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SAN HOLO – THE FUTURE (FEAT. JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW)

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musicisart magazine SAN HOLO – THE FUTURE (FEAT. JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW)

Producer San Holo, AKA Sander van Dijck, creates ballad like electronic music that brings a listener on a journey full of emotion. San Holo is most known for his hit single ‘Light‘, which reached over 151 thousand likes on Soundcloud. SAN HOLO – THE LIGHT || San Holo’s latest single ‘The Future‘ features the smooth Irish vocals of […]

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Osunlade Samples Dionne Warwick

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Producers Osunlade sampled Dionne Warwick‘s classic R&B original Walk the Way You Talk. Osunlade turned their creation “Dionne” into a powerful message with an addictive, motivating dance beat. Released by Dionne Warwick in 1970, the phrasing sampled plays the words “Just because you say things are gonna change, saying something’s wrong isn’t good enough.” The meaning still […]

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New Robyn track, Missing U

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Published On :: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 01:02:25 +0000

musicisart magazine New Robyn track, Missing U

[Art: Yishu – Wang Tsuru] When I listen to Robyn some type of spark enters my body and I’m able to forget myself for a moment. I know many others will attest to this beauty of a feeling as when her voice comes over: the sound, the melody, the lyrics, the harmony is infectious. Robyn has has been […]

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The Houses Where The Dead Lived

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Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:40:00 +0000

Touring the homes of all the dead who have ever lived Even the ones long gone burned buried torn down vanished Wandering halls Opening rooms Crossing borders to see all the places the dead have been Trying to learn what it means to remain present after the body has gone It is not something  I have thought […]


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Where The Great Work Begins

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Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 09:27:10 +0000

We were all bone-tired before this exaltation of humility came upon us. We may have looked more madcap, more animated from a distance, but if you’d looked into  our eyes, you would have seen years of restless sleep and no true relaxation, regardless of what  yoga magazines told us we’d gained. Scoff as you want. Had […]


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I swear Australia is just filled with real life pokemon

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Hello my fellow children

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Wouldn't call that a waste of time

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Can you imagine the clipshow?

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animal crackers: a sweet memory in every bite

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Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:00:12 +0000

  Did you know that tomorrow, April l8, is National Animal Crackers Day? ???? Oh, to return to a simpler, more innocent time, when it was all about glee rather than guilt! *     ANIMAL CRACKER (no s) by Gretchen Friel My students are inspired to read more poems aloud if I bring frosted … Continue reading animal crackers: a sweet memory in every bite


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[tasty review] United Tastes of America by Gabrielle Langholtz, Jenny Bowers, and DL Acken

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Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:00:22 +0000

  Feeling a little peckish? What’s your pleasure? If you’re craving something savory, perhaps we should zip on over to Illinois for some deep dish pizza and pierogies. Something a little more substantial? Well, we could feast on chicken fried steak in Oklahoma and bison burgers in Wyoming, before topping everything off with a platter … Continue reading [tasty review] United Tastes of America by Gabrielle Langholtz, Jenny Bowers, and DL Acken


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baby’s got blue eyes (+ a giveaway)

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Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:00:33 +0000

“We begin in infancy by establishing correspondence of eyes with eyes.” ~ Robert Frost     FRAGMENTARY BLUE by Robert Frost Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Since earth is earth, … Continue reading baby’s got blue eyes (+ a giveaway)


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new art crush: jane newland

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:00:33 +0000

  I recently “discovered” UK illustrator Jane Newland while browsing images online. Safe to say that 80% of the time, when something different/exceptional/beautiful stops me in my tracks, the artist turns out to be British. ????         Jane lives and works in Norwich (the most complete Medieval city in the UK), which … Continue reading new art crush: jane newland


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[review + recipe] On Wings of Words by Jennifer Berne and Becca Stadtlander

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Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 10:00:06 +0000

  Each bird, bee, blossom, butterfly — was a source of joy and wonder for young Emily Dickinson. In this beautiful new picture book biography, aptly illustrated with a butterfly motif, we witness her singular metamorphosis from a keenly observant child into one of the most original and innovative poets in American literature. On Wings … Continue reading [review + recipe] On Wings of Words by Jennifer Berne and Becca Stadtlander


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[spicy guest post] Pippa Park’s Favorite Korean Stew by Erin Yun

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Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 10:00:59 +0000

So pleased to welcome NYC author Erin Yun to the blog today. Her debut middle grade novel, Pippa Park Raises Her Game (Fabled Films Press, 2020), is a contemporary reimagining of the Dickens’s classic Great Expectations.     Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her … Continue reading [spicy guest post] Pippa Park’s Favorite Korean Stew by Erin Yun


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Fireworks - a dangerous trade

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Published On :: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:34:00 +0000

One thing that astonishes many foreigners visiting Malta for a shorter or longer period of time is all the fireworks going on both day and nights. What many visitors to the islands don’t know is that people die or are seriously wounded every year due to accidents with manufacturing fireworks. About a year ago almost a whole family was tragically wiped out in an explosion in connection with manufacturing fireworks. An independent inquiry has warned that Malta would experience at least one large-scale fatal fireworks accident in this year or the next. An inquiry for public consultation is opened and still pending. This week a new accident took place where three people were hurt, one of them is in a critical condition, in connection with making fireworks. It should be said that the responsible people were licensed to make fireworks. It seems like it is far too easy to obtain permission to make fireworks without very strict rules about where a factory might be placed and what chemicals should be allowed.

One can also argue, from an environmental point of view, that the use of fireworks should be restricted to times when Maltese traditions absolutely require it. Fireworks contain lots of harmful substances that, when exploded, are emitted into the air.


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Mr. Gonzi's victory; was the contest necessary?

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Published On :: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:25:00 +0000

PM in Marsascala during his tour for support
In todays The Times one can read that PM Lawrence Gonzi gained 96,5 per cent of the vote in the PN leadership contest. It gives The Observer a flashback from the sixties when Leonid Brezhnev gained 105 per cent of the vote in former Soviet Union. That is what can be called a good and fair election! To avoid any misunderstanding; of course yesterday's election can not be regarded otherwise than fair. But was it necessary? Even if Mr. Gonzi felt that he needed to have his leadership confirmed, the outcome of the vote is still not a true and fair view on the situation in The Nationalist Party since Mr. Gonzi was the only candidate. Say for instance that Mr. Debono had challenged Mr. Gonzi regarding the leadership (he has challenged him about almost everything else). Of course Mr. Gonzi would not have gained 96,5 per cent of the vote. That is as certain as it is that Mr. Debone would have lost such a debacle. Mr. Debono has previously tried very hard to commit political suicide and if he had challenged Mr. Gonzi regarding the leadership he would surely have succeeded. One can wonder if all this really was necessary. Mr. Gonzi is the undisputed leader of the Nationalist Party no matter what Mr. Debono tries to do. Even if there are a number of opponents to Mr. Gonzi in the party they are not as stupid as to challenge Mr. Gonzo in this political situation. They would, in that case, have gone down together with Mr. Debono.


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A Maltese priest’s distorted view of the judiciary's role in society

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:19:00 +0000

In yesterdays The Times a Maltese priest, Mgr. Anton Gaucia, complains once more that a High Court in London a few weeks ago gave a sentence ruling that “the Catholic Church can be held liable for the wrongdoings of its priests”. Mgr. Gaucia have earlier, January 8 in Sunday Times, made the same complaint. Now Mgr. Gaucia also complains over the fact that a Mr. Justice in London has ruled that “the saying of prayers as part of the formal meeting of a council is not lawful”, adding that “there is no statutory power permitting the practice to continue”.
First things first; of course the Church shall be liable for what its employees/priests do in Alphain their capacity as priests. The children in these cases were in the care of a Catholic institution. I wonder what Mgr. Gaucia would say about if a municipal employee at a daycare sexually molest a child that the child’s parents left in its care. Of course, the municipality would be responsible for its negligence and for its failure to protect a child. The same goes of course for the Church. Mgr. Gaucia may of course, probably not being a father himself in the more down to earth sense, not understand what damage the Church and its priests done to these children. The people The Observer talked to in this matter in Malta all agree with The Observer and I think it would be wise of the Church to listen to the people in this.
Second; it might soon be time for priests like Mgr. Gauci and his colleagues to realize what century they live in. The time when Catholics ruled southern Europe is gone forever. There are Muslims, Hindus, Jews and many other people of different beliefs that have and are going to have positions in the society among which, of course, also positions in a council. Does Mgr. Gauci really mean that these people must attend Catholic or Protestant prayers? Or shall they leave when such prayer is to be said? Another possibility would of course be to have, say ten, different rooms where people of different beliefs could pray in accordance with such belief before the council meeting. Mgr Gauci, please grow up and realize what reality you live in.


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Would fundamental rights in Malta be better off under British sovereignty?

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:46:00 +0000

Once more, one does not know if to cry or laugh; no, of course one should not laugh at the tragedy that Malta is causing many of the people in this country. In the former communist states, people were kept in prison without a trial. In Malta the state does exactly the same, see article in todays The Times. As stated before, the judicial system in Malta has collapsed and a thought has come to The Observer’s mind: In this sense may be Malta should be better off under British sovereignty. It is obvious to a foreigner that the government of Malta cannot live up to the most fundamental requirements for democracy, namely the one that a democracy do not keep people in prison without fair trials.


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Malta - a Lilliput state with potentates separated from and above the people?

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Published On :: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:29:00 +0000


Memorial plaque
Memorial plaque
Malta is the smallest country among EU member states. It has only about 400000 inhabitants and the area is only 312 square kilometers. The Maltese people are very proud of their country and are very right to be so. During WW II the Maltese people were very courageous and it was then the Maltese people was rewarded S: t George’s cross 1942 by the king of England, which cross since 1943 is a symbol on the Maltese flag. The president of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt, has expressed his gratitude to the Maltese people, which can be seen on a memorial plaque on the wall of the predidential palace in Valletta. 
However, the majority of Maltese do not seem to travel a lot and therefore are rather ignorant about other countries. Malta is just a rock in the Mediterranean, but, of course, historically an important rock. Yet, you can hear Maltese people quite seriously say that Malta is the most beautiful country in the world. Of course, what is beautiful is a very subjective. Still, very few people, but the Maltese, would say that Malta is the most beautiful country in the world. I have also heard that the Maltese wines as well as its vegetables are the best in the world! There might be a few countries which would like to contest that. Maybe it is beacuse of this ignorance that the Maltese people accept the behaviour of their potentates.

The government, backed by its loudspeaker, The Times, does everything to give the impression to the Maltese people that Malta has an important role to play in EU and in the rest of the world. If prime minister Gonzi for instance travels to some conference abroad, the articles in The Times have headlines giving the impression that the other prime ministers were there just to listen to Mr. Gonzi. Malta also has a Head of State, a President with his own flag and a car with a special license plate. His wife is called Malta's first lady! Even the The Commissioner of Police has his own flag as well as the Archbishop. The corruption is widely spread. But there is of course a reason for all these cars and flags and mumbo jumbo; the government wants to give the people the impression that Malta has a bigger role to play in EU and in the world than it really has and therefore one also must have men in formal high positions with attributes. One must remember that Malta, although a sovereign state, is not bigger than a middlesized european town and ought to be be governed more in accordance with that and not like United States of America..



Archbishops BMW license plate
Gozo bishops Toyota license plate
The catholic faith is state religion in Malta. The archbishop as well as the bishop of Gozo has company cars, the latter a smaller one than the BMW that is archbishop Cremona's company car. Do not for a moment think that these cars have ordinary license plates. No way, they have plates of a silvery material in the shape of a bishop’s miter. If you do not believe me, look at the pictures. And, of course, the archbishop has a more expensive car than the Gozo bishop (The Observer wonders what Jesus would think of that!).To a foreigner from a more secular state this looks really ridiculous. Of course also the prime minister’s car have special plates. As far as the Head of the State, the President, is concerned, it is more understandable. He is, after all, a symbol. If the president and the prime minister want to attend a mass in Valletta they travel by these cars about 200 meters to the church. This is just window dressing. One could argue that they travel by car for security reasons; no way, anyone could go close to these potentates. All this is also a part of implementing the belief in people that Malta and its potentates are very important, separated from and above the people. They act like royalties more than the royalties in the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden.

President Abela's car and flag
To a foreigner all these attributes are kind of sweet and touching, except for the corruption. Malta is a Lilliput with its attributes similar to those in operettas. This is sweet, but, of course,  fulfills a not so honorable cause, namely to keep the people in a feeling that Malta is something it is not.


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Rule of law in Malta? Hardly.

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Published On :: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:43:00 +0000


You cannot call Malta a society where there is rule of law and where an individual's rights are protected. Malta must be one of Europe’s most unsafe countries if one is suspected of having committed a crime, especially if you are a foreigner (if you are black it is even worse). A Maltese is treated in a totally different way than a foreigner. For instance, it is very difficult to be granted bail for a foreigner even if you are an EU citizen. This is very strange since there is a treaty in EU which makes it easy to get an EU citizen extradited to another EU country. A member state can only deny another member state an extradition if  certain requirements are not fulfilled. Maybe Malta is afraid that it cannot fulfill such requirements and therefore prefers to keep a suspect in prison instead of granting him bail.  It is hard to even understand that Malta can be a member of EU. In Malta, you can be detained for an indefinite period. There is no limit whatsoever when the police must start a trial. Yes, in Malta it is the same person as investigates a case as brings it to court. Malta is like any dictatorship as far as protection of individual’s rights is concerned. Not even in the former Soviet Union you could be detained for indefinite time, if not a political crime. It was The Observer’s intention to vote today, but why should one vote in a country where there is no democracy but only hypocrisy. Malta is a sham democracy where individual rights seem to be less important than the rights of the state. You can read about this wonderful society in todays The Times.


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Malta is not the centre of the world

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Published On :: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:56:00 +0000

In today’s The Times one can read a veryAlpha interesting article under Social by Kristina Chetcuti. She has a view on Malta and Maltese 'view of themselves which is very readable. She confirms what The Observer wrote under the heading "Malta-a Lilliput state with potentates separated from and above the people?", that Maltese people are ignorant about the world around them and that is something intrinsically wrong with the Maltese perspective, adding that there is high time to address this. Well said! The Observer could not agree more!


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Again, the Maltese judicial system is proven to have collapsed and now it also seems ridiculous

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Published On :: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:00:00 +0000



Today one can read in The Times of a man being sentenced to one month in prison and fined 233€ for illegal gambling. The fantastic and almost unbelievable fact is that the crime was committed in 2001 and the man pleaded guilty in 2002. The man had to wait ten years to be punished for a crime he had admitted almost immediately! To make this even more surprising (well, maybe not so surprising; this is probably typically for the judicial system in Malta) the judge found that the prosecution had failed to prove the allegations against the man, but, since he had admitted the crime the judge had to find him guilty. The Observer sincerely hopes that the latter is not true. In most other countries, with a more sophisticated and functioning judicial system than Malta, an admission is not enough to prove that a person has committed a crime.  When famous murders occur, quite many people come to the police and plead guilty. This is a well-known fact among Alphacriminologists. Probably and hopefully The Times has not published full details about why the judge had to find the man guilty.


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What should we protect, living people or dead?

By maltaobserver.blogspot.com
Published On :: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:39:00 +0000


Once more, one can read the most fantastic true stories in The Times. AlphaIn today's edition of The Times one is told that a group of M`garr residents are complaining about a proposed extension to a fireworks factory because of the damage an explosion would do. Fair enough, of course one should worry about what damage an explosion would do. But what is it the group worries about? The living people in the neighborhood? No, this is Christian Malta; the worries are not concerning the living people but the dead. This despite the fact that several people are statistically expected to die this year because of fireworks explosions. The Observer is well aware of the fact that many Maltese regard the eternal life as the real life, but is this group not going too far? A named couple says that an explosion could disturb the graves of loved ones. The Observer is well aware that continuing this article would probably be considered blasphemy. Presumably this is a criminal offense in Maltese law so The Observer rests his case.


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The Maltese people, warm and kind

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Published On :: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:05:00 +0000

The entrance

San Anton Garden
Yesterday, The Observer with family went to Balzan. After some shopping we wanted to sit down and eat the lunch we had brought with us, preferable in a park. We asked a Maltese lady standing outside Smart, the big department store, if she could recommend a place where we could have our lunch. She told us that there is a lovely garden in Balzan, San Anton, but that it would be too complicated to explain the way to this garden. Instead she told us that she would gladly drive us there and so she did! This is not the first time we have been so well taken care of by Maltese people. The kindness of the Maltese people is one of the things that makes life so much easier on this little tiny island. San Anton in Balzan is really worth a visit with wonderful flowers and many other plants as well as birds!


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ICMR partners with Bharat Biotech International Limited for developing indigenous coronavirus COVID-19 vacc... - Zee News

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:32:23 GMT

  1. ICMR partners with Bharat Biotech International Limited for developing indigenous coronavirus COVID-19 vacc...  Zee News
  2. Bharat Biotech to lead monoclonal antibodies project for Covid-19 therapy  The Financial Express
  3. Bharat Biotech to lead project on monoclonal antibodies therapy for COVID-19  The New Indian Express
  4. ICMR teams up with Bharat Biotech to develop Covid-19 vaccine  Times of India
  5. CSIR approves project to develop human monoclonal antibodies that can neutralize COVID-19 in patients  Times Now
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Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want BCCI to allow Indian players to participate in foreign T20 leagues - Times of India

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:49:32 GMT

  1. Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want BCCI to allow Indian players to participate in foreign T20 leagues  Times of India
  2. "Such A rHAIR Picture": CSK Troll Shikhar Dhawan For His Throwback Photo With Suresh Raina  NDTV Tamil
  3. Wish BCCI plans with ICC: Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want Indian players to participate in foreign T20...  Hindustan Times
  4. Indian selectors made me an oldie at 30, didn't communicate with me: Irfan Pathan  CricTracker
  5. MSK Prasad didn't speak to me at all: Suresh Raina responds to former chief selector's claims  CricTracker
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Kareena Kapoor is missing her shopping sprees with Saif Ali Khan, shares throwback pic from Morocco - Hindustan Times

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:56:31 GMT

  1. Kareena Kapoor is missing her shopping sprees with Saif Ali Khan, shares throwback pic from Morocco  Hindustan Times
  2. A Glimpse Of Kareena Kapoor's "Saturday Mood" With Saif Ali Khan  The Newsopedia
  3. Bollywood actors share their secret workout moves amid lockdown  NEWS9 live
  4. Sara Ali Khan says brother Ibrahim is ‘definitely interested’ in joining Bollywood: ‘It’s a dream right...  Hindustan Times
  5. Sara Ali Khan on Ibrahim Ali Khan’s acting aspirations: It’s a dream right now, making it a reality is on him  PINKVILLA
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Flipkart teases the release of iPhone SE (2020) in India - NewsBytes

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:32:25 GMT

  1. Flipkart teases the release of iPhone SE (2020) in India  NewsBytes
  2. Apple iPhone SE 2020 sale to start soon as Flipkart teaser goes live  Hindustan Times
  3. Apple iPhone SE 2020 spotted on Flipkart, launch imminent  Livemint
  4. Our Apple iPhone SE (2020) video review is up - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com
  5. Excited for the new iPhone? Take our iPhone through the ages quiz  Techradar
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Trump admin working to temporarily ban work-based visas: Report - Top Live News

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:21:04 GMT

  1. Trump admin working to temporarily ban work-based visas: Report  Top Live News
  2. US lawmakers want H-1B visas and foreign students internship suspended to protect American jobs  Times of India
  3. US likely to temporarily ban work-based visas like H-1B due to rise in unemployment  Zee News
  4. US Mulls Temporary Ban on Work Visas Amid Unemployment: Reports  The Quint
  5. 5 US lawmakers ask Trump to suspend new H-1B visas  The Tribune India
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Covid-19 Delhi latest figures- 224 new cases take capital’s total to 8,630, India tally at 59,662 - Hindustan Times

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:05:48 GMT

  1. Covid-19 Delhi latest figures- 224 new cases take capital’s total to 8,630, India tally at 59,662  Hindustan Times
  2. Confusion over Delhi's Covid-19 toll as govt data, figures from hospitals don't match  Times of India
  3. 3 More Private Hospitals To Treat COVID-19 Patients In Delhi  NDTV
  4. Delhi Covid-19 tally tops 6,000 with 338 new cases in last 24 hours  Livemint
  5. 100 rooms in Delhi's five-star hotels now hospitals  Times of India
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Shah slams Bengal govt for 'not allowing' migrant trains; Centre lying, says TMC - Times of India

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:56:15 GMT

  1. Shah slams Bengal govt for 'not allowing' migrant trains; Centre lying, says TMC  Times of India
  2. Not Allowing Migrants' Trains "Injustice": Amit Shah To Mamata Banerjee  NDTV
  3. TMC releases 'proof' after Centre alleges blockade of migrant transport in West Bengal  TIMES NOW
  4. News updates from Hindustan Times: Have 7-stage plan to bring back migrants, says TMC on Amit Shah’s...  Hindustan Times
  5. Bengal Says 8 Trains to Bring Back Migrant Workers Scheduled as Amit Shah Writes to Mamata on 'Injustice'  News18
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Not anticipating worst situation in India: Harsh Vardhan on Covid-19 pandemic - Hindustan Times

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:37:54 GMT

  1. Not anticipating worst situation in India: Harsh Vardhan on Covid-19 pandemic  Hindustan Times
  2. Health ministry says learn to live with coronavirus as India's COVID-19 count crosses 56,000  India Gone Viral
  3. Government Tweaks Rules For Testing As COVID-19 Cases Rise. Details Here  NDTV
  4. 80 per cent of Telangana will be rid of coronavirus soon: Eatala  The New Indian Express
  5. ‘We must learn to live with the coronavirus,’ says health ministry  Scroll.in
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Transfer of pywer

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Published On :: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:15:46 +0000

Guido van Rossum is "resigning" from being the Python BDFL: "I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on
your own." Apparently running a language can be tiring... It will be interesting to see what happens next.


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"Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages"

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Published On :: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:20:53 +0000

The transcript of Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages, a talk given by Peter Alvaro somewhere or other, is up at Info Q.

Peter Alavaro's main research interest is in taming distributed systems. He starts his talk with the provocative thesis, "In the future, all radical new languages will be domain-specific languages." He talks of the evolution of his ideas about dealing with distributed systems:

  1. Little interest by designers of programming-language designers in filling huge difficulty of debugging in context of distributed systems;
  2. PLs often make handling of data somewhat implicit, even with functional programming, which he says is dangerous in distributed programming;
  3. To talk about the flow of data properly, we need to talk about time;
  4. Two things that influenced him as a grad student: Jeff Ullman's claim that encapsulation and declarativity are in tension, and Fagin's theorem (the existential fragment of second-order logic characterises NP);
  5. Idea that distributed systems can be considered as protocols specified a bit like SQL or Datalog queries;
  6. Triviality with query languages of characterising the idea of place in distributive systems: they are just another relation parameter;
  7. Describing evolution of a system in time can be done with two other things: counters and negation, leading to Bertram Ludäscher's language Statelog. But this way of doing things leads to the kind of low-level overexpressive modelling he was trying to avoid;
  8. "What is it about...protocols that they seem to require negation to express?” Turns out that if you drop negation, you characterise the protocols that deliver messages deterministically.

He summarises by saying the only good reason to design a programming language (I assume he means a radically novel language) is to shape your understanding of the problem. No regrets of being the only user of his first language, Datalist, because the point is that it shaped all his later thought in his research.


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