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Dr. Barron on Leadership, U.S. Presidents and Impact
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Submitted: August 6, 2014
By Eric J. Barron
President, Penn State
President Eric Barron recently spoke to student leaders who had gathered at Penn State Berks to celebrate the 50th annual Penn State Summer Leadership Conference. He spoke about leadership styles and the different approaches two of the United States' great presidents took. Following are his remarks as prepared for delivery.
Ever since I assumed my first role as university president, friends and colleagues have been mailing me books on leadership and management and various facets of operational success. I have worried that they were trying to send me the message that I need a lot of help, and they hope that they aren't too late. I must admit that I haven't "researched" the topic of leadership, but I do feel that I am constantly learning and enjoying it.
So, let me try something out on you – a leadership perspective from the view of Mount Rushmore.
My first thought – I understand Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington – but why Teddy Roosevelt?
In 1925 Calvin Coolidge insisted that the monument include Washington, two Republicans and one Democrat, and there weren't a lot of great Republicans after Lincoln to choose from (Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley.) It was also much more than Coolidge wanting to outnumber the Democrats. In fact, today Teddy is always listed as one of the top 10 of great presidents.
He is responsible for some notable quotes — "walk softly and carry a big stick" — and had a bigger than life personality as a cowboy president. But, in terms of anti-trust (breaking up Standard Oil and big railroads), integrity of public offices, and conservation, he was truly notable. He accomplished a great deal.
So, let's look at his leadership style.
He was active in New York politics, serving as a state assemblyman, president of the New York City police board, and running for mayor. How did the press describe him? He was called, "Irrepressible, belligerent and enthusiastic," because he pushed reform so relentlessly. He basically pushed everyone aside. In fact, the political powers in New York wanted him out of New York so badly they convinced President McKinley to appoint him as assistant secretary of the Navy (he had a reputation for military scholarship but McKinley did not want him to have too visible or powerful of an appointment because of his reputation as a bull in a china shop).
When the USS Maine blew up off the coast of Cuba, and the secretary of the Navy left the office to go out of town, apparently within four hours Roosevelt cabled the Navy across the globe to prepare for war. He ordered Admiral Dewey to contain the Spanish in Manila, and then he worked to convince the president.
He was New York's governor after his success with the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War. Once again his "firebrand approach against machine politics" drove the state bosses to push Teddy Roosevelt to be vice president – a position with very little power. But with the assassination of McKinley, that wasn't the case for long.
What did people say who were in leadership at the time? Nothing was too small for Roosevelt in his willingness to exercise power.
I want to give you one example of the exercise of power:
From 1900 to 1906, every bill introduced in Congress to set aside federal lands for national parks failed. The opposite sometimes occurred - moved the forest service out of the U.S. Department of the Interior to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All efforts at preservation were usually blocked by western legislators who did not want to see any controls put on mining and harvesting trees. They particularly wanted to prevent any parcel of any real size from being taken out of circulation that might slow economic development.
Now, Roosevelt was, deep in his heart, a conservationist. Congress distrusted him – especially the western legislators who called him "a crazy forest reserve elitist."
Although his efforts were successfully blocked, between 1903 and 1905 he started setting aside bird reserves with the words, "I so declare it."
He focused on lands that weren't visible to the public or Congress (except to local poachers for which he hired wardens). Finally, his friends worked to put together the finely crafted Antiquities Act of 1906 to prevent the pillage of Native American artifacts. The bill gave the President authority to create national monuments and to protect historic and prehistoric structures and objects of historic or scientific significance, with the size dictated by only what was necessary to preserve those objects or monuments. The bill passed.
Teddy acted quickly, and the first use of the act was to protect Devils Tower National Monument. In three years, he set aside 18 national monuments. All by executive fiat. At first, they were small. Then he set aside the Grand Canyon (808,120 acres) and then Mount Olympus (615,000 acres) as "objects" of scientific interest. In total he set aside 230 million acres including five national parks, 18 national monuments, 150 national forests and 51 bird reservations. Hence the title of Douglas Brinkley's book on Roosevelt, "The Wilderness Warrior."
This was clearly an abuse of the Antiquities Act; he simply ignored Congress as either too slow or opposed to his goals. He didn't act as a power broker in back rooms, he just did it – he was an imperial president. In fact, he even helped the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson to the White House because he wouldn't compromise and support Taft for a second term.
Would we tolerate him today? He is labeled as one of the greatest presidents because of his legacy, because his actions are viewed as benevolent, not because his leadership style was worth emulating. What if he hadn't been benevolent? It seems to me that this is greatness by virtue of what he accomplished, not how he accomplished it.
Let's now look at Abraham Lincoln: Roosevelt's neighbor on Mount Rushmore. Lincoln is an incredible contrast to Teddy Roosevelt.
Lincoln's greatness is basically unquestioned, as he is credited with ending slavery and our sheer survival as one nation. We might ask ourselves whether circumstances created greatness – "the times that try men's souls." But it is interesting to dig a little deeper into what kind of leader Lincoln was.
When he developed his cabinet he actually deliberately placed his staunchest rivals in positions of considerable authority, as Doris Kearns Goodwin describes in The Team of Rivals. In his decision making process, he also sought to incorporate the fullest possible breadth of opinion on the major topics of the day. He wanted advice, and he showed a singular ability to transcend any personal vendetta.
Here is an attitude of gathering advice and seeing all sides, but then recognizing that you were still the decision-maker. And Lincoln agonized. Take the attack on Fort Sumter when he needed to decide whether to yield and perhaps appease the South or fight and launch a civil war. History tells us he wrote two sets of orders and carried them both while he worked through the advice and decision. You can see this notion of agonizing over decisions and the toll it took on him personally throughout his presidency.
Lincoln's communication skills were powerful and clever. He would write out a reasoned argument (for example, before he fired General John Fremont) and release it to the press. This strategy would actually reach individual households with copies, as a deliberate way to shape public opinion, and to ease a difficult and perhaps unpopular decision. He took his words very seriously, and said he was "reluctant to speak unless some good should come of it." He sought ways to clearly tell a cabinet member or general he was through, and then step back to give the individual a chance to save face. He would write a nasty letter, but always put it in a drawer and make sure the communication was face to face.
Garry Wills wrote a book on Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg, noting the ties to the earliest of Greek oratory – the juxtaposition of mortality with immorality, of birth and rebirth – those who gave their lives versus a system of government that shall not perish from the earth. But this deep analysis of Lincoln's address, which marveled at the structure harkening back to early Greece without basis in Lincoln's education, also suggests that Lincoln had launched the notion of "natural speech" and plain speech. The Gettysburg address, Wills argued, was the foundation for modern political speech. Without question, Lincoln was a powerful communicator.
Most importantly, Lincoln appeared never to get too far ahead of the people. I don't know how he did this at a time when information was slow to disseminate.
Scholars say that there is no way to penetrate his personal feelings on emancipation. You see a brooding balance; a realistic appraisal of the nation's bigotry balanced with a cautious eye to progress. Lincoln argued at one point that his job was not to decide on a nation with slaves or a nation of free men, but in either case to save the union. The Emancipation Proclamation was not where he started; the nation would not have tolerated it. Achieving that goal took multiple intermediate steps. He brought along a nation, by never getting too far out front, and in doing so, he both preserved a union and ended slavery.
There is much to admire about Lincoln's genius: the way he gathered advice and weighed arguments; his communication skills; and his ability to lead his constituents by advancing at a pace they could follow.
I wonder if Lincoln could have created the national parks, which was ahead of any real public opinion or debate on the values and benefits of conservation. I also wonder if Roosevelt's uncompromising attitude would have torn a nation apart facing Civil War.
Now, what about Penn State, as we move forward on new areas of excellence, promoting student engagement, the university's role in economic development, student career success, and the development of a digital education. What form of leadership will work? How shall we make our great institution even greater? And, for each of you, in your areas of leadership, how will you leave this institution, state, nation, globe better?
Is Mount Rushmore a window on leadership worth really understanding?
For me, I do not aspire to making decisions by fiat (even if I am convinced that they are good ones.) I tend to look at it as a weakness when I do cross that line. I also would rather not be tested by crisis like Lincoln, although I recognize that many times we don't have a choice.
I believe we should all aspire to be able to listen to all sides of an issue, to sense the willingness of the collective to move forward, and to take that step, and make a decision. Our decision making needs to be guided by both sides of an issue, and we need to recognize that it may not be supported by the majority. Above all, as leaders, our aim needs to be to do what we believe is right.
Thank you for listening and my warm wishes for your great success.


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NASCAR executives like to compare their sport's TV ratings to a roller coaster. This year, the sport's premier series took a downward ride, posting its smallest TV audience in five years and registering a 25 percent drop in the 18- to 34-year-old demographic.
Coverage on Fox, TNT and ESPN averaged a 3.6 Nielsen rating and 5.8 million viewers through 35 of 36 races (not including Sunday's season-ending race at Homestead), down 5 percent and 10 percent respectively from last year, giving up all of the gains the sport made last year, which was its first annual ratings increase since 2005. (Three races weren't counted because of rain delays that forced the races to be held on weekday mornings.)
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NASCAR executives attributed the declines to uncontrollable forces, starting with the Daytona 500's first postponement in 54 years, from Sunday afternoon to Monday evening. NASCAR executives also cited competition from the London Olympics and NCAA basketball conference championship games as reasons for the downturn.
"The ratings thing is a real cyclical deal," said Steve Herbst, NASCAR's vice president of broadcasting and production. "It's up 10 percent, down 10 percent. … We hit some weather early on. It's an Olympic year, and there was other competitive programming we were up against. It was kind of a roller-coaster year."
Fox and ESPN executives insist that they are not concerned by this year's ratings and tout the sport's overall audience, which still is one of the biggest on TV.
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Mulvihill said Fox has reconfigured its sales pitches on NASCAR for next season to highlight that audience. The network is trying to dispel the notion among ad buyers that NASCAR doesn't deliver an audience with buying power. It's doing so by comparing the average income of NASCAR viewers to the average income in their home market rather than the national average. For example, in the Tampa Bay market, NASCAR viewers have an average income of $52,000, significantly more than the designated market area (DMA) average of $42,000 a year.
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NASCAR's viewership decreases come at a critical time for the sport. It signed a new TV rights agreement with Fox last month that will give it $2.4 billion for the first 13 races of the 2014 to 2022 seasons, a sizable increase from Fox's current eight-year, $1.76 billion agreement.
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It was not a surprise to see the race's rating decrease 8 percent from a year earlier, when it was held on a Sunday. Fox, which broadcast the Daytona race and 12 other races at the start of the season, saw a 4 percent decline in ratings and 8 percent decline in viewership for its portion of the schedule.
NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup on ESPN didn't fare much better. Ratings and viewership for this year's Chase, which came down to Brad Keselowski and five-time champion Jimmie Johnson, were down or flat for every race and four of the nine races saw double-digit percentage decreases from the 2011 Chase, which pitted Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart as the top two drivers.
"Of course we want to see growth, but I'm not wringing my hands over these numbers," Williamson said. "What other sport can do the numbers that NASCAR does against the NFL on Sunday afternoons?"
Turner, which airs six Sprint Cup races at the midpoint of the season, was the only broadcaster that did not see its ratings decline. Four of its six races on TNT were up from last year, and its average rating was flat. (Turner did not make an executive available to comment for this story.)
Williamson said ESPN is talking with NASCAR about making some tweaks that could increase viewership, but he didn't offer specifics.
"They understand that they have some challenges," Williamson said. "But ultimately, it's their decision on how to oversee their sport."
NASCAR executives believe that a number of tweaks planned for next year will help drive viewership, including a new digital strategy and Web presence, which it is taking over from Turner; new cars, which look more like showroom vehicles; and marketing initiatives, which are designed to boost youth and multicultural interest.
"We know our fan as well as we've ever known our fan and what they're looking for," Herbst said. "It's no great mystery — competitive racing, bringing out the personality of the drivers."
NASCAR's Nationwide Series, which airs on ESPN and ABC, was averaging 1.99 million viewers through 32 races, up slightly from the 1.98 million viewers it averaged over the same period last year.
— SportsBusiness Daily Assistant Managing Editor Austin Karp contributed to this story.


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Conservative media figures are coming to the defense of Republican Congressman Steve King following widespread condemnation of his comments accusing undocumented immigrants of being drug smugglers.
During an interview with conservative outlet Newsmax, King attacked the undocumented youths known as DREAMers -- those who would have qualified under the DREAM Act proposal that repeatedly failed in Congress and who could meet the Senate immigration bill's DREAM Act provision -- saying that while he has sympathy for children who were brought into this country illegally by their parents, not all of them are valedictorians:
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Intel's next-generation high-performance Skulltrail platform arrived today, ending months of speculation on what its features, performance, and capabilities would be. Intel was definitely arming for bear when it created Skulltrail—the dual-socket LGA771 D5400XS is built around Intel's workstation-class 5400 MCH northbridge and 6321ESB ICH southbridge, carries four PCIe 1.1 x16 slots, four 240-pin FB-DIMM slots (maximum of 16GB of memory installed), integrated eight-channel audio with Dolby Home Theater capability, and support for both ATI and NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations.
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As previously noted, the D5400XS supports both SLI and Crossfire—but not entirely equally. NVIDIA has historically been very protective of its SLI capability; Intel may have licensed the right to use the technology, but NVIDIA insisted on introducing its own bridge chips into the motherboard. Both pairs of PCIe slots on the board connect to an nForce 100 bridge chip, which then links back to the 5400 MCH. Because the nForce 100 chip is only PCIe 1.1 compatible, however, newer PCIe 2.0 cards won't be able to take full advantage of their own bandwidth capabilities.
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Skulltrail's performance is something of a mixed bag. There's no reason to favor the new platform over a "standard" single-socket QX9770 build—if anything, the desktop-based platforms tend to be a bit faster than Skulltrail thanks to their use of DDR2/DDR3 memory instead of FB-DIMMs. Professional workstation performance is a bit different—there are certain applications that show a significant performance boost thanks to Skulltrail's eight cores—but such gains are even more conditional than the current performance boost one sees moving from two cores to four.
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Skulltrail may make sense if you're a trust-fund baby or a professional working in an area where time is so valuable that it actually makes sense to invest in a workstation this expensive. For everyone else, it's overkill, and extremely expensive overkill at that. If you want bragging rights, just buy a QX9770. Your friends will still be jealous, your wallet will thank you, and your wife won't beat the snot out of you with the phone book when you get home.
Further reading:
- Tech Report: Intel's Skulltrail dual-socket enthusiast platform
- [H]ard OCP: Intel Skulltrail preview
- AnandTech: Intel's 8-core Skulltrail Platform: Close to Perfecting the Niche


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Madeleine Mason Shesta
STOWE/MIDDLEBURY — Madeleine Mason Shesta, 83, died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008, at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury. She was born Madeleine Louise Mason, daughter of Ralph and Bertha Mason, on July 30, 1924, in Hawthorne, Calif.
She grew up in southern California, moving east in the late 1940s. She and her second husband, John Shesta, moved to Vermont in 1960.
A longtime resident of the Stowe area, she was known for her gardens, cooking and exotic pets. She raised and maintained extensive herb, flower and vegetable gardens at their homes first on the Elmore Mountain Road and later in Mud City. According to family, she was especially fond of the primroses raised in Mud City.
She and her husband owned and operated Deer Cross Inn in the mid-1960s in Stowe, where they served upscale French cuisine in a dining room overlooking a field where deer came to graze in the evening, to the delight of diners.
She is survived by her brother, Stanley Mason and his wife Kay of Long Beach, Calif.; her two children, Sylvia Reed of Medway, Mass., and Richard Reed and his wife Carol of Leicester; and four grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her husband, John Shesta.
A memorial service will be scheduled for this spring at a date and time to be announced.
Helen West Burbank
LEICESTER/MIDDLEBURY — Helen West Burbank, 88, of Leicester and Middlebury, died Jan. 29, 2008, at the Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington after suffering a massive stroke last week. Helen was the much-loved wife of Jack Burbank and mother to four children and grandmother of seven grandchildren. Helen Lee West was born on Dec. 21, 1919, in Needham Mass.
She grew up in Trenton, N.J., where her father was president of the Trenton State Teachers College. She came to Middlebury to go to college and graduated from Middlebury College in 1941. She married Jack Burbank, M.D., in 1943. They lived in Hartford, Conn.; Deerfield, N.H.; Yellow Springs, Ohio; and Middletown, Conn.; and retired to Leicester in 1990.
Helen was a loving and supporting wife, a caring and guiding mother, an excellent athlete, a community participant and supporter, a great believer in the value of education, libraries, books, and learning, and an active citizen of our world. She welcomed into our home visitors from different states and countries, and friends from far and wide.
She was generous, spunky, and interested in everything and everyone around her. She was an inspiration and role model for the next generations of girls and boys who came to know her.
Helen worked at Colt Firearms during World War II. While raising her children, Helen also was active in many community efforts and clubs, including the Thursday Morning Club in Meriden, Conn,, which met on Wednesday afternoons.
She was president of the Meriden Connecticut College Club, an affiliate of the American Association of University Women. She was also a state officer of the Connecticut AAUW.
In the early 1970s Helen went back to college and gained a Master's Degree in Library Science from Southern Connecticut State College. She put this learning to work, as a volunteer librarian at the Whiting Forensic Institute of the Connecticut Valley Hospital, a state mental hospital for people with psychiatric disabilities who are a serious danger to themselves or others.
Helen was a lifelong athlete, participant, and enthusiast in tennis, skiing, backpacking, hiking, and swimming. In fact, she was adept at almost all sports. Throw a ball at her and she would catch it and throw it back!
In her sixties Helen and her tennis doubles partner, Ilka Krochmal, won their club championships for doubles. In her seventies she could still win sets with people generations younger than she. In her eighties she couldn't move on the court, but she would still outfox you! She played her last tennis just seven months ago, with bad arms and bad legs, and she could still serve into the corners.
Helen was a skiing pioneer, skiing on Chipman Hill in Middlebury and at what is now the Middlebury Snow Bowl before there were lifts. She was an avid cross-country skier before most of us knew what cross-country skiing was. In her twenties, she bicycled long distances on a one-speed iron-framed bicycle around the Middlebury area and in Connecticut.
She backpacked with our family in California, Wyoming, Washington state, Oregon, and Europe. She skied for many years in the Swiss and Austrian Alps and all over the United States.
She hiked in the Green and White Mountains, and the Adirondacks. She canoed in Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec, and Adirondack park. Most of all, she instilled a love of sport in her children and grandchildren.
In their seventies, Helen and her husband Jack moved to Leicester where they had built a house on Lake Dunmore. Every summer morning, and into the fall, Helen would begin her day with a hike down to the lake and a swim. She loved swimming, the colder the water the better. She swam in the frigid waters of Puget Sound, and took a dip in a frozen stream in Rochester one New Year's Day!
Helen had a wide and deep community of friends in Middletown and Meriden, Conn., and in Middlebury and Leicester, both from her years at Middlebury College and her retirement years in Vermont. After moving to Vermont, she became active in the Middlebury AAUW, and Friends of the Ilsley Library.
You could occasionally catch a glimpse of her at the Middlebury Unitarian Church. She volunteered for the position of treasurer of the Mountain View Club on Lake Dunmore, and spent many hours and days figuring out the books!
Helen was a loyal supporter of Middlebury College. She was the long-time, persistent, and very effective class agent for her Middlebury College class of 1941, always figuring out how to cajole her classmates into giving to the college. If there was an interesting cultural event at Middlebury College, most likely Helen was there.
Helen had high expectations for her children and grandchildren to be good citizens, intellectually creative and productive professionals, with each child and grandchild adding to the bonds and love of our family. Her quiet and not-so-quiet overseeing of her children's education created the foundation for their successes in life, and those of her grandchildren.
Most of all, she was Jack Burbank's wife, partner and helpmate for almost 65 years. She will be deeply missed.
Survivors, in addition to her husband Jack, include a sister and two brothers; daughters, Jane Burbank of New York City, and Priscilla Burbank-Schmitt of Brookline Mass.; sons, Doug Burbank of Santa Barbara, Calif., and John (Spider) Burbank of Seattle, Wash.; and their spouses, six granddaughters and one grandson.
Helen was predeceased by her parents, Roscoe and Edith Richardson West of Trenton, N.J.
The family will have a private celebration of Helen's life on February 2. In May we will have a public celebration and memorial for Helen.
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Dr. Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan Dean of Libraries, will give a public presentation, Radical Change in Conservative Institutions: Universities, Libraries and Scholarship in the Digital Age, April 4, 3:00p.m. – 4:30p.m. in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220, University of Washington. The talk is free and no pre-registration is required. All interested parties are invited. The talk is co-sponsored by University Libraries, Office of the Provost, and the Faculty Council on University Libraries.
Courant is the Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan. He is also Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Economics, Professor of Information, and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy).
Courant has authored half a dozen books, and over seventy papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, state and local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, he is studying the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the changes in the system of scholarly communication that derive from new information technologies. He has been instrumental in the success of the Google Books Library Project and HathiTrust, a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future.
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Dr. Courant holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College (1968); an MA in Economics from Princeton University (1973); and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1974). He rides a BMW R1150R motorcycle.
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Following the huge success of the BlackBerry® 10 Jam event in Cape Town, South Africa in July, Research In Motion® (RIM®) held a BlackBerry 10 'Mini' Jam roadshow in Lagos, Nigeria at the CcHub and in Nairobi, Kenya at at the Ole Sereni Hotel in late August.
BlackBerry continues to grow from strength to strength in Africa, and both BlackBerry® 7 OS and BlackBerry 10 represent a massive opportunity for African mobile developers. BlackBerry is the number 1 smartphone vendor in Africa (Canalys Smartphone Data, Q2 2012) and is the top-selling smartphone in South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt. As well as a huge local community, African developers have the opportunity to reach a global audience of over 78 million BlackBerry customers. Africa is in the midst of a smartphone revolution, and BlackBerry is leading the charge, creating huge opportunities for the African mobile development community and students aspiring to new opportunities.
The events, which gave mobile developers a chance to learn more about the unique capabilities of BlackBerry 10, underlined the importance of the African developer community to RIM. Collectively, around 130 developers participated, learning about the BlackBerry 10 experience, architecture and the tools and resources available to create locally relevant apps for the BlackBerry platform. Some attendees were new to mobile development, so the sessions also provided a great opportunity to learn about skills and job opportunities in the African mobile industry.
Waldi Wepener, Regional Director for East, West and Central Africa at Research In Motion, said: "The enthusiasm and excitement at our BlackBerry 10 events in Africa was palpable, especially during the app competitions where we rewarded the winners with some very innovative app ideas. The technology hubs in Kenya and Lagos are a hotbed of talent and we are pleased to support the growing mobile development communities here. Africa is part of a growing list of regions around the world creating apps for our new platform."
There is already a very established BlackBerry developer community in Africa. In Kenya, Avallain Africa just launched a mobile health app for BlackBerry smartphone users, which allows users to quickly and easily find trusted health information and resources from any location in Kenya. In Nigeria, local developers have designed a number of apps for current BlackBerry models, including the Nigerian Constitution App by Pledge51 for access to important constitutional information; SeeAm, to find the location of all ATMs throughout Nigeria; and the EssentialApp, a free-to-download BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) integrated app that provides a useful guide for entertainment and day-to-day life in Nigeria. (Hear more from Nigerian developers about why they develop for BlackBerry!)
Nigerian developers queue for BlackBerry 10
Some 70 Nigerian developers attended the BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam in Lagos and the excitement about the new BlackBerry 10 platform was plain to see. They were queuing up to share ideas and mingle with other BlackBerry developers.
Delegates choose "Make We Bet" as the most innovative application in a competition, with the creator winning a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha prototype device for mobile development, and a BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. William Ukoh (@williamukoh), the creator of "Make We Bet" said: "For years, BlackBerry has been an appealing platform for my colleagues and I. The experience of meeting with my peers and learning more about the BlackBerry platform has been worthwhile."
Femi Longe, a Co-Founder of the CcHub added: "We were impressed after seeing what BlackBerry 10 has to offer, and we are excited by an even closer look at the platform and its capabilities at the BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam sessions in Lagos. At CcHub, we have strong ties with the developer community and encouraging development is our goal. We're eager to start using the updated user interface features offered by Cascades™ in BlackBerry 10, and we look forward to enriching the user experience to ensure our BlackBerry-based solutions and applications remain attractive and cutting-edge."
High interest in Kenya
The BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam developer event in Nairobi drew more than 50 developers. The keen attendance, interest and eager interaction by the developers showed that the Kenyan developer community is excited about and ready for BlackBerry 10.
Developers at the event praised BlackBerry 10 and the Mini Jam event. George Murage, Business Developer and Blogger for Juuchini, said: "The one-on-one expert guidance on creating BlackBerry 10 apps from the RIM team will enable local developers to build better mobile apps in various languages, and more importantly, help build an ecosystem to support Kenyan consumers when BlackBerry 10 launches."
"I am thrilled the BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam has offered me the opportunity to interact and know more about BlackBerry 10 experience. It has been one of the most inspiring experience and learnings for me," added Eric Omondi, from the Africa Solidarity Volunteer Foundation.
Grace Kihumba, Business Developer at Strathmore University iLab, said: "The experience has been an eye-opener for me. A few years ago, when I was developing apps for BlackBerry they didn't have many applications and it's quite fascinating to see how far they have come with the new platforms. I have been deeply motivated to develop more apps for BlackBerry."
One of the most exciting recent developments for the Kenyan developer community, the iAfya app, created a lot of buzz at BB10 Mini Jam Kenya. Dr Allan Makenzi, MD of Avallain Africa, attended to talk about the iAfya app and the importance and opportunity for developers in the mobile health sector. He praised BlackBerry for providing a platform that is bringing services such as healthcare information closer to African consumers.
Here's Dr. Makenzi addressing developers at the Nairobi event:
We can't wait to see what comes from our Kenyan and Nigerian developer communities in the coming months. To see more of the BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam event in Nigeria, click here and for Kenya, click here.


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A Donegal woman has been selected in a small elite group of young people worldwide to take part in an expedition to Antarctica to preserve the continent's unique landscape and wildlife as well as learning how to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Eimear Carlin from Milltown, Raphoe, is the only Irish representative on the '2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador Programme' and has been formally invited by Robert Swan OBE to take part in the three-week International Antarctic Expedition (IAE), which begins next February.
Swan was the first person to walk to both the North and South poles, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and is now a renowned environmental leader who takes a select group of current and future environmental experts to Antarctica. His aim is to inspire the next generation of leaders to continue his work.
Human activities in Antarctica are governed by an international agreement, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. This ensures that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes only and that the environment is protected. Currently there is a cessation that bans drilling or mining in Antarctica, called the Environmental Protocol, established in 1991. This document can be reviewed after the 50-year anniversary in 2041.
Ms Carlin, who has just completed a postgraduate diploma in Development Studies from Kimmage Development Studies Centre in Dublin, moved to Inuvik in the Canadian Arctic in 2004, and spent four years working the Canadian Forestry Sector. She worked mostly in reforestation, and personally planted over 600,000 trees.
"I became very interested in the environmental challenges faced by the Polar Regions and how changes in the Polar ecosystem can impact on the rest of the world," she said. "From living within the Arctic Circle I am used to working in extreme weather conditions, experiencing 24 hour darkness and temperatures in the -40s.
"I have travelled extensively throughout the North West Territories, witnessing the annual caribou migration. In 2006 I travelled to Northern and Arctic Finland to photograph brown bear migrations into Russia."
The expedition will also see Ms Carlin complete Swan's 'Leadership on the Edge' programme, the goal of which is to develop the skills of future business and environmental leaders. This will be held at the first ever Education Base established in Antarctica by Robert Swan at Bellinghausen Station.
Ms Carlin has pledged to raise €19,607 to take part in the expedition, which takes place from February 28 to March 14, and has written to President Michael D Higgins to seek his support. She will be taking part in a voxpop session at the Ernest Shackleton School in Athy Co. Kildare on October 28th and will be hosting a climate change Café Scientifique Fundraiser in the Alliance Francaise Dublin on November 22nd.
She has also started personal fundraising, most notably by a roller-skating trek around Ireland covering 800km, which is the equivalent distance of the Drake Passage, the sea of water that connects the south-western Atlantic and the south-eastern Pacific, between the southern tip of South America in Chile and South Shetlands Islands of Antarctica over the next four months.
This project will culminate in a Fundraiser Gala Evening in Dublin on the last weekend of January. Upon her return in March, Ms Carlin will then undertake the second leg of the journey, around the schools of the country to educate.
"I am aiming to start an initiative in schools across Ireland to get 2041 young people to create their own climate change projects, whether it is planting a tree or being responsible for turning off all lights, checking taps etc in their home before bedtime," she said. "Simple acts can make a huge change. In doing so, kids will get to be Mini Climate Ambassadors in their own right. It's about instilling a more sustainable attitude to energy and resource use from an early age."
"Throughout 2013, I will be travelling around Ireland visiting schools and businesses promoting the Antarctic and sustainable practices that can help combat the effects of climate change."
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Mayor Don Wesely will host a Town Hall meeting from 7 to 9 p.m., Monday, July 16 at the Auld Recreation Center, 3140 Sumner in Antelope Park. All city departments will be represented, and all residents of the city are welcome.
"This is an excellent opportunity for citizens to ask questions about the city budget, the beltways, Antelope Valley and the other major issues facing our community," said Mayor Wesely. "This will be our fifth Town Hall meeting, it has been very helpful to have city leaders hear the concerns of those we serve."
Invitations are also being sent to the City Council, Lancaster County Board, City-County Planning Commission, area State Senators, neighborhood representatives and community organizations.
The town hall begins at 7 p.m. with a reception. At 7:30, the Mayor will make brief remarks and introduce representatives of the city departments. The public will then have an opportunity to ask questions. Members of the public will be allowed one question and one follow-up question until all wishing to speak have been heard. At 8:30, there will be an opportunity for informal follow-up discussion.
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No twinkies for you!
I hear they are going to sell the brands.
Now, they are thinking. Why not pass out the profits and royalties to the employees who are now going broke.
XII Commandment:
Thou Shalt Not Cleave Thy Twinkies In Twain!
Love that image
So, when friends tell me that no diet is any good unless it prohibits white flour and white sugar, they are full of the Devil, slaves of Satan?
But, yea, verily, Cap 7 is littered with the corpses of corporations slain by St. Mittens. The story of Bain and Able is written in Genesis. Bain sends companies to Cap 7, while Able bodied workers are cast into the pit of Mittendom.
ABC this a.m. carried a story -- just as I had suggested since the Twinkies story first came out -- that the Grupo Bimbo in Mexico, owned by one of that country's billionaire families (they have about a dozen, covering everything from concrete to telephone lines) will ante up for a takeover of the brands Hostess is most famous for. I pointed out that, as it is, G.B. already produces a creme-filled cupcake that is twice as good as Hostess's, called Penguinos, Spanish for penguins. Penguinos are just delicious. Maybe they will also put a gringo name on a couple of their other delicious products, their pay de pina and pay de queso, little pies, pineapple and cheese respectively. While touring Mexico by car with my sons, each time we saw a Bimbo product ad I regaled with an old novelty song that, as a single back in the late 50s or early 60s, sold a gazillion 45 rpm records, titled "Bimbo." The lyrics go: "Bimbo, Bimbo, where you gonna go-e-o/Bimbo, Bimbo, what you gonna do-e-o/Bimbo, Bimbo does you mama know?/That you're goin' down the road to see your little girl-e-o." Yeah, ridiculous, I know, but that's just what makes novelty songs sell.
The Twinkies and their ilk can go. As long as they never, EVER get rid of my Nutty Bars. PEOPLE WOULD DIE. IMPORTANT PEOPLE. WITH FAMILIES.
The local store here has these -
I couldn't get a bigger image. They look amazingly like a Twinkie. Concidence? I think not!
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World Theatre reopening tonight
After almost a month without movies, The World Theatre reopened their doors to the community last night with a fresh line up of movies.
A lightning strike on 15 January destroyed vital safety and operational equipment causing the Theatre's closure.
Councillor Alan Barr said he was pleased to see the restoration of services to the community. "It's great to see the Theatre open again. We were happy to open ahead of schedule and appreciated the community's support and patience during the closure. We're now pleased to invite everyone back to the Theatre."
To celebrate the reopening, tonight, the Friends of the Theatre will open Dungavell's Bar and Pepper's Café will have tasty treats on offer.
To see the full line-up of current releases, see The World Theatre's Facebook page @WorldTheatreChartersTowers or call the info line 4761 5430.
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Mangano Scores 21 Points, Grabs 15 Rebounds
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale has already had some impressive performances early this season, but it's hard to imagine the Bulldogs have been any better than they were in the second half against Albany on Monday night. Yale held the Great Danes to 24.2 percent shooting from the field and outrebounded them 27-18 en route to a surprisingly easy 74-53 victory at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
Greg Mangano led the way for the Bulldogs, scoring 21 points and grabbing 15 rebounds. Porter Braswell added 14 points and four assists, and Raffi Mantilla contributed a career-high 12 points off the bench.
Austin Morgan, who entered the night leading the Ivy League in scoring, was held to just three points, 15 below his average.
"We got contributions from everybody," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "To win with Austin only scoring three points is a tribute to our guys. Our bench and the other starters really picked up the slack."
Jones inserted freshman Jeremiah Kreisberg into the starting lineup, and the move paid dividends. Kreisberg, who was making his first career start, made 5-of-6 shots from the field and finished with 10 points. Reggie Willhite also reached double figures in scoring with 11 points. Willhite was 4-of-6 from the field and added five rebounds, three assists, a block and a steal.
The Bulldogs won for the third time in their last four games and are 3-0 at home.
"It was a great team effort," Jones said. "Our guys have really figured out that sharing the ball is important. They've taken it to heart and are doing a much better job."
Yale (4-4) led only 36-31 at halftime. Albany cut the deficit to 44-43 with 15:46 left, but the Bulldogs answered with a big run, outscoring the Great Danes 26-2 over the next eight minutes.
Early on, it appeared it might be an easy night for the Bulldogs, who scored the first seven points. Albany, though, slowly chipped away and tied it at 22-22 with 6:24 left. Mangano immediately answered with an emphatic dunk off a nice feed from Willihite.
The final tie of the game was at 30-30 with 1:36 left, but Yale scored the last six points, including a three-pointer from Braswell just before time expired.
The Bulldogs shot 51.7 percent from the field in the first half, but Albany stayed close with a 17-13 edge in rebounding. That changed in a big way in the second half.
"In the games we've lost, we haven't done a good job on the defensive boards," said Mangano, who posted his fifth career double-double. "Tonight we wanted to control the defensive boards, and it was a team effort."
Mangano's 15 rebounds matched his career high. He also had four blocks and was 8-of-13 from the field.
Tim Ambrose paced the Great Danes (4-6) with 15 points.
NOTES: The big lead allowed Jones to use all 14 healthy players. Senior Alfonso Costa, who joined the team this fall and also plays lacrosse at Yale, saw his first action and was credited with an offensive rebound… One of Jones' concerns early in the season has been his starters minutes, but none were forced to play more than 30… Yale's bench outscored Albany's 15-7… The Bulldogs evened the all-time series with Albany 2-2 with the win… Jones is a 1986 Albany graduate… A busy stretch concludes for the Bulldogs on Wednesday when they play at Bryant. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. and it will be Yale's third game in five days.
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng has announced that the south leg of the Antelope Valley elevated overpass near the Devaney Center will open to traffic Friday, November 3. The road will be opened immediately after a 9 a.m. ceremony at the site. The north and west legs of the overpass opened August 16.
"This elevated roadway is a key piece of the Antelope Valley transportation improvements," said Mayor Seng. "The federal earmarks we have received to help fund this project are most important and appropriate, as a local-federal partnership is necessary to remove this area from the floodplain." Since the project began, the Antelope Valley project has received more than $35 million in federal earmarked funds for construction of transportation improvements alone.
"It is appropriate that we open this important roadway just before homecoming for the University of Nebraska - Lincoln," said Seng. "UNL is one of the City's partners in the project and will see major benefits from the improvements."
In addition to Mayor Seng, speakers at the ceremony will include U.S. Senator Ben Nelson; U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry; Christine Jackson, UNL Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance; and Glenn Johnson, General Manager of the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, the third partner in the Antelope Valley Project.
The south leg will end at "X" Street until more construction is completed. The south leg will eventually extend to "K" and "L" streets at South 19th Street. Construction is scheduled to begin on the final east leg of the elevated roadway in 2008.
In addition to traffic improvements, the Antelope Valley Project includes flood control and community revitalization. More than six miles of new roadways and 12 new bridges eventually will be built. A new open waterway will remove the flooding threat from many homes and businesses and many acres of UNL property. These improvements are expected to spur private and public investment and create jobs in the core of the City.


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The Jets came to terms with RFA Paul Postma yesterday, leaving only the Big 3 still without contracts of the RFA's who filed for arbitration. Postma had an uneven season, posting 4-5-9 in 34 games, but scoring two of his four goals in one game against the Islanders and being posterized on a number of ill-advised pinches late in the year. As with Tangradi, we'll look at the player and the contract separately.
The Player
He had the fewest even strength minutes per game of any defenceman used by the Jets this year, and faced the easiest oppostion available (7th easiest of 9, easiest among those who played 20 games). He also had a tremendous zone-start push, starting 60% non-neutral zone shifts in the offensive end – the only Jet defender to start more than 54% of his shifts in that end. Of course, that was partly because of Postma's particular talents for offence, and he did have among the best raw and relative corsi ratings on the team despite going -5 in +/-.
Within the swarm system of Claude Noel, Postma's tentative own-zone coverage and large gaps in transition were problematic. His most memorable defensive moments came in high-risk, high-reward pinches to prevent transition. The NHL is not the only place he's had defensive issues, going -16 in his AHL career despite impressive scoring totals (136 points in 215 games over four seasons). We don't have a good sense of his minutes in those years, but we know that he's used as a scoring option from the blue line wherever he goes.
Ultimately, at 24 years old, Postma looks unlikely to become a staple defender for a playoff-quality team, but remains one of two right handed options for the powerplay on this Jets squad. The powerplay, we all remember, was the worst in the league last season. With Enstrom injured and a miserable second forward unit, we can't place all the blame on Postma who managed a reasonable 4 powerplay points in just under an hour of time with the man-power advantage. At best, Postma is a specialist on a defence group without enough multi-tool, two-way defenders.
The Contract
Postma signed a two year deal for $1.425M – slightly more than Tangradi – for a cap hit of $712,500. The deal is for a mere $650K this year, increasing to $775K next. In the case of Tangradi, the two year deal made sense for both sides. It gave Tangradi a chance to move up the lineup with little risk to the Jets, who paid him as a bottom 3 player in both years and have a host of other players to flush should Lowry or Petan emerge more quickly than expected. In the case of Postma, the Jets already have a log jam of 10 NHL or cusp-of-the-NHL defenders on the roster. The contract actually blocks the possibility of better defencemen taking his place and suggests a pattern that is common for bad teams: an unwillingness to give up on players, even if those players don't help them win.
Postma is waiver eligible next season, and with $1.425M invested, it's unlikely the Jets send him down to start the year even if Redmond or Trouba appear better at training camp. His signing likely signals that Trouba starts with the IceCaps, and Postma's second year leaves open the possibility that the team will watch Kulda go back to the KHL or Redmond be flushed. For a budget team, paying an offence first defenceman $775K to play in the AHL seems unlikely. They have, in essence, made a choice on these players 2 months before training camp.
If the team intends an honest competition for the 6th through 8th spots on the blueline, it's a wonder that they gave Postma a second year with a substantial raise. It's a contract that makes a lot of sense for Postma, and creates a lot of pain for the team.
The Bottom Line
As a team that struggled to put up wins in the weak Southeast division and couldn't score on the powerplay, the return of Postma and addition of Adam Pardy seem to indicate another 'rebuilding' year, while Postma's second year perhaps indicating two more years of status quo.
In my opinion, the Jets depth chart on the blue line goes (your mileage may vary, as they say):
- Enstrom – Byfuglien
- Trouba – Bogosian
- Clitsome – Stuart
- Pardy – Redmond
- Kulda – Postma
A two-year contract makes little sense to me, and I would have been more comfortable had the Jets flushed Postma, or signed him to a single year to give the coaches a chance to choose their top 7 or 8 from that group. Josh Morrissey is likely three years away from NHL duty, making the question of how this blue line gets better in the meantime an open one. This Paul Postma contract again suggests management is not looking to get better at this time at this position.


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EUGENE, Ore. – The University of Oregon is hosting the top college runners in the country for the NCAA Championships June 9-12. Junior Kate Grace competed in the semifinals of the 800-meter run on Wednesday, in which she finished with the seventh-fastest time to advance to the finals.
Grace finished third in her heat in 2:05.32. This is a little slower than her school record time of 2:04.22, but she like the other competitors was pacing herself for the finals in two days. The 24 runners competed in three heats, and the top two finishers in each heat plus the next two fastest runners qualified for the finals. The fastest time of the day was Tennessee senior Phoebe Wright's 2:02.98.
The finals will be held at 5:50 PM PDT on Friday. A live stream of the event can be found at NCAA.com.
On Thursday sophomore Anne Lovelace will compete in the semifinals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase at 6:15 PM PDT.


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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Why WebNano - the article
My article on the motivation for WebNano was published at perl.com.
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- johnnapiorkowski said...
Nice read! Glad to see progress and all your thoughts on this. I think right now is like a golden age of Perl microweb frameworks, as we try out lots of interesting ideas.
One of the biggest problems for Catalyst obviously as the defacto choice is hard to change things, hard to experiment. I hope that in the future some of all these great ideas can be mixed and matched as needed.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
It Is Do or Die Time
But a funny thing happened along the way. The team performed with a two game lead just like they have in the 4th quarter of too many games this season. They found a way to screw it up. And it happened so quickly it left everyone wondering what happened. But, just like in the games they lost, there is still time to salvage a playoff spot.
If that is going to happen then the game against Tampa Bay has got to be a win. The Cowboys need to not only win but they need to make a statement. I know it is hard to make a statement in a game that should be an easy win. But a great performance could start the ball rolling in the right direction again for this team.
The Bucs are a mess. They are in an awful downward spiral very similar to what happened with the Cowboys right before Wade Phillips was fired last year. Sure, they will come out fired up for a big game against the Cowboys. But they are also only a few early scores away from quitting completely.
And so a quick start is what they Cowboys will need this week. They can't mess around with taking this game down to the last minute. The Cowboys have no more margin for error on the season. They need three straight wins and this should be the easiest of the three.
I'm not going to spend too much time breaking down who needs to do what in this game. We all know it at this point. Felix Jones needs to play this week like he did last week minus the fumble. Tony Romo needs to continue to play excellent football. And, for the love of God, the defense needs to pull their heads out of their rear ends.
Rob Ryan has promised that many of the communication issues that have plagued the defense have been fixed. I find that hard to believe. If it were so easy why wasn't it fixed months ago? I don't want to hear any excuses from anyone on the defense. They all need to play better. Line up and beat the man across from you. Scheme plays a part in the outcome but there haven't been many guys winning their one-on-one matchups lately.
I think the Cowboys will come out very motivated this week. I think the team will have a chip on their shoulder after the way things went down last week. I expect to see a blowout victory that is clinched in the third quarter. I like nothing more than to see a healthy dose of Sammy Morris and Stephen McGee in the 4th quarter. I'm picking the Cowboys to win 35-20 and it won't be as close as that score sounds. And Jason Witten is dues for a big game. Don't be surprised if he has 10+ catches in this one.
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You're right. If they lose this one, seasons over.ReplyDelete
Hopefully, so will Garrett's failed experiment....
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 8:35 PM
"Scheme plays a part in the outcome but there haven't been many guys winning their one-on-one matchups lately." Exactly, Garrett and Ryan are making this too cerebral. Football is a physical and emotional game first.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 8:20 PM
No defense next weekend, no win, no playoff. Our defense was not good against Tampa. I'm just thankful that Morris started his game plan off by running the football instead of throwing it.ReplyDelete
Again, start of second half, our offense went to sleep. However we did recover somewhat.
No way,no how was that Tony's fault on the fumble. Free should have blocked him. I love how the announcers always find a way to blame Tony. Just like last week, they talked about the pass that he over threw....PLEASE people!!
I'm going to send Jerry Jones a letter stating that we need to keep Tony off defense, he is killing us on defense.
Anyways, I love the cowboys, but I don't see them stopping the Eagles next weekend. I'm just hoping we score more than them. I believe that is the only way we are going to win that game.
Final score, 38-35 pick! Either team.
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Skip to comments.Mark Steyn on filibuster, Bolton & his distaste for the United States Senate.
Posted on 05/25/2005 6:14:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Mark Steyn on filibuster, Bolton & his distaste for the United States Senate.
Here's the transcript from the Hugh Hewitt Show earlier today. For more Steyn, please visit www.steynonline.com.
HH: Mark, how are you today?
MS: I'm good thanks, Hugh.
HH: The underwhelming support for John McCain in his home state has never failed to impress me. But it's really down to a bare pulse now. Can McCain recover from this fiasco on Monday? Well let me begin. Do you think it was a fiasco on Monday night?
MS: I don't think it was a fiasco, but I think it was damaging for John McCain. John McCain will never be president. Now you talk about his home state. His home state is, in fact, the newsroom of the New York Times. He has tremendous appeal among key demographics of columnists, journalists, editors, news anchors, network reporters, the secretary in the research department standing by the photocopier. But among Republican primary voters, he has very minimal appeal, and insofar as this deal does anything, it only weakens his appeal to Republicans.
HH: Of course, you live in New Hampshire when you're living in the States, Mark. And you were there four years, five years ago when he soundly trounced George W. Bush. Will we see a replay of that, despite the base dismay at the negotiation he undertook on Monday?
MS: Well, the thing about that is he does well in states like New Hampshire, that have open primaries. In other words, where Democrats and independents and communists and, you know, and greens, and all kinds of other political affiliations can vote in a Republican primary. And he did well in New Hampshire, where independents are a big chuck of the electorate in both primaries. But the minute it moved south to primaries where he has to appeal to Republicans, he sinks. And I think that's going to be the same this time. I don't see any change in that. You know, I think it's almost laughable the way the media inflate John McCain, because he's a man who, even if you fall for his charm, which I don't. I think he's actually a very thin-skinned narcissist myself, in my limited experience of him. But even if you fall for his charm, you can't really argue that this man has any kind of serious political philosophy, the way, for example, Ronald Reagan or even Bill Clinton did.
HH: Right. Now in the days since the deal on Monday, Lindsey Graham, chief proponent of John McCain in this week's New Yorker profile, has been like a cartoon character with his legs spinning like wheels in reverse, trying to pursuade everyone he didn't mean what he said he meant, and what he did. What did you think of the deal itself, and is it going to hold?
MS: Well, that's what I think is quite good about the deal, if you're talking about it in Machiavellian terms. I mean, just to get things out of the way, I absolutely loathe the United States Senate. And all this business, this sub-Star Wars cliches about how the Senate has saved the Republic, that we're seeing in the newspapers today. You know, I think the Senators are just generally over-inflated, isolated people, wandering around the country with bigger courts of flunkees than your average Gulf emir has. I don't think they save the Republic. I think they're actually fundamentally at odds with the spirit of Republican government. But I think that this deal, insofar as it gets some good judges confirmed, and in fact, it puts a lot of pressure on these so-called seven moderate Republicans, and seven moderate Democrats, is in fact, strictly, in sort of devious political terms, not a bad deal for the president. Obviously, I understand why it's upset Republicans, because they feel that on this rubbish filibuster nonsense, the Democratic party deserved an absolute political humiliation. But you know, it's really not a Republican issue. The Democrats are all about attacking personalities, and about procedure. And that's why they lose at elections. Because when it comes to elections, elections are about ideas and policy and principle. And on that basis, the Republican party is still strong, no matter how feeble its Senate leadership is.
HH: Its Senate leadership is feeble indeed. Does...who wins and loses presidentially. We've marked down McCain, because the base is angry, because they're not sufficiently Machiavellian, perhaps, in your view. I think Bill Frist got wounded in this as well. Your assessment of that?
MS: Yes. But Bill Frist is not...was never...I don't believe Senators should be presidential candidates. And whenever they try, they're always shocked at how no real people have heard of them. You know, I remember talking to Orrin Hatch during the New Hampshire primary in 2000. And he's a guy who, you know, been on the Sunday morning talk shows for as long as anyone could remember. And he told me in this rather sad voice that he was devastated by how few people in New Hampshire had heard of him. And I think, you know, to be honest, I wish I'd never of most Republican Senators, either. What a blessed world that is to live in. And I don't think Senators make good candidates. Obviously, with the one great exception of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And Hillary's potency as a candidate has not derived from the fact that she happens to be a Senator. Although as a Senator, she's played a much shrewder hand than most Democrats have, when it comes to a lot of this stuff.
HH: Now let's switch to a different Senator, George Voinovich, who, hours ago, took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the Bolton nomination. Here's one minute of his speech that I want the audience to hear so you can comment on it. George Voinovich of Ohio:
HH: Mark Steyn, I guess you and I are not worried about grandchildren of George Voinovich sufficiently. We're indifferent to them.
MS: Well, I am completely indifferent to the grandchildren of George Voinovich, and I don't really see why that's an issue that will be impacted one way or another by John Bolton becoming U.N. ambassador. And this business about going to the well, you know, this guy choking up with tears over the appointment of a U.N. ambassador, I mean I think that's great if he wants to be subbing for Sally Field's Oscar speeches. But this is a pathetic performance. And the sobbing, and the weeping and the wailing is just ridiculous for a man who, whatever you feel about him, John Bolton, is someone who deserves examination for his view of international institutions, international law, and their effectiveness. And this is why people loathe the Senate, because some empty, vapid, puffed-up poser, just sobbing and bleating about his grandchildren on there, I mean there are one hundred U.S. Senators out of a potential pool of 300 million. 400 million if you include all the fine, upstanding members of the undocumented American community in your part of the country. And it should be possible to get a hundred people who can stand there and discuss the issues in an articulate way, instead of blathering cliches about the well being dry. And it isn't. It's overflowing with his sob sister routine.
HH: And it didn't...he didn't make an argument. I mean, that's the other thing about the Senate. They trash so many reputations without pausing to make an argument. That was not an argument. That was a naked appeal to emotion, probably rooted in the fact that he's been under enormous pressure, and he's tired, and he's embarrassed by his silliness of pre-recess break. But this disgust is kind of on the rise, Mark Steyn. But it's sort of like the House of Lords. There's not much you can do about it.
MS: Well, you know, in fairness to the House of Lords, when you're talking about your 23rd Marquise and your 14th Dukes and these guys have been sitting there because their ancestor won some battle in the year 1273. When you go to the House of Lords, they've got these pokey little cubbyholes. They share the secretary between four of them. One of the things that is ridulous is that these people have such huge staffs in the United States, that they're very much the creature of their aides and these swollen offices they have. I mean, with the fellow like Jim Jeffords, for example, unless he's actually reading out the words that his aides have written for him, he's not someone who makes a lot of sense on a lot of these topics. And I think George Voinovich is a classic in that example. And America really shouldn't have a House of Lords. It should be...that's why Lincoln Chafee shouldn't be there. It should have citizen legislators. And this is what makes the Senate not the glory of the Republic, but a disgrace.
HH: With one minute left, Mark, I also want to talk to you about the stem cell debate, which is quickly...Howard Fineman's attempting to turn into another, oh, the religious right is coming. How do you see that debate? How do you explain it to people?
MS: Well, I think you have to understand that science at the moment trembles on the brink on some potentially, very devastating steps that one wouldn't want to take carelessly. And that includes, in effect, consigning us to a post-human future, which science has within its grasp. There are no medical reasons, as I understand it, there are no medical reasons that require the sort of abortion absolutist position to be taken in the stem cell debate.
End of interview.
Sadly I view them as a downgraded version of the House of Lords.
And I see them as a room full of Ted Baxters.
"That is my "I wish I had said that" line of the day."
I thought it was on FR that I saw the reference "John McCain (R - Media)"
bump and thanks for the post!
Even off the cuff this guy is brilliant.
LOL. You nailed it.
Steyn is a man after my own heart. Thanks for the ping.
This may be "yesterday's news", but IMHO, this "spot on" analysis deserves a big *ping* for both the Steyn list and the Ohio list...I missed it yesterday, but my "better half" came across it, and it's certainly worth repeating today, especially in context of the on-going Senate activities...!
Great. I knew McCain's "Death Star" speech would come back one day. Look out for it.
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