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Before Richard B. Russell became known as the name on a Senate office building, he spent 38 years on Capitol Hill as one of the most powerful members of the Southern Democratic caucus.
Russell, a Georgian, commanded respect. An incurable racist, he presided over Senate matters with authority and acumen. When he spoke, legislators listened.
Soon after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Russell lamented the fate of the late president's legacy: enacting meaningful Civil Rights legislation. He worried, of course, that it would happen, not that the dead president's ambition would go unrealized.
"We could have beaten Kennedy on civil rights," Russell said, "but we can't Lyndon."
In The Passage of Power, his fourth installment of "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," Robert A. Caro concentrates on the years 1958 through 1964, an era when Johnson endured a roller-coaster existence of political triumphs and defeats. The book begins with Johnson riding high as Senate Majority Leader before backing into an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1960, followed by his unexpected spot on the Kennedy ticket and a vice presidency marked by mockery and the mundane. A familiar taunt ("Whatever became of Lyndon Johnson?") heard at Georgetown cocktail parties and all around the Beltway haunted Johnson.
Then came Dallas and Dealey Plaza, thrusting LBJ into the role he had spent a lifetime chasing, but had come to view as unattainable. With characteristic detail and precision, Caro frames the assassination from Johnson's vantage point, providing a horrifying, pulse-pounding account of what it was like for a humbled man – even one as ambitious and power-hungry as LBJ – to shoulder the grief and burden of an entire nation.
The circumstances surrounding Johnson just before Kennedy's death, in Caro's depiction, warrant reconsideration. Matters such as Johnson's isolation from the Kennedy team come as little surprise, but the depth of the estrangement dug up by the author lends the situation much more severe context. To cite but one example, LBJ, the vice president, wasn't even in the room when Kennedy reached his most important decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. By way of comparison, think of Vice President Joe Biden by the side of President Obama during the Osama bin Laden raid or Dick Cheney in almost every meaningful moment of George W. Bush's two terms.
Johnson's lack of influence, after reading Caro's meticulous interviews and research cataloging his ineffectual existence under JFK, can not be overstated. The Kennedy team – "The Harvards," as Johnson called the academic, business, and political Eastern establishment elite recruited to run the administration – openly mocked the vice president. Robert F. Kennedy, the often-ruthless attorney general and brother of the president, hated Johnson. LBJ reciprocated. Others on the president's team regarded Johnson as a hick, dubbing him "Rufus Cornpone," and belittling his hardscrabble journey from poverty in the Texas Hill Country to leader of the Democratic Party during the Eisenhower era.
Among other slights, LBJ humiliated Robert Kennedy when the former reigned as majority leader and the latter served as a Senate aide. Later, the men feuded as Robert Kennedy sought to renounce the offer of the vice presidency extended to Johnson at the 1960 convention. Caro makes a persuasive case that such a move would have devastated the campaign. Without Johnson and his ability to sway Texas and other Southern states, Republican Richard Nixon would likely have become president in 1960.
None of that resonated with the new attorney general, who enjoyed repaying Johnson with all manner of slights in the vice presidency. Caro dubs the back-and-forth animosity, destined to take yet another turn when John Kennedy dies, "one of the great blood feuds in American political history."
Despite more than 30 years spent researching and writing thousands of pages about every aspect of Johnson's career and life (with at least one more entry remaining), Caro maintains a balanced perspective. He hammers Johnson and praises him when merited, all without falling into the biographer's trap of celebrating too much of one or the other and remaining vigilant to his subject's blend of outsized traits on both ends of the spectrum. LBJ, much like Robert Kennedy, can be cruel and ruthless, only to pivot into breathtaking acts of empathy and graciousness. Caro never lets his subject charm him beyond clear-eyed assessment, at one point reminding readers (and himself): "Ruthlessness, secretiveness, deceit – significant elements in every previous stage of Lyndon Johnson's life story." And, as we all know, few people change much, if at all.
Caro long ago mastered his subject – Johnson and power – the way LBJ gleaned all he could in political calculation. Thus, when the historian describes how and why Johnson responded to the ultimate challenge of replacing a slain, beloved president, he has all of the telling anecdotes, feuds, strokes of legislative genius, and both the bullying and the charm of his subject at the ready.
Context counts for everything when it comes to analyzing Johnson's plight in November 1963. The deadlines and intractable problems LBJ inherited when Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy in Dallas included:
•Making decisions on and finalizing a new federal budget due in two months. That would be difficult enough, but was exacerbated by the fact that Kennedy and the cabinet had excluded LBJ from the decision-making and planning in prior weeks and months, leaving the new president to start from scratch. Here, as in other circumstances, Johnson's extensive and encyclopedic understanding of how Washington works, a product of his decades in Congress and the Senate, made him perhaps the only man capable of handling the task.
•Persuading the Kennedy men to remain part of the White House and, in turn, continue their fallen president's work. Johnson had to retain these men who had ignored and scorned him and thought him beneath the office. If they left in droves, as many expected, LBJ could never hope to gain credibility with Congress or the nation as a whole. (Said one JFK admirer in the aftermath of the assassination: "A Texas murder had put a Texan in power.") Defying the odds, he pleaded, cajoled, and played on the vanities of Ted Sorensen, Robert McNamara, and others to keep the cabinet intact.
•Convincing the liberal faction of the Democratic party, the wing that would determine the next nomination, of his commitment to Civil Rights. As a Texan and Southerner, and the driving force behind two watered-down Civil Rights bills, Johnson remained suspect in the eyes of many. Self-interest in the form of political angling, combined with a passion for equality eventually praised by the likes of activists Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young, among others, propelled Johnson to adamantly go farther than Kennedy would have.
When some in Johnson's administration wondered whether fighting poverty and discrimination could harm efforts to woo suburban voters, the president snapped, "Well, what the hell's the presidency for?"
•Breaking the logjam in Washington. Those convinced by the recent debates on health care and debt limits on Capitol Hill that Congress and the executive branch have never been less productive or more at odds might want to read Caro's book for a reminder that history repeats itself. The Southern caucus, beginning in 1937 with FDR's failed bid to pack the Supreme Court, swatted away not just Civil Rights bills, but almost all of each president's legislative agenda for 25 years. Even after Harry Truman won a tight race in 1948 by campaigning against the Do-Nothing Congress (cue the 2012 comparison for the current incumbent's strategy), Capitol Hill proved every bit as recalcitrant over the next four years. The lone exception: LBJ's tenure as Majority Leader from 1955-60, when he reached across the aisle to strike pragmatic accords with Dwight Eisenhower.
The stakes were, of course, enormous and became exaggerated when combined with Johnson's lifelong insecurities and fear of failure. A man who graduated not even from the state university of Texas but instead from Southwest Texas State Teachers College took note of the Rhodes Scholars and Ivy Leaguers surrounding him now. Johnson openly feared being branded "illegitimate" and a "pretender" in the White House.
Caro sums up the self-loathing this way: "Nothing the Kennedys felt about Lyndon Johnson could be any worse than what Lyndon Johnson felt about himself."
So, even as Johnson courted the Kennedy cabinet, did a delicate dance with his enemy RFK while honoring the fallen president's memory, grappled with an intractable Congress and, oh by the way, had less than two months to prepare his first State of the Union while also eyeing a presidential election less than a year away, the new president also summoned some of his worst traits to fight off personal scandal. His longtime protégé, Bobby Baker, a Senate staffer, had already become, in the weeks before Kennedy's death, the subject of national media scrutiny over kickback schemes involving government contracts and vending machines. The morning of Kennedy's assassination, a team of editors from Life magazine met to discuss a planned exposé of how Johnson became a millionaire despite a life in low-paying government jobs. It died when Kennedy did. In other cases, Johnson quashed dissenting and critical stories in Texas newspapers by threatening regulatory and investigative retaliation of various media companies from the White House.
Caro makes a convincing argument against the conventional wisdom submitted by the late historian and Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger and a score of others that JFK intended to keep Johnson as his running mate in 1964. By 1963, Johnson had fallen so far from relevance that it was his former aide, John Connally, now the governor of Texas, who controlled the state's political power, and not LBJ. Just before his death, President Kennedy told his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, "I will need as a running mate in sixty-four a man who believes as I do."
Johnson knew he had to simultaneously honor Kennedy's legacy, mainly through a long-stalled proposed $11-billion tax cut and the promise of a Civil Rights bill, while also establishing his own identity. All of it seemed impossible, but LBJ personified the notion outlined by Obama's first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, in 2008: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
Over the course of seven weeks, from Nov. 22, 1963, to Jan. 8, 1964, when Johnson outlined the War on Poverty in his first State of the Union speech, the president made expert use of the crisis. He clashed with Robert Kennedy privately, but, otherwise, maintained an air of graciousness and humility amid the relentless tide of tributes to the late president. When he first addressed the nation on Nov. 27 as president, Johnson struck a pitch-perfect tone. In a speech even his critics acknowledged for its sincerity, Johnson began, "All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today."
Nothing of significance escapes Caro's watchful gaze. He delves into the rapidly advancing political importance of TV, of how it converted the dead president into a mythical figure during three days of constant coverage during and after his death, and finds a counterpoint as LBJ toils in obscurity off-camera. The tragic glamour of the widowed First Lady and her young children, the majestic funeral with the horse-drawn casket, as all of this unified America in grief, Caro writes, Johnson, marooned across the street from the White House, established a framework for a historical run of legislative success that remains unmatched.
Along the way, the author digresses into delightful historical asides. A brief example: He follows a chapter on LBJ's first presidential address to Congress with a summary of the Oval Office. William Howard Taft, Caro tells us, expanded the West Wing in 1909 to include an oval-shaped office. The oval LBJ inherited from Kennedy came to life 25 years later, built on the southeast corner of the West Wing at the behest of FDR because it eased the way for his wheelchair. Jackie Kennedy, "as a surprise for her husband," ordered the office redecorated when JFK left for Texas, a makeover tinged with heartbreak since Kennedy never lived to see it.
The historian serves up much-needed levity in a retelling of Johnson's Christmas vacation to the family ranch in 1963. Here the Washington press corps glimpses a commander-in-chief who serves the German chancellor barbecue and beer in the Pedernales Valley, delivers seemingly impromptu policy shifts from a hay-bale rostrum and punctuates a press gathering by hopping on a horse and riding away. Farewell, Camelot; howdy, Bonanza.
Late in the book, Caro signals the Shakespearean fall that, no doubt, will comprise much of the next volume. In an assessment of Johnson's earliest decisions on Vietnam, made during the Christmas sojourn to Texas, he writes, "two aspects … are clear: first, whatever steps he took during that vacation, he took as well steps to conceal them, to keep them secret from Congress and the American people; and, second, the steps he took had, as their unifying principle, an objective dictated largely by domestic – indeed, personal – political concerns."
Ruthlessness, secretiveness, deceit, remember? But, as bad as the next years in the Johnson story will be, Caro is right in his summation of the seven-week transition, considered by many the most difficult set of circumstances ever inherited by an American vice president thrust into the presidency. "To watch Lyndon Johnson during the transition," Caro writes, "is to see political genius in action."
This biography matches those lofty words. For a nuanced, unbiased portrait of American political power in all of its grim machinery, students of history should prepare to go all the way with LBJ — and, of course, Caro, too.
Erik Spanberg is a regular contributor to the Monitor's Books section.


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TIJUANA, Mexico — This border city, once as violent as any in Mexico's drug-fueled trafficking wars, appears to have shaken off narco-related mayhem, allowing an explosion of new music halls, art galleries and world-class restaurants.
Tijuana's 1.6 million residents are grateful for the calm, which allows them once again to dine out at night, visit nightclubs and generally exist without fear of the sudden, random violence that had become so much a part of Mexican life.
But behind the relative peace is a nagging question: Why did it occur? Residents admit that they don't know.
"It's not very clear what happened," said Luis Ituarte, an artist and promoter. "It's just not as bad as it used to be."
Security officials credit better policing and the arrival of army patrols. Activists say that emboldened citizens began ratting out gangsters.
But some experts cite a more sinister reason. They say the calm is because Mexico's most powerful crime group has seized control of Tijuana's key drug-trafficking corridor and now enforces the peace. Rival drug gangs that used to gun down one another simply are working together now.
The issue goes beyond Tijuana's boundaries. Some Mexicans in the nation's interior hail Tijuana as a model for how to combat runaway violence. If, however, the calm is owed to once-feuding drug lords having settled their battles, any effort to replicate it elsewhere will only muddle a law-and-order problem.
Whatever the case, relief is palpable. In a city long known for forbidden pursuits such as gambling and prostitution, residents wear their fame for perdition lightly, enjoying nights out on the town. Few delve into the reasons for the calm.
"People are feeling confident again to walk in the streets," said Rosa Aida Garcia, who's operated the Dandy del Sur cantina for 36 years.
Her establishment is on 6th Avenue, ground zero in the renaissance of Tijuana's music scene. Dozens of bars have opened along a few blocks of the street, catering to locals. The musical outpouring is wildly creative, fusing rock and Mexico's own nortena style, with accordion and violin riffs overlaying the sounds of electric guitars.
"It's like very rabid regional Mexican music mixed with, like, insane electronica," said Derrik Chinn, an American transplant who leads tourists on day trips to explore Tijuana's off-the-beaten-path revival.
"It's paradoxical that amid all the violence there's been such a boom in cultural activities. There are art galleries, book fairs, expositions and the like," said Victor Clark Alfaro, an anthropologist and human rights activist in Tijuana.
Tijuana, a city across the border from San Diego with barely a century of history, has long had its fate linked to the tourist trade. Americans began coming here during Prohibition, when cantinas boomed. In subsequent cycles, tourists were drawn for gambling, abortions, and quickie marriages and divorces.
The tourist flow slowed with stricter border controls after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and ebbed further as the once-powerful Arellano Felix gang disintegrated in internecine feuding.
The Arellano Felix brothers — at least five were involved in narcotics trafficking — had allied with Colombian traffickers in the 1980s and 1990s to smuggle cocaine into California, the most lucrative U.S. drug market. For years, the cartel imposed control by murdering prosecutors, police and judges.
But in the past decade, the group began to disintegrate, and different factions fought with one another. One faction even employed a body disposal expert, "El Pozolero," or "The Stew Maker," who dissolved victims in barrels of lye.
Mutilated bodies hung from bridges and turned up in empty lots. The number of murders soared, from a reported 300 or so annually in the years just before to 844 in 2008 and 1,250 in 2009, the worst year. In 2010, it dropped back to 809, and it fell last year to 479.
Police Chief Alberto Capella Ibarra said Tijuana's once deeply corrupt force had undergone "total, radical change."
Since 2007, about 500 officers have been removed from their jobs, mostly for suspicion of links to organized crime, and 80 to 100 are in prison, said Capella, who served as chief in 2007-08 and returned to the job last year.
"People speak of us as a hopeful model in which citizens have become very active, and institutions have become more brave. This is what is offering us tranquillity," Capella said.
Development officials aim for the greater Tijuana area to resume its position as one of Mexico's economic engines. The region hosts 700 assembly plants, or maquilas, with specialties in electronics and medical devices. Some 40 companies specialize in components for the aerospace industry.
"I'm not going to lie. There are still drugs and shootings," said Mario C. Lopez, the executive director of the Tijuana Economic Development Council. "But the reduction in homicides is dramatic."
"If you measure how bad it is on a scale of one to 10, and 10 were like Baghdad or the Middle East or Gaza Strip, Tijuana got to a seven or eight at some point. Probably right now, we're at a three or four," Lopez said.
Most of the murders today are in marginal neighborhoods on Tijuana's periphery, leaving the financial and tourist areas largely free of violence.
Throughout the city, murals with hopeful slogans brighten walls. Many of them are the work of Reacciona Tijuana, a citizen movement founded by a publicist, Gabriela Posada del Real. More than half of Tijuana's population was born elsewhere, and social class plays a smaller role here than in other Mexican cities, she said.
"There's more freedom here, maybe because we don't reject the 'black legend' of Tijuana. We are more permissive," Posada del Real said.
That open-mindedness has found its way into the kitchens of restaurants in an area designated as Tijuana's gastronomic district.
One chef, Javier Plascencia, and his restaurant Mision 19 were written up last month in The New Yorker magazine, highlighting Tijuana's culinary renaissance. It said the city's talented chefs and unique "Baja Med" cuisine were rehabilitating the city's reputation one bite at a time.
But Tijuana's apparent tranquillity doesn't satisfy everyone. Adela Navarro Bello, the director of the muckraking weekly magazine Zeta, is one of those.
"Look, there isn't high-impact violence," she acknowledged. "We don't have shootouts at noon next to a nursery school, and they aren't throwing the bodies of 12 execution victims on patios."
But still she calls the calm "a fiction."
"It is a tranquillity that has arisen from an evident agreement between criminal organizations and those who are in power," she said. "Drug trafficking is still going on, and the authorities aren't identifying the traffickers, not pursuing them."
Law enforcement experts said today's calm dated from events after the splintering of the Arellano Felix clan, which had controlled Tijuana's trafficking routes for two decades. Then in 2007, the powerful Sinaloa Cartel moved in. It recruited an Arellano Felix capo, Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, to its ranks, prompting an all-out turf war. Garcia was arrested in 2010.
Peace came when Luis Fernando Sanchez Arellano, nephew of the Arellano Felix patriarch and leader of the weakened clan, apparently decided to cooperate with the Sinaloa Cartel rather than battle it.
Through "narco diplomacy," the two gangs agreed to bundle drugs in shipments, with the Sanchez Arellano side receiving a minority stake. Some bales of marijuana seized in the past two years bore stickers of both the Sinaloa Cartel and of Sanchez Arellano, who's known as "El Ingeniero," or "The Engineer."
Some observers see the detente as fragile and likely to last only as long as the Sinaloa Cartel wants it that way.
Ituarte, the artist, said that as long as calm endured, Tijuana's creative animal spirits would thrive, thrusting the city in new directions.
"I have never been more hopeful about Tijuana than now," he said.
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Custom and ritual have ruled Augusta National Golf Club for 80 years, and chief among those traditions has been an iron-willed chairman with almost complete authority, an obsessive desire for secrecy and eccentric determination to be different.
The most powerful forces on earth have not been able to dissuade Augusta National's leadership at times. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a club member, rose to address a meeting of Augusta National's board of governors.
Eisenhower demanded that the club cut down a 65-foot loblolly pine tree on the left of the 17th hole that he found particularly vexing to his game. Cliff Roberts, the longtime domineering club chairman, stood up and declared Eisenhower out of order.
"Meeting adjourned,'' Roberts announced and walked out of the room. The tree, like many other things unchanged at Augusta National, is still alongside the 17th hole.
Private, circumspect self-rule has always been the guiding canon at the club, where the core members are not Georgians, but outsiders. Of the roughly 300 members, only about 25 are from Augusta. And the majority of those out-of-state members visit the place only three to five times a year.
For a renowned golf club, Augusta National is unlike most any other. It has few of the customary resources of a country club: it has neither a pool nor tennis courts and only a handful of social gatherings annually. It closes each year for five months beginning in May.
Although considered hallowed ground in golf, the National, as it is called in Georgia, is set alongside Augusta's Washington Road, a clamorous collection of fast-food franchises, discount outlets and muffler shops. For many years, the most noticeable landmark near the club was a Piggly Wiggly supermarket.
Inside the heavily guarded gates at Augusta National, everything is painstakingly groomed, with nothing out of place. The grass across all 365 acres is always mowed in the same direction. Every picture displayed inside club buildings is hung on two hooks so no picture is crooked. During the Masters, the cellophane wrappings for sandwiches sold to spectators — persistently called patrons by the club — are green so they will blend into the grass if dropped.
The 300 or so members are known locally as the greencoats, a reference to the green sport jacket awarded to winners of the Masters and worn by members during the tournament. But the members are never seen in Augusta wearing the coats. Removing one's green jacket from the club's grounds is strictly prohibited, an offense worthy of expulsion from the club.
Bobby Jones, an international golfing legend and Atlanta resident, founded the club in 1932, but his friend Roberts, a Wall Street financier, raised the money to build the club. He then ran it as his fief.
Roberts approved and rejected broadcasters for the tournament, barring some not just for what they did or did not say but also for their choice of ties or hairstyle. He chose the camera locations for the holes and decided which holes could be shown and when.
Almost everyone found Roberts unbearably autocratic, but his Masters became the most prized and watched tournament in golf.
It was also Roberts who from the beginning actively recruited corporate chiefs as members. But these men of power were not given power to run the club. That remained Roberts's job, and when he died in 1977 — he committed suicide on the club grounds — the club charter was rewritten to put an executive committee in charge of most Augusta National business. But a quorum of only three members was needed to establish policy.
Members were told repeatedly to exercise prudence and discretion. When one member, Thomas H. Wyman, a former chief executive at CBS and a 25-year Augusta National member, resigned because the club would not admit a female member during the Martha Burk-led protests of 2002, the club barely acknowledged it.
It was not much different when President Eisenhower boldly took the floor. He was ignored.


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Who knew that everyone's favorite sporting goods store has its corporate office in Katy, Texas?
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Katy, Texas 77449
This business currently operates over 131 stores throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, and earns 2.7 billion in revenue. It was started in San Antonio, Texas in 1938 by a Jewish immigrant named Max Gochman, and was called "Academy Tire Shop." It then expanded into selling military surplus, changed its name to "Academy Super Surplus," and moved to Austin, Texas to open four stores. Max's son, Arthur Gochman, purchased the business, changed the name to "Academy Corp." and opened six stores in Houston, Texas. In 1990 Academy Sports + Outdoors moved to its headquarters and distribution center to its current location in Katy, Texas. Arthur's son, David Gochman, became president and CEO of the corporation in 1996. Currently, Academy Sports + Outdoors has a second distribution center in Twiggs County, Georgia, and is led by Chairman and CEO David Gochman and President Rodney Faldyn, however, on June 5, 2011, Academy was acquired by the private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, which is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: KKR). This firm is also invested in Dollar General, Gillette, RJR Nabisco, Safeway and Toys "R" Us.
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Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable comic timing made her a theatrical icon, died July 17, 2014 at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.
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I've just never been able to get into shiritaki noodles. I came across the idea for protein powder noodles on a bariatric surgery forum and have been experimenting for a while ... this version isn't perfect but was good enough to share.
- 3 tablespoons PB2
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- 2 tablespoons egg white
- 1/2 tsp psyllium husk powder
- cooked broccoli or other veggies of choice
- splash of soy sauce
- teaspoon minced ginger
- teaspoon minced garlic
- pinch chili flakes
- teeny bit of artificial sweetener
Mix PB2, protein powder, egg white, and psyllium husk powder together until they form a thick dough. Let dough rest while you bring a pot with a few cups of water to a boil.
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Talking the talk: Justin Steele tells it like it is
His name is Justin Steele, a fourth year Engineering student who not only knows how to move toward the head of the class, but can also wake up the slackers dozing in the back row.
"F*** you, n***er!" his voice resonates in a packed auditorium of First years attending "Different Voices Common Threads," a new diversity program that's now part of the fall orientation schedule.
"I wanted to catch people's attention," says Steele, sitting poised yet relaxed in his immaculate Lawn room, a Malcolm X poster hanging above his bed.
"I know that diversity has become a buzz word, and it's really tough to change someone's perspective when they get to college. They pretty much have formed who they are, so to change that you really need the power of personal testimony," he says.
One night two years ago, while walking back from the library, Steele was confronted by a car full of kids who pulled up to the curb and yelled that racial slur.
"My gut reaction was to retaliate," he says, "but you can't combat hate with hate."
It was a lesson taught by Martin Luther King: "You punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I accept it so that the world will know that I am right and you are wrong." This favorite quote of Steele's inspired him to write an essay which helped him be chosen to live on the Lawn.
The original pine doorsill and shutters of his room evoke renowned Lawn residents of the past such as Steele's role model, Wesley Harris. Although few people have heard of Steele, thanks to Steele, more will soon know about him.
Come graduation this May, when students march down the terraced grass, encouraged to remember the purple shadows of the Lawn, perhaps they will also remember a once blank page of University history: the African American perspective. It's a page that has been filled by Steele.
Steele and fellow student Ermias Abebe scoured Cavalier Daily archives to create a PowerPoint presentation entitled "The History of UVA from the African American Point of View," beginning with the University's opening in 1885.
Rick Turner, dean of the African American affairs office, calls Steele's presentation "a most memorable and lasting legacy."
Steele especially admires 1964 graduate Harris (a fellow Lawn resident) for being the first man, black or white, to complete the new Engineering honors program. Harris is currently a professor at MIT.
"I have a passion to teach history," Steele says, mentioning the famous Malcolm X quote, "Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research."
Steele believes that ignorance was the cause of last October's infamous Halloween incident when three students dressed in blackface. In response, Steele helped put together a flyer educating students about blackface and why it's offensive.
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My daughter and I laid in bed this morning, talking over a snuggle. She'd had a really bad dream, so I had her give it to me so she could be done with it. After she gave me her dream, she decided this was probably a good time to figure out this whole human sexuality thing. Because Wednesday.
Mom, do you know anyone who is gay?
- Sure do, honey. We have lots of family friends that are gay, and your Auntie C and Auntie M? Your cousins' moms? in case you hadn't noticed, they're both girls.
Do gay people make fun of each other for being gay?
- Nope, not really.
Do not-gay people make fun of gay people?
- All the time, sugar.
- Well, sometimes because they're scared of things that are different than they are. Sometimes they think people should stop being gay. Sometimes they're just jerks.
Like the jerks in Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
- Just like those jerks, yup.
Can people can stop being gay?
- Can you stop being right-handed?
I could try.
- It wouldn't work. Writing with your left hand doesn't make you not right-handed. Can you stop having green eyes? I think a world that didn't have anyone with green eyes would be pretty boring. In fact, I think a world where everyone was the same would be terrible.
Me too. Mom, why do they call it Gay?
- I don't know, honestly. It's kind of a ridiculous thing to call a type of person, isn't it?
Yeah, I think we should call gay people something else.
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Does it modify his confidence?
Harry feels confident that he will win the match.
Is the red clause an adjective complement?
If it modifies an adjective, doesn't it then function adverbially?
Does it modify his confidence?
I believe it does. The word confident is an adjective, though, and this leads me to believe the clause is adverbial.
Is it?
If the sentence were "Harry feels confident about his winning the match", it would be clear that there is an adverbial prepositional phrase with a gerund as its object.
If the sentence were "Harry feels confident about the fact that he will win the match", the same would be true with a noun clause as the object of the preposition (introduced by what Harman and House call a function word(s)--"the fact that".
Perhaps you could interpret the sentence as having "about the fact" understood and therefore being elliptical.
(1) There seem to be at least two theories.
(a) This theory holds that your sentence is a short way to say:
Harry is confident + of this fact (that he will win the match).
(i) As you can see, "that he will win the match" is clearly a noun clause
in apposition with the noun "fact."
Source: Among the scholars who accept this analysis are Professors House
and Harman in their Descriptive English Grammar.
(a) This theory says "that he will win the match" is an adverbial clause that
modifies the adjective "confident."
(i) Among scholars who hold this view are Professors Pence and Emery in their
A Grammar of Present-Day English.
(4) Personally, I am more comfortable with the theory of Professors House and Harman.
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English Grammar Tip 19 -- Using Noun ClausesNoun Clause as an Adjective Complement / Adverb
A noun clause can also be an adjective complement. When I was a teenager, the term "adjective complement" did not exist, it was simply called an "adverb" or "adverbial clause".
Consider this sentence: Everybody is upset that Gary failed.
"That Gary failed" is a noun clause used as an adjective complement. The clause modifies the adjective "upset"; in other words, it is acting as an adverb.
A second sentence example would be: She is happy that she is learning Spanish. The adjective complement in this sentence would be: that she is learning Spanish. The clause is complementing or modifying the adjective; i.e., it is acting as an adverb.
Harry feels confident (of the fact) that he will win the match.
In my opinion, The part after "confident", irrespective of whether it is ellipted or whether it is not, is there to explain the reason why Harry feels confident. Modifier, curtailed adverbial.
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Bill O'Reilly tried, about as well as anyone has, to oblige the president to respond to serious questions in a serious way, but of course the president didn't and simply wouldn't.
Rejecting the idea that there remain serious issues to be investigated, disclosed and discussed with regards to both Benghazi and the IRS scandals, the president signaled that his stonewalling and the stonewalling of everyone he can control will continue for the balance of his presidency.
If information on these scandals is going to emerge it will have to be via House hearings, whistleblowers and reporters. It would be reassuring if the House had such a schedule of hearings planned, a strategic plan of action posted on a website available to a doubting public, or if Speaker Boehner would finally allow the Special Select Committee to be impaneled that would provide the focus and energy necessary at least to the Benghazi investigation. The president has been very lucky in the lack of coordination among his pursuers. That luck doesn't look like it is going to change soon.
The three years ahead are without precedent. The president does not intend to engage with the Congress or answer the media's questions on any subject that doesn't fit his take on reality. The ongoing collapse of Obamacare is not happening in his world, the IRS did not pursue political enemies despite Lois Lerner's taking the Fifth, the basic questions about what he and Secretary of State Clinton did and did not know and do after the first attack on 9/11/12 will simply never get answered if he has any say over the thing. Global warming is a problem, not the efficient, rapid development of our vast energy resources. Look here at the burgeoning Medicaid rolls, not there at the premium explosions, doc shock and ruins of various state exchanges. Not a whiff of substance from the fellow, not a bit of seriousness on anything.
So must a prison sentence feel. Nothing much is going to change until the country serves its time for its mistake. Oh, there may be a demand for change come November, but the sentence must be served. A lesson for future generations: Elect an unserious fellow, get an unserious president. And the world knows and reacts accordingly. Israel, especially, look to your own defenses.
"You know, the truth of the matter is, is that when you look at some of my policies, um, in a lot of ways, Richard Nixon was more — more liberal than I was," President Obama told the veteran Fox News anchor. "Started the EPA. You know, uh, you know, started, uh, uh, a whole lot of the regulatory state that, uh, has helped make our air and water clean."
This of course doesn't rise even to the level of tired cliche, but is an absurd, almost bizarre statement except for the fact that it ate up time and created a diversion which O'Reilly took for about one minute before shaking off the hypnotic effect of nonsense from a president and bringing up the inconvenient 17 trillion dollar deficit.
Now here is an example of the art of doing nothing –saying nothing– well, by the president:
"I painted houses during the summer too," the president responds to O'Reilly's noting of the vast explosion in disability claims, somehow turning the conversation back to himself and his tired rhetoric. "It still wasn't enough. So, the, uh, so my point is is that that's not a nanny state. That's an investment in the future generation. G.I. Bill — is that a nanny state? My grandfather came back for World War II, you're about to write a book on World War II. Smartest thing we ever did was make an investment in the American people."
Note the president's appeal to O'Reilly –I know you write books Bill,help me out here, talk about World War II– which is far, far away from the rapid rise in disability claims. He never gets back to O'Reilly's valid point. The president sails on. Answering nothing, throwing out meaningless comparisons to presidents past, shrugging his shoulders at questions, charges and failures.
The president wanted the appearance of an interview, and so he summoned O'Reilly who, like Jake Tapper before him, tried. But this is a practiced man, a man artful at non-disclosure and filibuster, for whom the correct interview technique would be to invest allof a questioner's allotted time –however much given– in one subject and one subject alone, drilling, drilling, drilling. He will never offer up a hint of the reality behind his stonewalling unless you come with a sledgehammer and swing away, again and again. That isn't going to happen with anyone because the presidency protects its occupants, even its least able, unless they record themselves and turn those recordings over to federal judges.
All of media knows this frustration, but they put up with it only with the president or guests for whom the stakes just are not that high.
"You know," Jake Tapper told me last week as we discussed a particularly unsatisfactory interview he had conducted with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, "this is a constant frustration of people who want to get a message out, and then I interview them, and I don't necessarily want to talk about what they want to talk about. "
"This happened with, I had the governor of Michigan on Friday, came on the show," Jake continued, "and he wanted to talk about immigration reform and what he is focused on in Michigan. He wanted to talk about creating jobs, and I wanted to talk about other things having to do with internal divisions in the Republican Party. I was up to my, you know, nefarious media tricks, and you know, people want to talk about what they want to talk about."
If you can't bring a governor or a cabinet secretary to candor, you certainly can't make a president level with you. You can only punish his party. And for that we will have to wait until November.


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The DP Social Timeline plugin lets you retrieve status/posts/videos/images from different social networks in a timeline format from the newest to the oldest.
- Get status/posts/videos/ images from differents accounts in the same social network
- Twitter, Facebook Page, Youtube, Delicious, Flickr, Dribbble, Digg, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Google+, Lastfm, Soundcloud
- Retrieve Youtube videos using search keywords.
- Retrieve tweets using a hashtag.
- Different display styles.
- Limit the number of Feeds to retrieve.
- Add multiple custom feeds
- Show/Hide Social Icons.
- Social Filter Support.
- Cross Browser Support.
- Simple to Customize.
- Full Documentation.
- Demo examples included.
If you would use some of the twitter feeds or an Instagram username, you will need a PHP server to set the twitter API 1.1 credentials and the Instagram client ID.
The included RSS options are .
- twitter – Twitter username
- twitter_hash – Twitter hashtag
- google – Google+ is not adding RSS feed support oficially, so you will have to go to http://gplusrss.com/ , login with your g+ account and use the RSS url in this option
- facebook_page – Facebook Page ID, find the ID of your FB page in http://findmyfacebookid.com/
- instagram – Instagram Username
- instagram_hash – Instagram hashtag
- delicious – Delicious Username
- soundcloud – Soundcloud Username
- flickr – Flickr User ID, find your ID in http://idgettr.com/
- flickr_hash – Flickr Hashtag
- tumblr – Tumblr Username
- youtube – Youtube Username
- youtube_search – Youtube Search Keywords
- dribbble – Dribbble Username
- digg – Digg Username
- pinterest – Pinterest Username
- vimeo – Vimeo Username
- lastfm_tracks – Lastfm Username, 10 recently played tracks for this profile
- lastfm_events – Lastfm Username, Events that a user has marked themselves as attending.
- lastfm_loved – Lastfm Username, A feed of tracks a user has loved
- lastfm_artist_events – Lastfm Artist, Events that an artist is marked as playing at
- lastfm_journal – Lastfm Username, Recent journal entries for this profile
- jQuery – http://www.jquery.com/
- Isotope – http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
- Icons – http://paulrobertlloyd.com/
- Colorbox – http://jacklmoore.com/colorbox/
WP version.
v1.7.4 -
Fixed issue with Facebook images
v1.7.3 -
Fixed issue with Instagram hashtags
Fixed issue with SSL images
v1.7.2 -
Fixed issues with FB images
v1.7.1 -
Fixed issue with Soundcloud icon
v1.7 -
Added support for Isotope v2.0 and removed timeline layout for this specific Isotope version.
v1.6.9 -
Fixed issues with FB images.
v1.6.8 -
Fixed issues with instagram and FB images.
v126.96.36.199 -
Replaced Webstagram RSS for Instagram API. Now you need to register an app on Instagram and set the Client ID. See the documentation for more instructions.
v1.6.7 -
Fixed issue on iOS 7.0.x
v1.6.6 -
Fixed issue in Modern skin displaying tweets with images
v1.6.5 -
Replaced colorbox by responsive lightbox
v1.6.4 - Added option to disable multiple filters
Added option to cache feeds
v1.6.3 -
Added new skin "modern"
v1.6.2 -
Fixed issue in Soundcloud iframes
v1.6.1 -
Added audio support for Tumblr
v1.6 -
Added Soundcloud feed option
v1.5.9 -
Added support for twitter images
v1.5.8 -
Fixed issue with FB thumbnails
v1.5.7 -
Added rtl option
Fixed issue with FB videos
v1.5.6 -
Fixed issue in twitter feeds limit
v1.5.5 -
Improved Responsiveness
Improved option to set items width by layout
Added Action buttons in tweets (Reply, Retweet, Favorite)
Added Options to set the Twitter API 1.1 credentials. Please complete it if you are using the twitter feed.
v1.5.4 -
Updated twitter feed to OAuth
v1.5.3 -
Fixed an issue with some Facebook Pages
v1.5.2 -
Added Google+ feed
Added LastFM (Recent Tracks, Recent Journals, Upcoming Events, Loved Tracks, Artists Current Events) feeds.
v1.5.1 -
Fixed an issue with image size in ie9 and opera
v1.5 -
Added share buttons (Twitter, Facebook)
Fixed an issue with jQuery v1.9
v1.4.9 -
Fixed an issue with image size in colorbox
v1.4.8 -
Fixed an issue in Pinterest feeds titles.
v1.4.7 -
Fixed an issue in facebook urls.
v1.4.6 -
Fixed issues with some feed's urls.
Fixed an issue in the content of some twitter usernames.
v1.4.5 -
Added Instagram Usernames, Hashtags and Flickr Hashtags.
v1.4.4 -
Fixed an issue with Custom feeds images.
v1.4.3 -
Fixed an issue with facebook feeds
v1.4.2 -
Added options to hide/show specific layout buttons
Added options to set item width in specific layouts
Fixed an issue with Twitter API
v1.3.9 -
Fixed a minor issue in IE
v1.3.8 -
Fixed an error in Opera browser.
v1.3.7 -
Fixed an issue with special chars.
v1.3.6 -
Fixed an issue with timestamp.
v1.3.5 -
Added limitation by feed.
Added multiple custom feeds.
v1.3.2 -
Fixed an issue with the last update
v1.3.1 -
Add a custom RSS feed
v1.3 -
Added '@' to the twitter usernames.
Added a new skin 'dark'.
Fixed an issue with https websites.
v1.2 -
Added the possibility to filter and retrieve more data using the social buttons.
v1.1 -
Fixed an issue with some Facebook Images
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Cajun Grilled Shrimp SkewersWow. I still cannot believe that summer has practically got it's foot out the door and fall is literally just around the corner! The weather here was very mild there for a bit, but the past few days have proven that summer is definitely not gone just yet, not that we ever really put our grills away down here anyway.
kinds of trays, I usually pick the larger sized shrimp. There's nothing wrong with these trays ... I have one myself. But small shrimp cook super fast on the grill and frankly just aren't worth the work it takes to skewer them as far as I'm concerned, so this pan is great if you want to throw smaller shrimp on the grill. Or if you want to sort of stir-fry some grilled veggies. So, for this recipe, go ahead and get the jumbo babies.
Don't be scared if you pull out your shrimp from the marinade to find that they look a bit pink and sort of cooked around the edges. That the acid in the lemon working and it's perfectly fine! Just skewer them up and get 'em on the grill. This is my favorite marinade for grilling shrimp.
|Double Pronged Skewers
Just whatever you do - don't overcook the shrimp! Serve them up with your favorite salsa. Hope you enjoy the recipe.
Check out more of my shrimp recipes on Pinterest!
If you make this or any of my recipes, I'd love to see your results! Just snap a photo and hashtag it #DeepSouthDish on social media or tag me @deepsouthdish on Instagram!
Recipe: Cajun Grilled Shrimp Skewers©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Inactive time: 1 hour |Cook time: 5 min | Yield: About 4 servings
For the Marinade:
For the Skewers:
- 12 fresh raw (9/12 count) jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined, tail tips intact
- 3 garlic cloves, smashed
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon Cajun or Creole seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
Table Condiments
- 1 bell pepper, quartered
- 1 red onion, quartered
- Sea salt or kosher salt, to taste
- Freshly cracked black pepper
- 4 large cherry tomatoes, or 1 large tomato, quartered
- 3 tablespoons of melted butter
- Lemon wedges
- Hot pepper sauce or Tiger Sauce, optional
Put shrimp into a zipper storage bag or glass bowl, add the smashed garlic and toss. In a separate bowl, combine the olive oil, lemon juice, honey, paprika, Cajun seasoning & Old Bay. Pour mixture over the shrimp, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or up to two hours only.
When ready to grill, preheat grill to high. Alternate 3 shrimp with the bell pepper and onion on metal skewers, leaving room at the end for tomato. You'll add the tomatoes toward the end of cooking. Sprinkle skewers with salt, pepper and additional Cajun seasoning, if desired. Place over direct heat on hot grill, close lid and cook, turning once, about two to three minutes per side depending on size of shrimp, or until cooked through, basting with the marinade. Add a tomato wedge to the end of each skewer the final turn, baste with melted butter, and return to the grill to finish. Total time will depend on your grill.
Drizzle with hot sauce or Tiger sauce, remove from skewers and serve immediately with lemon wedges on the side. Makes 4 skewers.
Cook's Notes: May also be prepared under the oven broiler. If using commercially purchased shrimp that has been frozen, re-hydrate the shrimp before cooking. Fill a large bowl with 1 quart of water and stir in 2 tablespoons of salt. Add the cleaned shrimp and let sit for 30 minutes.
Tip: Use a double pronged skewer or insert two skewers to keep the shrimp and vegetables from rotating.
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Cattle buzzed by government flights – but not by drones
First there was the lore about farm dust and how the Environmental Protection Agency was ordering farmers to control it.
So what's next? Unmanned spy planes conducting surveillance of Midwestern cattle farms to make sure their cows aren't fouling the local water supply?
Some people thought so, and the story spread. And while it was just as false as the dustup over dust, on the Internet, fiction drives a Maserati.
For EPA critics, the notion of secret spy planes over the heartland was too good to be true. Truly.
"The idea of the EPA flying drones over Missouri farmland is deeply disturbing," Republican Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who is running for the U.S. Senate, wrote in a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. "The EPA assumes that Missouri farmers are the bad guys and are overreaching yet again . . . trying to find any possible reason to harass farmers."
Except that there have been no EPA "drones" flying over Missouri farmland. Or anywhere, for that matter.
The anti-pollution agency has, however, been sending piloted planes over cattle operations in Nebraska, as well as Iowa, to check for polluted runoff and potential violations of the Clean Water Act.
Both states, along with Missouri and Kansas, are part of the same EPA region, headquartered in Kansas City, Kan., which authorized the flights. But neither Missouri nor Kansas has been subject to similar aerial inspections, according to the agency.
"When a story comes out about how government is misbehaving, then people who are suspicious of the government are much more likely to pick up on that information," said John Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. "In the online world . . . this kind of phenomenon can happen literally at the speed of light."
Drones have gotten a lot of attention lately. They are the weapon of choice to eliminate the terrorists on President Barack Obama's so-called "kill list." Using them to patrol U.S. borders might be an option. Police chiefs in both Washington and neighboring Fairfax County, Va., want them to fight crime.
But several lawmakers on Capitol Hill worried about privacy want roadblocks on the use of drones in this country.
The EPA controversy began last month when the Nebraska congressional delegation wrote Jackson raising privacy questions about "a series of aerial surveillance flights" over livestock farms.
"Flying over private property is very different than flying over a chemical manufacturing plant, or even an open field," said Kristen Hassebrook, director of natural resources and environmental affairs for the Nebraska Cattlemen, an industry trade group. "You're flying over a facility that has a private home. The practice itself is what's concerning to producers."
She said Nebraska cattle ranchers are concerned about water quality and take pains to ensure the rules are followed. But neither the lawmakers in their letter nor the cattlemen ever used the word "drone."
"I don't know where the word 'drone' first came up," Hassebrook said. "I spent two days just emailing and making phone calls telling people that there are no drones."
An EPA spokesman could not be reached to publicly comment, but the agency has been using piloted flights around the country for several years to inspect for Clean Water Act problems.
"For the record, the only aircraft the EPA has used to verify compliance with environmental laws are manned aircraft," according to a letter from Karl Brooks, EPA regional administrator in Kansas City, Kan., to Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
Brooks said the flights were an "important, cost-effective tool to help protect local communities and water quality from harm that can result from discharges from these facilities."
But "spy" drones quickly became the story, on Twitter, in the conservative media and elsewhere.
"EPA drones spy on farmers in Nebraska and Iowa" was the headline on a story in The Daily Caller, which has been described as a news Website with conservative leanings. "Send in The Drones: Obama Spies on America" topped a piece on the Website Investors.com
On Fox News, which subsequently corrected its report about EPA drones, anchorwoman Megyn Kelly seemed to bump up the tension.
"You got to picture yourself, right, as one of these Midwestern farmers because what's been in the news lately?" she said. "That President Obama has killed more terrorists with drones than any other president. That President Obama has a so-called 'kill list' and that on that 'kill list' sometimes civilian casualties go as well. . . . You've got to get a little squeamish when you see a drone going overhead."
A Fox colleague interjected: "What are you supposed to think?"
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," which has long enjoyed tweaking the network, didn't debunk the drone story, either. But host Jon Stewart said in response to Kelly's report: "You're supposed to think they're trying to catch people who are letting their cows (pollute) the water supply, because that's what they're doing. Who in their right mind would even make that connection?"


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Well, there's been some sock-knitting, but that's really boring in progress. I am, however, test-knitting a Hat for one friend using yarn from another. This doesn't reflect the real colour balance of the yarn, but here it is in progress. With any luck I'll be able to tell you exactly what this is soonish!
I finished the yarn I was making last week... Love it. 176 grammes; 245 metres.
I've started spinning up some Colinette stuff...
I made a thing! Actually, I finished it a couple of weeks ago, but I made it for Jackie's 50th. And ridiculously, I didn't manage to photograph it in all the time between finishing it and handing it over; but here's an idea; this is what it looked like in the weaving... Jackie seemed to love it, anyway!
It's been a really sociable week. I've had a work party, had a lovely time at après-civil-partnership drinks on Friday night,
and a relaxing and friendly 50th birthday party where I handed over the stole pictured above...
Media etc.
The Bridge - wow. I didn't expect that particular ending at all. I'm almost disappointed that I already knew there was a second series before the final episode started.
I have been loving this advert. Regardless of your attitude to the monarchy, this is a great campaign.
I voted for Moldova.
Honestly, how couldn't I - Improbable Trousers always get double points and it was a cheery enough song. I couldn't believe that the UK, as a man/woman, voted for Jedward. Please - people - get a grip! The Swedish song which won was actually pretty good. The Spanish singer was superb - but I'm glad Eurovision didn't finally extinguish the flame of their economy... I was wandering over to Eurovision TV on the PC in between listening to Radio 2, which was about 30 seconds ahead. Ken Bruce has obviously been taking sarcasm lessons from Terry Wogan... "So, no points from Malta.... can we have our George Cross back?" As ever, we got next to nul points for reasons which had very little to do with the quality of our song or performance; but that's pretty predictable...
There's been cricket all weekend. It's been lovely. (It's even been good cricket)... We've had the beautiful voices of Viv Richards (60 this week) and Tony Cozier from the tourists, we've had a cheery Michael Vaughan, we've had Tuffers, and best of all Geoffrey Boycott knocked off early to go to his wife's 60th birthday party. And Blowers and Aggers. And it's been summer. God's in his heaven, and all that.


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Mozilla to Businesses: We're Not Interested
A Mozilla executive has incurred the wrath of IT professionals with a somewhat callous comment made about Firefox and its focus on the enterprise.
The comment was in response to a blog posting by Firefox specialist and consultant Mike Kaply. Kaply was justifiably lamenting Firefox's rapid release scheduling and its negative impact on businesses. Case in point: Firefox 4 was only released in March. Now, three months later Firefox 5.0 is out in stable release. Hence, Mozilla has ceased supporting Firefox 4.
Kaply points out that this breakneck update schedule may "work for the average user" but "it doesn't fly in [a] corporate environment, especially places like banks". "Expecting a company to go through a full deployment cycle of their web browser every six week is simply ludicrous."
Others apparently are in agreement, as his post is now at 60-something comments and counting. Particularly vociferous posts are being made by IT people who support thousands of clients running Firefox:
"I have 500,000 corporate users on Firefox 3.6. We just completing a test cycle of Firefox 4 on many thousands of internal business web applications," one said.
The same poster addresses his concerns over the end of support: "By the time I validate Firefox 5, what guarantee would I have that Firefox 5 won't go EOL when Firefox 6 is released?"
However, what really stoked the flame on that blog was Mozilla executive Asa Dotzler's response to Kaply:
"Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your "big numbers" here are really just a drop in the bucket, fractions of fractions of a percent of our user base.
"Enterprise has never been (and I'll argue, shouldn't be) a focus of ours," Dotzler continued. "Until we run out of people who don't have sysadmins and enterprise deployment teams looking out for them, I can't imagine why we'd focus at all on the kinds of environments you care so much about."
Dotzler's comment is both sneering and contemptuous of the businesses that have deployed Firefox in their organizations. And, sometimes, at their own peril, may I add. While Firefox is a wonderful browser with its own unique set of features, the frequent updating, occasional lack of good documentation, extension breaking whenever a new update comes out - it all makes it a dicey choice of browser for businesses.
Telling businesses that they are not "a focus" nor should be for Firefox developers is also potential profit suicide. Yes, Firefox makes a profit and a hefty one, with lucrative deals made with search engine companies. Mozilla raked in $104 million in profit in 2009, largely though a deal with Google.
Yet, Chrome has recently stalled Firefox adoption. Many are speculating how a potential decline in Firefox adoption could affect Mozilla's revenue. Especially because the advertising deal Mozilla has made with Google is slated to end this year. As Mozilla seeks to renew that deal with Google and shop for other advertising partners, a significant decline in the Firefox browser market could hurt Mozilla's chances of securing ad deals. According to Net Applications, Firefox has dropped from a 24.3 percent to a 21.9 percent market share from May 2010 to May 2011. During the same period, Google Chrome rose dramatically from 7 percent to 12.5 percent."
Dotzler's comment is also counter to what Mozilla and others in the open source community have been telling businesses for years: give open source a try. Yet, businesses have been reluctant to adopt open source en masse and this cavalier attitude shown by Dotzler proves why.
Business IT has had a healthy fear of open source, due to a perception of lack of support, issues surrounding licensing and other reasons. It's fine if you upgrade your home machine fervently with each new Firefox or Linux distro update. In a business, every update, especially major upgrades, must be tested to ensure they don't break anything in production environments. This is particularly critical in businesses that have custom, in-house, web-based applications.
Many businesses using Firefox use extensions for business processes. What happens when a mission-critical extension doesn't work, and Mozilla does not support that version of Firefox anymore? It's a risk most business IT execs won't and can't take.
I hardly believe Dotler's comments are representative of most of the open source community, nor of Mozilla's. We've reached out to Mozilla for comment and will update this post accordingly. However, now is certainly not the time for anyone at Mozilla to dismiss the enterprise, especially with Firefox's slowing adaption rate.
Update: Kev Needham, Channel Manager at Mozilla has responsed to a request for comment:
"The Web and Web browsers continue to evolve rapidly. Mozilla's focus is on providing users with the best Web experience possible, and Firefox needs to evolve at the pace the Web's users and developers expect. By releasing small, focused updates more often, we are able to deliver improved security and stability even as we introduce new features, which is better for our users, and for the Web."
"We recognize that this shift may not be compatible with a large organization's IT Policy and understand that it is challenging to organizations that have effort-intensive certification polices. However, our development process is geared toward delivering products that support the Web as it is today, while innovating and building future Web capabilities. Tying Firefox product development to an organizational process we do not control would make it difficult for us to continue to innovate for our users and the betterment of the Web."


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