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The Congress.
The Congress (Hebrew: כנס העתידנים) is a 2013 French-Israeli live action/animation film by Ari Folman
The Congress Inn on the corner of Sutherland Road and Bridgewater Street, close to the town centre of Longton in Stoke-on-Trent.
The pub dates back to 1878 when it was built to service the nearby brewery of Glover's who purchased the land for this use.
Sitting beside the Parkhall Works old potbank and flanked by the ranges belonging to Aynsley China, this is one of the few public houses left open which were so strongly associated with their neighbouring pottery manufacturers and the thirsty staff and workers that they provided.
20 years later, her character attends the Futurological Congress, which showcases Miramount's new technology that allows people to transform themselves into animated avatars. In this mutable illusory state, they can become anything they want to be, be it a perfectly seductive goddess or their favorite action hero. Miramount wants to sell her image to punters, allowing them to transform themselves into her.
Robin Wright plays an aging actress with a reputation for being fickle and unreliable, so much so that nobody is willing to offer her any roles anymore. She agrees to sell the movie rights to her digital image to Miramount Studios in exchange for a hefty sum and the promise to never act again. After her body is digitally scanned, the studio will be able to make movies starring her using only computer-generated characters.
Today's score at an antique store going out of business. This is the quietest running clock I have ever heard. Very good condition.
“The Congress” model # 5B55
Manufacturer: Warren Telechron, Ashland, Mass. USA.
Circa: 1937 to 1939
Designer: Leo Ivan Bruce
Production; 1,926
Height: 8 & 3/8ths
Length: 11 &1/8th
Width: 4 & 5/8ths
Case shape: Rectangular
Case substrate: Variety of woods (White Holly, Walnut)
Case markings: Brass Telechron Model Number Tag
Dial color: Cream and Black with Gold Numbers
All the words on dial: Telechron
Numerals: Gold Painted Arabic Font
Crystal: Glass with Brass Trim Ring
Hands: Solid Brass, Filigreed Index Hands
Movement Type: B Rotor
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Of the maybe 300+ films I saw this year, these are the best ones. Some of them were released last year and I’ve been a bit slow getting round to them. Some of them were released even longer ago. The criteria are – I watched them in 2014 and I liked them. That’s it.
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All India Students' Association(AISA) .
27/10/041st Eledion Public MeetingSpeakers: Mona Das, Satya Venkata Slddhardha Kr. D., Awadhesh Kr. Trlpathl, Sanjeev KumarGuest Speaker Pranay Krlshna,ex-President, JNUSU.
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Tapti Mess 27.10.04(Tonight) .
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Why is our Government Cozylng Up to Brutal Dictators and Racist Killers?.
The BJP, which believes in wiping out the minorities and the Israeli Ariel Sharon who believes in "ethnic cleansing the Palestinians were naturalfrien~sandallies. The former kills in the name ofthe Moriginal homeland of the Hindus· and the latter in the name ofthe "original homeland oftheJews".lronically, the unholy "axis" of Sharon's genocidal Israel, India led by the communal fascists and Bush's war mongering US was forged in the.
nameof"fighting terrorism".Butthe new progressive Governmentatthe Centre is again making frtends.with some ofthe world's most bloodthirsty and brutal dictators, onceagainin the name of "fighting terrorism·. "Terrorism" is a ready-made excuse for befriending terrorist regimes!Vajpayee's red carpet for Sharon was greeted with spirited protests all over India. But what went less noticed was Sonia Gandhi's warmmeeting and handshake with Sharon. Clearly, the shift in India's traditional pro-Palestine stance, in favour ofan understanding with Israel is not.
simplyamatter ofIdeological unity of the Sangh and Sharon. The handshake of the Indian ruling class with the Sharon, who has the bloodofinnocents of Palestineon his hands, Is obviously dictated by the Imperialist US, to whom Congress Is as obedient as the BJPwas..
So, the UPA is furtheringthe defence and trade ties that BJPhad forged with Israel. Many defence deals have been clinched with the.
Israeli Military. Saddest and most shameful ofallisthe fact that even the CPI-CPI(M), which had opposed Vajpayee's closeness withSharon, has kept mum on the UPA's military andtrade ties with the racist colonizers who rule Israel. Instead, the CPI(M) has said that.
it isnot averse to state to state relations" with Israel. Recall that Jyotl Basu, as West Bengal CM, had led adelegation of Industrialists to.
do business with Israel in June 20001 And in February 2002, the SFI-AISF's JNUSU representatives of SLL&CS invited the CulturalAttache ofthe Israel Embassy to be the Chief Guest at the Closing Ceremony ofthe SLL&CS Film Festival Kalrav..
TheCongress-led UPA Government claims to continue India's traditional support to the Palestinian cause, while doing defence deals with Israel.EventheCPI(M) insists that it stands with the Palestinian people,and is opposed to Israeli terror against them, but they have no objection to doing.
business with Israel. We would like to ask the Congress andthe CPI(M), howIs Itpossible to support the cause ofthe Palestinianpeople while doing business with the State that colonlses them? Isn'tIta betrayal ofthe brave freedom struggle of the Palestinian.
·people, to allywith andbuyguns from the Israeli Armythatbutchers them?.
Meet the Goons ofRangoon.
Another instance of the UPA's friendship with akiller regime can be seen in the fact that the head of the Burmese military dictatorship, General.
Than Shwe, is now being officially hosted in India. He has met senior Army leaders as well as the PM, and has discussed "crackdown on terror" in.
the.f'~orth-East, which borders Burma..
Let us take abrief look at the history of Burma, and meet the new friends ofour Central Government. For nearly 50 years, Burma has been.
crushed underthe jackboots of one ofthe most ruthless military dictatorships in the world. It has denied its citizens, especially its ethnic minorities, the.
basic right to survival. .
a)>daily reality inBurma..
The rape ofethnic minority women by the military, the massacres of minority civilians, forced labour, destruction ofcrops and seffiements,are.
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Nearly two million civilians ofvarious ethnic minorities have been turned into refugees in theirown land, and have been forced to flee to.
jungles and mountains by the Army. .
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For the past few decades, nearly 100, 000 people have been incarcerated in these dungeons. People are arrested and tried in kangaroo.
courts for offences like reading "forbidden poetry in public or taking photos of failed crops. Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader oftheBurmese Opposition,has braved years ofimprisonment, and many Burmese students have spent most of their young lives in jail..
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Thousands ofstudents, leading waves ofmovements, as well ethnic minorities fighting for autonomy, have been arrested, tortured, killed. Pro-democracyactivists have had to flee to the Thai-Burma border where they have even set up astudents' army to further the struggle for democracy..
Why, exactly, is General Than Shwe, the current head ofthis killer regime. aguestof our Government? Is it merely coincidence that the.
Burmese dictator is In Indiato discuss 'fighting terrorism', at the same time when a pro-democracy movement againstthe AFSPA is.
sweeping Manlpur on the Burma border?.
Note that the Burmese dictator met Army Chief NC Vij, who recently defended the Assam Rifles men who raped and killed Manorama Devi ofManipur,saying that "she was amilitant", and asserting that "she was not raped". (The fact that the post mortem report shows that she was raped withbullets, Is ofcourse of no consequence to Mr. Vljl) The Burmese Military Is expert In the rape and murder of so many ethnic minority women.
Indian Army howto crush the pro-democracy movement In ManlpurlBut itis notthe Congress alone which believes that the Burmese Reign ofTerror can help us fight "terror" In the North East. TheCPI(M)'s organ,People's Democracy dated 10 August carries the statement of the party's Politiburo, recommending that India seek "cooperation of .
and In crushing thepro-democracy movement In Burma. No doubt their assistance and advice will be Invaluable In teaching the .
Myanmar (Burma)" in containing insurgency In the North E.ast.
Isn'titall too clear that both Congress and CPI(M), both ofwhom are ardent supporters ofthe draconian AFSPA, actually want the Burmese.
'Tlilitary dictators to "cooperate"in crushing the anti-AFSPA movement in Manipur?.
Let JNUSU Election Give a Fitting Reply To Those Who Side With Racist, Dictatorial Killer Regimes!.
Dhlraj Kr. Nlte, Convenor, Central Campaign Committee. A/SA, JNU .
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taken in dc. that string was nicely placed; i'm happy someone did that. if i were to sum up my political views in a photo...
nothing like shooting in the rain
A natural "naked presenter" Eilon, who is a journalist for the Haarets paper, and researches the history of drugs, talked about drugs as they appear in Lem's book. He talked to us about what can be, what can't be, what we can expect as a culture to happen in the drugs arena and which drugs are probably not suited for the modern age because of the time commitment they ask for :-)
A natural "naked presenter" Eilon, who is a journalist for the Haarets paper, and researches the history of drugs, talked about drugs as they appear in Lem's book. He talked to us about what can be, what can't be, what we can expect as a culture to happen in the drugs arena and which drugs are probably not suited for the modern age because of the time commitment they ask for :-)
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chosen her man well . If he had had any ac o h \ inistry he holds, coa l, it is the wnt of Sushi\ Kumar.
to 10 Janpath and not 7 Race Course Road. In t e on Y m Ill Patel that runs. .
. . f h ministry allocated a slew of coal blocks. Not surprisingly, those w.hoLast week, the so-called empowered committee o I~ e d 'de by others with greater relevance to AICC treasu:er Mottl~!were in a nosition to speedily set up P.ower plants were e .
owe :~~on this and any other file that his "Madam" ha.s an illterest.m .
Vora The "llonest" Manmohan Singh will naturally P.ut h~s ~~t mthat Sonia Maino would blink at the thought of losing the benefits.
Karat knew better. He put his party's future on the hne y e lnfn Haryana about "anti-national" elements, she slunk back to her.
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of power and blink is what Sl1e did. After deceptively roa~mg It . lOW clear to the public what was transparent to those around.
governm~nt-provided mansion and unfurled ~he surre~der ag. .
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Sonia that the only ideology motivating her IS the destre to rematn tn P · the s~me "ideology" as his " Madam" d 'th clear deal that would have forced the country to abandon its quest forWh y did Sonia and Manmohan .go ahea . WI a n~nd to a nuclear first strike? Because to the Sonia-led UPA, Indta. comes .
self-sufficiency in energy and degraded tts capacity to resp f th .
I nd that has been placed in their hands by the 2004 verdtct. The.
last. The interests of every other country come ~efode ~hosf ~hou:anads of small investors their savings-is another example. Finance.
latest stock exchange meltdown-that,~as cos~. unl re tsh o . te ests of other countries above those of India, and therefore made the.
Minist r Chidambaram knows that h1s Madam va ue~ e rn. r.
amazing statement ll1at "too much c~pital" Is flowing ~nt? ~nd~.
. I ho has not managed even a teas hop, and is therefore completely.
The bureaucrat backed by htm to run SEBI, an tn lVI ua w . . . .
both knew would send markets into freeunqualified to understand the problems of industry, obl1ged by pub~~~:~~ ~~~e::~~:iat~tof VV!Ps were upset that the market had.
foil wl1ich is what happened. An enqurry 111to JUSt w111c11 sons, sons ' .ris~n sha rply just after they had bailed out, and were wanting to buy back the sh~res they had the~ sold at a. lower pnce, anopportunrty provided to them courtesy of SEBI, would be ins~ructive. Ho.wever, 1t IS unlikely that thrs probe will happen underCllidambaram's watch, for the minister seems interested solely rn armrng h1s off1cers w1th greater and greater powers to harass thetaxpayer. All the better to go after those who oppose his "Madam".At tt1e prec1se moment when India is on the cusp of catching up with China in capital inflows, these have been halted bySonia's men, who are also seeking to block money from the Gulf countries into India at the exact time when the sheikhs are seeking.
to diversify their investments from their reliance on other markets. There is no doubt that warm smiles will greet the lady In Beijing.
when she goes tl1ere shortly. The numerous policy moves announced during 2004-07 that pulled the market down wi ll have a.
blowback in the form of angry voters who will take revenge on the Congress Party for costing them their savings. Small wonder that.
Sonia is not at all happy lhat Justice Kuldip Singh's meticulous report on delimitation of constituencies is likely to be presented well.
before the next elections, for his recommendations can be expected to redraw constituencies on lines that better reflect current.
demographic trends. In other words, urban areas will get more weightage, places where the Chidambaram blight has hit the hardest.
While Manmohan Singh is getting the blame for seeking to gift Siachen to Pakistan (as Sir Creek may already have been) and Kapil.
Sibal for not yet establishing India's legal rights over an expanded coastal zone, the reality is that both are only following the cues.
emphasised by their "Madam", who cares not at all for such matters, even thoLrgh they are vital to Indian interests. Had the NDA.
and the Left not drained Sonia Gandhi of her resolve, the country would have had to spend Rs 26,000 crore constructing a dedicated .
nuclear re-proccssina facility that would effectively be under outside control.Had Sonia or Manmohan put Ind1an interests first, they would have sold the SOOMW nuclear reactor that has beendeveloped by the country's scientists and erased the nuclear fuel deficit by re-processing the spent fuel accumulating in a toxic wayfrom Tarapur. Th ey would not have halted-as is reported to have happened-the development of lhe Agni missile to stop its rangecrossing 5500 kilometres. Prakash Karat has shown that Sonia and Manmohan put power before principle. All that remains is for thepeople to make their choice when the next opportunity comes.During the stormy days of 1995, when Arjun Singh, N.D. Tewari, Natwar Singh and Shiela Dikshit broke away from theCongress Party so that Sonia Gandhi could teach them a lesson, they waited for her to show up at the New Delhi stadium where.
they were holding a massive meeting to celebrate the1r future success in defeating the Congress Party. They waited and waited andwatted, only to finally realise that the person on whose behalf they had split the party was not coming. Sonia, then as now, did notwant to take any risk. After all, she needed Narasimha Rao, who had allowed Ottavio Quattrocchi to escape and began treating herin ll1e Empress of India mode that all successor regtmes have followed ever since, substantially beyond the requirements of securityand protocol. Today only Shiela hangs on to her job, under attack each day from party colleagues who would keep quiet at theslightest frown from Son1a. Both Tewari and Natwar Singh have been cast out, the latter now left in a limbo that has gagged himfrom partrcipalion rn parliamentary debates, despite his brilliance as a speaker, and with the threat of jail hanging over the head ofhimself and close famil members. .
Central Panel Candidate.
Pres ident: Alnit Singh Vice-President: Saurabh Dubey.
Gen. Secretary: Ankita Bhattacharjee Jt. Secretary: Sudhanshu Priyadarshi.
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Santosh Kr. Pathak Vimal Nayan Pandey Romit Ranjan.
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Bharat Mata Ki Jai! Vande Mataram!! .
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PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY APRIL J O. 2005 ~ .
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d with reception cor )ginderSham1a rea me address on beh, s historic dty. CPI ge Bardhan also greet< ress on behalf oft :1m troupe present tgs on this occasion oon session, Praka :he draft political rc: rcss, followed by a· :iments received frc !fore thecongress.n of discussions on tl .
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yin development ar minance of the lan al rich. These arevit are essential if lnd ia :onstitute a large pa -e to be freed from th<: lives. In the sphere 1 e serious constrain m by most central go' ! moving forward an des in industry now .
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not yet in a posilion t <ative policies all ovc t requires a qualitativ rength of the Party, it a tic allies. ngthen and expand th nass organisations a1 is a subject which mu~ dressed by this Part' vorked in thecommuni~ tore than 64 years. I ar U'l bad health. I am ho~ · will analyse our wea~ oncrete and bold steps t 1unisl movement todi e country. .y to see th<~l the Dell' .
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A People-centric Politics .
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r('sentutives of frotemal parties from ubro:ld und friends, .
ram very happy to welcome you nll tothe inaugural session ofthe 18th con-gress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). ltis being held in the c<~pital, in the historic city of Delhi. .
Today, April 6, happens to be the 75th anni''ersary of the conclusion of the Dnndi march by Gandhiji and his brc.1l-· ing the salt l<lw -an e\·ent which gah-anised the country to participate in the mass ci\·iJ disobedience movement, .
an important chapter in the freedom struggle. .
The Communist Party, since its inception in I920, became a consistent and determined fighter for national lib-erntion. It sent an appeal to the 1921 Ahmedabad session of the AICC, calling upon the Congress to adopt the slogan ofcomplete independence. From then on, braving the fierce repression of the British rulers, communists organised the workers and peasants to join the stntS'!.gle for freedom and for emancipn-.
t\on'hom da.ss cxp\o\lation.. Today, the CP1(M) is the proud .
J1"1l1c..."'rltor o£ thi~,. gluriou.«~; l ..~[;.Jcy. Anti-rtnperi<Jlisrn is part of this heritL1ge. ln the world today, when US imperialism seeks to impose a unipolar hegemony, that does not hesitate to trample on the national sovereignty of independent nations to fulfill its global designs, it is all the more important to declare that Indian communists will be in the fore-front in the struggle against such an unjust and iniquitous order. ln the immediatecontext, our Party is deeply concerned at the havoc wrought upon the proud and Se('ular state of Iraq by two years of American occupation. We join with the rest of the progressive and democratic forces in the world, to demand an immediate end to the military occupation and to let the Iraqi people decide their future as a sov-ereign country. The communists and the progres-.
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si\'1.' forces in India will act as a bulwark agninst any plans to yoke lndinc\,.hip nnd cooperation for peoce and .
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pl«y a major role in the twenty-first cen-tury. provid~_·d it can firmly defend nc1tional sovereignty, develop its economy by prioritising its national and people's needs and democratise its highly iniquitous social system. India should pursue an independent foreign policy and forge close ties with China, Russia and all the major countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America so that a multi-polar and intematjonal environment exists for us to engage in our momentous domestic tasks. .
The 2004 Lok Sabha elections brought about a major change in the political situation in the country. Th.e rightward shift in Indian politics that began at the tum of the n.ineties was marked by the disturbing legitimacy accorded to the politics of hate and com-.
munalism. The BJP-RSS combine arro-gantly thought that 1998 had ushered in a period ofdominance for the Hindutva forces. They set about systematically to refashion the Indian State to make it a Hindu rashtra. They did not reckon with the secular and democratic conscious-ness of the vast mass of our people, the .
ordinary working people. 1l1ex m et w ith .
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It is ncc.,-:;snry In builu on this suc-.
cess. It wouldbeshort-sip;htcdness to lose .
sight of lhc f;1ct th"1 fi v.;: decades of bur-geob landlord rule, has led to the e ro-sion of not only secular values but in-jected a degree of unprincipled oppor-tunism in many of the non-Left political parties. The fight against the reaction-ary forces, the upholders of a sectarian political ideology which targets the mi-norities for political aggrandisement, must be carried out without any let-up. Even when some of the secular parties opportunisticallycombined with the BJP, the CPl(M) did not waver. Our Party can legitimately claim to hav~ contributed to this struggle wi~all the re$Qurces at our command. , The UPA government has been in office now for ten months. O ur Party's attitude to the Congress is welJ known. We have basic differences because of our respective class characters and because of the path chosen to develop the coun-try. The stmggle between the two ap-pronches will continue. Nonetheless, '""e recognise the Con-gress as a secular party. As tht-biggest political party in the country, its role has il relevance in determining the secular character of the Stote at this juncture. It is this concern which led us to extend support to th(' Congress-ledUPA govern-ment. A govemment which has to fulfil] the people's mandate. A mandate which . rejected the communal alliance and called for the restoration of the secular principle in the institutions of the State. As againstthe RSS vision which the BJP purveys of a religious identity for nationhood, forn conservative anti reac-tionary view of lndinn society which places the dalit, women ::~nd the op-pressed in the lower orders, the CPJ(M). the biggest Left party in lndia, seeks to ensuresocialjustice and economic enum-.
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cipalion through a radical vision which .
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inequalities a~d goes towards building .
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government to meet the exigenciesof the .
currentsituation, let me make it clear that .
there will no giving up on our basic .
agenda. We shall act as sentinels of the .
people. We shall make independent as-.
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The people ofIndia rejected the BJP-.
Ied alliance not only for its communal .
policies,butalso becauseit failed to pro-.
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sis, itpromoted policies which led to do-.
sure of a largenumber ofindustriesand .
caused unemployment, went on a .
privatisation spree of the public seclor .
and cut back on expenditure on educa-.
tion, health and virtuaUy dism.1ntlcd the .
public d istribution system. .
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The UPAgovPrnrnA"If h.-as tofulfill .
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agriculture, employment generationon .
a large scale and revitalising the public .
distribution system is a must. The bleak .
record of low expenditures on health .
and education must be reversed. The .
public sector must not be treated as ifit .
is a burden on the country, bu~ as the .
basis for building a seJf-relianteconomy .
meeting our national priorities. .
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The CPI(M) wiJJcontinue to press .
for the implementation ofthepro-people .
measures in the CMP while opposing .
any attempt: to pursue the wrong poli-.
cies of the past. The Party will mobilise .
all sections of the working people to .
launch bigger and sustained movements .
for defenceof theirinterests. .
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Only a strong CPI(M) canhelpcre-ate a viable third alternative. Such an alternativehas to bebasedona common policyplatform and a willin&lESS tocon-duct joint activities and struggles to acrueve those aims. A thirdalternative is desirable butit cannot be reduced to the concept of an electoral alliance. .
TheCPl(M) has to grow tobecome a strong forcenationally. Wemustbeable to strengthen Left unity and its inter-vention. For this theParty Congress~.rill work outconcrete plansto build the Party and to develop the movement outsidethe areas where the Party isstrong. .
The 18th congress should become a Lal)dmark in the history of our Party. Let it provide the direction which can rally all the Left and democratic forces sothat we can goforward toa newera of polltics in ourcountry. A politics which keeps at the centre the people'saspira-tions for a better life and which opens the way for a secular, democratic India, which is free from class and social op-.
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Gal is the owner of www.holesinthenet.co.il. A veteran media person, Gal spoke about the increasing overflow of information, how we come to see reality through the feed and he also gave a few tips to the audience on how to push their content over the noise.
What a delight. Keren record is too long to add here so go to her Web site www.k3r3n3.com to learn more. Keren honored us with a talk she planned for Tedx. She arrived straight from berlin to the festival and gave a brilliant performance.
Ron Podchlebnik gives a fantastic and enlightening talk about the future of the entertainment industry.
Part of a series of short talks that took place at Utopia 2013, "The Congress evening" where we had 7 different talks about all sort of ideas that arise from the book, and movie adaptation, The Congress by Stanislaw Lem.
What fortune we had to get Raz to talk at our event.
Raz, who's academic accomplishments are too many to add here, talked about science, and reality, and illusion and dreams and I was only sorry that each talk wat 20 minutes long because I wanted to hear more.
What fortune we had to get Raz to talk at our event.
Raz, who's academic accomplishments are too many to add here, talked about science, and reality, and illusion and dreams and I was only sorry that each talk wat 20 minutes long because I wanted to hear more.