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- Joaquin Phoenix
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- Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy expressed hope that Joker voice actor Mark Hamill could reprise the role in the film while DC Extended Universe Joker actor Jared Leto wanted to reprise the role as well.
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Amazing transformation. Jaquine is amazing. Just give him the Oscar now.
Joaquin Phoenix was an amazing actor for this role. The emotions, and everything behind his role was so intense. Hands down. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Good or bad, it's undeniably one of the most depressing comic-book movies ever made. (It's also got one of the most depressing comic-book movie scores, an endless dirge of droning strings by Hildur Guðnadóttir.) The calls from some corners to ban the film because it could incite violence give the movie too much credit. It's not irresponsible. It's just immature.
An iconic comic-book villain gets an appropriately epic origin story in Joker, which allows Joaquin Phoenix's raw talent its grandest stage yet.
This is Phoenix's film, and he inhabits it with an insanity by turns pitiful and fearsome in an out-there performance that's no laughing matter. Not to discredit the imaginative vision of the writer-director, his co-scripter and invaluable tech and design teams, but Phoenix is the prime force that makes Joker such a distinctively edgy entry in the Hollywood comics industrial complex.


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Diversity Toolkit: Race and Ethnicity
Teaching about race and racism in the United States is a complex and emotional process. While many of us think of race as fixed categories - Asian, Black, and White, for example - many scholars have noted that race is not a biological category, but an idea, a social construction, that people use to interpret human differences and justify socioeconomic arrangements in ways that benefit one social group over another (Adams, Bell, Griffin 2007). For data collection purposes, the U.S. federal government defines Hispanic as a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
In contrast, ethnicity describes a grouping of people based on geographical region, nationality, or culture (e.g., Afro-Caribbean, Japanese, Hmong, Kurdish).
Racism is a system of advantage based on race and supported by institutions, policies and practices that benefit dominant groups and disadvantage subdominant groups. Racism is a social expression of power and privilege.
Main Issues
Race and ethnicity drive many debates and policies in public education:
Public policies such as the U.S. Supreme Court's limitations on postsecondary institutions' use of race-conscious measures in admitting racial minorities ("affirmative action") is just one example of race and ethnicity based policies that support a system that benefits one group and disadvantages another. This systemic support of racism is often reflected at both the institutional and individual/group level. At the individual/group level, schools are faced with increased incidents of race-related bullying, harassment and violence. At the institutional level, schools may consciously or unconsciously engage in racial bias in decisions on academic tracking, assignment to special education classes and promotion, and suspension or expulsion. Many school districts have few minority education employees relative to the racial makeup of the student population. Similarly, some districts lack culturally competent educators who are attuned to the cultural or linguistic needs of their students.
- Learn more about the social construction of race and racism in the United States, including how race provides systems of advantage and disadvantage
- Reflect on your own racial identity and how it has shaped your life experiences—personal inquiry is a necessary prerequisite to facilitating inquiry among others
- Foster a sense of safety around conversations on race by encouraging participants to take responsibility for their own learning and interactions, to respect each other, to avoid blame and snap judgments, and to allow for mistakes
- Create a meaningful blueprint that includes sustained inquiry, examination of challenges, and a plan to meet the needs of colleagues or students as they explore the emotional territory of race.
- Begin with low-risk activities. Learners need to feel safe in order to express and examine deep feeling. Begin with activities moving from individual reflection to discussion in pairs or small groups before engaging in whole group discussions.
- Move from concrete to abstract. For students to understand the concepts of race and oppression, they must first see examples of these concepts that are rooted in concrete experiences.
- Move from personal to institutional/societal. Before examining how race affects institutions or society, students should first explore the impact of race on a personal level.
- Move from difference to dominance. Allow students to talk about their own experiences as members of a racial or ethnic group and listen to others talk about their experiences before introducing concepts of societal dominance, social power and privilege.

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Lumen Fidei, The Light of Faith, by Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict, is a wonderful piece of writing that I think is exactly right for us in this time.
It talks about the many ways that faith illumines our walk with Christ in this life, and how that faith leads us to the world beyond. It is about the transforming power of conversion. I was struck over and again while I was reading it by how completely its words seemed to speak directly to my own experience of conversion, from that first abrupt turn to Jesus and throughout the on-going conversion that has been my life since.
This experience of seeing my own walk of faith and my own needs — both intellectual and emotional needs — addressed in papal encyclicals is not new to me. I have been consistently amazed by the power the Holy Spirit infuses into the writings of the various popes to speak accurately of and directly to the broader human condition.
The fact that I saw my own experiences of conversion reflected in Luman Fidei leads me to believe that my conversion and my walk are far more universal than I had ever supposed. There is so much in Lumen Fidei that applies to us as individuals and as Christians in a newly post-Christian world that I am not going to attempt to summarize it in a single post. Instead, I'm going to unpack it a bit at a time and ponder what I learn from it.
Each of you would probably learn something different if you read it. Great spiritual writing is always like that. Ten people can read the Sermon on the Mount and experience 10 different insights. That is because the Sermon on the Mount has so many dimensions and also because the Holy Spirit guides us in our reflections to learn what we need at that time in our lives.
It is the same with this encyclical, or just about any of the encyclicals, for that matter. I encourage you to read it and reflect on it for yourself, then bring your thoughts here to try them out. Mind on mind generates better thinking that just going off alone. I think we can teach one another.
Conversion is not just a one-off, falling-off-a-cliff moment. It can be that, but, if it is real, it is always more than that. Conversion is a process of re-orientation.
The way I've always put it is that Jesus doesn't change what we do. He changes what we want to do.
Lumen Fidei puts it like this:
Faith is born of an encounter with the living God who calls us and reveals his love, a love which precedes us and upon which we can lean for security and for building our lives. Transformed by this love, we gain fresh vision, new eyes to see; we realize that it contains a great supernatural gift, becomes a light for our way, guiding our journey through time … faith is also a light coming from the future and opening before us vast horizons which guide us beyond ourselves towards the breadth of communion.
In other words, God loved us before we were conceived, and has called us to Himself when we were apart from Him. That initial moment of conversion is built on the first spark of faith that allows us to say "yes" to this love. In my case, I said "Forgive me."
My first conscious experience of God as Another was the instantaneous experience of love and joy pouring into me as soon as I said that. It was God's answer to my "yes" to Him.
Just as the love of our parents when we are little gives us the security to explore the world and learn about it without fear, this powerful love of God that we can actually feel as a sensation transforms us from the inside.
The fact, the simple fact, that God Is, that He Is a reacting being whose first persona is ecstatic love and joy of a quality we have never known was possible, changes everything else. Faith, which was a spark of desperation when we said that first "yes," becomes a certainty in the reality of this love.
Faith in Him, in His goodness and His love, teaches us a new kind and level of security. It is security built on a different reality at a different plane than the ones we ordinarily build our lives around.
The foundations and walls of security people try to erect for themselves are made of labor, blood and money. We amass wealth, commission armies, put up buildings and buy locks, all to give us security from the thief, the tyrant and the caprice of life. All these things are open mouths into which we feed our days erecting, maintaining and controlling them in the vain hope that they will keep us safe. Whatever safety they give is predicated on the fact that they themselves also devour our energies and strength. None of them can, in the end, save us from our own weaknesses and mortality.
The security of Christ is built outside of time and without our work. We do not supply it, and we do not maintain it. Time cannot erode it and death does not end it.
Faith is the light, shining in the darkness of our narrow existences which illumines this security and lets us experience it. Faith does not create the security of living in Christ. Rather, it lets us experience it to its fullest.
Faith in Christ allows us to see the new path before us. It opens our hearts to the teaching and promptings of the Holy Spirit, which in turn, change us from the inside out. Over time, we are converted to a new way of looking at ourselves, other people and life. We are changed, re-oriented. The things that matter to us change, and the things we do change right along with them.
We become new creatures in Christ.
This is the full experience of conversion, which is on-going, life-long and radical. It is how Christ transforms the world; by transforming each one of us individually.
And it all depends on that first radical turn away from flat, one-dimensional life of no faith, no hope, and doing it all for ourselves. It depends on that initial "yes" of faith.
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!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) says that because Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (see May 26, 2009) is what he calls a "Latina woman racist," she should immediately withdraw her nomination. Gingrich bases his remark on a 2001 comment by Sotomayor in which she said she "hopes that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life" (see October 26, 2001). Sending a text message on Twitter, Gingrich writes: "Imagine a judicial nominee said, 'My experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' New racism is no better than old racism." He follows with another message: "White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw." Republican National Committee (RNC) media chairman Todd Herman quickly "retweets" Gingrich's message, which usually signifies agreement with the message, but the RNC will refuse to say whether or not it officially endorses Gingrich's comment. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs replies that Gingrich is probably not the best source of information or guidance on the issue, and warns against excessive rhetoric: "I think it is probably important for any involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they've decided to describe different aspects of the impending confirmation. I think we're satisfied that when the people of America and the people of the Senate get a chance to look at more than just the blog of a former lawmaker that they'll come to the same conclusion that the president did." [Think Progress, 5/27/2009; Plum Line, 5/27/2009; Washington Times, 5/28/2009] Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, refuses to align himself with Gingrich's characterization. Asked about Gingrich's remark, Hatch says, "No, I don't agree with that." [Think Progress, 5/27/2009] Days later, Gingrich will appear to withdraw the "racist" characterization, although he will go on to accuse Sotomayor of "betray[ing]" the "American system" of law (see June 3, 2009).
Entity Tags: Newt Gingrich, Sonia Sotomayor, US Supreme Court, Orrin Hatch, Todd Herman, Robert Gibbs
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who recently seemed to retract his characterization of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a "racist" (see May 27, 2009 and June 3, 2009), now calls Sotomayor a "racialist." On CBS News's Face the Nation, Gingrich says: "When I did a Twitter about her, having read what she said, I said that was racist—but I applied it to her as a person. And the truth is I don't know her as a person. It's clear that what she said was racist, and it's clear—or as somebody wrote recently, 'racialist' if you prefer." [Think Progress, 6/7/2009]
Entity Tags: US Supreme Court, Newt Gingrich, Sonia Sotomayor
On Fox News's morning broadcast Fox and Friends, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a frequent Fox commentator and presumptive Republican candidate for president in 2012, says of the controversial plans to build an Islamic community center two blocks from the site of the downed World Trade Center: "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center." [Media Matters, 8/16/2010]
Entity Tags: Newt Gingrich, Fox News
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and an apparent candidate for the presidency in 2012, tells the conservative National Review that President Obama only pretends to be a "normal" American, but in reality is driven by his belief in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior." Gingrich cites a recent article by conservative author Dinesh D'Souza (see September 12, 2010), calling D'Souza's insight into Obama's behavior "stunning… [the] most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama.… What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.… This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president. I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating—none of which was true.… In the Alinksy [Saul Alinsky, a liberal community organizer] tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve.… He was authentically dishonest." The progressive media watchdog organization Media Matters calls Gingrich's comments the latest in a long line of "not-so-subtle race baiting" by right-wing media figures. Gingrich is a frequent guest on Fox News. [Media Matters, 9/12/2010] White House press secretary Robert Gibbs accuses Gingrich of "trying to appeal to the fringe." In response, Gingrich tells the Daily Caller that his own remarks "seemed to touch some kind of irrational nerve on the left." [Washington Post, 9/16/2010] Days later, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson asks if Gingrich is "just pretending to have lost his mind, or has he actually gone around the bend?" Robinson answers his own question: "His lunacy certainly seems genuine enough. It's one thing to be a rhetorical bomb-thrower, as Gingrich has long fancied himself, and another to lob damp squibs of pure nonsense into the fray. The man's contributions to the public discourse have become increasingly unhinged." Robinson calls Gingrich's assertions about Obama's supposed "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior" "bizarre." If Gingrich is indeed rational, Robinson continues, then he is probably attempting to promote the "birther" conspiracy theory that Obama is not a US citizen, but instead "foreign, exotic, alien, somehow not American." Moreover, Gingrich is trying to promote a much larger conspiracy theory: "that American democracy—indeed, the whole Anglo-American-Judeo-Christian enterprise—is under attack in a titanic clash of civilizations. In this view, we are threatened most acutely by the Islamic civilization. But we must also be on guard against the 'Sinic' civilization of China, the 'Hindu' civilization of India, and assorted others. This analysis was developed by Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor who died in 2008—and who said he never intended his work to be read as a battle plan. Gingrich seems to believe that our culture and values are also threatened from within—by black and brown people who demand that they, too, be given a voice in defining that culture and those values." [Washington Post, 9/14/2010] Post media observer Howard Kurtz observes on Twitter that he is "amazed that Newt Gingrich said Obama has a Kenyan view of politics. Not exactly subtle." [Media Matters, 9/13/2010] Many conservatives have long accused Obama of being un-American because of his Kenyan ancestry (see February 25, 2008, August 1, 2008 and After, October 8-10, 2008, June 29, 2009, and August 11, 2009).
Entity Tags: Samuel P. Huntington, Eugene Robinson, Howard Kurtz, Dinesh D'Souza, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich, Saul Alinsky, Media Matters, Robert Gibbs
Timeline Tags: US International Relations, Domestic Propaganda
Newt Gingrich during a recent debate among Republican presidential candidates. [Source: Associated Press]Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), a Republican candidate for the 2012 presidential nomination, says that schools should save educational expenses by firing all custodians except for one "master janitor" and have the children do the rest of the maintenance work for their schools. Gingrich recommends this particularly for schools in poorer areas. Attacks Unions, Child Labor Laws - Child labor laws prohibit such actions; Gingrich blames these laws, and the unions to which many maintenance workers and custodians belong, for causing "unnecessary" expenditures and for what he says is blocking poorer children from bootstrapping their way to economic success. "This is something that no liberal wants to deal with," he tells an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "Core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization against children in the poorest neighborhoods, crippling them by putting them in schools that fail has done more to create income inequality in the United States than any other single policy," he continues. "It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid. You say to somebody, you shouldn't go to work before you're what, 14, 16 years of age, fine. You're totally poor. You're in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. I've tried for years to have a very simple model. Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor, and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would have pride in the schools, they'd begin the process of rising.… You go out and talk to people, as I do, you go out and talk to people who are really successful in one generation. They all started their first job between nine and 14 years of age. They all were either selling newspapers, going door to door, they were doing something, they were washing cars. They all learned how to make money at a very early age. What do we say to poor kids in poor neighborhoods? Don't do it. Remember all that stuff about don't get a hamburger flipping job? The worst possible advice you could give to poor children. Get any job that teaches you to show up on Monday. Get any job that teaches you to stay all day even if you are in a fight with your girlfriend. The whole process of making work worthwhile is central." Proposal Called 'Absurd,' 'Insane' - Gingrich, who in 1994 proposed placing children whose families were on welfare into state-run orphanages, is quickly targeted for criticism by experts and observers. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), calls Gingrich's proposal "absurd," and says: "Who in their right mind would lay off janitors and replace them with disadvantaged children—who should be in school, and not cleaning schools? And who would start backtracking on laws designed to halt the exploitation of children?" Gingrich says he has a number of "extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America and give people a chance to rise very rapidly." [Politico, 11/18/2011; New York Times, 11/19/2011] Jordan Weissman, an associate editor of The Atlantic, calls Gingrich's proposal "insane." He writes: "This suggestion is, on its face, insane. It sounds like a bad Stephen Colbert joke [referring to a popular political satirist]. But if you stop and consider its merits for a minute or two… well no, it's still quite insane. And if you spend an evening researching the nitty gritty of what public school custodians actually do for a living, it turns out to be downright cruel." He says the proposal is "a jarring illustration of Gingrich's casual disdain for American workers." Weissmann refers to a job description for a New York City public school custodial engineer: that job requires the worker to use hazardous chemicals such as hydrochloric acid; repair heating and air conditioning systems; do electrical and plumbing repair; and other potentially dangerous tasks. Weissman asks, "What parent wants a nine-year-old, or even a 13-year-old, toying with the HVAC in her school?" Custodial jobs are among the most physically taxing of all jobs, causing workers to suffer an unusually high number of on-the-job injuries and causing long-term physical debilitation. Weissman concludes: "It would be easy to chalk Gingrich's comments up simply to his well-known animus towards unions. But I don't think that quite explains it. Rational people can argue about how much someone should be paid to clean.… But that decision starts from the respectful assumption that maintaining a school is something worthwhile for an adult to spend their lives on. That's not the case in Gingrich's worldview. Forget that an adult might need that job to put food on the table for their own children. Forget that he's suggesting we flood an ailing job market with part time, minimum-wage-earning students. This isn't about labor economics. It's about respect, and the fact that the leading Republican presidential candidate doesn't have a spit's worth of it for manual labor. In his eyes, a janitor's job just doesn't mean much. It's so easy, a child could do it." [Atlantic Monthly`, 11/21/2011] Former Custodian: Gingrich 'Doesn't Even Know Why' He is Wrong - A diarist for the liberal blog Daily Kos describes himself as a former "custodian for a very large child care center." He writes: "I was the guy mopping up vast amounts of wet, sticky rice from the floor, sanitizing the tables, chairs and high-chairs, and washing the dishes. I sanitized doorknobs. I filed down jagged parts of metal that somehow, every once in a while, stuck out from steel door jam[b]s and bathroom stalls. I hauled out dozens of bags of dirty diapers Every Single Day… and yes, I cleaned up an unholy amount of poop from a dozen itty bitty toilets. [T]hese are many of the things Newt Gingrich believes should be jobs for poor children in our public school systems. Cleaning up vomit. Cleaning feces off of toilet seats. Handling cleaning solvents that can eat right through latex gloves. Washing dishes with an industrial dish washer that heats the water over 180 degrees, enough to scald young skin.… Plunging toilets plugged with diarrhea and toilet paper, then sanitizing the toilet seat for the Non Poor students. Newt Gingrich wants our children cleaning blood, mucous, feces, urine, dried snot, vomit loaded with God-Knows-What pathogens from floors and walls and door knobs with chemicles [sic] that can eat the skin right off your arm or cause permanent blindness if it splashed into the eyes or loss of smell if some Janitor Kid jammed his finger up his nose… which kids never do, right? Never. Because an eight-year-old is going to observe strict safety regulations, right?" The diarist concludes: "[Gingrich] should be embarrassed for suggesting we make poor children clean our schools. There is SO much wrong with that statement and the most irritating thing is, he doesn't even know WHY." [Daily Kos, 11/21/2011]
Entity Tags: Daily Kos, Jordan Weissman, Randi Weingarten, Newt Gingrich
Timeline Tags: Global Economic Crises, Domestic Propaganda, 2012 Elections
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA) issues accusations that Americans on government aid programs are in many cases wasteful drug users who use their aid money to go on lavish vacations. Gingrich, riding a surge of popularity as the Iowa caucuses approach, calls President Obama "the food stamp president" during his stump speeches. In an appearance in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Gingrich says: "Remember, this is the best food stamp president in history. So more Americans today get food stamps than before. And we now give it away as cash—you don't get food stamps. You get a credit card, and the credit card can be used for anything. We have people who take their food stamp money and use it to go to Hawaii. They give food stamps now to millionaires because, after all, don't you want to be compassionate? You know, the Obama model: isn't there somebody you'd like to give money to this week. That's why we're now going to help bailout Italy because we haven't bailed out enough people this week, the president thought let's write another check. After all, we have so much extra money." The nonpartisan fact-checking entity PolitiFact calls Gingrich's accusations complete lies. The "food stamp program," known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has very strict guidelines about what can and cannot be bought with federal aid dollars. Except for very limited exceptions, SNAP recipients cannot use aid money for restaurant meals or to buy anything other than groceries. SNAP funds cannot be used to buy alcoholic beverages. The "electronic benefits transfer" card, or EBT cards, are similar in appearance to credit cards, but have a very different function. EBT cardholders cannot use their cards to buy airline tickets, whether it be for Hawaiian vacations or anything else. PolitiFact doubts that any recipients would have enough funds to buy such tickets in the first place; the average monthly SNAP benefit is $134 per person. Julia Isaacs of the Brookings Institution says, "There is undoubtedly some illegal bartering of EBT cards—though I understand trafficking in EBT cards is less than under the old food stamps—but I am having trouble imagining how you could barter an EBT card for an airplane ticket." PolitiFact notes that Gingrich's claims may have come from a recent news broadcast in St. Louis, which found that some Missouri SNAP recipients spent $2,737 on food in Hawaii in January 2011. The money, though spent out of state, was spent on legitimate goods such as groceries. The amount was .07 percent of the total money allocated to SNAP residents in Missouri for January 2011. And the Missouri beneficiaries had legitimate reasons to be in Hawaii—some of them were members of the military transferred to new duty bases, for example. If the Missouri story is the source of Gingrich's claims, PolitiFact notes, then Gingrich completely misrepresented the facts of the story. As far as the "food stamps for millionaires" claim, anyone who earns over 130 percent of the poverty line cannot receive benefits. No such beneficiaries have been identified, and if they do exist, they are breaking the law. Michael Wiseman of George Washington University says, "I would challenge Newt Gingrich to find a millionaire in annual income who gets on food stamps legally." PolitiFact says that Gingrich's claims are "so ridiculous" that the researchers thought for a time that he might be joking. Think Progress reporter Marie Diamond calls Gingrich's claims "absurd." At a recent campaign event in Iowa, citizen Don Brantz confronted Gingrich, saying: "You don't always tell the truth, Mr. Gingrich, and that food stamp thing is one of them. Iowa already has a computer system. We do not pay money so the people on food stamps can buy beer and anything else. It's a very specific thing." (Diamond notes that Gingrich is a frequent world traveller, taking lengthy vacations in luxury spots around the world. In one instance, he told reporters that after taking a luxury cruise in Greece, he came away with a deeper understanding of the European financial crisis.) [St. Petersburg Times, 12/1/2011; Think Progress, 12/2/2011; ABC News, 1/2/2012] MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz will say that Gingrich, like fellow Republican candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA), "is also quick to connect programs like food stamps to the African-American community." Schultz's guest, author and radio host Michael Eric Dyson, says: "I don't think we need Newt Gingrich's pedagogy in the NAACP. I think this is condescension at its most poignant. And, as with Rick Santorum, when you have pet Negro causes, you tend to treat Negros like pets." New York Times columnist Charles Blow will say of Gingrich's remarks that "this sort of racial pandering is exactly what happens at this point in a race." Blow calls Gingrich's remarks "extreme, very racist." [Politico, 1/6/2012]
Entity Tags: Michael Wiseman, Don Brantz, Charles M. Blow, Barack Obama, Edward Andrew ("Ed") Schultz, Michael Eric Dyson, PolitiFact (.org ), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Marie Diamond, Newt Gingrich
Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich. The two have combined to offer 10 poor children a chance to become Trump's 'apprentices.' [Source: MSNBC / Raw Story]Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA) modifies his previously stated stance that union janitors at public schools should be fired and poor schoolchildren should be put to maintenance and custodial tasks in their places (see November 18, 2011 and After). Gingrich now says that he recognizes some custodial jobs are dangerous, and says that poor students should be limited to jobs such as cleaning bathrooms. During a campaign rally, he asks, "What if they became assistant janitors and their jobs were to mop the floor and clean the bathroom?" Gingrich goes on to say that making poor kids work as janitors is similar to a successful program, Earning by Learning, that pays children to read books. He also says that poor children "have no habit of work" and no knowledge of how to make an income "unless it's illegal." He says: "Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, so they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal." Gingrich then goes on to attack child labor laws and the "liberals" who support them, saying: "This is something that no liberal wants to deal with. Core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization against children in the poorest neighborhoods, crippling them by putting them in schools that fail has done more to create income inequality in the United States than any other single policy. It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid.… If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money." Alex Seitz-Wald of the progressive news Web site Think Progress responds, "Of course, reading books is not hard labor and is directly relevant to education—cleaning bathrooms is not." [Think Progress, 12/1/2011; The Hill, 12/1/2011; ABC News, 12/1/2011] The next day, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly opines, "He seemed to try to clarify that… and say what he's talking about is maybe having kids be assistants to those union members." Jeremy Holden of the progressive media watchdog site Media Matters says of Gingrich's entire proposal: "Here's a thought. What if we focused on fixing the economy and schools, and the students' 'job' was to go to school?" [Media Matters, 12/2/2011] Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera later writes that it is obvious Gingrich knows little to nothing about the daily lives of poor people: "If he knew about the culture of poverty… Gingrich never would have proposed suspending child labor laws and putting ghetto public school students to work as junior janitors in fifth or sixth Grade. Like his earlier calls to bring back orphanages and to deny support to unmarried woman who have children while on welfare, this Gingrich proposal is crass and creepy." Rivera notes that many poor families have breadwinners who work long hours in menial, physically demanding jobs, so poor children have many, many working role models in their lives. "[T]hese children know about work," Rivera observes. [Fox News, 12/8/2011] Gingrich later says that he will address the issue of poor children and work by taking part in a "program" by billionaire Donald Trump, the host of NBC's The Apprentice, where Trump will hire 10 poor children as "apprentices." Gingrich will elaborate, "I've asked [Trump] to take one of the poorer schools in New York and basically offer at least 10 apprenticeships to kids from that school to get them into the world of work, and to get them into an opportunity to earn money, and get them into the habit of showing up and realizing that effort gets rewarded, and that American is all about the work ethic." [Raw Story, 12/5/2011]
Entity Tags: Megyn Kelly, Alex Seitz-Wald, Geraldo Rivera, Donald Trump, Jeremy Holden, Newt Gingrich
Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore on The Daily Show. [Source: The Darkest Berry (.com)]Political satirist Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, mocks Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's recent calls to have public schools fire most of their professional custodial and maintenance staff and replace them with poor schoolchildren (see November 18, 2011 and After and December 1-2, 2011). Stewart. along with Daily Show contributor Larry Wilmore, says that Gingrich's proposal is an example of coded racism. Stewart notes that Gingrich modified his original claim that poor people have no work experience, and plays a video clip of Gingrich saying: "Some people who suggest that the working poor by definition know how to work, which is true, that's why they're called the working poor. I was talking about the people who come out of areas of neighborhoods where they may not have that experience." Wilmore says, "Oh, okay, he's not talking about poor people, he's talking about poor black people." Wilmore explains that Gingrich's choice of phrasing, "in neighborhoods where they may not have that experience," is "code for inner city, which is code for urban, which is code for black." Stewart, pretending confusion, says, "It's a lot of code," to which Wilmore responds, "[I]t's 2011, you can't just call poor black people lazy." According to Wilmore, Gingrich implied poor blacks were lazy by saying that they "have no habit of showing up on Monday." Wilmore continues: "[S]omehow when black people are poor, it's their fault. They're on welfare and lazy, but down in poor white Appalachia, you're not the problem. It's China's fault, or India's fault, or all the money we're spending on black people on welfare! I'm sorry, inner city government subsidy recipients. It's code, Jon." Wilmore points out that Gingrich's solution, in Gingrich's own words, is to have "poor neighborhood schools" hire schoolchildren to clean bathrooms and mop floors. Wilmore says: "Wait, Jon, so his plan to fix America is for black kids to start cleaning toilets?… He wants to give kids jobs by firing their parents from one of the few jobs they can get to support their kids!" The only other jobs those children see adults having, Gingrich says, is "a pimp or a prostitute or a drug dealer." Wilmore concludes by proclaiming sarcastically: "Yep, dream big, black people. Hey, you don't have to be a pimp, prostitute, or drug dealer. You can clean up people's sh_t! Hey, that sounds… come on! Gingrich 2012, Yes We Clean!" [Daily Show, 12/13/2011; Daily Kos, 12/14/2011]
Entity Tags: Larry Wilmore, Newt Gingrich, Jon Stewart
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda, 2012 Elections
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA), continuing his rhetorical attacks on President Obama, singles out African-Americans as largely dependent on "food stamps." Appearing at campaign rallies in New Hampshire, Gingrich repeatedly calls Obama "the best food stamp president in history," says he would be "the best paycheck president in American history," and says of African-Americans that he wants to tell them why they should "not be satisfied with food stamps." Gingrich says he would be willing to discuss the topic at the next NAACP convention. Gingrich says: "More people are on food stamps today because of Obama's policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. Now, there's no neighborhood I know of in America where if you went around and asked people, 'Would you rather your children had food stamps or paychecks?' you wouldn't end up with a majority saying they'd rather have a paycheck. And so I'm prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I'll go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. And I'll go to them and explain a brand new Social Security opportunity for young people, which should be particularly good for African-American males—because they're the group that gets the smallest return on Social Security because they have the shortest life span." Think Progress reporter Tanya Somanader calls Gingrich's take on food stamp recipients both "prejudicial" and "false." The food stamp program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has white Americans as the majority of its recipients. Most Americans receiving food stamps are either children or elderly retirees. Working-age women of all races represent only 28 percent of SNAP beneficiaries, and working-age men represent only 17 percent. Many SNAP beneficiaries actually have jobs and bring home paychecks that are their primary source of income; 85 percent of those recipients live below the poverty line. Somanader writes, "Thus, SNAP benefits provide a necessary safety net to families trying to stay afloat in a sluggish economy." [ABC News, 1/2/2012; Think Progress, 1/5/2012] NAACP president Benjamin Jealous will note that Gingrich rejected multiple invitations to speak at the NAACP convention in past years. [MSNBC, 1/5/2012] Gingrich's fellow Republican candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA) recently said that he wanted to end the cycle of blacks "taking someone else's money" via SNAP and other federal safety-net programs (see January 1-3, 2012). Gingrich recently advocated firing most school custodial and maintenance workers and forcing poor children (presumably federal aid recipients) to fill the positions instead (see November 18, 2011 and After and December 1-2, 2011). Previously, Gingrich has accused food stamp recipients of being millionaires and using the money to "go to Hawaii" (coincidentally Obama's home state). Government and independent experts say that the surge in federal aid recipients—higher now than in any time in US history—is because of policies instituted under George W. Bush and, in some cases, continued by Obama. The stories Gingrich tells of millionaire food stamp recipients vacationing in Hawaii have been shown to be false (see November 30 - December 2, 2011), though under a now-obsolete form of food stamp distribution, some recipients were able to use the proceeds to buy beer or trade them for small amounts of cash. [ABC News, 1/2/2012]
Entity Tags: Tanya Somanader, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, George W. Bush, Benjamin Jealous, Barack Obama, Rick Santorum, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Newt Gingrich
The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) finds that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the "food stamp" program, is playing a critical role in keeping American citizens from starving during the economic recession. The program has long been reviled by Republicans and conservatives, and recently Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich (R-GA) smeared President Obama as "the food stamp president" (see November 30 - December 2, 2011 and January 5, 2012), and falsely claimed that Obama has presided over the largest increase of Americans receiving SNAP assistance in US history (see January 17, 2012). The program benefits a disproportionately large number of children and disabled and elderly people, according to the CBPP. Since the recession began in late 2007, the CBPP says, "SNAP has responded effectively to the recession" in providing much-needed assistance to Americans, particularly since the recession has driven many families into "low-income" status. "According to the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, which counts SNAP as income, SNAP kept more than 5 million people out of poverty in 2010 and lessened the severity of poverty for millions of others." As the economy recovers and legislative provisions expire, SNAP spending will decrease, according to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predictions. "By 2022 SNAP is expected to return nearly to pre-recession levels as a share of GDP. Over the long term, SNAP is not growing faster than the overall economy and thus is not contributing to the nation's long-term fiscal problems." The payment accuracy of SNAP is extraordinarily high, the CBPP claims, refuting the claims of massive fraud made by Gingrich and other opponents of the program. And, according to the CBPP, economists say that the program is "one of the most effective forms of economic stimulus," helping grow the economy as it protects poverty-stricken families. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1/9/2012]
Entity Tags: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Barack Obama, US Census Bureau, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Newt Gingrich, Congressional Budget Office
Timeline Tags: Global Economic Crises
Juan Williams (left) and Newt Gingrich during the Republican presidential debate. [Source: Texas GOP Vote]Fox News commentator Juan Williams, an African-American, takes umbrage with recent comments by presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA) that he says had unacceptably racial overtones. Williams, moderating a Republican presidential debate in South Carolina with Gingrich and other candidates for Fox News, asks: "Speaker Gingrich, you recently said black Americans should demand jobs, not food stamps (see November 30 - December 2, 2011 and January 5, 2012). You also said poor kids lack a strong work ethic and proposed having them work as janitors in their schools (see November 18, 2011 and After and December 1-2, 2011). Can't you see that this is viewed, at a minimum, as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?" Gingrich responds, "No, I don't see that." Gingrich reiterates his call for poor students to earn money by doing janitorial work around their schools, saying that they would earn money, "which is a good thing if you're poor. Only the elites despise earning money." Williams presses Gingrich, asking him if his comments, including his reference to Obama as a "food stamp president," don't belittle the poor and racial minorities: "My Twitter has been inundated with people of all races asking if your comments are not intended to belittle the poor," he says. Gingrich retorts: "The fact is more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.… I believe every American of every background has been endowed by their Creator with the right to pursue happiness, and if that makes liberals unhappy, I'm going to continue to find ways to help poor people learn how to get a job, learn how to get a better job, and learn someday to own the job." The debate audience, described by Think Progress's Ian Millhiser as "largely white [and] Republican," cheers Gingrich's remarks and boos Williams. [Fox News, 1/16/2012; Mediaite, 1/16/2012; Think Progress, 1/17/2012] Williams later says that he believes Gingrich is "pandering" to conservative and presumably racist voters in the audience (see January 18, 2012). Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh will accuse Williams, not Gingrich, of appealing to racism in his question. "[T]his line of questioning was all racially tinted from Juan Williams," Limbaugh will say. "Newt Gingrich did not take the bait and answer in a racial context. He answered within the context that we're all people and that we, as conservatives, want the best for everybody.… [W]e are for everybody doing well, that we conservatives do not see black and white, male, female, gay, straight when we look at people down the line. We see potential. We want the best for everybody. We know what's holding 'em back, and that's government, government central planners, people like Barack Obama, [House Minority Leader Nancy] Pelosi, [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid, who look at people and see them with contempt and condescension, see them being incapable, and they treat them that way and they devise systems to deal with them that way, and they keep them forever dependent, which destroys their humanity, which makes us sick. It breaks our hearts." [Rush Limbaugh, 1/17/2012] Limbaugh later claims that Williams would not have a job if not for "the white guy, conservative who runs Fox News." [Media Matters, 1/31/2012] Millhiser reiterates the facts that "[t]he overwhelming majority of African-Americans are not on food stamps" and "the majority of [Americans] who receive food stamps are white." He writes: "It's deeply disturbing that a man who claims he should be president of the United States cannot understand why his remarks are offensive.… Gingrich's suggestion that food stamps are somehow a preeminent black issue flies in the face of reality. Worse, it lumps all African-Americans together as federal aid recipients when the overwhelming majority of working-age black men and women are self-supporting taxpayers. Thousands of them are professionals such as doctors or lawyers. One of them is the president of the United States." [Think Progress, 1/17/2012] Gingrich has a history of making racially questionable remarks and characterizations (see May 27, 2009, June 7, 2009, August 16, 2010, September 12, 2010 and After and December 13, 2011). His claim that Obama has presided over more Americans receiving food stamps than ever before is wrong (see January 17, 2012). And a recent study by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found SNAP to be an extraordinarily effective program in helping Americans survive the effects of the recession (see January 9, 2012).
Entity Tags: Barack Obama, Ian Millhiser, Newt Gingrich, Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh
Timeline Tags: 2012 Elections
The nonpartisan FactCheck.org finds that recent claims by presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA) that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history" are wrong. In fact, far more Americans were added to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rolls under President George W. Bush than under Obama. Gingrich has made the claim in a number of political speeches (see November 30 - December 2, 2011 and January 5, 2012), but his reiteration of the claim during a recent Republican debate in South Carolina has drawn a great deal of media attention (see January 16, 2012). FactCheck finds: "Gingrich would have been correct to say the number now on food aid is historically high. The number stood at 46,224,722 persons as of October, the most recent month on record. And it's also true that the number has risen sharply since Obama took office. But Gingrich goes too far to say Obama has put more on the rolls than other presidents." Information from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Food and Nutrition Service going back to January 2001 "show[s] that under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that." Moreover, "the program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama's time in office than during Bush's." The trend in recent months has been for the number of food-stamp recipients to decline, another fact Gingrich fails to note. FactCheck finds that the rise in the number of Americans on food stamps—currently one out of seven—began during the second term of the Bush presidency. "In the 12 months before Obama was sworn in, 4.4 million were added to the rolls, triple the 1.4 million added in 2007," the organization writes. "To be sure, Obama is responsible for some portion of the increase since then. The stimulus bill he signed in 2009 increased benefit levels, making the program more attractive. A family of four saw an increase of $80 per month, for example.… The stimulus also made more people eligible. Able-bodied jobless adults without dependents could get benefits for longer than three months." Part of the reason for the higher number of recipients under Obama is the new outreach to eligible citizens by state governments, according to the USDA; many state governments have worked harder to inform eligible citizens of their right to apply for government assistance, and have reduced the amount of information that claimants must provide to receive assistance. FactCheck concludes: "We don't argue that the program is either too large (as Gingrich does) or too small. It has certainly reached a historically high level, and may or may not grow even larger in the months to come. But the plain fact is that the growth started long before Obama took office, and participation grew more under Bush." And it quotes the USDA's Kevin Concannon, who recently told a Wall Street Journal reporter, "I realize Mr. Gingrich is a historian, but I'm not sure he'd get very high marks on that paper." [USA Today, 1/17/2012] CBS News notes that the White House has called Gingrich's claims "crazy," and finds: "While the number of people on food stamps is indeed at a record level, that's in part because of eligibility rules being relaxed under the administration of George W. Bush. It's also due in part to the economic downturn that began under Mr. Bush.… [T]hat percentage increase hardly makes Obama the 'best food stamp president in American history,' at least when you look at the question proportionally. The percent increase in beneficiaries during Mr. Bush's presidency was higher than it has been under Mr. Obama: The number of beneficiaries went from 17.3 million in 2001 to 28.2 million in 2008—an increase of 63 percent in years that are mostly considered non-recessionary." [CBS News, 1/17/2012] US News and World Report agrees with FactCheck, finding that "SNAP participation has been on the rise since well before President Obama took office. Nearly 17.2 million people in FY 2000 participated in the program, a figure that increased by nearly 64 percent by 2008." [US News and World Report, 1/17/2012] The Associated Press accuses Gingrich of distorting the facts and notes: "It's gotten easier to qualify for food stamps in the past decade but that is because of measures taken before Obama became president. It's true that the number of people on food stamps is now at a record level. That's due mainly to the ailing economy, which Republicans blame on Obama, as well as rising food costs. The worst downturn since the Great Depression wiped out 8.7 million jobs, pushed the unemployment rate to a peak of 10 percent in October 2009, and increased poverty." [Associated Press, 1/17/2012] The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has found that SNAP is a critical element in keeping poverty-stricken Americans, particularly children and the elderly, from starving during the economic recession (see January 9, 2012).
Entity Tags: Kevin Concannon, CBS News, Barack Obama, Associated Press, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, George W. Bush, US News and World Report, Obama administration, FactCheck (.org), US Department of Agriculture, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Newt Gingrich
Fox News commentator Juan Williams discusses the recent exchange between himself and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich over what Williams characterizes as racially motivated comments from Gingrich. Hosting a debate between Republican presidential contenders, Williams, an African-American, asked Gingrich whether he understood that his recent comments belittling blacks as food stamp recipients who were unused to working (see November 30 - December 2, 2011, January 5, 2012, November 18, 2011 and After and December 1-2, 2011) were being received negatively by African-Americans, and Gingrich responded by repeating the claims, to the loud approval of the debate audience (see January 16, 2012). Williams tells Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that Gingrich intended to "play racial politics" in responding to Williams. Williams also attacks Gingrich's premise that the young and poor in America have little interest in landing jobs, telling O'Reilly, "When you see that jobs are offered to young people in this country, you have lines around the block… he was suggesting that somehow these kids don't want to work." O'Reilly interprets Gingrich's remarks as saying that Gingrich wanted the government to fund school jobs to help children learn a work ethic, but Williams says O'Reilly's interpretation is not what Gingrich meant. O'Reilly asks if Williams believes Gingrich "was pandering to a certain voter in South Carolina," alluding to conservative and presumably racist white voters, and Williams agrees. [Mediaite, 1/18/2012]
Entity Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Newt Gingrich, Juan Williams
Fox News commentator and analyst Juan Williams, in a column for the Washington, DC, political publication The Hill, writes of his dismay at what he believes is the racially charged rhetoric that is dominating the Republican presidential primary. Williams got into a heated exchange with Republican candidate Newt Gingrich during a recent debate in South Carolina (see January 16, 2012). But Williams is displeased with the responses of all of the candidates at the debate. "With [ethnic] solidly in the Democratic camp and behind the first black president," Williams writes, "the scene is set for a bonanza of racial politics. The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are 'entitlement society'—as used by Mitt Romney—and 'poor work ethic' and 'food stamp president'—as used by Newt Gingrich. References to a lack of respect for the 'Founding Fathers' and the 'Constitution' also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core 'old-fashioned American values.' The code also extends to attacks on legal immigrants, always carefully lumped in with illegal immigrants, as people seeking 'amnesty' and taking jobs from Americans. But the code sometimes breaks down." Williams, an African-American, asked each candidate at the debate about some aspect of racially driven politics, from voter identification laws that would keep African-Americans from voting to racial discrimination in drug enforcement policies. Gingrich, he writes, was the most flagrant in appealing to racist whites with his practiced, sophisticated use of "coded appeals"—"dog whistling," Williams says it is often called—to racist stereotypes against blacks and Hispanics. Gingrich's rhetoric, he writes, appeals to "certain white audiences by intimating that black people are lazy, happy to live off the government, and lacking any intellect." Instead of answering Williams's question (referring to Gingrich's characterization of food stamp recipients as largely African-American and too lazy to seek gainful employment), Gingrich "threw red meat to Republicans in South Carolina, a state with a long history of racial politics. He used the same rhetorical technique of the segregationist politicians of the past: rejecting the premise of the question, attacking the media, and playing to the American people's resentment of liberal elites, minorities, and poor people." Williams says he does not regret asking Gingrich about his characterization of welfare recipients, and writes: "I do not know anyone on food stamps who would prefer them to gainful employment.… The problem is not a lack of work ethic on the part of the poor, who are disproportionately minorities. The problem is there are few good jobs for blue-collar people with the best work ethic. Let's have an honest debate about why this is the case and what we can do to fix it. But I regret that our political discourse has become so fragmented and combative that the point I was trying to make was obscured by pro-wrestling theatrics and post-debate spin. Poverty, unemployment, and the hopelessness that pervade minority communities are real issues that the GOP nominee, and President Obama for that matter, should address in this campaign." [The Hill, 1/30/2012] A blogger for the liberal Daily Kos writes of Williams's column, "You have to wonder how long Juan Williams will last at Fox News" after writing the column. [Daily Kos, 1/30/2012]
Entity Tags: Fox News, Daily Kos, Newt Gingrich, Juan Williams
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Let's Make a Deal: Washington Colleges Offer Tuition Freeze for More Funding
The proposal comes after outgoing Gov. Chris Gregoire set a goal of no tuition increases for the next two years, but her budget included no additional money for the five universities and one four-year college.
By Katherine Long
Washington's public-university presidents say they have a deal for the Legislature: If lawmakers will restore $225 million in state funding to higher education, the schools won't raise tuition for the next two years.
The proposal, from the state's six higher-education presidents, comes a few weeks after outgoing Gov. Chris Gregoire set a goal of no tuition increases for the next biennium. But her budget included no additional money for the five universities and one four-year college, The Evergreen State College.
That budget was "full of assumptions that are not likely to happen," said state Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee.
"Do I think it will be difficult to find $225 million? Yes," Hunter said. "But can we continue to do this long-term destruction of the higher-ed system? No."
The state is already predicting a $900 million shortfall for the next biennium.
Washington schools have raised tuition by double-digit amounts over the past few years. A year of undergraduate, in-state tuition at the University of Washington now costs nearly double what it did five years ago.
And those tuition increases have had some unintended consequences. The state has had to pour millions of additional dollars into the State Need Grant, the largest state program that aids low-income students. And it's one of the main reasons behind a shortfall in the state's Guaranteed Education Tuition program, a prepaid tuition program with a payout pegged to the highest tuition at a state university.
"Everything's connected; it really is," said Bruce Shepard, president of Western Washington University.
Shepard, who is heading the Council of Presidents this year, said the presidents want the state to return to a time when 50 percent of the funding for in-state undergraduate tuition came from state dollars and 50 percent from tuition dollars. Currently, about 67 percent of the cost of going to a four-year public college in Washington is borne by students and their families, with the state picking up the remainder.
The state budgeted about $1 billion for the six four-year schools for 2011-13, about as much as it budgeted for higher education in 1989-91. An infusion of $225 million would bring funding levels back to about what they were in 2009.
Earlier, Washington State University President Elson Floyd proposed raising WSU tuition by a cost-of-living increase if the Legislature would keep funding levels unchanged.
"When we first heard that in the fall, we were really excited about that -- we were starting to feel there was something being done about tuition increases," said Tristan Hanon, director of legislative affairs for the Associated Students of Washington State University. The Council of Presidents' idea advances the idea further, he said.
"I think it's going to be a tough fight, but I think a lot of legislators are starting to realize that this trend of disinvestment needs to stop," he said.
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Don't hate me because I'm beautiful
When I reviewed the 770 in December 2005, I noted that the color display was beautiful. Nothing has changed with the N800. The 800x480, 16-bit color display is absolutely gorgeous. Photographs look great, as does just about everything else. The only nit I can pick is with the backlighting, where there are a couple of noticeable shadows at the very edges of the screen when the background is white (e.g., during boot-up).
The display is where the N800 separates itself from the rest of the handheld crowd. The decision to go with an 800x480 display means that the N800 can handle many web pages with little or no horizontal scrolling. The combination of the N800's hardware, Opera 8, and Flash 7 proved to be very strong. I was able to view and navigate Flash-intensive sites like ESPN with no problem. Online banking and PayPal were no problem, and it was nice to sit in front of the living room TV with the N800 and browse the forums or check an auction on eBay. The only roadblock was YouTube. Videos loaded fine and the sound was good, but I got an average of 1-2fps on video playback, making the experience of watching a music video on the N800 more like sitting through a slideshow with a soundtrack.
Media playback
Video performance on the N800's built-in player is decent, but not outstanding. 30fps seemed to be a stretch; even the Nokia commercial included on the N800 was encoded at 25fps. When playing back the commercial, I occasionally noticed a dropped frame.
I experimented with a few other video clips, and playback performance varied depending on the codec and compression used. Results ranged from unwatchable (e.g., 5fps or less) to good. As a result, your video collection may not play smoothly on your N800 without some reencoding. If I had to choose between my video iPod and the N800 to watch the same video, I'd pick the iPoddespite the N800's better screenbecause playback is smoother.
Video aside, the N800 is a perfectly capable media player. It played everything in my music library except FairPlay AAC files purchased from the iTunes Store. The Internet radio player works wellclick on a stream and the media player will automatically be launched to handle it. There is also a photo viewer included with the N800. It works as expected.
FM radio
A few days ago, someone discovered that there is an FM radio chip built into the N800, unadvertised and unacknowledged by Nokia. I found the Nokia-certified FM radio application in the Maemo application repository, downloaded it, and installed it.
The FM radio application is fairly minimalist. You can seek through the FM dial in .05MHz increments. You can save and label your favorite local stations and there's even an FM radio applet for the home screen. Unfortunately, all I could get at first was static. It sounded like good old FM static, to be sure, but it was static nonetheless.
The FM Radio application is minimalist, but gets the job done
I then tried plugging in a pair of iPod earbuds. Bingo! The earbuds (or any other headphones) act as an antenna, resulting in crisp, clear FM broadcasts. A nice addition to the N800's functionality, this would be even better if it worked without headphones.
Other applications
The Application Manager
Although extra applications can be downloaded from web pages, the easiest way to look for software on the N800 is by using the Application Manager. You can subscribe to different software repositories which are periodically updated. When new software is available for your tablet, you can easily find it and download it. I downloaded the FM radio app via the Application Manager, along with a VNC viewer (more on that in a bit) and X-term. The repositories are browseable by topic (e.g., games, multimedia, PIM) and they make finding and installing applications a snap.
The Application Manager also handles installation and uninstallation of all applications, providing you with a handy overview of everything currently installed on your tablet.
The N800's menu system is well-thought-out and easy to use
The N800 supports Jabber and VoIP and comes with a built-in IM client capable of text, voice, and video chat. The client works well with Google Talk. I was able to exchange text messages with everyone on my GTalk friends list. VoIP worked smoothly as well, although I got a few odd looks at the local Panera Bread when making VoIP calls over the N800. VoIP support is limited to Google Talk at the present time, but a Skype client is coming. If it's full-featuredsupporting SkypeOutit would be a big boost for the N800.
The N800 also supports video chat via its built-in camera, but I couldn't get it to work with anyone other than N800 users. Windows users on Google Talk were prompted to download a piece of software that was supposed to enable video chatting between the N800 and a PC client, but it didn't work in my experience.
As mentioned above, there are no IRC or instant messaging clients that support AIM, MSN, or Yahoo currently available for the N800, so its functionality in those areas is limited. I expect that to change as current applications are updated for the new tablet OS.
Someone ported a VNC viewer to the N800. I installed it and was able to connect to a VNC server over the Internet.
The VNC viewer is full-featured, and once I connected to Jacqui's Mac, I could launch and switch applications on the host computer without any problems. It could be a useful tool if you're on the road with your N800 and need to access a file on one of your home PCs.
Improvements to older applications
I disliked the e-mail client that shipped with the 770, so I was curious to see if Nokia had improved it. The short answer is yes. It supports POP and IMAP as it did before, along with the usual security options. Setup is a bit more gentle, as the device didn't attempt to download the headers for everything in my IMAP mailbox by default.
You can set the client to automatically download all or part of a message, or just show the headers. Nokia has thankfully included a delete button in message view, a welcome feature that was absent from the 770's e-mail client. Unfortunately, the delete button takes you back to the main message screen instead of the next message in your in box.
The Contacts application has been improved a bit and is integrated with the other applications. Opening up Contacts presents you with a list of all the contacts on your N800 with a list of subcategories in the left pane, including Google Talk, Nokia Internet Call, Friends, and Relatives. Tapping a contact brings up a window with the various communication options available to you: VoIP call, instant messaging, or e-mail, along with an "edit contact" button. Press the desired button and the N800 will launch the e-mail client, start a VoIP call, or initiate a chat. Very nice.
Initiating a chat or VoIP call is simple
I didn't note any substantial changes to the other included applications such as the PDF reader, sketch application, and others. They all work as advertised, and the PDF viewer offers a crisp, clear reading experience. My only disappointment with it is that it is still impossible to move from page to page when in full-screen view.


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New Mexico lawmakers are battling over whether the state should pass gun control laws that would require background checks for nearly everyone buying a gun.
Democratic Rep. Miguel Garcia from Albuquerque said there is a glaring loophole in the law, and closing that could make our communities safer. He said when someone buys a gun at a gun shop, they are subjected to a background check.
However, Garcia said unlicensed dealers at gun shows are selling guns without that security screening. His proposed bill would require background checks at gun shows and during private sales.
"So that our children, our youth, our elders can live full lives without fear," he said. "We need to do everything we can in our powers, in our authority."
But some lawmakers don't like the bill, saying it steps on the federal government's toes. Republican Rep. William Rehm from Albuquerque, a former sheriff's deputy who is supported by the National Rifle Association, said changes should be made to strengthen federal gun laws.
For example, he said hospitals should be able to inform police if someone makes threats. He also said we need to evaluate who or what we're punishing, the person or the tool.
"Should we be mad at the tool or should we be mad at the individual?" Rehm said. "If we had a DWI suspect last night that killed a family on the interstate, we'd be mad at the DWI suspect. We wouldn't be mad at the tool, his vehicle."


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Really nice images. I am curious as to how you define "modernism"? Modernism as an art movement is actually now considered a historic movement dating roughly from 1890 to 1940. Modernism could actually now be considered sort of traditional as it is 60+ years old, particularly in photography. As someone mentioned Edward Weston, his "modernist" work is the traditional work everyone of my generation was brought up with. Maybe you meant "contemporary"-as allot of the work in this superb portfolio of yours seems more "minimalist"? Just thinking............too much coffee maybe..........
Tim, You certainly should pick a dozen of these and enter them in the next Color Magazine portfolio contest. This stuff is pretty much Edward Weston in color.
Yes your right, the term modernism. Isn't the right term, John Paul and I were discussing what should be the right term but have not settled on anything. But the title of the collection is what I like for the collection and style.By the way don't drink coffee but drink good beer and wine. But thanks for the compliments. Tim
Sorry, don't know the magazine. But if you have info send it along, let me know. Glad you liked it. I knew the Brett and Cole but too young to know Edward. I will launch in several days my Ode to Monet collection. Thanks Tim
The more minimal, the more interesting I find these. The one with the mackerel sky was most superficially interesting in thumbnail, but on looking at the full-sized one, I found it strangely disorienting - with no real frame of reference as in a conventional landscape, the sky looks upside down and the effect is a bit dizzying. But this is an excellent series and I really enjoyed looking at it.
Beautiful work, Tim, I have a portfolio of Great Sand Dunes National Monument, photographed and printed by Howard Bond. It's one of my most prized possessions. The beautiful simplicity of your images reminds me of Howard's work, except his is B&W!Matt
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Buried under Friday's David Petraeus news blitz, Lockheed Martin announced it's own extramarital scandal. The appointed heir to Robert Stevens, Lockheed Martin's outgoing CEO, resigned after admitting to his own "inappropriate relationship."
Christopher Kubasik resigned after Lockheed Martin completed an investigation into an inappropriate relationship between Kubasik and a female subordinate. The subordinate was not named although Lockheed officials said she is no longer with the company.
Lockheed Martin tapped Marillyn Hewson, a 29-year Lockheed veteran, to instead take over for Stevens on Jan. 1 when Stevens takes a step back and starts a new role as an executive chairman. Lockheed officials had previously chosen Hewson to take over as the chief operation officer. She now takes over as one of the very few female CEOs in the defense industry as she heads the largest defense company in the world.
Stevens claimed the leadership shakeup has not put Lockheed in "crisis" during a conference call Friday. He said Kubasik's mistakes were solely personal and should not be interpreted as problems within the company. If anything, Stevens said the ease in which company officials could trust Hewson to take over showed the depth of executive leadership within the company.
"Marillyn is an exceptional leader with impeccable credentials and a deep understanding of our business, customers, shareholders and employees," Stevens said. "She is an example of the extraordinary bench strength we've developed through our talent management and development actions taken over many years. I'm confident that her extensive and diverse leadership and multiple roles during her career has prepared her to assume this new realm seamlessly."
Hewson has led the Electronics Systems unit -- the largest division in the company eclipsing Lockheed's aeronautics division. No small feat considering Lockheed's Joint Strike Fighter contract, the largest awarded by the U.S. Defense Department. As Lexington Institute's Loren Thompson noted, her ability to grow the electronics unit is only the latest project she's led and elevated within the company.
In the 19 assignments Hewson has had with the company and eight moves she's made in the past 12 years, Hewson has run the gamut of Lockheed's massive portfolio. She will lead Lockheed at an uncertain time for the defense giant. As the U.S. transitions its military with a forthcoming slew of defense cuts, Hewson will face a steep challenge to maintain profit margins and keep investors happy.
Sequestration poses a potential $500 billion cut to U.S. defense spending over the next decade if Congress can not come to a deficit reduction agreement by Jan. 2. Stevens has said Lockheed Martin would be forced to lay off hundreds, maybe thousands, of employees if sequestration occurs. Stevens butted heads with the Obama administration when he said publicly the WARN Act would force Lockheed Martin to send out potential layoff notices to his 120,000 workers just days before the election.
Hewson said she is confident Lockheed Martin will get through this down turn in defense spending following the ten years of close to a blank check to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We have the talent, we've got the capabilities, we have a very strong backlog as a corporation. And we'll weather this, and we will excel in this environment."
The Joint Strike Fighter program will sit on top of her docket as Lockheed Martin officials continue negotiating Low-Rate Initial Production Lot Five with the Pentagon. Air Force Maj. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the new F-35 acquisition chief, lambasted Lockheed Martin in September for the poor relationship they've fostered with the military in regards to the Joint Strike Fighter Program.
"I will tell you the relationship with Lockheed Martin and our stakeholders is the worst I've ever seen," Bogdan said in September. "We will not succeed on this program if we don't get past that."
He highlighted the difficulty in finishing the LRIP 5 contract.
"It should not take 10, 11 or 12 months to negotiate a contract with someone we've been doing business with for 11 years," Bogdan said in September.
Hewson said she's been involved in the LRIP negotiations and remains confident the Joint Strike Fighter program is progressing well.
"I'll be very much engaged and we shouldn't -- we won't miss a beat on F-35," Hewson said.
The size of Kubasik's separation settlement raised eyebrows when it was announced he would receive a $3.5 million payment. Kubasik was Lockheed's vice chairman and chief operating officer.
Investors asked Hewson Friday where she expected the company to capitalize on market openings. She highlighted the companies work on cyber security, space systems, airlift and fighter jets. Overall, she said the company must remain focused on the F-35 program and work to continue to grow in the international market.
"So in terms of challenges, looking out and priorities, it is F-35, growing internationally, working with Bob and making sure our lawmakers find an alternative to sequestration, and then dealing with the fiscal pressures they're going to continue to have as the global security environment ... increasingly escalates," Hewson said.


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sounds good , even Im not sure if the mint citrus well smell good or lavender. But the tangerine sounds really good love citrus smells for body products
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Metro employees have amounted more than $250,000 in traffic fines and fees over the past three years, mostly from speeding and running red lights.
A public records request by WTOP Radio shows Metro employees were fined $227,000 for traffic violations since 2010 while driving Metrobuses or service vehicles. The transit agency accrued an additional $65,000 in late fees for fines that weren't paid on time.
Speeding fines cost the agency $40 to $400 per ticket. Running red lights cost between $75 and $350 per infraction. Parking tickets also cost $50 to $205 for each infraction.
Over 32 months, Metro employees were issued more than 2,400 tickets. Employees are responsible for paying them.
Metro spokesman Dan Stessel says there's just one violation for every 92,000 miles Metro drives.
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