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F.I.T. Parents Working to Improve Kids' Health
Each month a group of diverse parents from Nash and Edgecombe counties meet at the Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC) to brainstorm ways they can make a difference in the health and well being of not only their own children but all young children and their families. The group is called Families Involved Together, or F.I.T. and they are committed to help others make positive changes to health outcomes in the Down East community.
"Parents are a child's first teacher," said Sydney Phillips, DEPC Healthy Kids. "They determine how and what children eat, how much play time they get. This team wants to provide information to parents that will help children get the healthiest start possible with the belief that when you know better, you do better."
In North Carolina, childhood obesity rates are more than 30 percent, with Nash and Edgecombe counties not too far behind at nearly 25 percent. And, according to research, children who are overweight or obese are also more likely to be overweight or obese as adults.
"What's even more disturbing is that today's youth may have a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of the high prevalence of obesity," Phillips said. "That's a scary thought but we are working hard to change that."
FIT team member Leslie Perkins is proud of the work the group created and excited to share it with the community. "A lot of people think there's nothing to do in Rocky Mount, but there is," said Perkins. "The map shows that there's so much to do. There are places to go, fun things to do and many ways to get and be involved. It's time to get to moving, get involved, get FIT & join our Team!"
Perkins also said she wanted the community to know that as a parent there's a lot to know about being healthy and fit but you just have to be open and willing to learn. "We want the community to become educated with the WIC program, SNAP programs, the 'Ask 3 questions' when going to the doctor's office and even with how to proportion their plates when it's time to eat. The blue side of the map shows all of the above."
The FIT team is made possible through the work of Shape NC and DEPC's Healthy Kids Collaborative. The team also created the content for what is now the back of the new "Places to Play and Grow Map." Moving forward, the team will create a distribution plan and actively share the message on the importance of well-child visits and talking to your doctor.
If you live in Nash and Edgecombe, are interested in health and would like to work on issues that are important to parents of young children, the FIT team needs your help. Please contact DEPC if you would like to be a member or would like copies of the new map.


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New Optaros White Paper: The Growth of Open Source Software in Organizations
Optaros just released a new white paper that looks at how companies are using open source software. The study is based on a survey of 512 U.S. companies and government organizations. The report observes that companies are starting to use open source for more than infrastructure and browsers. 42% of respondents said they were using open source portals and/or content management systems somewhere within their organization. 16% were using open source in customer relationship management. Read the press release here or the whole report here.


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K-12 Activity Cards
These classic task cards provide students with a variety of fun and stimulating exercises that help build and reinforce a wide range of essential learning skills. Selected sets include a "work area" card that can be paired with the activity card when photocopying to provide an organized workspace for responses. And most card sets include a scorecard and "mini-award" for positive reinforcement!
Our learning materials are provided as digital downloads via the Teachers Pay Teachers website. Once downloaded, the cards can be easily photocopied onto letter-size paper. As we continue to digitally convert these materials, they will appear here with a purchase link. For titles not yet available to download, click the "Notify Me" button and we'll let you know when they're available!
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A series of puzzles using basic sight words common to primary levels – great for improving perception, spelling, vocabulary and comprehension skills.
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Classification, word building, simple analogies and a host of other vocabulary-building and reinforcement tasks that will delight youngsters.
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These cards are designed to stimulate the child's imagination and creativity while encouraging a freedom for individual self-expresion through writing and art.
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Basic Concepts for Learning
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Pictorial items relating to basic concepts which are an essential part of the child's environment and necessary for his/her early growth and development.
I Have Feelings
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Designed to evoke strong feelings from children and to have them react to these feelings. Yields great insights for the perceptive teacher.
Memory Skills For Reading
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Activities designed to aid in developing visual memory, an extremely important skill fundamental to both simple and complex reading and learning tasks.
Read For Meaning
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Great for developing purposesful reading habits. Some of the essential skills includided are making inferences, judgments, comparison, and drawing conclusions.
In Search of One's Self
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Stimulating tasks to aid students in their constant search for identity through an examination of their likes, dislikes, beliefs, goals, and relationships.
Dictionary Discoveries
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Alphabetizing, pronunciation, parts of speech, meanings and much more are covered in this set designed to give children a broad exposure to this valuable resource.
Read to Reason
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Encourages students to develop and practice skills in many problem-solving and reasoning areas including logic, classifying, sequencing, making inferences, decision-making and word meaning.
Science For Kids
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Simple, thought-provoking experiments kids can easily perform – leading to the discovery of fundamental scientific principles.
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Roll Up! Roll Up! Roll Up! All Perversions Catered For, Nothing Is Too Crude!
Despite a catalogue of evidence, that Socialism represented the supreme victory of the ruling class and the total surrender of their liberty by the rest of the less fortunate section of the populations of most countries, there are those whom have yet to be convinced, not of the failure of Socialism, in terms of failing education, housing and medical care, but of the complete success of its aims of enslaving the people.
People find it amusing, when one suggests that we are all, not simply Socialist these days but we are in fact, hard-line Communists, while some people still believe there to be a difference between Socialism and Communism. The sad fact of the matter is, that the aims of both doctrines was to take control of all and everything, leaving the people, bereft of any form of life, which does not depend on the permission of the 'authorities'. These rules are all laid out in the 'New Communist Manifesto, Agenda 21/2030.
The form of Socialism or Communism, which presents itself as being for the benefit of the proletariat, is a nonsense. In Russia, the workers were virtually exterminated, being considered to be 'useless eaters'. During the war Russian troops, were forced to march straight into machine gun fire, with commissars behind them, ready to kill anyone who refused to go forward.
In Europe, Socialism was the method by which the people of Europe were to be destroyed. During the 1920's plans were already being drawn up for the construction of the European Union, with the aim of introducing as many Blacks and others of a darker skin, into Europe, as necessary to breed the White European to extinction.
That aim was written into the agenda of the Fabian Society, which was funded by the same rich Bankers whom had funded Marx and Engels, to write the Communist Manifesto. Yes indeed the bankers introduced us to Socialism, what a joke?
Language is not what you imagine it to be, there is always a sting in the tail. The sting in the tail of Socialism, is that of State control of everything, with no private property, which is theft. No private transport other than roller skates or bicycles for the Proletariat, while our Rulers, whom will actually own everything, will retain Jet Aircraft, posh cars and mansions in the countryside and yachts for Summer cruises, for themselves.
You will not be choosing your Rulers in any meaningful manner, you will simply choose between options offered by your controllers. That is Communism. Ask those whom still retain memories of it in Eastern Europe and Russia, from where they have been lead by the nose back into a Soviet Bloc in the European Union.
Relativism is a difficult subject. Should there only be a 'concept' of 'right and wrong,' which applies to a particular society, but which can be alien to another, how can we expect those of another society or culture to conform or integrate?
Universal Relativism, should there be such an animal, would appear to be a necessity for any form of 'World Order,' which would explain the recent liaison, between the Pope and the Mullahs and of course the Rabbis' and the Queen of England and the intention of the formation of the World religion of Gaia.
So your prized Socialism, is about to choose your very religion, which will no doubt involve a certain amount of conditioning, much in the manner of the religions of old, which were also given to us by those 'caring' rulers in past times. Muslims are still benefitting from the writings of the 'illiterate' Mohammed.
We are moving rapidly into the dysfunctional state of Berlin, during the Weimar years, where sexuality was used to destroy the values of the German people. Berlin was the Las Vegas, of those years, where every depravity was made available, for those whom flooded in, seeking whatever sexual idiosyncrasy, appealed to their particular sexual persuasion. Licentious sexual practices have long been the tool most frequently used to destroy Societies, a commodity which Berlin provided in abundance.
The lessons learned in Berlin, in the interwar years, were fully exploited after World War Two, with the installation of establishments like the Tavistock Institute in London and the Frankfurt School in Germany, two institutions which secretly, despite the 'divide' of Communism, were working hand in glove to destroy White Christianity.
A male teacher of mathematics, in the United Kingdom, teaching maths to a class of girls, who for having congratulated his 'girls' on the excellence of their results, has found himself suspended, simply because, one of the 'girls' in his class was pretending to be a 'boy' who complained about the teachers mistake. My question is, why was 'he' in a class of girls?
The child's 'mother' if it is safe to call her that, instead of telling her confused child not to be so stupid, is the one who complained, causing all sorts of problems for a young teacher, instead of suggesting that her daughter and all of those girls who want to be boys, should be placed in the class of the gender of which they are pretending to belong, to avoid accidental gender mistakes, or simply dress them as 'Boys' in an unmistakable manner.
There is no such thing as a 'trans' it is obvious that should they be left in a safe-cell for the rest of their life, at the end of it they would have 'transformed' into nothing other than the gender with which they were born. Some people are born as ugly as me and just have to put up with it.
These 'trans' people, apart from the one in a million, who may have been born without any form of genetic content or visible sex organ, are homosexuals or lesbians and quite rightly deserve to be treated in a civilised manner, however to suggest that they need to be called by a 'special' pronoun, is so ridiculous as to be beyond belief.
I wonder how many people, have been walking around the streets of the world, whom may have noticed that they possess an organ which does not conform with some of their inner emotions, despite which, they have never complained about being referred to by the 'wrong' gender. Millions of such men, have never felt the need to indulge in Sodomy any more than do goat-herders feel the need to introduce their girl friend to a goat à la Aleister Crowley.
It is most probably perfectly clear, in most cases, that a man in a mini-skirt and high-heels with a beard, is still a man and it is offensive to many people to be forced to refer to this person as a woman or anything else, so why are children now being trained to complain about something, which has existed forever?
In the above clips, it is made perfectly clear that what is being done to our children is all part of a destructive plan, which was written in the Fabian Society agenda and is to this day, being pushed in the London School of Economics, which was founded by the Fabian Society and in which many Rock Stars like Jagger were educated. Many LSE trained agents, are still doing the rounds in support of Bolshevik Communism, many of them in Universities, where the conditioning continues to this day.
The teacher, who mistakenly called a girl a girl, is of course one of the main targets of the coming 'New World' a White Christian man. Should I be that Christian man, I would refuse to continue to waste my time amongst staff members, whom have not walked out, in support of me, their 'colleague.'
I would also find a means of educating my children in a Christian school. Are Christian parents now obliged to accept a form of conditioning in the classroom, which has nothing whatsoever to do with education? Sexual hang-ups are a personal thing and should be dealt with in private. We all have problems of one sort or another.
By the way, I have never noticed the length of my arms, until I was shown Paul McCartney's stumps in one of the above clips. All of those mentioned as having been part of a huge Tavistock Society, hidden agenda to create a generation of Junkies and Snowflakes, managed to accept being addressed by all and everybody, using the wrong gender pronoun, without falling into distress as a result.


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We created the Jeff Cherubin Domond Foundation to celebrate Jeff's life. In his memory, we formed this foundation to create real and lasting changes in the lives of children living in the rural communities of Marbial, Haiti. These children, whom might otherwise be forgotten, are in desperate need of the most basic essentials of life, such as nutritious foods, educational tools and medical assistance. By enriching their lives we ensure that Jeff's spirit lives on through the gifts of service and fellowship to our fellow man.
The Jeff Cherubin Domond Foundation is a Christian organization working together with church leaders in the community of Marbial. We offer leadership development, financial, educational and medical assistance to the local communities. And while these communities are the focus of our efforts, our outreach extends to others areas, wherever the need arises.
As Christians, we serve anyone in need, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Our goal is to eradicate the plight of poverty one child, one family or one community at a time. With your generous support, contributions and prayers we can make poverty a thing of the past. We can erase the desperation and hopelessness that threatens the dreams and aspirations of the children living in Marbial and other parts of our Haiti.
Please continue to visit our website to find out how you might help us make poverty history!
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Nikki Reed knocked out two trends with one look! The actress was spotted leaving MTV Studios in New York City in an ensemble that she spiced up with a tuxedo-style menswear-inspired blazer in a paprika wash, which packed a one-two punch, thanks to its generous delivery of color. Take a leaf out of Reed's book and dress up high-waisted shorts (gingham print, in this case) with the bright tailored blazer and blouse (perfect for summer). For the winter, pair the eye-popping topper with tapered trousers for an office-appropriate ensemble, or with skinnies on casual days. The Rebecca Minkoff "Becky Jacket" comes in a rainbow spectrum of colors: cobalt blue, red, hot pink and classic black. Nab the versatile piece at $325 at rebeccaminkoff.com.
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Ava and Adam, who began Marriage Counseling at Janet Miller Wiseman, Mediation and Counseling Services, met in a sign language course and spent their honeymoon on the island of Aruba "speaking" in sign language, while scuba diving and viewing the colorful fish and coral. Adam's parents were both deaf, and he had grown up using American Sign Language since he had begun to talk/sign. Ava was a student in Adam's sign language course and fell in love with her professor.
Soon enough they were married. During the honeymoon she was "suggesting" that he have the seafood chowder for dinner, when he blew up. A mild-mannered mid-westerner, he took affront to her "controlling" him, by "even insisting upon what I eat". Making these kinds of food suggestions had forever been a part of her nationality group, that "lives to eat", rather than "eats to live". Before they had even finished their honeymoon they had "cultural conflicts" and were at war, which later led him to moving out.


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With more than $20,000 in prizes, the Smart City Hack will bring together Australia's most talented developers, designers and entrepreneurs to create a new wave of smart city services and solutions.
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With more than half the world's population living in cities and more people than ever visiting them, transportation services in urban areas are facing significant challenges such as overcrowding, congestion, demand management and service availability.
Combining transportation and commerce data can fuel smarter, more inclusive and engaging solutions that make cities more enjoyable environments for people to live in and deliver city services that support local business growth.
ITS 2016 Mastercard Smart City Hackathon at the MCEC will be two action packed days to consider one question; how can we match the data being collected with the transportation being used in order to improve consumer experience, reduce congestion and make navigation seamless for both individuals and goods?
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By Yossi Schwarz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel / Occupied Palestine), 2.2.2016, http://www.the-isleague.com/
Israel's Minister of Culture and Sport, Miri Regev, recently submitted a bill to the Knesset's Education Committee entitled "loyalty in culture." (1) If passed, this legislation will change the way the ministry of which she is currently in charge supports cultural institutions, denying any state funding to persons or groups who allegedly attack or disgrace the national flag or other state symbols, incite racism, violence or terrorism, mark Independence Day as a day of mourning, or deny Israel's status as a "Jewish and democratic state." (2)
À propos racism
Ironically, perhaps, the degree to which the Israeli state objects to racism was recently revealed once again when the "director of communications for the Likud, Eli Hazan, … invited a senior member of Austria's far-right Freedom Party on an official Knesset visit."
The Freedom Party is a far-right, populist, anti-immigrant party. According to the American Arch-Zionist Anti-Defamation League:
"Its previous leader Joerg Haider is known for his dubious statements about Jews and his praise of Nazism. Joerg Haider was born in 1950 in Upper Austria to parents with direct links to the Nazis. His father joined the Hitler Youth in 1929 and the Nazi SA storm troops a year later. The senior Haider reportedly traveled to Munich with Adolf Eichmann and Alois Brunner in 1933 as a member of the Austrian legion. Haider's mother belonged to the Nazi Party's League of German Girls. When asked to comment on his parents' wartime activities, Haider remarked: "In retrospect one is always wiser. As a descendant, one should not be so arrogant as to say, 'I would have known better.'" (3)
By the way, the very same senior member of the Freedom Party, David Lasar, who was invited to visit the Knesset by Eli Hazan also happens to be "on a[n Israeli] Ministry of Foreign Affairs blacklist."(4)
Banned in Tel Aviv: the threat of miscegenation
That being as it may, clearly, in Regev's mind at least, state sponsored "culture" should be nothing more than right wing propaganda directed against the Palestinians and the memory of the Nakba. Such a vision is also in line with the intent of the present government's Minister of Education, Naftali Benet, who on December 28th, declared in the Knesset that "The time has come to say Israel is ours… To go from strategic defence to a process of initiating the implementation of Israeli sovereignty over the territories under Israeli control in Judea and Samaria."
Indeed, the same minister recently banned an Israeli novel from the high school curriculum, Gader Haya (literally "Hedgerow" but titled in its English translation as Borderlife) by Orit Rabinyan. The book tells the story of a love affair between and Jewish Israeli woman and a Palestinian man. According to Haaretz:
"Among the reasons stated for the disqualification of Dorit Rabinyan's Gader Haya … is the need to maintain what was referred to as 'the identity and the heritage of students in every sector' and the belief that 'intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity.' The Education Ministry also expressed concern that 'young people of adolescent age don't have the systemic view that includes considerations involving maintaining the national-ethnic identity of the people and the significance of miscegenation.'" (5)
So it would seem that the Ministry of Education is determined to create its own index libririum prohibitum of books and plays which are strictly forbidden to be taught in schools.
Noteworthy is the fact that, after the initial international outcry, the official reasoning for banning the book was modified to its "spreading lies about IDF soldiers." Furthermore, Rabinyan's book does not actually promote ethnically mixed relationships, seeing how, at the book's end, the relationship between the main protagonists doesn't work out, and Rabinyan is on even on record as opposing mixed marriages (because they lead to "assimilation," a term with long-time Jewish religious connotations). (6) Rather, like the case of Adam Verde – a liberal Zionist civics teacher who was almost fired for saying that Israel's army is not the most moral in the world – or that of Breaking the Silence – an organization of former Israeli soldiers which records testimonies of soldiers serving in the occupied Palestinian territories, but who nevertheless remain loyal to both the Zionist army and state – these are hardly radical statements and should not be portrayed as such, which is exactly what many "leftist Zionists" and segments of the semi-Zionist left in Israel tend to do. However, these voices should still have our support when they are attacked because such attacks are part of a broad rightward shift in Israeli public opinion, and staying neutral would mean supporting the dominant force.
Ostensibly everything is only relative – Indeed?
The measures in Israel pale in comparison to the ones taken in the West Bank: regular curfews; the newly introduced numbering system in Hebron; a ban on entry of Palestinians into settlements where they work and general ban on Palestinian workers walking in industrial areas in the West Bank; the storming of the Beir Zeit and Al-Quds universities; the closing of newspapers and radio station; the military arrest of journalist critical of the Palestinian Authority; and so on.
However, Israel's role in repression takes place not just in Occupied Palestine, or even only in the Middle East, but worldwide as Israel seeks to censor the internet worldwide and does good business exporting surveillance drones and other "security" technology to repressive governments and regimes around the globe. (7)
Has Israel become a fascist state?
The Netanyahu government is using the despair of the Palestinian youth to push the Israeli public further to the right. At the same time, the useless official opposition led by Zionist Union leader Issac Herzog has joined the incitement, having said last Wednesday that the two-state solution is not a realistic option in the near future. "I don't see a possibility at the moment of implementing the two-state solution," he told Army Radio. "I want to yearn for it, I want to move towards it, I want negotiations, I will sign off on it, and I am obligated to it, but I don't see the possibility of implementing it right now." (8)
Not that a two-state solution has ever been one that could end the oppression of the Palestinians; nor has it ever really been the policy of any of the Israeli governments; but Herzog's position at this conjuncture simply reveals how useless the Zionist Union opposition is. Instead of blaming the government for the despair of the Palestinian youth, a hopelessness that drives them to attack with knives mostly settlers, police, and soldiers, the head of the opposition joins the anti-Palestinian chorus.
Even UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon understands that it is only "human nature to react to occupation," leading, of course, to his condemnation by the Israeli government as just another Anti-Semite.
Israel is clearly moving in the direction of a right-wing populist autocratic regime. However, it is popular among Palestinians and some left-wing circles in Israel and among liberal Jews outside the country to speak of the current government as being fascistic.
For example the Journalist Khalid Amayreh, a veteran Palestinian journalist and political affairs commentator living in Occupied Palestine, wrote:
"From a third-party perspective, e.g., a Palestinian viewpoint, and in light of the composition of the new coalition, we can assume that the next Israeli government will be the most fascist, most extremist, most pugnacious and most anti-peace government in the Jewish state's history." (9)
Richard Silberstein of Tikun Olam published an article on November 25, 2014 entitled "Israel and the Rise of Judeo-Fascism" in which the author contends that the racist laws of Israel under [previous Netanyahu] government makes it a type of fascism or at least on the road to fascism. (10)
Following Israel's 2014 war on Gaza, Israel Prize laureate and renowned scholar Zeev Sternhell stated in an interview with Haaretz:
"As I say, there are worse things than fascism. You don't need that exact definition. For example, people say that if there isn't a one-party regime, it's not fascism. That's nonsense. A party is a means for achieving power, not a means of rule in itself. What needs to be examined in this context is the resilience of the democracy – and Israeli democracy has become increasingly eroded, until it reached a new nadir in the current war. The indicators [of fascism] you asked about definitely exist here." (11)
The Marxist point of view on Fascism and Bonapartism
While we understand and have sympathy with those who say that Israel is moving in the direction of fascism, the problem with such a position is the inherent misunderstanding of what fascism is and, at the same time, a misunderstanding of the nature of the Israeli Apartheid state. The Zionist ruling class of Israel does not need fascism because fascism is a mass movement of the petit bourgeoisie aimed at the destruction of the working class organizations and the atomization of the working class, and is motivated out of fear of a socialist revolution.
However, in Israel most of the Jewish workers support the racist policies and laws of the right-wing government, and therefore are justifiably not perceived either as a threat to capitalism or to the Zionist regime. The gradual rightward shift of Israel society is not against the Jewish working class but against the oppressed Palestinians. The situation is similar to the Nationalist party policies during the Apartheid regime in South Africa. While the latter was an oppressive racist regime, it was not fascist, as most white workers supported the Apartheid regime.
In fact, Israel is not moving in the direction of fascism but rather right wing populism with an element of Bonapartism. Leon Trotsky dealt with the difference between Bonapartism and fascism in his 1934 Article "Bonapartism and Fascism." (12) There he wrote that in times of acute crises all kinds of transitional, intermediate situations and combinations arise. For those who simply employ formal logic, the regimes of Primo de Rivera, Mussolini, Chiang Kai-shek, Masaryk, Brüning, Dollfuss, Pilsudski, and the Serbian King Alexander were all seemingly forms of fascism. What escapes the authors of such evaluations is that between parliamentary democracy and a fascist regime, there exists a series of transitional forms. Sometimes these regimes take power "peacefully." At other times, they do so by means of civil war. Prior to Hitler's rise to power, the Brüning, Papen, and Schleicher governments in Germany represented examples of the first stage from parliamentarism to Bonapartism, a stage which is characterized by the machine of parliamentarism having lost all importance.
Moving towards right-wing autocratic populism and military-police dictatorship
From the perspective of class relations in Jewish Israeli society, Netanyahu's government is moving "peacefully" in the direction of right-wing autocratic populism. It cleverly and maliciously exploits the desperate blind attacks by Palestinian youth who are reacting to the endless Zionist oppression, the only reality they have ever known. For its part, the government remains aloof above the meaningless parliamentary dialogue lacking in any serious opposition from the Zionist Union, which only manages to stoop and criticize the government from the right. However, this government is not, and cannot, be suspended in mid-air. Like anything else in this world, it is subject to historical movement. And the axis along which the present government will move passes through the police, the bureaucracy, and the military clique which are supported by most Jews in Israel. Therefore, what we are going to be confronted with in Israel is not a fascistic form of rule, but rather a military-police dictatorship.
What we see is not classic Bonapartism which is transitional form of a "strong" government that seems to stand above the working class and the bourgeoisie, between parliamentary democracy and fascism, based on military force in a period when capitalist class rule is not secure. In Israel what we see is a government that is based on the Jewish lower middle class and sections of the Jewish workers in support of Israel as an open apartheid with no pretentions of being a bourgeois democracy, one that will steal more lands and properties from the Palestinians and transfer part of it to their own pockets. The economic roots of the upper middle class Jews are based in the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinians; the right wing movement of today wants the same for itself from the loot of 1967. This right wing movement sees the upper middle class, its liberal Zionist culture and its two-state program as an obstacle to their aspirations to improve their own conditions by dispossessing the Palestinians. Thus the "class struggle" we witness is not between the working class and the capitalist class but between the lower middle class and the upper middle class. The only way out of it for those Jews who do not want open apartheid is to completely break with Zionism and join the Palestinians in a struggle for a democratic and red Palestine.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miri_Regev: Miri Regev, currently Minister of Culture and Sport, began serving as the IDF Spokesperson's representative in the Israeli Southern Command. Regev was promoted to a Colonel rank for the position of Deputy IDF Spokesperson in 2002. In 2003, she was appointed coordinator of the national public relations efforts at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in preparation for the Iraq War. After a short stint (2004–2005) as the Chief Press and Media Censor, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and to the position of IDF Spokesperson in 2005. She served in this position during Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005 and the 2006 Lebanon War.
(2) Moran Azulai Regev to submit culture bill - no loyalty, no funding, Ynet 26/1/2016 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4758047,00.html
(3) http://archive.adl.org/backgrounders/joerg_haider.html#.VqkGviorLIU
(4) http://archive.adl.org/backgrounders/joerg_haider.html#.VqkGviorLIU
(5) Or Kastti Israel Bans Novel on Arab-Jewish Romance from Schools for threatening Jewish Identity, December 31, 2015, http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.69462
(6) http://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/1.2813294
(7) http://newobserveronline.com/israel-demands-world-internet-censorship/
(8) Raoul Wootliff: Herzog: For now, two-state solution unrealistic, The Times of Israel, January 20, 2016, http://www.timesofisrael.com/herzog-for-now-two-state-solution-unrealistic/
(9) Khalid Amayreh: Israel's new government: Fascist par excellence, http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=71581
(10) Richard Silverstein: Israel and the Rise of Judeo-Fascism, http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/11/25/i November 25, 2014
(11) Signs of Fascism in Israel Reached New Peak During Gaza Op, Says Renowned Scholar Zeev Sternhell, August 13, 2014, http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.610368
(12) New International, Vol.1 No.2, August 1934, pp.37-38, https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/issue.htm#ni34_08


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Slang Tang Episode 4 takes us to Tunisia, Palestine, the Netherlands, Argentina, Japan, Cuba, Australian and Iraq. Checkpoint 303 kick us off with their unique take on the Middle Eastern situation, blending field recordings and news reports with electronica and acoustic instrumentation. We then grab two slices of digital cumbia – first from new producer Sonido Del Principe, who rubs some heavy electro into the mix, and secondly from Argentina's DJ Negro with a track from the new Bersa Discos release, Volume 2 in their ongoing 12″ series. Japan's Yoshida Brothers strip everything back to basics for a frenetic workout on the shamisen, before Man Recordings' Daniel Haaksman brings on a remix for Cuban band Madera Limpia. We represent Australia with indigenous hip hop artist Wire MC and bring things to a close with DJ Foundation from Mosul in Iraq and his unique brand of sample-heavy plunderphonics.
DOWNLOAD: Slang Tang Ep.4 (June 2008)
– CHECKPOINT 303 – Hawiya Dhayea [Tunisia / Palestine] | Download
– SONIDO DEL PRINCIPE – Barranquilla [Netherlands] | Download
– DJ NEGRO – Mundo Querido [Argentina] | Buy
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– MADERA LIMPIA – Loco (Daniel Haaksman Remix) [Cuba] | Buy
– WIRE MC – B.L.A.C.K. (Sven Simulacrum Gangsta Desi Fix) [Australia] | Stream
– DJ FOUNDATION – Hot Girls Hot Guys [Iraq] | Buy
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The firm's standalone Public Affairs practice, Powell Tate, specialises in government relations counsel and drives much of the work that led Weber Shandwick to be named Public Affairs Consultancy of the Year by PublicAffairsAsia in 2009 and 2010.


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LiFi, also known as light fidelity, is a full duplex communication network enabling transmittal of data. The potency of bidirectional Visible Light Communication allows us to build an ideal medium, independent of congested radio frequencies and interference from electromagnetic waves, thus, resulting in faster data transfer.
LiFi requires visible light to transmit data. At Velmenni, we've set out to attain advanced light-based data solutions targeted at the masses with the following LiFi model.
The single access point (transceiver) incepts the data from the Power Over Ethernet cable & convert it into bits. Upon processing, it then modulates the bits as 1's & 0s, dispatched with every single rapidly fleeting ray of light released by the LED. The LED acts as a medium & transfers the data to the receiver, in this case, the photodetector positioned inside the dongle. The dongle then demodulates the received data and completes the chain by sending it to the smart device through the USB. As for uploading the data, the same cycle is repeated inversely using Near Infrared Light through the dongle.
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2010 Annual Report — Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic
Each year I try to provide a brief overview of the various activities at the Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic. Since my last annual report, the PDCMDC has been engaged in a large number of clinical, research, educational and other academic activities consistent with our missions. I want to take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation for the untiring efforts of our physicians, nurses, researchers and support staff over the past year. Their commitment to excellence has enabled the PDCMDC to remain in the forefront of advances in patient care and research. I also want to relate, on behalf of the PDCMDC, best wishes to Dr. Paul Klotman, former chair of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, who on Sept. 1, 2010 became the fifth president and chief executive officer of Baylor College of Medicine. We are optimistic that with the new leadership, Baylor will continue to maintain the highest standing among U.S. medical schools.
Accomplishments and Highlights
The following are some of the developments and accomplishments of the PDCMDC over the past year:
This summer, the Department of Neurology underwent extensive renovations of the Neurology Clinic as well as the PDCMDC in Smith Tower, Suite 1801. The feedback from patients and visitors about the new décor has been extremely positive. The renovations have also allowed the addition of neuropsychology and other new faculty and staff to have their presence on Smith 18 which will facilitate more effective services and closer interaction.
We have successfully transitioned to electronic medical records which provides for more efficient and secure sharing of patient information.
We are very pleased that, as of Aug. 1, 2010, Dr. Jimenez-Shahed has re-joined our team as assistant professor of neurology (tenure track). She is ready and eager to see new (and former) patients with Parkinson's disease, Tourette syndrome, and other movement disorders, including patients who are treated with deep brain stimulation. She is looking forward to resuming her active role in the PDCMDC. She currently serves on the Planning Committee and as faculty for the Parkinson's Disease Foundation's Clinical Research Learning Institute, a multi-day educational seminar which aims to train people with Parkinson's to educate and empower the broader community about the importance of Parkinson's clinical research (http://www.pdf.org/crli).
One of the most important and rewarding activities of the PDCMDC is the training of emerging experts in the field of movement disorders. In addition to our own fellows, the PDCMDC fellowship training program has been sought during the past year by international trainees from Australia, Italy, Mexico, Turkey, and other countries. These and other fellows from around the world also attended the 20th annual course "Comprehensive Review of Movement Disorders for the Clinical Practitioner", held in Aspen, Colorado and co-directed by Dr. Jankovic.
Since the last annual report Dr. Jankovic has received the following honors:
- Dr. Jankovic, was selected by the National Institute of Health as the "Great Teacher" and presented a special NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds on "Treatment of Parkinson's Disease", December 2009.
- Dr. Jankovic received the 2010 Fulbright & Jaworski Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation and has become a member of the Academy of Distinguished Educators, which recognizes the educational scholarship of faculty members involved in all of the educational missions of the Baylor College of Medicine.
- Dr. Jankovic was recognized by the 2010 Baylor College of Medicine Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award and delivered a special alumni lecture on "Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders: Moving Forward, Breaking Boundaries."
- Dr. Jankovic was invited to serve on the Executive Scientific Advisory Board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
- In addition to his membership on several editorial boards, Dr. Jankovic was invited this year to also join the editorial board of Neurotherapeutics and the new Journal of Parkinsonism and the Journal Tremor and other Hyperkinetic Movements.
In addition to lecturing at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Dr. Jankovic has also been invited as a speaker in other national and international programs and to present the following special lectures:
- Lecturer, 43rd Annual Recent Advances in Neurology, UCSF, San Francisco. This is the third time Dr. Jankovic was selected as the guest speaker in this highly prestigious CME course, February 2010.
- The Richmond Paine Lectureship, a keynote address at the annual Pediatric Neurology Update, The Children's National Medical Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 2010.
- 33rd Annual Lewis A. Leavitt, MD Memorial Lectureship, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas, Houston, July 2010.
- Invited as a speaker at the European Huntington Disease Network plenary meeting in Prague and as a visiting professor at the First Department of Neurology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, September 2010.
- An organizer and an invited speaker at the World Parkinson Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, Scotland, September 2010.
- Visiting professor at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2010.
- A key note lecturer at the "The 1st Therapy Symposium on Movement Disorders for the Modern Clinician: A 2010 Update", Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, October 2010.
Physicians and scientists at the PDCMDC published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in the past year and presented numerous abstracts at various international meetings.
- Over 20 abstracts were presented by the PDCMDC physicians and scientists at the 14th Annual Movement Disorders Society Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, more than any other center in the world!
Dr. Jankovic has recently published or is writing/editing the following textbooks:
- Jankovic J, Tolosa E, eds. Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders (and video atlas), Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA;
- Fahn S, Jankovic J. Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders, (along with DVD of hundreds of patients with a variety of movement disorders), Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA;
- Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta J, eds. Neurology in Clinical Practice, Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Philadelphia, PA;
- Jankovic J (chief editor), Albanese A, Atassi MZ, Dolly JO, Hallett M, Mayer N. Botulinum Toxin. Therapeutic Clinical Practice and Science. Saunders (Elsevier), Philadelphia, PA;
- Singer HS, Mink JW, Gilbert DL, Jankovic J. Movement Disorders in Children, Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Philadelphia, PA;
- Jankovic J, Editor. Movement Disorders. Neurologic Clinics, W. B. Saunders, Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA;
- Albanese A, Jankovic J, Eds. Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK; and
- Black K, Jankovic J, eds. Tourette syndrome: 125th Anniversary. Mov Disord Supplement.
Dr. Jankovic is currently the principal investigator on dozens of clinical studies, including the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative, funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, and a new CERE-120 trial which investigates the role of gene delivery of the trophic factor neurturin via adeno-associated type-2 vector in the striatum and substantia nigra of moderately advanced Parkinson's patients.
This year, Dr. Ondo, associate director of the PDCMDC, lectured at the American Academy of Neurology, The World Parkinson Congress, and the Association of Sleep Professionals World Congress, as well as numerous Grand Rounds and other formal lectures. He wrote and edited the book "Movement Disorders in Clinical Practice" along with Ray Chaudhuri, and numerous medical articles in peer reviewed journals, while maintaining a busy clinical practice in the Department of Neurology.
I am also very proud of our research manager, Christine Hunter, R.N., who also serves as a member of the planning committee of the PDFCRLI. Christine has been recently elected to the executive committee of the Huntington Study Group and has been recognized by the national Huntington Disease Association of America and by the Tourette Syndrome Association of Texas for her inspiring leadership in research and patient services.
In addition to the clinical research activities, our Parkinson Disease Research Laboratory, co-directed by Wei-Dong Le, M.D., Ph.D., and supported by grants from NIH, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, The Diana Helis Henry Medical Research Foundation, and other sources, has made remarkable advances in the understanding of mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Through these research efforts we may be able to identify disease pathways and develop novel neuroprotective drugs.
I hope that this partial list of our accomplishments and accolades serves to highlight the remarkable progress we are making in our search for better understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative and movement disorders. These achievements would not be possible without the support and leadership of our chair, Dr. Eli M. Mizrahi, to whom I express my deep gratitude. Your investment in research at the PDCMDC will hasten the day when Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders will be effectively ameliorated or even cured.
With warm appreciation,
Joseph Jankovic, M.D.


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I was looking through my blog posts and noticed that I haven't written anything about my sessions at TechDays! I am sooo extremely excited about the conferences, and I can't believe that I actually get to do four sessions in total. It's crazy! Crazy fun 😀 Needless to say I've been hard at work for weeks now preparing the sessions, and I am actually a little bit nervous. I know which devs will be presenting and attending, and I am so happy I get to meet all of them. It will be a blast, and I'll do my very best to give a fantastic session.
5th of March (Belgium)
TechDays Student track 16:20 – 17:10 From iOS to Windows Store Apps: the painless way
6th of March (Belgium)
13:00 – 14:15 Live Coding: The Windows Store Apps Showdown- C# vs JavaScript
7th of March (Nederland)
13:15 – 14:30 iOS to WinRT: Windows Store App development for iOS developers
16:20 – 17:35 Live Coding: The Windows Store Apps showdown- c# vs JavaScript
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Take a peek oh you lovers of the biggest everloving green mod of them all, CyanogenMod – the nightly builds are being pushed out like babies into the world where they'll grow into big strong hacks of tomorrow – and Chris Soyars is pumped up! For those of you following along, CyanogenMod 7 is the current build and is aka the Gingerbread CyanogenMod. You can thank the folks over at TeamDouche (aka that pixel duck down there, aka the makers of CyanogenMod) for the current builds ready for action: Passion, Sholes, Espresso, Legend, and the Incredible up next!
You can feel free to hang out here for all additional updates to the CyanogenMod 7 build list, as its of course possible they'll be coming from more directions than just one, or you can keep refreshing [this page] in hopes that TeamDouche will bring you the build you're waiting for. You can grab the download you need in Rom Manager or over at the CyanogenMod Forums and tell us how it goes!
An easy way to both find the update you need and to gain some official discussion action for the update you need is to search "Nightly" in the CyanogenMod Forums – or just click [here], of course.
Of course, if you're not into testing out pre-perfect builds, you can hang out over at CyanogenMod.com for some version 6 downloads.
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Discounted energy efficient air conditioners for households
Air conditioner incentive program on hold
The New South Wales Government has placed a temporary hold on the discounted energy efficient air conditioners for households and small businesses offer. The Government has reason to believe that some installations do not comply with the updated AS/NZS 3000:2018 that came into effect on January 1, 2019.
The Government is consulting with Fair Trading NSW; the regulator of the Standards, to address any issues of noncompliance.
As a result, the program administrator; Air Conditioning Incentives (ACI) will not be accepting any new requests whilst we investigate this issue.
Stay informed and register here for updates. For all enquiries please contact hello [at] energysaver.nsw.gov.au
Thinking about buying a new air conditioner or replacing an old one? Installing an energy efficient one saves money and helps the environment.
What's available?
For a limited time, the NSW Government is offering households a discount on installing an air conditioner with a high star rating.
What discount can I get?
The installation discount will depend on the size of your air conditioner.
|AC size
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|5.5✩ and above
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|3.5 kW
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|Medium to large bedroom, small lounge
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|Lounge or living room
|10 kW
|3.5✩ and above
|Large open plan areas
Not all air conditioner units are eligible, only the most efficient ones. Currently, there are no eligible ducted systems. Many brands have eligible products, an approved installer will confirm if the unit you need qualifies for the discount. The discount is subject to the availability of products.
Click here to see a list of eligible products.
Accessing the offer
You'll need to:
- be a NSW resident
- buy an eligible air conditioner
- use an approved installer to purchase and install your air conditioner
- own your home or have approval from your landlord to install the air conditioner
- consent to your data being collected (for more information please click here).
Contact an approved installer to confirm if you are eligible and, if so, to discuss next steps.
Find an approved installer in your area
You will need to use an approved installer to get this deal. They will make sure you have the right-sized air conditioner and will install it properly. An unsuitable air conditioner uses more energy and wastes money.
Installers will have different fees. Ask for quotes from more than one installer to get the best deal.
Due to high demand you may need to wait for your air conditioner to be installed during the peak summer period.
Our network of approved installers across NSW is growing. Enter your postcode below to see if there is one in your area.
Find an accredited service provider in your area
By submitting 'Find approved suppliers', you are agreeing to the terms of service.
The NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) connects customers to Accredited Certificate Providers (ACPs) within their region who are eligible to undertake works under the Energy Savings Scheme (ESS). ACPs under the ESS are subject to the legislation, regulations and rules governing the ESS, as well as any further conditions imposed by the ESS regulator, the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART).
DPIE specifies the requirements that ACPs must meet under the ESS. Consequently, ACPs are obligated to deal with any and all issues arising from works undertaken under the ESS. By taking part in this program, the customer acknowledges and agrees that DPIE does not have any legal liability whatsoever connected to the deliverables associated with this program, and also discharges DPIE from all actions, proceedings, claims, demands, costs, losses, damages, and expenses the customer may potentially incur through this program.
How do you become an approved air conditioner installer?
Get in touch with the NSW Government supported delivery partner Air Conditioning Incentives who will explain how the offer works.
Air conditioner installation tips
- Get an air conditioner installer to visit your home to do an assessment.
- Air conditioners need to be the right size. Ask the installer which size will suit the layout of your home.
- Make sure the final quote contains the right information. This should include:
- the installer's business name
- the installer's ABN
- your name and address
- the size, make and model of the air conditioner
- the total cost including installation and discount
- Once you accept the quote, your new air conditioner will be installed.
- Always ask to see an installer's credentials. It is illegal to install air conditioning without a licence.
- After your air conditioner is installed be sure to engage a technician to regularly maintain it.
How will this help my household?
Heating and cooling systems use a lot of energy.
Buying an air conditioner with a high star rating will:
- save you money
- keep your home comfortable
- help the environment.
For example, if you live in Western Sydney and install a 5kW air conditioner with a 4-star rating instead of 2-star one, you could save $675 over 10 years.
The Energy Rating Calculator helps you work out energy savings. Simply enter your post code and air conditioner model number.
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Luke Sullivan, Copywriter.
I somehow can't imagine his name without the professional designation, given how synonymous the two are. Of course, Sullivan's more than a Copywriter today. He's also Senior VP/Managing Group Creative Director at GSD&M in Austin and the author Hey Whipple Squeeze This, one of the more instructive "how-to" books available on the topic of creating advertising. Sullivan also has a new blog called Hey Whipple. Thankfully, it's not an obvious ad for his book, but a furthering of his thoughts on the ad business.
Enough with the introductions. I know you know who he is. But did you know his portfolio once sucked? Okay then, please read on…
Q. Your former colleague Bob Barrie now has his name on the door. Do you ever think about running your own shop?
A. Nope. Because I know how hard it is. It was hard for me just moving from copywriter to a creative director, in the sense of moving away from the front lines of the work. Once you're a partner, man, you're even further away from the work. Well, at least that's how it felt to me. I don't know how Bob does it, but it would be too much for me.
Q. Is social media important to you? Or would you prefer to avoid it?
A. I have really enjoyed discovering first the online world back in like '97 or so, and now more recently social. Yeah. I am not plugged into everything though. Just Facebook and Twitter, though I do maintain a page on LinkedIn. I sorta look at Linkedin is the office, Facebook is a backyard BBQ, and Twitter is a cocktail party. That kinda sums it up for me.
Q. Does an aspiring copywriter today need to show more than ads in their book? Is web content also needed, given clients' voracious need for it today?
A. Very true. I cannot bring myself to hire someone who doesn't have a serious amount of digital work in his or her book. But here's the main thing I look for (after, of course, great ideas executed across a variety of media): I look for CRAFT. For writers, this means, well, the craft of writing. The quickest way for me to judge that ability is in good old-fashioned headlines. So I recommend having some good ol' print or outdoor, work where the entire piece is held up with a strong headline. This is important for juniors given that the jobs a junior writer is handed are often small print jobs with no photography budget. Jobs where you pretty much need to solve the whole thing using nothing but words. So, advice to writers: write.
Q. Tell me what you drew you to GSD&M and what are the best things are about the agency and living/working in Austin?
A. I love GSD&M and I love Austin. First of all, it's kinda weird to be working in such a big agency in such a small town. In fact, GSD&M is the biggest place I've ever worked. Also, check out our client roster. It's amazing to work on all these blue-chip brands from our little Texas town: the U.S. Air Force, BMW, Goodyear, Norwegian Cruise Line, L.L.Bean, and of course Southwest Airlines. Sorry if I sound like I'm from the PR department, but that's the way it is. The single best thing about working here (which I felt the minute I walked in the door in 2003) was the warmth of the culture. You can't invent culture. You can't buy it. You can't ship it in or transplant it. You either have culture or you don't and GSD&M has the strongest culture I've felt in my 31 years in the business. It is extremely familial; which is especially cool given the size of this place.
And as for Austin, man, it's such a cool town. Patton Oswalt the comedian did a show here and he made fun of us. "Austin would elect a hacky-sack for mayor if they could." It's just a bunch of hippies down here. Everybody has a tattoo and everybody is in a band. There's SXSW Interactive every year and a couple years back, during Austin City Limits, I remember coming home one night and sitting on my back porch and listening to the Rolling Stones play live, from the park just over the hill. Yes, it's very hot here, from about June till September. But when you think about it, pretty much every section of the country has four months of crummy, whether it's Portland's rain or Minneapolis's snow. Four months of somethin' that kinda sucks; ours is heat. But as my wife says, "You don't have to scrape heat off your windshield before you drive into work." One last thing. Austin is NOT Texas. Dallas is Texas. We're just….well, we're Austin.
Q. Are you only as good as your last ad?
A. Oh, I've always thought that was a little harsh. And back when I was a harsh little ad critter, yes, that was my credo. But I found this made me beat myself up, pretty much all the time. I was in a constant funk about it. The thing is, creative people are prone to this kind of silly shit no matter what field they're in. We take our work and ourselves too seriously. I once heard that it is the responsibility of the artist "to last." To survive. The great ones, they do. The people worried about what they look like, worried "Am I only as good as my last ad," I'm not sure having that much fear and friction in your head would be a good way to work, not if you want to have a long career. It'd be like that Jackson Browne lyric, where the "sound of your own wheels drives you crazy."
Q. Do you have an iPad and or iPhone? Why or why not?
A. Of course, I have both, you nutty nut. I will buy everything that company makes. I love everything about the company. I love their vertically integrated art direction. The sparsity, the use of white, it defines the way their website looks, their TV spots, the design of their products, the way the stores look, all the way down to the dang boxes you carry out of the store. In fact, their packaging's so cool, I still haven't thrown away the box my iPad came in. Stupid, I know, but it it's just so well-made. The sense of quality just seems to come off the box in waves.
Q. Do you work more than 40 hours a week?
A. One of the best parts about the culture of GSD&M (and Fallon too, as I remember it) is a sense of work-life balance. Yes, we work our asses off, but when you're done, you go home. Sure, during pitches, we're here around the clock, drinkin' the tepid coffee and eatin' cold pizza. But when you're done, you're done. There is no unspoken code here that says you gotta be here all the time. I think that leads to low morale and then burn out.
Q. What led you to advertising as a profession? Did you grow up wanting to write copy?
A. I grew up reading comic books: Spider-Man, Daredevil. Then I started making my own comic books, which if you look at a comic, it's basically a storyboard. Telling stories with words and pictures. It took me a couple of years out of college to put those two together: telling stories with words and pictures, and advertising. Lordy, I remember the first book I put together to get into the business. What Tom McElligott and Ron Anderson saw in me I will never know. But man it sucked. But somehow I got in.
Q. Can you explain to me-a doubter-why industry awards shows matter as much as they do? To me, peer evaluation seems like the wrong metric to base one's career on.
A. I'm all over the map about this one. I grew up positively insane about working the awards circuit. I think that's probably pretty normal for younger creatives.
The reason? I see ad careers in terms of three stages. Early on, it's about GETTIN' FAMOUS. That's what awards help do. Then, once you've got a bit of a name goin', that's when the juniors say, "Man, I oughta get paid more if I'm doin' so great" which, of course, is when the second chapter kicks in – GETTIN' MONEY. Then, when the final third of a career comes around, maybe when you got kids to worry about, a house, a spouse, when you have a life … well, but then it's all about GETTIN' STABILITY. You want a job that will last. You don't wanna have to move your family around. So, with that sort of career track in mind, I get the whole awards thing.
On the other hand, if you get too into awards, it'll start to effect your work. Because now, instead of sitting down to solve a business problem and to write to a particular audience, you could be writing with an award show audience in mind. It's conceivable one could begin to work with a sort of Super Bowl "How-can-I-amaze-everybody" kind of mindset, one that may not be right for the problem at hand.
Q. What are your favorite ad campaigns that debuted over the last year or two?
A. Apple vs PC.
The Most Interesting Man in the World for Dos Equis.
Google Chrome Labs.
And I love this new work from Leo Burnett for Allstate, featuring that cool actor named Dean Winters as "Mayhem."
Q. You wrote the book on making better ads. Can you also speak briefly here on the magic of creative presentations and selling the work?
A. If you wanna get ahead in this business, and I mean really ahead, you are gonna have to good at presenting. There's no way around it. Now the thing is, you can have a very good and long career in advertising and never present. You can be a "below the line" sort of creative who just stays in his/her office and cranks out the great stuff. But in order to move up the corporate ladder (and that is a good thing, people), you gotta get good at presenting. Getting great at presenting would be even better, but not everybody is great at this stuff.
Present every chance you get, whether internally at the agency or in front of clients. Practice is the only way I know how to improve at it. Well, there is one other way, happened to me back in 1981. I spent about a year and a half goofing around as a stand-up comic and going on stages all over Minneapolis. Man, you wanna talk about getting confidence? Getting up there and learning how to get an audience on your side is extraordinary training for presenting concepts to a client. It doesn't come without pain. I can remember DYING several times. There probably isn't a worse feeling in the world than DYING on stage. Ouch.
Q. Some people have claimed there's been something of a talent drain in advertising, of late. Are agency people (and clients) as talented and intelligent as always?
A. I don't see it. The rise of the ad schools has resulted in a very robust pool of candidates to pick from. I am seeing so many amazing books. Sorry, but I disagree with this one.


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Archive for December, 2013
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Myanmar champions river cruising as it builds on shipping traditions
One of the Paukan vessels of Ayravata Cruises Myanmar champions river cruising as it builds on shipping traditions, By James Brewer River vessels with a Scottish pedigree are providing "boutique cruises" in Myanmar (known informally to many people as Burma), as the country takes advantage of its...December 30th, 2013 | Canals, Cruise Industry, Inland Waterways, Marinas, Maritime Tourism, Tourism | Read More
Piraeus: world leader in shipping and naval grandeur
At the municipal Kantharou street neoclassic mansion in the heart of Piraeus, a unique exhibition takes place since the 4th of December epitomising the Athenian Hegemony's and beyond maritime and naval achievements. The exhibition spreads in both floors and includes traditional ships hulls, replicas...December 30th, 2013 | Art and auctions, Charity, Maritime Education and Training, Maritime History and Museums, News | Read More
In Flanders fields, Great War commemorations will flow from 2014-2018
Belgian machine gunner guards trench. Source: August 1918 edition of The War Pictorial magazine In Flanders fields, Great War commemorations will flow from 2014-2018, By James Brewer Visitors from near and far, including Commonwealth countries, will flock to northern Europe in 2014 to pay their respects...December 29th, 2013 | Anniversaries, Events, Military | Read More
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Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Worldwide – World Holidays: 29 December 2013-11 January 2014 DATE: December 28, 2013 COUNTRY: Worldwide World Holidays: 29 December 2013-11 January 2014 Public holidays around the world in the coming two weeks...December 28th, 2013 | Holidays, Ports & Terminals | Read More
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ClassNK Releases Amendments to Class Rules
Noburu Ueda Rules and Guidance for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships Tokyo – Leading classification society ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda) announced today that it had released an updated edition of the Rules and Guidance for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships. ClassNK...December 27th, 2013 | Classification Societies, Regulatory, Technical | Read More
Bureau Veritas becomes first classification society authorised by Greece for MLC 2006 tasks on Greek-flag ships
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ClassNK Receives Authorization from Finnish Flag
Noburu Ueda Tokyo – Leading classification society ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda) has earned authorization from the Finnish Transport Safety Agency to carry out surveys for Finnish flagged vessels. The agreement allows ClassNK to perform surveys for SOLAS, MARPOL, Load Line and other international...December 27th, 2013 | Classification Societies, Flags | Read More
Uncovering the hidden visages of Venice…
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Damen to deliver a second 80 m Ice Class ferry to Newfoundland and Labrador Province
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Caution as the year of upheavals is ante portas
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Maritime Law Evolving
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Turkish airlines reinstate its 305 sacked workers
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Dockworkers urged to support 13 January action week for Port of Lisbon
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She's anonymous, irrelevant,
and it's made her malevolent.
She tries and tries to make them
She asked me, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, did it happen?"
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So there's still much talk about the "immigration problem" we have in this country. To be clear, some people think this problem is that there are too many illegal immigrants in the USA. Some proposed solutions to this "problem" is to increase patrols to deport them back to where they came from, to build a fence, or to stop people on the street and demand their "papers."
Now there are many angles from which I can address these solutions. I can argue that trying to populate a 1,933-mile long border with enough guards is a ludicrous idea. I could point out that building a wall (er, fence) or asking for papers has horrible historical roots in the Soviet Union (Berlin) or Nazi Germany (the SS Gestapo). Or that the fence isn't cost effective nor is it necessarily effective in actually keeping people from climbing it.
I could point out that all of these solutions seek to expel or prevent entry rather than welcome or assimilate new citizens into the country. This is where I see the real disconnect. Never mind that very few of us don't have immigrants somewhere in our ancestral lineage (legal or not). (A great quote from The Forever War comes to mind: "But they weren't aliens, I had to remind myself–we were."). Never mind that many employers love hiring "illegals" because they can pay them less (or not at all) for jobs that "real Americans" won't "stoop" to doing anyway.
Let's look at this from purely practical points of view. First, we have this budget issue going on right now (and probably for a long time). Wouldn't it be great if we had some untapped source of revenue with which we could infuse our treasury? Like an 11 million-bodied potential workforce. Where could we find something like that? (To be fair, even undocumented immigrants are already paying into our system without reaping the benefits; but if they were able to fully participate, I'd imagine that overall the US federal government would bring in more revenue and adhere to its self-proclaimed moral standards).
Secondly, world-wide birth rates are decreasing. This, coupled with a longer-lived populace will result in fewer workers to support those who are retired. The very people we're trying to keep out or expel might very well become the next hottest commodity able to negotiate higher benefits to come work in a host country. Why not work toward strengthening that relationship now, rather than striving to exclude people?
In any case, the United States used to be a beacon of hope and welcoming for those who, through an accident of circumstance, were not born in this country. Now it seems some self-entitled and short-sighted "citizens" want to put out the "No Vacancy" sign which, in the long run, will be to the detriment of us all. Instead, let's find a way to bring these immigrants who desire to work for a better future for themselves and their families into the fold with all legal duties and benefits afforded to those of us with the fortune of having been born here naturally.
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"