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Wed Aug 8, 2012, 07:24 PM
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The Joke's On You: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert considered harmful
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Note -- Cross-posted in GD: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021096399[div class="excerpt" style="border-left: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-right: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3077em 0.3077em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Among the hacks who staff our factories of conventional wisdom, evidence abounds that we are living in a golden age of political comedy. The New York Times nominates Jon Stewart, beloved host of Comedy Centrals Daily Show, as the most trusted man in America. His protégé, Stephen Colbert, enjoys the sort of slavish media coverage reserved for philanthropic rock stars. Bill Maher does double duty as HBOs resident provocateur and a regular on the cable news circuit. The Onion, once a satirical broadsheet published by starving college students, is now a mini-empire with its own news channel. Stewart and Colbert, in particular, have assumed the role of secular saints whose nightly shtick restores sanity to a world gone mad.
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But their sanctification is not evidence of a world gone mad so much as an audience gone to lard morally, ignorant of the comic impulses more radical virtues. Over the past decade, political humor has proliferated not as a daring form of social commentary, but a reliable profit source. Our high-tech jesters serve as smirking adjuncts to the dysfunctional institutions of modern media and politics, from which all their routines derive. Their net effect is almost entirely therapeutic: they congratulate viewers for their fine habits of thought and feeling while remaining careful never to question the corrupt precepts of the status quo too vigorously.
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.
Fans will find this assessment offensive. Stewart and Colbert, they will argue, are comedians, offering late-night entertainment in the vein of David Letterman or Jay Leno, but with a topical twist. To expect them to do anything more than make us laugh is unfair. Besides, Stewart and Colbert do play a vital civic roletheyre a dependable news source for their mostly young viewers, and de facto watchdogs against media hype and political hypocrisy.
Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times offered a summation of the majority opinion in a 2008 profile of Stewart that doubled as his highbrow coronation. Mr. Stewart describes his job as throwing spitballs from the back of the room, she wrote. Still, he and his writers have energetically tackled the big issues of the day . . . in ways that straight news programs cannot: speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language, while using satire and playful looniness to ensure that their political analysis never becomes solemn or pretentious.
[div style="text-align: right; font-size: 90%; font-weight:bolder;"]Full essay: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_jokes_on_you
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Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 07:27 PM
Scuba (53,475 posts)
1. Anytime someone on the left makes a few bucks, the right tries to smear them as a hypocrite.
Response to Scuba (Reply #1)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 07:39 PM
salvorhardin (9,995 posts)
2. The right?
Are you kidding? This is The Baffler. Thomas Frank, Barbara Ehrenerich, David Graeber... yeah, those are some big right wingers. Jesus, get your head out of your arse, and actually read before shooting off your mouth. http://thebaffler.com/about
Agree or disagree with the thesis of the essay, I don't care, but at least try to sound like you're not an idiot.
Response to salvorhardin (Reply #2)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 07:45 PM
Scuba (53,475 posts)
3. Never heard of The Baffler or any of the people you mentioned. Still, the right smearing...
... those of us on the left who have made a few bucks in one of their favorite tactics. How is that getting my head in my "arse"?
Response to Scuba (Reply #3)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 03:57 PM
kenny blankenship (15,689 posts)
23. Thomas Frank, chevalier of the old guard Right. Apparently.
And also author of What's The Matter With Kansas? Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, And Beggared The Nation, and Commodify Your Dissent along with being founding editor of The Baffler. Yes, I believe he'd savor the exquisite dissonance of this moment as richly as anyone, if he hung out at places like DU. I can't imagine he does though.
Response to salvorhardin (Reply #2)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 06:41 AM
Chemisse (25,978 posts)
19. Was that level of rudeness really necessary?
Perhaps you should take your anger out on a punching bag and keep it off DU.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 08:05 PM
southernyankeebelle (11,304 posts)
4. Yes they are so bad the Fox News tried to duplicate it. But the came off as very mean and
it died. Now they can't take it because the speak to the truth.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 09:19 PM
Squinch (18,454 posts)
5. Isn't the Baffler a type of bra favored by women who don't like their husbands? I think it is.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 10:40 PM
phleshdef (10,997 posts)
6. This shouldn't be located in the "Good Reads" forum...
...as it was not a good read at all.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 11:25 PM
zeos3 (1,078 posts)
7. This IS a Good Read.
I saw this article on Alternet. The sub title was "Are Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Lulling Americans Into Submission?"
Read the article.
Response to zeos3 (Reply #7)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 12:02 AM
flamingdem (36,323 posts)
9. I think Jon Stewart is overrated
His political opinions seem immature. The middle of the road crap, and now attacking Harry Reid. He needs to know his limits.
Needless to say I keep this opinion to myself in "real life"
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 11:39 PM
Animal Chin (171 posts)
8. Kill your TV!
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 12:07 AM
flamingdem (36,323 posts)
10. It's been this way with humor since Saturday Night Live started in the 70s
I remember fighting with a young guy about how the show made fun of beatniks with that kind of snark. I talked about what that movement was about and he just looked at me like I was an idiot bumpkin who didn't get it.
etc. on many of their themes that touched politics. I always liked watching the show, I enjoy humor so I stopped feeling so critical.
However, all this is true. Hard hitting humor is NOT popular. It will NOT make you any friends and if you criticize the gods Stewart or Colbert you'll get the same shit I got in the 70s. Like you're some kind of commie that takes yourself too seriously.
I like Colbert better than Stewart, he seems a bit brighter at least.
>>>We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.
Response to flamingdem (Reply #10)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:17 AM
salvorhardin (9,995 posts)
12. It seems to have gotten worse since the 1990s and the popularity of "irony" in comedy
People seem to think the use of irony is deep and meaningful, when it's often entirely meaningless.
Response to salvorhardin (Reply #12)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:36 AM
flamingdem (36,323 posts)
15. Lately the most penetrating humor is coming from the cartoonists
They can bite and get away with it and their talent pushes aside all snarksters.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 12:54 AM
JoeyT (6,785 posts)
11. Four pages of
mostly whining about how Stewart and Colbert don't take it seriously enough and how they dare to make *gasp* money doing this.
Colbert and Stewart inform a lot of people that aren't aware of it how much Republicans suck. People that don't watch regular news.
But at least they did pull out the "Fans will find this assessment offensive." trump. That way anyone that disagrees with them must be a fan, and can be safely dismissed.
I'm neither a fan nor offended. I found it to be kind of sad, and unintentionally funny.
Response to JoeyT (Reply #11)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:36 AM
seanpencil (168 posts)
16. "whining"
guess that's why it's called THE BAFFLER
Response to JoeyT (Reply #11)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 11:10 AM
LittleGirl (3,665 posts)
21. You say that those that watch aren't reading regular news?
That's not possible if you watch Stewart and Colbert. If you don't read the news, don't keep up with politics or know the players in the game, you will NEVER GET their jokes. Trust me, before I got involved in politics, I tried to watch Jon's show but I was ignorant about politics so just didn't get it. I didn't know who so and so was so I had no idea what they were talking about. And since I started watching the show in '08 or so, I learned more about how naive I was and started to pay attention more.
Jon and Stephen are popular BECAUSE people are paying attention.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:27 AM
seanpencil (168 posts)
13. voila
"Their net effect is almost entirely therapeutic: they congratulate viewers for their fine habits of thought and feeling while remaining careful never to question the corrupt precepts of the status quo too vigorously."
Response to seanpencil (Reply #13)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:35 AM
flamingdem (36,323 posts)
14. There are reasons people are not moved to action as before
The fizzling started about the time that snark took hold. It serves it's purpose hugely in that it educates those who would otherwise not be bothered, but now if your beliefs don't have a "hip" cultural edge you essentially get slapped with snark.
And that serves the snarkster as assuring themselves they are hip and aware (more than you), as if.
For instance I have been very involved with Latin American politics, in particular Cuba, and a lot of people I know quickly paint me as a cliche, cigars, over the hill idealistic politics, well meaning but naive (hanging out with poor people..) .. I like getting ribbed and at least appreciate some recognition for things I've done, but I know it slowed me down and made me self-conscious. Like if I cared too much I wouldn't have friends other than those exactly into what I was into, due to intolerance for passionately fueled political stances.
The other aspect of all this is the general distaste for political discussion in the USA. Somehow I imagine Europe would be better in that respect but maybe snark and apathy is worldwide now.
Response to flamingdem (Reply #14)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:38 AM
seanpencil (168 posts)
17. good point
people might have the crazy shit explained to them but still don't know wtf to do about it.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 06:40 AM
Chemisse (25,978 posts)
18. During the Bush years it was hard to even stomach the nightly news
Much less the political analysis shows.
The Daily Show was indeed soothing. Stewart would essentially talk back to the RWers, something I was helpless to do, in a way that made me laugh - a lot. Over the half hour, the knots in my stomach would loosen and I would feel so much better by the end.
So I can agree it was like an opiate during the tough years, but I disagree that they failed to play an important civic role. Then and now, they challenge the politicians in a way nobody else can. And with their huge audiences they raise awareness like no ad or Facebook share could ever do.
In my opinion, Jon Stewart is a true American hero.
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 08:24 AM
fasttense (17,301 posts)
20. Interesting
Though the writer's opinion of South Park is far too lavish, I agree with the article overall.
I like Stewart and Colbert but they rarely call people to stand up to the corrupt hypocrites they expose.
This paragraph sums it up for me.
"Bill Maher was one of the few prominent voices to call his comrades out. If youre going to have a rally where hundreds of thousands of people show up, you might as well go ahead and make it about something, he said. He went on to point out the towering naïveté of their nonpartisan approach, with its bogus attempt to equate the insanity of left and right: Martin Luther King spoke on that mall in the capital and he didnt say, Remember folks, those Southern sheriffs with the fire hoses and the German shepherds, they have a point too! No. He said, I have a dream. They have a nightmare! . . . Liberals like the ones on that field must stand up and be counted and not pretend that were as mean or greedy or shortsighted or just plain batshit as they are, and if thats too polarizing for you and you still want to reach across the aisle and hold hands and sing with someone on the right, try church."
Response to salvorhardin (Original post)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:19 PM
DionDem (77 posts)
22. An interesting read, but
The conclusions are too certain.
Comedy is meant to throw us off balance and confuse us. I don't watch TV, but I read the political satire from the past which the author holds up as the ideal. Aristophanes, for example, did indeed mock war profiteers. And those war profiteers happened to be the democrats. Aristophanes' political inclinations were highly conservative and in favor of oligarchs. (And he probably made quite a few drachma off it, too.) Nevertheless, as a political satirist he is sublime - just as Stewart and Colbert can on occasion be.


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The -d- was inserted 16c. on mistaken notion that initial a- was from Latin ad-. From c.1300 as "to promote;" intransitive sense is mid-14c., "move forward." Meaning "to give money before it is legally due" is first attested 1670s. Related: Advanced; advancing. The adjective (in advance warning, etc.) is recorded from 1843.
c.1300, "boasting, ostentation," from advance (v.). Early 15c. as "advancement in rank, wealth, etc." Advances "amorous overtures" is from 1706.
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Evangelicals who have left the right
Post-election reporting that 79 percent of white evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney got little attention in the news because most journalists thought it wasn't news. Evangelical support for the GOP has been consistent; even Romney's Mormonism didn't put them off. So election analysis approached white evangelicals as it usually has: as religio-political lemmings, all voting Republican for all the same reasons.
Yet where there was once the appearance of a monovocal evangelicalism there is now robust polyphony—what theologian Scot McKnight calls "the biggest change in the evangelical movement at the end of the twentieth century, a new kind of Christian social conscience." This deserves our attention because most politics does not happen at elections but in between, when policy is negotiated and implemented. Current shifts in evangelical activism have re-routed the flow of evangelical money, time, and energy, and are changing the demands on the US political system. This essay investigating the shift is based on seven years of field research in evangelical books, articles, newsletters, sermons, and blogs, and on interviews with evangelicals, ages 19 to 74, across geographic and demographic groups—from students in Illinois to retired firemen from Mississippi, from former bikers to professors and political consultants.Read the rest of Evangelicals who have left the right.


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FEI to reopen bidding process for 2018 Games
By Mark Green
Eight countries initially indicated an interest in bidding for the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, according to recent world news reports. The countries indicating interest were Canada, Morocco, Austria, the U.S.A., Hungary, Australia, Russia and Sweden.
Australian, Swedish and Russian applications were withdrawn prior to the start of the official bid process, leaving five bidders for the 2018 games – Wellington, Fla., USA; Rabat, Morocco; Bromont, Quebec, Canada; Budapest, Hungary; and Vienna, Austria.
For various reasons, all bidders but Bromont, Quebec, elected to withdraw from the final bidding process.
In July, the FEI rejected the Bromont bid and announced it would reopen the bidding process because Bromont did not provide the necessary financial guarantees on or before the day it was due to be awarded the bid for the 2018 World Games.
Because the FEI will be reopening the bid for the 2018 World Games, it seems appropriate for Kentucky to consider indicating its interest in hosting the 2018 Games.
Research studies conducted on the Alltech 2010 FEI World Games at the Kentucky Horse Park indicate a 2018 repeat performance in Kentucky is a very viable opportunity:
• In the autumn of 2010 (FY11), the Horse Park hosted the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The 16 days of the games alone had a total economic impact of $201.5 million, including $18.4 million in state taxes, according to a report commissioned by the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet and conducted by Certec Inc.
• For FY11 as a whole – excluding the 2010 Games – the cabinet calculated the park's economic impact to be $179 million, generating $14.2 million in taxes. As a result of combined events and activities held at the Kentucky Horse Park during FY11, $32.6 million in tax revenues were added to the general fund of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
• The total attendance at the 2010 Games was 507,000.
• On four days of the 2010 Games, the attendance was more than 40,000 persons.
• 96 percent of residents felt hosting the 2010 event was beneficial to Kentucky.
• 74 percent of international visitors stated they were likely to return to Kentucky as a result of the World Games.
• TV channels around the world aired 1,556 broadcasts. Total broadcast time was 474 hours.
• 38 hours were broadcast in the United States, of which 20 were live.
All research data seem to indicate hosting the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Kentucky would be a winning and financially successful idea for the FEI and Kentucky. Due to the quality facilities already in place at the Kentucky Horse Park, the financial investment and risk of hosting the 2018 World Games would likely be greatly reduced.
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Juicy J Partners with Dr. Luke For New Solo Album Deal
Juicy J has been building his individual brand over the last couple of years, after decades of success as part of Three 6 Mafia. Now the Memphis rapper is preparing to release his debut solo album on Columbia Records, as part of a partnership with Dr. Luke's new Kemosabe Records.
"For me to be teaming up with Dr. Luke, Columbia Records and Wiz Khalifa (TGod) on my new solo album, I'm really excited for this," the Taylor Gang member said in a statement. "We're gonna call ourselves the Powerhouse 3. Look out for more."
Three 6's last five albums have been released either through Columbia or its parent company, Sony.
The Juiceman's single alongside 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, "Bandz a Make Her Dance," is currently No. 26 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Look out for the album later this year. —Adam Fleischer (@AdamXXL)


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Oldham digs deep!
Date published: 19 November 2012
PEOPLE went potty for Pudsey with a range of wacky events for Children in Need.
Nurseries, schools, companies, organisations and individuals across the borough did their bit for the annual fundraising extravaganza.
They ranged from Hathershaw College pupils dunking mentors with gunge to dancers at Samantha Jones School of Dance, Chadderton, lacing up their shoes for a tapathon.
Students at Oldham Sixth Form College dressed up in colourful spots and stripes, while plenty of muscle was needed for a 10,000 press-up challenge at Oldham College.
Others events included a pyjama party at Brooklands Nursery, Greenacres, pupils dressing up at Smart Start Nursery, Greenacres, and a range of activities at Failsworth School.
Failsworth School pupil Lauren Hardman (15) also raised more than £500 from a three-day sponsored silence and mum Vicky Hardman said: "Lauren is quite a chatterbox and this has been a massive challenge for her."
Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw, a former Our Lady's and Oldham Sixth Form College pupil, was one of the presenters of the BBC's Children in Need programme on Friday. Nearly £26.8million was raised on the night, beating 2011's total of £26.3million.
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Hello, I am Rafael. Thanks for asking your question - I'm here to support you. (Information posted here is not private or confidential but public).
I am very sorry to know about this very frustrating and concerning situation
Could you please tell me more how these radical changes happened 10 years ago, affecting your social life this much?
What you describe is truly serious, since it shows how you have alienated yourself from the world around you. Please tell me more about how it started and evolved in all these years and how is your life at the other core areas, including job, health, responsibilities, etc?
Yes very frustrating I'm not sure how or why it happened one thing I think contributed to this was I had a serious drug problem which I slowly fixed but when I'm with people I just shut down
I see, that could explain this serious problem then. If you had no serious socialization problems before your drug abuse/addiction situation, then drugs could easily impact and damage a person's mental health to the point of creating this an d nay other disorder.
I have a job and i am successful at it but its like I have to life's when I'm at home it just me
What about your rehabilitation process? when people suffer of drug abuse-addiction, they need to work on personal issues behind the addiction in order to truly rehabilitate and create a healthy and fulfilling life. It is obvious you have not felt well at all for all these long but you said you have done nothing about it, right?
I see, then you are very functional around your work, but have a tough time with all the other core dimensions, from family to friends and personal relatiosnhips.
I quite and have bee clean for 5 years I did this on my own it was very hard thing
What could have happened is that the mental health problems you had at that time, worsened by the drug abuse-addiction, impacted you to the point of affecting your personality, and the fact you have been living this way for so many years, it got more engrained in yourself making things worse
I bet it was and only you know how hard it's been for you, then I wonder how have you been able to rehabilitate from the psychological and emotional issues related to it.Once to stop using a substance is tough, to heal and grow inside is just much harder and requires a lot of harder work and close family and professional support. A good support system and psychological therapy to make it work for you, it just does not happen spontaneously.
Drugs use to numb fellings and experiences of pain, fear, frustration, sadness, hopelessness, lack of control, relief and fulfillment in life, and when the person does not know how to work on all these core areas and takes away the numbing an distant relief effect from drugs, the chances for relapse are very high, and if not the mental health disorders associated would stay , could get worse and new ones would appear.
I lack any sort of emotions I feel depressed a lot of the time and alone.
It appears you have been able to use hard work as your main way to compensate and cope, while deeply neglecting everything else important in your life, while these core issues around alienation, excessive fears, and anxiety had got worse.
Yes that is how I dealt with it
I think you have been suffering of serious depression and anxiety and that they and other problems have got to undermine your personality because of how long you have been living with them without necessary treatment and support.
Then I would say work has become your behavior of addiction, and the most direct way to alienate yourself even more while seriously neglecting everything else. As you can see, this is not rehabilitation, but relapse that started long ago and has stayed all this time, but since it is not as shocking as a substance abuse/addiction issue, it gets tougher to get confronted
What would u suggest I do to get on top of this. You are spot on with what I'm dealing with
Please look for a very good, ethical and competent individual psychotherapist with expertise in depression,anxiety, mood disorders and addictions.
Ideally a program for "dual-diagnosis" where you could get treatment for the mental health disorders -depression -anxiety- and for the addictive issues. It should include individual and group psychotherapy and ideally family therapy too.
This is a long term process, never easy, but necessary and worthy for sure.
Please commit to it for it to work, otherwise it would be helpless, since these distortions could have been integrated-internalized in your personality and that always makes changes and improvements much tougher.
Your "support system" must play a healthy and active role here, specially because of the core issue around alienation and isolation.
Ok I have the addiction under control I need to fix the mental health problem
The addiction make have turned into work addiction and addiction to isolate-alienate yourself, it is the same core just a different mode.
What is meant with support system
Yeah ok u are spot on with what is happening
Addictions are ways to escape from reality, to avoid pain, exposure to what feels painful, to get some sense of control, and relief, and that seems to be what you have been doing using work and isolation
Good. Then lease reflect on it, take gentle care and consistent action to work on yourself and making concrete changes with necessary support, for you to build the life and fulfillment you need and deserve.
Please feel free to contact me as necessary, since I am here willing to support you as possible.
In case you would like further support through professional and confidential online counseling, just let me know and I would be willing to support you that way too.
Ok I really appreciate you time and assistance I will look into what u have suggested. Thanks
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10 Little Indians will go on!
I've been keeping you up to date on the NAACP-manufactured outrage over a high school production of Agatha Christie's "10 Little Indians." A tipster sends word this afternoon that the show will go on. Here's the statement from the Lakota High School district. The students prevailed, but "diversity-mongering" continues…
Lakota to Hold Play at Lakota East High School
This morning Superintendent Mike Taylor announced that the show will go on. Citing discussions in recent days that he said moved the issue away from students and diversity to claims of censorship, he said the Lakota East theater department will perform the play on December 13 and 14, with additional materials, conversations, or other activities to honor diversity in the community.
In a new wrinkle, the school district also learned that the school was actually using an out-of-print, older version of the play. While this did not affect the decision to hold the play, it does change the title to the correct "And Then There Were None."
Taylor said that a group of students and community members would work together to determine what would be added before or after the performance to honor diversity.
A statement from Superintendent Mike Taylor:
Two weeks ago, we learned there was history around a previous title to the play "Ten Little Indians".
Learning this history caused a negative impact on some members of our community, our staff, and our students. The original decision to cancel the play was made out of respect for these valuable members of our schools and community. We believed that performing the play could damage these important relationships.
We had hoped that this choice would become a springboard for a broader discussion of inclusion and tolerance. Unfortunately the community dialogue in recent days has become focused more on distracting issues like censorship and the NAACP's role in our community. This has taken away from the direction we hoped for and our students have been caught in the middle.
Decisions that involve the emotions of people are challenging. Right now, we need to refocus on our students and return to our original goal. We need to move forward. I believe the best way forward is to allow the performance of the play to occur while using it as a learning vehicle.
We have asked for our community's help to stage this play and, at the same time, provide that vehicle for discussion about what we as a community believe. We can make this a learning experience together.
In this process, we learned that our drama department inadvertently had the wrong version of the play. Since 2004, the Agatha Christie family has released the play for performance only under the title, "And Then There Were None."
The play will be performed under the corrected title, "And Then There Were None."
We apologize to the students and families who have been affected by events of recent weeks.
We've learned a great deal already—proof that everyone can and should continue to learn and grow.
We appreciate Gary Hines, the leader of our local NAACP bringing this to our attention.
We hope that all community members will support our drama students and come to learn more about themselves and their neighbors by attending the play performance.
We hope that you will understand our good intentions, and that we continue to believe strongly that as a community, we can still learn much about and celebrate our diversity.
The Lakota East students will perform "And Then There Were None" on December 13 and 14 at Lakota East High School."
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The Princeton High School speech team placed fifth out of 17 teams at last Saturday's Zimmerman meet and fifth out of 22 schools in the March 2 Fridley meet.
PHS will compete this Saturday in Milaca, followed by the March 19 Granite Ridge Conference meet in Zimmerman.
"The kids are practicing hard and their hard work is beginning to pay dividends for them," said PHS head speech coach Thor Mattick.
Individual results at the Zimmerman meet:
Discussion – Brian Kunz meet champion
Extemporaneous speaking – Kenny Cowles meet champion, and Alicia Aho third
Great speeches – Annika Peterson fifth, and Emma Carlberg eighth
Humorous – Matt Kreft second
Original oratory – Michael Huebsch honorable mention
Poetry – Sam Glauvitz honorable mention
Storytelling – Josh Malley eighth, and Gino Fraboni honorable mention
Duo interpretation – Alicia Maltz and Jamie Malley honorable mention.
Cambridge won the Zimmerman meet, with St. Cloud Cathedral second, Fridley third, Elk River fourth and Princeton fifth.
Individual results at the Fridley meet:
Great speeches – Peterson meet champion
Humorous – Kreft meet champion
Discussion – Kunz second, and Nick Lagenfeld honorable mention
Duo interpretation – Andrew Sorenson and Vince Steele sixth
Extemporaneous speaking – Aho third, and Cowles fifth
Original oratory – Huebsch seventh
Poetry – Glauvitz honorable mention
Storytelling – Fraboni and Thorson each honorable mention.
Elk River was first in the Fridley meet, followed by Totino-Grace, Cambridge-Isanti, Fridley and Princeton.


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The ultimate rebranding mission
For this project, I took on the task of recreating the traditional Tastykake brand. Tastykake is currently a bland, tacky, relatively unmemorable brand. I decided that it was time to give Tastykake a facelift and bring some youth back into the mix. My creative strategy was to target teens and young adults, 12-25, by making Tastykake youthful, trendy, edgy and free-spirited. In order to do this, I changed the logo and packaging, designed a new website, created an app and illustrated some ambient tactics.
Tastykake's new product packaging features a sleek, modern design with youthful fonts and illustrated images of the product. On the inside of the box is a QR code and instructions as to how to utilize this code in the app or website in order to earn points redeemable for Tastykakes and Tastykake merchandise.
The new website design embraces the young generation's obsession with interactivity. The website gives the user the ability to create their own Tastykake merchandise, upload their image and see his or herself model the merchandise, share the designs, and purchase his or her custom merchandise.
The Tastykake app allows the user to easily enter codes and redeem their points for Tastykakes. The codes from packaging and promotional materials can either be typed in, or the user can snap a picture of a QR code with their phone. Once the codes are entered, the user can redeem their points by generating a custom barcode, which can then be taken to convenience stores such as Wawa and exchanged for free Tastykakes.
The ambient tactic in this campaign will target skateboarders. A large, transparent plexiglass sign will be placed on either side of a half-pipe. When the sun is rising on the one side of the ramp, it will shine through the plexiglass, revealing a message in the form of a shadow on the ramp. The message would give the skaters a custom code to enter into their smartphone (or on the website) and receive free Tastykakes. In the evening when the sun goes down on the other side of the ramp, another image will be revealed with another code. The unique codes will not only generate buzz, but they will allow Tastykake to track where users are getting their codes and which tactics are working most efficiently. This ambient tactic can be replicated in numerous locations, such as on snowboarding half-pipes in the winter, basketball courts, tennis courts--anywhere teens would hang out and work up an appetite. This tactic effectively targets teens, who are highly tech savvy and often have little money for snacks so would be extremely open to coupon use.
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Los Angeles Times
October 14, 2004
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are correct when they say things
are not all bad in Iraq. It just depends on your perspective. Although the
military campaign is in chaos, the economic campaign is moving along quite
nicely, at least for U.S. corporations and the Republican Party.
Halliburton, far and away the largest recipient of Iraq reconstruction dollars with about $18 billion in contracts, has seen revenues increase by 80% in the first quarter of 2004 compared with the same quarter of 2003, according to the Financial Times. These revenues reflect "steep profits from their Iraq operations."
Next in line is the Bechtel Group of San Francisco, with nearly $3 billion in Iraq reconstruction contracts. In fact, revenues generated outside the United States have increased by 158% since 2003 for Bechtel — turning around a three-year slump in that category. San Ramon-based ChevronTexaco has a contract to market Iraqi oil. Its profits have increased 90% during the first half of 200 4 compared with the same period in 2003, for a total increase of more than $3 billion.
And then there's Lockheed Martin, which hasn't even had to risk operating in Iraq to earn its war booty. In 2004, Lockheed's shares have more than tripled in value since their low in early 2000. A Lockheed spokesman told the New York Times that the company's success since 2000 came from the "changed geopolitical landscape."
Helping to boost these bottom lines are rules put into place by L. Paul Bremer III, the head of the Bush administration's now defunct Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Among them are "orders" that ensure that none of the profits made by contractors have to be reinvested in the fledging Iraqi economy or in helping with reconstruction. Instead, every last penny can be sent back to the United States. The orders also make it difficult, come January, for an elected Iraqi government to overturn such rules.
Not surprisingly, some of the profits generated by the war in Iraq appea r to be making their way into Republican Party coffers. According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, each of these corporations is among the leaders in its industry in 2003-2004 election-cycle contributions, with most of the donations going to Republicans. Halliburton funneled 85% of its $165,949 in contributions to Republicans. ChevronTexaco donated 83% of $367,731 in political contributions to Republicans. Lockheed, whose contribution total of $1,397,132 is more than the contributions of the other three corporations combined, gave 59% to Republicans, and Bechtel, 53% of $199,847.
And there's more largess to come from Bush's remaking of Iraq's economy. Bremer's Order No. 39 allows for the privatization of Iraq's 200-plus state-owned enterprises. Although full privatization hasn't happened yet, the process is moving forward.
For example, Bechtel's contracts include the rehabilitation of Iraq's water and sewer systems. Bechtel also is one of the world's top 10 private water comp anies, with interests in more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants worldwide. Last month, the Baghdad Water Authority announced plans to distribute questionnaires to discern its customers' willingness to pay for their utilities. In April, Iraq's minister of public works told the Independent that Iraq was considering privatizing its water industry to "fund essential works."
Moreover, a December symposium on business opportunities in Iraq — with the U.S. government among its sponsors — specifically targets "privatization specialists." But if all this adds up to good news from the Bush administration's standpoint, from a different perspective the economic campaign seems just as off kilter as the military campaign.
For example, the U.S. Agency for International Development (which oversees Bechtel's contracts in Iraq) has found that "water meant for consumption is pumped through the system largely untreated while raw waste flows untreated directly into city streets, rivers or marshlands. Many rural communities are not connected to main water or sewer lines, have no access to potable water and suffer from health problems related to poor sewage disposal." When they were asked recently, 44% of Iraqis said U.S. forces were not trying "at all" to restore basic services, and 41% said they were trying "only a little."
And that takes us back to the good news/bad news equation. U.S. corporate bank accounts and Republican coffers are indeed filling up. But for Iraqis — and U.S. taxpayers, who are footing the bill — the glass isn't just half empty, it's bone dry.


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More on Mantorville coffee house
I heard about this at the Rochester Area Builders Association networking night at Northern Lights. Here's the details:
Want to hang out in Mantorville?
So does Kristin Alexander. She and her partner, Adrianne McNiff, are creating the County Seat Coffeehouse, just across the street from the Historic Hubble House.
"I feel this area just needs a place to hang put - a place for good conversation and good food," she says.
The plan is open the County Seat in August and start serving regular coffee along with espresso drinks. Food will include pastries and desserts made by McNiff with sandwiches, soups and salads. It will be open for breakfast and lunch.
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I called this company about going to work for them and they told me all the good things and it was all lies, told me I would only have between 700 to 800 a week in deductions and frieght is 2.00 dollars a mile, so I go for orientation in Rockport, in wow what a place. I was told orientation was two to three days well it was all week. I was put in a roach motel by the terminal. And we went to class all week and had people with no hear me NO flatbed experience and all the was to do was strap things down with everyone else, and then we was assigned are trucks which I went from Rockport, in to Ohio and the truck there was so nasty and broken down I wouldn't let it be on the road. So then I go back to Rockport to pick up a truck that's not the best but I thought better than the last.
So as the weeks and days go by I'm looking and booking my loads and with all that is on there board your lucky to find a load at 2 dollars a mile with fuel. They have agents that try's to have frieght for 550 dollars and 150 fuel for 700 miles, lol. After all I have run and killed myself doing I have only made $1,100.00 dollars is the most I ever seen in a week, the freight is cheap that they get from other agents none which is there own cause there safety score is so bad. I had my truck in shop for 8 days for high pressure pump that took them that long to approve, which now I'm in the hole for two weeks. so I ran my but off and got out of the hole after two weeks in. I have continued to run for the reason I have a family but I'm out of this POS company. They charge you Maintaince on your truck which you have to take it to there shops and they fix what they feel is good enough. there trucks are junk, the frieght is cheap, you won't make any money and they will get you in the hole, you get 75% of line haul and FSC if there is any but if you look real close its only 2.00 a mile with everything, so you will average about 1.50 to 1.76 cpm then you pay for fuel. You will bring home anywhere between 250.00 to 600.00 a week if you work your behind off, but you won't make that now cause they started putting E logs in the truck cause there safety rating is badddddddddddddd, don't hire on with this company all your doing is paying to drive a pos truck and keep the company afloat. Run run run as far away from this company as you can. Go work for Werner, swift, Jb or someone else you'll make more money. Trust me
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Add a Static Route to a Cisco Router
Posted September 18, 2003 by Quinn McHenry in Cisco router
A static route adds an entry to the routing table for a specific destination IP address or subnet.
To route traffic to the 10.10.20.0/24 subnet through the IP address 192.168.100.1:
conf t
ip route 10.10.20.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.1
The netmask 255.255.255.0 means the same as the subnet/24 notation.
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Quinn was one of the original co-founders of Tech-Recipes. He is currently crafting iOS applications as a senior developer at Small Planet Digital in Brooklyn, New York.
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With over 350 channels in the Channel Store, it can be difficult to keep track of the latest and greatest on Roku. Here's a quick cheat sheet on what's new in the Channel Store this week.
Fandor caters to both independent film fans and mainstream movie lovers with one of the web's largest collections of entertaining films that celebrate a love of cinema. From documentaries to the avant-garde, you will discover thought-provoking and unexpected hidden cinematic gems. Fandor requires a monthly subscription, which will give you unlimited films for $10 per month. To learn more, visit www.fandor.com/roku.
Two new channels from Sportskool will help you kick your fitness regime into high-gear. The Endurance Channel is perfect when you're gearing up for marathon or even triathlon-level competition. Pros like Carey Bond, Eric Haar and Lokelani McMichale will have you running, swimming and biking longer and safer to avoid injury. And if your team is counting on you to be at the top of your game, Sportskool's Team Sports Channel delivers the world class, one-on-one coaching edge you need. Whether your game is football, hockey, soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball or streetball, make Sportskool's Doug Flutie, Mia Hamm, Misty May, Bill Walton, Tony Gwynn and others the winning secret in your training schedule. You can find them both in the Channel Store.
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Fish Rumble
It sounds like a plot from the Simpsons: The conservative town council of Republic near Springfield, Mo., and a local witch are in court over a Christian fish symbol adorning the town seal. Jean Webb, a local practitioner of the pagan Wicca faith wants it removed. Wicca, a faith based in pre-Christian European beliefs, upholds the sacredness of nature and includes the practice of witchcraft. The town is fighting the lawsuit; Webb alleges local citizens have had her fired from her job at the local newspaper and are subjecting her family to harassment. Removing the fish would leave the Republic's four-cornered seal bearing only three images -- the town's location on the Missouri map, a hand representing its hospitality, and a family's silhouette -- and in sore need of a fourth. Maybe they have a nuclear power plant


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Much like running a corporation, running for president is an expensive and time-consuming undertaking. Just like a corporation, a campaign involves employees, money management, public relations, advertising and the selling of a product or service. Which in this case is the person running for office. In this graphic, we take a look at just what all it takes to run for president, and how big of a business doing so has become.
Like all businesses, you have better success in some states than others. Below is a look at how effective each candidate has been state by state in fundraising.
- Overall Fundraising: Obama has raised $556M and Romney $340M.
- State-by-State Breakdown: A few examples…
- NY: $11.2M Obama vs. $8.9M Romney
- Ohio: $.8M Romney vs. $.6M Obama
- CA: $68.3M Obama vs. $33.8M Romney
- FL: $24.8M Romney vs. $16.9M Obama
- Average Contribution: Romney has raised $170M from those contributing $2,000 or more vs. Obama who raised nearly half of that from larger donors at $92M. See the graph for the entire breakdown!
- Rising Influence of Super PACs: RNC has raised $273M from Super PACs vs. DNC which raised $70M. This has dramatically impacted the race as they need no involvement from the candidates themselves.
- Breakdown of how they spend their funds: Obama spent 51% on advertising vs. Romney 45%. See breakdown by payroll, travel, polling, etc.
- History of Presidential Campaign Costs: Lincoln spent just $2.8M in 1860; Reagan and Carter spent approx. $300M, see breakdown of major campaigns from history.
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Source: Bestdegreeprograms.org


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Emerging market equities did not perform well last year compared to years before. For example, the the benchmark indices of BRIC countries were down by double digits in 2011 with India's Sensex being the worst performer losing 24.5%. Russia's RTS, Brazil's Bovespa and the Shanghai Composite Index were off 22.0%, 18.1% and 21.7% respectively.
One of the factors that affect the stock market performance of these countries is foreign direct investment (FDI). Theoretically, higher FDI should lead to increased economic growth, which in turn can lead to higher stock prices. However this does not happen in the real world. Stocks in emerging markets rise and fall based on many factors including the flow of foreign portfolio capital which can change direction almost overnight.
The following chart shows the comparison of FDI among BRICs since 2000:
Source: China Shifts Foreign-Investment Focus, The Wall Street Journal
Due to its large manufacturing base, China has been the largest recipient of FDI for many years now while India has been the recipient of the lowest FDI.
However, despite receiving the highest foreign direct investment, Chinese equities have not yielded the highest return to investors as shown in the graph below:
Source: MSCI
In the period shown, the Russian equity market has outperformed the equity markets of the other three countries followed by Brazil based on the MSCI index. China was the worst performer with returns that were even lower than that of India's. So the takeaway is that higher FDI does not necessarily mean higher equity returns.
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iShares MSCI Brazil Index (NYSEARCA:EWZ)
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iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund (NYSEARCA:FXI)
iShares S&P India Nifty 50 (NASDAQ:INDY)
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Police have detained a Palestinian suspected of stealing a van and booby- trapping it in an unsuccessful attempt to explode it in a crowded area of Tel Aviv.
The arrest Sunday came a day after police stopped the van in the suburb of Ramat Efal and seized two terrorists who tried to flee. Sappers destroyed the car bomb without injuries.
Authorities are still seeking a man believed to have been the commander of the group and the driver of the van. Apparently, he jumped out of the vehicle before it came to a halt, letting it coast a short distance before stopping.
The suspect being held stole the van in a Tel Aviv suburb on Nov. 19 and found in its interior two 25-pound cylinders of cooking gas and a pistol under the seat, sources said.
He took it to his home village of Salfit, near Tulkarm, about 10 miles east of Netanya. There, he helped transform it into a car bomb by adding another three full cylinders of cooking gas and wiring the containers to delayed-action explosives.
Meanwhile, police in Jerusalem have decided to beef up stationary and mobile patrols in the Old City, following the stabbing of a yeshiva student Sunday and last week's fatal grenade attack on Arabs, both in the Moslem Quarter.
The capital's police chief, Haim Albaldes, said there would be more lookout posts in the Old City, manned around the clock, and foot patrols would be reinforced until further notice.
The victim of Sunday's attack, 23-year-old Yaron Shefi, was reported Monday to be in fair condition. He was attacked from behind by an 18-year-old Arab woman, who plunged a kitchen knife 4 to 6 inches into his neck.
A watch committee of Jewish residents in the Old City said the stabbing brought to 196 the number of intifada-related incidents there over the past eight months.
Among the incidents were five stabbings, 86 cases of stone-throwing, 17 of arson and 16 involving Molotov cocktails.


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What is the Weather Like on Mercury?
When you are talking about weather on Mercury you are not talking about much. The planet does not have an atmosphere worth mentioning. so when you talk about Mercury you talk about its climate. You look at how its surface temperatures change over time. You also have to mention Mercury's seasons. Even though we tend to think of seasons as fall, winter, spring, and summer weather, on the cosmic scale it is the times when different parts of a planet is exposed to more or less sunlight.
When we consider temperatures on Mercury we can see that we truly have the better deal on Earth. On Earth we complain if the weather hits 90 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit or it dips below 30 degrees Fahrenheit. However Mercury experiences much more extreme changes in temperature. First off the planet is much closer to the sun. This is because of the planet's positions and also because of it more elliptical orbit which makes it pass even closer to the sun at certain points. The second factor is that Mercury's atmosphere is so thin that is can not retain solar radiation like Earth can.
The result of these two conditions on Mercury are very extreme temperature changes. During the Day mercury gets up to 10 ten times more solar energy than Earth. So temperatures can go as high 430 degrees Celsius. That is 806 degrees Fahrenheit. If a human being was to be exposed to such high temperatures they would burst into flames and burn to a crisp. In fact it is so hot that lead and zinc would met. During the night Mercury can't retain heat so its temperature plummets to a freezing -183 degrees Celsius or -297.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
When it comes to seasons Mercury is tilted away from the sun so its southern hemisphere gets hotter summers and cooler winters. The orbit also effects the intensity. Since the northern hemisphere tends to tilt towards the sun on the longer end of Mercury's orbit so its winter and summers are not as intense.
We have written many articles about Mercury for Universe Today. Here's an article about the size of Mercury, and here's an article about the formation of Mercury.
If you'd like more information on Mercury, check out NASA's Solar System Exploration Guide, and here's a link to NASA's MESSENGER Misson Page.
We've also recorded an entire episode of Astronomy Cast all about Mercury. Listen here, Episode 49: Mercury.
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Artists PDL continue their startling 'conversations' with Seattle
Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, August 7, 2008
Just because you're looking at it doesn't mean it's there.
A 12-foot-square chain-link fence appeared in Kerry Park on Queen Anne in July, bearing news of an upcoming construction project.
Ground would soon be broken for a tram that would float across the neighborhood's million-dollar views and offer bottom-of-the-hill people instant access to the top. Within hours, a protest petition was in motion and phones were ringing at City Hall.
Last week, the same chain-link fence announced that Starbucks would open a shop in the Olympic Sculpture Park with coffee cups shaped like Richard Serra's "Wake."
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Is nothing sacred?
Both projects are illusions created by the three-man Seattle art team known as PDL: Jason Punchinello, Greg Lundgren and Jed Dunkerley.
This is the same group that offers fake tours of the Seattle Art Museum and sets up, when moved, "portable confessional units" to allow anybody bearing a psychic or moral burden to seek absolution not from priests but from artists.
Why, PDL, why?
"Art is a means of starting a conversation," Lundgren said. "If strangers start talking to each other about our projects, we think of that as success."
PDL will be in Bellevue over Labor Day weekend, taking the performance art challenge to some of the most expensive real estate in the region.