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Opening remarks by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba to launch a national conversation on the Socio-Economic Future of South Africa:
Friday, 11 March 2016
Rebuilding South Africa, Recovering our Vision and Renewing our Society
Opening remarks by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba to launch a national conversation on the Socio-Economic Future of South Africa:
Friends, good afternoon.
On behalf of the steering committee which has driven this initiative -- Professor Binedell, Marius Oosthuizen, Charles Robertson and the Revd Moss Nthla; on behalf of my fellow patrons -- David Lewis, Russell Loubser, Roelf Meyer, Professor Ndebele and Bishop Siwa; and of the organisers of the conversations which we will initiate, thank you for being here.
I don't need to preach to you that South Africa is in a state of crisis (or epidemic distrust), perhaps one more serious than any we have faced since those dark days of the early 1990s when we risked being torn apart by violence. This too is a crisis that threatens to tear our social fabric apart and to send us into a downward spiral from which we will struggle to escape.
To name just a few of its elements:
• Our unemployment rate remains stubbornly high.
• Although there are sectors of the economy in which there are good jobs, the Minister of Basic Education herself tells us that many in the system are failing in their duty to provide our children with the knowledge and skills they need to do those jobs.
• There is nationwide student unrest at higher and further learning tertiary institutions, involving not only the destruction of the very facilities which are meant to provide for the education of our people but also the real danger of racial violence on our campuses.
• Our growth rate remains stubbornly low and we face the risk of recession. Two cycles of negative growth would bring misery to millions -- the poorest of the poor, the under-employed and the unemployed.
• The failure to deliver basic services is setting off thousands of social uprisings in communities across the country. These are so widespread that they are no longer news -- we hear about the blockading of roads and the burning of tyres in radio traffic reports rather than in news bulletins.
• From municipal to national level, good governance is threatened by failures ranging from inefficiency as a result of the appointment of people who cannot do their jobs, to corruption which has reached endemic levels in certain parts of our government. A number of state-owned enterprises have become a drain on the economy.
• Hundreds, possibly thousands, of good public servants are waging a quiet, behind-the-scenes struggle for clean government. It has been reported to me that some of those who resist pressures to sign off on corruptly-gained tenders live in fear of their lives. The outgoing editor of Business Day has reported that last year a former CEO of a state-owned enterprise told him that he resigned after receiving death threats so serious that they were delivered to his office.
• There is growing pressure on the health system from HIV/Aids, diabetes and tuberculosis, and we are faced by other critical health challenges affecting millions of our people such as institutional mismanagement.
• Freed from the crippling effects of apartheid, business has enjoyed significant returns since our country's political liberation -- but it has failed to drive our economic liberation and has made only a meagre contribution to the betterment of the broader society.
• Civil society is fractured and constrained. The religious sector is no exception to the general picture I have sketched. I cannot speak for any but my own church, but we too have our own internal crises over corruption and power struggles.
• As one of the nations that form part of the emerging markets sector of the global economy, South Africa is significantly vulnerable, and therefore subjected to commodity price fluctuations, currency valuations, and investor grade determinations that, in large measure, are out of our hands.
• And as if we needed a straw to break the camel's back, the current drought is turning many breadbaskets of our country into agricultural emergency zones. Five provinces -- KwaZulu-Natal, North West, Free State, Limpopo and Mpumalanga -- have declared drought disasters and food prices are rising.
Our nation is experiencing an unprecedented and historic crisis of distrust. Industry doesn't trust government. Labour doesn't trust government. Civil society doesn't trust government. Traditional leaders and religious leaders don't trust government. International banks and markets don't trust government. And in response, government says, it doesn't trust anyone either. In fact, I believe the most endangered species in South Africa is not what you think it is. It is trust.
Each of you here could enumerate other challenges. Suffice it to say that we have lost the sense of success and promise for the future that we shared during the early years of our democracy.
That is not to say that our achievements in the last 20 years have been insignificant. We sometimes lose sight of just how far we have actually come from the dispensations based on dispossession, slavery and social injustice that were the stark reality for most South Africans. We have hundreds and thousands of new houses and many new clinics. In areas where we have replaced mud schools, the new schools are first class. We have water, sanitation and electricity where we never had it before. I know some of our infrastructural development is cosmetic, and also that unscrupulous contractors sometimes build houses that crack and fall down, but we really showed the world what we are capable of when we hosted the 2010 World Cup: the new stadiums, the upgraded airports and the improved roads and what our police and security abilities.
Immense changes have brought significant improvements to the lives of millions of people. They have rebuilt social, cultural, political, economic and faith paradigms, vastly different from the past. South Africa is now firmly grounded within a constitutional order and many institutions are in good working order.
However, it is those very achievements which tell us we can do better than we are doing now. So although the social compact which inspired our liberation and the early achievements of our democracy is fractured, we can, if we act together, realise SEFSA's objectives, which are to:
• Rebuild hope and confidence among South Africans
• Recover our vision and create a growing economy, and
• Renew the soul of our nation and build a united, prosperous and healed South Africa.
Our social compact was premised on certain principles that we all must accept as binding, including the transformation of our entire economic, social, cultural, political and spiritual framework. We need to retool, restructure, rebuild and reconcile so that we create a society that is just, socially stable, compassionate, fiscally prudent, culturally conscious, spiritually grounded, culturally cohesive and economically sustainable.
How do we do that? Well, that is up to all of you here, and those whom you will draw into this process.
Professor Binedell has been quoted as saying: "I often think of South Africa like a jigsaw puzzle - and someone has gone off with the box. And we are left with the pieces and we're trying to figure out what belongs together and how do we find each other."
If I can develop his metaphor further, your job is not to waste time looking for the box with the picture of the completed puzzle on the cover -- it's probably been thrown away, to be pulped and recycled. Your job is the more demanding exercise of looking at the pieces each of you holds and collaboratively working out how to fit them together.
It is not as if we have to start from scratch in this process of rebuilding, recovery and renewal.
People at every level in every walk of life are already carrying out countless acts of goodwill. Far too many people are doing good in silos, failing to achieve the multiplier effect which coordination could achieve. We now want to combine their efforts into a force for good, guided by the values entrenched in our Constitution with the objective of realising its promises.
We want to come together to overcome the unsustainable situation we find ourselves trapped in, where there is not only inequality but inequality of opportunity, which denies people the chance to advance themselves by their own efforts. We have become a society in which "me" has replaced "we" – one in which we place our personal and family interests ahead of the interests of all of us. We want instead to build a courageous society in which we tap into the good in each South African instead of preying on their fears and promoting hate.
SEFSA then is not so much a movement as a broad national platform for ongoing consultation and consensus-building, aimed at finding agreement on what our challenges are and mobilising the means to address them. It is not a political campaign -- we have democratic institutions to deal with voter disgruntlement. It is a civil society-driven initiative guided by social, economic, spiritual and cultural imperatives.
The faith leaders who form part of this initiative are saying that we as a nation have lost our moral compass, partly because we in the faith community have been too quiet for too long. We are asking and I am asking, what has led us to this epidemic level of distrust, this crossroads? South Africans have been tranquillized by unkept promises. They have been lied to and sedated into thinking that the promised answers are around the corner. For decades, the promises of equality haven't been kept. The promise of equality of opportunity has failed to be delivered or achieved. We can't just feel and preach. We want more than just talk - we want action.
For me as a Christian, observing Lent and approaching Easter, the Sefsa process reflects the workings of the movement of the Holy Spirit, transforming people, offering them new alternatives and encouraging them to be bold. This initiative offers the faith community an opportunity to express our support for those in government who are fighting to eradicate corruption. Perhaps it offers us all an opportunity to create support mechanisms for honest public servants. It offers us a chance to appeal to the humanity of both students who threaten violence and destruction, and those in authority who are tempted to demonise them. It gives us the space to say to the country: Stop! Vuka! Let's think calmly and rationally and look for a way out of this crisis.
It also offers a chance to take a hard look beyond the issues that urban elites normally focus on, and to address less popular ones. One example is land tenure and redistribution, where there is no appetite to reconsider the fairness of the 1994 compact which said we would not redistribute land seized before 1913. Another is whether business is willing to get its hands dirty by going beyond its collaboration with popular high-profile individuals and working for the common good with small businesses on the ground in places like Alexandra up the road from here.
Although our crisis is at heart a moral one, the economic question is key. As I asked recently: do we want a society in which the economy grows for all, creating jobs for millions and spreading wealth? Or do we want a society in which a small politically-connected elite appropriates public resources for their own benefit? SEFSA needs to address urgently the underlying structures of socio-economic exclusion and alienation within and between our communities. It is therefore also a socio-economic project which seeks to draw all stakeholders and interest groups into a national dialogue and the action plans we aim to foster.
We know that to achieve anything of lasting value and importance involves struggle. So I would like to end by challenging each of the constituencies here today to join what I call the "new struggle" for the future of South Africa. Let us ask ourselves, what is the role of business in meeting society's needs? What is the role of labour? Of civil society? And of traditional and independent religious leaders and communities?
To enter into a struggle involves courage. For how will we pose the hard, unpopular questions if we don't have courage? So let's also ask ourselves: what is the role of each of our constituencies in initiating a new, courageous fight against corruption? What are our roles in coalescing around a new educational strategy for the nation?
We can't answer these questions alone, even with our levels of resolve and deep commitment. There is a degree of urgency in these matters.
The alternative to this struggle, my friends, is allowing our South Africa to sink further into becoming a shameful nation of corruption driven by self-interest, where there is a perverse amount of inequality in every home in our country. It is time for South Africa to stop chanting "this must fall" and "that must fall"... and together, create a deafening chorus of what must rise.
Ask yourself as we prepare for the work of this gathering: what do you want your children and grandchildren to say about the contributions you made here? Let us indeed be the change we want to see in South Africa.
Beginning today, SEFSA wants to set the country ablaze with debates over constructive, courageous, solution-based action. We will begin here, then go on to host provincial and regional consultative forums at all levels of society. As is characteristic of a project, SEFSA has an end date -- we must achieve our objectives over the next five years. So let's get down to the urgent task of rebuilding our country, recovering our vision and renewing our society.
God bless you, your family and God bless South Africa.
Posted by Anglican Media Office, Bishopscourt at 14:00
Labels: civil society, Corruption, Good Governance, Lent, SEFSA, Trust
2 comments:
- Anonymous11 March 2016 at 21:25
What a wonderful initiative!! Praise the Lord for this. God bless you and those supporting you.ReplyDelete
I must say this is an initiative almost long overdue. We are at a point where we need to be level-headed, truly patriotic and selfless for the sake of our children and their off-spring. We cannot afford to continuously deny that this country we struggled and prayed for is sliding into what could be a bottomless pit. Lest we forget, this is a country for which many of our brothers and sisters died; some of them are still haunted by the nightmares of the past while others bear the scars of that past. I do not think that they suffered the way they did for us to inherit the current situation. I sincerely thank God for this initiative.ReplyDelete
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The law of nature dictates survival of the fittest. Is Gary Barnett the fittest football coach in Division I-A? Maybe not, but he is definitely a survivor.
For almost three full years, the Colorado football program has been at the epicenter of an ugly scandal centered on allegations of sexual assault involving several players and the plying of recruits with alcohol-and-sex-stained parties.
The charges provoked an independent investigation of the entire athletic department commissioned by then-university president Elizabeth Hoffman.
In May 2004, the commission released its findings, among which it was noted that player-hosts did use sex and alcohol to entice prospects, but there was no evidence that university officials, including coaches, were culpable.
Just more than a week after the commission's report, the CU athletic department was restructured and placed under the watch of then-Provost Phil DiStefano. Meanwhile Barnett, who had been placed on administrative leave since February for comments he made about former Colorado kicker Katie Hnida (who had claimed in a Sports Illustrated article that she had been sexually assaulted by a teammate in 2000), was reinstated.
As the controversy widened to encompass a state grand jury investigation, several key figures at the center of the storm began to fall away. Athletic director Dick Tharp resigned last November. University Chancellor Richard Byyny left his post to become the executive director of a new health policy center at the school's hospital in December, though he said the scandal had nothing to do with his decision. Then Hoffman announced her resignation, effective last June 30, in response to mounting questions about her future job status.
DiStefano assumed the chancellorship on an interim basis, as did Hank Brown with the presidency of the university. Former San Diego State athletic director Mike Bohn was hired as Tharp's successor in April; he faces a mountain of budgetary and public relations crises brought about by the scandal.
And then there's Barnett. Not only has he retained his head coaching position -- Barnett is under contract through 2006 with an option for 2007, thanks to an extension signed three years ago -- the Buffs won a third Big 12 North Division title in 2004, albeit in very mediocre style. Colorado won its last three regular-season games to finish 4-4 in the league, then watched as Iowa State gagged away its opportunity to win the division outright by losing to Missouri, 17-14, on the last Saturday of the season.
Furthermore, the program received a modicum of legal vindication when the Title IX lawsuit that ignited the scandal in the first place was dismissed by a federal judge on March 31. U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that plaintiffs Lisa Simpson and Anne Gilmore did not prove that the university knew that female CU students were sexually harassed by football players or recruits, or that the school was indifferent to the claims.
The controversy has not ended by any means, but Colorado's coaches are seeing the light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Discussion is finally centered on the team between the lines, not outside of them.
"They dropped that lawsuit [several] months ago, and there's nothing, because [the media] has got nothing to write about," defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz said. "I think it validated that there wasn't any real merit to it."
Added offensive coordinator Shawn Watson, "We couldn't have done what we did last year unless we were of this mindset: You put your head down and you go to work, because you do the right things and good things happen to good people when you do it.
"People have taken it a little bit for granted, what we went through and how we got through it. There has to be something special there. It's something that doesn't get talked about enough, as far as I'm concerned."
Oklahoma throttled CU, 42-3, in the Big 12 Championship, but the Buffaloes rebounded by beating UTEP, 33-28, in the Houston Bowl. Barnett and his staff told their players to treat the bowl game like the first game of 2005; with 50 lettermen and 17 starters returning, the reasoning was valid enough. But can the Buffs match or exceed their hard-earned profits from 2004 in light of a nasty road schedule and a missing go-to tailback?
When your wide-outs are dropping more often than John Daly at Pebble Beach, it's only instinctual to improvise. As Joel Klatt (6-1, 210) demonstrated through the heart of the 2004 season, that only compounds the problem.
Through the first three games, all Colorado victories, Klatt was managing the game efficiently. He didn't have to put up Dan Fouts-like numbers because Bobby Purify was running like Chuck Muncie.
Then the Big 12 schedule hit, and Klatt went flat. Three interceptions against Missouri, two more in a win over Iowa State and a loss to Texas -- Klatt was fighting himself as well as his error-prone receivers.
Heading into 2005, the hope in the Colorado camp is that Klatt and his cohorts will develop a stronger bond built upon the Buffs' bowl victory over UTEP, when the senior went 24-of-33 for 333 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.
"Joel had to get back inside the system and not try to create things that weren't there," Watson said. "He just has to simply play within the system. He kind of went through a rough spot last year when he got outside the system.
"Joel tried to do way too much. He had lost [most] of his receivers that he was throwing to, guys who were responsible for 33 or 34 school records, with [D.J.] Hackett and [Jeremy] Bloom all graduated. He took a lot more on himself. Basically he had to learn, he had to develop relationships [with his receivers]."
The final tally shows Klatt completing just more than 57 percent of his passes for 2,065 yards and nine touchdowns, but the 15 interceptions mar the bottom line. Also, drops reared their ugly head in the spring game, as Klatt was just 5-of-16 for 64 yards.
If Klatt should struggle again, the Buffs have two distinct options available. Junior James Cox (6-3, 210) started over Klatt versus Iowa State last year and mopped up on three other occasions. Cox is more liable than Klatt to exit stage left, rushing for 37 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries last fall.
Bernard Jackson (6-0, 190) is an electric sophomore who punishes defenses with his scrambling speed. He had the best spring game of any of the quarterbacks, completing 70 percent of his tosses and rushing for 41 yards.
Another option is pure passer Brian White (6-5, 225), a sophomore from Mission Viejo, Calif., who missed much of the spring with a wrist injury.
"We don't have any issues at quarterback," Watson said. "We feel good about that position."
After graduating in May with a degree in sociology, Bobby Purify left a 1,000-yard hole in Colorado's backfield. The most pressing issue of fall camp will be who can be entrusted to fill it in.
"Coming out of the spring, our biggest question mark is our tailback position," Watson said. "The thing that's good about it is we have two very talented young players in Hugh Charles (5-8, 185) and Byron Ellis (6-0, 200).
"They're both very intelligent players, they did a great job between the hashes, but they're still young players. You don't just walk out there and be called on to carry the load, as Bobby carried the load last year."
Charles is swift (sub-4.4 speed) but small; whether he can handle the full-time pounding is uncertain. In 2004, the sophomore carried 17 times for 49 yards. Ellis is more rigidly constructed, but he too was used sparingly last year (19 rushes, 61 yards).
Initially, the rushing burden could settle on senior Lawrence Vickers' (6-2, 235) broad shoulders. A V-back not because of his surname but because he's a fullback-tailback hybrid, Vickers was a distant second to Purify in rushing yards last year, netting 248 on 60 carries.
Two other possibilities are junior Brandon Caesar (6-0, 210), who is still recovering from a pair of knee surgeries, and sophomore walk-on Ryan Enright (5-11, 185). Less commonly used to tote the rock, junior fullback Paul Creighton (6-5, 250) doubles as a tight end in some formations.
The Buffs will likely use Vickers as the heavyweight in short-yardage personnel groupings and employ Charles and Ellis in medium- to long-yard situations.
"Our philosophy always has been to play a number of tailbacks. We like to do that as a change-up on the defense," Watson said.
If radio broadcasts of Buff games were your only source of game-day coverage last year, you might have sworn the team had recruited quadruplets with the last name "Ohnohehadit."
"In 2003, we had six dropped balls the entire season. It was amazing. We caught everything," Watson said wistfully. "Last year we had 38.
"One of our big purposes in the spring was basically teaching the receivers and the tight ends the passing game and then getting them to make the plays. Making the contested catch, or just making the catch."
Only two of Colorado's top seven pass-catchers -- Ron Monteilh and Mike Duren -- were lost to graduation from 2004, so the remainder, led by senior Evan Judge (6-2, 215) and junior Blake Mackey (6-3, 200), has to get with the program soon.
"It's just something you have to go work on -- in drill work, in the classroom, in teamwork, in 7-on-7s," Watson said. "I love the talent we have at the position. Now it's a matter of them finishing the work and being consistent in doing that."
Three catches separated the Buffs' five top receivers in 2004, and Judge's 29 grabs topped the list. His best outings were early -- five catches for 82 yards in a romp over North Texas, six for 50 against Oklahoma State.
"Evan does everything right," Watson said. "He's a very assignment-strong guy. You can count on him to be everywhere he's supposed to be. The main thing with Evan was finish plays. He made some spectacular plays in 2004, and then he'd drop some easy plays."
Mackey produced more star turns, averaging a team-best 16 yards per catch. His finest hour was an eight-reception, 116-yard performance in a 26-20 victory over Nebraska.
"Blake Mackey is the best receiver talent since we've been here," Watson said. "His whole issue is consistency. He'll make the great play then drop the easy play. That was a recurring theme in 2004."
Dusty Sprague (6-4, 190) was a Freshman All-Big 12 first-teamer by The Sporting News after catching 22 passes for 278 yards last season. He missed three games with a broken collarbone but will press Judge and Mackey for time.
An X-factor from the junior college ranks is Alvin Barnett (6-0, 190), who comes to Boulder as a sophomore from NE Oklahoma A&M.
"Alvin has a lot of quicks," Watson said. "He's an explosive player. He'll be a factor. We'll pick our places as we develop him and bring him along, in how we use him so we don't overload him."
If the wide receivers don't mesh with Klatt, the Buffs have two superb senior tight ends in Joe Klopfenstein (6-6, 245) and Quinn Sypniewski (6-7, 265). A second-team All-Big 12 performer as selected by the coaches, Klopfenstein reeled in 28 balls for 284 yards and a team-high four touchdowns in 2004. He rambled 78 yards for a score in the Houston Bowl, the longest play by a tight end in Colorado history.
"Joel Klopfenstein is on the level with Dan Graham in terms of explosive tight end," Watson said. "Different type of player, but on the same level in terms of his ability to make big plays."
Sypniewski was awarded a sixth year of eligibility after injuries devoured his 2003 season. He has been a part of all three of Colorado's Big 12 North Division titles under Barnett.
Ah, the constancy of Colorado: Great skiing, movie stars on vacations -- and the Denver Broncos' running game.
The first two won't aid the Buffaloes' offense, but the last one might. Watson, running backs coach Shawn Simms and offensive line coach Dave Borbely have modeled a portion of their blocking scheme to mirror what their neighbors to the southeast have used to run roughshod over the NFL the last half-decade.
"We had studied their running game the last two years extensively and exclusively really," Watson said. "We believe in a lot of the same things, in terms of being a downhill running team. It's really unique in how the Broncos and the Falcons -- we studied them too, because [ex-Broncos offensive line coach] Alex Gibbs went there -- rush the football. They're the best at it, and that's what we try to pattern ourselves from for the run game."
Three veterans and two relative newcomers will be called upon to put practice into production. Junior Mark Fenton (6-4, 295) started every game of '04 at center; junior Brian Daniels (6-5, 300) has started 22 straight games at tight guard and was an honorable mention all-Big 12 pick last winter; and senior Clint O'Neal (6-5, 290) was immovable as a full-time starter at tight tackle.
The split side -- Sam Wilder and Terrance Barreau -- split because of graduation, but sophomore Tyler Palombus (6-8, 280), a prep tight end and basketball player, wowed the staff with his agility at tackle.
"Tyler Palombus had an enormous spring," Watson said. "You look at him right now, and you think, 'This guy will be a player.' "
Sophomore Edwin Harrison (6-4, 305) missed the entire spring because of shoulder surgery, but he and junior Jack Tipton (6-3, 285) are going to duke it out for split guard chores.
Depth is a concern along the line; senior Gary Moore (6-6, 320) and JUCO transfer Bryce MacMartin (6-2, 290) are the only other returnees with experience at any level. But if the Buffaloes can copy any of the Broncos' legerdemain, oh, the places they'll go.
Is it the altitude, or does Mason Crosby (6-2, 210) have half a foot?
The junior from Georgetown, Texas had a little Tom Dempsey in him last year, booting a school-record 60-yarder against Iowa State. Crosby was no one-kick wonder; he won second-team All-America honors from Rivals.com because he converted 19-of-23 field goals, including five from 50 yards and out. The Cyclones would be defending a Big 12 North crown if it wasn't for Crosby's four field goals in a 19-14 CU victory.
Crosby's kickoffs were also extraterrestrial; only 17-of-59 were returned, with all but one fair catch winding up in the end zone. Suffice it to say Crosby owns the Colorado place-kicking job until someone pries it from his cold, dead foot.
Despite retaining the services of 10 defensive starters from 2004, the Buffs took a diploma-induced dip in the interior, resulting in a position change and a lot of crossed fingers.
Matt McChesney, CU's sack leader in 2004, was the most productive of the departed, but losing Brandon Dabdoub and McKenzie Tilmon damaged the depth. So the staff slid senior James Garee (6-6, 275) inside from end and paired him with classmate Vaku Manupuna (6-1, 290).
Garee seems better suited for inside; he had only 2.5 sacks and 3 tackles for loss in 13 starts from the end. Meanwhile, Manupuna emerged as an All Big-12 candidate with 42 stops at tackle.
"He made great strides from his sophomore to his junior year," defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz said of Manupuna. "If he can make those same strides this year, he'll have a heckuva year for us."
The burgeoning rush ability of junior ends Alex Ligon (6-3, 255) and Abraham Wright (6-3, 240) also helped prompt Garee's change. Each had 4.5 sacks from the same spot on the depth chart -- rush end. Now both will be on the field at the same time.
Hankwitz is more comfortable with the rotation at tackle rather than end. Senior John Guydon (6-2, 285) experimented with the offensive line but moved back to defense last fall.
"He's explosive," said Hankwitz of Guydon. "He had an excellent spring."
Junior Marcus Jones (6-4, 300) and senior Nick Clement (6-2, 260) will also back up the tackles, though Clement is still dubious because of a pectoral tear that kept him out of the spring.
Sophomore Alonzo Barrett (6-3, 240), undersized but athletic, can sub for either end. However, it falls to red-shirt freshmen Greg Newman (6-4, 235) and David Veikune (6-2, 230) or freshman Zach Jones (6-3, 245) for other backups.
The Buffs should be a better pass-rushing team in'05, but the jury is out on whether this unit can reduce the 161 rushing yards per game CU surrendered last fall.
There is one other great thing about freshmen, besides the fact they'll be sophomores soon. They are also very malleable.
Take Jordan Dizon (6-0, 215), who came to Boulder from Hawaii as a heralded running back and safety. As 2004 training camp opened, the coaching staff was flat-out undecided about what to do with him. Dizon wasn't fluid enough at safety, and there were plenty of running backs scooting around.
Here come the sun rays and booming voice: Move Dizon Forward. "When we moved him up to linebacker," Hankwitz said, "suddenly we got ourselves a very athletic, fast linebacker."
What a revelation, indeed; Dizon was chosen the league's Defensive Newcomer of the Year by the Associated Press and was the coaches' defensive freshman of the year after posting 82 tackles at inside linebacker, a CU freshman record. How good will Dizon be when he actually knows what he's doing?
"He didn't really have all the fundamentals of the position," Hankwitz said.
"He hadn't been taught the position and had never played it. Well, this spring really gave him a chance to learn the position from the ground up."
Dizon has plenty of tutors surrounding him. Junior Thaddeus Washington (5-11, 240) was second on the squad with 93 tackles at the other inside linebacker. His two interceptions were crucial in Colorado's conquest of Nebraska in Lincoln.
"We really thought Thaddeus came on in the second half of the year," said Hankwitz. "He was more physical and played much more consistently."
Returning on the outside is senior Brian Iwuh (6-0, 225), the top tackler from 2004. Of his 98 stops, 12 were for loss, even though his utility wasn't fully exploited.
"We had to keep him out in coverage more than we wanted to," Hankwitz said. "We've got to try to get him more involved stunting and blitzing. He's the hardest hitter on our team. He has excellent speed, and he needs to be an integral part of our defense."
Though not projected as a starter, senior Akarika Dawn (6-2, 240) is a key third-down defender who was fifth on the squad with 71 tackles in '04. Sophomore Joe Sanders (6-3, 220) is back inside after dabbling outside last year. Junior Chris Hollis (6-1, 230) is also a factor in the middle, if he regains dexterity after a foot injury shut him down last season.
Red-shirt freshmen Brad Jones (6-4, 220) and Maurice Cantrell (6-0, 235) are two other reserve options. Junior Jason Ackermann (6-1, 220) is questionable after off-season knee surgery.
We promise, there's a first string lurking in the discombobulated CU secondary. It's just going to take time to surface.
Terrence Wheatley's (5-10, 170) wrist injury and J.J. Billingsley's (5-11, 185) suspension for the ubiquitous team-rules violation prevented the Buffs from putting their best hoof forward in the spring.
Normally, that wouldn't be a pressing concern; many college teams prefer caution to cohesion in April. But Colorado's defensive backs were peppered for over 260 passing yards per game, a large reason the Buffs were last in the Big 12 in total defense (421.6 yards allowed per game).
The good news is Wheatley, a junior forecasted to start at one corner, will be fully healed in the fall. His presence will mean the battle is joined among him, junior Lorenzo Sims (5-11, 185) and junior Gerett Burl (5-10, 160) for the two corner spots.
"When Wheatley got healthy last fall, he was our best corner," Hankwitz said. "When we have him, we'll have three veteran guys who can push each other."
Sims started 12-of-13 games at corner last fall, notching 56 tackles and breaking up a team-best 11 passes. Wheatley and Burl split the 2004 season roughly down the middle in terms of starts. All of the above could stand to be more physical with opposing receivers.
A pair of Washingtons are also angling for time -- Vance (5-10, 185), a junior who has been afflicted by shoulder problems, and Terry (5-11, 190), a transfer from Garden City (Kansas) Community College who was a second-team All-Jayhawk Conference performer after intercepting six passes and forcing two fumbles in 10 games last season.
After sitting out the spring, Billingsley, a junior, has been reinstated and immediately becomes the front-runner at free safety. He barely got started last year before suffering a season-ending knee injury against Washington State.
"It certainly hurt us last year when we lost him, because he was our most experienced safety and was a big playmaker," Hankwitz said.
Juniors Dominique Brooks (6-1, 200) and Tyrone Henderson (5-10, 175) shuttled between free and strong safety for much of 2004. Henderson will have to fight off Billingsley for the free safety spot in 2005, because Brooks, CU's fourth-best tackler in 2004, looks like the answer on the strong side.
Tom Hubbard (6-5, 220), a senior with striking stature among his smaller unit mates, came on strong at the end of last year; after starting in the Houston Bowl, he can't be discounted either.
If four consistent players ever stepped forward in this unit, the coaching staff would be ecstatic. Buff opponents converted 36-of-94 third downs (38.2 percent) when seven or more yards were required. That's far too prolific for what should be a shut-down situation.
Did we mention something about altitude and the Colorado kicking game?
John Torp (6-2, 210) enters his senior season as the favorite for the 2005 Ray Guy Award and the leading active punter in the NCAA with a 44.6 average over three seasons.
Torp's 42.4 net average reveals only part of his value. When the Buffs were planted inside their 25, Torp averaged 49.6 yards a boot, quickly reversing field position. Also, CU opponents could muster only 6.7 yards per return, showing Torp wasn't out-kicking his coverage.
"I don't know anybody who could have a better placekicker/punter combo than we do," Hankwitz said. "We led the nation in net punting and John was very consistent. Those two guys [Torp and Crosby] are phenomenal at their positions."
And that altitude excuse? Torp averaged 43.7 yards a punt on the road.
There went that idea.
Sophomore Stephone Robinson (5-9, 185) evenly divided the kickoff-return responsibility with Wheatley last fall. With Wheatley's health in question, Robinson, a receiver-turned-cornerback, should be the main man deep. Robinson averaged almost 18 yards per return on 15 tries.
Robinson has the punt-return territory more clearly marked; he took in 35 punts and hustled forward for 269 yards (7.7 yards per attempt). He went 48 yards for a touchdown that put CU ahead for good in a 30-21 win over Kansas last November.
The Buffs are set at holder and long snapper. Junior Nick Holz (5-11, 180) maintains the former for Crosby, while senior Greg Pace (5-11, 235) takes care of the latter.
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shadow Jury (and my part in it)
Tom Hunter has just made public the list of books submitted to the judges of the annual Clarke Award. I don't normally pay much attention to the list of submitted titles as genre awards only ever seem to come into critical focus once they reach the shortlist phase of their existence. This year will be different…
What is different is that I will be forming part of the first ever shadow jury for a genre award. Inspired by the shadow judges for the annual Booker prize, the idea is for a group of people to consider the list of submitted titles and – in parallel with the official judges – come up with their own shortlists and preferred winners. This initiative was the brainchild of the great Nina Allan (whose introductory remarks can be found here) and is backed by the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Research into Science Fiction and Fantasy under the directorship of Helen Marshall (whose own introductory remarks can be found here).
Inspired by last year's – occasionally ill-tempered – debates surrounding both the direction of the Clarke Award and its continued ability to generate discussion, the Shadow Clarke project can be viewed as an attempt to strengthen and support genre culture's critical hinterland before it is finally claimed by the sea. The point of the exercise is not so much to challenge or undermine the real jurors as to provide counterpoints and start discussions. The response from certain corners of genre culture has thus far been hyperbolic and ill-informed but what else should one expect from a website that reacted to the presence of right-wing extremists in genre spaces by driving vast amounts of internet traffic to their websites and helping them to raise funds for their organs of propaganda?
My fellow shadow jurors have already started to announce both their presence and their intentions:
- Nina Allan
- Vajra Chandrasekera
- Maureen Kincaid Speller
- Megan AM
- Victoria Hoyle
- Nick Hubble
- Paul Kincaid
- David Hebblethwaite
Those of us who haven't yet made their intentions clear are probably just waiting on their personal introductions to go live on the CRSFF website like Vajra's over here. Mine is lengthy, contentious and will be linked to when it appears…
The submissions having been released, the next step is for each of us to draw up a shortlist of books we'd like to see make the official shortlist and explain why we chose those particular books. This shortlist will then appear on the Anglia Ruskin website as will more detailed pieces about the books it contains as well as our justifications for their inclusion. The idea being that shadow jurors will expand the discussion beyond the confines of the official shortlist and explore the different ways in which one can make aesthetic judgements about contemporary science fiction. For my part, I have an axe and fully intend to grind it but you'll have to wait a bit to see which books I have chosen to chop off for myself!
In the meantime, if you have feels about the submissions list then please feel free to join in by publishing your own shortlists (hashtags #shadowclarke and #sharke). Just remember, the point of the exercise is not necessarily to predict the official shortlist or even to do a better job than the official jurors but rather to start discussions by exploring the myriad ways in which we are all hopelessly wrong and deliciously right!
February 16, 2017 12:47 pm
Well, if you don't want to call a spade a spade then I won't argue with you about terminology. Whatever you wish to call it, I was questioning its relevance to the shadow jury role.
However, I see from your intro on the Shadow Clarke site that you see the entirety of genre fandom as a valid target for criticism while judging so I guess I'm not going to persuade you on this point.
February 16, 2017 8:11 pm
To be a bit clearer then: I was not questioning your addressing of critical comments about the Shadow Clarke, which seems to me like perfectly legitimate comment in both directions. I was pointing at the way you then moved on to repeat your previous criticisms of things said and done on an unrelated topic, at a different time, and in fact by a totally different person to those who made the comments about the Shadow Clarke. In short, you used your chance to address the Shadow Clarke audience to pursue an unrelated pre-existing complaint.
I didn't intend to argue the substantive point here, but as you're now criticising my ethics I feel I can address it. I do not agree with your stance that holding up people to public scorn and mockery was signal-boosting. I certainly accept that no-platforming can be the best tactic in many circumstances, but in this case the platform was already there and in fact they were stood upon it brandishing their Hugo nominations, and only the strong reaction of fandom stopped them from converting those into even wins and even more publicity and fund-raising. Your proposed tactic in this case boils down to letting them get what they wanted, while the approach of getting the word out about what had happened appears to have been successful in mitigating the damage.
February 16, 2017 10:28 pm
I guess I should have anticipated that adding a second strand would allow you to move away from the first one. I imagine you don't want to be pressed on it.
However, I think you've got a logical gap in your argument about the Hugos. The choice wasn't between No Award and everything being fixed somehow, the choice was between No Award and John C Wright winning multiple Hugos in the name of the publisher you're concerned about not allowing publicity to. To stretch your metaphor further than it perhaps can take, the fire was already going, and doing nothing would simply have left it to burn the house down. You've not presented a credible alternative plan. In fact, despite having blogged your complaints about the Hugos here in the past, I can't find that you seriously addressed the issue here throughout the whole Puppy period.
I have to call in reinforcements on the question of mocking fascists – George Orwell said that willingness to laugh at the goose-step was what kept it away. I fail to see how anyone was to prevent them from organising on the internet – you can't exactly do a sit-in on a website. As for legitimising – again, you've got a logical gap. They already had a path to seize legitimacy, via nominations for a prestigious award reported in the media and stickered on the front of books. The question was whether they converted those nominations into even-more-legitimising wins. Looking back we can see that what happened was lots of publicity (and yes, rhetoric, calls to arms, etc) about the danger of what might happen next and the unpleasant political and cultural motivations of the slaters, and the net result of that was that the danger of them getting legitimising wins was averted while their opinions got roundly rejected. Yes, their views got aired a lot more than if everyone had ignored them, but in the final analysis that was a lot less publicity and legitimacy than e.g. John C Wright getting interviewed in the Guardian as a record-breaking Hugo winner, with gloating quotes from VD.
I don't intend to go ten rounds with you on this, so I'll leave you the final word, but I strongly urge you to consider whether "do nothing" would have achieved what you wanted given the starting point that had already been reached.
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Hi Jonathan!
While I'm politically radical, aesthetically I suppose I run the gamut; I appreciate formal experimentation and art that challenges but, if pressed, I'm forced to admit that the best New-Media SF (film, television, video games) are, well, worse SF than the best SF novels, and that, for a range of reasons (cost of entry, financial gatekeepers, constraints of form among others) New Media are inherently inferior art forms (or, if you prefer, I think that there are qualities inherent in New Media hostile to many of the things I value in SF writing and, indeed, other types of art).
I love Evangelion. It's guff, preposterous half-formed ideas painted in a smear over pre-pubescent hot chicks in onesies and robot battles.
I suspect, here, we very much disagree. But even though we disagree, I wanted to send a word of support, and tell you that I enjoy your writing, even when we disagree, and find it valuable, especially when we disagree. You state your opinions clearly, give reasons, and make pointed observations, all without engaging in the mealy-mouthed Tu Quo Ques that are often the hallmark of modern critically (and conservative) culture. The Shadow Clarke stuff looks interesting and fun. Thanks to you and the others for doing it.


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BSOD/crash appears to occur randomly, IRQL_not_less_or_equal
I've just put together a new machine so there's not much software running on it but I'm getting some sort of BSOD/crash at random times. Most of the times it occurs when I'm away from my machine so I won't see the actual error just windows rebooted with a message stating it was shutdown improperly. The few times I've seen it, the message displayed was "IRQL_not_less_or_equal.
I've attached the files stated in the BSOD instructions post.
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Win 8 Release candidate 8400
These crashes were caused by memory corruption probably a driver.
Please run these two tests to verify your memory and find which driver is causing the problem.
* If you are overclocking anything reset to default before running these tests.
In other words STOP!!!
* If you have a Raid update its Driver.
*Download a copy of Memtest86 and burn the ISO to a CD using Iso Recorder or another ISO burning program. Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool
*Boot from the CD, and leave it running for at least 5-7 passes.
Just remember, any time Memtest reports errors, it can be either bad RAM or a bad motherboard slot.
Test the sticks individually, and if you find a good one, test it in all slots.
Any errors are indicative of a memory problem.
If a known good stick fails in a motherboard slot it is probably the slot.
Driver Verifier
Using Driver Verifier is an iffy proposition.
Most times it'll crash and it'll tell you what the driver is.
But sometimes it'll crash and won't tell you the driver.
Other times it'll crash before you can log in to Windows.
If you can't get to Safe Mode, then you'll have to resort to offline editing of the registry to disable Driver Verifier.
I'd suggest that you first backup your stuff and then make sure you've got access to another computer so you can contact us if problems arise.
Then make a System Restore point (so you can restore the system using the Vista/Win7 Startup Repair feature).
In Windows 7 you can make a Startup Repair disk by going to Start....All Programs...Maintenance...Create a System Repair Disc - with Windows Vista you'll have to use your installation disk or the "Repair your computer" option at the top of the Safe Mode menu .
Then, here's the procedure:
- Go to Start and type in "verifier" (without the quotes) and press Enter
- Select "Create custom settings (for code developers)" and click "Next"
- Select "Select individual settings from a full list" and click "Next"
- Select everything EXCEPT FOR "Low Resource Simulation" and click "Next"
NOTE: You can use Low Resource Simulation if you'd like.
From my limited experimentation it makes the BSOD's come faster.
- Select "Select driver names from a list" and click "Next"
Then select all drivers NOT provided by Microsoft and click "Next"
- Select "Finish" on the next page.
If you are using win 8 add these
- Concurrency Stress Test
- DDI compliance checking
Reboot the system and wait for it to crash to the Blue Screen.
Continue to use your system normally, and if you know what causes the crash, do that repeatedly.
The objective here is to get the system to crash because Driver Verifier is stressing the drivers out.
If it doesn't crash for you, then let it run for at least 36 hours of continuous operation.
Reboot into Windows (after the crash) and turn off Driver Verifier by going back in and selecting "Delete existing settings" on the first page, then locate and zip up the memory dump file and upload it with your next post.
If you can't get into Windows because it crashes too soon, try it in Safe Mode.
If you can't get into Safe Mode, try using System Restore from your installation DVD to set the system back to the previous restore point that you created.
Thanks to JCGriff2 & Usasma.
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What is the difference between BASI Pilates and other Pilates training organizations?
This is a very important question and one we are proud to outline. The underlying philosophy of the BASI educational program is a true synthesis of the physical, the emotional and the spiritual. Combining repertoire, process and athleticism into a structured process, BASI Pilates is a leader in the Pilates community, with a curriculum-based educational program. A contemporary approach includes the heart of the BASI program, the Block System™, offering a specialized technique for classifying and combining hundreds of exercises in the Pilates repertoire.
BASI Pilates is a true blending of the Art and Science of human movement, relating specifically to the works of Joseph H. Pilates. BASI Pilates honors and preserves the legacy of Joseph and Clara Pilates: presenting the original principles and repertoire (utilizing all the Pilates equipment), at the same time integrating contemporary scientific developments and evolution of the method.
BASI Pilates courses are fully supported with printed and electronic materials, including our Study Guides, six Movement Analysis Work Books and DVDs. In addition, BASI students receive credits for the use of Pilates Interactive , the unique online teaching resource, with hundreds of exercises, workouts and instructional tutorials in high-quality video. Pilates Interactive is the first of its kind in the world.
Outlining the unique qualities of BASI Pilates would not be complete without introducing you to the select teaching team that comprises our Faculty. Each Faculty member is a seasoned Pilates professional who has undergone a rigorous selection process and been chosen to represent BASI due to their knowledge, passion and dedication to the work of this unique program. With a combined total of over four hundred years of Pilates experience between them, this group of talented individuals offers the highest level of professionalism and quest for knowledge. With varied backgrounds in movement training including dance, academia, physical therapy, martial arts, and equine training this diverse group offers a unique combination of experience and discipline. We are extremely proud of our rich teaching team.
No program is more trusted than that offered by BASI Pilates. We continue to set the standard of Pilates education that all other programs strive for. We look forward to meeting you in person soon and showing you these are not just words but a belief system backed by action.
Which BASI Education Program is right for me?
BASI is proud to offer several programs to meet your personal and professional goals. Find your program and learn more.
I just started Pilates, am I a good candidate for participating in the Foundation or Comprehensive Global Program or do I need more experience?
Individuals with movement experience may seem to progress more quickly through the practical portion. However, regardless of experience, "every body" has the opportunity to benefit greatly from the qualities the BASI program contains, if they apply themselves.
If I register for the Foundation Program, and decide to register for the Graduate Program later, am I still eligible to receive the discount?
BASI will honor the $200 discount for the Graduate Program registration through completion of module 3 of the Foundation Program.
I have completed another organization's training. Do you have a bridge program?
Graduates from training programs recognized by BASI are invited to register for ProBridge, the BASI professional bridging program. Alternately, previously trained Pilates professionals receive a significant financial discount on the Foundation and Comprehensive Programs. The tuition for individuals who provide acceptable proof of previous Pilates teacher training courses is discounted by 15%, and observation, self practice and teacher training hours are amended on a case-by-case basis.
I have completed the Mat Program and want to take the Comprehensive Program. Will I receive a discount on tuition?
Absolutely! In order to progress to the Graduate Program, students will need to complete the Foundation Program first and will receive 15% off tuition when signing up for both at the same time.
If I register for a course and cannot attend, do I get my money back?
BASI offers limited refunds for students who cancel prior to or during the Program. A $500.00 sum payable upon submission of your Application is comprised of a $100.00 fee for processing your application ("Application Fee") and a $400.00 deposit (the "Deposit") Refund Policy .
If BASI does not accept your Application or if you cancel thirty (30) or more days prior to the start of the first module, we shall, as soon as practicable, refund all monies paid by you to us other than the Application Fee.
If you cancel fewer than thirty (30) days prior to the start of the first module, then within thirty (30) days of receiving your cancellation request, we will refund all monies paid by you to us other than the Application Fee and Deposit; because your attendance would be a deciding factor as to whether the course would run as scheduled.
We shall not be obligated to refund any monies if you cancel at any time following commencement of the first module (whether or not you attend that or any other module).
In the event of your cancellation as described above, BASI will allow you to transfer any monies paid by you for the cancelled program to any other BASI program for which you qualify, so long as such program is scheduled to commence within one (1) year of your Application to the cancelled program. In the event that you fail to transfer as aforesaid, BASI shall have no obligation to refund any monies paid by you to us, regardless of when you cancelled or requested a transfer.
Testing fees are not refundable and non-transferable.
Our refund policy is stated in full in the Enrollment Agreement for the particular Program for which you enroll. In the event of any discrepancy between our website and the Enrollment Agreement, the Enrollment Agreement shall prevail.
May I complete modules in more than one location?
As long as the modules are taken in order, we are happy to accommodate someone who begins in one BASI Host location and then transfers to another. (Additional fees may apply).
What happens if I miss a Module?
For Foundation and Graduate Program students, it is acceptable to miss one module and continue with the course. You are encouraged to make up these modules at another location (additional fees may apply) as soon as possible to keep you on track. Arrangements for make up can be made through BASI Academy. Mat students must make up any missed Modules in order to qualify to take their practical exam and teaching evaluation for the Teaching Credential.
What happens if I get pregnant or injured during the program?
If you would like to postpone your training at any time please contact BASI Academy. BASI reserves the right to request a doctor's release prior to your return. Tuition fees will be held and applied when you return to the program.
How can I complete my hours of observation if there are not any BASI Pilates instructors for me to watch in my location?
We hope each BASI student will have the opportunity to work directly with BASI instructors. However, we understand that not everyone has access to a BASI studio or instructor nearby. For this reason, we are delighted to allow BASI students to apply one-half of the required observation hours via Pilates Interactive. Working with this BASI approved online software will provide the student a studio experience, including detailed instruction and viewing options.
How many hours of self-practice are expected of me?
The BASI Comprehensive Program requires completion of 200 hours of self-practice (students are encouraged to begin these hours during the Foundation Program). Hours can be a combination of individual, semi-private, or group classes. The BASI Mat Program requires 40 hours of self-practice. Whether you are a Foundation, Comprehensive or Mat student, practice should be done throughout the course and on an ongoing basis. You cannot teach something you do not know and you cannot know it unless you commit to ongoing practice.
How long does it take to complete the requirements of the program?
In most BASI Host locations the modules are spread out over a two- to three-month period. Students seeking a Comprehensive Teaching Credential generally take between four months and one year to complete their hours of observation and student teaching (after Module 6 of the Comprehensive Program). However, students have up to three years following the completion of Module 6 of the Comprehensive Program to complete the requirements.
What exams are required to complete the program?
During the course of your education, there will be a multiple choice exam at Module 6 of the Mat, Foundation, and Graduate Programs.
For Mat and Comprehensive teaching certification, a Practical and Teaching Evaluation with be conducted to test your ability to teach BASI repertoire.
What happens if I miss the day of the exam?
If you miss the written exam day, you may make it up during another module/program at another location. Arrangements can be made for a proctored exam time at the host studio. All practical exams and teaching evaluations in the U.S. are done at "centralized", testing locations multiple times per year and students pre-register for selected time blocks. Outside of the U.S., testing is done during the last module of the Comprehensive Global Format.
What happens if I do not pass my exams?
If you do not pass your final written exam, it can be retaken at a later date. For Teaching and Practical, we encourage you to retest when you feel 100% confident with your work. Please contact BASI Academy to make arrangements. Additional fees may apply.


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G.ArmaniFor sale is a very nice figurine from the Florence based factory of Guiseppe Armani. Depicting a very pretty young girl, it is a particularly attractive figure that features lovely floral decoration . Condition wise it is very good with no faults noted . Please see the pictures to assess further (white marks are caused by the flash). It measures approximately 21.5 cm in height. It has the signature and Capodimonte mark to the rear and stands on a wooden plinth . Please note if you wish to purchase more than one item I am happy to combine postage. Please contact me for more details. Our Ref: G003 Overseas buyers please if the postage cost is less I will refund back the difference (especially relevant for buyers in EU countries). Overseas buyers Paypal only please Please note all goods are security marked for the protection of both parties. Nearly every item we sell is used and in a lot of cases could be described as vintage so please expect some wear and tear. We try to describe the items condition as accurately as possible. International buyers – please note: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or P&P charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country' ... read more


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Mistakes by construction workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar reactor project have idled about 1,000 workers temporarily for a safety talk.
TVA ordered the unpaid safety work stoppage at the reactor project between Chattanooga and Knoxville in response to finding cables being erroneously removed from the plant's operating Unit 1 reactor in December and discovering last week that a valve in the Unit 2 reactor now under construction was improperly removed from another system.
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The Texas Tech women's basketball team opens Big 12 Conference play at 7 p.m. Saturday against Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse.
The first game of the season is important for any number of reasons, the first of which is Tech's confidence. The Lady Raiders need to believe they can win a Big 12 road game, and Kansas is a good first opponent for them. Tech didn't win a Big 12 road game until mid-February last season, and it would go a long way to nab one early.
Like Tech, the Jayhawks haven't played many top teams during the non-conference season. Tech didn't play a single team ranked in the top 50 of the NCAA's latest RPI ratings. Kansas played one, Michigan, and lost 75-67.
In the end, I suspect, both of these teams will be fighting for similar territory come March. Seven conference wins are enough to get a team from the Big 12 into the NCAA tournament, and that is obviously the primary objective for each team, neither of which has been to the tourney in some time.
The Big 12 is a little bit different than it was a season ago, when Nebraska stormed to a perfect season. Baylor is the clear favorite, and Texas A&M is nipping at its heels.
After those two, the rest is anybody's guess.
As far as the South Division goes, I think Tech is more than capable of beating any of the other five teams on any given night. The Lady Raiders made a run at Baylor at United Spirit Arena last season and defeated Texas A&M.
Texas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are not the teams they were last year but will certainly be in the conversation in March. I do think Tech will beat at least two out of those three at home this season.
In the end, I think Tech will finish with seven wins and reach the tournament. Those seven wins don't need to include the one at Kansas, but a win would certainly put Tech on the fast track and the path of least resistance.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Tale of Two Californias
As Dickens said "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and the phrase could be applied to California here in April 2009.
The unemployment data released last week touts California at the top of the jobless lists at 11% - worst in the country - and yet it's not a reflection of reality in California because the sad truth is there are two Californias with very different challenges and for one the problem is a lot higher than 11%.
While the Bay Area chugs along at 8.3% and decreasing unemployment, a slowly recovering housing market and companies still competing for engineers, we have sister counties with unemployment at depression levels and higher. In the Great Depression unemployment in the U.S. peaked at 24.9% in 1933. Imperial County today has an unemployment rate of 26.9% closely followed by counties like Merced and Yuba at 18% - you can see the sobering Central Valley stats here and a map of California's unemployment rate by county here.
It's too easy to forget how close the poorest communities are to the hubbub of a tech world where Facebook raises $200M and NEA raises over $2B for it's new fund (although some do predict the death of venture capital as we know it - more on that later). High end wine stores still do well, and you still can't get a table at the Village Pub without a reservation.
But with the California budget in crisis and the Governor proposing to drastically cut California's Family PACT Program, the most vulnerable members of our community are more at risk now than they have been since the Depression. Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (the largest PP affiliate which is based in San Jose and covers many of the poorer counties in the Central Valley) has seen a 15% increase in the number of visits so far this year because so many people have no other health care options. PPMM provides broad health services (yes, only 3% of the services are abortion - a little understood fact) and families are coming in who have never needed the safety net of PPMM free health care before but they have no choice and no access to medical care.
Now, more than ever, is the time to pay attention to your donations and to give to the communities that support the most vulnerable in our society. And while California may seem like the land of milk and honey and Malibu Barbies on 90210 it's the land of tremendous struggle just 100 miles away. When you are approached by a friend to give to the non-profits trying to help (and for some of you it'll be me) please give.
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Search for a DVD RipperSubmitted by chadm on Sun, 2006-06-11 01:00.
I found OGMRip late, but included it here to provide one more option. I didn't actually run the program myself so I can't give it a rating, but the website gives a good overview and a number of screenshots so you should be able to get a good feel for what it can do. The main downside to this one for me is the lack of any deb package. Of course it can be installed from the command line, but I prefer to stick to the Debian packaging system wherever possible so I can more easily manage updates.
Thoggen has promise, but it's currently still in beta and it shows. I used version 0.4.2-2.
Like K9Copy, Thoggen aims to provide a very simple interface that still gets the job done. But unlike K9Copy, it supports transcode to a single file. Thoggen currently only supports the Ogg Theora format, but it is based on GStreamer and the website indicates other formats are likely to be added in the future.
Once complete, Thoggen will likely rival K3b, but for now it is very slow (the developer acknowledges this) and I could not get the rip to finish. As time passes and bugs are fixed it will definitely be worth reconsideration, especially if you are a Gnome user. Because of the beta status I will decline to provide a rating at this time. Hopefully you will have more success with it than I did.
Search for a DVD RipperSubmitted by chadm on Sun, 2006-06-11 01:00.
While I've given away the ratings already, I thought it would be useful to summarize my final thoughts. What I found over the course of writing this article is that while there is no one clear app for everyone, Linux offers many useful tools to do the job. And it's an easier job than you might expect.
The keys areas for most apps to improve is in creating a single click rip and transcode, better default settings that don't have to be changed by most users, and fixing the known bugs. If more work is put into these three areas then GNU/Linux DVD rippers will finally reach their potential.
I chose K3b as the best DVD ripper because of its clear and attractive interface and its ability to get the job done quickly with minimal fuss and configuration. dvd::rip adds the subtitle feature that is missing from K3b, but goes a step farther to be the only app I found that includes a cluster mode to harness the power of multiple machines on your home network.
If copying a DVD from one physical disk to another is your method of choice then I would look no further than K9Copy. It's simple, easy, and effective.
My final app mention is Thoggen. Its beta status clearly showed during my tests, but the idea and organization of the program makes it a strong future candidate, particularly if you are a Gnome user.
Search for a DVD RipperSubmitted by chadm on Sun, 2006-06-11 01:00.
DVD's are great and I've spent more money than I care to count on them, but if you are like me and have more movies than you can remember, a few TV series spread out over too many discs, or a desire to watch in whatever way is most convenient, you start to wish for a better way to watch. For many of us that means moving our DVD's to hard drives so we can watch them where and when we want. It sounds reasonable and should be straight-forward, but for many it's still a mystical art that takes knowledge and patience.
Today makes the first full length review on Linux App Finder, and I'm please to report that ripping a DVD to your hard drive has never been easier, and you if you are a KDE user you might already have one of these programs installed and not even know it. Eights apps were compared on their ability to rip and transcode a DVD, with a special focus on ease of use. A ninth, Drip, was originally going to be included in the review, but it had missing dependencies in Debian unstable and I was unable to install it.
My Search for a DVD RipperSubmitted by chadm on Tue, 2006-06-06 01:00.
I'm currently in the process of writing a comparison of available DVD ripping programs for GNU/Linux. I picked the best contenders that I'm aware of and compared their features and ease of use. The goal was finding the best app for converting the main movie of a DVD to a single file playable on any computer and the winner is a surprising one (at least to me since I almost didn't include it). As a bonus I threw in a few apps targeted at creating DVD ISO's for burning back to a rewritable disk. Hopefully it will be ready to go within a week. Keep an eye on the News RSS feed for an announcement.