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The twenty-eight-thousand-year nonintervention policy of the planet Om had mutated from a moral ethos into a culpable misfortune and wrongdoing. The Kundabuffer Empire was usurping planets with humanoid populations into the war economy of its accelerating imperial expansion for more than a thousand years. Om had the technological power to end the suffering caused by this tumor-like empire, yet it did nothing. Om owed much of its advanced knowledge to a super-evolved race of posthumanoids who had... more
Musings of a Soul
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The Basics of Electronics
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Are you working in the field of electronics and have no formal training but want to learn more about the basics? Or are you a hobbyist who wants to learn more about how electronics work? Then this book is for you. This book goes through the basic theory of topics such as DC and AC. It also covers several electronic components, how they work and applications along with labs to experiment with, audio, data, and troubleshooting. The end of the book also contains several listings of suppliers of bot... more
The Thriving Heart
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It's Time To Thrive! We've all heard tragic divorce stories from our friends - and may have one of our own. But have we really embraced a fresh new start? Or have we just picked up the pieces of the divorce rubble and moved forward trying to make sense of it all? In this powerful book of vast relationship wisdom, you'll discover pages cascading with helpful tips and easily adoptable strategies presented through the engaging, personal anecdotes of author and wellness strategist Dawn Burnett. ... more
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Waiting Still
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Lasting Happiness; Secrets of the Heart, Mind & Spirit Revealed
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2019 — "Hat tip: Perhaps the most researched commentator on the Irish economy is a guy based in Kuala Lumpur. I've never come across any other Irish economist with a greater command of relevant Irish economic data, gov policies & economic history" — Paddy Cosgrave, Founder and CEO Web Summit.
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Ireland: GDP or GNP? Which is the better measure of economic performance?
UPDATE Sept 09, 2014: The idiot/ eejit's guide to distorted Irish national economic data
UPDATE: May 26, 2013: In recent years, Accenture, the US management consultancy firm, has been among several big international groups that have moved their headquarters to Ireland.
They may engage in little or no economic activity beyond an office in Dublin but their results are included in Ireland's national accounts and the GNP metric in particular has been distorted.
Reported profit in one year can eventually be moved out of the system via dividends but the impact on data continues as these firms are big compared with the Irish economy and there are a flow of new entries and exits.
Steven Rattner wrote this week in The New York Times:
WHILE a Senate report detailing Apple's aggressive tax sheltering of billions of dollars of overseas income grabbed headlines this week, little notice was paid to a surreptitious thrust at tax minimization that was announced at nearly the same moment.
In a news release, the American drug maker Actavis announced that it would spend $5 billion to acquire Warner Chilcott, an Irish pharmaceuticals company less than half its size.
Buried in the fifth paragraph of the release was the curious tidbit that the new company would be incorporated in Ireland, even though the far larger acquirer was based in Parsippany, N.J.
The reason? By escaping American shores, Actavis expects to reduce its effective tax rate from about 28% to 17%, a potential savings of tens of millions of dollars per year for the company and a still larger hit to the United States Treasury.
Actavis is hardly alone in fleeing to lower-tax countries. For example, Eaton Corporation, a diversified power management company based for nearly a century in Cleveland, also became an "Irish company" when it acquired Cooper Industries last year.
John FitzGerald, an economist at the ESRI, an Irish economics think-tank, recently produced a paper on the impact.
Bottom line....
Both GDP and GNP are now unreliable measures of Irish economic activity.
Irish Economy: No growth in 2012; 6,500 direct jobs account for 52% of services exports
The original post below dates from March 2011
Ireland's national statistics office, the CSO, says Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP) are closely related measures. GDP measures the total output of the economy in a period i.e. the value of work done by employees, companies and self-employed persons.
This work generates incomes but not all of the incomes earned in the economy remain the property of residents (and residents may earn some income abroad). The total income remaining with Irish residents is the GNP and it differs from GDP by the net amount of incomes sent to or received from abroad.
In Ireland's case, for many years past, the amount belonging to persons abroad has exceeded the amount received from abroad, due mainly to the profits of foreign-owned companies, and our GNP is, therefore, less than our GDP.
State agency Forfás said last year that GNP is a better measure than GDP of the value added accruing to residents of the country. In Ireland, GNP is now considerably lower than GDP because of income flows to non-residents, especially profits and dividends of foreign direct investment enterprises. In 1970, the reverse was the case with GNP higher, because of income flows to Irish residents from abroad.
As a result of this turnaround, GNP growth has been somewhat slower than GDP growth. Since 1970, real GNP has increased about four times. In the year 2008, GNP decreased by 2.8% while in the five years (2003-2008) it increased by an average annual rate of 3.8%.
The growth in exports has been especially noticeable. Since 1970, the value of exports has increased over twenty times in real terms. The other demand components making up GDP have increased to a lesser extent over the same period, e.g. personal consumption over four times, public expenditure about four times and investment about five times.
Some of the growth during the bubble resulted from increasing numbers at work. While GNP at constant prices increased by 19% between 2003 and 2008, the increase per person in employment was much less at 1.3%.
GNP was until recent times about 82% of the value of GDP. however, the National Recovery Plan 2010-2014 forecasts a level of 73%.
During the boom, the per capita GDP data did not chime with reality.
Even allowing for inequality, it just wasn't credible that we were among Europe's wealthiest and when Bank of Ireland had us as runners up to Japan as the wealthiest on earth it seemed more bizarre - - Japan had at the time about 35% of its workforce as temps, earning less than the Irish minimum wage.
In recent times, we have seen pharmaceutical exports jump without any impact on jobs and we know that the MNCs have profits of sales from Ireland inflated to maximise the benefit of the low corporate tax rate.
We have about 500 employed in the leasing sector and we manage over 3,000 aircraft from Ireland; in 2004, the 2 biggest companies by revenue were owned by Microsoft and were operating from the offices of a Dublin law firm. They still operate to channel patent and other income from other overseas Microsoft units to Ireland. They now have unlimited status and their results are not publicly available.
A leasing company with 20 people can have huge revenues but it does not reflect economic activity in Ireland.
The other side of the coin are Irish companies earning income abroad.
CRH for example, is only Irish because its headquarters are in Ireland and because of its background -- up to 90% of its shareholdings are held by non-Irish and only about 2,000 of its 80,000 staff are based in Ireland.
On paper the outward stock of foreign direct investment is greater than the total for inward investment.
Danny McCoy, the director general of the business lobby group IBEC, told his conference last November: "However, what we see is the extent to which Irish-owned assets are working for us overseas and creating that €50bn in wealth that flows back into Ireland.
Ireland's stock of direct investment overseas (ODI) in other words, Irish owned assets abroad was just shy of €190bn. The stock of FDI assets here in Ireland was just below €170bn.
Ireland therefore has a net Direct Investment asset position of €20bn.
This number shows the growing impact of large Irish multinationals many of them represented here today operating in the international sphere: companies like CRH, Smurfit Kappa Group, Glen Dimplex, Kerry Group, Glanbia, Paddy Power, Creganna-Tactx and Greencore indigenous companies growing their international reach and acquiring new businesses overseas."
This is of course another example where the bragging/bullshit does not chime with reality.
Foreign firms are responsible for more than 90% of our tradeable exports.
The American management consultants, Accenture, moved their hq to Ireland from Bermuda and I would think that some of the €50bn referred to by McCoy includes profit from activities in for example the US that shouldn't affect Irish national accounts data.
GDP and GNP for most countries are at similar levels. However, Ireland is exceptional for its dependence on FDI (foreign direct investment).
The difference between the 2 measures has widened during the recession.
I would think that the GNP level is more a reflection of reality today.
Employment in the FDI sector is back to 1997 levels when the workforce was 25% smaller.
This issue of GDP v GNP was raised by economist Michael Taft in a blog comment response to a Finfacts article on Wednesday.
Richest EU countries have the highest taxes; Irish tax burden will be as high as Denmark's by 2014
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Brother Ali (@BrotherAli) is best known as a hip-hop artist with the local record label Rhymesayers Entertainment, but those who only know Ali for his music are missing out on the entirety of this fascinating human being.
"Music is not my undying love. It is one of many," he said.
Ali and I spent nearly three hours together and he spoke intelligently about several topics that spanned well beyond music. He expanded on his ideas and experiences that we normally sample in his well-crafted lyrics. Some of his more controversial songs have pointed harsh criticisms in the direction of the United States, dominant culture, and men. However, Ali notes that he never critiques a group that he is not apart of.
"My critique is always in the mirror," he said.
Ali spoke about the importance of truth and reality. This was on full display when he provided an in-depth analysis of what he calls the myth of black pathology and also details his view on white mythology.
Self-love was another reoccurring message throughout our conversation. Ali unpacks this large concept using Minnesotans as a case study and explains why he believes the Gopher State struggles to achieve true self-love.
There were many other fascinating and entertaining portions of this episode with which I could probably write a series of books given the amount of content we covered. If you're at all interested in the person that is Brother Ali, then this podcast is worth your time.
There are many beautiful things about Minnesota that should be celebrated and appreciated, but there's also a very deep denial about our guilt complex and we're terrified to face that truth.
Disclaimer - this is an attempt to paraphrase Ali's 25-minute answer. It is not a direct quote. Please listen to the entire audio to understand his full message.


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Q: Check if this system has any attractor We have the following system:
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      h'=h(1-h-a_{12}p) & \\
      p'=\rho p(1-p-a_{21}h) &, \rho>0, a_{12}>1, a_{21}\in (0,1).\\
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We want to see if we have an attractor.
So far I have managed to determine the stationary points:
$(0,0), (1,0), (0,1), (h^*,p^*) $, where $h^*$ and $p^*$ are solutions of the system \begin{cases}
      1-h-a_{12}p=0 & \\
      1-p-a_{21}h=0&, \rho>0, a_{12}>1, a_{21}\in (0,1).\\
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I investigated the stability of the stationary points and found the following:$(0,0)$ is unstable, $(1,0)$ is stable ( asymptotically) and $(0,1)$ is stable( asymptotically).I can't figure out how to determine the stability of the fourth point $(h^*,p^*).$ Next I would like to see if we have attractors, for this I was thinking to determine the null-clines. Please give me a little help in determining these null-clines and and a hint about the attractor.

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László Rajk is a practicing architect, a production designer and a professor at SZFE in Budapest, also known as a former dissident and a human rights activist. Since 1972, he has worked as a production designer on several Hungarian and international projects, including The Man from London, The Turin Horse, Mirage, Son of Saul, as well as Ridley Scott´s The Martian, which was shot in Hungary recently.
He graduated from Budapest Technical University with a Diploma in Architecture in 1972. As an architect and a freelance artist he became a member of the Hungarian avant-garde movement in the '70s. At the same time, he started to work in production design, too.
Rajk believes that every architect should design film sets, firstly, because you get your feedback faster and, secondly, because: "You learn how to cheat with perspectives, with lines, which is very important. Architects never talk about it". This is the aim he is trying to reach with his students at SZFE, where he teaches film architecture.
"I think all architects should design sets. A set can be done in three months and it pushes back the ego of architects who think this is my thing and no one should ever touch it. It's this provisional temporary architecture, and however good it is, it eventually is taken apart and stays only virtually in pictures. Plus, you learn a lot of tricks in production design, like how to cheat. That is very important when you think about perspective."
There will be a special 2-day long lecture with László Rajk entitled "Virtual or real? - The questions of film architecture nowadays" for limited number of places. So don't forget to get your accreditation as soon as possible here! The lecture will be held at VFF 2016 on April 5-6, 2016.


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Making the transition from disruptor to viable long-term business is not easy but in order to stand the test of time brands must continually evolve and take risks while staying true to the values that made them a success in the first place.
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It is one thing to be a disruptive startup, but another thing entirely to turn that disruption into an established, global business. Today Marketing Week launches 100 Disruptive Brands in partnership with Salesforce, our list of the most innovative emerging brands that marketers need to know about.
Working with our sister brand Econsultancy, the companies were selected based on the originality of their business models, their ability to tap into new markets and their disruptive effect within existing industries.
The true measure of success, however, will be if they stand the test of time. Despite the burgeoning potential of these businesses, not all startups experience the longevity they crave; for every Facebook there is a Friends Reunited. So in order to emerge from the early stages of growth and develop into flourishing global brands, there are lessons to be learned from the world's most successful disruptors.
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These are all the more important as research published last month by Barclays reveals that the vast majority of UK startups fail to achieve 'scale-up', defined as growth of more than 20% in turnover or headcount for three consecutive years. The companies that achieve this growth – referred to as 'gazelles' by Barclays' report – account for only 2% to 4% of UK small businesses.
Various factors may hinder startups from taking the next step, such as a lack of investment, the inexperience of management or prohibitively high barriers to entering markets. Sherry Coutu, an entrepreneur and chair of the Scale-up Institute, which helps SMEs to grow, argues that both public and private sector organisations could do more to support startups and thereby reap the economic benefits they bring.
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Uber is one of the best examples of a startup disruptor that has grown rapidly into a household name. Founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, the ride-hailing app has a presence in more than 400 cities around the world and was valued at $62.5bn (£43.3bn) last December, reaching the milestone at a faster rate than Facebook. Its growth is rooted in the simplicity of its 'sharing economy' business model, which involves providing a technology platform for drivers to offer rides to paying customers, often at much cheaper prices than taxis hailed on the street.
Chargifi is managing its growth by using small-scale pilot schemes including some with the world's biggest brands
Word-of-mouth among early adopters of the service enabled it to grow quickly and Uber has fuelled this viral effect by using discount promotion codes to encourage users to get their friends onto the app. Its rapid rise has not been without challenges, though, as Uber's disruptive effect on established taxi operators has prompted protests and negative headlines about whether the company is breaching transport regulations in different countries.
Consumers continue to flock to the brand regardless, drawn to its convenience and low priced rides. The scale of Uber's growth was revealed in leaked financial documents reported by tech website The Information, which show the business had gross bookings of $3.6bn (£2.5bn) in the first half of 2015, up from $2.9bn (£2bn) in the whole of 2014.
Rachael Pettit, marketing and business development lead at Uber UK and Ireland, notes that one of the company's biggest challenges has been to keep pace with its growth by adding staff and opening new offices. The brand launched in the UK in summer 2012 with a luxury car service but quickly rolled out its standard service to more than 20 towns and cities. It has also diversified as it has grown by offering new services such as the carpooling option UberPool and UberWav, which enables disabled passengers to request wheelchair-accessible vehicles. In February, the business rebranded to reflect its size and scale (see Q&A, below).
"We pride ourselves on having a local team in every city and being a key part of how people get from A to B in cities across the UK," says Pettit. "As we continue to grow, we have to work to make sure that we are still offering the best choice for both riders and drivers who partner with us. Obviously, this task is much more challenging when you have more than two million riders in London than when you only had a couple of hundred."
At the other end of the scale, wireless charging firm Chargifi is managing its growth through the use of small-scale pilot schemes for its technology. Founded in 2013, the business provides technology that allows people to charge their phones in public places over wireless internet connections.
Co-founder and CEO Dan Bladen says the company is at present running confidential pilots "with some of the biggest brands in the world", including a hotel operator, a coffee shop chain and several sports teams in their stadiums. In addition to providing the charging technology, Chargifi offers back-end software that allows these businesses to track their customers' dwell time and footfall or create custom loyalty programmes.
"The technology is new – people haven't heard of it before so [brands are approaching it] with the attitude of 'we are going to try it and see what it's like', rather than [totally] jumping on board to start with," notes Bladen.
"You can be disruptive when
you are a startup or a mature global business"
Yonca Brunini, Google EMEA
Chargifi is also developing a licensing strategy that allows it to sell the distribution rights to its technology to franchise operators in different countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore and India. This provides the dual benefit of generating much needed revenue and cash-flow, while also expanding awareness of the technology worldwide.
Chargifi raised $2.7m (£1.9m) from an investment round led by Intel Capital last November, which it is investing in its software, while the business recently hired its first PR agency to help it develop its communications strategy. However, Bladen concedes that the concept of wireless charging needs to gain more traction before his business can truly take off.
"Not many devices come with wireless charging built in and to use it you often need an accessory like a dongle," he says. "As the market matures, Chargifi is positioned to benefit."
2. Nurture and evolve your brand
Emerging brands must carefully fine-tune their marketing as they grow, making adjustments that expand their appeal to a wider audience while retaining the values that made them innovative or disruptive in the first place. Craft beer maker BrewDog, for example, rose to prominence following its launch in 2007 by taking an edgy, unconventional approach to brand building that set it apart from the rest of the beer market.
This approach is embodied by the company's founders, James Watt and Martin Dickie, and has included PR stunts such as driving a tank through London and openly defying the Advertising Standards Authority in a foul-mouthed tirade. Such stunts have become less commonplace as BrewDog has grown in recent years and a rebrand in 2014 hinted at the company's maturity. It now has more than 40 bars around the world, with more openings planned this year, is expanding its domestic production capacity and is investing $30m (£21m) in a US brewery to meet the demand for BrewDog beers in North America.
READ MORE: BrewDog apologises for 'not giving a sh*t' about breaking marketing code
Despite this growth, Watt insists that the business has retained its original brand ethos. He highlights its recent DIY Dog initiative, whereby the company gave away all of its recipes online for free, as proof it is keeping its values alive. "We were founded on the punk mentality. Being anarchic and disruptive is in our blood," he says. "DIY Dog was not only a celebration of everything craft beer, it was another advance on the ongoing war with global mega beer corporations. We're rooted in the promise to never sell out."
One of Uber's biggest challenges has been keeping pace with its growth
Watt adds that the brand remains averse to traditional marketing or advertising tactics. The business has grown through its innovative crowdfunding scheme Equity for Punks, which encourages beer fans to invest in the brand in exchange for shares and exclusive access to new beers. BrewDog has raised more than £26m through the scheme over four rounds. According to Watt, this community-based approach remains at the heart of the business.
"We don't believe in glossy TV ads – our number one priority is the beer we produce," he says. "We have recruited an incredibly dedicated army of over 42,000 equity punks, and keeping them supplied with new brews continues to drive all of us. We are only here because of them, they're our greatest ambassadors, our harshest critics and our most vocal proponents."
By contrast, Pact is a small startup brand that has similar ambitions to shake up the coffee market. The company, founded in 2012, operates a subscription model through which it sources and sends packages of premium coffee to customers in the post. It also aims to change the wholesale coffee buying process by negotiating fair prices directly with farmers and helping to improve their farm infrastructures.
Depesh Mandalia, who joined Pact as marketing director in January, believes the business has not yet done enough to communicate these brand values to the world. He was hired to improve Pact's marketing output, which includes helping the brand to reach a broader base of customers beyond its current core market of speciality coffee drinkers.
"We have only recently told customers that last year we funded $7,000-worth (£4,830) of equipment for a particular farm to help them develop better coffee and that they will pay us back in future coffee stock," says Mandalia. "We're always working on these things behind the scenes and it plays so much into our brand values, but we don't communicate that yet. Brand development is a big piece of what we are trying to do."
Pact doubled its turnover last year, according to Mandalia, and is considering opportunities for overseas expansion. It also recently diversified its product offer by developing its own pods for Nespresso machines. Yet the business has encountered the types of teething problems that afflict many emerging brands. In March, it was forced to abandon a crowdfunding round on the website Crowdcube after failing to meet its £1m target, while a reorganisation of the business led to redundancies for 16 of its 74 staff.
Mandalia says the redundancies were a necessary measure to streamline the company, which is on track to reach profitability by the end of the year. "Given the choice I don't think there was anyone we would want to let go, but essentially we have had to take one step back to take two or three significant steps forward," he explains. "We are a lot leaner for that and we have a clear direction over the next 12 months of where we want to be now."
"We were founded on the punk mentality. Being anarchic and disruptive is in our blood"
James Watt, Brewdog
3. Keep taking risks
Yonca Brunini, vice-president of marketing at Google EMEA, suggests that disruptive brands cannot rest on their laurels once they become dominant industry players. She joined the online giant 10 years ago and has seen huge growth during that period, but believes the same pioneering spirit drives the business today. "A company's size and innovation potential are not necessarily correlated," she says.
"You can be disruptive when you are a startup or a mature global business; the key is to have great people and a great culture. Our original mission – to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful – remains as true today as it was 17 years ago. It keeps us focused but also restless and always looking to explore and innovate. It keeps us on our toes. Remember, we could easily be disrupted too."
Brunini also highlights the importance of taking risks, noting that "each milestone we have reached was by asking big questions [and by] betting on technical breakthroughs". Not all of these 'bets' have paid off, as shown by Google's decision to halt sales of its Google Glass product last year. But others, such as Google's acquisition of YouTube in 2006, have proved enormously successful and the business continues to bet on other forms of technology, including in its approach to marketing.
"We are always experimenting, [looking at] the best way to engage with mobile users on YouTube or using virtual reality and 360-degree video, or experimenting with dynamic creative to respond to live events with real-time ad creative," says Brunini. "Digital offers a rich canvas of experimentation, and that testing and learning on all platforms is important."
READ MORE: Should brands be concerned by Google's focus on AI?
Taking risks is equally important for startup brands. London-based Landbay, which was founded in 2014, has become an early leader in the emerging market of peer-to-peer mortgage lending. The business employs 18 people and has grown its following using paid search, affiliate marketing through comparison websites and by increasing its exposure through PR.
Head of marketing Louise Pegg explains that the company founders, John Goodall and Gray Stern, have played a vital role in creating a workplace culture that encourages free-thinking. "Not only are we a new company – we're a new industry, so they allow us to experiment and make mistakes," she adds. "That part of the culture has been really refreshing. Also, because we're a small team, if we see that we are not doing something so well, we can make changes and adapt quickly."
Pegg reveals that the company is at present focused on marketing itself to people who are already familiar with peer-to-peer lending, rather than trying to convince a more mainstream consumer audience. Like many of the businesses in our list of 100 disruptive brands, Landbay expects consumer behaviour to catch up to its own vision.
"Over time, alternative finance will become less alternative and a lot of customers will take control away from the banks and start to be more active in managing their own finances," she suggests. "[Our business] will become more mainstream by the very nature of it."
Has Uber's marketing and brand image evolved or matured as it has grown?
We have quickly gone from being a luxury, to an affordable luxury, to an everyday transportation option for millions of people and our brand has changed to reflect that. In February, we rebranded our company to better reflect that change, celebrating both our technology and the cities we operate in with more patterns and a colour palette for each country.
Does Uber spend a lot more on marketing now than it did when it was starting out?
We have always had the same mentality to our marketing spend – profitable growth. Marketing is an investment into the business and so we're incredibly rigorous in our approach to assessing which channels, campaigns and strategies will grow our business. Additionally, we have a test and scale mentality, testing ideas to check they're hitting our key metrics and if the test holds, we scale.
Do you still think of Uber as 'disruptive', despite its huge size?
Our core philosophy has always been to put our customers first. From that special moment where you request for the first time and your car arrives in minutes, to delivering unique experiences across the UK with our on-demand stunts, to opening up our service for more and more riders with the introduction of UberPool and UberWav, our riders and partner-drivers will always be at the heart of our business and brand marketing ethos.
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Crump's signature is a 'wow' moment for Ipswich Witches
Mike Bacon
Published: 12:15 AM February 19, 2020
Jason Crump, a Witch in 2020. Photo: PA - Credit: PA
Sports writer MIKE BACON reflects on the impact a returning Jason Crump could have on Ipswich Witches and speedway in general in 2020
There are very few 'wow' moments in sport.
It doesn't matter what sport you follow - 'wow', 'OMG', 'incredible' - those reactions don't come about that often.
They come about even less in speedway.
So, Ipswich Witches' signing of three-time world champion Jason Crump for the 2020 season is pure delight, not just for Ipswich fans, but fans of the sport in the UK. It's a true 'wow' moment.
A very happy @ipswichspeedway boss @chrislouisIWSC on the signing of @jasonpcrump
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— Mike Bacon (@Mike_Bacon) February 18, 2020
OK, he hasn't been riding regularly for a while now. He's 44 and hardly in the prime of his speedway career.
But over analyse that at your peril. Because Crump is a winner. A thorough professional. A man who knows the score.
He's not someone who has suddenly decided on a whim to take back up a sport he graced throughout his illustrious career.
This is a man who will have given deep and considered thought to this decision and, once taken, it will be all in.
I'm thrilled, not just for the Witches, but for British Speedway in general that a rider like Crump is joining another former 3x world champion - Nicki Pedersen - who is racing for Sheffield this year, back on the tracks up and down the UK.
Because, like Pedersen, Crump will be a crowd puller. Oh yes, make no mistake.
Trying to put his signing for the Witches in context to the professional football club here in the town, I'll liken it to Ipswich Town signing David Beckham... You know the best days have gone, but you know the quality and talent is still there. You know the crowds will love to come and watch him.
Jason Crump will be a huge plus for the Witches in 2020.
On track he will work his socks off to get as many points as possible. I know from speaking to Chris Louis, Crump is already investing and hunting down the very best equipment.
There will be no half measures.
No, I'm not expecting double figure scores wherever he goes, wherever he races. That's unrealistic.
But he'll be a very big player for Ipswich on and off the track.
And for the likes of young Ipswich riders in this year's team, Cameron Heeps, Jake Allen and Drew Kemp, a legend like Crump adding his assistance and advice - well, you can't put a price on it.
I know some people will scoff, mainly because of Crump's age and lack of recent on-track racing.
I've even read a couple of posts that it's a 'publicity stunt'... I can't think of more ignorant and offensive thing to say about one of the great motorcyclists Australia has ever produced returning to such a dangerous sport.
Personally, like all Witches fans, I can't wait to watch Crump ride.
Jason Crump (centre) celebrates his win with Nicki Pedersen (right) who finished third, as second place Scott Nicholls (left) watches on after the Grand Final of the the Elite League Championships at Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield in 2001. Photo: PA - Credit: PA
Because you know on and off track, it's going to be 110%. It's gonna be a thrill.
Welcome to Ipswich Crumpie.
And welcome back to British Speedway.
Is it March yet?


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Q: Copying a multidimensional array I get() an multidimensional array and store it inside the $products variable.
I need to Make a copy of that array to create it into a new Webshop because the export provided by the API does not work so I have created this script to copy the data:
foreach ($products as $id => $product) {

    $copy = $products[$id];
    $createdProducts = $apiSkylux->products->create(
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            'id' => $copy['id'],
            'createdAt' => $copy['createdAt'],
            'updatedAt' => $copy['updatedAt'],
            'isVisible' => $copy['isVisible'],
            'visibility' => $copy['visibility'],
            'data01' => $copy['data01'],
            'data02' => $copy['data02'],
            'data03' => $copy['data03'],
            'url' => $copy['url'],
            'title' => $copy['title'],
            'fulltitle' => $copy['fulltitle'],
            'description' => $copy['description'],
            'content' => $copy['content'],
            'set' => $copy['set'],
            'brand' => $copy['brand'],
            'categories' => $copy['categories'],
            'deliverydate' => $copy['deliverydate'],
            'image' => $copy['image'],
            'images' => $copy['images'],
            'relations' => $copy['relations'],
            'reviews' => $copy['reviews'],
            'type' => $copy['type'],
            'attributes' => $copy['attributes'],
            'supplier' => $copy['supplier'],
            'tags' => $copy['tags'],
            'variants' => $copy['variants'],
            'movements' => $copy['movements'],

        )
    );

}

The copy is working. But i thought @2016 and all, can't this be achieved with less lines of code?
This is what I receive with var_dump of the first array:
var_dump($products[0]);
    exit;
//result
array(28) {
  ["id"]=>
   int(26136946)
//rest of array

So I can see the array has a number (28) , what does this represent?
I've tried several attempts, closest attempt was :
$copy = $products[$id];
            $createProducts = $products;
            $createdProducts = $apiSkylux->products->create($createProducts);

But then I also got an error : Invalid data input
Can I copy the data from the array easier then the method I am currently using?

A: This doesn't make any sense. Simply use the $product variable within the loop. Done!

A:
array(
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    ...
)

This can be reduced to simply:
$copy

Yes, reassigning every single key into a new array is the same as using the original array in the first place.

foreach($products as $id => $product){
    $copy = $products[$id];

This can be reduced to:
foreach ($products as $product){
    $copy = $product;

Obviously you could leave out $copy entirely and just use $product.
Bottom line:
foreach ($products as $product) {
    $createdProducts = $apiSkylux->products->create($product);
}

What you do with $createdProducts I don't know; you don't seem to be doing anything with it inside the loop, so at best it'll hold the last product after the loop, so is probably superfluous.
Probably you could do:
array_map([$apiSkylux->products, 'create'], $products);

or
$createdProducts = array_map([$apiSkylux->products, 'create'], $products);

depending on whether you need the return values or not.

So I can see the array has a number (28) , what does this represent?

It means it's an array with 28 elements in it.


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How Charlize Theron and More Stars Inspired Students at the 2016 WE Day Concert
By Brandi Fowler Updated Apr 08, 2016 @ 12:45 pm
WE Event Lead
Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
A little rain couldn't stop thousands of students and celebrities from getting up bright and early to celebrate the power young people have to change the world. Thursday's WE Day California brought Charlize Theron, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and more stars out to the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., to inspire the 16,000 young leaders and educators at the event to continue to make an impact in their communities and help change the world.
After Gomez hit the blue carpet in The Row's yellow leather jacket and white top, Vetements high-waist jeans, a Jennifer Fisher choker, and Manolo Blahnik stiletto pumps, the "Same Old Love" crooner made a quick change and kicked off the show in a sheer and black Houghton ensemble paired with Paul Andrew over-the-knee black boots. The crowd lost it as she strutted out and sang "Kill 'Em with Kindness."
WE Event
Credit: Michael Tran/FilmMagic
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Lovato also performed and moved audience members with a powerful rendition of "Stone Cold" in a black blazer and floral pants. When the songstress came back out to address the crowd later in the show, she tripped and fell but quickly recovered and returned once again to give a speech. "Tonight we unite for a better world," Lovato said. "Maybe they're big dreams, but we know every movement and action starts with simple steps, right? But for a lot of us it's hard to know where to start. The WE movement helps support your passion for a better America, a better world. Living WE proves that. When individuals come together we have incredible power. Together, we can change the world."
Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
She then introduced 16-year-old philanthropist Reilly Fox, who became the first female football varsity player to score points in a game last September.
Meanwhile, Theron was on hand to inspire teens to join the fight against HIV/AIDS. "It's amazing to see so many inspiring young people here and across the country working together towards one goal—to live WE and that is a passion I share," the Oscar winner said in her address to the crowd. Theron also introduced—and sang "Happy Birthday" to activist Ashley Murphy, who was born HIV positive to a drug-addicted mother and was expected to only live a few days.
Zooey Deschanel (above, far left) and her New Girl co-stars Hannah Simone (above, left center)  Max Greenfield (above, right center), Lamorne Morris (above, far right) and also took the stage to introduce speaker Yash Gupta, founder of Sight Learning, to the stage. Deschanel later returned in a yellow floral dress for a short chat with Kermit the Frog. Joe Jonas hit the stage as well, as did Paula Abdul, Seth Rogen, wife Lauren Miller Rogen, Jacob Tremblay, and more to introduce speakers and encourage young people to get involved in various causes.
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During the day-long event, attendees, who all worked in their communities to obtain their seats, were privy to a wealth of knowledge, from their peers and celebrity ambassadors. Stars like Theron got just the same from them—along with a strong dose of inspiration.


This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of how cultural differences are deeply relevant contemporary debates about moral responsibility. This is because (1) contemporary philosophical theories of moral responsibility develop universal conditions for fair assignments of blame and praise; and (2) they appeal to intuitions about cases and principles to justify these conditions. Consequently, these theories rely on empirical assumptions about the universality of the intuitions to which they appeal. This book develops an empirical and philosophical challenge to this assumption, one that if successful casts doubt on the prospect of establishing any theory of responsibility as objectively correct. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.


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535- House of law
on March 28, 2016 at 1:00 am
grahamf
Doom Doom Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom
I gotta say, I'm genuinely curious as to how this will turn out.
Orion Fury
Same here, cause I'm confused on how GG hasn't already been sued by them.
I don't get why she is getting sued in the first place. She has gained her power from a Legit Priest. she didn't steal from Religion, Religion has given it to her.
If I were her lawyers that'd be my argument.
Xheralt
Well, she isn't a birth-forcing anti-immigrant Ayn-Rand-economist like so many all-caps CHRISTIANS, so she "must" be Satanic, as were the so-called "priests". After all, who would pursue Socialist policies like helping the needy and downtrodden, welcoming the foreigner, and not accumulating obscene amounts of wealth for oneself (the clearest sign of God's favor)? I mean, other than Jesus himself?
Great comment four out of five hats would rt if this were twitter
BrokenEye, The True False Prophet
Also, angels are in the public domain. God is in the public domain. All of religion is in the public domain. Except Scientology®. Scientology® isn't in the public domain.
A freedom hating liberal? Is he sure he knows what words mean?
He means: "capitalism-hating communist", Tea Party slang, you know.
Gamaran Sepudomyn
That makes about as much sense, which is to say none at all.
Well, what they actually mean is "socially-progressive humanist;" it just comes out "capitalism-hating communist." Must be some sort of speech impediment.
I spent a few hours trying to explain to one guy what the difference is between Bernie Sanders's democratic socialism, Marx's communist socialism, and the cold-war Soviet Union's Leninism. The guy kept trying to draw parallels between Bernie's policy proposals and the policies of the Soviet Union, despite not having the first clue about what Bernie's policy proposals actually are. All the while, he kept calling both sides generic communism, which we were apparently fighting during the cold war, despite the fact that what the Soviet Union had wasn't Marxist communist-socialism.
The guy was a one-man mind-@#$%.
She gets a popular tribunal, right? Statistically speaking: 4 super-heroes, 4 super-villains and 4 "normal" oblivious people, right? I'm curious how this will pay out, as the liberal-hating fundamentalist judge cannot punish her without a guilty sentence first and foremost. Er, right?
Ikiryo
It depends on the state. A jury is only garenteed by the 7th amendment in federal cases for Civil Suits.
What if the priest was working under an exorcism policy that binds the exorcisee to arbitration?
Then that priest is working for the holy office of the first bureaucrat. In red tape they trust.
Arbitration isn't so much a streamlining of the process as much as it's a change of venue away from the legal system and into the private arbitration system, which tends to favor corporations over the employees, far more than the court system does. That's the reason that so many employment contracts force arbitration, nowadays.
"Well, you want the job, right? If you won't put up with this shit, we have a dozen other applicants who will."
Juries are a thing in criminal court, this is a civil suit
I mean, she COULD request a jury, but its not garrunteed, and juries are just generally a bad idea in civil court anyway
They often work out very well for people with stupid little complaints against large corporations. Juries often award litigants millions of dollars for something that wasn't even really the corporation's fault.
You know, I think what really does it is the red tie…
Can't wait for GG or BGG to go all Punisher on the stand.
Metathiax
Pretty sure judge J.J. Jameson just recused himself from the case due to personal bias.
Because Scalia recused himself whenever he suffered from a lack of impartiality …
I was thinking that Thunderbolt Ross retired from the army and pursued a career at law.
I hope he's just the accusatory part and not the judge.
He's the judge, that's why he refers to it as a case on his docket that's what a judge would say not a prosecutor.
Adren
I so hope Relgion gets banned after this trial.
Prankstir
He's aware that Satanism is a religion, too, right?
Although, most Satanists that we hear about in the media are atheist trolls who are trying to fight the abuses of the first amendment by small-town fundamentalists who want to force their religion upon everyone around them.
I didn't know they were in Texas.
Wow, the irony here is beautiful. I have nothing bad to say about this comic.
(its its its its its its)
Liverepus
freedom lover that hates real freedom…actually disturbingly accurate to real life
Hey, freedom in the bedroom doesn't count, you commie!!!
Ok, so moustache lawyer at least chose the right color of pants for this day.
By the way GGG looks real good with that attire and I'm really glad that she lost the piggy tails.
I think she's in power saving mode.
bissek
That conversation would get the judged censured in real life – he decided on a ruling before even hearing opening arguments, which is hardly appropriate for judicial impartiality.
In any case, the key points in GG's favor are:
1: Religion gave her her powers in the first place.
2: There's no precedent for supers whose powers altered their appearance (Apart from shapeshifting) having any say in how their appearances changed.
3: She doesn't look like a biblical angel anyway (Biblical angels actually look kinda freaky – there's a reason why the first thing most angels say to mortals is 'Fear Not')
4: Even her halo isn't necessarily biblicly accurate: while the floating gold torus is the common modern interpretation of what a halo looks like, Renaissance era paintings interpreted it as looking like an ornate gold plate that somebody glued to the back of the subjects head.
5: How can Religion be a single entity to submit the suit in the first place? GG's appearance would be totally unoffensive to all non-Judeo-Christian religions, and there are probably a hundred or more of those, so one could make a case that unless 'Religion' is a group containing at least one representative of each of them, they don't really represent Religion as a whole, and as such do not have the right to file the suit.
It would be amusing if the priest who created GG in the first place is one of the litigants here.
Sadly, no, not in many jurisdictions. Check out what this guy did:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/07/08/public-defender-quits-after-judge-in-courtroom-fight-returns-to-bench/
And there are places that are much worse. In states like Texas, the judges answer to no one but the voters. Given how bat-shit insane the voters are in most of Texas and other parts of the south, judges can do all sorts of insane, unconstitutional things and get elected again and again, because the people of that county are all in favor of those unconstitutional activities.
Take the recent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. There have been multiple judges who have refused to comply with that ruling. Some made arguments to the effect that it was a federal ruling, which doesn't apply to the states. There's an amendment to the federal constitution that has a little something to say on the subject, I believe, but those judges don't give a damn.
Some of the nonsense has come from people very high up the judicial ladder, such as:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/top-ala-orders-judges-refuse-gay-marriage-licenses-article-1.2487546
Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. I've seen a bit of artwork of what angels are supposed to look like, according to some early Christian sects. Freaky geometric things with tentacles and wings and all sorts of stuff that would make H.P. Lovecraft lose his lunch.
There's also some reason to think that early renditions might have been something along the lines of how Muhammad was drawn (despite bitch-fits by modern Muslims, against drawing him), which was with a holy fire surrounding his head, not a halo or plate or whatever. There are sometimes major changes in the trends in religious iconography, no matter how much religious sorts might want to deny that religion evolves over time.
5: How can Religion be a single entity to submit the suit in the first place?
I think that's going to be part of the punchline, somewhere down the line. There has been a good deal of speculation, amongst those of us here in the peanut gallery, about someone getting involved who is behaving like patent trolls do.
GG's appearance would be totally unoffensive to all non-Judeo-Christian religions, and there are probably a hundred or more of those
Far more than that … by at least an order of magnitude, probably. Hell, there are thousands of denominations of Christianity.
I've heard plenty of sources quoting a number in the tens of thousands, but at a certain point, you have to contemplate exactly what makes a given group a separate, distinct denomination. Does each individual Pentecostal cult count as its own denomination, or do they all fall under the heading of Pentecostalism? It gets very messy, when you try to group and analyze something so complex.
1. Not Religion. Looks like a priest, probably Catholic, channeling a higher power.
2. Yup. Breaking new ground indeed.
3. Oh, definitely. Not enough eyes and animalistic parts.
4. Great point, but it's probably the dress that's the focus.
5. Excellent point. Add "The Rabbi" and a Shao Lin monk to the witness list.
Hopefully my long comment will clear moderation soon. I put in two links, which I'm sure got it caught up in that.
Good thing you said that. Posting links gets you caught in the spam filter, and I would probably not have checked.
Heh heh heh. Thanks man. I figured that was probably what did it.
I still have the draft in Word, as I always do when composing long comments. If it didn't get kicked through in 24 hours or so, I would have tried again without the links. Better with the links, of course, since they lead to things that I was using to make my points, so thanks for the kick through the moderation.
A priest, a Rabbi and a Monk? Is this some kind of joke?
Damn, you're good!
Well, it is a humorous web-comic.
You know, if say…Dickbutt was the judge, the case would be thrown out.
Jason Thorn
April 1, 2016, 9:12 pm	| # | Reply
Well, at least the lawyer was properly attired.
You realize he wore the brown pants.
TippyToe Zombie
April 25, 2016, 8:40 am	| # | Reply
Judge Claude Frollo presiding.


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The Organ Inside: Kara-Lis Coverdale
Robyn Fadden - May 22, 2015
Kara-Lis Coverdale builds ornately twisted pipe organs inside computers and gathers a choir of nameless voices to sing us into an uncharted future. The Montréal artist's music rests partway in the door to the church or the symphony hall and partway in the embrace of the chaotic world outside those hallowed spaces, with all its social and cultural profanities, ceaselessly updated electronics and digital interfaces, promises of a new world built upon the barely cold bones of the old. This is her post sacred music: multi-layered, multi-timbral electronic compositions that stridently elide traditional divisions between acoustic and electronic, human and machine, beauty and brutality.
With two solo albums in the past two years – cassette releases Aftertouches on Sacred Phrases and A 480 on Constellation Tatsu – as well as a three year collaboration with Tim Hecker on his album Virgins, Coverdale continues to defy perceptions of sacred and non sacred music in her latest work, including a creative professional partnership with LXV (musician David Sutton) on Sirens, a new album released by Umor Rex.
In an interview with MUTEK, Coverdale acknowledges that she's always had an interdisciplinary focus: "I think that's where my heart is. I meld everything. Interesting things lie in new intersections of what previously wasn't together."
While she's a classically and academically trained musician with a Masters degree in musicology and composition, has played piano since childhood and has been a church organist for 15 years, Coverdale's gateway into electronic music was sparked by rap, hip hop and a smattering of new age synth laden classical. "I was really interested in sampling, using interesting sounds and appropriation through quotation – I learned about that through hip hop way earlier than I did through studying music concrete and electroacoustic music," she says. "And as a kid, I was obsessed with a few records that were kind of new age classical – I wasn't trained to listen for electronics so I'd sit at the piano and try to mimic the Vivaldi part. Looking back on that music, I see it was really infused with electronics, which to classical purists would have been disgusting but it was addictive to me at the time."
Moving from traditional instruments to the computer was a natural progression, both philosophically and out of necessity. "Piano wasn't resonating with how I felt and didn't reflect the environment I live in – I'm quite plugged in, I have wires all around me all the time. Music is supposed to show us where we're going rather than looking back, at least that's how I feel and what my intent is. It's about trying to bridge this technological inheritance of our environment, seeing what's happening with technological innovation rather than denying it."
With the organ as her vehicle, her digitized tonalities and production interests tend to disrupt typically reserved harmonic systems and styles, but they still maintain an essential essence of the instrument. "I think of the organ as a 1.0 of what I'm doing electronically, because it kind of has this brain that allows you to change timbres and instrumentation in the same way you can with a computer," she says. "And I'm thinking a lot about how parts and harmonies intertwine and about counterpoint, and I often delay resolution in the way that hymnal music does."
Yet Coverdale's music doesn't summon memories of long services spent sitting silently on hard benches. Rather, it conjures a secular reverence for the mysterious and unknown. "I love sacred music though I'm not really a religious person," she says. "The church has been known to be musically restrictive in some ways, so I'm toying with the idea of anything goes while trying to maintain that sense of reservation (that said, Aftertouches is quite maximalist in its indulgence). In a way I'm trying to deal with what that means personally; I think other people are dealing with that too."
Coverdale's recent collaboration work with Tim Hecker and LXV, two artists known for music that explodes the drone into noise driven melody, expanded her ability to craft her own sound worlds. "I was contributing to Tim's established aesthetic and existing musical world and vision. It was extremely influential and invaluable to me yet at the same time I don't think my music sounds like Tim's – maybe he's like a ghost somewhere in my music, just as maybe I'm a ghost in his."
Her work with LXV in the past year symbolizes a complete collaboration, however, in which she shared control of the sessions, project files and aesthetic vision of the music. "David and I are both very conceptual thinkers, so a lot of the work happened through discussion first," she explains. "As far as process, he'd send me samples and I'd arrange and compose them, yet the record sounds so cohesive that maybe in 10 years we won't remember who did what. I think that's because we took a year to work and really settle in and curate what was going on."
Conceptually, they were both interested in dissecting the role of violence in the digital age, from online media saturation to video games to being a woman in male dominated industries. "Initially, David had an idea that I could offer something soft since I was an organist and worked on sacred music, whereas I wanted to do more aggressive music, tap into his more sterile and abrasive audio work. It became this collision of soft clouds and stabbing percussion." says Coverdale. "I think everyone is a violent person, it's part of human nature. I'm an aggressive person, I go to the gym and use the punching bag first, but at the same time I'm nice, so why not embrace the violent side too – it's not something we should sweep under the rug and go listen to happy music all the time."
In Coverdale's sound world, in collaboration or alone in her home studio, such contemporary realities inevitably rear their heads: a dataset of sampled human voices sing anew through her machines, an organ's sustained notes soar to stuttering processed heights. "A lot of the sounds are redesigned, recreations of existing instruments and voices, so it's kind of like a hologram of a real world that I'm trying to create, a removal from reality while still a reflection of what we live in and how we are," she explains. "My music tries to articulate an environment, and whether there's a story there or not I'm trying to get listeners into this sound world that is at times plastic, at times ethereal, maybe a little scary in its uncanniness sometimes, but ultimately optimistic."
Kara-Lis Coverdale performs at PLAY 1 on Friday, May 29 at the MAC


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Home Activities Press Releases PRESS RELEASE – UK/Palestine: Large turnout expected for pro-Palestine rally despite far-right/Zionist...
PRESS RELEASE – UK/Palestine: Large turnout expected for pro-Palestine rally despite far-right/Zionist smear campaign
From: Islamic Human Rights Commission
Thousands of people are expected to converge on London this weekend to mark this year's Al-Quds Day demonstration in support of the beleaguered Palestinians.
The demonstration will go ahead despite an unprecedented demonisation campaign by far right and pro-Zionist groups determined to undermine and disrupt the event.
Numbers are expected to be larger this year in a gesture of defiance to the demonisation campaign and the ongoing murders by Israeli troops of innocent Palestinian protestors in the Gaza Strip commemorating 70 years since Israel was formed on expropriated Palestinian land.
Last year a similar demonisation campaign radicalised Darren Osborne into driving a truck into Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park killing a Muslim man. His intended target had been the Al-Quds Day rally which he was only prevented from reaching by police security measures.
Zionist and far right extremists have again called a rival rally on the same day in order to seek to disrupt the Al-Quds Day demonstration. Among them are the notorious football hooligans, Chelsea Headhunters, who have put out a call on social media for people to attend the counter demo and call to "Ban Islam".
Al-Quds Day has been a fixture in the capital for over 30 years the annual event is a general show of solidarity drawing in people of all faiths and political persuasions. This year's London event will again feature people of all political and religious persuasions including Jews from Israel, Christians and Muslims.
The rally will feature a record-breaking Palestinian flag being paraded through the streets. At 70 metres long it is the largest ever Palestinian flag ever to be made with its length signifying the duration of the crippling Israeli occupation.
The event will take place on Sunday 10 June, with demonstrators assembling outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Charles Street in preparation for a march through the busy streets of central London. The Saudi Arabian embassy has been selected as a rallying point because of Riyadh's growing support for the Zionist regime which has had the effect of isolating the Palestinians and giving Israel the green light to accelerate its injustices.
With much of the world's attention deflected by other conflicts in the Middle East, the Zionist regime has continued its relentless policy of settlement building, confiscating and isolating Palestinian lands and restricting Palestinians' movement and access to the necessities of daily life such as water and medical care. Resistance to the occupation has been met with bullets – hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the last year.
The Gaza Strip remains effectively blockaded by Israel on one side and the Egyptian military regime on the other. The siege has crippled the economy with 41% of people out of work, higher than any other economy in the world, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Youth unemployment is believed to be 60%. Some 80% of inhabitants are dependent on external aid to survive.
IHRC chairman Massoud Shadjareh said: "The high turnout expected is an indication of the strength of support there is for the Palestinian cause. No matter how much pressure is applied and from whatever sources we will never abandon the Palestinians and their right to resist injustice."
For more information please call +447958607475 or +447958522196
When: 10 June 2018, 3pm
Where: Gathering outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy on Curzon Street
Mick Napier – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Mick Napier is a founder member and has been active in the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign since 2000. He has been on trial for activities arising out of BDS campaigning for six of the last eight years, successfully defeating all of the serious charges. Leaked emails reveal that the US State Department intervened (unsuccessfully) to reverse SPSC boycott victories against the Israeli Embassy in Scotland. He is a frequent contributor to Press TV
Stephen Sizer
Stephen Sizer is the director of Peacemaker Trust, a registered charity dedicated to peacemaking, especially where minorities are persecuted, where justice is denied, human rights are suppressed or reconciliation is needed. Stephen was ordained in 1983 and served as a curate in St Leonard's on Sea, Sussex (1983-1986). He is the author of three books, In the Footsteps of Jesus and the Apostles, (Eagle, 2004) Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon (IVP, 2004) and Zion's Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church (IVP, 2007). His books have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Korean and Spanish. He also writes occasionally for various journals and magazines.
Massoud Shadjareh
Massoud is a veteran human rights campaigner, who began his activism on campus at UC Berkley during the anti-Vietnam protest movement in the late 1960s. He came to the UK in 1971 and has worked in the voluntary sector for some 15 years. In 1997 he helped to set up the Islamic Human Rights Commission with a group of other Islamic activists working on different international and national projects. He has authored several papers and reports on Islamophobia and human rights, including, The Oldham Riots, Muslim Profiling, Islamophobia: The New Crusade and Whose Rights Are They Anyway?, published by the British Council. Shadjareh has completed postgraduate studies in Cambridge and London in International Relations.
Aryan Tawakoli
Aryan is from the Islamic Student Association London
IHRC is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Email: info@ihrc.org
Web: www.ihrc.org
Twitter @ihrc
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Recovered enough to start work again, Kim Yoo-jung will start filming "Clean with Passion for Now " this August.
Ahn Hyo-sup unfortunately will not be joining as the production doesn't fit into his schedule. He was supposed to be Kim Yoo-jung's co-star.
Previously, Kim Yoo-jung was forced to take a break from the drama as she suffered from hypothyroidism. She needed to concentrate on her health before returning to work.
"Clean with Passion for Now " will be out in November.
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New Publication: Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy
By Llewella Chapman October 3, 2017 October 3, 2017 Publications
D ivine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy
Kate Taylor Jones
Bloomsbury Publishing/Ebook/Pages: 256/ISBN: 9781501306143
For many East Asian nations, cinema and Japanese Imperialism arrived within a few years of each other. Exploring topics such as landscape, gender, modernity and military recruitment, this study details how the respective national cinemas of Japan's territories struggled under, but also engaged with, the Japanese Imperial structures. Japan was ostensibly committed to an ethos of pan-Asianism and this study explores how this sense of the transnational was conveyed cinematically across the occupied lands. Taylor-Jones traces how cinema in the region post-1945 needs to be understood not only in terms of past colonial relationships, but also in relation to how the post-colonial has engaged with shifting political alliances, the opportunities for technological advancement and knowledge, the promise of larger consumer markets, and specific historical conditions of each decade.
Kate Taylor Jones is Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at The University of Sheffield, UK. She has published on topics including colonial Japanese and Korean cinema, cinema and landscape in East Asia, and domestic violence and the sex trade. She is author of Rising Sun, Divided Land: Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers (2013); and editor-in-chief of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. She is co-editor with Fiona Handyside of International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (2015).
New Publication: Propaganda, Persuasion and the Great War
Propaganda, Persuasion and the Great War: Heredity in the modern sale of products and political ideas
Pier Paolo Pedrini
Routledge/Hardback/Ebook/Pages: 226/ISBN: 9781138293915
£105.00/£24.49
How to persuade citizens to enlist? How to convince them to fight in a war which was, for many, distant in terms of kilometres as well as interest? Modern persuasion techniques, both political and commercial, were used to motivate enlistment and financial support to build a "factory of consensus". The propagandists manipulated the public, guiding their thoughts and actions according to the wishes of those in power and were therefore the forerunners of spin doctors and marketing and advertising professionals. Their posters caught the attention of members of the public with images of children and beautiful women, involving them, nourishing their inner needs for well-being and social prestige, motivating them by showing them testimonials in amusing and adventurous situations, and inspiring their way of perceiving the enemy and the war itself, whose objective was to "make the world safe for democracy".
In the discourse of this strategy we find storytelling, humour, satire and fear, but also the language of gestures, recognized as important for the completeness of messages. Were the propagandists "hidden persuaders" who knew the characteristics of the human mind? We do not know for certain. However, their posters have a personal and consistent motivation which this book intends to demonstrate.
Pier Paolo Pedrini teaches Techniques of Persuasion for the Masters Program in Public Management and Policy at the University of Italian Switzerland, Psychology of Communication at the Institute of Continuing Education and at other advanced schools. A researcher at the Ecole Nationale de l'Administration Publique (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau), he is also an advertising agent and a consultant for marketing and advertising.
New Publication: Hollywood Soundscapes
By Llewella Chapman September 17, 2017 September 19, 2017 Publications
Hollywood Soundscapes: Film Sound Style, Craft and Production in the Classical Era
Helen Hanson
British Film Institute/Paperback/Hardcover/
Ebook/Pages: 184/ISBN: 9781844575046
£22.99 (Paperback)
The technical crafts of sound in classical Hollywood cinema have, until recently, remained largely 'unsung' by histories of the studio era. Yet film sound – voice, music and sound effects – is a crucial aspect of film style and has been key to engaging and holding audiences since the transition to sound by Hollywood's major studios in 1929.
This innovative new text restores sound technicians to Hollywood's creative history. Exploring a range of films from the early sound period (1931) through to the late studio period (1948), and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, the book reveals how Hollywood's sound designers worked and why they worked in the ways that they did. The book demonstrates how sound technicians developed conventions designed to tell stories through sound, placing them within the production cultures of studio era filmmaking, and uncovering a history of collective and collaborative creativity. In doing so, it traces the emergence of a body of highly skilled sound personnel, able to apply expert technical knowledge in the science of sound to the creation of cinematic soundscapes that are alive with mood and sensation.
Helen Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on film style, histories of American cinema and the film industry, feminism and popular culture.


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Another Hollywood Blockbuster! "It" Breaks Collection Records Of Spiderman And Fast & Furious
Shah Rukh Khan's Old Video Goes Viral In Which He Revealed Why He Would Not Join Hollywood
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Gautam Batra
At Box Office, Bollywood is picking up the speed rapidly but it's Hollywood which is already in the top gear. The biggest entertainment industry of the world has given many Blockbusters which earned thousands of crores at Box Office in just a weekend. While we have just started boasting about 1000-2000 crores lifetime.
Latest Hollywood release "It" which is a horror film has struck the right chord with the audience and is now proving to be yet another record breaker at Box Office.
The film in its opening weekend earned $123,403,419 (Rs 789.62 crores) which makes it 27th highest opening weekend of All Time and 3rd Highest opening weekend of this year so far.
With this much money in the weekend, the film has broken the record of big films like Spider-Man: Homecoming, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Jungle Book (2016), Wonder Woman and even The Fate of the Furious.
The trend of the film has been discouraging though as the film dropped heavily after the opening day.
It had earned $50,425,786 (Rs 322.66 crores) on its first day. On Saturday the collections dropped and it earned $44,986,221 (287.85 crores). On Sunday the collections dropped further and the film managed just $27,991.412 (Rs 179.11 crores). The Friday-Sunday drop was already huge and the collections again crashed on Monday.
"It" could earn just $8,761,479 (Rs 56.06 crores) on Monday. No doubt the 4 day total collections are still fine but going ahead the film will find really difficult.
Check out Top 10 Opening Weekend Grossers of 2017 (Hollywood)
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