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Will vernacular programming languages work?
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I have come across programing languages in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, etc. many a time. They are super niche languages, there's a very small community that actively uses them and there is even lesser documentation to work on the basis of. That left me thinking, what if this idea were to take off? This newsletter issue is just me trying to articulate my thoughts around this topic.
My tryst with English
I am a native Hindi speaker. During my college days, my process of speaking English would be to think of what I wanted to say in Hindi and then translate it into English. This was extremely draining. At the same time, I would witness those alpha kids from my college who could shift from English to Hindi and then back to English like it was nothing. I could never do that then. But with time, after talking so much in English for so many years, I can call myself fluent and can shift from one language to another pretty easily. But is programming in Hindi really possible?
The shift from 2019 to 2021
When I started teaching back in 2019, a lot of kids would request me to teach in Hindi. That was not a problem for me, in fact, it would have been much easier. But I avoided doing that because even if you learn in Hindi, you will have to do your job in English. The companies hiring engineers in India were mostly offshore locations of western companies. Hence, English was important even from a communication point of view.
Today, in 2021, the majority of the employers of Indian engineers are Indian startups. I witness so many founders facing the issue of acquiring good tech talent in the country. That is why I feel there's a lot of scope to solve this problem if we start letting builders in vernacular programming languages in because the only barrier that stands in one's path to learn to code is English.
How big is this language barrier?
There are many NGOs that work with kids from extremely poor families whose monthly income is not more than 4000 rupees. They teach these kids a bit of English and computer skills. But even then, they are mostly eligible for Personal Assistant jobs with salaries of 5k to 10k per month. Now imagine if one of these kids joins NeoG Camp and after 9-10 months, gets a high-paying job, a monthly salary of a lakh rupees. 4000 to 100000. That would be the real change, the real 0 to 1 impact. But what's stopping me from bringing this level of change? English.
The road ahead.
I do realize that day-to-day communication will still be an issue, but I also feel that it can be managed and dealt with. Programming is not a language problem, it is a logic problem, and logic is independent of language. You don't need to think about what you want to code in English, it's not like you are talking to a computer.
So ask yourself. Will vernacular programming languages work in the industry? This is an open question, and if someone wants to tackle it, I am ready to help them in any way I can, even with funding. If you think your core value aligns with this issue, let's talk.
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Tanay: I resonate with your thoughts as I also used to face the same issue. I used to see a lot of people who were able to easily switch between hindi and english. While, it took me time to reach near to that level of fluency where I can switch between English and Hindi so easily.
The main reason as you said is we think in Hindi mostly and then translate it to English
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Hurricane Irma will have negative implications for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's liquidity and cause further delays to its debt restructuring plans, Moody's Investors Services predicted in a report released Tuesday.
Last week, Puerto Rico's northern coast was sideswiped by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm that caused widespread power outages, including damage to core electric infrastructure.
"We understand that Irma did not cause severe damage to power plants owned by the island's utility, but it did cause damage to the transmission lines across the island, resulting in the power outages," said Moody's, which has given the public corporation a Ca negative rating.
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Selinsgrove - Patricia D. "Pat" Engle, 82 a resident of the Manor at Penn Village and formerly of Riverfront Apartments, Sunbury passed away Monday, June 24, 2019 at the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
Pat was born June 29, 1936 in Sunbury a daughter of the late Elwood and Harriet (Reitz) Smith. In 1985 she married Charles Engle who preceded her in death in 1998.
Pat was a 1954 graduate of Sunbury High School. She was employed in the shoe department of Boscov's until her retirement in 1995.
She enjoyed playing bingo and cards, Chinese auctions and going to casinos. She was a lover of dogs, but her greatest love was spending time with her children, especially her grandchildren.
Mrs. Engle is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Dean and Merta Graver of High Ridge, MO, daughter and son-in-law, Denise and Miles Krouse of Sunbury, 11 grandchildren and her many great-grandchildren, and brother Roger Smith of Selinsgrove.
Also preceding Pat in death are; two daughters, Debra Rubendall and Pamela Buch, son, Donald Graver and four brothers; Dale, George, James and Larry Smith.
Friends and family may call from 6:00pm to 8:00pm Thursday at the Zweier Funeral Home 157 Chestnut Street, Sunbury where funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00am with Rev. D. Elinor Allison officiating.
Burial will follow in Orchard Hills Cemetery, Shamokin Dam.
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Lawmakers spar over Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' rule for asylum seekers
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From right, Dr. Todd Schneberk, an asylum network clinician for Physicians for Human Rights, Erin Thorn Vela with the Texas Civil Rights Project's Racial and Economic Justice Program, and Laura Peña of the American Bar Association's immigration commission testified against the Migrant Protection Protocol. (Photo by Vandana Ravikumar/Cronkite News)
By Vandana Ravikumar
WASHINGTON – House members sparred Tuesday over the Trump administration's so-called "Remain in Mexico" policy for asylum-seekers, with Democrats calling it unsafe and "abhorrent" and Republicans saying it has helped reduce a massive backlog in immigration courts.
The policy, introduced in January by the Department of Homeland Security, lets the government accept asylum requests from immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and then force them back to Mexico to wait while their request is processed. Previously, asylum seekers could wait in the U.S.
Since it was implemented in January, the program has forced around 57,000 migrants back into Mexico, where critics say the asylum-seekers are being preyed on and left to fend for themselves. Those turned away often include vulnerable people, such as pregnant women, children or people with disabilities, they said.
"Asylum seekers are being returned to dangerous cities, where organizations are documenting hundreds – hundreds – of incidents of kidnappings and violence," said Laura Peña of the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration.
But supporters of the plan, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocol, said critics at the hearing are overstating the problems migrants face on the other side of the border.
"Is it your position that the entire country of Mexico is dangerous?" asked Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala. "I find it impossible to believe the entire country of Mexico is dangerous to migrants."
Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Peoria, also appeared skeptical of the dangers of remaining in Mexico.
"I think all of us care about people being abused, if someone is being raped by cartels, or children are being abused by cartels, of course, none of us would want to ignore that," Lesko said. "But there's a difference in how we should mitigate the problem."
But Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, said the policy has created "a new ecosystem of criminal activity … on the other side of our ports of entry."
"The American government's policy is sending vulnerable migrants into the hands of cartels, so that cartels can extort money after they've kidnapped people," Escobar said. "These are people who have been denied due process and have been put in danger."
Peña insisted the danger prevents many U.S. attorneys from going to Mexico to meet with their clients who have been turned back.
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"Each time I need to meet with my client, I must take precautions to ensure my personal safety while in Mexico," she said. "I cross only during the day and coordinate my visits with humanitarian groups or other colleagues."
Besides the danger, critics said that policy has burdened faith-based organizations that have had to care for and protect the migrants in the government's absence. And they said it causes lasting trauma.
Multiple witnesses cited accounts of migrants who allegedly faced severe violence and developed psychological trauma after being forced to remain in Mexico, including a woman who was raped and an 18-year-old boy who was attacked by gang members.
"Stress and constant vigilance are required to survive in an under-resourced border town in Tijuana," said Dr. Todd Schneberk, an asylum network clinician for Physicians for Human Rights. "I urge Congress to take action by urging DHS to defund MPP … or risk retraumatization of this vulnerable population."
Thomas Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, suggested that rolling back MPP could create additional problems for the country in the future.
"That's your next DACA population," Homan said, referring to the Obama-era program that defers deportation of some young immigrants who were children when they were brought to the country illegally by their parents. "I don't know what's going to happen with DACA at the Supreme Court, but that's your next 200,000 people."
Supporters also said the program is working well and is helping to reduce an existing backlog of more than 1 million immigration court cases.
Far from solving the problem, Democrats like Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said policy "runs contrary to our American values" and "has raised serious legal questions and created a new humanitarian crisis along our southern border."
Erin Thorn Vela, an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said that is a crisis she faces regularly.
"I am horrified that all I can say to asylum seekers in Matamoros is this: Hold on and stay safe. That statement feels empty when I know how often people are kidnapped from the tents, abused, and tortured," said Thorn Vela, who called for an end to the policy.
"It haunts me when I walk back across that bridge to the United States, that I only have those words to console my clients," she said.
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John Giorno "Everyone Gets Lighter" at Max Wigram Gallery, London
Max Wigram Gallery is pleased to present EVERYONE GETS LIGHTER, the first one-person exhibition in the UK by American artist and poet John Giorno.
For almost half a century, Giorno has been exploring and developing new media through which poetry can be disseminated and reach new audiences, an operation he continues with this exhibition. With twenty-four new watercolour Poem Paintings, a performance, and the iconic Dial-a-Poem, the exhibition offers an overview of how the Giorno seeks alternative ways of writing and presenting his poetry and connecting with an audience in powerful ways, inviting us to reflect on how we perceive words, and images.
In the Poem Paintings, Giorno transposes punchy sentences from his own poems onto paper in bold, white capital letters reminiscent of newspaper headlines – a font that he developed with a graphic designer, and has been using since 1984. The words are set off against painterly backgrounds of pastel- toned washes of colour. The viewer both reads and looks at the charged sentences like thanks 4 nothing or just say no to family values, engaging with the poem on two different, simultaneous yet exclusive levels. Giorno provides a visual and narrative anchor by presenting the watercolours in a sequence that follows the chromatic spectrum: from yellow to blue to green, a poetic narrative is developed through purely visual means. In these works thus, painting becomes a vehicle for poetry.
The search for new media for poetic dissemination led Giorno to integrate technology into his work, creating the seminal Dial-a-Poem. A project that was famously presented at MoMA in 1970 and again in 2012, Dial-a-Poem brings people over two hundred random poems read aloud by their authors, including musicians, artists and writers who were friends and colleagues of Giorno – including Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage and Allen Ginsberg. At Max Wigram Gallery, visitors will be able to call poems from a telephone in the exhibition, or online.
These aural, visual and textual venues for the circulation of poetry conflate in Giorno's powerful performance, with which he inaugurated the exhibition. The incisive pronunciation and forceful delivery recall the headline-style font of the Poem Paintings, and the presence of the poet's own body seems to transform the words into palpable entities, engaging with the audience in a physical, visceral manner.
All of Giorno's projects to date have had one purpose: to connect with an audience. In EVERYONE GETS LIGHTER, Giorno succeeds by presenting poetry that is not only read, but also experienced.
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until 18 January 2014
Above – HAPPY THANK YOU MORE PLEASE, 2013
I WANT TO CUM IN YOUR HEART, 2013
THE WORLD JUST MAKES ME LAUGH, 2013
NOTHING NEW, 2013
THANKS 4 NOTHING, 2013
GOOD AS IT GETS, 2013
JUST SAY NO TO FAMILY VALUES, 2013
FILLING WHAT IS EMPTY, EMPTYING WHAT IS FULL, 2013
FRIENDS ALWAYS BECOME ENEMIES, 2013
LIFE IS A KILLER, 2013
EVERYONE GETS LIGHTER, 2013
John Giorno, "Everyone Gets Lighter" installation view at Max Wigram Gallery, London, 2013
Courtesy: the artist; Max Wigram Gallery, London


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Bangalore: Tata Elxsi, India's leading design company, in partnership with 10000 start-ups, an initiative by NASSCOM, organised a design boot camp on September 28, 2013, at the Start-up Warehouse in Diamond District. Tata Elxsi contributes to this initiative by supporting selected tech start-ups through its [email protected] program, and extending help to other start-ups through various joint events.
The design boot camp is a carefully designed programme which offers fledgling start-ups the opportunity to learn design thinking — from insights to innovation — hence equipping them with innovative thinking to grow their business. The programme's aim, through workshops, was to help the participant start-ups understand the fundamental design principles that lead to high-quality designs requiring low implementation effort. It started off with a session by Nick Talbot, global design head, Tata Elxsi, on the 'Importance of design with examples from live projects and its importance to start-ups', followed by sessions on introduction to UX/Interface and HMI design by Satish Patil, chief designer, user experience. Exclusive design-based workshops were also organised for the participants.
Commenting on the importance of design in everyday life, Mr Talbot said, "Tata Elxsi started the [email protected] program to help start-ups create sustainable businesses. The association with Nasscom's 10000 start-ups will strengthen the initiative further. Right from insights to innovation, this kind of design boot camp has been planned to offer participants the chance to learn design thinking — a human-centred, prototype-driven process for design that can be applied to product, services and to the business of design."
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Hawkes' Health Forum > Organics > Genetic Modification > The Wheels Come Off the Bus on Genetically Engineered Crops!
View Full Version : The Wheels Come Off the Bus on Genetically Engineered Crops!
Just before the July 4th weekend, the USDA released a statement saying that the agency has no authority to regulate genetically engineered (GE) Kentucky bluegrass. This leaves Kentucky bluegrass completely unregulated—and sets the precedent for a complete lack of oversight of GE crops in the future (http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/07/usda-deregulate-roundup-gmo-tom-philpott). This is extremely worrying: there are very few independent studies investigating the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the ones that have been published show that GMOs can have very dangerous long term effects.
Oversight of GE crops is extremely lax, because there is no federal law specific to their regulation (http://environmentalcommons.org/RegulatoryDeficiencies2.html). The USDA only has two provisions that apply to GMOs—the regulation of plant pests, and the noxious weed provision.
The Plant Pest Act—a law established in the 1950s—gives the USDA power to restrict the introduction of organisms that might harm plants. In a bit of a stretch, the USDA has used this power to regulate GE crops. The reasoning is that GE crops qualify as "plant pests" because historically the DNA from natural plant pathogens/microbial material (bacteria, fungi, etc.) was used in the genetic engineering of various plants.
However, this is increasingly no longer the case. Kentucky bluegrass, for example, doesn't use the DNA from plant pests at all. Accordingly, the makers of Kentucky Bluegrass, Scotts Miracle-Gro, claims the USDA has no authority over them (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/aphisdocs/scotts_kbg.pdf) since "Kentucky bluegrass itself is not a plant pest, and no plant pest components will be involved in the transformation." And on July 1, the USDA agreed (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/2011/07/kentucky_bluegrass.shtml), sending the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company official confirmation (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/aphisdocs/scotts_kbg_resp.pdf) on Kentucky bluegrass's regulatory status.
However, even though the USDA admitted that GE bluegrass could be considered a noxious weed, the agency declared it still would not "cause impact significant enough to warrant regulation at the federal level" (http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/07/06/06greenwire-in-major-shift-usda-clears-way-for-modified-bl-51693.html)—a position we find both absurd and unconscionable.
Kentucky bluegrass is widely grown (http://www.bluegrasses.com/), and is used in parks and home lawns. This means the genetically engineered variety will have wide exposure indeed.
If it is determined that a GMO is out of the USDA's jurisdiction, the courts cannot demand that the USDA conduct full environmental impact studies under the authority of the EPA. This means other safety nets will disappear as well.
Our biggest concern, however, is the potential impact on our health. Since the USDA jurisdiction covers only plant pests and noxious weeds, there are very few studies of actual long-term human health affects of GMOs. In fact, most safety studies on genetically engineered products have been conducted by GE companies themselves! Furthermore, it is difficult to get the actual raw data for independent testing because GE companies usually keep data proprietary and seriously block independent studies (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/13/opinion/la-oe-guriansherman-seeds-20110213).
A documentary series of nine films on GMO by German filmmaker Bertram Verhaag (http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2011/07/bertram-verhaag-and-scientists-under-attack/) reveals the undemocratic, global conspiracy to push GE interests over those of the consumer. When he learned that only 5% of scientists working in the area of GE are truly independent, Verhaag started work on his most recent film, Scientists Under Attack. It documents two scientists conducting independent research about GE against pressure from industry, the government, and the scientific community.
However, what we do know about the health effects of genetically engineered crops is frightening. In a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, retired Purdue University professor Dr. Don Huber wrote that a newly discovered and widespread pathogen is damaging the health of plants, animals, and possibly human beings. Glyphosate (the active ingredient in in Roundup, the herbicide many crops are engineered to be resistant to) may be weakening its plant and animal hosts making it susceptible to this pathogen (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/newsdebate/f/t-10232630/p-1/index.html), which is similar to the way HIV works. The pathogen has been found in high concentrations of the Roundup Ready soybean meal and corn (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/24/us-monsanto-roundup-idUSTRE71N4XN20110224) used in livestock feed. Lab tests confirmed presence in the organism of pigs, cattle, and other livestock that have experienced spontaneous abortions and infertility. Plants containing the pathogen are stricken with disease (http://www.naturalnews.com/033043_GMOs_crop_failures.html).
With the help of Greenpeace, biologists from two French universities obtained a court order to force Monsanto to hand over its findings from animal studies they had used in its assessment that three varieties of GE corn were safe. After analyzing Monsanto's data themselves, they discovered "statistically significant" evidence that the crops could poison the liver and kidney (http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm) (the body's main detoxifying organs). They also found pesticide residues in GE crops and animal feeds that were high above safe levels—which could affect the endocrine system.
Even worse, they found that that Monsanto's tests were purposely designed to obscure the results (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html). The test involved only 80 rats and 320 control rats, instead of equal numbers of both. And the longest study was just 90 days long—which isn't enough to show long-term effects. The results were published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences.
NaturalNews.com has called for a boycott of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company and all its products. If you wish to participate, please visit the Natural News boycott page (http://www.naturalnews.com/033022_Scotts_Miracle-Gro_GMO_seeds.html) to learn more.
This is a common ploy of any agency, corporation or organization that hopes not to provoke a public outcry: drop the press release just prior to a major holiday, when few will be paying attention. Luckily we have NGOs like ANH to be our watchdogs!
This is what frightens me — the onslaught of genetically engineered crops, chemicals being dumped everywhere, and genetic tinkering with animals, etc. The people doing this are driven solely by greed and have immense power within governments. It would only take a few short years to poison the Earth and ruin biodiversity (and there is already a good start on the process).
I'm not a pessimist but I have become a cynic. Add climate change to your list, Reesacat, which will continue to bring drought (as in Kenya & Somalia now), flooding and other extreme weather events, and I see little hope for the future of our species. The planet will recover, but evolution may have to start from scratch again.


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Searching for a Syrian solution
Asian Affairs	| December, 2015 March, 2016 | Middle east
LONG ARM OF THE WAR: The Syrian crisis has had sweeping repercussions
Given the complexity of the Syrian civil war and its disparate combatants, George Friedman assesses the chances of bringing an end to this bloody and far-reaching conflict.
In a notable breakthrough in negotiations, the International Syria Support Group agreed during a November 14 meeting in Vienna to convene Syrian government and opposition representatives on January 1, 2016, in formal negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations. The support group, made up of virtually every direct and indirect foreign state participant in the Syrian civil war, has aspired to find a solution to the destabilising Syrian civil war, and progress has increasingly appeared to be within reach. However, serious obstacles remain that could rapidly undermine any gains the group hopes to accomplish going forward.
The current timeline for the peace plan agreed to by the International Syria Support Group is as follows: By December 14, the group will reconvene to review progress so that the United Nations can seek to convene Syrian government and opposition groups in formal negotiations by January 1, 2016. By May 14, 2016, a ceasefire between Syrian government and opposition groups will come into force, allowing the process for drafting a new constitution to begin. Finally, by May 14, 2017, UN-administered free elections will be held under the new constitution, ushering in a new government and, hopefully, bringing an end to fighting in the country.
The International Syria Support Group's aim is to get the foreign state participants in the Syrian conflict to reach an agreement on a solution to the country's civil war that would then be presented to the Syrians. The Washington Post reported that to facilitate the ceasefire, actors in the International Syria Support Group will stop all support and supplies to 'various belligerents' on both sides once negotiations are underway.
Despite the latest initiative's ambitious goals, it is still unlikely that the plan will result in an effective end to the conflict. The following issues will prevent further progress in finding a solution:
Syrian participation
The fact that no Syrian group from either the loyalist or rebel side was included in the negotiations points to the stark divisions that will plague the peace process. This was deliberate: the United States and other negotiating partners wanted to minimise friction during the talks so that the international group of negotiating powers could present a unified message to the key players in Syria.
However, the fact remains that while it will be difficult for the foreign powers to reach a consensus, it will be even harder for the warring parties on the ground in Syria. There are simply too many armed forces of varying ideologies and motivations driving the conflict.
The opposition picture
One of the principal difficulties in reaching an agreement, even at this early stage, is agreeing on which rebel groups should lead—let alone be included as representatives of—the opposition in the talks, if and when the talks take place. Even powers that support the rebels have significantly differing opinions. The United States, for instance, has long sought to mainly include the Free Syrian Army. However, it was recently reported that the US, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, also conceded to accepting Ahrar al-Sham as a core opposition group.
The Kurdish question is another unresolved issue that does not appear to have been addressed in the latest meeting or subsequent agreement. Turkey will undoubtedly be wary of any significant role given to the Syrian Kurds in upcoming negotiations, while the Kurds are sure to push for greater autonomy, conflicting with both the wider rebel and loyalist positions.
Perhaps the greatest obstacle, however, is the sheer number of armed rebel organisations in the civil war. Hundreds of groups, from the very small to the very powerful, such as the Army of Islam, Ahrar al-Sham and the wider Free Syrian Army, are fighting in Syria. Reaching a consensus on a rebel negotiating position when the rebels themselves can only really agree on the need for President Bashar al-Assad's downfall, could critically undermine the negotiation process.
Terrorist list
DIVISIVE FIGURE: al-Assad's position is a polarising issue in the Syrian conflict
Even with a negotiated agreement between rebel groups and Damascus, the Syrian civil war would not completely stop because two major terrorist groups—the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra—would remain. The Islamic State is an uncontroversial issue since virtually all armed forces in Syria are the Islamic State's enemies. The group's attacks in Paris have also made an end to the Syrian crisis even more desirable, though the issue always had some measure of urgency. But the inclusion of Jabhat al-Nusra and similar groups on the terrorist list would considerably complicate the situation and threatens to unravel any potential agreement.
Several rebel groups, including Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham and the largely secular Free Syrian Army, have operated and continue to operate closely with Jabhat al-Nusra. Convincing these rebel groups to disentangle themselves from their alliances with Jabhat al-Nusra, whether those alliances are ideological or out of convenience, will be difficult. It would be even more challenging to convince the same rebel groups to stop fighting the loyalist forces and turn their guns on Jabhat al-Nusra.
At the same time, continued strikes on Jabhat al-Nusra in such a narrow and clearly saturated battlefield could also rapidly undermine the negotiation process as other rebel groups are damaged. The Russians have previously struck Free Syrian Army allies of Jabhat al-Nusra, essentially arguing that they operate together and are therefore the same. The Russians will be keen to maximise the number of rebel groups on the terrorist list, likely forcing certain rebel factions into breaking from any negotiation process altogether.
Finally, Jabhat al-Nusra is hardly the only extremist group within the rebel landscape beyond the Islamic State. Jihadist groups such as Jabhat Ansar al-Din and Jund al-Aqsa maintain similar or even more extreme ideological positions. These groups will be especially opposed to a ceasefire pushed from abroad and will likely continue operations even as loyalist and rebel factions seek peace.
Ending support
Any effort to force belligerents in the conflict to agree to a ceasefire by withdrawing supplies and support will be complicated by the fact that many of the International Syria Support Group members are themselves active participants in the conflict. Iran and Russia are present on the ground in a fighting capacity, while the United States is increasingly inserting itself into the conflict in support of its Syrian Democratic Forces allies. These nations, as well as others such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, could claim that support given to their respective proxies is meant to combat the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, rather than other loyalist or rebel forces. All sides will have an incentive to ensure their own preferred groups are better advantaged if and when they reach the negotiating table, making it extremely difficult to halt the flow of all supplies in practice.
Moreover, the International Syrian Support Group process deliberately omitted the question of the Syrian president's future in its most recent meeting. The group's members readily admit that al-Assad's position is a polarising issue, and many fear that raising the issue would undermine progress before it even begins. However, this only highlights the disputes that have yet to be settled in the process.
Ultimately, Russia and Iran are not entirely committed to ensuring al-Assad's personal leadership of Syria as long as their interests are met, but stepping in to convince al-Assad to leave power—let alone successfully doing so—is a step both Tehran and Moscow would only take when they are truly comfortable with the talks' progress. But at this stage, the obstacles that still lie ahead make getting there as distant a prospect as ever.
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Karnataka Lok Sabha Election 2019: 107-year-old Padma Shri Awardee Saalumarada Thimmakka Casts Vote in Bangalore Rural
Saalumarada Thimmakka was conferred with Padma Shri award by President Ram Nath Kovind earlier this year.
Published: April 18, 2019 6:20 PM IST
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107-year-old Padma awardee Saalumarada Thimmakka casts her vote
Bengaluru: Padma Shri awardee, 107-year-old Saalumarada Thimmakka, cast her vote for Bangalore Rural parliamentary constituency in the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2019 on Thursday.
She was conferred with Padma Shri award by President Ram Nath Kovind earlier this year.
In 2016, she was listed by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as one of the most influential and inspirational women of the world.
Known as Aalada Marada Timakka, the 107-year-old is an Indian environmentalist from Karnataka and is famous for her work in planting and tending to 385 banyan trees along the 4-kilometre stretch between Hulikal and Kudur.
Born in Gubbi Taluk of Tumukuru district in Karnataka, Thimmakka was married to Chikkaiah, a native of Hulikal village in the Magadi taluk of Ramanagar district of the state.
The voting for second phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 began at 7 am on Thursday and concluded at 6 pm. A total of 14 parliamentary constituencies in Karnataka, including Bangalore North, Bangalore South and Bangalore Rural, went to polls on Thursday.
The Lok Sabha Elections 2019 is scheduled to be held in seven phases on April 11, 18, 23, 29, May 6, 12 and 19. The counting of votes is to be held on May 23.
Published Date: April 18, 2019 6:20 PM IST
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HTC Desire Z now available from Vodafone UK [Updated]
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Vodafone UK has been advertising the debut of the HTC Desire Z for a lil while now, but it hasn't been available to its users despite all the advertising. We received word today that it is now available on Vodafone UK's official website.
Android addicts in the UK should be pretty pleased with this news. If you're interested in purchasing this device and are on Vodafone UK, take a look at the monthly tariffs before making any decisions. Vodafone has a few different data plans available. All of them will allow you to get the phone for free. The different plans are at £25,£30,£35,£50. The only difference between these plans is the amount of minutes you get. There are only a limited number(2000) of HTC Desire Zs for free on the £25 plan, so if you're interested get on it! Go ahead hit the link below to purchase your HTC Desire Z from Vodafone UK and check out our full review of the Desire Z at SlashGear.
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Alec November 27, 2010 At 3:53 am
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Desire z – free – 24 months at £25
Seems substianally better!!
Alec.
Dakota Torres November 27, 2010 At 9:48 am
Yes Alec that deal seemed better, but the monthly plans have been updated for Vodafone, their £25 plan for The desire Z is also free but you'll also be getting unlimited and 500 MB of Data on top of the 300 minutes of talk. Unfortunately there are a limited number of phones available at that plan, so you might have to choose from a higher plan later on. Thanks for pointing that out Alec!
Stuart November 27, 2010 At 12:24 pm
I got mine from phones4u and it was a free phone. I got the £25pm deal on t-mobile because the data limit for android phones is 3gb. 1gb everything else.


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Halloween movies in order: Complete Michael Myers timeline
(Pocket-lint) – Halloween is the perfect time to watch one of the scariest guys to ever wear a jumpsuit: Michael Myers. His reign of terror started decades ago and now spans a dozen Halloween films. But they don't all follow a neat order.
The franchise was rebooted a couple times – in 1998 and 2018 – plus there's a Rob Zombie remake of the original film. That makes it hard to cobble together a chronological guide, but it's not impossible, given most of the films have him stalking poor Laurie Strode. So, we've made an order that follows the king of slasher flicks from his early days at 45 Lampkin Lane to today.
Every Halloween movie in chronological order
We've included a spoiler-free version of this guide at the bottom, along with a theatrical release date and reboot orders.
NOTE: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS BELOW.
The first Halloween film kicks off Halloween night, of course, in 1963. We see a six-year-old Michael Myers murder his older sister with a kitchen knife at 45 Lampkin Lane. Fifteen years pass and Myers breaks out from an institution where he's been held, and his psychiatrist, Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasance), is forced to chase him. Myers returns to his old home town of Haddonfield, Illinois to prey on some unsuspecting babysitters led by Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode. John Carpenter directed this film and wrote it with Debra Hill.
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Picking up right at the end of the original film, we see Laurie transported to a hospital after supposedly defeating Michael Myers. But he gets up and walks away from a series of stabbings and gunshot wounds that would otherwise kill most people. Although Dr Loomis initially thinks Michael has been indiscriminately targeting babysitters, he soon learns the killer is after Laurie for a specific reason.
Rick Rosenthal directed this film, but John Carpenter returned to write and produce it with Debra Hill.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Yes, we skipped Halloween III. More on that later. Halloween IV, directed by Dwight Little, picks up 10 years after the events of the first two films, with Michael Myers awakening from a coma and heading out to find and kill Laurie's daughter, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris). For those wondering, Laurie "died" in an off-screen car accident before the events in Halloween 4.
Also, John Carpenter didn't write or produce this film. He did Halloween III but doesn't come back to the franchise until 2018's Halloween.
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
The end of Halloween 4 saw Michael Myers shot repeatedly and thrown down a mineshaft. This fifth film sees his body wash up in a creek, where a man who lives alone in the woods finds him. He spends a year taking care of Michael's comatose body before he awakes on Halloween night. Michael immediately kills the man and heads out to find Jamie (Danielle Harris), who is in therapy from her last run-in with him.
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Set six years later, The Curse of Michael Myers opens with Jamie, now played by JC Brandy, as a prisoner of a cult that broke Michael free at the end of Halloween 5. She has been forced to carry a child and dies during an escape attempt. She manages to hide her infant, though, who is then found by Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd), the young boy that Laurie Strode babysat in the first Halloween film.
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
H20 opens with Michael Myers vandalising the home of his recently deceased former psychiatrist. He discovers that Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) faked her death and has been living as the principal of a private boarding school that her own son John (Josh Hartnett) attends.
Michael Myers, naturally, arrives just in time for a Halloween family reunion.
This installment sees two things we never thought we'd see: Michael Myers finally gets to kill Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), and he gets to karate-fight Busta Rhymes. The film opens with Laurie institutionalised following the events of H20 three years earlier, and Michael comes to pay her a visit. After that, he heads to his old abandoned home to find the contestants of a reality show who want to spend a night with him.
The highest-grossing film in the franchise is also the most recent. It's another reboot, but it serves as a direct sequel to the original Halloween, meaning it treats all the other movies as if they didn't happen. Since it was so successful, it has two more sequels in the works.
Jamie Lee Curtis once again returns as Laurie Strode. She is still traumatised from the Halloween night 40 years earlier when Michael Myers came home. She is living a reclusive life in a heavily fortified house. She keeps in touch with her granddaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak), but rarely sees her daughter, who was taken away from her as a child. Luckily, Myers breaks out of an asylum to host some family therapy.
David Gordon Green directed this Halloween film. Green is also directing two sequels to this film: Halloween Kills (releases 15 October 2021) and Halloween Ends (coming October 2022).
The latest installment in the Michael Myers saga looks to be one of the bloodiest entries yet, according to trailers for the new film. It picks up where 2018's Halloween left off – with Michael trapped in the basement of Laurie Strode's (Jamie Lee Curtis) burning house. The film also sees the return of Judy Greer and Andu Matichak as Laurie Strode's daughter and granddaughter, Karen and Alyson Nelson, respectively.
The film is set to release on 15 October 201. It has a same-day streaming release on the Peacock streaming service.
We're closing out our watch guide with the two Rob Zombie remakes. The first film, also just called Halloween, confusingly, follows the same course of events as the original film, but it's set decades later and focuses on different aspects, such as the lead-up to Michael Myers' first murders as a child in 1990. We also see his years of therapy with Dr Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).
The story still ends in the same place, with Michael escaping and heading back to Haddonfield to find Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton).
We're putting this film toward the end because it's a separate timeline. It's still good to watch, as it fleshes out Michael's background, but that's not something everyone wanted, including John Carpenter himself. It doesn't help that, by the end of Rob Zombie's second Halloween film, Myers' background and motivations are muddied by a lot of the same characteristics as his slasher-movie brethren Jason Vorhees.
Set a year after the first Rob Zombie-helmed Halloween, Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) is still dealing with the trauma from the previous Halloween. Michael Myers, meanwhile, has been living on the run as a hitchhiker, until he begins to have visions of his mother calling for him to return home and find Laurie. Halloween II tries to flesh out the connection between Michael and Laurie.
This Zombie film is a reimagining of the Halloween franchise, but it isn't a great movie. It manages to be darker than the original films, however.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1985)
The final movie in our guide is technically the third-released film from the Halloween franchise.
Released in 1982, Season of the Witch is a failed attempt at creating a Halloween anthology series. That means it has nothing to connect it to anything else in the Halloween Universe. There's not even a Michael Myers. Instead, Halloween III revolves around a devious plot by a company that makes Halloween masks and is planning to murder every child wearing one of its masks using Stonehenge-powered computer chips.
James Carpenter, the original Halloween director, produced this film with Debra Hill.
Spoiler-free version: The complete Halloween timeline at a glance
Every Halloween film in chronological order
OK, so here is the at-a-glance version of the guide above, only free of spoilers:
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)
Theatrical release order
Here is every Halloween movie in the order they released in theatres:
John Carpenter order
John Carpenter wrote and directed the first Halloween film and went on to participate in the first two sequels in the franchise before working on the two most recent Halloween movies. Here are his films:
Original Halloween films order
Here are all the original Halloween films before the franchise started to get rebooted:
Halloween H20 reboot order
The franchise was rebooted with H20, which didn't count Halloween III through VI. Here's this reboot order:
Second Halloween reboot order
The franchise was rebooted again in 2018, where it only includes the original Halloween. Here are the two films in that order:
Then maybe you'll like our other movie order viewing guides:
We also have these rumour round-ups on upcoming movies:
Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published on 21 October 2020 .
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Earlier Dr. Amina Ahmad Director of Medical Education at FMHCM&D who was the moving spirit behind this academic activity in her comprehensive review of the three days conference pointed out that it was a dream comes true. They would not have succeeded in this without the leadership support. Prof. Rakhshanda Rehman Dean School of Health Sciences and Prof .Jamshed Nasir Principal of FMH College of Medicine played a vital role in organizing this academic activity. She thanked everyone involved in the organizing committee and it was the teamwork which delivered. Success, she stated, is just an iceberg which is visible though a lot of more efforts by numerous people go into such activities which is not visible. During the last one year when we had been planning this conference we learnt and un-learned many things. We used emotional blackmail with everyone to get things done.
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Giving details of the scientific programme Dr.Amina Ahmad said that there were twenty Pre-Conference workshops, twelve Keynote presentations in three plenary sessions besides panel discussion on important topics like PM&DC & WFME Global Standards, standardization and quality of medical and dental graduates. The conference attracted four hundred eighty participants including many guest speakers from overseas. There were numerous enlightening talks during the conference and it was concluded that we must change the teaching strategies. We should not expect something from our new generation in which they are not trained and taught. We are facing too many pressures within the country and outside pressures. We tend to believe in rumors rather than finding the truth. We must share common resources within the facility. It is not essential to have dedicated facility for every discipline and specialty. Libraries, Skills Labs, lecture rooms and faculty all can be shared by a facility which has numerous institutons like medial college, dental college, College of Nursing, Allied health sciences etc. We need to give back teachers to the students and if we engage the teachers in multiple jobs, they will not be able to deliver. There was a consensus during the conference and we have decided that we need to improve our teaching and learning practice. We have also decided to engage in consultative process with our stake holders which are students and the patients, she remarked.
The organizers had made excellent arrangements for the conference and all the invited guest speakers were very well looked after. Except failure in time management as some sessions started late, attendance in the scientific sessions was very good. Workshops were very lively and the facilitators encouraged interactive discussion with the participants. The facilitators covered many important topics during these workshops. Audiovisual arrangements were also quite satisfactory. Detailed reports on various keynote presentations and panel discussions will be covered in the forthcoming issues.


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