job. But then so is Mbeki – vide Mbeki's stance on HIV. It's only because Mbeki was such a disaster that a Zulu (let alone a Big Man from Central Casting like Zuma) could have a crack at the ANC top spot – and hence become President.
It's going to be very interesting to see whether Zuma starts pandering to the Zulus. Tribal favouritism is one of the curses of African politics and it's hard to imagine this fellow rising above the temptation.
As for the general state of law and order… that's pretty much a disaster already, as another poster has pointed out.April 25, 2009 - 5:36 pm Link to this Comment
5. anonymous
"We hope he will quickly stamp out the nascent personality cult building around him, and demand that he and his government are measured by their commitment, energy and results. We have seen the damage that results when a leader is declared to be beyond criticism or even question…"
Oh dear. Where have we heard this before?April 25, 2009 - 6:36 pm Link to this Comment
6. whiskey
Zuma is Exhibit A on Africa's Big Man problem.
South Africa is toast. Just waiting to be a colder Liberia, or Somalia.April 25, 2009 - 7:33 pm Link to this Comment
7. Eggplant
My wife is South African. The word from her friends and relatives back in South Africa is that Zuma is serious trouble (South Africa maybe going down the same road as Zimbabwe did with Mugabe). Zuma is little more than a common criminal. He committed rape and used his political influence to avoid successful prosecution. The woman he raped has since fled to the Netherlands. Zuma is also guilty of corruption. Zuma's misconduct is common knowledge in South Africa. The fact that Zuma was elected anyway indicates the political process in South Africa has failed.
If you live in South Africa, you need to liquidate your possessions and get out now.April 25, 2009 - 10:23 pm Link to this Comment
8. Alexis
I think the most interesting event in South Africa's election is what happened in the Western Cape. The Democratic Alliance is now in the saddle there.April 25, 2009 - 10:44 pm Link to this Comment
9. Alexis
There is an off chance that people throughout the world will be hearing more about Helen Zille in future years…April 25, 2009 - 11:00 pm Link to this Comment
10. onlooker
65.9% is 0.8% off 2/3rds majority. so, this is cold comfort, as all it takes to pass legislation is to get co-operation from one of the smaller parties….
so, officially they did not get 2/3 majority, but in actuallity they may still……April 25, 2009 - 11:03 pm Link to this Comment
Eggplant is right , sell and get out especially if you are white. South Africa will go the way of Rhodesia. The whites who gave up power will reap the consequences of their poor sense of power politics.
Even if they can not get decent money take any offer and leave for Europe or USA.
They will lose the properties and their lives if they stay.April 26, 2009 - 5:28 am Link to this Comment
12. Alexis
I don't think South Africa will necessarily go the way of Zimbabwe. The ANC's position isn't quite as powerful as the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe.
One key difference is the Western Cape, especially Cape Town itself. If things get bad in the east, there is a chance that Cape Town would turn into a new laager.
South Africa isn't just about black and white. One of the nasty aspects of apartheid is how it disenfranchised the Cape Coloreds whose language is Afrikaans (or some version thereof). Moreover, it is not as though the Cape Coloreds aren't native to the Cape; their heritage is a mixture of Khoi, San, Malay, Dutch, English, Bantu, and many other groups. If anything, they would feel more trapped than white people.
If the fertilizer hits the fan, it is quite possible that Cape Town won't fall.April 26, 2009 - 10:47 am Link to this Comment
13. Eggplant
Without question the treatment of the Cape Coloreds by the Afrikaaners during apartheid was an utter disgrace. However with the ANC now firmly in control of the Republic, the Afrikaaner's previous sins are almost irrelevant. The townships around Capetown are almost as nasty as those around Joburg (which are nasty beyond belief). The Bantu can over power anything the whites or coloreds can do through shear weight of numbers. South Africa is past political solutions.
It's time to cut-and-run if you can.April 26, 2009 - 8:48 pm Link to this Comment
14. noprisoners
Unfortunately, ALL of Africa is in this shape, or worse, when all things are considered. I have spent time in Nigeria. On one flight home, I tried to develop a plan that would make Nigeria a functioning entity. I had met with President Obasanjo and the wife of the Vice-President. My first thought that Nigeria should be "recolonized". But, by whom? Someone must eliminate the "big man" philosophy that dominates the country. I think that that can only be an outside power. The U.S. might be capable; but, I don't think that is prudent.
Finally, I decided that all of Africa is not worth finding a social solution. The Chinese have the right idea. They will exploit the minerals and riches of the continent and rule the indiginent people with a heavy hand.April 26, 2009 - 8:54 pm Link to this Comment
15. Mad Fiddler
What happens when there are no other territories to which the dissatisfied may emigrate?
It's not that far off. The posing Leftist expatriates of the U.S. could call Republicans "Nazis" and "Fascists" without consequence. They could come and go as they pleased, advance to top University posts, grow rich from the publishing proceeds from their rants, and retire to live on their trust accounts, royalties, and "four-oh-wonks."
The countries to which they relocated had been for centuries famously tolerant of dissidents from OTHER countries, if not so scrupulous in protecting the rights of their own domestic critics. For those countries still smarting from lost empire, it was always satisfying regardless of local partisan issues, to be able to spit in the eye of the arrogant Americaines.
In a complex ballet of retreat before Islamic militancy, the Western European societies have been relentlessly curtailing the freedoms of their own people. Part of this is sheer pissing cowardice. Part of this is the self-imposed distortion of cradle-to-grave meddling in the lives of subjects. From those subjects, taxes are extracted by one bureaucracy in order to support another bureaucracy the task of which is to promulgate an encyclopedic list of incomprehensible rules used by the bureaucrats to justify distributing largesse as they see fit.
Those countries slide ever more deeply into real fascism and thought control. The Jihadists in their manifold incarnations press on the soft borders of "Dar-al-Harb" and exact concessions from the secular previously "liberal" regimes. We hurtle toward a worldwide community consisting of Islamic states competing for the chance to devour the European socialist states, a sprinkling of mere criminal dictatorships no one wants to bother with, and a stand-off among PRC, Russia, and India. The memory of an America to which people yearning for freedom could repair will fade along with that of the Britannia that made the seas safe for world trade for most of two centuries.
Nobody seems to care that the sharks will starve.April 26, 2009 - 9:00 pm Link to this Comment
16. Alexis
Where would the Cape Coloreds have to go? Belgium? Holland? Suriname? The United States? They are at once very African and not regarded as "African" by black racists.
While it may be wise for individual residents of South Africa to cut and run, I doubt this would be feasible for the majority of the population of the Western Cape. That leaves the fate of Cape Province an open question, especially if it becomes a refugee center for whites and coloreds from other parts of South Africa.
This looks like a political version of an irresistable force meeting an unmovable object.April 26, 2009 - 10:25 pm Link to this Comment
17. Eggplant
noprisoners said:
"Finally, I decided that all of Africa is not worth finding a social solution. The Chinese have the right idea. They will exploit the minerals and riches of the continent and rule the indiginent people with a heavy hand."
Africa will not be re-colonized. There are simply too many black Africans to permit that. Instead there will be resource exploitation based upon local corruption. For example, a large international corporation will decided that it wants to mine copper in some country like the Congo. The regional chief or warlord is paid "rent" at regular intervals to lease the plot of land containing the resource. The corporation then builds a fence around the resource, The corporation defends the security perimeter with foreign mercenaries and drives out the local population at the tip of a bayonet. The corporation then brings in American, European and Asian contractor workers to perform the actual resource extraction labor (local people are NOT used as workers). After the last dollar of resource has been extracted, the foreign corporation removes it workers, leaves behind its garbage and discontinues payment to the local warlord. The local warlord gets one cent on the dollar for the value of the resources extracted (if he's lucky) while the local population gets nothing except a mined-out moonscape. This process will continue until Africa is stripped of all of its mineral resources.April 26, 2009 - 10:42 pm Link to this Comment
18. noprisoners
Eggplant @ 17
I concur.
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Aww, man. Did anyone else catch this show on BBC Three last night?
I'm talking about Phoo Action – a completely bonkers comic strip based concept involving mutants, a kung fu cop, and the monarchy. Not to mention a hot-pants wearing chosen one, and – the reason I'm bringing it up here – a Lancia Stratos replica as the 'Phoo Mobile'.
How cool is that? A freaking Lancia Stratos! It gets plenty of screen time, too, including a moment when it drives itself…
If you didn't catch the show, and you like things a little bit off the wall, you should check it out. Think The Green Hornet meets The Mighty Boosh. Or something.
Only a pilot so far – and part of a season of six new dramas – there are repeats all through the BBC Three schedule at least until the 17 February. Or you can watch it online, and even download it using the BBC iPlayer (both for a limited time only – so don't blame me of those links don't work).
Anyways, here is the Phoo Mobile:
The two characters standing next to it are Terry Phoo (the kung fu cop, played by Eddie Shin) and Whitey Action (the other protagonist, played by Jamie Winstone. Yes, she is indeed Ray Winstone's daughter).
The whole thing is based on characters created by Jamie Hewlett (of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame) for a comic strip in The Face. It's produced by Matthew Read, and directed by Euros Lyn.
Bravo all. This is exactly the sort of crazy thing I want to see on digital TV. Got to use all those channels for something. Isn't New Media great?
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