Weekend Digest: The Jon Stewart Daily Show Goodbye Edition

TV PREVIEW: THE GOP DEBATE
On this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics:

KATV’s lead capitol reporter Janelle Lilley is hosting TB&P this week with Roby Brock on vacation. She’ll be joined by Impact Management Group’s Clint Reed and TB&P‘s Jessica DeLoach Sabin for analysis of the first primetime GOP Presidential primary debate.

Ten Republicans squared off with Fox News commentators. Lilley, Reed and Sabin bring viewers the highlights. Who won? Who lost? How did audiences respond? Our political roundtable offers their takes.

A DHS controversy swells. The governor puts a temporary stop to sending out termination notices for Medicaid recipients. KATV’s Elicia Dover looks into what exactly is meant by what is being called a “redetermination” process and the groups impacted by the agency’s letters.

Plus a look at the top business and political stories of the week. Tune in to Talk Business & Politics on KATV Ch. 7 Sunday at 9 a.m.

A PROFESSIONAL INSTAGRAMMER
“What’s it like to be a professional Instagrammer?” asks Business Insider.  Well, a professional photographer with a huge following on Instagram, like Cole Rise, can do quite well.

  Rise, who’s 30, is paid to travel and take beautiful photos of exotic locations. He’ll post carefully edited photos of his adventures on Instagram with captions that he hopes give his followers a personal window into his travel experiences.

He’s backpacked through the Norwegian wilderness for the country’s tourism board and photographed ancient ruins in Turkey. Last December, NASA invited him to the Kennedy Space Center to photograph the liftoff of the Orion spacecraft alongside media outlets like CNN and the BBC.

Rise was already a professional photographer before he started using Instagram, and he continues to support himself both through commercial photography as well as through his work on the social network.

But what about those who weren’t pros in the beginning and discovered how Instagram could change that and provide a lucrative career filled with travel and adventure? For the full story, click on this link.

ADVICE FOR 20-SOMETHINGS FROM BILLIONAIRES AND GENIUSES
It’s the kind of advice 20-somethings may never get in college or from other sources, but it’s advice they should take.

   If you’re young and your career is in its early days, you’ve likely been privy to plenty of career truisms and clichés.

But if “follow your passion,” “give 110%,” and “be true to yourself” just aren’t cutting it for you anymore, perhaps advice like, “don’t work too hard” and “relax” are more up your alley.

These successful people have offered some of the best — and oftentimes unconventional — advice for people in their 20s.

Find out who they are and what advice they gave at this link.

EL DORADO’S LINK TO A LANDMARK ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
It’s called the Clean Harbors Environmental Services incineration plant where Environmental Policy says this El Dorado site is, “A place where truckloads of chemical garbage arrive about 14 times each day, to be burned at more than 1800 degrees until nothing but a powdery ash remains.”

   It’s a place where old paint, leftover pesticides, seized cocaine, recalled hairspray, expired pharmaceuticals and many other hazardous chemicals come to die — the detritus of a society in which toxic substances are woven into daily life.

So how could this toxic incineration site have generated almost one-third of the offset credits approved by the California Air Resources Board under the state’s cap-and-trade system?

California’s cap-and-trade system is designed to encourage companies in the state to reduce climate-warming pollution by requiring them to pay the government for emitting greenhouse gases. But it comes with an alternative.

That alternative is all about those “offset credits.” And that’s where El Dorado’s Clean Harbors plant came into play.

But it all stopped. What happened and exactly what are “offset credits” that connected California cap-and-trade with the El Dorado site? And locally what about those lawsuits filed by residents who work or live near the plant? Click here for the full story.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN ENTERTAINMENT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
Fast Company says, “Jesse Thorn is like the Zelig of modern culture. And, with a little help from some high-profile friends, he’s built a podcasting empire.”

   Thorn was an early proponent of podcasting, years before Serial was even a glimmer in its creators’ eyes. He was introduced to the medium in 2004, when it was largely a barren cyber-wasteland with but a few digital tumbleweeds passing lazily, and seized upon it as a way to expand the audience and reach of his college radio program.

Thorn became an important cultural figure and the head and public face of Maximum Fun, one of the most popular, influential, and beloved podcasting networks, not by altering his vision to accommodate a mass audience but by relentlessly pursuing his own obsessions with a single-minded focus.

Meet Mr. Thorn here.

MEMORABLE JON STEWART
This past Thursday marked the end of a brilliant era for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. A show hosted by comedian Jon Stewart since 1999.

In honor of the final show, POLITICO took a look back “at some classic political moments during Stewart’s run.”

Here’s an example:

   Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) appeared on “The Daily Show” three times during his first campaign for the presidency. In his second appearance, in April 2008, Stewart talked about increased tensions over whether white Americans would vote for a black president. According to the Los Angeles Times, he jokingly asked Obama whether he’d enslave the white race if elected. “That’s not our plan, Jon,” Obama says. “But I think your paranoia might make you suitable as a debate moderator.”

For “Jon Stewart vs. the Politician: 15 memorable quips and conversations,” go to this link.

TRUMP GOES TO WAR WITH FOX NEWS
Donald Trump was front-and-center in the Fox News Presidential debate, but the GOP frontrunner and Fox are far from friendly.

The businessman and 2016 candidate is throwing rhetorical bombs in the wake of the debate, taking to Twitter and television to fire back at the conservative news network and Megyn Kelly, who was one of the debate moderators.

   Michael Cohen, an adviser for Trump, said the focus group [after the debate] was “a total setup” aimed at knocking Trump down in the polls.

Later, Cohen went further, saying that the network or Republican National Committee may have been part of a “coordinated” effort to slow down Trump’s momentum.

“I don’t know if it was the RNC, or Fox, or whoever, but it certainly appeared to look like an organized attack,” Cohen told Business Insider.

Read the full story here from The Hill.

CARLY FIORINA EMERGES
Carly Fiorina has been lurking in the shadows as a GOP Presidential candidate, but she hasn’t made many headlines until her standout performance in the GOP debate this week. Though she wasn’t on the Top 10 debate stage, she might be next time.

   The moment was months in the making for Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard who launched a long-shot bid that has yet to gain traction in early polls. She has pitched herself as the GOP’s lone woman who can mercilessly criticize Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton — and joke about hormones in the White House — without being accused of sexism. She has tied some of her campaign stops to Clinton’s schedule and, at times, has seemed to play up her femininity, picking sundresses over suits, pink over black.

But Fiorina emerged from Cleveland on Thursday independent of her female foil, suggesting she can play a greater role in the crowded GOP field as a fearless debater not afraid to go after candidates in either party.

Read more on her newfound popularity this week at this link.

23 SIGNS YOU ARE SECRETLY AN INTROVERT
The Huffington Post asks, “Think you can spot an introvert in a crowd? Think again.”

Although the stereotypical introvert may be the one at the party who’s hanging out alone by the food table fiddling with an iPhone, the “social butterfly” can just as easily have an introverted personality.

“Spotting the introvert can be harder than finding Waldo,” Sophia Dembling, author of “The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World,” tells The Huffington Post. “A lot of introverts can pass as extroverts.”

   People are frequently unaware that they’re introverts – especially if they’re not shy – because they may not realize that being an introvert is about more than just cultivating time alone. Instead, it can be more instructive to pay attention to whether they’re losing or gaining energy from being around others, even if the company of friends gives them pleasure.  

Are you secretly an introvert? Find out at this link.

WHAT MAKES YOU APPETIZING TO MOSQUITOES
If you ask us, (and frankly we believe lots of Arkansans would agree) what are two of the worst things about Arkansas, especially this time of year, the answers would be the humidity and mosquitoes. But do you get bugged by mosquitoes more than others?

AOL says, “There might be a reason mosquitoes bug you every summer. According to new research, your genetic makeup influences how much mosquitoes are attracted to you.”

The researchers determined DNA influences between 62 and 83 percent of someone’s “mosquito attractiveness.”

So what is a common factor for being “mosquito attractive”? Buzz to this link from AOL to find out.

BOWL ME OVER
Have you ever wished your smart phone’s speaker was louder? Don’t like listening with ear buds especially if others need to hear or you don’t want to buy a speaker? You may find this hard to believe, but there is a simple solution that will cost you nothing and provide louder sound. And it’s by using an item everybody has.

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